Chapter 523: Cannon Fodder Princess Consort (16) Chapter 523: Cannon Fodder Princess Consort (16) On the return journey, Luo Ning leaned against the plush seat and closed her eyes to rest, too lazy to say a single word.
Lu Xiao wanted to speak several tis, but seeing her like this, he refrained.
His heart was a bit chaotic at the mont.
Back at the Prince Mansion, Luo Ning went directly to Lu Xiao’s courtyard and pushed open the door to his study.
“Prince, please,” she gestured towards the paper and ink on the desk.
Lu Xiao’s expression was still gloomy. “Are you that impatient?”
Luo Ning said wordlessly, “Isn’t it obvious?”
“Don’t think about stealing the letter from my sleeve, nor should you entertain any thoughts of trapping in the Prince Mansion. I’ve already ordered the maid who witnessed everything to go find my elder brother.”
“If I don’t leave the Prince Mansion today, she will tell my brother about your affair with the Imperial Concubine.”
She looked at him with a smile and asked, “Then, what do you think my brother would do?”
Lu Xiao: “…” If it were him, he would go to the Emperor.
He suddenly realized he had never truly seen through Luo Ning; she had anticipated all his moves.
Indeed, he had recently thought about not writing the divorce paper and confining Luo Ning within the Prince Mansion.
But she had already prepared for this.
However, he still ordered soone to check, and soon received a report from a follower that one of the maids who had accompanied Luo Ning to the palace had indeed not returned.
On the carriage ride back, his thoughts were in disarray, and he hadn’t been attentive to the situation in the carriage behind them, also neglecting to have soone watch over those two maids.
The main reason was that he hadn’t expected Luo Ning to be so intelligent, preemptively guessing his intentions.
Luo Ning spoke again, “You don’t love , so what’s the struggle? Just write it.”
Lu Xiao looked at her resolute expression and closed his eyes.
When he opened them again, his eyes had cald.
“Fine, if you want the divorce paper, then I’ll oblige you.”
After speaking, he walked to the desk and wrote down the words “divorce paper.”
Then, he was sowhat hesitant to continue writing and asked Luo Ning, “On what grounds are we divorcing?”
Luo Ning replied, “Incompatibility, I suppose.”
“What kind of reason is that?” Lu Xiao was speechless. What a poor excuse.
Luo Ning raised an eyebrow, “Then shall we write that your heart belongs to another, and this position of Princess Consort should be left for the one in your heart? Or perhaps that you have a hidden illness works too; I wouldn’t mind.”
Lu Xiao: “…” He minded.
Finally, he wrote the divorce reason reluctantly: Incompatibility.
There was no way he could write what Luo Ning had suggested afterward.
Luo Ning took the divorce paper, blew on the ink that hadn’t dried yet, and said, “From now on, when you marry or I remarry, we shall have nothing to do with each other.”
She took out the letter Luo Chun had written from her sleeve and threw it onto the desk.
Such evidence, Lu Xiao would never let her take away; she was a woman of her word.
Then, as if she had said sothing wrong, she lightly tapped her lips, “Oh, I forgot your beloved is in the palace; you can’t marry her in this lifeti, unlike who can still remarry.”
Lu Xiao’s face imdiately darkened, “You’re thinking of remarrying?”
Luo Ning didn’t actually have such thoughts at the mont, but she retorted, “Indeed, I’m not disgusting enough to remain chaste for soone.”
Lu Xiao didn’t know why Luo Ning had beco so articulate, managing to turn fallacies into seemingly sound argunts in her mouth.
“When are you leaving?” he changed the subject.
Luo Ning put away the divorce paper, “Today, of course.”
“We’ve just co back from the palace banquet and you’re divorcing ,” Lu Xiao sighed wearily. “You think it’s okay to make such a fuss?”
Luo Ning rolled her eyes. “I think it’s great. The rest is your concern now.”
The original owner of the body wanted Lu Xiao to regret everything.
If she had called out Lu Xiao and Luo Chun for their affair in the palace today, they indeed would have faced punishnt from the Emperor.
But it wasn’t certain that Lu Xiao would regret falling for Luo Chun. At most, he would regret having a secret eting during the palace banquet.
Besides, that would have let them off too easily. Without making them suffer first, she couldn’t vent her spite.
Luo Ning knew that what her predecessor wanted wasn’t that, which is why she had demanded the divorce paper first.
Without further ado, Luo Ning returned to her courtyard to pack her things. She questioned her dependable servants brought from her family ho and decided to take them with her.
The dowry, sothing she had arranged for Zi Yan and others to pack ahead of ti, was also ready to be taken away.
The commotion from Luo Ning preparing to leave the Prince Mansion with her dowry was too great, and soon the entire Prince Mansion was aware of it.
Everyone was puzzled about what the Princess Consort was up to, unaware of the divorce.
When Luo Ning led her servants to the main entrance of the Prince Mansion, she saw Lu Xiao standing not far away with his hands clasped behind his back.
Luo Ning wasn’t surprised. In fact, if this damned man hadn’t co, she would have asked the steward to summon him to the door anyway.
She approached him first and handed him the ledger she was holding. “This is the account book for the Prince Mansion. Take care of it.”
Lu Xiao, whose thoughts were far from the account book, casually tossed it to the steward.
Watching Luo Ning, he asked, “Did you predict that today you would be leaving?”
Otherwise, how could she have packed her dowry and everything so well in advance?
Luo Ning smiled. “I always knew I wouldn’t stay long, so I prepared ahead of ti. I made sure I could leave whenever I wanted.”
Then she announced to the servants of the Prince Mansion, “As of today, I am divorced from your Prince.”
The steward and the other servants were stunned.
Had they heard correctly? The Princess Consort had divorced the Prince?
Weren’t the two of them a loving couple? And she was just giving up her position as Princess Consort like this?
It was clear to everyone that the Princess Consort must have been the one who wanted the divorce, otherwise the Prince wouldn’t have appeared as he did now.
Feeling the cold aura emanating from the Prince, everyone wished they weren’t there. They all stood like quails, terrified of incurring his wrath.
Luo Ning said to the steward, “Take everyone further away. I have a few words to say to your Prince.”
Seeing the Prince offered no objection, the steward imdiately led the people away.
The servants that Luo Ning had brought with her did the sa.
Lu Xiao was sowhat perplexed. “What do you want to say to ?”
In a voice only the two of them could hear, Luo Ning said, “Lu Xiao, the thing I regret most is that I saved your life at Guardian Temple back then and allowed you to marry and deceive .”
“I should have just let you die cleanly.”
These words made Lu Xiao abruptly look up. “You’re saying you saved my life at Guardian Temple?”
He then let out a sarcastic laugh. “Yeah, throwing aside and running for your life, that’s how you saved .”
At that ti, he was suddenly ambushed and injured, and with his guards, he fought a path out. Then he ran into Luo Ning, who was riding a horse.
After Luo Ning helped him, he passed out due to heavy bleeding from his serious injuries.
But when he woke up, Luo Ning was nowhere to be seen. His heart had gone cold back then; so much for his fiancée.
After returning to Guardian Temple, Luo Ning was absent, and for a period of ti afterwards, he didn’t see her at all. She didn’t even visit him.
And now she had the nerve to say she had saved him.
Luo Ning showed a look of surprise. “I ran away?”
Then she laughed at herself mockingly. “Yeah, I shouldn’t have run to draw away the pursuers, or gotten hit by an arrow and nearly died for you.”
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