Chapter 85 I, Gu Qianhan, will marry no one but her!

Chu Yanluo's expression changed slightly upon hearing these comments.

But she couldn't bring herself to refuse the gold Gu Qianhan offered—a thousand taels of gold, all of it was hers! Enough for her to eat countless bird's nests, buy countless clothes and jewelry! With this thousand taels of gold, would she ever need to be subservient to anyone again? Not at all! She could walk sideways in the Ning Prince's mansion!

So she pretended not to hear the gossip and led Gu Qianhan upstairs.

As for Xiao Qingyuan, she simply ignored him. He had slapped her before, and she still remembered that grudge. Today, instead of speaking up for her or supporting her, he ruined her event. He deserved to be ignored!

If Gu Qianhan hadn't appeared and saved her, she would have been verbally abused to death by these people today.

As Gu Qianhan followed Chu Yanluo upstairs to the private room, she looked up and saw Shen Wantang standing on the third floor.

She was wearing a veil, but he still recognized her at a glance. Her clear eyes held a slight confusion, as if wondering why he had suddenly started praising Chu Yanluo.

"Young Master Gu, this way please. This is a private room that Qingyun Restaurant has reserved just for me. All the other private rooms are full, so please use this one!"

Chu Yanluo's voice rang out, and Gu Qianhan withdrew his gaze and entered her private room.

Before going in, he glanced at Xiao Qingyuan downstairs.

Xiao Qingyuan's face was extremely ugly. He seemed to have never expected that Chu Yanluo would abandon him and warmly entertain other men.

Gu Qianhan sneered inwardly. This was nothing. Today's support was just the beginning. There would be times when Xiao Qingyuan would be annoyed later.

Downstairs, Xiao Qingyuan watched as Chu Yanluo led Gu Qianhan into the private room, closed the door, and then she never came out again!

Gu Qianhan was eating inside, and she actually stayed with him the whole time!

Xiao Qingyuan's eyes turned red, and he clenched his fists tightly. He couldn't believe that Chu Yanluo would abandon him for a thousand taels of gold and then turn around to please another man!

And this man was the same one she had angrily berated and scolded just a few days ago!

Faint snickers came from all around, as if they were saying that his infatuation and love for Chu Yanluo was a huge joke.

"Oh dear, is Prince Xiao about to cry? He's been pursuing Chu Yanluo for so long, and even brought her to the Prince's mansion, but it seems to have been all for naught. Chu Yanluo is even more enthusiastic towards him than she is towards Gu Qianhan! How ridiculous... no, how pathetic!"

"It's alright, the young master won't care about such trivial matters. After all, Chu Yanluo was pregnant with another man's child before, but didn't the young master still cry and beg to marry her? When Princess Ning disagreed, he even accompanied Chu Yanluo to become a monk! What a great victim, oh no, I mean a great lover."

"That's right, why would the young master care about these things? Gu Qianhan went to the Ning Prince's mansion to harass and bully Chu Yanluo before, and the young master only punched Gu Qianhan twice. He even spoke up for Chu Yanluo. I heard that even the emperor severely punished Gu Qianhan!"

"Tsk tsk, the young master probably didn't expect that the two of them would forgive and forget each other in the blink of an eye, right? Look, they've been in a private room for so long, and neither of them has come out. I wonder what they're doing in there. The young master is all alone here feeling sad, making himself look like a clown!"

"So what? Didn't Chu Yanluo sleep with Gu Qianhan a few days ago? The Crown Prince acted like nothing happened, didn't he? He still dotes on Chu Yanluo just the same. Even if something else happens between the two of them, the Crown Prince won't mind. He loves Chu Yanluo to death. For Chu Yanluo's sake, he hasn't even consummated his marriage with his Crown Princess yet!"

The mocking voices were incessant, and Xiao Qingyuan felt so angry and so embarrassed for the first time.

"Shut up, all of you!"

He roared, then sprinted upstairs to the second floor, rushed into the private room, grabbed Chu Yanluo's arm, and dragged her out: "Come back to the Prince's Mansion with me right now!"

"Wait!"

Gu Qianhan blocked their way: "Your Highness, you're going to take Miss Chu back to the palace without even asking if she's willing to go with you? What's the difference between this and kidnapping someone in the street?"

"Gu Qianhan! Get out of my way! I don't care what tricks you're playing, you'd better stay away from Yan Luo! She's a member of my Ning Prince's Mansion, and I'm taking her back. You have no right to interfere!"

"If I'm not qualified, do you, Xiao Qingyuan, think you are? Everyone in the capital knows you're already married. What are you doing bringing Miss Chu back to the Prince's mansion? To make her your concubine?"

Gu Qianhan's expression was icy: "A woman as talented and beautiful as Miss Chu, wouldn't it be too unfair to make her a concubine!"

Xiao Qingyuan felt as if he didn't recognize Gu Qianhan today. He was clearly the second young master of the Gu family that he knew, but he couldn't find any similarity to him as before!

He didn't know what Gu Qianhan was planning to do, but he knew it couldn't be anything good.

"I never said I wanted Yan Luo to be my concubine! Gu Qianhan, don't talk nonsense, get out of my way!"

"You won't let Miss Chu be a concubine? Then what do you need her for?"

"I--"

Xiao Qingyuan only uttered one word, but the rest of the words seemed to be stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say them no matter what.

Gu Qianhan sneered: "Why did you stop talking, young master? What exactly do you want Miss Chu to do?"

What I tell her to do is none of your business!

"How could this be unrelated to me? Your Highness, you are already married, but I am not. If Your Highness cannot give me a satisfactory answer today, I will definitely take Miss Chu away. You want her to be a concubine, but I don't want that. I will let Miss Chu marry into the Gu family and become their principal wife!"

These words shocked everyone in the restaurant!

Xiao Qingyuan was so shocked that his mind was buzzing: "What did you say? You want to make Yan Luo your legal wife?"

"Of course! I, Gu Qianhan, will marry no one but her!"

Gu Qianhan's voice was firm and resolute.

The onlookers looked at each other in disbelief. Oh no, another madman has appeared in the capital.

Even if Chu Yanluo had a bad reputation and was pregnant with someone else's child, even if she had a good reputation and was a virgin, she was still not good enough for Gu Qianhan!

Gu Qianhan is the second legitimate son of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, the current empress's nephew, and a prodigy with exceptional intelligence and talent from a young age! His father, the Duke of Zhenguo, holds military power and wields immense influence in the court, his mother is the only princess of a different surname in Dafeng, and his uncle is the only prince of a different surname in Dafeng!

And what about Chu Yanluo? She was just an illegitimate daughter born to a concubine of a low-ranking official!

All eyes turned to Chu Yanluo, and they all had the same question in their minds: what was it about Chu Yanluo that made the two most distinguished young men in the capital so infatuated with her, each wanting to marry her and take her home as their principal wife?

Because you're good-looking?

She was quite beautiful. She stood there in a white dress, as delicate as a willow in the breeze, as pure as an iceberg or a snow lotus. When the wind blew, her long, unbound black hair fluttered in the wind, and with the rustling sleeves and the undulating skirt, she had an ethereal, otherworldly air about her.

However, that's about it; she wasn't really that stunningly beautiful or breathtakingly gorgeous.