Chapter 46 Marriage Proposal
46 Marriage Proposal
“You…” Madam Gu’s cheeks trembled. She pointed at Gu Yanfei and asked coldly,” What nonsense did you say at Prince Jing’s Manor today?! ”
“Grandma, this has nothing to do with my Second Sister.” Gu Yunzhen hurriedly shielded her behind her and defended Gu Yanfei.
“Shut up!” Madam Gu gritted her teeth and shouted, the anger in her burning even stronger.
Beside her, Xia Lian felt aggrieved for her lady and had an indignant expression on her face. She did not know what tricks the Second Lady had used to make not only the Eldest Young Master on her side, but even the Eldest Lady as well.
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Glancing at the furious Madam Gu and Xia Lian, Gu Yanfei pursed her lips with a faint smile. She knew who had added fuel to the fire in front of Madam Gu.
“Grandma should ask what happened today,” Gu Yanfei calmly corrected Madam Gu.
Without waiting for Madam Gu to ask, Gu Yanfei answered her own question, “In the Moon Pavilion, Kang Wang rushed to the top. Out of anger for a beauty, he drew his sword against Fang Mingfeng.”
“Fang Mingfeng risked his life to save the damsel in distress. In order to fulfill his sincerity, the Empress Dowager said that she would give dowry to my Third Sister. Grandma, aren’t you happy?”
“It’s the Gu family’s honor to have the Empress Dowager add dowry.”
Gu Yanfei smiled brightly at Madam Gu.
Madam Gu was so angry that the corners of her eyes twitched, and her chest heaved violently.
Gu Yanfei, on the other hand, appeared calm and composed. She smiled and said, “Or do you think Empress Dowager Yuan did something wrong?”
“Snap!”
Madam Gu slammed her palm on the coffee table and glared at her. Her eyes were red from anger and her body was trembling.
Xia Lian was also red with anger. She wanted to reprimand Gu Yanfei for distorting the truth, but she knew that there was no place for a maidservant like her to speak.
Gu Yanfei could not be bothered to waste her breath on Madam Gu and said perfunctorily, “I believe Grandma is busy, so I’ll leave first.”
“Big Sister, let’s go.” As she spoke, Gu Yanfei grabbed Gu Yunzhen’s wrist and turned to leave.
“Madam…” At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps from the central room outside the curtain. A thin gray-robed maidservant ran in breathlessly and reported to Madam Gu, whose face was as black as the bottom of a pot. “His Highness Kang Wang brought the Third Lady back.”
The maidservant took a deep breath and added, “His Highness Kang Wang said he was here to propose marriage.”
Madam Gu’s mouth opened slightly. She wanted to ask if it was true, but she swallowed her words.
Her emotions had changed several times in an extremely short period of time. At this moment, they finally turned from anger to joy.
Xia Lian widened her eyes in shock and beamed. She raised her chin slightly and gave Gu Yanfei a demonstrative look.
Gu Yanfei was speechless.
As expected! Gu Yanfei sighed in her heart. She was not too surprised.
When the muffled thunder exploded in the sky, Gu Yanfei had already expected this outcome.
Gu Yunrong was the lucky girl of this small world. Heaven’s Will favored her and chose a beautiful and glorious path for her. Kang Wang was the “true love” that Heaven’s Will had given Gu Yunrong.
The two of them could be said to be a match made in heaven. They were equally well-achieved and were each other’s benefactors. In their previous lives, they had worked together to overcome all obstacles and finally ascended to the highest position.
This was fate!
Even if they encountered some ups and downs in the process, they would generally develop towards their destiny.
But the heavens were not inviolable!
Only by breaking this destiny could she break her mental demons.
A glint flashed across Gu Yanfei’s eyes, and her expression was calm.
Madam Gu hurriedly stood up and tidied her appearance. She asked, “Where is His Highness Kang Wang now?”
“They’re welcoming him to the hall,” the old maidservant said quickly.
Gu Yanfei, who had walked to the curtain, paused for a moment before holding Gu Yunzhen’s hand and continuing to walk out.
Some things were still the same as in her previous life. Gu Yunrong and Kang Wang would get married on the same day.
But something was different.
In her previous life, Empress Dowager Yuan’s marriage decree not only shocked the entire Marquis Mansion, but also half of the capital. Nine dazzling carriages carried angels to the Marquis Mansion and sent a large amount of rewards.
The rewards were even more magnificent than the Ten-Mile Red Dowry.
In this life, the Marquis Mansion only received Kang Wang’s presence.
As they were thinking, the sisters stepped out of the main room of the Benevolent Harmony Hall and saw a plain-clothed woman in her early 30s in the courtyard. It was the Third Madam, Madam Yan, who had rushed over without applying any makeup.
“Zhen’er!” Madam Yan heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that her daughter was safe and sound.
“Mother, why are you here?” Gu Yunzhen quickly walked forward and held Madam Yan’s arm. Facing her mother, she suddenly looked like a delicate daughter.
When Madam Yan heard that Madam Gu was furious, she was afraid that her daughter would be bullied and had rushed over.
She forced a smile and originally wanted to ask her daughter if she had had a good time at Prince Jing’s Manor today. However, at this moment, she noticed the blood mark on her daughter’s forehead and her expression changed drastically.
“Zhen’er, your face…” Madam Yan carefully pushed away the bangs on Gu Yunzhen’s forehead with her fingers and looked at the half-inch-long dried bloodstain with heartache.
“I’m fine,” Gu Yunzhen comforted her mother gently.
“Zhen’er, you’re about to get married. How can there be a scar on your face?” Madam Yan raised her voice slightly, feeling more or less resentful.
Everyone in the Marquis Mansion liked Gu Yunrong and everyone said that she was good, but Madam Yan had a very subtle impression of Gu Yunrong. Every time something happened to Gu Yunrong, her daughter would be the one to suffer!
The more Madam Yan spoke, the angrier she became. She could not help but dig up the past.
Speaking of which, Gu Yunrong had picked up a priceless antique when she was young. At that time, the other party wanted to play dirty, implicating Gu Yunzhen such that she was pushed down and had a big fall.
Speaking of which, Gu Yunrong had dug up a 200-year-old ginseng when she was nine years old. Madam Gu was saved because of this, but Gu Yunzhen was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall because she did not look after her sister.
There were countless such trivial matters.
Madam Yan was really a little angry. On the one hand, she was venting her anger. On the other hand, she was deliberately saying this to Madam Gu, hoping that someone would pass the message on!
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Gu Yunzhen’s father, Third Master Gu, had died young. After his death, there were no men in the third branch.
All these years, the third branch did not fight or snatch. Madam Yan did it all because of Gu Yunzhen.
Thinking of how Gu Yunzhen was her only daughter and would still have to rely on her cousins in the Marquis Mansion after she got married, Madam Yan tried her best to give in. However, this did not mean that they were pushovers.
Gu Yunzhen was going to marry a dignified general. Her future husband was going to be young and promising.
Gu Yunzhen gently stroked Madam Yan’s back and comforted her. “Mother, it’s just a superficial wound, it won’t leave a scar. Let’s go back. Can you apply medicine for me?”
Madam Yan also felt that the most important thing now was to treat her daughter’s wound and nodded.
Gu Yunzhen smiled at Gu Yanfei as a farewell and coaxed Madam Yan to leave the Benevolent Harmony Hall.
Gu Yanfei quietly watched the mother and daughter leave. She pursed her cherry lips and her eyes became unusually deep.
Gu Yunzhen had been engaged to Murong Yong, the second young master of the Murong family three years ago. The Murong family had already decided on a small date and was only short of an official application date.
In Gu Yanfei’s previous life, after Gu Yunzhen was disfigured, Murong Yong did not break off the marriage and still married Gu Yunzhen.
Back then, Gu Yanfei did not know much about the capital, but she had more or less heard that her eldest brother-in-law, Murong Yong, was a generous and righteous person.
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