Jiang Huai looked at her coldly and said indifferently, "You've come to the wrong person. I can't save you. You should go to your mother or father. Coming to me won't do you any good. Go away, pretend I never saw you."

"No! I won't leave! Young Master! The City Lord's wife only knows how to favor her good-for-nothing son, she won't help me at all! The City Lord is determined to be a good-natured person who doesn't care about things in the inner court, he won't care about me either!"

Sun Chan cried, her face streaked with tears, her sobs making her words broken and fragmented: "I married into the City Lord's mansion because I love you! Please accept me as your concubine! I don't care about what others say, I don't care about their whispers behind my back, I just want to be by your side..."

"These...these twelve shops are things I secretly saved up myself. Even my family doesn't know about them. If you take me in, I'll use them as my dowry, okay? Young master, no one but you can save me..."

She cried so hard, her body trembling, looking utterly pitiful.

But Jiang Huaizhi showed no sign of being moved, his tone remaining resolute: "Sun Chan, when you learned from Jiang Huaisong that I couldn't have children, your attitude towards me wasn't like this. What's wrong now? Do you regret it?"

"No, no, no..."

She nimbly stood up, leaped to her feet, and rushed into Jiang Huaizhi's arms in three quick steps: "Brother Huaizhi, I was wrong, I was really wrong before. I was misled and listened to the slander of villains. That's not what I really thought of you."

Jiang Huaizhi looked disgusted and placed his hands on her shoulders, about to push her away, when the door was pushed open.

"Huaizhi, I have something to say..." He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence. The jarring scene that had entered Gu Jiangli's eyes felt like something dirty.

She frowned deeply, looking somewhat disgusted.

Jiang Huaizhi snapped out of his daze, suddenly releasing his grip on Sun Chan's shoulders, and exclaimed, "Jiang Li! It's not what you think!"