The daily life of a space tycoon raising children, doting on his husband, and farming.

Chapter 28 Hold on tight to your disguise
Yuan Musheng carefully wrote out a prescription, and Shang Wan asked Shi Tou to go with him to get the medicine.

After the two left the courtyard, Shang Wan waved to Xiao Hui and led it into the west wing.

Lu Chengjing sat on the kang (a heated brick bed), his black hair disheveled, making his face appear exceptionally pale. He stared blankly at his right hand, which was completely numb, his expression unreadable.

"I can't see a single flower even if I look again." Shang Wan patted Xiao Hui, who walked towards Lu Chengjing and sniffed his scent.

Lu Chengjing glanced at the gray wolf at his feet, then looked up at Shang Wan, "I never knew you could tame wolves."

"Then there's no chance to show it off, right?" Shang Wan squatted down and patted Xiao Hui's head, letting it go play in the yard.

After Xiao Hui left, Shang Wan sat down next to Lu Chengjing, reached out and took a strand of his black hair that was draped over his shoulder, and played with it between her fingertips.

Lu Chengjing caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye and shifted slightly, feeling a little uneasy.

Shang Wan looked up at him. "Who inflicted these injuries on you?"

Lu Chengjing: "Guards."

"You've already been convicted, there's no need for the constables to torture you further." Shang Wan ran a strand of hair through her palm, her tone gentle. "Let me guess, the person who bribed the constables to harm you is... connected to the Lu family?"

Lu Chengjing's pupils contracted, and his left hand, which was resting on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), clenched unconsciously, his fingertips gradually turning white.

"Looks like I guessed right." Shang Wan released his hair and leaned back. "Lu Chengjing, you've been keeping this from me. Do you still want to go back to the Lu family and continue being your third young master?"

Lu Chengjing vaguely sensed that Shang Wan was angry, so he turned his head to look at her.

Shang Wan smiled slightly, "If you want to go back to the Lu family to suffer, I won't stop you. We'll get a divorce, and Yuanyuan will stay with me."

“I have no intention of going back,” Lu Chengjing said in a low voice. “The Lu family is not a good place.”

"Then why did you hide it from me?"

Lu Chengjing's gaze swept over Shang Wan, and he pursed his lips and said, "The Lu family has given me life and raised me. This injury is my way of repaying that debt. From now on, I will have no further connection with the Lu family. I know you are capable, but even ants can kill an elephant. The Lu family is not as simple as it seems on the surface."

Shang Wan understood, and a smile appeared on her face. "You're worried about me?"

Lu Chengjing turned his head away and after a long while, he softly hummed in agreement.

Shang Wan felt better and reached out to grab a strand of Lu Chengjing's long hair. "I can let the Lu family off the hook, but you have to compensate me."

Lu Chengjing: ?!
What kind of robber logic is this?

"Turn around and look at me." Shang Wan tugged at Lu Chengjing's hair, and only said after he turned his head, "I've been running around everywhere to rescue you, my legs are almost broken, don't you want to do anything for me?"

Lu Chengjing: "...Thank you."

Shang Wan clicked her tongue lightly, "Your thank you makes me feel like my efforts were cheap."

"How are you doing?"

“Look,” she pointed to her right cheek, “give me a kiss.”

After several busy days, I have to take advantage of this opportunity.

Lu Chengjing: "..."

"You've already had a baby, and you won't even give me a kiss?" Shang Wan looked at his bright red ears. What was this guy pretending to be, this innocent young man?
Lu Chengjing looked at her with complicated eyes and said quietly, "We have never consummated our marriage."

Shangwan: ?
Business Evening News: !!

Holy crap! We've been exposed!

Why isn't this in the original owner's memories?
Shang Wan frantically searched through the original owner's memories. There were many gaps in the original owner's memories. Because the memory fragments were basically connected, she hadn't paid much attention to them before. She didn't expect that there was a big bomb buried in them.

Her disguise!
Shang Wan was stunned. "If you didn't consummate the marriage, where did Yuanyuan come from? Are you keeping a mistress?"

Lu Chengjing: "..." This woman really dares to think!
“I have no mistress.” His face was as black as the bottom of a pot. “I picked Yuanyuan up from a group of refugees.”

"But I remember giving birth to a child," Shang Wan stubbornly clutched her vest. "Where is the child?"

“You died less than two months later. Fearing your mother’s punishment, you asked me to bring back a child of similar age to raise.”

Shang Wan paused for a moment, then asked softly, "We didn't consummate our marriage, so how could I have a child?"

Lu Chengjing: What do you think?

Shang Wan looked up at the top of his head and felt like she was seeing a green grassland.

"Well, you're quite generous, huh?"

Raising a child for an adulterer—that's incredibly audacious!

Lu Chengjing's eyes twitched violently. He took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, "Stop pretending. You're not Shang Wan at all."

Shang Wan: "..."

She was just trying to gain some advantage, so how did her disguise get exposed?

Waaah, I'm so broke.

"I actually have amnesia," Shang Wan tried to cover it up. "Shi Tou told you, right? When I was kicked out of the Lu family, I hit my head, and after I woke up, I couldn't remember a lot of things. As for martial arts, well..."

Lu Chengjing quietly looked at Shang Wanbian.

Shang Wan couldn't continue writing, so she lay back on the kang (a heated brick bed) and gave up.

A fleeting smile crossed Lu Chengjing's eyes as he turned to look at the woman who seemed to have given up entirely. "Shang Wan did not marry me willingly. On our wedding night, she told me that she had someone she loved and that she had already consummated her marriage with that person."

Shang Wan raised an eyebrow. "And then?"

“Then…” Lu Chengjing’s mind flashed back to that panicked and weeping face, and he said slowly, “I made a three-point agreement with her. As long as she is a good third young mistress, respects her parents-in-law, and gets along well with her sisters-in-law, I will give her a letter of divorce and let her leave when her sweetheart comes to pick her up.”

Shang Wan tugged at his arm, and Lu Chengjing leaned back, his long black hair cascading down. Shang Wan reached out and pulled him aside to prevent him from pressing on her.

"And what about her child?"

“Naturally, it’s the man she loves.” Lu Chengjing turned his head to look at Shang Wan. “After consummating their marriage, it’s not surprising that she’s pregnant.”

Shang Wan clicked her tongue, thinking to herself that she now understood why the original owner was so eager for Zhong Chenghong to come and take her away from her suffering.

Perhaps to avoid becoming a real couple with Lu Chengjing, the original owner chose to hand over her incriminating evidence to him. On the surface, she won her gamble, as Lu Chengjing chose to help her, but his demands were not so easy to fulfill.

The original owner's parents were both deceased. Although she was supposedly married off, she was actually sold into the Lu family by her greedy older brother. Her brother took a sum of money and ran away with his family, never to be heard from again.

The original owner had no family to support her, and the third branch of the family was not well-liked in the mansion. So, she could only be bullied by the people from the first and second branches of the family. Not to mention, she also had a mother-in-law who set rules for her every day.

Fortunately, she had Lu Chengjing as a partner who was willing to protect her; otherwise, the original owner's life would have been even more bitter than bitter.

Shang Wan suddenly remembered the first time she met Lu Chengjing in prison and felt that something was wrong.

"Since you two aren't really husband and wife, and you know there's such a person, why were you so angry when you saw the letter? And why did you go to the inn to catch them in the act? Are you bored?"

Lu Chengjing's eyes flickered, and he seemed slightly uncomfortable.

Shang Wan thought of a possibility and her face instantly darkened. "You're kidding me!"

"I was just going along with what you said." Lu Chengjing felt inexplicably guilty after being glared at by Shang Wan.

Shang Wan raised her hand, pinched his cheeks, and pulled them apart, her tone tinged with resentment, "You never believed I was Shang Wan from the beginning. You were happy watching me put on an act in front of you?"

(End of this chapter)