After a long pause, Gu Tingchen spoke again, "Mother, I know you are prejudiced against me and my elder brother, but I am not my elder brother. I sincerely want to marry Wanwan and will treat her well for the rest of my life."
Ye Huaisu changed his attitude, looked cold and ignored him.
Gu Tingchen knew that Wanwan cared most about her stepmother and her two children, and she usually listened to her stepmother the most. Seeing that she looked indifferent, he was extra patient today.
"I always remember the first time Wanwan entered the Duke's Mansion. She had just turned five that year."
Gu Tingchen said with great emotion, "She is different from other women. She looks cold and distant, but she really wants people to get close to her. It was at that time that my son was determined to marry her in this life."
Ye Huaisu laughed out loud. "Since you sincerely want to marry Wanwan, why did you join your bastard brother in hurting her? I've never seen you treat her well while I'm still alive, so how can I trust you for the rest of my life?"
"Don't you think mother knows my situation back home?" Gu Tingchen asked anxiously, "How can I marry Wanwan if I don't make my elder brother completely give up on her?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Tingzhou suddenly walked in from outside with a dark face, and the coldness in his eyes was as deep as a cold pond.
Seeing this scene, Mother Fang and the other maids in the room were completely stunned.
Mother Fang was afraid that he would cause trouble because of his murderous look, so she hurried forward to stop him: "My dear, the young master was just saying some angry words, don't take it to heart."
"Get lost." Gu Tingzhou shouted angrily, and walked quickly towards Gu Tingchen, his eyes full of anger. "Can you please say what you just said again?"
Gu Tingchen hadn't expected him to come over so suddenly. He glanced at him and Jiang Yueling calmly, but he couldn't hide his guilt. "Brother, didn't you go back? Why did you come over so suddenly?"
"If I hadn't come here, how would I have known that you were such a hypocritical hypocrite?"
If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, Gu Tingzhou would never have believed that his most trusted brother had been plotting against him, causing him to lose his position as crown prince and gradually become disgusted with Wanwan.
"So you gave Yue Ling to me and urged me to go to the Queen Mother to break off the engagement. All of this was done just to feel comfortable marrying my cousin?"
He glared at Gu Tingchen and said sternly, "Why are you doing this? I've told you more than once that if you truly love Wanwan, I can help you both."
The tone was still domineering, which made Gu Tingchen sneer. In the end, he lost his patience to pretend with him.
Anyway, Wanwan had already seen through all this, and he was too lazy to pretend to be nice to her.
"Big brother is really kind."
He curled his lips in disdain. "Since you're so willing to help, why haven't you ever given in for all these years? When we were in Tongyang, weren't you constantly pestering Wanwan, ruining our plans? You always act like you're giving alms, acting so high and mighty, for who are you trying to impress?"
Gu Tingzhou was furious when he heard this: "My kindness is actually considered charity in your eyes?"
"Put away your kindness." Gu Tingchen glared at her, "Wanwan and I don't need your kindness."
The tense situation between the two brothers filled the entire house with a biting chill.
All this was completely beyond Jiang Yueling's expectations. She came with the eldest master not to watch the two brothers confront each other over the little bitch from the Ye family.
"Eldest Master, Young Master..."
Just as he was about to speak up to persuade her, they both shouted at the same time: "Shut up."
Jiang Yueling looked aggrieved. She had never suffered such humiliation before. Could it be that the affection of the two brothers who spent millions of dollars on her was fake?
Thinking of this, she felt very sad, her eyes instantly turned red, and tears kept swirling in them.
However, this time neither of the two brothers was willing to comfort him.
Gu Tingchen laughed sarcastically, his eyes no longer showing any humility. "Brother is so stupid that he was easily deceived. He really can't bear the burden of the Duke's Mansion, let alone marry Wanwan."
Now that he controls the Imperial Guards, his father would not hold him accountable even if he knew his thoughts. He simply did not want to accompany his brother here to please a prostitute.
Glancing coldly at his stepmother who was watching the show, Gu Tingchen waved his wide sleeves and walked away.
As for the remaining couple, one stood there stiffly with a sinister look on his face, while the other burst into tears, which gave Ye Huaisu a headache.
Sighing silently, she directly instructed the other mother: "I'm a little tired, help me go back to the house to rest."
Mother Fang was still frightened by the scene that had just happened, so she hurried forward and helped Ye Huaisu back to the inner room.
Gu Tingzhou was stunned as if struck by lightning. Thinking back on what had happened in the past few days, he didn't have the face to stay in his stepmother's house any longer. He turned around and walked out in a daze.
"Wanwan, cousin is wrong, cousin is confused, cousin is a bastard." He muttered over and over again, walking aimlessly like a zombie.
Jiang Yueling originally wanted to chase after the young master, but seeing the eldest master's appearance, she didn't dare to speak and could only follow him.
Arriving at the middle courtyard, Gu Tingzhou looked around in a daze. After pondering for a long time, he finally fixed his gaze in the direction of Cui Weitang.
"Young Master?" Jiang Yueling's heart trembled, fearing that he would go looking for that bitch, so she quickly said, "I'll go back with you."
Gu Tingzhou was extremely upset at this moment, and just replied coldly: "No."
Thinking about the purpose of going to his stepmother's courtyard today, he added: "Yue Ling, let's put our marriage on hold for now, maybe..."
Jiang Yueling understood what he meant and was afraid that he didn't want to get married anymore.
I was worried that I wouldn't be able to refuse, but since he took the initiative to speak up, it gave me a way out.
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