Chapter 5 Chapter 5 But he didn’t know that Lingchuan loved him…
Hearing the ridicule from the people around him, those mocking eyes swept over Zhen Fei as if they were real. He clenched his teeth and his face turned pale.
His servant lay at Lingchuan's feet, smiling flatteringly,
"Good girl, please give me a chance, let me go down and fish it out... I have elderly parents and young children to take care of, and my eighty-year-old mother at home is waiting for money to treat her illness."
She kicked him away.
"Get out of here, you bastard! It's really shameful for you to chase me all the way from North City to South City just for a few cents!"
She stared at Zhen Fei like a predator,
"Did you hear that, Zhen Fei? I want you to go down and fish it out!"
His head was buzzing, as if ten thousand flies were stuffed into his brain. He tried to open his eyes, but all he saw was a blank white.
By the way, at this time, just pretend to faint.
His eyes rolled back and he fell straight back. With a bang, he hit the back of his head hard.
The servant also felt ashamed and quickly helped him away.
Jinzhan mingled with the crowd, pretending not to know her, and watched the show silently.
She secretly felt lucky that she had foresight. She knew Lingchuan would definitely cause trouble today. If she pretended to have lost Lingchuan, the prince would blame her less for her incompetence.
Lingchuan laughed crazily twice, tightened the ribbon on her wrist, and easily fished the box of gold and silver out of the water again.
It turned out that she had wrapped one end of the ribbon around the hidden button on the box in advance, and the other end around her wrist, lightly hiding it in her sleeve.
"What are you looking at? I'm not that crazy. Do I really want to throw money into the water?"
Lingchuan covered his face and laughed uncontrollably.
"Girl, please stop wasting yourself like this."
A young man walked out slowly.
He was only wearing ordinary clothes, but his whole temperament was like white jade. His eyebrows were as black as ink, and his eyelashes were long but not curled, pressing on his eyes, which flickered with his blinking.
"I know you must be in great pain right now... My name is Qin Sizhao. Although it may be a bit abrupt to say this, I hope to meet you."
Hearing this, Lingchuan began to tremble uncontrollably. Qin Sizhao's figure suddenly overlapped with the figure in her mother's memory in her eyes.
A man scoffed,
"Who are you? Do you think you're worthy of the prince's adopted sister?"
Another young man leaned over and whispered in his ear,
"Qin Sizhao has won three first prizes in a row and is the new top scholar."
The man blushed.
"Oh, after winning the first place in the imperial examination, you're only going to marry a girl who only has the appearance and is always in the spotlight?"
Yang Ruoyun suddenly spoke,
"What's wrong with a woman showing her face in public? You are too narrow-minded."
She looked at Qin Sizhao and inexplicably felt that he was a rare good man.
Originally, Yang Ruoyun was talking with Gu Shi in the inner room. She just wanted to come out for some fresh air and then go back, but she ran into such a good show and started to observe silently.
The others didn't even notice her coming.
"Are you the prince's adopted sister?"
When he suddenly ran into Yang Ruoyun, Lingchuan felt that he was three inches shorter than him for no reason and became ashamed of himself.
"Lingchuan! Have you had enough of making trouble?"
Gu Shi's face was gloomy and he pulled her away angrily.
"I'm sorry, my stepsister made everyone laugh."
Lingchuan felt like he had lost his fighting spirit and let him pull him away.
Jinzhan took advantage of the opportunity and rushed out, kowtowed repeatedly,
"Your Highness, it's all my fault. I lost the girl. She was young and fast, and I'm too old to keep up."
After the performance, she breathed a sigh of relief. If the prince was angry, he could vent it on Lingchuan, as long as it didn't affect her.
Jinzhan returned to the palace in a state of trepidation. Sure enough, Lingchuan was grounded for causing such a commotion, and Jinzhan was also fined one month's salary. This really broke her heart.
Lingchuan's temperament is fickle. Sometimes he is cuter than anyone else, and sometimes he is more difficult to deal with than anyone else. He is like a red rose with thorns that is hard to pluck. God knows how difficult he is to please.
Her own willfulness had caused her to be fined her monthly salary. It was truly an unprovoked disaster. Humph, the prince really should teach her a lesson.
Lingchuan has been under house arrest for three days now, but she has hardly touched the food sent to her. Jinzhan is a little worried, but she dares not go in against the prince's order, so she can only stand at the door and persuade her.
"Girl, please eat something."
There was no sound from inside. She was afraid that Lingchuan had really hanged himself inside, so she opened the door a crack and took a look.
"I'm not dead, don't look at me."
Lingchuan responded weakly.
Jinzhan still felt uneasy. To be honest, she didn't think the prince really wanted to do anything to Lingchuan. If anything happened to her, she couldn't afford the consequences.
It's been three days, the prince must have calmed down. Jinzhan trotted all the way to the prince's study, her eyes rolling around twice.
"Your Highness... the young lady... hasn't eaten for three days."
"Leave her alone."
Gu Shi didn't even raise his head.
Jinzhan was afraid that if Lingchuan got into trouble, she would be held responsible, so she simply said something more outrageous.
"There's been no movement in Lingchuan these past three days, and I didn't dare look inside... The girl is always trying to commit suicide, and I'm really scared."
Gu Shi sighed.
"Never mind, I'll just go see her."
He pushed open the door and saw Lingchuan lying on the bed, looking haggard, with some makeup still on her face, looking like a crumpled willow leaf.
"Lingchuan, you ruined my marriage. Now you are satisfied, right?"
Seeing Lingchuan's fragile look, Gu Shi also softened his heart a little.
Although she was a little crazy, it was because of her love for him and her possessiveness. Thinking of this, Gu Shi forgave her in his heart.
He didn't know that Lingchuan hadn't eaten or drunk anything for three days because he couldn't forget Qin Sizhao's face.
His words, "Please don't ruin yourself like this anymore," kept echoing in Lingchuan's mind, lashing her repeatedly like a whip dipped in salt water.
Hasn't she been ruining herself all this time? Besides herself, who else could Lingchuan harm?
She looked at Gu Shi in a daze.
If she insisted on taking revenge on Gu Shi, it would be like an egg hitting a stone.
Should I love myself first or hate him first?
A few tears flashed in Lingchuan's eyes, but she couldn't cry. She felt that she had lost all her fighting spirit and could no longer hate Gu Shi.
Gu Shi suddenly felt unhappy with Lingchuan. She was taking advantage of his indulgence to control him. If she continued like this, she would only turn his indulgence into a whip to hit him.
Lingchuan obviously knew that he would be reluctant to part with her, so she deliberately acted like a weak willow in the wind.
He intended to use Zhen Fei's matter to criticize her.
"Zhen Fei hit the back of his head and became mentally retarded. I was afraid that he would recover in a few days and start talking nonsense everywhere, so I sent the shadow guards to deal with him."
Lingchuan's face turned pale.
She did hate Zhen Fei, but she never wanted him to die.
"Do you understand? If you don't obey, I will get rid of you too."
Lingchuan was provoked by him and hurriedly got up from the bed.
"Don't dirty your hands, Your Highness. I will put on a red dress and hang myself in front of you!"
After making such threats, Lingchuan suddenly found that she couldn't hang herself. In the past, she would really risk her life to turn the prince's mansion upside down, but now she has given up and doesn't want to think about anything related to Gu Shi at all.
Gu Shi was tired of her constant attempts to commit suicide, so he pressed her down on the bed with one hand.
"Do you want to marry the current emperor? I'll take you to see him."
Gu Shi's question confused Lingchuan. When she came to her senses, she had already put on her clothes, washed her face, and was sitting in the carriage with Gu Shi.
Since it was Gu Shi who took the initiative to bring her to see the current emperor, it must not be a good thing.
But Lingchuan's fighting spirit had been completely gone. He sat there listlessly without any plans.
Gu Shi entered the palace as if he was entering his own back garden and brought her in easily.
She only saw a monster with deformed legs and a short upper body, barely wearing a dragon robe, drooling and laughing as he watched the shadow play.
Lingchuan was so scared that he hid behind Gu Shi, but he pulled him out.
"Lingchuan, kowtow to the emperor quickly."
"Hehe... beauty..."
The deformed child looked at Lingchuan and smiled foolishly, but when he saw Gu Shi, he was so scared that he took a few steps back and burst into tears.
Lingchuan was so frightened by the crying of the deformed child that his legs went weak and he knelt on the ground.
Gu Shi sarcastically cupped his hands.
"Greetings, my brother."
Seeing that Lingchuan was frightened, he picked her up with one hand.
"After you've seen this, come back to the palace with me and stop causing trouble all day long."
Lingchuan said hesitantly,
"Not again."
The two of them were sitting in a carriage. Lingchuan was just in a daze. Gu Shixian broke the silence.
"My father's legs are like that. I have five brothers and sisters, and we all have the same legs as my father. Except for my foolish brother, all of us are premature."
He laughed sarcastically.
"I am the only one in the entire royal family with both legs intact, and my father dislikes me very much because of this."
"My mother said that because she prayed day and night during her pregnancy, the Buddha appeared and gave birth to me healthy and round. My father obviously didn't believe it. A few years later, my mother died unexpectedly."
Lingchuan remained silent, but he also understood the implication of his words.
The whole family is deformed and ugly, except for one who is tall and handsome. There is only one possibility.
"Lingchuan, the entire royal family is full of short-lived people... So it seems my mother did a good thing."
"Your Majesty, I will make more plans for myself from now on and will not bother you anymore."
Lingchuan lowered his head and spoke hesitantly.
Gu Shi nodded with satisfaction. He couldn't indulge Ling Chuan too much, otherwise she would really take advantage of his favor to climb over him and do evil.
But he didn't know that Lingchuan had loved him for too long and hated him for too long, and now he was really tired.
She thought that her hatred for Gu Shi was nothing more than the result of her unfulfilled expectations.
Now she no longer had any hope for Gu Shi, and her heart was empty. She couldn't even find a place for the hatred in her heart.
If she could really marry Qin Sizhao, it would be very good, so good that Lingchuan couldn't even think about it.
A ray of dawn shone in, scratching her heart like a foxtail grass, making Lingchuan feel uneasy and unable to ignore it no matter what.
That glimmer of hope expanded along with her greed, and it actually seemed to extinguish the resentment in her heart.
But does she really deserve it?
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