The beginning of the counterattack! The time-traveling boss is famous in Beijing

Chapter 233 The unspeakable secret

"Thank you, madam. You don't have to do these things yourself. There are servants in the house. Just let them do it." There was a hint of alienation in Lu Jingchen's words, amidst his politeness.

Lu Jingchen stood at the door and didn't even intend to let Lin Wanning into the study.

"It's getting late, my dear..."

"I still have some government affairs to deal with, madam, you don't have to wait for me. You can go back to your room and rest first." Lu Jingchen suddenly interrupted Lin Wanning, with a hint of coldness in his words.

Lin Wanning was slightly stunned. She tightly grasped the handkerchief in her hand, and her smiling face suddenly turned pale.

She was not a reckless woman, and this action seemed to be an invitation to her husband to sleep with her.

But since the wedding, the couple has not had any intimate contact.

After getting married, Lu Jingchen suddenly became busy. Every day after returning from the Hanlin Academy, he would dive into his study until late at night.

Sometimes when Lu Jingchen came back, she had already fallen asleep. When she got up in the morning, he was out again.

Although the couple lived under the same roof, they had very few opportunities to communicate with each other.

In which newlywed family, the husband would linger in the study room every night?

Normally, the strange looks from the servants already made her feel embarrassed. Now Lu Jingchen's reaction made Lin Wanning even more embarrassed.

She was not stupid, so she naturally heard the displeasure and perfunctoriness in Lu Jingchen's tone.

How could Lin Wanning have imagined that the young man who made her fall in love with him at first sight would actually be a stone that could not be warmed?

"I'm sorry! I've been busy lately and I'm a little impatient. Wan Ning, I..."

Lu Jingchen looked at Lin Wanning's gradually pale face, and an inexplicable sense of guilt surged in his heart.

"Husband, it's Wanning's fault. I'm sorry to bother you. I'll go back to my room first, you go and do your thing." Lin Wanning tried hard to suppress the sadness in her heart, bowed, and staggered away.

"Wan Ning, Wan Ning..." Lu Jingchen looked at Lin Wan Ning's receding back and called out twice anxiously.

Lin Wanning seemed not to have heard it, and quickly disappeared from Lu Jingchen's sight with her maid.

He even forgot to keep the soup that had just been delivered to him.

Lin Wanning returned to Xuezhuyuan and sat silently beside the bed, tears glistening in her eyes.

"Miss, my son-in-law is too much! How long are you going to endure this? I will go back to my wife tomorrow to seek justice for you. He has been ignoring you since the wedding. He is just making excuses for being busy. Could it be that my son-in-law has someone else outside?"

Lin Wanning's maid Hongli, who came with her as a dowry, had just returned from accompanying Lin Wanning to the study with red eyes.

With an angry look on his face, he was standing up for his young lady.

The young lady, who had never done any housework, went to learn how to cook soup from the cook for Lu Jingchen.

After working in the kitchen for a long time, her hands were burned, but Lu Jingchen not only ignored her, but even gave her a cold shoulder. Hongli was so angry at this time.

"Hongli, shut up. Stop talking nonsense. Go out and let the lady be alone." Luzhu shouted at Hongli and drove her out of the room.

Luzhu and Hongli were both maids that Mrs. Lin personally allocated as dowry maids to her daughter Lin Wanning.

Hongli is a straightforward person. When she saw her young lady being wronged, she just wanted to stand up for her.

Luzhu, on the other hand, is calmer and considers things more thoroughly.

This matter concerns the reputation of the Lin and Lu families. Once it is brought to the Earl Zhongyuan's Mansion, the young lady's situation will become even more difficult in the future.

Furthermore, the newlywed son-in-law has been treating his wife coldly. Once the news gets out, the reputation of his young lady will be damaged.

Lu Zhu was fully aware of the interests involved and was about to say a few words to comfort the young lady, but Lin Wan Ning spoke first.

"Luzhu, you go out too. I'm fine, I just want to be alone." Lin Wanning tilted her head slightly, forced a smile, and tried her best not to let the tears fall.

When Luzhu saw the young lady like this, she felt sad.

She nodded with a worried look on her face, but still obediently left the room and closed the door gently.

Until she heard the sound of the door closing, the tears in Lin Wanning's eyes finally slid down quietly.

She was the daughter of the Earl Zhongyuan, of noble birth, and extremely loved by the Earl Zhongyuan and his wife. She had lived a smooth life since she was a child, and had never suffered any grievances.

After meeting Lu Jingchen, she suffered many grievances one after another, and her heart was extremely sad at this time.

At that literary banquet, she was attracted by Lu Jingchen and took the initiative to ask for her mother's consent. She personally asked someone to go to the Lu family to discuss the marriage and the two sides exchanged engagement letters.

Lu Jingchen then returned to Ganzhou and soon went to Taihe County.

The two had only met a few times, and except for that literary banquet, they were always accompanied by Lu's mother.

Although they didn't communicate much with each other, she was looking forward to life after marriage.

Compared to those women in Dasheng who married blindly, she felt that she was lucky enough.

At least the other person is someone you like, rather than someone you choose for marriage because of family interests.

After Lu Jingchen went to Taihe County, she wrote several letters to Lu Jingchen, but Lu Jingchen never replied.

Although she felt a little disappointed, she did not think too much about it. Mrs. Lu said that her son was not good at expressing himself, so she asked her to just wait for him to return to Beijing.

When Mrs. Lin had some complaints about Lu Jingchen in this matter, she also spoke up to defend him. Lu Jingchen is now preparing for the spring examination and must be busy studying.

Later, Lu Jingchen came back. He won the third place in the imperial examination, and she married into the Lu family as she wished.

She had always been looking forward to a life of harmony and support between husband and wife after marriage, but it did not happen as expected.

Life gave her a wake-up call.

After they got married, Lu Jingchen always maintained a polite yet distant attitude towards her, and on the surface, no one could find any fault with him.

Only she knows the bitterness of it.

On the wedding day, the wedding night, the groom Lu Jingchen got drunk.

After returning to the room from the front yard, he forced himself to be drunk and lifted the veil. The two of them fell asleep on the bed without even drinking the wedding wine.

Leaving the bride alone in an empty room on the wedding night is a great shame and humiliation for both the Lin family and Lin Wanning.

Even the good-tempered Lu Zhu couldn't help but look cold at that time.

Although Lin Wanning felt aggrieved, she still comforted herself that Lu Jingchen might have drunk a few glasses because he was getting married today and was happy about it, and it was not intentional.

The next day, when Lu Jingchen woke up, he sincerely apologized to her.

That night, the two of them officially consummated their marriage.

After that, Lu Jingchen always used the excuse of being busy with the affairs of the Hanlin Academy, and stayed in the study all day after returning from the court.

Lin Wanning couldn't understand why Lu Jingchen didn't reject Lin Mansion if he really didn't like her? Why did he let her fall into such an embarrassing situation?

But what can we do now?

This was just a path she chose herself. Her parents didn't agree at first, but she insisted on choosing Lu Jingchen.

I have been married for only two months and my husband hates me. If this gets out, how will my family, the Earl of Zhongyuan, maintain its reputation?

She couldn't let the Earl Zhongyuan's Mansion become a joke in the eyes of the people in the capital.