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To be honest, Zhao Yutan found Lu Songli unfamiliar during this meeting. It had only been a few days, but why had her personality changed so drastically? Yes, she had changed after falling into the water, becoming this strong and aggressive. Was it because of Xie Zhan? Had she touched her scales? The more she thought about it, the more she felt like she had guessed the truth. Zhao Yutan took a deep breath, no matter what, she wouldn’t let go.
Lu Songli said unceremoniously, “You’ve seen me, I’ve said what I needed to say. Now, move aside.” The food was low in calories at this time, and she was already hungry. This body was not in good condition, and she had a bit of low blood sugar. When she got hungry, her body became uncomfortable, and when her body was uncomfortable, her mood was bad.
Zhao Yutan was in tears, she went straight up to Lu Songli and said with teary eyes, “Good sister, I want to say that you really misunderstood me about the incident of falling into the water that night. Seeing you just now, my emotions were stirred up, and I didn’t know where to begin.”
Lu Songli didn’t bother to correct her address, but instead asked, “Really a misunderstanding? If you weren’t guilty, why did you pretend to faint?”
From Lu Songli’s actions that night, both of them knew about the pretense of fainting.
Zhao Yutan said with tears in her eyes, “At that time, to be honest, I was completely stunned, and then I felt ashamed to death. I was afraid to face the stares of those people.”
Lu Songli listened, this reason could indeed explain her pretending to faint.
“I thought you would understand me, but I didn’t expect you to be bolder than me, and even misunderstood me because of it.” Zhao Yutan showed weakness, and as she spoke, she reached out to grab her hand, but Lu Songli avoided it.
Lu Songli thought, is she blaming me for not fainting like her? Also, it’s come to this, is she still trying to explain that she didn’t mean it? Even if it wasn’t intentional, their Lu Family would treat it as intentional.
Zhao Yutan didn’t know that Lu Songli had seen through her, thinking that she had accidentally revealed her deception when she pretended to faint.
“So what do you want now?” Lu Songli crossed her arms, not saying whether she believed or not, she was curious about Zhao Yutan’s purpose in stopping her.
“I came to explain these things to you, firstly to clear up these misunderstandings, and secondly to beg you to ask your father to show mercy and spare our Zhao family.”
Lu Songli fell silent. No, Zhao Yutan, do you think I’m a fool? She wouldn’t think she was so easily fooled, would she?
Besides, the matter of suppressing their Zhao family, her father was the mastermind, and she also agreed and actively promoted it.
As for the original story, although her cousin hadn’t mentioned the outcome of the Lu Family, she knew with her knees that it wouldn’t be a good ending.
You’re right, it’s quite understandable that Zhao Yutan would be anxious and feel guilty after secretly having an affair with a married man, especially given how it angered the original Lu Songli. It’s also logical that she would be involved in the suppression of the Lu Family. The Xie family is powerful and influential, and Zhao Yutan is close to the young emperor, so the Lu Family wouldn’t stand a chance.
Plus, the original owner marrying into the Xie family and preventing Xie Zhan from having children for 30 years would inevitably lead to resentment from the Xie family towards both the original owner and the Lu Family.
However, there’s one strange point: If the original owner couldn’t have children, what about concubines? Given her meek personality, she wouldn’t have used any means to stop Xie Zhan from taking concubines and having children.
As for why Xie Zhan didn’t even have a single illegitimate child, I can only guess that it was intentional on his part. How else can you explain Zhao Yutan marrying into the Xie family as a second wife and giving him a set of twins within a year?
Xie Zhan’s actions are a form of coercion, his heart is truly evil.
In ancient times, at the age of thirty, life is already halfway through. Normal people at this age would have sons who are twelve or thirteen years old. Xie Zhan’s family is completely empty. The original owner must have felt guilty to death. Moreover, anyone would think that the original owner, as the first wife, is deeply guilty.
Lu Songli thinks that even if the original owner in the original book hadn’t caught her friend and husband having an affair, she probably wouldn’t have lived long.
Whether the Lu Family discovered the truth about the original owner Lu Songli’s death, they wouldn’t have a good outcome. Therefore, Lu Songli didn’t stop her father from taking harsh measures against the Zhao family, not only did she not stop him, she even added fuel to the fire.
Zhao Yutan continued to babble, “You don’t know, I was so heartbroken after hearing about what happened at the morning court. It was just a misunderstanding between us, why did you have to let your father do things so cruelly?…”
Lu Songli remained expressionless, she did it, what can you do to me? Whether she wanted to marry into the Xie family or not was another matter, but currently, Xie Zhan was still her fiance. If the Zhao family dared to reach out, they should be prepared to have their hand broken, shouldn’t they?
Zhao Yutan’s constant chattering annoyed Lu Songli, “Zhao Yutan, don’t pretend to be innocent, my father is a good father, your Zhao family’s current predicament is all due to your greed!”
Zhao Yutan was startled. Lu Songli hadn’t spoken before, and she thought she had softened.
“A Li, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said those things. Let the past be the past. Can we still be good sisters? I really cherish our sisterhood of over ten years, I really can’t bear for us to become strangers because of a misunderstanding.”
Zhao Yutan tried to grab Lu Songli’s hand again, but Lu Songli naturally wouldn’t let her succeed.
“Don’t you want Xie Zhan anymore?” Lu Songli asked curiously.
She threw a direct question, leaving Zhao Yutan speechless, speechless, no, how could she be so confident from the beginning that her goal was Xie Zhan?
“Lu Songli, you still don’t believe me!” Zhao Yutan’s tears came again.
Lu Songli snorted, all of you are thousands-year-old foxes, playing what kind of Liao Zhai here?
“Believe you? Believe you won’t snatch Xie Zhan? Impossible. You lost Qin Sheng, if you don’t hurry up and grab Xie Zhan, with your current reputation, what kind of man can you marry?”
Zhao Yutan felt that Lu Songli’s words were like knives, cutting and slashing at her heart.
“A Li, your words are too hurtful.” She looked at her sadly with tears in her eyes, then turned and walked back.
As she walked, she thought,A Li, believe me, you and Xie Zhan aren’t suitable.
She did this not only for her own good, but also for Lu Songli’s good. Lu Songli wouldn’t be happy after marrying Xie Zhan, she doesn’t understand my good intentions now, it doesn’t matter, I, Zhao Yutan, have a clear conscience.
Lu Songli frowned, she had been pondering what Zhao Yutan’s true motive was for all this commotion. Zhao Yutan had just stated her purpose for finding her, but Lu Songli didn’t believe her. It could be said that she didn’t believe a single word of what Zhao Yutan said, she didn’t believe she would give up Xie Zhan, and she didn’t believe that after her old man had severely damaged the Zhao family, Zhao Yutan could still be so unreservedly sisterly with her. Moreover, from beginning to end, Zhao Yutan’s posture was very low, was this a way of showing weakness?
Because things had developed to this point, Zhao Yutan couldn’t retreat. She and the Zhao family had sunk capital, and they didn’t want to lose everything, so they had to take a gamble. And the way to gamble was to burn all bridges and go for broke, wasn’t it? Thinking about it this way, she probably guessed Zhao Yutan’s purpose in coming to see her this time.