He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

The book did indeed mention that His Majesty had granted marriage to the Crown Prince and Jian Hongling, but Lu Yan didn't remember it being so early, so the two of them still had to struggle for a while.

"This matter is simple. The Second Prince has fallen." Jian Hongling said, "The Crown Prince's position in the court is now as stable as it can be. My father and his gang of old men who insisted on remaining neutral can no longer do so. My father, that old bastard, knows that I am on good terms with the Crown Prince, and he has started to curry favor with me again. I gave him the evidence that I had collected over the years about my stepmother harming me, and he found an excuse to divorce her."

Lu Yan said in disbelief: "Divorced? Your father is so cruel!"

Jian Hongling sneered, "He's always like this. Do you think he doesn't know how my stepmother treated me? He's happy to see it happen. If I really die outside, the dowry left by my mother will belong to his Jian family. If I wasn't lucky, I would have become a dead soul at the hands of the two of them."

Lu Yan got goose bumps all over her body. The original novel did not spend extra words to write a concise chapter. Lu Yan did not have any intuitive impression of him. She just felt that it must be very difficult for him to sit firmly on the position of prime minister and remain neutral in the turbulent court. She did not expect that he would be so ruthless.

Jian Hongling waved her hand and stopped talking about Jian Mingzhang: "The emperor has not been in good health since he fell ill. He always feels that he will not live long, and the second prince was demoted, so he urges the crown prince to choose a concubine and start a family."

"The prince no longer has to worry about my father's opinion. One day, the emperor mentioned the selection of a concubine again, and he said he liked me. It was the first time in so many years that the emperor heard the confirmation from him. He was afraid that his opinion would change again, so he issued an order to marry us that day. When he returned from Liaozhou this time, we started the process. I thought that if I really became the crown princess, it would be difficult for me to leave the capital, so I might as well come to find you before I get trapped."

Liu Qingyan continued: "When Hongling told me about this, I decided to come with her. Recently, my mother-in-law also mentioned intentionally or unintentionally that she wanted us to have a child. If I have a child, I may not have one in the future. I’m so free to go wherever I want. I’ll come see you while I can still run around.”

Lu Yan felt mixed emotions when she heard this. To be fair, Liu Qingyan and Jian Hongling's situation is much better than that of ordinary women. They don't have to face conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, but they are still trapped by marriage and children.

This is a common dilemma that all women have to face from ancient times to the present. It is the same situation in modern times, let alone ancient times. As soon as a woman gets married, she is put on an invisible yoke. Even if you become a princess, it's just that the yoke is made of gold. However, not getting married and having children is considered a deviant thing not only in ancient times, but also in modern times.

Lu Yan sighed and said with a smile: "I will have fun with you these days and let you see what Liaozhou is like. I will never let you come here in vain!"

Liu Qingyan seemed to suddenly remember something. She patted her head and took out a cloth bag from her luggage and handed it to Lu Yan. When Lu Yan opened it, there was a stack of five hundred taels of silver notes inside, which added up to more than 20,000 taels. .

Liu Qingyan handed it to Lu Yan: "This is the share given to you by Hengzhou and Bushishu. They knew you went to Liaozhou, so they asked me to bring it to you."

Lu Yan was moved and accepted the money unceremoniously. She happened to be short of money here, and she deserved it.

Liu Qingyan whispered to Lu Yan: "There should be almost three thousand taels here that belong to Lu Sheng. You can divide it among yourselves when you go back."

Lu Yan waved her hand nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter. If I give it to him, he will give it all back to me. He doesn't care about the money. It was originally put together with mine."

Liu Qingyan held her chin and asked, "How are you and Lu Sheng doing?"

Lu Yan put the banknote into her arms and said indifferently, "What else can I do? It's just like that."

Liu Qingyan blinked her eyes: "That's it? So you two have been alone for several months and there is no progress at all?"

Jian Hongling answered: "It's still a bit. If I had asked this before, she would have directly said that it has nothing to do with him, instead of saying that there is no progress. It means that she has now acquiesced that the two of them have a relationship."

Lu Yan opened her mouth in surprise and looked at Jian Hongling in disbelief: "How can you explain it this way?"

Jian Hongling nodded affirmatively: "You should think about it yourself whether this is the case."

Lu Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What am I thinking about? It's not the truth at all!"

Jian Hongling didn't care about Lu Yan's rebuttal: "Go ahead and quibble. Do you think I can't see that the feelings between you two have changed?"

Liu Qingyan was confused when she heard this: "What? What changed? Why didn't I see anything?"

Jian Hongling held her chin and looked back at Liu Qingyan: "Sometimes it's really hard for me to believe that you are the only one among us who is married."

Liu Qingyan: "I understand what you said. You are mocking me."

Lu Yan nodded: "If you can understand this sentence, it's not too stupid."

"You're the stupid one!" Liu Qingyan bared her teeth at Lu Yan: "Don't try to change the subject. We're talking about you. Tell me the truth. What happened between you and Lu Sheng?"

Lu Yan failed to change the subject, so she had to continue the topic and said, "I can't really say what's going on between us now. Let me ask you, how did you know that you liked each other?"

Jian Hongling and Liu Qingyan looked at each other, and Liu Qingyan asked: "So you are not sure whether you like Lu Sheng or not?"

Lu Yan nodded.

Jian Hongling sighed: "That's easy. I'll ask you a few questions and you answer them."

Lu Yan nodded and said hello.

"The first question is, imagine that you are going to get married to a person and live with him for the rest of your life. If this person is Lu Sheng, can you accept it?"

Lu Yan's brows furrowed and then relaxed: "Originally, I couldn't accept the thought of getting married and spending the rest of my life with another person, but if that person is Lu Sheng, it doesn't seem to be unacceptable. Then wouldn't it be the same as now? ?"

Jian Hongling asked again: "Second question, imagine that Lu Sheng is getting married, but that person is not you, but another woman. Can you accept that Lu Sheng wants to live with her and have children?" "

Lu Yan's relaxed brows furrowed again: "I don't seem to be able to accept it. If he marries a wife, we won't be able to have contact like we do now. I will definitely keep a distance from him and try to be as rare as possible to avoid misunderstandings. This will It delays me a lot, and I don’t think it’s okay.”

Jian Hongling and Liu Qingyan looked at each other again and said helplessly: "It's hard to say whether you like him or not, but what is certain is that if you two want to get married, you can only marry each other. Whether you marry someone else or he marries someone else, it is unacceptable to you."

Lu Yan nodded thoughtfully, rubbed her chest, and suppressed the dull pain in her heart when she imagined Lu Sheng having children with someone else.