(This is a story about a female lead focused on survival and a manipulative, utterly dark male lead. It's a happy ending with some self-indulgent elements from the author. If you find anything ...
Chapter 153 I will eat coarse food with you
"Gu Qingheng?"
Zhao Mingzhu popped her head out to look over, wondering why she was not behind the desk. Where did she go?
She turned around in confusion, and Gu Qingheng pinched her soft waist, put her on the table, and looked down at her.
"Mingzhu." He leaned over and rubbed the warm jade-like neck.
Zhao Mingzhu was suddenly frightened and grabbed his shoulders with both hands: "Why are you so elusive?"
Like a ghost.
But it was obviously inappropriate to say this out loud. She asked, "Why did you suddenly kill Gu Xun?"
"He deserves to die." Gu Qingheng played with Zhao Mingzhu's hands, which were as tender as green onions, and couldn't let go.
"But I heard from Changhe and Bo Ling that your plan is to kill him in at least half a year."
"I can't wait any longer."
Gu Qingheng held her finger and looked at it back and forth as if he had found a new toy.
"Why can't you wait? You don't seem like such an impatient person."
She always felt that Gu Qingheng was too perfunctory, so she retracted her fingers and hid them behind her back.
Gu Qingheng then became serious. He couldn't help but get close to Zhao Mingzhu and pecked the cinnabar mole lightly.
"The Crown Princess doesn't care about herself. I can't dissuade you. I can only solve the danger at its source."
Gu Qingheng looked down at her and said softly.
“…”
Zhao Mingzhu remained silent. She continued, "What will be the consequences of doing this? How do you solve it?"
Gu Qingheng thought for a moment: "If it's serious, I'd never think of deposing the Crown Prince."
Zhao Mingzhu choked for a moment and punched him on the shoulder: "So I haven't even had a good year of life, and I have to eat coarse food with you?!"
Gu Qingheng grabbed her hand, placed it on his lips and kissed it, with a teasing look in his eyes:
"The Crown Princess is really concerned about me. She's already decided to eat coarse food with me..."
Zhao Mingzhu had a blank expression on her face and was completely in love.
Which eye of his saw that I cared about him? It was obviously she who cared about me!
Gu Qingheng knew from looking at her that she was cursing herself in her heart again.
"Mingzhu, don't worry. You are the only daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo, and the emperor loves you. You will be fine."
Who can say for sure? As the saying goes, when the emperor is angry, corpses will be scattered for a hundred miles.
Zhao Mingzhu was about to continue asking, but Gu Qingheng put his fingertips close to her and interrupted all the following words.
"Mingzhu, leave everything to me. You must trust your husband."
Zhao Mingzhu opened her lips slightly, and her fingertips squeezed in, stirring up the situation.
Gu Qingheng's eyes darkened and he picked the person up by the waist. Zhao Mingzhu struggled with all her might, but was finally defeated.
Never mind, it’s not like I haven’t done it before.
After one stick of incense, half an hour, one hour.
Gu Qingheng took her into his arms and looked down at her.
"Pearl?"
Zhao Mingzhu snorted.
"Do you prefer me to wear white or black?"
Zhao Mingzhu's head was buzzing with excitement, and she didn't hear clearly what the other person was saying.
Gu Qingheng tickled her with his hands: "Mingzhu, do you like white clothes or black clothes?"
Zhao Mingzhu was forced to turn on the camera, her eyes cracked open, and she said in an upset tone, "I don't like anything. White or yellow..."
Naturally, these words did not satisfy Gu Qingheng. He looked at the man with a gloomy look in his eyes and held him down.
Outside the study, the wind blew through the bamboo grove, making a rustling sound.
Shuangyun listened to the faint moaning, signaled Changhe with his eyes, and whispered:
"The Crown Princess is in there?"
Chang He walked away from her: "Do you think there are other women?"
Shuangyun stopped and glared at him after hearing this: "Can't you say something nice with your mouth? You'll die if you don't choke people."
If it wasn't for the fact that I would be his sister-in-law in the future, I really couldn't bear it.
Changhe looked at her. There was a hairpin in her hair. He also had one. It was left by their mother to them brothers and was to be given to the bride in the future.
"Forget it, no wonder your brother said you were the stone next to the toilet, smelly and hard."
Shuangyun stood side by side with him, waiting to be summoned by the masters inside.
She also laughed: "I never thought we would live in such harmony one day. Life is really unpredictable."
Chang He hummed lightly and looked away: "I entrust my brother to you."
"Why did you entrust it to me? That's so weird."
I've only heard of entrusting a girl to a man, but I've never seen this kind of thing.
After hearing this, Chang He said, "You're going to move into your new house when you get married, so just treat him as a son-in-law."
Because Zhao Mingzhu gave Shuangyun a house, Changshu and Shuangyun decided not to buy any more.
When Shuangyun heard this, it seemed to make sense.
"Okay, okay, okay, just leave it to me."
In the study, Zhao Mingzhu's hair was covered in sweat, her face was flushed, and her eyes were full of amazing passion.
She woke up again and turned to look at the dress on the ground: "I only wore it once."
But now the pieces are just pieces, how can I put them on again?
Zhao Mingzhu turned around to see Gu Qingheng, who was already dressed like a gentleman. She said viciously:
"Gu Qingheng, were you a dog in your previous life? Gnawing and biting, why didn't I realize you were so rough before!"
Gu Qingheng summoned Shuangyun in, and he lowered his head and kissed Zhao Mingzhu on the lips:
"Princess, this is me."
After hearing this, Zhao Mingzhu picked up the paperweight beside her and threw it over, saying, "How shameless!"
At this time, Changhe knocked on the door and said, "Your Highness, I have an imperial decree to summon you to the palace.
Gu Qingheng lowered his head again and kissed her again: "Wait for me to come back, Mingzhu."
Zhao Mingzhu no longer had the energy to reply to him. At this time, Shuangyun came in and her face turned red as she looked at the mess on the floor.
"Princess, I have prepared the bathing water. I will help you cleanse yourself."
In the past, Zhao Mingzhu would have said she would do it herself, but today her waist and legs were sore and she couldn't exert any strength at all.
"Wait a minute, Shuangyun, bring me some paper and pen."
Although Gu Qingheng said that, she still wanted to communicate with the Duke of Zhenguo and see what he had to say.
Zhao Mingzhu reluctantly wrote to the end and added a sentence: Is there any way to protect His Highness?
Finally, Zhao Mingzhu sighed and said that this was all she could do, whether it succeeded or not.
In the palace, Emperor Jingyuan looked exhausted. He only had this one prince now.
How should he choose?
At this time, a palace maid outside announced: "Princess Jingning has arrived."
Gu Yan's eyes were bloodshot as she knelt before Emperor Jingyuan: "Father! Was it really the Crown Prince who killed me?"
"I don't believe it. How could the Crown Prince be so cruel? He has always been a gentleman."
"Yan'er, get up."
Gu Yan looked up, her face full of tears, and she said sadly:
"I dreamed of my mother. She asked me why I failed to protect my brother, leaving her restless in the afterlife."
Emperor Jingyuan thought of Empress Yuan, who was kind and had accompanied him from his residence to his enthronement.
But she was unlucky and passed away early.
Gu Yan is the one who looks most like her, and through her, Emperor Jingyuan seems to see Queen Yuan questioning him.
"Your Majesty, you promised to take good care of my two children."
Emperor Jingyuan was so angry that he felt pent up in his chest. He was only awakened when the palace maid reported that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had arrived.
"Xuan."
"Father, I'm afraid. What if the Crown Prince still holds a grudge against us and kills his daughter too?"
"He won't, Yan'er, I'm here."
Emperor Jingyuan pulled her up and ordered the palace servants to send her back to Shoukang Palace.
At this time, Gu Qingheng came.
"Father."
"Kneel down."