Shocked! After rebirth, my princess wants to remarry

"Would you two like to stay at my house for dinner?" Gu Qinghe asked expressionlessly.

"No need, we just care about you." Yunhua said softly.

"I'm fine. If you hadn't mentioned Brother Shaoci before, I might be better." Gu Qinghe said unhappily.

"You don't know that all the girls present here envy you for being favored by the Crown Prince. To be honest, for just this hairpin, sending an angel from the palace would be quite an honor, but you have the Crown Prince personally making the trip, which is a huge honor." Yun Hua looked at Gu Qinghe's expression and quickly added, "That's what they just said."

"I don't know if I have the guts to do that. What I do know is that I'm going to be in big trouble." Gu Qinghe said, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"However, Madam Lu is quite realistic. She's always willing to give up something else when something better comes her way." Liu Yinshuang said this out of the blue. "Your Highness, this move wasn't in vain."

Gu Qinghe nodded in agreement. "Having been in business for generations, we're used to using profit to measure outcomes before making decisions and choosing between trade-offs."

"It's better to find out now than later. The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is also an important factor affecting the relationship between husband and wife." Yunhua said thoughtfully, "So, in the future, it's best to find someone who doesn't have a mother-in-law."

"Oh, these days, what you said is really rare. Even if the original wife is gone, the stepmother is still the principal wife and can exercise the rights of a mother-in-law." Liu Yinshuang chuckled disdainfully, "Can you give me an example?"

Yun Hua glanced at Gu Qinghe and lowered her voice, "Yes, there is no mistress in my uncle's house, so I won't have a mother-in-law if I marry in."

"Your uncle?" Gu Qinghe looked at Yunhua's serious attitude and thought about it for a moment. Her uncle was the emperor, the prince's father.

The queen has been gone for so many years and there has been no successor, so Yunhua's statement is tenable, but the prince's biological mother, Concubine Li, is still alive and well.

"Yunhua, you're just going to reveal your cards, right? You're only able to get close to us because of Qinghe and your cousin, right?" Liu Yinshuang said in a bad tone.

"I don't. I'm just a little guard who protects Qinghe from being disturbed by other men." Yunhua said, raising his hand.

"You two brothers and sisters are really good at naming. You don't want to be disturbed by other men. Isn't it just to drive them away and leave the position for your brother?" Liu Yinshuang snorted.

"No, no, my brother disliked me for being unreliable, and I disliked him for paying me slowly, so I just betrayed him." Princess Yunhua raised four fingers this time.

"Three fingers, otherwise you won't be able to chop accurately." Gu Qinghe said coldly.

Princess Yunhua: “…”

No wonder my cousin likes Gu Qinghe, they both look calm and composed, exactly the same.

At the gate of Lu Mansion

Lu Wangzhou threw the reins in his hand to the servant at the door and walked quickly into the hall, "Mother——"

Since returning home, Mrs. Lu has been staring at the hairpin in her hand. The red beans on it are shaking, as if they will fall off in the next moment.

She failed to fulfill her son's request. Not only did she fail to accomplish it, she even messed it up.

Hearing her son's expectant voice, she couldn't help but burst into tears again.

"I'm back." Mrs. Lu's voice was hoarse.

"Mother, what's wrong with you? What happened? Where is Father?" Lu Wangzhou asked anxiously. He guessed that his parents were quarreling and didn't guess that his life event was ruined.

Because he had asked Uncle Gu in advance, and the other party nodded with a smile. He and Qinghe were childhood sweethearts, so he really couldn't think of any link that might go wrong.

As long as Gu Qinghe accepts the hairpin, the matter will be settled.

But now he saw the peach wood hairpin that should have been in Gu Qinghe's hand in his crying mother's hand.

"Mother, please stop crying and tell me what happened?" Lu Wangzhou asked anxiously in a high-pitched voice.

"Today is Qinghe's coming-of-age ceremony. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also here. He said that he was asked by the Empress Dowager to give Qinghe a hairpin." Mrs. Lu began to talk from the beginning.

"Afterwards, he asked about you, saying you were a talent for a chancellor and asked if you were married. I said no, I was too busy studying to plan anything."

When Lu Wangzhou heard this, he still didn't realize anything was wrong.

"Then, the second young lady of the Gu family told me about the hairpin. I was afraid that the inconsistency would affect your future, so I denied it directly and said that you and Qinghe were siblings who grew up together and lived next door." Mrs. Lu's voice became smaller as she spoke here.

She didn't know what the Gu family was thinking, but she knew that her son's thoughts towards the little girl of the Gu family were never pure enough.

The courage that the son had finally mustered was suppressed by his own vanity.

"Mom, didn't I tell you this morning that even if I was the imperial consort, I would earn it back for you?" Lu Wangzhou said as he was about to leave. He turned back, his eyes moist, "Why don't you believe me?"

"Where are you going?" Mrs. Lu hurriedly got up and chased to the door.

Lu Wangzhou stopped and looked at the door where his mother was standing. He was full of joy when he stepped through the door just now, but now he was at a loss.

"I'm going to Qinghe to make things clear. I've never been a gentleman. I've always been a villain who coveted her." When Lu Wangzhou spoke, his shoulders drooped and he looked like he had no fighting spirit.

"Son, don't scare me. We will soon bring honor to our family." Mrs. Lu ran out and grabbed Lu Wangzhou's arm.

"Mom, when I passed the imperial examination in Dengzhou Prefecture, it was already a great honor for our family. I wanted to take the higher exams because I wanted to marry her, that's all."

Lu Wangzhou pushed his mother's hand away and said, "Let me be alone."

After hearing what her son said, Mrs. Lu fell to the ground. She thought that she had finally become the master, and it seemed that she had done something wrong, but she didn't know what exactly was wrong. She felt that what she did was right.

In reality, there's no right or wrong. Life is a matter of trade-offs, a person's perspective, a person's choice.

Lu Wangzhou stayed in his room, stroking the hairpin in his hand until the moon was high in the sky. He thought that he could not just give up like this. What his mother said was not his, so he had to fight for it, and try hard to fight for it once.

Gu Mansion

Gu Qinghe looked at the various hairpins, rings, and hairpins she had received today, and was dazzled by the sight.

"Girl, are you going to put all these away? Or pick out a few to wear daily?" Wangchun held a few boxes and tried his best to keep them balanced.

"Put them all away." Gu Qinghe waved his hand.

Yingchun also came over to take the box given by the Queen Mother. There was a rustling sound inside, as if something was running around.