My husband, please respect yourself. The princess is here to grab the bride.

Mr. Si, the great scholar, turned his head in surprise and looked at Dongfang Changying.

Dongfang Changying showed a strange expression, and then heard Bai Shaoqiu sigh again:

"After all, I still have the identity of a son-in-law!"

"According to Xingguo's laws, a son-in-law has no human rights or financial rights!"

"What if this book makes a lot of money... and my wife comes back..."

Bai Shaoqiu looked at Dongfang Changying, smiled embarrassedly, and said:

"My wife is not as gentle and polite as this girl!"

"She's a warrior!"

"I don't think I can beat her with my physique... Besides, a good man doesn't let a woman fight him!"

"If she finds out, she'll take all the money I earn from Sanwei Bookstore..."

Bai Shaoqiu spread his hands:

"Isn't this a thankless task for me? Isn't it all in vain?"

Dongfang Changying was immediately happy.

Then, the smile on her face bloomed like a pear blossom.

But Bai Shaoqiu didn't hear the cruelty hidden in her gentle words:

"Mr. Bai wants to save some money for himself?"

"That's it."

"Could it be that Mr. Bai is still thinking about the girl in the brothel?"

"That's not true."

"Then why did Mr. Bai save up money for himself?"

Bai Shaoqiu smiled awkwardly:

"Girl, you may not know that a man's waist is supported by the money in his pocket!"

"If your pockets are cleaner than your face, you won't be able to stand up straight!"

"I still have a lot of things to do and I need a lot of money. I can't always ask my wife for it, right?"

"What if she doesn't give it to me...what can I do?"

Mr. Si laughed happily.

He took a sip of tea and asked jokingly, "But you can't hide it from your wife after all!"

"If only we could keep it a secret until next autumn!"

"Why?"

"Firstly... Sanwei Bookstore should be profitable next autumn."

"Secondly, I will be the leader of the Zhuxi Literary Society and will go to Kyoto to participate in the Xiangshan Literary Society next autumn."

"I will have the opportunity to meet the emperor!"

"Then I will ask the Emperor to withdraw his decree to dissolve this marriage and return Princess Changying's freedom."

"We can be free!"

"Master Si and this girl, can you understand my painstaking efforts?"

What is this?

Mr. Si suddenly didn't know what to say.

Dongfang Changying is listening right next to you, but you, Bai Shaoqiu, are thinking of going to Kyoto to ask the Emperor to retract the imperial edict...

If Dongfang Changying had not met Bai Shaoqiu before and had not witnessed Bai Shaoqiu's knowledge, he would have readily agreed and even lent him a helping hand!

Dongfang Changying will definitely be happy too.

But now...

Looking at Dongfang Changying's appearance, it seems that he has fallen in love with Bai Shaoqiu!

He was going to Kyoto to ask the Emperor to dissolve the marriage...

Mr. Si looked at Dongfang Changying again. She had to make the decision herself.

Dongfang Changying lowered his head slightly and asked:

"Have you ever met Princess Changying?"

"no!"

"Since you've never seen her, if I told you that Princess Changying was as beautiful as a flower, would you still want to go to Kyoto to meet the emperor?"

Bai Shaoqiu waved his hand:

"Beautiful appearances are all alike, but interesting souls are rare..."

"When it comes to marrying a wife, it's not about looks, it's about having similar interests!"

Dongfang Changying was suddenly speechless. Bai Shaoqiu sighed softly and said with a wry smile:

"Love is a matter of mutual consent, and it cannot be maintained by an imperial decree."

"Neither the palace nor Princess Changying volunteered!"

"They were merely suppressed by the imperial edict. They are extremely dissatisfied with this matter!"

"It's fine if my parents-in-law are unhappy. After all, we don't live under the same roof. The worst that can happen is that I can just stay away from them. If they don't see me, they won't be too upset."

"But Princess Changying is different!"

"She is nominally my wife, and we are to live together for the rest of our lives..."

"For a lifetime!"

Bai Shaoqiu took a deep breath and looked towards the pear tree in the corner of the courtyard. His face was slightly melancholy, and there was a hint of fear in his words:

"How many days and nights is that?"

"What kind of torture will that be?"

Dongfang Changying bit his lips with his silver teeth, his eyes full of resentment:

"Is the princess really that difficult to get along with? What if... I mean, what if she changes her attitude towards you?"

Bai Shaoqiu waved his hand:

“It’s hard!”

"Why?"

"Because the princess is a woman with aspirations!"

"...How do you know that the princess is a woman with ambitions?"

Bai Shaoqiu chuckled, "Any woman who likes to wield swords and guns is definitely not a woman who is willing to be ordinary!"

Dongfang Changying opened her mouth slightly, and then she heard Bai Shaoqiu say:

"And I happen to be a man without any ambitions!"

"What I want in my life is the kind of leisurely life where 'I let my boat sail by the stream and sit by the mountain, while the birds and flowers of the stream and the mountain share my leisure time.'"

"Even if I showed her my talent after she came back and proved to her that I'm not the loser people say I am, it probably wouldn't help."

Dongfang Changying added another sentence in shock:

"How do you know it's useless?"

Bai Shaoqiu's gaze fell gently on Dongfang Changying's face and he smiled slightly:

"Because I don't want to work hard and I don't want to stand out!"

"You can treat me as a... salted fish!"

"Well, I'm just a salted fish with a little money in my pocket who doesn't want to turn over."

"In the eyes of many people, people like me are still not doing their job properly and are still useless."

"Even if I win the Zhuxi Literary Competition, I'll still be a waste with some talent."

"Besides...relationships need a foundation to build!"

Dongfang Changying bit her lip and asked:

"What is the basis?"

Bai Shaoqiu talked freely:

"Common interests and hobbies, resonance of ideas...it includes respect, trust, loyalty, understanding, tolerance and the same vision, etc."

"This is very complicated. Wait until you have someone you love to experience it."

"There's no way Princess Changying and I can be on equal terms... If she sees me, she'll probably raise her knife, and I'll just have to avoid her."

Dongfang Changying's face twitched.

Bai Shaoqiu's gaze fell on the courtyard again and he sighed:

"Rather than her life being unhappy, and mine being unhappy, if we stay together, it will only hurt each other... there will be no love!"

"Then the best solution is for me to ask the emperor to revoke the imperial edict. Perhaps we can even say goodbye to each other for the sake of our former love."

"This... is why I have to show off my talents in front of others..."

He looked at the astonished Dongfang Changying and Si Lao Daru and shrugged: "Actually, being a fool is pretty good."

"Actually, at first I still wanted to eat this soft rice."

"But now I really can't eat it anymore... It's not as sweet as I imagined, but extremely bitter. It's even made Princess Changying lose her appetite. This is really boring."

After a pause, Bai Shaoqiu continued:

"Yesterday evening I returned to the Princess's Mansion and was invited by the Princess to the martial arts arena."

Dongfang Changying's heart skipped a beat:

"Did they humiliate you?"

"It gave me a warning."

"...Did that scare you?"

Bai Shaoqiu raised his eyebrows slightly: "I wasn't raised to be scared."

He thought that his previous incarnation was actually scared to death!

Don't speak ill of others behind their backs.

What's more, the other party is the owner of this three-acre land.

"The prince and princess are also reasonable people. In fact, I understand them very well. Later, I appealed to their emotions and reasoned with them and finally reached an agreement with them."

Dongfang Changying pursed her lips nervously: "What did you agree on?"

Bai Shaoqiu grinned and said:

"This has nothing to do with the young lady... Anyway, it is good for the palace, the princess, and myself."

Dongfang Changying pondered for three breaths and asked:

"Are you sure you can win the Zhuxi Literary Competition?"

Bai Shaoqiu lifted his sleeves and said shamelessly:

"Isn't it just poetry? I'm not afraid to laugh at you, but this stuff...it's really not difficult!"

"..."