If you were cold and aloof in your past life, why are you crying in this one?

Xi Lingxian snatched the Jiao Wei Qin from Xi Lingxian, her eyes wary. "Don't touch my things."

Wang Jue wasn't annoyed. "Practice hard and try to play 'Xijiangyue' well as soon as possible."

West River Moon...

Xi Lingxian's long, lowered eyelashes trembled slightly, concealing the undercurrents in her eyes.

My thoughts were instantly pulled back to my past life.

Xi Lingxian is a typical person who knows a little bit about everything, but is not proficient in anything.

However, the Wang family was very strict in raising their children. Regardless of gender, all the children in the family had to be proficient in the Six Arts of a Gentleman, and the Xie family was no exception.

In her previous life, after marrying into the Wang family, Xi Lingxian was often ridiculed by the people around Xie Wanyi.

She didn't care about anything else, but when Wang Shuhui told her that Wang Jue had played the qin and xiao together with Xie Wanyi when she was ten years old, she was immediately provoked by the story.

From that day on, she practiced her piano skills diligently every day, and even found the Jiaowei zither, which her mother had left her in her dowry and which was one of the four famous zithers.

She practiced diligently day and night for this. At first, Wang Jue was very supportive and appreciative of her hard work and eagerness to learn. However, after several days of the nagging voices, he found it hard to accept.

Unable to bear it any longer, he personally taught her for several days;

The way the young mistress of the Wang family played the zither was a disgrace to him.

She had a particular fondness for the piece "Xi Jiang Yue" back then. Whether it was because she lacked comprehension or because she deliberately procrastinated, she dragged him into practicing that piece for more than two months.

Wang Jue thought at that time that her future children should not be like her, otherwise the Wang family's legacy would truly have no one to inherit it.

Girls who are pampered from childhood are the most likely to take advantage of others. After learning "Xi Jiang Yue", she coaxed Wang Jue to play "Feng Qiu Huang" for her.

Wang Jue was a top-tier nobleman cultivated by the Langya Wang clan with the full support of the clan. He excelled in all six arts of a gentleman: music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and music, making him a true master.

The title, "The Phoenix Seeks Its Mate," clearly reveals the person's intentions. Wang Jue glanced at the overbearing individual and silently turned to leave.

Those were some of the few times they spent together during their honeymoon. Later, he took over the Central Secretariat and became increasingly busy with government affairs, leaving him with less and less time for anything else.

Under the influence of the drugs, her personality changed drastically, and when the two met again, they could hardly exchange a word.

She passed away before the song "The Phoenix Seeks Its Mate" could be played.

……

The memory ended, and Xi Lingxian looked at Jiao Wei in her arms, a hint of annoyance rising in her eyes.

"Why did you come here to be a teacher? Don't tell me you have that much free time?"

"If the King of Chenliu can come, why can't I? Whom have I disturbed?" He said casually, his eyes filled with sharp scrutiny.

"Or do you think I came here for you?"

Xi Lingxian choked.

"I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to presume to be so sentimental."

Wang Jue stood firm, "What if I tell you I came here for you? What will you do then?"

Xi Lingxian sensed that the conversation was getting dangerous and instinctively moved aside, saying, "Move aside, I need to practice the piano."

Wang Jue's expression suddenly became complicated. He looked around and asked, "In the music room? Are you sure?"

Xi Lingxian could hear the mockery in his voice. In her previous life, when she had just rediscovered the joy of playing the zither, she had indeed experienced a period of unbearable suffering with the lingering, distorted sounds of the instrument.

cocoa……

"Mind your own business! I didn't ask you to listen."

Wang Jue sighed, "You've been hiding from me all this way?"

Xi Lingxian was taken aback. "I'm not avoiding you. I just came to school."

She reiterated, "I'm not joking with you. I don't want the Phoenix Seeking Its Mate in this life, which I didn't hear about in my past life."

"How do you know things won't get better in this lifetime?" Wang Jue asked quietly.

"Whether it's good or bad is none of my business." Her expression was cold. "If you truly realize your past mistakes, then spend this lifetime making amends to your new wife."

The faint trace of tenderness in Wang Jue's eyes vanished instantly. He approached her step by step, "What did you say?"

"I've made myself perfectly clear!"

"Wang Jue, I did have feelings for you, but those feelings have long been worn away by countless arguments and suspicions. I don't understand why you're suddenly clinging to this, but I have no interest in playing the role of a broken mirror mended with you. Whatever you do, don't involve me."

"You started it first," he said in a low voice, his dark eyes unfathomable, his brow furrowed as if a storm was brewing.

"You were the one who provoked me on that day, and everything started because of you; why should I be kicked aside just because you don't want me to?"

Xi Lingxian felt a sudden pang of sadness and turned her face away. "What do you have to feel wronged about? No matter which lifetime you've lived, it seems like I'm always the one who suffers and is taken advantage of."

"So, I will make it up to you."

"I don't need your compensation. I just want you to stay far away from me and never have anything to do with me again!"

"You only think of yourself, without considering the future of the Xi family of Gaoping at all?"

Wang Jue cut to the chase, “Uncle is getting old, your eldest brother is brave and good at fighting but not good at strategy, Xi Song is young; and there are no outstanding talents among the other branches of the family.”

"All powerful families seek fame and recognition. Can you bear to see your uncle's hard-earned fortune coveted and divided up by others? When the nest is overturned, no egg remains unbroken. How can you expect to remain unscathed?"

Xi Lingxian suddenly felt suffocated. "Is this all you can do to scare me?"

"Trying to scare you?"

"Do you think I'm trying to scare you?"

A single tear slid down Xi Lingxian's cheek, her expression defiant. "Our family isn't as incompetent as you think, much less like you, who would sacrifice anything for them."

Wang Jue laughed, his large hand suddenly gripping her shoulder. "You're right, I'm willing to trade anything." As long as it benefits me, everything is at my disposal, but the other party has to have something of value to offer in return for me to be interested!

"Yes, you, Young Master Wang, will not act without self-interest, and you will discard people who are worthless as if they were trash; if that's the case, why do you keep pestering me, an ignorant, arrogant, and domineering person?"

Her voice choked with emotion, but she forced a smile to stab him.

Wang Jue suddenly felt a throbbing pain in his temples, and his vision went black for a moment.

Who taught her to be so cold-blooded and ruthless?

They disregarded their marital bond, abandoning it without hesitation.

Xi Lingxian took a deep breath, holding back her tears. "The past wasn't pleasant, so I don't like to relive it over and over again. Now that I've said this much, if you insist on bringing it up again, you're just humiliating yourself."

She tried to say the harshest things possible, hoping to anger him, make him put on his haughty airs as a member of the Langya Wang family, and never come looking for her again.

"Wang and Xi are not just about you and me. There are other options for marriage alliances. You don't need to keep pressuring me by emphasizing the good relations between our families."

"Given your talent and the power of the Wang family, it was only a matter of time before you took control of the central government. You don't need to sacrifice yourself like that."

The air suddenly fell silent.

The evening breeze blew by.

Wang Jue suddenly felt that the autumn chill was particularly strong this year.

"You've really got some nerve now, able to talk so much to me with such sharp tongue, all while maintaining such a calm facade." His smile didn't reach his eyes. "I remember complaining before about why you couldn't be more composed and quiet, and now you've actually taken my advice."

"Because I don't love you anymore." She said it bluntly, without any reservations.

Wang Jue seemed frozen in place for a very long time.

"Why bring this up out of nowhere?"

"The more affectionate one is, the more suspicious one becomes. Don't you understand this principle?"

Intense love leads to intense emotions; it is impossible for a person to love someone calmly.

Because when you calm down, you don't love him at all anymore.

Wang Jue's knuckles were clenched so tightly they turned white, his eyes were dark and gloomy, filled with a kind of darkness that no one could understand.

In an instant, reason returned.

"You want to cut ties with me completely?"

Xi Lingxian raised her eyes, her gaze unwavering.

Wang Jue's jawline was taut and hard, and his voice was soft and ghostly.

"no."

He didn't know what he was clinging to, but the words in his heart had already slipped out.

"I'll never let you go, even if it kills me."