To divorce his wife, the top scholar preferred being cuckolded to wearing a red hat.

Fu Jingsheng originally wanted to discuss this matter with Su Mingyue in a more dignified manner, but since his mother and sister had brought it up beforehand, he also wanted to see Su Mingyue's reaction.

He had expected Su Mingyue to throw a tantrum or blame him, but she didn't.

His eyes were red, and he looked like he had suffered a great injustice.

Her reddened eyes were wet, and her tone was full of resentment: "Husband, is what Mother and Jingying said true? You want to divorce me and marry Miss Su. Why? We are the real husband and wife, have you forgotten? When you married me, you said you would give me a home. Now that you've become the top scholar in the imperial examination, you feel you don't need me anymore, so you want to divorce me?"

Seeing Su Mingyue trying to hold back her tears, Fu Jingsheng's heart skipped a beat.

“Mingyue, I didn’t mean that.” Fu Jingsheng defended himself: “It was Mother’s idea, not mine. I didn’t expect Miss Su to take a liking to me. As you know, her father is the Grand Secretary, a favorite of the Emperor. With just one word from Lord Su, he can decide the life or death of our whole family.”

“If you don’t want to harm our family, you should be more sensible. Miss Su has taken a liking to Jing Sheng, and Jing Sheng has no right to refuse. On the contrary, if she finds out that Jing Sheng has been married before, the Su family might be furious.” Madam Qian said arrogantly, “You have been married into the Fu family for three years without bearing a child, and you spend your days showing your face and interacting with men outside the family. What right do you have to be the wife of a top scholar?”

Su Mingyue sneered as she listened to Qian Shi's words: "So, after Jing Sheng passed the imperial examination and held a banquet, you invited the clan leader to accuse me of so many crimes just to divorce me and make way for Miss Su."

Fu Jingsheng glanced at his mother, signaling them to stop talking.

If we really anger her, will we still have the 120,000 taels of silver?

Madam Qian snorted coldly: "If some people still want to stay in the manor, they should be more self-aware."

After Qian and Jingying left, Su Mingyue asked Fu Jingsheng with trembling hands, "Is this all true? You want to marry Su Ziyu?"

"No. She took a liking to me first. I'm just a scholar with no background and an ordinary family. Su Ziyu is Lord Su's only legitimate daughter, whom he cherishes like a precious jewel. She took a liking to me, and I didn't know how to refuse. If I refused well, nothing might happen; if I refused poorly, Lord Su would impeach me before the Emperor, and my career would be over. You wouldn't want me to have no achievements after ten years of hard study to obtain this degree, would you?"

"So, what do you want from me?" Su Mingyue looked at him.

Fu Jingsheng thought for a moment and slowly said, "I really didn't want to marry her. I heard that she likes a house with a hot spring in the suburbs. I was thinking that if we could buy it for her, as long as we could make her happy, we could then bring up the fact that I have a wife. As long as we can get her to give up, no one can separate us."

Fu Jingsheng thought for a moment and realized that he couldn't raise that much money to buy the courtyard in a short time, so he could only use reverse psychology to get Su Mingyue to pay for it.

Su Mingyue loved him deeply, and upon hearing this news, she would definitely do everything in her power to buy that courtyard. He believed that with Su Mingyue's abilities, she would definitely be able to negotiate with the other party and buy it.

Su Mingyue was just wondering why this family was in such a hurry to confront her before she even had a chance to take out the 120,000 taels of silver.

So that's where she was waiting.

Su Ziyu took a fancy to her courtyard and wanted Fu Jingsheng to buy it for her.

Fu Jingsheng didn't want the other party to look down on him, so he turned his attention to himself.