Cannon fodder and female supporting role, a match made in heaven

When Lu Yan returned to the Marquis' Mansion, Huimin was sitting on the swing with a cat in her arms, and Xiaotao was pushing her from behind, her crimson skirt fluttering in the wind.

The scenery was hard to ignore. Lu Yan frowned and planned to walk straight past it.

"Husband." Huimin saw him and got off the swing.

Lu Yan stopped and almost trotted over to stand in front of him.

Huimin smiled sweetly at him: "Husband, today I——"

She wanted to tell him that she could shoot the arrow into the bull's eye today, but she looked into a pair of indifferent black eyes, which seemed to be filled with frost and were extremely cold.

Huimin even sensed a hint of disgust, and she stopped talking.

Lu Yan hated her.

This thought popped into her mind.

Lu Yan passed by her without saying a word.

Xiao Tao was indignant: "Princess, why is the prince consort like this!"

Shen Zhaozhao was also a little confused. Lu Yan had always been gentle and warm towards Huimin. Even when he rejected her, he was friendly and polite, not as cold as he was just now.

She thought that after spending some time together, Lu Yan had developed some feelings for Huimin.

Huimin bit her lip, tears welling up in her eyes. She blinked quickly a few times to force back the tears that had yet to fall.

Xiao Tao said worriedly: "Princess..."

Her princess loved to cry when she was little, but due to the love and care of the emperor and the concubine, tears were rarely seen on her pretty face. But now the princess was crying again.

Huimin returned to her room absent-mindedly, slumped over the table in a depressed mood.

Shen Zhaozhao stayed by her side, racking his brains to make Huimin happy.

Huimin forced a smile, reached out to touch her head, and then supported her chin with her hand and began to daydream.

Shen Zhaozhao sighed: "There must be something wrong when things are out of the ordinary. Let's go ask Lu Yan what happened?"

But Huimin didn't understand what she said.

In the evening, Huimin had no appetite, but was afraid that Xiaotao and the nanny would worry, so she ate a few bites of food reluctantly. Then the maid came to report that Lu Yan had been in the study the whole afternoon and had not even had dinner.

Huimin glanced at the clock and remembered that Lu Yan had stomach problems, so she decided to make some soup herself and send it to him. In the process, she got several blisters on her hands, which made Xiaotao feel very distressed.

Lu Yan was writing down his experience in flood control in the south of the Yangtze River at the table, but he was very upset and his mind was full of what Changning had said to him.

The ink from the pen tip dripped onto Qingjun's handwriting. He took a look, frowned, crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it on the ground.

A gentle knock on the door interrupted his thoughts. Lu Yan spread out a new piece of paper and said casually, "Come in."

He didn't care who came and wrote a few more words. When he didn't hear any movement, he looked over in confusion and saw Huimin standing at the door. She seemed a little hesitant and overly cautious.

Lu Yan's chest stagnated slightly, but he finally calmed down: "Why is the princess here?"

Huimin's eyes flickered slightly. She had said on their wedding night that he could call her A Wu, but Lu Yan always politely called her Princess.

She spent countless days and nights wondering whether her father and mother had lied to her.

Maybe Lu Yan really doesn't like her.

But, before today, Lu Yan was really good to her.

Huimin quickly calmed down her strange emotions and said with a smile, "My dear, I heard that you didn't have dinner. I'll bring you some soup."

Lu Yan lowered his head and said, "Put it on the table."

He waited for a long time, but didn't hear the sound of the door closing. He looked up at the figure hesitantly.

There was a warm light behind the girl, and her black eyes were filled with a hazy light.

"Are you okay?"

Huimin pursed her lips and smiled: "Husband, don't you want to drink? This is me--"

Lu Yan lowered his eyes: "Leave it there for now, I'll drink it later."

Could such a soft and harmless little girl really do such a thing?

"Wait." Lu Yan stopped her.

Huimin stopped, turned her head slightly, and said nothing.

Lu Yan's indifference made her feel a little frustrated.

Lu Yan considered carefully before speaking: "Did the princess push Princess Changning into the water at the lotus viewing banquet that day?"

Huimin's expression was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect Lu Yanyan to ask about this matter.

"Yes, but I didn't mean to do that. I was not standing firmly at the time—"

Lu Yan's eyes turned cold: "Well, I understand. Princess, go back and rest early."

Shen Zhaozhao was standing outside the door, sticking his butt out and eavesdropping from the corner, feeling a little speechless.

Huimin didn't know the relationship between Lu Yan and Changning, but she knew.

Therefore, all of Lu Yan’s abnormal behaviors today might be because someone told him what happened at the Lotus Appreciation Banquet that day.

But why was Lu Yan angry with Huimin? Was it because she accidentally pushed Changning into the water, causing Changning to have to marry Pei Yan?

Jia Sifan acted secretly. Except for her and Chu Yu who saw it from a distance, everyone else, even Huimin, thought that they had not stood firmly.

Now, the seeds of misunderstanding took root between them.

Shen Zhaozhao stretched his muscles and tried to change his posture to eavesdrop, but his stomach was restrained by a hand.

As soon as she turned around, she quickly made a gesture to keep quiet and asked Chu Yu to squat down as well.

Chu Yu sneered, then picked her up and left without mercy.

Shen Zhaozhao thought of the two circles of fat on her belly and tried to take a deep breath and tighten her stomach. She would never let Chu Yu catch her and laugh at her again.

Chu Yu glanced at him lightly and said, "Be good, don't embarrass yourself."

Shen Zhaozhao: “???!!” She didn’t want to embarrass herself.

As for Chu Yu, she never knew that he had the habit of sleeping with cats.

After Huimin left, Lu Yan put down his pen. When he could see clearly what he had just written, his emotions were unclear. The words "Awu" were clearly written on the paper.

These two words, which he had never uttered, had been brewing in his mind many times when she was looking at him with all her heart and eyes.

Should he believe her?

He remembered meeting Changning on the street during the day.

She looked a little haggard and didn't seem very happy.

They exchanged pleasantries like familiar friends, but Changning's next words shocked him.

She said: "It was not an accident that I fell into the lake during the lotus viewing banquet that day. It was Xiao Qingwu who pushed me in on purpose."

Lu Yan didn't believe it. How could Huimin deliberately push her own sister into the water?

Chang Ning said, "Lu Yan, do you know that she has always liked you?"

Hearing this, Lu Yan was a little surprised. As far as he knew, he and Huimin did not have much interaction.

Chang Ning's eyes were dark. "See, even you don't know. You saved her from the bandits, and she fell in love with you at that time. She didn't want to marry Pei Yan, so she used this trick to cancel the engagement, and then told my father and Concubine Shu that she wanted to marry you."

Xiao Qingwu kept it a secret very well. If she hadn't returned to the palace that time and sat in her bedroom and saw the familiar kite, she would never have realized her feelings for Lu Yan.

There was a deep resentment hidden in her eyes. Her hands clenched silently under her sleeves, her fingertips dug into the flesh, and the pain made her awake and in pain.

The bruises all over her body showed how she had been treated, but this was clearly what Xiao Qingwu deserved.

Why was Xiao Qingwu able to marry the person she loved as she wished? Lu Yan obviously liked her.

Chang Ning's eyes fell on his hand, his gaze narrowed, and his voice suddenly rose a few notes: "Lu Yan, are you in love with Xiao Qingwu?"

He was holding a candied haws, was it for Xiao Qingwu?

Lu Yanke never liked to eat sweets.

Chang Ning's emotions got out of control for a moment: "Lu Yan, do you still remember the promise you made to me? You said you would marry me, but what happened? You changed your mind. Lu Yan, you changed your mind!"

Her voice attracted the attention of passers-by and caused others to look at her sideways.

Lu Yan rubbed his brows and said helplessly: "Princess, since we are married, let's not talk about the past anymore, otherwise it will hurt everyone. Now Pei Shilang is your husband, you should treat him well."

He didn't agree with Changning that he had changed his heart. His emotions were still affected by Changning. He liked her, but it was impossible for them to be together.

Changning looked at her with hatred as he lifted up his sleeves, revealing his slender and tender arms with bruises all over the snow-white skin.

Lu Yan was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.

Chang Ning's eyes were filled with tears: "This is all Pei Yan's masterpiece. He is a hypocritical beast."

Lu Yan felt a little pain in his heart. This was the girl he once regarded as a treasure, but she was not happy after marriage.

He also knew that she was helpless. The palace relied on the Pei family's wealth. Even if she told the queen, her mother would just ask her to endure it.

Changning threw herself into Lu Yan's arms, not caring about the many people around her.

"Brother Lu Yan, believe me, Xiao Qingwu is not as simple as you think."

Lu Yan frowned and pulled Chang Ning out of his arms: "Princess, I have to go."

He needs to digest this information.

There was a little beggar on the street, staring at the candied haws in his hand, his dirty face full of desire.

Lu Yan walked over and handed her the candied haws.

The candied haws were indeed bought for his wife who was like a child, just because she mentioned yesterday that she wanted to eat candied haws.

But he wasn't in the mood now.