Chapter 93 Chu Yanluo's Disgrace

Xiao Qingyuan did not return home all night.

Chu Yanluo was overjoyed, thinking that he must have gone to kill someone and bury the body.

However, the next morning, instead of receiving news of Yuan Zheng's death, she received news of her own disgrace and being cursed by countless people.

She heard the maids and servants of the Prince's mansion gossiping about her. No matter where she went in the mansion, she could see those lowly servants pointing and whispering about her.

Unable to bear it any longer, she left the palace and went to Qingyunlou Restaurant, hoping to retrieve her thousand taels of gold and, incidentally, see how well her pastries were selling that day.

Before she even reached the Qingyun Building, she was surrounded by people.

"Everyone, come and see! This is that shameless bitch, Chu Yanluo!"

"My God, how can she still have the nerve to go out? If I were her, I would have found a rock and smashed my head against it long ago. How could I have the face to live!"

"She has no shame at all, so naturally she will survive. She's so good at putting on airs. Just a few days ago, she was cursing the Second Young Master Gu, saying that he had forcibly humiliated her, and that he was a shameless scoundrel who only knew how to bully weak women. But yesterday, when she saw the Second Young Master Gu spending money like water, she immediately changed her tune and even led him to her private room for dinner!"

"Pah! Shameless! Before he met her, Young Master Gu had an impeccable reputation. How come he turned into a scumbag after meeting her? If you ask me, maybe she seduced Young Master Gu. If she really was humiliated by him, I don't believe she would be smiling at him so quickly!"

"She portrayed herself as so innocent and righteous before, and even joined Prince Xiao in attacking Young Master Gu at Qingyun Tower, making me really believe that Young Master Gu was not a good person. I even cursed him and thought Chu Yanluo was a heroine who protected the interests of us women! It turns out she wasn't at all, and we were all deceived by her!"

"Yes, we've all been fooled by her! She's nothing but a money-grubbing woman. The pastries she sells at Qingyunlou cost twenty or thirty taels a serving, while the same pastries at Zuixianlou only cost three taels! What a heartless bastard, charging ten times more than Zuixianlou! Why doesn't she just rob people!"

"Qingyunlou has colluded with this kind of woman; we'll never eat there again! From now on, we'll all go to Zuixianlou!"

"Have you heard? It seems that Chu Yanluo has an ambiguous relationship with Yuan Zheng, the eldest son of the Wen family. The Yuan family is behind Qingyunlou, which is why Qingyunlou is colluding with Chu Yanluo and making money against its conscience!"

"She's actually seducing three men at the same time? Isn't Young Master Yuan about to get married? How dare Chu Yanluo seduce him? How shameless! She's utterly disgraced all women!"

A barrage of angry curses filled the air; Chu Yanlu never imagined things would turn out this way.

She anxiously pushed aside the person blocking her way, wanting to quickly get into the Qingyun Building to take shelter, but she pushed too hard and the person fell down.

This has stirred up a hornet's nest.

"How dare this bitch hit someone in the street? What gives her the right! Does she think she can look down on ordinary people like us just because she's hooking up with three men at the same time?"

"Utterly shameless! Chu Yanluo, get out of the capital! The capital doesn't want a lowly woman like you!"

"Chu Yanluo, don't you dare bully others with your power! So what if the Second Young Master Gu spends a fortune on you? You'll never marry into the Duke's mansion, even if you die! Get out of here, and take the thousand taels of gold you swindled with you!"

"Pah! What right does she have to take away that thousand taels of gold? Chu Yanluo, if you have any shame, return that thousand taels of gold!"

"She loves gold and silver so much, how could she possibly be willing to return a thousand taels of gold? She's completely bewitched Young Master Gu, she'll definitely swindle even more money from him in the future! She's the most shameless and unscrupulous woman I've ever met!"

As they talked, the crowd started throwing rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at Chu Yanluo. Some who didn't have these things picked up stones and threw them at her.

Chu Yanlu was both angry and furious. She wanted to curse, but she was afraid of ruining the image she had worked so hard to build. Besides, she couldn't possibly out-curse so many people by herself.

She covered her head and ran into the Qingyun Building.

Qingyunlou Restaurant, which is usually bustling with business, is experiencing an unusually bleak day today.

No one came to eat at the restaurant; all the people who came were troublemakers. Some were shouting for Qingyunlou to refund their money, while others were cursing Chu Yanluo and saying that if Qingyunlou continued to cooperate with Chu Yanluo, they would never eat at Qingyunlou again.

When Chu Yanluo, covered in filth, entered, the troublemakers stopped bothering the shopkeeper and surrounded her.

"Oh, isn't this Miss Chu? Why aren't you dressed as a fairy in white today? Look at you covered in rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs, it's disgusting!"

"Chu Yanluo, you cheated us out of so much money with those lousy pastries yesterday, and you even took a thousand taels of gold from Young Master Gu. And you won't even buy yourself a new dress today?"

"She only came up with so many terrible ideas to swindle money because she didn't have money to buy new clothes! I've already been to Zuixianlou and eaten there. Their pastries taste the same as here. Zuixianlou is very honest; they only charge three taels of silver for a single pastry. Chu Yanluo actually dared to charge thirty taels! I don't know who gave her the guts!"

"Chu Yanluo, you charge more than the top courtesan of Wan Hua Lou. Does Young Master Gu really want to pay you a thousand taels of gold for sleeping with you once? You're not a virgin, so where do you get the nerve to ask for such a high price?"

Chu Yanlu was both terrified and furious. Her reputation had been ruined overnight!

It's just a thousand taels of gold, does it really have that much of an impact?

The gold was given by Gu Qianhan, not by these people. Why are they so indignant? Why are they cursing her? Gu Qianhan admires her and is willing to spend lavishly on her, and she is willing to accept it. What business is it of theirs?

She gritted her teeth and said, "Don't talk nonsense and ruin my reputation! The thousand taels that Second Young Master Gu gave me was for snacks! Second Young Master Gu and I are not what you think, our relationship is completely innocent..."

She fell silent after saying the last word.

Just a few days ago she publicly said that Gu Qianhan had humiliated her, but if she says they are innocent today, no one will believe her.

Damn it, how could she have been so blind as to pin the blame on Gu Qianhan? If she had known this would happen, she should have just said it was Yuan Zheng's fault!

Well, she's ruined her own escape route!

The young masters surrounding her suddenly burst into laughter: "Hahaha, did you hear that? She actually said that she and Second Young Master Gu are completely innocent?"

"Oh, so you claim to be completely innocent? Didn't you say yourself that he had already humiliated you? Young Master Xiao even hit Second Young Master Gu for your sake. Now you say you're completely innocent? Do you think we're as brainless as Young Master Xiao, that we can be fooled by you?"