The concubine's favorite? Break off the engagement and marry another prince, please respect you

Chapter 16

In recent years, she has kept herself too low-profile, so it is understandable that she is looked down upon by others.

Not to mention the Lu family, even if she herself had not confirmed again and again that the dream was true, she would probably not have been able to make up her mind to let go of Lu Ziyan.

Zheng tapped her forehead with a look of regret: "Look, it would have been great if you had thought it through earlier."

"It's not too late now," Xie Wan Ning smiled, pinched her mother's shoulder, and said, "Don't worry, mother. I will never let myself be manipulated like this again."

Only after she died did she regret. Those dreams were like her own experiences, constantly reminding her how wrong she was in the past.

"Don't go too far," Zheng patted her daughter's hand lovingly and said softly, "Everything is good about us, but Lu Ziyan doesn't know how to cherish her. He is blind. There are still good men like your father in this world."

She was afraid that her daughter would get stuck in a rut and go to the other extreme.

Xie Wan Ning hummed softly and nodded obediently.

Zheng added: "The Lu family has been rejected for three consecutive days. I think they should understand our determination to cancel the engagement. Let's see how they plan to deal with it."

"No matter what, I won't marry Lu Ziyan," Xie Wan Ning said firmly as she sat down with her mother's arm, "Even if he is willing to send the concubine away, it won't work."

Things turned out a little differently from what she had imagined in her dream. The Lu family refused to cancel the engagement, and Lu Ziyan even came to ask for a meeting in person. Xie Wan Ning even began to worry that he would send Liu Manrou away first and coax her parents into giving in.

"This is your marriage. As long as you don't want to, your father and I will never force you." Zheng said, knowing that her daughter was unwilling, "Now I just hope that the Lu family will be more respectful and stop pestering me. Return the marriage certificate quickly."

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Wuyuanhou Mansion, main courtyard.

There were three unopened, returned invitations on the square table, and the atmosphere in the hall was stagnant.

Madam Lu leaned on the soft pillow and looked at her eldest daughter-in-law sitting below her with an unpleasant expression: "Yan'er still refuses to send that woman of unknown origin away?"

"This..." Madam Lu's expression was not much better, "You also know that he has the right intention to take advantage of Xiao Yan'er. No one can persuade him to do something he doesn't want to do."

However, she never imagined that her son, who was so indifferent to his fiancée, would one day disobey his mother and grandmother for a woman of unknown origin.

She hid the person very well. She went to the yard in person to see where the fairy came from. She bewitched her son into being bewitched, but she couldn't even get into the yard.

How can I not be annoyed!
Of course, she was not angry at her own son, but at the slave girl who seduced her son.

"Go," Madam Lu said to the maidservant with her legs dangling, "Go to the front yard and guard it. When the prince returns, ask him to come over."

It was just a coincidence that Lu Ziyan, who had been busy going out early and coming back late every day since returning to Beijing, came back early today. When he heard that his grandmother wanted to invite him, he didn't even change his official uniform and went straight to the backyard.

Seeing him come in, Madam Lu slowly sat up straight and looked at her only grandson with her cloudy eyes for a few breaths. In the end, her love and pity prevailed and she was reluctant to blame him.

She sighed and said, "If you really can't let go of that lowly maid, then cancel the marriage with Wanwan. The Xie family is strong and will not let their daughter suffer any injustice. How about I find you another noble lady with a lower family background and a softer temperament to treat your mistress well?"

Until now, the ladies of the Lu family still did not think that the decision to cancel the engagement was made by Xie Wan Ning. They all believed that it was the Xie family who did not want their daughters to be treated so neglectfully by their husbands before they even got married, and they ordered their daughters not to accept the invitation and come to the Lu Mansion again.

Old Madam Lu felt sorry for her grandson, and seeing that he really couldn't leave his mistress, she was willing to help him. She thought her grandson would happily agree, but she didn't expect the person who had just sat down to stand up suddenly after hearing her words, and looked at her in shock: "The wedding date has been set, how can you cancel it just like that?" This reaction startled several ladies in the Lu family.

Madam Lu said, "You haven't even gotten married yet, but you've already kept a mistress, and everyone knows about it. The Xie family is a decent family, so how could they allow you to treat their daughter so badly? A few days ago, they came to ask for a break-up. You knew about this, but you've been refusing to send the mistress away for several days. I thought you had made a choice, so why are you so surprised?"

She pointed at the three gold-plated letters on the small square table and said, "I sent invitations to Wanwan for three consecutive days, but they were all rejected. There is no sign of relenting. Do you still think that the Xie family father and son are joking about canceling the engagement?"

There was a drizzle of spring rain outside the window, and the maids and old women in the house were all silent.

In silence, Lu Ziyan's dark eyes fell on the invitation, and his brows slightly frowned: "I will go to Xie's house and tell her."

"Take a break," Madam Lu called her son and laughed angrily, "Your brain is made of wood. The Xie family is angry because you disregard their daughter's dignity and keep a mistress before you get married. If you don't get rid of that slut, do you still expect to be able to enter the Xie Mansion?"

He is a man who became famous at a young age, praised many times by the current emperor and is a trusted minister who has high hopes for him. But how could he be so stupid when it comes to matters between men and women?

Looking at her son with a sullen face, Madam Lu asked in surprise, "My son, are you thinking that if you don't send away that slave girl, your marriage will not be affected?"

She didn't object to her son being surrounded by girls, but no matter what, she still had to give her face as a wife.

The wedding date is still more than a month away. If it were any other family, even if they already had a concubine, they would have sent her away so that the bride could marry happily. But her family is different. They used to have a clean family around them, but now they are entangled with a lowly maid.

And everyone knows about it. Isn't this a slap in the face of the Lu family?
Lu Ziyan closed his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

Seeing this, Madam Lu thought that her good grandson couldn't make a decision. She couldn't bear to see him suffer so much, so she said slowly, "Since you can't leave either of them, just move the one outside to another place and tell others that they've been dismissed. It won't be too late to make plans after Wanwan gets married."

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That afternoon, the news that Lu Ziyan had dismissed his mistress reached the Xie family.

Xie Wan Ning was really a little surprised, and then smiled bitterly.

...It turned out that she had a tough attitude and was determined not to accept Liu Manrou's words, so Lu Ziyan would really give in.

Even if it's just a delaying tactic.

That’s right, Xie Wan Ning didn’t believe at all that Lu Ziyan was willing to give up Liu Manrou.

Not to mention how affectionate they were, just based on the time, Liu Manrou was already pregnant with his eldest son.

But in the dream, he refused to even pretend to do so. Even when her brother talked to him, he refused to give in.

Because he had a firm grasp on her feelings for him.

Relying on her love for him, he has nothing to fear.

Now, after letting go of all her obsessions, Xie Wan Ning can see things clearly.

But the more she saw it clearly, the more she felt that it was not worth it, and the more heartbroken she became.

(End of this chapter)