Zhou Yuan could no longer hold back and struggled and roared, "You're not allowed to make up stories about the young lady! If you dare to say another word that is disrespectful to her, I'll kill you!"
His wide-open eyes were filled with a frenzied rage, and the veins on his bound arms bulged.
Gu Songhan believed that if Zhou Yuan were no longer restrained by the ropes, he would definitely pounce on him and tear him to pieces!
Of course, this is on the premise that you don't fight back!
“It’s not like I’m offering Miss Jiang to the Emperor, it’s Marquis Changping…” Gu Songhan paused, then added, “Master Jiang…”
In an instant, Zhou Yuan flew into a rage again, his entire face contorting into a ferocious expression!
Zhou Yuan roared, wanting to vent the hatred and anger in his heart!
Once he stopped yelling, Gu Songhan slowly spoke, "You like Miss Jiang?"
"So what if it is!"
A woman as beautiful as a fairy is worthy of every man in the world falling for her!
But... why was such a good person born into a noble family and became the daughter of such a beast!
Thinking of the suffering the young lady had endured over the years, Zhou Yuan felt a bitter taste in his throat.
"So everything you did was at Miss Jiang's behest?"
Zhou Yuanchao spat out a mouthful of bloody water at Gu Songhan, "You can doubt me however you want, but don't try to smear this young lady!"
Gu Songhan, oblivious to the blood splattered on his body, said leisurely, "Even if it wasn't at Miss Jiang's behest, she's probably involved! In that case, I'll go and ask Miss Jiang myself!"
With that, he turned and left.
Zhou Yuan panicked. "Stop right there! You're not allowed to harass the young lady! She knows nothing about what I've done! Come back here!"
Gu Songhan stopped and turned slightly. "Oh? Then who is instructing you?"
"It's the Marquis! The Marquis ordered me to push the Sixth Miss into the water so that Jiang Chengli could save her. This way, we can arrange their marriage and swindle the Sixth Miss out on her dowry of 100,000 gold pieces!"
"It seems I still need to have a good talk with Miss Jiang!"
“It really is the Marquis…” Zhou Yuan said hurriedly, “The Marquis has long wanted to harm the Second Madam because of gambling debts, but he couldn’t find a pretext! Later, when the Sixth Miss had an accident, the Marquis took the opportunity to harbor evil intentions. However, he did not expect that the silver notes would be intercepted, so he had to plan again. That’s why he found Jiang Chengli and came up with the idea of swindling the dowry!”
Gu Songhan sneered. If he hadn't been with Zhou Yuan that day and overheard him giving advice to Marquis Changping, he would have actually believed Zhou Yuan's words.
"You're being dishonest, pushing all the blame onto Marquis Changping. How can I trust you? I still need to go to the Marquis's residence and have a talk with Miss Jiang in person!"
As he spoke, a flippant glint appeared on his face. "Although I only caught a fleeting glimpse of Miss Jiang at the Peach Blossom Banquet, her beauty is etched in my heart! It's a pity she's the Emperor's favorite... However, under the guise of official business, I can still manage to spend some time with Miss Jiang in private..."
Zhou Yuan's face immediately contorted with murderous intent, his gaze fixed viciously on Gu Songhan.
"None of you men are good enough for this young lady..."
Gu Songhan pressed his advantage, "If I, the dignified Deputy Commander Gu, am not worthy, do you, a lowly servant of a fallen marquis's mansion, think you are? You're like a toad trying to eat swan meat, a pipe dream!"
"I genuinely like young women, but you all just wanted to toy with them!"
"Even if we're just playing around, it's all Jiang's own choice!"
"No, no, no! It was the young master, it was the young master who forced him! It was the young master who would stop at nothing to advance his career, even giving away his own daughter..."
Zhou Yuan's words came to an abrupt end.
It wasn't that he realized Gu Songhan was trying to trick him, but rather that he was recalling the first time he met Miss Jiang!
That was one night three years ago!
That day, the Marquis and his son were hosting a banquet for guests at their residence. After lunch, as the guests were about to leave, a torrential downpour began.
Coincidentally, the First Madam returned from outside with several young ladies.
Caught off guard, several guests caught sight of the young woman's stunning beauty and, emboldened by alcohol, uttered some filthy remarks!
Unexpectedly, the young master took his drunken words seriously. For the sake of his future, he had someone drug the young lady and send her to the guests' beds!
When he returned from running errands for the Marquis, he saw the eldest daughter looking like a tattered paper doll, walking barefoot alone in the heavy rain.
Few girls came to the front yard. At first, he thought it was the sixth young lady who didn't know manners, so he didn't pay much attention.
Later, when he went to report to the Marquis, his father asked him to take people to find the eldest daughter. Only then did he realize that he had seen the eldest daughter.
In the end, he found the young woman by the pond.
The young woman stood by the pond, her clothes disheveled. He dared not approach her rashly and could only gently persuade her.
To his surprise, the young woman turned around and smiled charmingly at him, taking off her clothes one by one and asking him, "Am I beautiful?"
He dared not look, and quickly turned around, nodding haphazardly and saying it was beautiful.
Right after she finished answering, the young woman jumped into the pond.
He naturally jumped into the pond to save her, but the young woman wouldn't cooperate, biting and hitting him, and finally...
Even now, when Zhou Yuan thinks back to that kiss under the pond, the flutter in his heart remains as strong as ever.
Later on, he paid special attention to the eldest daughter's affairs!
That's how she learned about how the young lady was treated like a plaything by the young master and given away to various men.
He hated the crown prince and even wanted to kill him!
But his father saw through his thoughts and tried his best to stop him, even risking his life to save the prince!
At that moment, his master approached him, saying he could help him kill the heir apparent and promising to ruin the Marquis's mansion.
By then, the young lady will be just an ordinary person, and I will be worthy of her!
He didn't care about the young woman's past because he knew that none of it was something she had willingly done!
He will treat the young lady like a precious treasure, as long as she is willing!
But the eldest daughter was pregnant and was sent to the estate to have an abortion.
He worried about the eldest daughter and often went to visit her...
Thinking of what he had seen at the manor, Zhou Yuan's dark eyes flashed with increasing ferocity!
They're all servants, so why does he get the young lady's special treatment? Why does she greet him with such smiles and laughter?
Zhou Yuan disagrees!
He felt that his master's plan was too slow, far less efficient than bewitching the Marquis himself. So he took matters into his own hands and replaced the master that his master had found with his own man. His goal was to make the Marquis listen to his every word and, in the end, use the master's words to criticize the eldest daughter's fate as a jinx!
By then, the Marquis will definitely not tolerate the eldest daughter, and in that case, he will be able to get her!
However, he did not expect that his master would discover his unusual behavior, take Master Yuanjue away, and warn him not to act on his own again, otherwise he would never get the young lady!
He clearly didn't act on his own again, so why did his master allow the young lady to be chosen by the emperor?
He has to go and ask him himself!
"Let me go! Let me go now!"
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