allonlinenovel Chapter 198 Why don't you treat him as your boss?
Chapter 198 Why don't you treat him as your boss?
Lu Jinchuan was rejected several times when he requested to see the emperor, and he knew that there was no room for change in this marriage.
He looked at the sky outside the palace wall and sighed quietly, hoping that the Fourth Prince was not a swindler and would not bring their Lu family to the same fate as Sun Linyuan.
Song Junyan waited for several days but Lu Xinran did not come to see him.
He asked Ding San and Ding Wu to take turns to hide outside the Lu Mansion with their men, and if they found Lu Xinran sneaking out of the mansion or trying to leave the city, they should immediately inform him.
Lu Xinran never thought that she had a conflicted personality. After a few days, she was still undecided.
"Tongzi, what do you think I should choose?"
"Of course you stay and get married. He's not wrong. You're going to get married eventually. Without him, you'll have to marry someone else. He made so many promises to you. You should have earned it."
Lu Xinran was speechless. How did she make any profit?
Although Tongzi is unreliable and has to eat melons in person, she has helped him solve several cases with the clues in the booklet!
"You're talking as if you didn't get any life points from these cases! Think about it, if you leave the capital, how can you get such a good opportunity to gain life points? There are a lot of melons in the capital, and he is still in Shuntian Prefecture. He doesn't mind you going out with him to solve cases. This is such a great opportunity. Even if you don't covet his beauty, you should also think about your own life."
The system kept mumbling to itself earnestly, but its baby voice made its words seem weak.
Lu Xinran analyzed it carefully and nodded in agreement. After a while, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
"When have I ever thought about that girl's beauty!"
She clearly...didn't dare to look him in the eye every time!
The system was silent for a long time, as if it was deciding whether to provide proof.
"Every time you see him, you will sigh in your heart: What a pity for that face, how can he be a pervert."
Lu Xinran: “…”
This, this is just the truth, how can it be considered as greed for beauty!
There are so many beauties with different temperaments in the capital, whether it is Zhang Xinji, Tang Chongli, or Cui Shenglin who always peeks at Zhang Er, they are all pleasing to the eye. It's not like she has to be with that guy!
"That's what you said, but Zhang Xinji is getting married soon, and Cui Shenglin doesn't fancy you either. I think Tang Chongli is more suitable for Lu Xinlan. There are so many beauties, but none of them can belong to you."
Lu Xinran: “…”
So she worked so hard to eat melons and save her life points, just for this guy to say something sarcastic at the critical moment? !
"I just want you to agree to it, so you won't regret it later."
Sensing her anger, the system continued to persuade her weakly, "Aren't you just worried that he won't keep his word and won't be able to do what he promised you?
"Then why don't you just treat him as your boss and be just a nominal princess? You don't have to worry about whether he wants to marry a concubine or a concubine in the future. You just need to eat well, sleep well, and eat melons when you have nothing to do. Isn't that good enough?
"It's so hard to escape from marriage. You're a weak girl, and it's dangerous to travel alone. If you're spotted, your fate will be much worse than sharing carrots with others."
Lu Xinran: “…”
For the sake of health points, the system has become a caring elder sister.
But it does make sense!
She raised her hand to wipe her face, and in an instant she made up her mind to ask her future boss what those three years meant.
Song Junyan waited for four or five days and finally received news that Lu Xinran wanted to meet him.
He breathed a sigh of relief; those voices were not in vain!
After following so many gossips and listening to so many complaints, he knew what she cared about most.
Give her all the respect he can, if she still doesn't want to, then there's nothing he can do.
He calculated the distance of his heart's voice, which was fifty steps away, and chose a remote house in the north of the city as the meeting place.
Lu Xinran was stunned as soon as he got off the car. The northern part of the city was mostly inhabited by the poor and the lowest class. The alleys were messy and dilapidated, with narrow paths crisscrossing and it was impossible to tell where they led to at a glance.
Why did this guy choose this place to meet? !
If she gave him a negative answer, wouldn't she be knocked unconscious, imprisoned, or killed and dismembered?
No matter how you look at it, this place is suitable for killing people!
The plot of the book she had read when she first came here had already faded, but now that she saw the scenes around her, those pages appeared uncontrollably in front of her eyes.
Inside the courtyard, listening to her chaotic thoughts, Song Junyan rubbed his forehead and signaled Ding San to quickly open the door.
If he didn't want their conversation to become known to everyone in the capital, why would he have gone to the trouble of looking for such a place.
The dilapidated yard was still fairly tidy, and there were charcoal braziers in the four corners of the house that had not been repaired in time.
After lifting the brand new door curtain, Lu Xinran walked in and saw a tall figure standing in the slightly cramped room.
Song Junyan turned around when he heard the noise and motioned for her to sit at the table.
He had the furnishings in the room changed early in the morning, and also prepared tea, water, and fruit snacks.
Lu Xinran looked at the holly tea bowl and exquisite snacks on the table and felt inexplicably relieved.
"But have you thought about it?"
Knowing that she was nervous, Song Junyan poured her some tea and went straight to the point.
Lu Xinran's eyes fell on the slender fingers holding the pot, and the system's words that she was thinking about his beauty suddenly popped up in her ears!
She coughed lightly, blaming the system for always misleading her.
She is not a hand control, why is she thinking about him!!!
"What did you mean by three years that day?"
Gathering her thoughts that were about to wander, she sat upright and tried hard to act like an interviewer.
Song Junyan only half understood what she was thinking, but since he didn't understand, he didn't think too much about it.
"I am a prince and cannot be childless. If you still do not want to be my official wife after three years, then I can only marry a concubine to have children with me."
Three years was the limit the emperor could give him.
Lu Xinran had already guessed that this was the reason on the way here, and now that he said it so bluntly, he felt more at ease.
"Can you sign and fingerprint these promises?"
Song Junyan gritted his teeth: "Okay!"
"Then, okay!"
Lu Xinran didn't want to worry about it anymore. After all, just like the system said, it was not that easy to run away. If he could be a carefree parasite in the capital, it would only be a change of identity, which was not unacceptable.
Moreover, she glanced somewhere.
This man doesn't even have a palace maid to warm his bed, maybe he really can't do it!
Song Junyan's hands that were under the table were clenched. How could this guy think that he couldn't hear him and talk nonsense!
If outsiders heard these words, how would he save his face?
After sending the people out of the alley, he watched the carriage go away, his mind became vague, he lowered his head to look at his fingertips which were still stained with red mud, turned sideways to call for the guards, jumped on the horse, and galloped to the other side of the alley.