Song Yinghuai frowned and looked at the delicate wrist that had grabbed his hand.
He was tempted to shake her off, but Lu Baiwei was like a boneless jellyfish, flopping limply towards him.
She was crying as if she was about to faint.
After all, she was the daughter of his mentor. He couldn't bring himself to use brute force to fling her away.
He had just forcibly pried her fingers off one by one.
Just then, Song Chengyuan's sarcastic voice suddenly rang out:
"Yo, rekindling the old flame, are we?"
Lu Baiwei's expression froze. As if she had seen some terrifying monster, she immediately pounced on Song Yinghuai like an octopus, crying out:
"Xuan Yao, save me! Save me!"
She clung tightly to Song Yinghuai's arm, her voice trembling, her almond eyes brimming with tears.
She looked so pitiful.
Lu Baiwei thought that he had always indulged her in the past. For such an important matter as saving her, he couldn't possibly refuse.
Song Yinghuai pursed his lips tightly. There was a hint of disgust and helplessness in his eyes. He said in a deep voice, "Don't hold on to me. Stand behind me."
He frowned and looked at Song Chengyuan.
Although he knew that this elder brother of his was a scoundrel, he never expected that his concubine would be so terrified by him.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince," Song Yinghuai bowed slightly to him and said, "Your Royal Brother and Lady Lu just happened to pass by. Since we were old acquaintances, we just chatted casually for a few words. Please don't think too much about it, Your Highness."
Song Chengyuan was bent on making things difficult. How could he let it go so easily?
His laughter exuded a cold and venomous aura like a snake. "Trying to cover up your tracks, trying to cover up your tracks... I never knew that old acquaintances needed to hold hands when chatting."
Song Yinghuai remained silent and looked at the Crown Prince in front of him indifferently.
It was true that Lu Baiwei had grabbed his hand.
It was a bit of a nuisance.
He had no way to refute.
"Fourth Brother, the relationship between you and my concubine before she entered the Crown Prince's Mansion has spread all over the capital of Shangjing," Song Chengyuan chuckled. "Fourth Brother doesn't have to hide it. I can understand that you came back to Shangjing this time to see your old lover..."
"As the ancient saying goes, brothers are like hands and feet, while women are like clothes. If you really can't forget your old feelings, I'm not unreasonable. I can even help you two get back together," Song Chengyuan probed.
Lu Baiwei turned pale.
She wanted to win over Song Yinghuai, but she couldn't be divorced by Song Chengyuan.
If she was kicked out of the Crown Prince's Mansion, what would happen to her dream of becoming the Crown Princess?
What would happen to her son, Zhu'er?
Song Yinghuai couldn't have a physical relationship with her, and she couldn't have another child.
"Your Highness has misunderstood," Song Yinghuai flatly denied. "Not to mention that these rumors were unfounded in the first place. Even if they were true, now that Lady Lu is already your woman, I would never have the slightest thought about her."
"I only have a kinship with Lady Lu, and there is absolutely no romantic feeling."
Song Yinghuai's words made Lu Baiwei, who was standing behind him, stiffen her body.
Her face looked extremely ugly.
Song Chengyuan snorted. "Really? Since you have no lingering feelings for her, why do you like that Caiyu so much?"
"Fourth Brother should already know that she is my person. You know she is a spy, but you still keep her by your side as if she were a precious treasure."
"Isn't it because she looks like the woman behind you? That's why you can't bear to kill her."
When Caiyu was mentioned, Song Yinghuai's eyes suddenly shot over like a sharp blade:
"Lady Lu is Lady Lu, and Caiyu is Caiyu. I won't confuse the two of them."
"Since Your Highness has brought up Caiyu, then I might as well make it clear to you, Your Highness!"
Song Yinghuai's dark eyes were deep and filled with a chilling sharpness that made Song Chengyuan suddenly startled.
Then, his cold and domineering voice rang out. "I want Caiyu. Your Highness has to give her to me even if you don't want to."
"From now on, she will be my person. If Your Highness wants to summon her back, you have to get through me first!"
As his words fell, both Song Chengyuan and Lu Baiwei were stunned on the spot.
Lu Baiwei's ears buzzed, as if she had been pricked by a needle.
Song Yinghuai had never forcefully snatched her from Song Chengyuan like this.
But for Caiyu, he was so domineering in front of Song Chengyuan.
Only now did she realize that Song Yinghuai had been making concessions step by step in the face of Song Chengyuan's persecution and provocation before. It wasn't that he couldn't fight back.
He just disdained to fight back at that time.
He just didn't care about anything or anyone, so he was too lazy to fight back.
Song Chengyuan stared at him in disbelief, as if he had been hit on the head with a stick.
It took him a long time to react. His face was filled with shock and confusion. "You... You like Caiyu. You don't want this slut anymore?"
He pointed at Lu Baiwei behind Song Yinghuai.
It seemed that something was wrong.
When Lu Baiwei married into the Crown Prince's Mansion, Song Yinghuai didn't say a word. He didn't even come back from the border to take a look.
He was not convinced. He applied to the emperor to go to the border to supervise the army and specially brought Lu Baiwei with him.
As a result, no matter how he humiliated Lu Baiwei or deliberately played with her in front of Song Yinghuai.
Song Yinghuai always had an indifferent expression.
He thought that this fourth brother had strong emotional control and was just holding back his anger.
He never thought of another possibility -
"You never liked her?" Song Chengyuan blurted out.
Song Yinghuai tightened his lips.
Lu Baiwei suddenly grabbed his arm tightly from behind and cried sadly, "No!"
She shook her head frantically, and the tears splashed out as she shook.
He couldn't say that he had never liked her!
If he did, she would be even more worthless in front of the Crown Prince in the future.
She would be humiliated to death!
Song Yinghuai glanced sideways. Facing the woman's empty and extremely pleading eyes, he seemed not to see them at all.
He turned his head again and looked at Song Chengyuan.
Word by word, clearly, "I've never liked her."
Perhaps in the past, he wouldn't have denied it or admitted it. He would just let everyone guess randomly.
But now he couldn't.
Now there was Caiyu.
Miss Lan San was a jealous woman. If he didn't clarify the relationship in time and end this matter.
Miss Lan San would make him lose his appetite and sleep restlessly.
Lu Baiwei's legs went weak, and she slowly knelt down.
He was really heartless...
He didn't care at all about what kind of difficulties she would face in the future.
It turned out that for so many years, she had been living in self - delusion?
He had never liked her.
He had never liked her...
Lu Baiwei knelt on the ground, and the tears kept falling like broken pearls.
She shook her head, and a low, mocking laugh escaped from her throat.
"Hehe! Hehe!"
"Xuan Yao... It's not like this. It's not like this."
"You're just angry with me. I know you're just angry with me..."
Song Chengyuan blinked frantically, trying to digest this fact.
He stared intently at the changes on Song Yinghuai's face and found that he was really indifferent to Lu Baiwei's miserable cries behind him.
After a moment, he grinned sinisterly and ordered Lu Baiwei, who was kneeling on the ground:
"Slut, since my fourth brother doesn't like you, what are you still hanging around his feet for? Crawl over here to me!"
He was naturally suspicious and couldn't believe Song Yinghuai's words just because of a few sentences.
Lu Baiwei was so scared that she curled up into a ball. She knelt on the ground and grabbed Song Yinghuai's boots tightly. "I don't want to go over there! I don't want to go over there!"
Song Chengyuan shouted sharply, "How dare you disobey me? Even if he can stop me now, do you think he can protect you for the rest of your life?"
"He just said that he never liked you. He doesn't want you!"
"If you're smart, crawl over here quickly. I'll let you suffer less if you're obedient."
Lu Baiwei's body trembled violently.
She looked up at the tall man.
The sun was shining down from the sky.
The blinding golden light made her vision go white, and she couldn't see the expression on Song Yinghuai's face clearly.
She only felt that this man was as silent and heartless as an iceberg.
Lu Baiwei's heart turned cold.
She gritted her teeth and slowly stood up, supporting herself on her knees.
Unexpectedly, Song Chengyuan said coldly, "Don't you understand what I'm saying?"
"I told you to crawl over here."
"Crawl... Crawl!"