The cold husband can't warm me up, I don't love him anymore

Cui Mansion.

Upon learning that Cui Lingyi was finally coming home, Cui Zizhen had already made arrangements to welcome her.

Ever since Liu had her tongue cut off by Shen Du, Cui Zizhen locked her up in the backyard and did not allow her to move around freely, lest her reputation be ruined if it got out.

If Liu had not had a son and a daughter, Cui Zizhen would have divorced her long ago.

The person in charge of taking care of the backyard now is the concubine Li Huaniang.

Li Huaniang had only been in the mansion for a few years and had no children, so she obeyed Cui Zizhen's words.

When a new official takes office, he is naturally eager to show his abilities.

Cui Zizhen said that she wanted to welcome her eldest daughter well, so she showed her sincerity.

First, the Wisteria Pavilion was renovated.

And he replaced all the things inside with new ones.

There were few furnishings before, so Li Huaniang opened the storehouse and deliberately added a lot of them.

She also specially prepared the most fashionable clothes, jewelry, rouge and powder in Beijing, and filled her dressing table with them.

After reading it, Cui Zizhen praised it highly.

"Well done! This is what a mistress of a house should do!"

But in my heart I was thinking about something else.

——In this case, this daughter shouldn't be so determined to break off relations! As long as she is persuaded to agree to marry into the Yue family, everything will be easy!

So when Cui Lingyi returned home early that morning, she saw a happy scene.

"Lingyi, you're finally back. Your father really missed you. Please don't run around anymore!"

As soon as Li Huaniang came up, she held Cui Lingyi's right hand with such a clingy attitude, as if they were real mother and daughter.

Cui Zizhen, on the other hand, kept blaming himself.

"My daughter, please forgive me. I shouldn't have treated you so harshly because of what Liu said. I have locked Liu up in the backyard and will not let her out from now on!"

"My daughter, you will always be the eldest daughter of the Cui family. No one can change this!"

"...You must have suffered a lot this time when you went out. Dad will treat you well in the future."

"You will stay at home and wait for your marriage. Don't worry, Dad will not treat you unfairly!"

"..."

In both his words and deeds, he kept saying that he wanted her to be obedient.

Cui Lingyi held back and said nothing.

This time when she came back, she originally wanted to make a big deal out of it and force her father to return the document of breaking off the engagement to her.

But after thinking about it, I changed my mind.

This time she returned to Beijing, on the one hand, to cancel the engagement and completely sever ties with the Cui family.

The second is to open a herbal medical clinic in Shangjing.

If the cancellation of the engagement becomes known to everyone, the blame will be directed at her, which will have some impact on the business.

Besides, she is not the only one doing this business, Feng Zhenzhu and her uncle Li Changqing are also involved.

She had to think about many things more carefully.

Therefore, before going home, she asked her uncle to ask someone about it.

It was learned indirectly that Cui Zizhen had visited the Jingzhao Yin Mansion several times.

The first time was by virtue of the broken engagement letter, it was recorded that the eldest daughter of the Cui family had nothing to do with the Cui Mansion.

The second time, the record was taken away and the original state was restored.

Although all this is done in secret, it can be checked after all.

However, Cui Zizhen got close to Gu Lianyun, the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, through the Guanjun Marquis's Mansion and successfully married Cui Fangyi to Gu's illegitimate son.

Because of this relationship, although she found out the truth, she could not get any evidence to prove that Cui Zizhen accepted the Yue family's proposal in order to replace her second daughter Cui Fangyi.

Originally, this kind of thing was just an ordinary civil affair, and no records of the process were kept.

Unless the official handling this case is willing to risk his official hat and stand up to testify for her.

But that man was just a small official in Jingzhao Prefecture. Why would he go against his immediate superior and the Minister of Rites over such a matter?

After much thought, I decided that this matter needed to be planned slowly.

Fortunately, the news of accepting the Yue family's marriage proposal was not exposed, which gave her a few more days to prepare.

"Lingyi, what do you think? Are you satisfied with the tidying of the yard?"

After entering the Wisteria Pavilion, Li Huaniang once again held her hand, her flattering gesture evident in her words.

Cui Zizhen was not far behind and introduced everything one by one.

"Lingyi, you have always liked wisteria. Look at this newly planted weeping stamen wisteria. It is the latest variety cultivated by the Flower Shop. It is also called Wangjunlai. When the flowers bloom, they will be like a beauty standing in the morning sun, welcoming her husband..."

She does like wisteria.

Moreover, when Wang Junlai was cultivated, she went to see it on purpose.

When I came back, I told Cui Zizhen that I wanted to replace the wisteria in the Wisteria Pavilion.

But Cui Zizhen sent her away with just one sentence.

"You're going to be married soon. You won't live here for more than a year or two. Why bother with this? It's making life uneasy!"

It's better now.

They had already severed all ties, but they still planted this in the yard.

Cui Lingyi felt really sickened by what she heard and stopped him from speaking without mercy.

"Want you to come? Isn't this a variety that has been around for two years? When did it become the newest? I didn't know the flower shop was so useless that it would promote an outdated flower until today? Or, father, have you been deceived? Do you want your daughter to help you seek justice?"

"You... this?" Cui Zizhen's face suddenly turned ugly. "It must be that the people from the flower shop got the wrong seedlings. Dad will go find them later..."

At this point, Cui Zizhen suddenly changed the subject and said, "It's all because of my father's low position and his unpleasant words."

"Lingyi, although the Yue family is not as powerful as before, the status of the Duke's Mansion is still there. Even if things get bad, there is still a queen in the palace... You won't be wronged if you marry into the family..."

"You may not know this, but ever since the incident at the Yue family, the Third Young Master has started to study hard and has been studying until late at night! If he continues like this, in a few years, he will surely earn you a wife..."

When Cui Lingyi heard Cui Zizhen's implicit suggestion that she should accept the marriage, she understood what was going on.

"Dad, let's put the wedding aside for now. I just want to ask you one question: how are you going to marry me?"

"Ah!" Cui Zizhen was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

"Lingyi, so you have accepted this marriage. That's right. If the Yue family is sincere in marrying you, they will definitely treat you well..."

Cui Lingyi suppressed her impatience.

"Dad, now everyone in the capital knows that the Yue family has fallen on hard times. Such a large Duke's Mansion has no industry to support it. Are you planning to let me marry into the family with nothing?"

"How could this be possible?" Cui Zizhen looked puzzled. "Didn't Liu give you all your mother's dowry last time? How could you be left with nothing?"

Cui Lingyi calmly took out two lists and handed them over.

"This one is my mother's dowry list, and the other one is given to me by Liu. Why don't you take a look at the difference between them, Dad?"

She was too impatient and too soft-hearted before.

One is to avoid getting entangled and leave Shangjing, this place of trouble, as soon as possible.

Second, Cui Zizhen is her biological father after all.

Originally, she thought that since they were not destined to be together, they should just part ways amicably.

I don't want to cause the father and daughter to become enemies and break off the relationship because of money, which is not our personal belongings.