Shengjing Noble

"Princess, I will send someone to drive them out right away!"

Yan Qinghuan immediately stopped him upon hearing this, with a hint of coldness flashing in his eyes.

"Wait, they like to occupy the Princess's Mansion, so let them live there for now. I have other plans."

"Yes."

"Let's go to the other courtyard outside the capital, and send someone to surround the Princess's Mansion. Don't let anyone come out, and don't let outsiders come in."

"Yes!"

Yan Qinghuan smiled coldly: "You asked for this!"

……

the other side.

Zhenguo General's Mansion.

Leng Rou finished washing up, and came to the study in a gauze dress under the cover of night.

Pushing the door open, I saw candlelight flickering in the room and a figure writing at a desk.

The vermilion ink paused, and the man raised his head slightly and glanced coldly.

Moonlight was shining outside the window, and its silver glow covered the cold stone bricks.

Leng Rou was standing in front of the table in a water-blue gauze dress, her face as white as cream, and she looked like a fairy who had walked out of a painting, otherworldly and ethereal.

"General."

She bowed politely, her tone soft and charming.

"come over."

The man's voice was low and cold, without a trace of emotion. Every time he gave such an order, Leng Rou felt oppressed.

The man in front of him was the great general of the Great Sheng Dynasty, Su Shengyan.

His sister is the wife of Prince Xiaoyao, and has been a good friend of the emperor for many years. She holds a high position of power in the court.

He has always been cold and even moody. Such a dull temperament makes Leng Rou unable to guess his thoughts, so she is very respectful and cautious towards him.

She didn't dare to delay and stood up and walked towards him.

Before she could stop, Su Shengyan's hand had already clamped her chin, and her soft body fell into his broad arms.

"General... um..."

Without giving Leng Rou much chance to react, the man covered her lips, domineeringly and forcefully robbing her of all her breath.

As far as he could remember, Su Shengyan never understood what gentleness was, whether it was the first night three years ago or at this moment.

Every time he saw her, he would get straight to the point, without any sweet words of love or gradual foreplay.

In the eyes of outsiders, Su Shengyan is lonely, cold and ascetic.

But in bed, he is a beast that has no self-control.

Especially with the recent military drills, he was almost too busy with affairs and hadn't summoned her to his house for nearly three months.

After enduring for so long, it was inevitable that he would be so anxious.

……

Leng Rou woke up from her coma. The man was no longer beside her. The bed was messy and wrinkled, but there was no man's body temperature.

She was not surprised, but still felt lost.

After every time of making love, Su Shengyan would leave without any reluctance and would never sleep in the same bed with her.

Come to think of it, she was a dancer from a brothel and was not even qualified to be his concubine.

Leng Rou sat up wrapped in the quilt, her snow-white shoulders and collarbones were covered with dense kiss marks, enough to prove how intense last night was.

Regardless of her backache, she wanted to put on her clothes and leave the general's mansion. Just as her fingers hooked up the skirt on the ground, the door was suddenly pushed open.

Su Shengyan stood at the door against the light, wearing a silver-gray suit. The soft brocade did not have a single wrinkle.

No matter how expensive his clothes are, they cannot cover up his innate nobility. The few black bamboos embroidered on the collar and cuffs are lifelike, exquisite and elegant.

He walked into the house. The sunlight was blocked by the closed door behind him, and Leng Rou was able to see his handsome face clearly.

Su Shengyan had a pair of fascinating peach blossom eyes, but his eyes were not affectionate, but full of cold and sharpness.

His sword-like eyebrows were slightly raised, his thin lips were slightly pursed, the lines on his face were sharp, and his facial features were meticulously carved, like a god descending to the earth.

Leng Rou didn't care about the clothes in her hands at all. She quickly wrapped herself in the quilt and knelt on the bed.

"I pay my respects to the general..."

Su Shengyan glanced at him coldly, his voice low and hoarse.

"You don't have to come anymore."

The person kneeling on the bed was startled, then became panicked.

"I don't know what I did wrong to displease the prince. I deserve to die..."

Leng Rou kowtowed quickly, her heart in her throat.

Su Shengyan sat down with his arms resting on the table. His eyes were dignified and distant, with a kind of condescending arrogance and indifference.

"You can take this indenture."

After saying this in a cold voice, he pulled out a piece of paper from his sleeve and threw it on the bed.

Leng Rou looked at the folded paper in front of her, stretched out her little hand to pick it up, and when she opened it, it was the indenture she signed in Tianxiang Tower three years ago!

Unexpectedly, he redeemed her.

"Thank you General!"

Leng Rou held the indenture contract in her hand as if it were a treasure and was excited about her regained freedom.

But on second thought, what he had just said was like falling into an icy cave.

"General, do you no longer need my service?"

There were tears in her eyes and she looked at him in confusion.

Su Shengyan nodded coldly, his eyes full of indifference, without any trace of nostalgia.

"no need."

These four words finally made Leng Rou react.

There was a sudden pain in her heart, and she could only pretend to be afraid of being exposed and hold down the quilt, but in fact she was trying hard to hold down her broken heart.

In a blink of an eye, she had been with him for three years. At first, she just thought of it as a mutual benefit and had never thought of giving her true heart to him.

But once you really fall in love, you can't help yourself.

Su Shengyan told her to get out with just a few words, without even giving a reason, and just treated her as a tool to warm his bed.

But after three years of getting along, she fell deeply in love with him.

Waves of piercing pain surged in her chest. She tried her best not to breathe, for fear that her red eyes would squeeze out weak tears and cause him to dislike her.

Leng Rou took a deep breath, unwilling to end the relationship like this, she looked at him with tears in her eyes, trying hard to hold back her sobs and begging: "My Lord, can I stay with you for another three months? After three months, I promise that I will never appear in front of you again, okay?"

This was the first time she dared to make a request to him. Although it was just a humble beg, in Su Shengyan's opinion, it was already an overstep.

But Leng Rou couldn't care less, because this body only had three months left.

She was an orphan when she traveled through time. The original owner was poisoned from the womb. For so many years, she had been using medicine to prolong her life.

In another three months, she would be exhausted.

So she just wanted to be with him in the last moments of her life.

In her previous life, she was the little princess who was the center of attention at home, an excellent student with good character and academic performance in school, and a female star in the entertainment industry who attracted everyone's attention.

After traveling here, she became an orphan with no one to rely on. She has suffered all the sufferings in the world since she could remember.

How can a time traveler change his fate? No miracle happened to her.

Others who traveled through time became the mistress of the imperial palace, the princess of a royal palace, the daughter of a prime minister, or at worst, being a concubine's daughter in an official family was good enough.

But she was just a poor person who was teased by fate. She was sold to a brothel and almost lost her virginity. Fortunately, she was good at singing and dancing in her previous life, so she became the number one dancer in Tianxiang Tower.

Three years ago, she amazed the world with her stunning dance and became famous in the capital, attracting countless dignitaries who came to see her.

Su Shengyan happened to be invited here, so he spent a fortune to buy her virginity.

Everyone knows that the great general who guards the country is cold-hearted and abstinent. He has supported the emperor for many years and has never had any woman around him. He is devoted to the country and will never indulge in beauty.

He didn't even have a bitch around him, let alone a concubine.

But Leng Rou knew that he was suspicious by nature and would never keep a woman with impure motives around him.

But she was different. She had just been sold to the capital and had never received any customers. Her background was clean and she posed no threat to him, so he could use her without worry.

That was all he felt for her.

Thinking of this, Leng Rou suddenly felt that she was very ridiculous for daring to ask him to keep her for another three months.

Sure enough, Su Shengyan looked at her with a cold gaze without a trace of emotion, his sword-like brows slightly furrowed, and a layer of impatience on his handsome face.

Leng Rou lowered her head and finally realized that she was ignorant and wishful thinking.

"General, I was just speaking casually, you don't have to take it seriously." She changed her words and then smiled, "I am able to regain my freedom thanks to your grace!"

After saying this, she kowtowed to express her gratitude and swallowed all her tears and reluctance.

Su Shengyan put down his arms that were resting on the table, lowered his eyes and adjusted his sleeves, and asked casually, "What are your plans for regaining your freedom?"

Leng Rou adjusted her mood and when she looked up she was smiling brightly.

She happily tore up the indenture into pieces, holding it tightly, eyes full of joy.

"Of course, I would retire to the countryside, find a good husband, get married and have children, and work from sunrise to sunset." She lowered her head slightly, her smile revealing gentle affection, as if she was full of hope for the future.

But only she herself knew that her heart was bleeding at this moment.

What future can a dying person have?

Su Shengyan was slightly stunned when he heard this. He stared at her face with his cold eyes, but he didn't find the emotion he wanted.

She didn't seem sad about being abandoned by him, and seemed even a little happy.

Is leaving him a relief for her?

Thinking of this, Su Shengyan felt a little unhappy, and couldn't help but frowned and asked, "Have you wanted to leave the capital for a long time?"

In fact, he wanted to ask her if she had wanted to leave him a long time ago?

Leng Rou nodded casually: "Yes, I was sold here and suffered a lot, so naturally I want to leave."

She was just afraid that if she continued to stay here, she would not be able to forget him, so it would be better to stay away from him completely and give up.

Besides, she knew clearly what the consequences would be if she pestered Su Shengyan, so how could she be so foolish as to seek death?

Now, leaving with dignity is her last bit of dignity.

Su Shengyan's eyes were moving and dark, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking, but Leng Rou could see a little that his expression meant he was unhappy.

She wondered if she had said something wrong.

Thinking of this, Leng Rou quickly knelt up and looked at him cautiously: "My Lord, can I marry?"

Su Shengyan stared at her motionlessly, his deep eyes were cold and his emotions were unclear, which made Leng Rou feel chilled.

I thought he would be angry, but he suddenly stood up and turned to leave, leaving only one sentence in a cold tone as he crossed the threshold.

"what ever."

Leng Rou's body collapsed as she looked at the man's back as he walked away. The reluctance in her heart was infinitely magnified.

The tears finally burst out and fell without restraint.

She just mentioned getting married, just to test him on purpose.

Su Shengyan is a great general. How could he allow others to touch the woman he had used?

But he didn't react at all.

As a result, Leng Rou became completely disheartened and finally faced reality.

Flowers do not have a hundred days of red, and people do not have a thousand days of good.

But she didn't even have the qualifications to be banished to his cold palace.

……

After Su Shengyan left, a group of maids came in one after another, led by Nanny Yang.

She handed over a bowl of contraceptive soup expressionlessly, and said in a cold tone: "Miss, please have some soup."

Every time she slept with Su Shengyan, Nanny Yang would bring her contraceptive soup the next day and force her to take it.

After all, she was not even a concubine in the general's mansion, so how could he allow her to be pregnant with his child?

Looking at the bowl of black medicine, Leng Rou felt suffocated by the pain, as if all her strength had been drained away.

"Miss Leng, please."

Nanny Yang thought she was unwilling to drink the medicine, so she urged her impatiently and was even prepared to force-feed her the medicine.

But the next moment, Leng Rou took a deep breath to relieve the discomfort in her body, then she raised her hand tremblingly, took the bowl, and drank it all in one gulp.

The bitter taste flowed down my throat into my heart, making me feel so painful that I wanted to die.

Nanny Yang breathed a sigh of relief and a satisfied smile appeared on her face. She raised her hand and the little maid behind her lowered her head and brought a tray.

There was a thick stack of silver bills and some shop deeds and property deeds, all placed on the table.

Nanny Yang said arrogantly, "Miss Leng, you have been with our young master for three years. These things are now considered as compensation, and of course, hush money. I hope you will be careful in your words and deeds in the future and don't tell anyone that you once served the general. Do you understand?"

Leng Rou looked at the things on the table expressionlessly, her eyes were dead silent and without a trace of joy.

In order to get rid of her, he was really generous and didn't even blink an eye.

It’s a pity that she won’t live long. These things cannot be brought with her when she is born and cannot be taken with her when she dies. They are meaningless to her.

"Mammy, it is my honor to serve the general. Don't worry, I know the rules and I would never dare to mention the general in front of outsiders. As for these personal belongings, you should take them back."

"How can you take back the general's reward? If Miss Leng knows what's best for you, just accept it and leave the general's mansion."

Nanny Yang sneered with contempt in her eyes, as if she thought she saw through Leng Rou.

He thought that she didn't want money and was just pretending to be reserved in order to seduce the general.

The dancer who came out of a brothel, pretending to be noble, only looks disgusting and artificial!

Leng Rou knew clearly that the people in the general's mansion looked down on her background and thought that she was not worthy of being associated with Ye Siheng.

But so what? At least in these three years, he only favored her.

Thinking of this, Leng Rou didn't bother to explain, and just said in a calm voice: "Please everyone go out, I need to change clothes."

Nanny Yang glanced at her and didn't want to waste time, so she took the maids and left the room.

Leng Rou dressed neatly and walked to the table, looking at the silver bills and various house deeds and land deeds placed on it, her eyes dull and lifeless.

She took off the jade hairpin she had worn for three years and placed it on the banknote.

This jade hairpin was given to her by him when they first met.

The transparent white jade is finely carved into a pattern of auspicious clouds, symbolizing continuous auspicious clouds and overwhelming fortune.

The black hair is gradually tied up into a jade hairpin, and the hairpin embodies the dream of three thousand prosperous times.

It's time to wake up from her dream.

Turning around and leaving is all regretful, but there is nothing we can do about it.

Nanny Yang watched Leng Rou leave, then took people into the house to clean up. However, she saw the banknotes were still on the table, and there was an extra hairpin. She couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

She really didn't want anything?

Nanny Yang picked up the tray and walked towards the study.

Su Shengyan was handling military affairs. When he heard the knock on the door, he opened his thin lips and said, "Come in."

"General, Miss Leng is gone." Nanny Yang knelt on the ground and reported.

Su Shengyan didn't even raise his head, but continued to stare at the case in his hands with a focused expression.

Seeing his cold attitude, Madam Yang hesitated for a while before speaking, "She confiscated the things the general gave her and left this hairpin."

After saying that, he handed over the tray.

Su Shengyan paused and finally looked up.

The auspicious cloud hairpin lay quietly on the silver bill, stained by the sunlight coming in from the window, and was crystal white.

Leng Rou's charming little face immediately appeared in his mind.