usatvline Chapter 722 The Childhood Sweetheart Used as a Shield (The End)
Chapter 722 The Childhood Sweetheart Used as a Shield (The End)
The new policy caused a great uproar, sparking a trend of widows remarrying.
Amidst controversy and adoration, it eventually spread slowly from the capital to the entire Great Xia.
Naturally, no one paid any more attention to the affairs of the emperor and empress.
Afterwards, Su Youbai selected five children from the royal family and brought them into the palace.
The intention was clear: to select a successor.
Su Youbai was a very decisive person, and he quickly kept the youngest princess, Shuoyu, in the palace.
Princess Shuoyu was only five years old, but she was exceptionally intelligent.
Twenty years later, Su Youbai abdicated the throne to Princess Shuoyu and became the retired emperor. He then moved into a newly built royal villa outside the capital with Mu Zhou.
On this day, the new emperor had some questions about government affairs and came to pay his respects to Su Youbai.
I could hear laughter and cheerful voices coming from the courtyard while I was outside the door.
The new emperor revealed a smile:
"What new tricks has Father Emperor come up with to please Mother Empress this time?"
Huang Qingdao, who led the way:
"Your Majesty, the Emperor Emeritus has had a wisteria swing made, which the Empress Dowager likes very much."
As soon as the new emperor entered, he happened to see Mu Zhou sitting on the swing, with Su Youbai pushing her from behind.
The two are past the age of knowing one's destiny, yet they have become increasingly childish.
Their preferences are mostly for children.
After watching for a while, the new emperor was surprised to find that the frustration he felt from being overwhelmed by government affairs had lessened somewhat.
She raised her hand to stop Huang Qing:
"Alright, there's no need to disturb Mother and Father. I'll go sit in the outer room for a while, and I'll come back when Mother and Father have finished playing."
The group quietly left.
Inside the courtyard, Su Youbai watched Mu Zhou sitting on the swing, his smile never fading.
The person who will be with her for the rest of her life is ultimately him.
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When Mu Zhou opened his eyes again, everything was pitch black.
I checked the time; it was four in the morning.
However, she wasn't sleepy at all; in fact, she seemed quite energetic.
That's true. The original owner cried for a long time last night and fell asleep before eight o'clock, so it's normal for her to wake up at this time.
Mu Zhou pondered the plot of this world.
The original owner had a childhood sweetheart, Lu Ting, who cheated on her with his secretary half a month before their engagement, and she caught him.
She was both heartbroken and furious. In order to get revenge, she deliberately got drunk and went to Lu Ting's brother, Lu Chen's, room.
The next morning, when everyone discovered that she had come out of her brother Lu Chen's room, it caused an uproar.
Knowing that Lu Chen would be working in his study all night, the original owner of this body boldly went to his bedroom, intending to take revenge on Lu Ting.
He cheated on me, so I'll cheat on him in return.
His secretary, with whom he had an affair, was a junior from his university whom he introduced to her. Therefore, the person she had an affair with must have been his brother.
With this idea in mind, the original owner decided to sleep in his brother's room for one night and let Lu Ting catch him in the act.
What she didn't expect was that Lu Ting went abroad for work that very night and knew nothing about it. Meanwhile, the old master of the Lu family, who was on vacation in Qingdao, happened to return and saw her coming out of Lu Chen's room.
He was feudal and stubborn, insisting that the original owner of this body marry Lu Chen.
The original owner then realized that things had gotten out of hand. She explained that Lu Chen had not returned that night and had been in the study, but the old man refused to believe her.
He believed that Lu Chen had threatened the original owner of the body, forcing her to be afraid to tell the truth.
Although Lu Chen is only three years younger than Lu Ting, his personality seems to be thirty years more mature than Lu Ting's.
He was old-fashioned and dull, but Old Master Lu knew that he was decisive and efficient in the business world, and his methods could be quite aggressive at times.
Grandpa Lu had reason to believe that his eldest grandson might have taken advantage of the situation to threaten people in order to avoid taking responsibility.
So he wanted the two of them to get married.
Having no other choice, the original owner had to bite the bullet and go to Lu Chen to apologize and discuss the matter.
At that time, Mr. Lu had just undergone surgery and was recuperating. In order not to upset him, they decided to have a marriage of convenience.
They were married for a year, after which they divorced without any division of property.
The original owner initially disagreed, but when she learned that Lu Ting was going abroad with his secretary, she was instantly enraged and agreed.
Unexpectedly, upon learning that the original owner was going to marry his brother, the usually aloof Lu Ting went completely mad.
He came to apologize to the original owner, begging for her forgiveness and insisting that he had not cheated on her and that that night was just an accident.
Secretary Jiang Wanqing was the original owner's junior in school; they were in the same major. Jiang Wanqing was sweet-talking and charming, so the original owner became closer to her.
Jiang Wanqing came from an ordinary family and worked hard alone in Beijing. So when the original owner learned that she worked at Lu Ting's company, he specially asked Lu Ting to take good care of her.
Who knew that she would later become Lu Ting's secretary.
Lu Ting explained that ever since Jiang Wanqing became his secretary and frequently accompanied him, the original owner of this body always spoke to him with barbs and sarcasm.
Even his relationship with Jiang Wanqing has become much more distant.
Lu Ting felt that the original owner did not trust her.
That night, Jiang Wanqing went to a dinner party in his place, only to be groped. Jiang Wanqing deliberately spilled wine on herself and used the excuse of needing to change clothes to escape.
After leaving, she was afraid that the other party would chase after her, since it was their territory, so she called Lu Ting for help.
When his secretary got into trouble, Lu Ting felt he couldn't just sit idly by, especially since this person was his girlfriend's junior from university.
So he drove there, took Jiang Wanqing back to a house near him, and then had his assistant bring her new clothes.
As a result, the original owner discovered this and went straight to his residence. Upon seeing Jiang Wanqing wearing a bathrobe, she immediately concluded that he had cheated on her, slapped him, and cursed at Jiang Wanqing.
Lu Ting felt that the original owner had gone too far, accusing people without distinguishing right from wrong and speaking so harshly, showing no trust in him at all. In a fit of pique, he said that the engagement was canceled.
He originally intended to give the original owner some space to temper her bad temper, so he didn't explain and directly took Jiang Wanqing abroad to discuss business.
He thought that once the original owner's temper subsided in a few days, as long as she took the initiative to show goodwill, or even just contacted him, he would take the opportunity to proceed with the engagement ceremony.
After all, they had been together for so many years, and he couldn't bear to part with her.
Before he could even return, news came that his brother and the original owner were getting married.
He flew back that very night in an attempt to stop it.
But what's done is done. The original owner and Lu Chen had already obtained their marriage certificate under the supervision of Old Master Lu.
Lu Ting felt as if the sky had fallen.
He couldn't accept this, so he came to the original owner in the middle of the night to explain the whole story.
He was no longer as arrogant as before; he wished he could humble himself to the dust and beg for the original owner's forgiveness.
Lu Ting is aloof, handsome, and from a good family. Everyone around him fawns over him, and from childhood to adulthood, people around him have said that he is like a flower on a high mountain, unattainable and unapproachable.
This elegant young nobleman, however, now had tears welling up in his eyes and was begging the original owner to forgive him and not to be with his brother.
This disheveled state of Lu Ting was something the original owner had never seen before.
It hurts her to see the person she's loved for so many years be so humble in front of her.
For a moment, she was also lost in confusion.