Xie Yanchuan thought he had cut off his bond with Ruan Jiu with his own hands.
Unexpectedly, the next day, the old master Xie sent someone to tell him to get ready. He would marry Ruan Jiu ten days later.
After getting this news, Xie Yanchuan was very surprised but also very hesitant.
He didn't know how to face Ruan Jiu now.
Just then, the gatekeeper boy ran over to tell him.
Since Lu Wanrou had been locked in the firewood shed by him, she had been crying and making a fuss to see him.
Xie Yanchuan frowned. He was already in a bad mood, and this damned Lu Wanrou was adding fuel to the fire.
So he waved his hand and said coldly, "I won't see her."
The boy looked embarrassed. After hesitating for a moment, he took something out of his bosom and handed it over.
"Master Xie, she said if you insist on not seeing her, you should take this back."
Xie Yanchuan took the thing from the boy's hand and took a closer look. His body jolted.
This hairpin was the token of love he had given to Lu Wanrou.
He drooped his eyelids, and the past events came to mind one by one.
After a while, Lu Wanrou finally waited for Xie Yanchuan.
She stepped forward happily.
But Xie Yanchuan took a few steps back with a look of disgust on his face.
Lu Wanrou paused in her steps, then tidied up her messy hair bun.
She forced a smile and said, "Yanchuan, I knew you would come."
Xie Yanchuan tightened his grip on the jade hairpin until his fingertips turned white.
He said coldly, "At this point, what else is there to say between us?"
Lu Wanrou's smile froze on her face.
She was unwilling, so she said, "Yanchuan, you must still have feelings for me in your heart. Otherwise, you wouldn't have come after seeing the jade hairpin."
Xie Yanchuan looked at the jade hairpin in his hand.
That day, after Lu Wanrou blocked the flower pot for him, he asked her what reward she wanted.
But she didn't want anything.
Later, he went to the Spring Breeze Courtyard many times, and her tenderness and charm gradually touched his heart.
After that, he bought this jade hairpin with the pattern of a phoenix and a mandarin duck singing in harmony at a high price of 3,000 taels in the jewelry store and gave it to her.
At that time, he really wanted to live in harmony with her for the rest of his life.
But how did things change later?
Thinking of this, a cold look rose in Xie Yanchuan's eyes.
Looking at the jade hairpin in his hand, he smiled self - deprecatingly.
"You don't deserve this jade hairpin!"
After saying that, he threw the jade hairpin on the ground hard.
Before Lu Wanrou could react, the jade hairpin had broken into two pieces.
She squatted on the ground and picked up the jade hairpin with trembling hands.
She wanted to piece it together, but she couldn't.
Big teardrops fell from her eyes one by one.
"Lu Wanrou, if I weren't the eldest young master of the Xie family, would you still love me?" Xie Yanchuan said in a cold voice.
"Yanchuan, my love for you can be witnessed by the sun and the moon!"
Xie Yanchuan sneered. What a good line about being witnessed by the sun and the moon.
"I really liked you once. I thought you were different from others. Although you were in the brothel, you were tough - minded.
When I gave you the jade hairpin with the pattern of a phoenix and a mandarin duck singing in harmony, I really thought about marrying you into my family.
Later, I accidentally found out that the day you saved me was a deliberate scheme of yours. I wished I could tear you apart.
But when I saw the scars on your hands, I just couldn't bear it. After all, you can never play the zither again because of me.
However, from that time on, my apology for you outweighed my love."
Xie Yanchuan's words were like a lightning bolt, striking Lu Wanrou's heart hard.
She suddenly felt breathless.
She lost all her strength and fell to the ground.
So he knew everything.
Xie Yanchuan continued, "I thought you schemed against me just to get rid of the bondage of the Spring Breeze Courtyard and live a good life.
So I redeemed you and promised to take care of you for the rest of your life.
I even left Ruan Jiu alone for you.
I didn't expect you to be so vicious!"
Hearing what Xie Yanchuan said, Lu Wanrou's heart was in great pain.
She covered her chest and cried heart - rendingly.
Suddenly, while crying, she began to laugh.
She was almost crazy.
"Do you think Ruan Jiu is a good person?"
Hearing Ruan Jiu's name, Xie Yanchuan drooped his eyelids, lost in thought.
Lu Wanrou continued, "Then I'll tear off Ruan Jiu's hypocritical mask and let you have a good look!"
When Ruan Jiu pushed open the door of the firewood shed, she saw Lu Wanrou sitting on the ground.
Her hair bun was messy, and the tears on her face hadn't dried yet.
She looked extremely embarrassed.
She didn't look like the top courtesan of the Spring Breeze Courtyard at all.
Ruan Jiu put the plate in her hand in front of Lu Wanrou. There were many fruits on it.
"I guess you won't be able to eat these fruits in the future."
Lu Wanrou could tell that Ruan Jiu was mocking her, so she directly knocked over the plate in front of her.
The fruits rolled all over the ground.
Ruan Jiu wasn't angry. She just smiled.
She picked up an apple that had rolled to her feet and picked up the small knife that was lying beside it.
While peeling the apple, she said, "If you had known this, why did you do it in the first place? Am I right, Miss Wanrou?"
Lu Wanrou snorted, "Hypocrite! Yanchuan will know your true face sooner or later!"
"Oh? What's my true face?" Ruan Jiu lowered her head and continued to peel the fruit in her hand.
Lu Wanrou glanced out of the window. It seemed that a figure flashed by.
Then she rolled her eyes and immediately said, "Now that I've ended up like this, I'm afraid I can't stay in Qinzhou City anymore.
So, can you tell me the truth? Did the doctor from the Huichun Hall collude with you?"
Ruan Jiu calmly handed the peeled apple in her hand over.
Lu Wanrou looked disgusted. She waved her hand and knocked the apple to the ground.
Looking at the apple covered in dust, Ruan Jiu thought to herself that it was really a pity.
"Okay, then I'll tell you everything."
After saying that, Ruan Jiu leaned over and whispered in Lu Wanrou's ear, "I knew you were faking the pregnancy a long time ago, so I deliberately let you hear that Xie Yanchuan was going to send you away.
I just wanted you to be impulsive and use the child in your belly to scheme against me."
"What?" Lu Wanrou looked stunned and couldn't believe it.
A sly look flashed in Ruan Jiu's eyes. "Otherwise, do you think the doctor from the Huichun Hall just came to you and gave you the idea of faking a pregnancy?"
She had to thank Xie Jingchu for this.
It was Xie Jingchu who told her that Xie Yanchuan had slept with Lu Wanrou once after getting drunk.
However, if Lu Wanrou had been simple - minded, she wouldn't have fallen into her trap.
Lu Wanrou didn't expect that all this had been planned by Ruan Jiu.
Step by step, she was lured into the trap!
"Did you do all this just to drive me away from Yanchuan?" Lu Wanrou raised her voice. She was afraid that Xie Yanchuan outside the door hadn't heard clearly what Ruan Jiu had just said.
She had to let Xie Yanchuan hear with his own ears what Ruan Jiu had done!
But Ruan Jiu seemed to have seen through her mind.
A contemptuous smile appeared on her lips.
This smile made Lu Wanrou tremble all over, and a sense of uneasiness welled up in her heart.
Suddenly, Ruan Jiu put away her smile.
She shouted in a panic, "Miss Wanrou, please let me go!"
Just when Lu Wanrou looked confused, Ruan Jiu stabbed the knife in her hand straight into her own belly.
Along with Ruan Jiu's shrill scream, a splash of bright red spread from her belly.
"Ruan Jiu!"
"A Jiu!"