My husband, who abandoned his father and kept his son, actually wants me to be his concubine.

Chapter 19 Slandering the Seventh Prince's Consort
Lu Jinshi naturally couldn't reveal who the child's father was. She looked up at the man behind the gauze curtain and said, "Your Highness, please forgive me for not being able to marry you. I would bring bad luck to my husband."

The man behind the gauze curtain spoke calmly: "The saying that a man is cursed to bring misfortune to his wife is nothing but superstition. My father is the Son of Heaven, and the princes in the palace are protected by the dragon's aura. How could I be cursed by you?"

Lu Jinshi knelt down and said, "Your Highness, I really cannot marry you, because I already have a lover I adore."

Rong Yi sat down in the chair, his long, slender fingers gripping the armrests of the wooden chair. "Oh? Who is Miss He's beloved husband? Is he the father of your child?"

Lu Jinshi frowned slightly. She didn't want to lie and say it was Rong Yi, even if it was just an excuse, but now she had no choice but to admit it was Rong Yi.

"Yes."

Rong Yi sat in the chair, a slight smile playing on his lips. "Get up. I've heard people say that your child was conceived through artificial insemination, and you're planning to leave the child behind instead of the father?"

Lu Jinshi slowly stood up and could only say, "Because I am destined to bring misfortune to my husbands, I dare not implicate the father of my child, and I dare not marry him. In fact, I have long been deeply in love with the father of my child."

Rong Yi smiled faintly, "Since that's the case, I will grant your wish and ask my father to bestow a marriage upon you and your child's father."

Lu Jinshi said, "No need, Your Highness..."

Rong Yi said, "Why not? Do you really believe those sayings about husbands being cursed?"

Lu Jinshi said, "Yes, I am a jinx. The father of my child is dead, but I still can't forget him. I promised him that I would only be his wife."

Rong Yi tapped his fingers lightly on the armrest of the chair and said, "Dead?"

Lu Jinshi usually spouts a lot of grand principles, but when it comes to lying, he does it with ease, without batting an eye or blushing.

Lu Jinshi nodded and said, "Yes, he is dead."

Rong Yi picked up his teacup, took a small sip, and asked, "How did you die?"

Lu Jinshi frowned slightly. This seventh prince was asking a bit too many questions: "He died after falling into the lake."

Rong Yi scoffed, "Since that's the case, you two are an orphan and a widow, and it won't do without a husband to take care of you. I'm not afraid of your cursed fate of bringing bad luck to husbands, and I'm willing to marry you as my principal wife. You just need to wait to marry me."

Lu Jinshi frowned and said, "Your Highness... I..."

Rong Yi, his voice tinged with anger from within the gauze curtain, said, "You are unwilling to marry me as my concubine because you look down on me?"

Lu Jinshi shook her head and said, "Your Highness, I dare not look down on you. However, I have vowed since childhood to marry a husband who will not take concubines. Your Highness the Seventh Prince has a bright future ahead of you, and there will definitely be more than just me in your harem."

"What if I agree to your request, and you become the only woman in my harem from now on?"

Lu Jinshi felt that the Seventh Prince was really crazy, or was he trying to deceive her in order to become the Crown Prince? Lu Jinshi didn't know how to refuse the marriage without offending the Seventh Prince. Various reasons for postponing the marriage kept flashing through her mind, but she felt that each one was inappropriate.

In her mind, there was only one thought: although she had never met the Seventh Prince, if he could really promise that she would be the only one in the harem in the future, wouldn't he be a good husband?
He Jinlan longed to marry the Seventh Prince. Wouldn't it be great to "steal" the husband she longed for?
If Rong Yi dares to make her his concubine, and she becomes the Seventh Prince's wife, then Rong Yi will have to kneel and bow to her whenever he sees her in the future. Wouldn't that be even more satisfying?
As for Rong Yi, he claims the child is his, but what evidence does he have?
Lu Jinshi dared to have a child through artificial insemination, so he wasn't afraid that Rong Yi would try to take the child away from him. How could he be sure that the child was his?
Is it just because Zhang'er looks like his aunt, Consort Rong? It's inevitable that people will have similarities.

The unmarried seventh prince said he would treat his child as his own, and he also made the demanding request that the prince not take a concubine, which the seventh prince agreed to.

It is evident how much the Seventh Prince values ​​the power behind her; he would never allow Rong Yi to "slander" the Seventh Prince's Consort.

A steady male voice came from inside the gauze curtain, "You still don't want to marry me?"

Lu Jinshi lowered his eyes and said, "As long as Your Highness is willing to swear that I will be the only woman in your life, and if I cannot bear you an imperial heir, you can only take a concubine chosen by me after you turn thirty, then I am willing to marry Your Highness."

"You don't believe me?" The man behind the gauze curtain smiled calmly. "Then I swear that in this life I will only have Lu Jinshi as my wife, and I will never take a concubine or favor any other woman. If I break this oath, may I be destroyed by gods and men."

As Lu Jinshi listened to the man's vow, her heart pounded like a drum. She understood that the Seventh Prince dared to make such a vow for the position of Crown Prince.

Lu Jinshi then slowly rose and said, "If Your Highness does not despise me, I will certainly help Your Highness to achieve your wish."

Lu Jinshi thought, if she could have a husband who would not take concubines, why not help him become the crown prince? Besides, Emperor Huiyuan had already decided that the seventh prince was the crown prince. She was just doing a little favor to help him out, so why not?
Rong Yi slowly rose and walked to the gauze curtain: "The father of your child was able to win your sincere heart, so he must have been an extraordinary person. It's a pity that he died so young..."

Rong Yi's fingers were already on the gauze curtain. He wanted to see what Lu Jinshi's expression would be when she learned that he was the biological father of the child she had been longing for.

She knew that she would forgive herself once she learned that she had been made a concubine of the seventh prince.

As for Lu Jinshi using him as a male concubine to conceive, I am magnanimous and will forgive her.

Lu Jinshi scoffed, "Your Highness, the father of my child is no dragon among men. If we were to compare him to something, he would be worse than a snake, an insect, a rat, a beast in human clothing, a hypocrite, shameless, and despicable..."

Rong Yi's hand, which had been resting on the gauze curtain, fell to his side. He could only suppress his anger and coughed slightly, saying, "If he is such a beast, why did you say you were in love with him just now?"

Lu Jinshi said, "Just now, I did not want to be one of the women in your future harem, and I deceived Your Highness. I hope Your Highness will forgive me for my disrespect."

Rong Yi clenched his fist and said, "Then you have absolutely no love for the child's biological father?"

“Not only is there no love, but there is also deep hatred,” Lu Jinshi said slowly. “I wish he would go to hell and suffer the torture of being boiled in oil.”

Having had a fleeting affair with Rong Yi for two years, Lu Jinshi should have parted ways amicably with him. However, he arrogantly used a condescending tone to make her his concubine and even wanted to take away her son, Zhang'er, to be raised by his wife. How could she not hate him?
Lu Jinshi really wanted to see Rong Yi's expression when he learned that she was going to marry his prince cousin.

Hearing Lu Jinshi's words from behind the gauze curtain, Rong Yi was furious. How could Lu Jinshi, who had schemed against his sincerity, have the nerve to subject him to the torture of boiling oil?

He only wanted Lu Jinshi as a concubine, but what about Lu Jinshi? She took advantage of his sincerity, so wasn't she even more despicable?
(End of this chapter)