Chapter 8 Chapter 8 He felt that he would become the one who was loved...
Hearing Lingchuan compare the relationship between the two to that of a prostitute and her patron, Gu Shi was furious.
"Do you think I'm just a philanderer? I've never dated anyone other than you. Why do you think so badly of me?"
"Humph, you just called me a bitch, and I just accepted it. I'm a bitch, so what else can you be? Aren't you just a whore?"
Gu Shi was choked back by Lingchuan's few words. He was speechless and ran out of the door in anger.
Seeing the prince coming out in anger, Jinzhan thought it was impossible for him to be so quick...
She thought it was strange that they were not together this time.
Lingchuan had finally been quiet for a few days, but the prince was going to find fault with her. If she started making trouble again, it would be Jinzhan's headache.
Thinking of this, she went forward to persuade him.
"Your Highness, Miss Lingchuan has been much quieter recently. You should be more forgiving. Men and women should marry when they are old enough. Find her another husband and let her go."
"Get lost."
Gu Shi gave her a cold look, and Jinzhan suddenly felt numb all over, unable to move for a moment. She thought to herself that this was not the right thing for her to do. This was not the right thing for her to do.
"Your Highness...Jinzhan spoke out of turn..."
She performed an exaggerated kneeling motion, shrank back, and took a quick look. Sure enough, the prince was not looking at her, so she sneaked away.
Jinzhan thought it was not good. Maybe the prince loved Lingchuan's naughty and suicidal personality. Otherwise, what was the point of spending six years with her?
If he marries another one, she might be even crazier than Lingchuan.
In that case, it would be better to continue serving Lingchuan. At least she only beats the prince and not the servants.
The mental torture is unbearable enough, but if the physical torture is added, Jinzhan will not be able to survive.
She became a slave just for a few taels of money a month. There is no reason in this world that a slave can feel happy. The driven cattle and horses will not be thankful if the whip is not too light.
Jinzhan was equally disgusted with every master. Whether the prince and Lingchuan were happy or not was not within her consideration. She only cared about her own well-being. Instead of feeling sorry for her masters who were well-fed and well-dressed, she would rather feel sorry for herself who was treated like a slave.
Although she didn't know what kind of personality Yang Ruoyun had, her intuition told her there was no hope.
Although there are many troubles in the palace, the monthly salary is indeed not small. She doesn't want to be Lingchuan's maid as a dowry, otherwise her monthly salary will definitely be reduced by half.
If she stayed in the palace, and the prince married another wife who was even more troublesome than Lingchuan, Jinzhan would be in big trouble.
With a lot of complaints, Jinzhan changed her mind and decided to match Lingchuan and the prince together.
After following Lingchuan for many years, her level of madness was at least within Jinzhan's acceptable range. Every time Lingchuan went crazy, the prince would subsidize her with monthly allowance, which seemed to be a good job.
With this thought in mind, she walked into Lingchuan's room. She was still embroidering the mandarin duck sachet, and there were bloodstains on the sachet.
Her craftsmanship was not very good, and the threads were all tangled together.
"Miss, let me help you deliver the sachet to the prince."
She just shook her head.
"I make sachets just to practice, not to give as gifts."
The prince didn't care about her pregnancy. Even if he knew, he would only act as a matchmaker for her and send her away quickly. She didn't have the face to marry Qin Sizhao while pregnant with Gu Shi's child, and there was no need to let others know about it.
"Hey, let me tell you, young lady, if you take the initiative a little more, maybe the prince will change his mind and be willing to marry you."
Lingchuan stabbed his hand and smiled bitterly.
"Sister Jinzhan, please stop teasing me. If he wanted to marry me, he would have done it long ago. Why delay it until now? I just want to live one day at a time and enjoy a peaceful and carefree life."
Usually Jinzhan just pretends to be deaf and dumb and rarely says such things, which Lingchuan finds strange.
These days, the prince has been living in the palace as usual, but he seems to be deliberately ignoring Lingchuan. When the two meet by chance, they pretend not to know each other.
Jinzhan failed to convince Lingchuan. She felt that Lingchuan might have become disillusioned with the prince. If she wanted to bring the two of them together, it seemed that she could only start with the prince.
She eagerly went over to pour tea for the prince and said,
"Your Majesty, there's something I'm not sure whether I should say..."
Gu Shi nodded.
"Go ahead."
"In my opinion, Miss Lingchuan has calmed down recently and has become much more virtuous... It's not that she's not a good wife. After all, we've known each other for many years and know each other well. A husband and wife should spend time together day and night, so family background shouldn't be the only consideration. Rather than marrying a girl whose temperament you don't know, it's better to marry Miss Lingchuan."
Jinzhan was distracted just now and accidentally blurted out what was really in her heart. She swallowed nervously, thinking that what she said seemed to be too straightforward, and she kept slapping her lips in regret.
"Jinzhan deserves to die. She shouldn't have said anything nonsense about the prince's marriage. Please forgive me, prince."
Gu Shi smiled sarcastically. He didn't expect Lingchuan to ask Jinzhan to deliver the message.
Jinzhan usually tries to avoid anything that happens between the two of them. I really don’t know how many benefits Lingchuan promised Jinzhan that she would come out and say such things at the risk of offending him.
It seemed that Lingchuan really couldn't hold back any longer.
But she should have told him directly in person. How could she propose to him through a servant? Was she waiting for him to impatiently ask her to marry him?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little more angry.
Lingchuan really didn't respect him at all. He could never fulfill her wish and bow to her on his own initiative.
She should be the one who is worried about gains and losses.
He said deliberately coldly,
"Don't mention this in front of me again. We are just sworn siblings, that's all."
After going out, Jinzhan slapped herself twice.
"Pfft, pfft, pfft, stop talking! It's really unnecessary!"
She was furious and thought that she should just continue to play deaf and dumb and tell lies with her eyes open. She was really asking for trouble.
She rolled her eyes at the prince's door and said, "Pah! You'll regret it later."
Thinking of how the prince would regret it in the future, Jinzhan couldn't help but feel happy. These troublesome masters deserved some disaster to deal with them. Only then would God be fair.
Gu Shi deliberately wanted to leave Lingchuan alone and left the palace again.
He remembered the debt that Lingchuan had caused him to worry about, and now he had to pay it back.
Since she had asked a servant to bring him that kind of marriage proposal, and he did not respond and just left, she must have been very anxious and uneasy.
Thinking of her anxious look, Gu Shi felt a surge of pleasure of revenge in his heart.
He remembered that the late emperor had deliberately made his own son the crown prince. He had wanted to get rid of Gu Shi, the bastard, as well, but he died before that day.
The current emperor not only inherited the previous emperor's leg defect, but was also extremely mentally retarded. The entire deformed and short-lived royal family had been sidelined for a long time.
In the court, the prime minister and the generals have been in control of the government for a long time. After all, Gu Shi is young, so it is not easy to share power with them.
He didn't even need to do anything. The deformed and foolish emperor wouldn't live long. The palace maids around him were too impatient to serve him and would torture him to death in secret.
Everyone knows that he will inherit the throne. All he has to do now is prevent others from making a fuss about his bloodline.
To be honest, although the probability of the general using his bloodline to usurp the throne is not high, it is not impossible, and he still feels uneasy.
Yang Ruoyun is a daughter born in old age. Everyone knows that the general loves his daughter like a treasure. If his daughter marries him, it would be equivalent to being a hostage to him. His desire to marry Yang Ruoyun is based on realistic considerations.
However, he knew from the first time he met Lingchuan that the girl in front of him could sharply break through the defense line of his rationality and turn him into a monster who only wanted love and was never satisfied.
This is actually wrong. Although there are no real obstacles for them to be together, it is not good for anyone.
If he was rational, he should leave Lingchuan, but he also wanted to test how far she could tolerate him.
Lingchuan is a poisonous vine that is born to cling to someone. She will strangle the tree she clings to death.
Even if she really came to him in a humble manner, he should not agree to her. He felt that he would become the weak person strangled by love.
But emotionally speaking, he felt that dying like this seemed like a happy thing.
Gu Shi deliberately avoided Lingchuan and did not return to the palace. Only by leaving her could he maintain his sanity for a short time.
In the absence of the prince, the immediate master, the entire palace inevitably became a little lax, with some slacking off and others slacking off.
Lingchuan would never help him manage the household. Not only would she not gain any benefit, but she would also offend people. Besides, the quality of the palace was none of her business; it was not her property.
She washed off the powder on her face and put on no makeup. She also wore a cautious and decent lake blue dress. In order not to appear extravagant, she did not wear any jewelry.
Lingchuan no longer had any trace of Gu Shi in her mind. Her pregnancy would be exposed sooner or later, and she would just die then.
She was now only thinking about how to rest in peace after her death. How could she have the mind to think about the person who always tortured her?
She didn't want to appear like a worldly enchantress. She just wanted to leave a good impression on Qin Sizhao before she died. She hoped that she would be clean in his memory.
Although her parents may have done some bad things, she has forgotten them all.
After all, people can change their memories, keeping only the good parts and filtering out the bad parts.
She didn't want much. As long as there was someone in this world who could see her as a gentle and pure woman, that would be enough to comfort Lingchuan's heart.
The previous purse was dirty and she threw it away. She embroidered a new purse, hesitated for a few moments, put the purse into her sleeve, and went to Qin Sizhao's house.
She entered his house and someone came to pour her tea. She thought it was a servant and casually stuffed the veil into his hand, but ended up meeting Qin Sizhao's smiling eyes.
"Master Qin... why did you come to pour me tea in person..."
Lingchuan's face turned red for no reason.
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