(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 49: Aren’t all the protagonists who plan and strategize like this?
Seeing that she was silent, Zhao Mingzhu curled her lips and clicked her tongue twice:
"Why aren't you talking? I'm a fool with a brain the size of a walnut. How can I wake up if you don't scold me more?"
Gu Yu didn't react, An Yun was amused, and Zhao Mingzhu shook her head with a funny expression.
"I didn't say your brain is only the size of a walnut." Gu Yu answered seriously.
Zhao Mingzhu snorted coldly, what's the difference?
"Alright, I haven't done anything yet, and you're already so stressed out. Seeing how popular Princess Jingning is, I don't think she'd really care about your two cronies."
Zhao Mingzhu pointed out what was wrong with Gu Yu in a casual manner.
Zhao Mingzhu looked back as she spoke, and saw that many young ladies had followed the female officials to care for Gu Yan. Her popularity was self-evident.
Tsk, compared to how I usually treat the three of them, I completely ignore them and can't bear to look at them.
Gu Yu obviously noticed it too. She looked at the empty classroom and silently thought that if only Gu Yan had appeared, her old friends and new friends would eventually become her good friends.
"Let's go, let's go. Instead of standing here, why not think about what to eat?"
As the saying goes, eat first.
Zhao Mingzhu held Gu Yu with one hand and An Yun with the other, and walked away humming a little tune.
An Yun heard the words "fox friends" and "dog friends" and asked curiously, "Am I a fox friend or a dog friend?"
Zhao Mingzhu thought she was using rhetoric, but An Yun was obviously applying it seriously.
She smiled and said, "Whatever our Anzai likes is what he likes. Gu Yu will not argue with you."
An Yun was very happy after hearing this. She immediately said, "Then I want to be a fox friend. It sounds quite elegant."
Gu Yu twitched his lips, wondering where the elegance was in it: "Dog friend, if you like it, take it."
An Yun waved her hand and said happily, "No, dog friends don't sound good."
Gu Yu did not refute it again. The faint green ribbon fluttered in front of her eyes. She said unnaturally: "Sorry, I lost my composure."
When she sees Gu Yan, she will react as Zhao Mingzhu said.
If it is said that Gu Xun always gets into trouble at the hands of Gu Qingheng.
Then she and Gu Yan would be the opposite.
Gu Yan has a lively personality. Her every frown and smile can make everyone like her and unconsciously lean towards her.
In the past, every time she snatched a friend away, she would come to show off to her.
Gu Yu initially thought that she was not good enough and tried to imitate others clumsily, but in the end it was useless except for her imitation of others. Gradually, she became open-minded and accepted to be alone.
Now Gu Yan says she has changed, but Gu Yu would rather she remained unchanged.
Zhao Mingzhu shrugged generously after hearing this: "I am a magnanimous person and I forgive you."
Zhao Mingzhu didn't want to comment on their previous grievances because she knew nothing about it, but after she came here, she got along best with Gu Yu and Anyun.
In her heart, as long as Gu Yu doesn't do anything to hurt them, it doesn't matter whether he is a good person or a bad person.
It won't affect their feelings.
As for Gu Yan, maybe she is a good person, but Gu Yu doesn’t like her, so let’s just be an acquaintance.
After the three of them entered the classroom, Zhao Mingzhu sat down and started spinning the brush, while An Yun reached out to take out her homework and prepared to start her day as a mentally retarded person.
"Anzi, why don't you learn it by yourself? It's not difficult. With Gu Yu and I here, it won't be a dream for you to go from the bottom to the top."
What’s that smell? It’s stinky. This thought flashed through Zhao Mingzhu’s mind.
But he immediately put it aside and continued to encourage students to study: "This academy is not the Imperial College. We don't require a female top scholar. The courses we study are all basic and very simple."
An Yun shook her head: "That's not what I'm pursuing."
Gu Yu rarely showed pity: "Don't make it difficult for me. She can spend the whole day on a math problem, and she just dropped a drop of ink when she saw it at the last moment."
An Yun continued to dig inside, how could it be so deep?
"Anyway, I'm planning to graduate in a year and go home to be my own straw bag lady. My dad said it would be great if I could live in peace for the rest of my life."
Zhao Mingzhu was speechless, but then she thought that the Duke of Zhenguo probably thought the same.
"Found it! Come out!"
An Yun pulled out the book, flipped it open casually, and a scream that reached the sky was born.
"Ahhhh! Dead rat, it's a dead rat! Ahhhhhhhh..."
An Yun jumped up with the book in her hands. Zhao Mingzhu reacted very quickly and used the book to block her head: "Throw it out the door, stay away from me!"
The dead rat was huge and smelled foul, so Zhao Mingzhu asked why it had a strange smell!
An Yun obeyed, turned around and threw it out the door with all her might, and screams that reached the sky were born one after another.
Now the ladies who had followed Gu Yan just now happened to have returned.
An Yun, Zhao Mingzhu, and Gu Yu: "..."
An Yun immediately sat down, pretending she had done nothing. When the female official came in, she immediately said:
"It was those two who told me to throw it out."
Zhao Mingzhu was betrayed and heartbroken: "An Yun, you are such a dog!"
An Yun: "I can't hear you." She even asked Gu Yu to accompany her. Isn't that good enough?
The truly innocent Gu Yu rubbed his face and said, "Whatever."
The court lady knew that these three people were even more difficult to deal with. She sighed, "Princess Jingning had just changed her clothes when mice fell from the sky."
Gu Yu crossed his arms and said, "Bad luck has come first, but the next step will be good luck. That's a good thing."
Zhao Mingzhu coughed twice. She saw Gu Yan at the door looked pale. In fact, not only her, but all the noble ladies looked pale.
"Princess Jingning, are you okay? I'm sorry, we didn't know someone was coming outside, so we had An Yun throw it out in a hurry."
Zhao Mingzhu scratched her head: "If you feel angry, you can throw it back. An Yun and I promise not to hide."
She wanted to resolve the situation with her high emotional intelligence, but her hometown was 18,000 kilometers away from Shandong.
Gu Yan shook her head: "Mingzhu, I know you, you wouldn't do it on purpose." She had a good impression of Zhao Mingzhu.
The other party had no reason to target her.
"I'm going to change my clothes again. Please trouble the lady-in-waiting."
"Princess, you are too kind."
Princess Jingning left, but she didn't hold on to them. The rest of the ladies who usually didn't want to provoke the trio also changed their clothes and dispersed.
An Yun was a little nervous: "I thought there would be another verbal battle today, but it didn't happen."
As An Yun was talking, she saw Zhao Mingzhu still looking at the door. She suddenly slapped her head:
"Are you a mouse? It was you who put the textbook out early and deliberately teased me! Just to prevent me from copying the homework!"
Zhao Mingzhu looked away thoughtfully, and gave An Yun a forced smile:
"Yes, I did it on purpose. Be more careful next time. I'm going to release the snake."
An Yun clutched her chest and stepped back in disbelief: "So you're the type of femme fatale! I'm blind and clueless!"
"You are blind." Gu Yu walked up to Zhao Mingzhu from behind and corrected the wrong words speechlessly.
An Yun grabbed her homework and ran out, leaving behind an inaudible mumble.
"Who do you think put it in your homework?" Gu Yu turned his head and asked.
Zhao Mingzhu touched his chin and pondered for a moment: "...I understand."
Gu Yu's eyes turned cold: "Who?"
"It should be a person."
"You pondered for so long, and you came to this conclusion that's worse than shit?"
Zhao Mingzhu: "Don't the strategic protagonists in the novels always think deeply about things like this before encountering any problems? I think this makes me look smart too."
Gu Yu took a deep breath and said, "Go to hell, go to hell, okay? Zhao Mingzhu."