Lin Shuangshuang panicked. "Don't cry! Didn't the Marquis of Zhennan tell you? Oh, please stop crying. Maybe I just heard some unfounded gossip. Perhaps he doesn't have to go at all?"
"He lied to me!"
Liu Shuyue cried even louder as she ran toward the study.
Zhou Yunshen was polishing his armor in the study courtyard. Seeing her face flushed from crying and her eyes as red and swollen as a rabbit's gave him a fright.
Seeing him polishing his armor gave Liu Shuyue a fright too.
Her heart, already hanging in suspense, ached even more.
"You lied to me! You're packing your armor and running off without even telling me! Zhou Yunshen, you wife-and-child-abandoning bastard!"
Utterly bewildered, Zhou Yunshen blinked at Zhou Shiye beside him.
Zhou Shiye had no idea why either and could only shrug helplessly.
Unable to contain her anger, Liu Shuyue rushed over, grabbed his face and hair, and berated him. "If you're going off to war, at least say something! Why does everyone else know except me?"
"Are you planning to keep a mistress at the border? Then bring back a bastard child in a few years for me to raise?"
"You dog of a man! I knew you were up to no good!"
Zhou Yunshen's topknot had been clawed apart, and his face was red too.
He didn't dare fight back and could only dodge this way and that. "When did I ever say I was going to the border? And there's certainly no mistress! Who's been feeding you gossip?"
"Shuangshuang even asked me whether I was going! She knows, yet I don't! You deliberately kept it from me!"
Liu Shuyue pounded him once, pressed her lips together, and cried even louder than before.
"My mother was schemed against by a scumbag, and I've