Chapter 2032: The Miserable Fiancée vs. The Noble Family’s Young Lady (Part 67)

Gu Chengxuan was going to teach Ming Zhu some kind of lesson, and Gu Shengyin didn’t ask.

Because through this matter, Gu Chengxuan was openly telling Gu Shengyin: "Jiujiu, I don’t want to forever play the upright, harmless man in front of you."

He looked at her seriously: "That’s not the real me. I want to spend a good lifetime with you, so you have to accept every side of me."

Gu Shengyin blinked and deliberately put on a frightened expression: "You tell me this and you’re not afraid I’ll be scared of you and won’t want to marry you?"

Gu Chengxuan burst out laughing, and his answer was a tight embrace: "I’m not afraid. You’re destined to be mine; even if you want to run, you won’t get away."

He looked at Gu Shengyin, and the words he did not say were: Even if you truly fear this side of me, even if I have to break your legs and snap your wings, I’ll still keep you by my side.

He held the person in his arms tightly and only took a deep breath of the rich fragrance on her body.

In the month or so that followed, Gu Shengyin began to focus wholeheartedly on waiting to be married.

Prince Ping’s Mansion had everything prepared to perfection. She didn’t even need to think about anything, only quietly wait for the day of her wedding.

Just the day before Gu Shengyin and Gu Chengxuan’s grand wedding, a scandal exploded in the Capital City.

The dignified legitimate eldest young lady of Marquis Mingyi’s Mansion had actually gotten dead drunk in her own separate courtyard, and even more outrageous, she had ended up lying on the same couch with a strange man, clinging to him, their clothes in disarray!

This was something that, even if she jumped into the Yellow River, she wouldn’t be able to wash clean!

What’s more, whether this eldest young lady of Marquis Mingyi’s Mansion was ever truly chaste to begin with was, frankly, doubtful.

The entire Capital City was abuzz with the story.

For the common folk, what they were most interested in on ordinary days were precisely these amorous tales among the nobility.

Marquis Mingyi’s Mansion had tried to find ways to suppress the news, yet it was as if someone in the shadows was deliberately working against them; instead, the rumors grew more and more rampant.

In the end, there were even people who vividly described exactly what pattern was embroidered on the dudou that Chen Mingzhu had worn that day.

At times like this, no one cared why it was that someone just happened to enter the separate courtyard of Marquis Mingyi’s Mansion, and just happened to see Chen Mingzhu like that, and then, as if by some perfect coincidence, let the story spread.

Everyone became a driving force behind the rumors.

It was said that the Lady of the Marquis Mingyi was directly angered into falling ill.

Inside Marquis Mingyi’s Mansion.

"I won’t marry!" Chen Mingzhu shouted.

Standing before her was a middle-aged man in a dark-blue brocade robe, rather handsome in appearance, except his face was pale and there were dark shadows under his eyes, at a glance clearly a body hollowed out by wine and women.

This was Chen Mingzhu’s father, the current Marquis Mingyi.

He looked coldly at this daughter who had never given him a moment’s peace and said, "You don’t get to refuse. If you won’t marry, fine—choose either three feet of White Silk or shaving your head to become a nun. My Marquis Mingyi’s Mansion will simply regard it as if it never had a daughter like you!"

He flicked his sleeves and left, no longer sparing a glance for Chen Mingzhu, who had collapsed weakly onto the ground.

The next day, the whole Capital City bore witness to the grand spectacle of Prince Ping marrying County Princess Si Fang.

According to the commoners who witnessed it that day, the first cart of County Princess Si Fang’s dowry had already entered Prince Ping’s Mansion, while the last cart had yet to leave the County’s Mansion.

"Even if it were a princess from the palace getting married, I’d wager it’d be no more than this?"

Red candles, bridal bed, phoenix and luan in harmonious song.

Three days after the wedding, the bride returned to visit her family.

When Gu Chengxuan accompanied Gu Shengyin back to the County’s Mansion amidst great bustle and joy, Marquis Mingyi’s Mansion sent their noble eldest young lady off in a very low-key manner, in a sedan chair carried by only four bearers.