After hearing her gossip, all the civil and military officials went crazy.

Chapter 167 Thank you for your help.

Fang Lingchu asked excitedly, "[And then what? Did her parents agree?]"

The system, seeing its excited host, spoke with increasing enthusiasm.

How could they possibly agree? Her parents wouldn't agree. After all, that musician was penniless. Besides playing one good piece of music and writing one good poem, he was good for nothing.

They don't even know how to make a living.

Zhuo Ruoshi's parents disagreed, but so what? They were in love and couldn't be stopped.

Zhuo Ruoshi was locked up by her parents. The musician bribed a servant in the Zhuo family to ask Zhuo Ruoshi if she had feelings for him.

Zhuo Ruoshi certainly has one, after all, the musician is extremely fond of her.

Zhuo Ruoshi saw what the musician had given her and immediately replied.

She adored him, she was extremely fond of him, and she would go through fire and water for him.

But what if my parents disagree?

Fang Lingchu had a bad feeling.

Did she elope with that musician?

When the system heard Fang Lingchu's name, it happily spun around.

The host is truly too intelligent.

That's right, they eloped.

In Zhuo Ruoshi's view, the two were so in love that it didn't matter if the musician was a little poor. After all, she had mountains of gold and silver, and giving them a little would allow them to live a wealthy life.

As a young lady from a wealthy family, Zhuo Ruoshi took off her jewelry and washed her hands to cook and take care of the musician's daily life for the sake of her beloved.

After getting married, the musician could no longer go to those kinds of places to earn money, and the two of them lived off Zhuo Ruoshi pawning her jewelry.

Later, her father couldn't bear to see them like this anymore, so he sent them money and people again, and the two of them lived a wealthy life again.

After this incident, the musician loved Zhuo Ruoshi even more. He discovered that she not only had a graceful figure and a beautiful face, but also wisdom that surpassed that of men.

He also liked her style of doing things very much.

That night, he played the instrument again, hoping to make his wife love him even more. Unexpectedly, he was able to stir Zhuo Ruoshi's heart, but instead, he stirred the heart of the eldest prince.

At this time, the Dragon Kingdom had almost entered a period of turmoil, and the eldest prince was particularly fond of the musician's rendition of "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix".

After he became emperor, he sent a musician to see him. The musician then presented Zhuo Ruoshi's "Ode to the Fragrant Forest," which led the eldest prince to directly appoint him as a court official.

From then on, his rise to prominence was meteoric, and he became incredibly famous.

Upon hearing this, Fang Lingchu couldn't help but ask, "What about Zhuo Ruoshi? Didn't she go with us?"

The system shook its head and said: "Zhuo Ruoshi did not go; she stayed. The two could only communicate through letters, and several years passed like this."

Aside from needing Zhuo Ruoshi's help to come up with solutions, the two of them have become increasingly quiet.

Later letters home were even brief, consisting of just one or two sentences, followed by the musician's plan to marry a concubine for the sake of his future.

Zhuo Ruoshi wanted a lifelong, monogamous love, but the musician broke his promise. In the end, Zhuo Ruoshi wrote a farewell letter herself, hoping that her husband would come back.

Unexpectedly, what I received was a divorce agreement and news that he was preparing to remarry.

Zhuo Ruoshi died of a sudden stroke from anger. She was not yet 35 years old at the time and had left behind a son and a daughter for the musician.

Sadly, the musician never returned home, and the two children died in the turmoil of the time.

After the system finished speaking, everyone fell silent. Fang Lingchu thought for a while and then said: "I remember a saying that is very suitable for the present: A virtuous wife helps me achieve my ambitions, and when I am successful, I kill the woman I love first. When I am poor, my wife is afraid to leave, and when I am rich, I dislike my wife for being old. One day when I have power in my hands, I will step on my wife's head to replace her with a new one."

It's common to see poor men with wealthy women by their side, but rare to see rich men with worthless wives.

In this inherently unequal era, I don't know how to judge them. I can only say that it's better to spend your life on the battlefield and love freedom than to gamble on a man's true heart for a vague and uncertain love.

If she still chooses to live a life of poverty with that musician when she didn't have the chance before, I can only say that I'd rather not complete this task at all, or complete it in a way that fools you into thinking it's completed. Then I won't care what she does next.

After all, good advice is hard to persuade a damned ghost.

Although there were still some discussions about it.

Everyone fell silent after hearing Fang Lingchu's words.

Some of them also fell in love with those poor scholars, broke with their families and rebelled, but failed to succeed in their rebellion.

Were they really wrong?

But I'm not as happy as I used to be.

Zhuo Ruoshi, in particular, was somewhat taken aback when she heard about her fate.

After all, she felt she was a very carefree person, so how could she possibly die just because of a man's betrayal!
The other noble ladies present witnessed many of the conspiracies and schemes.

Hearing this story, they all felt that the musician must have been deliberately seducing them.

Especially Miss Qin, who looked down on Zhuo Ruoshi to some extent.

She disliked women who abandoned their families for love the most.

Fang Lingchu thought for a while and then asked, "Guagua, I'm not being conspiratorial! I have a feeling that this musician was only after Zhuo Ruoshi's talent from the very beginning!"

The system immediately set off electronic fireworks.

[Host is so smart!]
That's right, this musician was after a life of wealth from the very beginning, after all, the Zhuo family was rich!
All that talk about understanding her and loving her is a lie; it's all about money.

After discovering Zhuo Ruoshi's talent, he often tricked her into writing more poems, which he would then buy in his own name or tell his friends.

Later, the eldest prince heard of his reputation and went to listen to his music. You know what happened next: the musician married the daughter of a minister close to the eldest prince and rose rapidly through the ranks.

Fang Lingchu: I don't know how to say it, it feels like I ate something bad.

Other women: They knew it would be like this. What love? It's all just about interests.

Zhuo Ruoshi: How could that be? Lin Lang clearly loves her! He once said that she was the most special woman he knew.

He didn't mind that she had been married before; as long as it was her, he didn't like her no matter what.

How could it all be about money!
She couldn't believe it. Zhuo Ruoshi really wanted to go back and ask the man who said he loved her and missed her every day why he lied to her.

If Fang Lingchu knew what Zhuo Ruoshi was thinking, she would definitely say: "Because you're stupid! You're stupid and rich, who wouldn't like that!"

After thinking for a while, Fang Lingchu finally came up with an excuse: "After all, they had never left home in their entire lives, and the only thing they had seen in the world was storybooks."

It's normal to want love, but only equal love can last. No matter how much you love someone who is insecure and selfish, you will never be able to stay together.

Love is wonderful, but in this era, apart from marriages between people of similar social standing, most other forms of love are driven by self-interest.

Now that there are more choices available, I hope many girls will go out and explore. Actually, it's not raining outside.

The noble ladies exchanged smiles upon hearing this.

(End of this chapter)