Chapter 663 The truth is revealed, but the result is something he cannot bear
The main hall was brightly lit, and Mei Zi was pinned to the cold ground by the shadow guard, unable to move.
Gu Xuan looked at this scene, then looked at his father with a gloomy face at the door, and felt his blood run cold.
He wanted to explain, for Mei Zi and for himself.
With a "thump", Gu Xuan knelt heavily on the ground.
Seeing this, Mei Zi struggled to raise her head and spoke before he could, "None of this is Master Xuan's business! This was all my idea. I wanted to do this myself!"
Chu Ruohan, supported by Haitang, slowly walked out of the inner room. She looked at the two people kneeling on the ground, and her eyes finally fell on Mei Zi.
"I really can't understand it." Chu Ruohan sighed softly, "Meizi, back then, you held Xuan Ge'er, who was only a few months old, and knelt outside the mansion gate, begging me to adopt him. Not only did I adopt Xuan Ge'er, I also kept you in the mansion and asked you to take care of him personally."
"I even took your indenture from the third branch of the Gu family and gave you your freedom. I know for sure that I have done nothing wrong to you."
"Sorry?" Mei Zi looked like she had heard a huge joke.
She laughed, a shrill laugh. "You're just a hypocrite! No matter how nice your words are, you still have to give birth to your own son in the end!"
She was so desperate that she blurted out, "Didn't you force Concubine Li to death back then?"
This sentence was like a thunder, exploding in Gu Xuan's mind.
He suddenly raised his head, looked at Mei Zi in disbelief, and then turned to Chu Ruohan.
One is the mother who gave birth to him, and the other is the mother who raised him since he was a child and loved him. How could this happen?
"Mom..." His voice was trembling, "What she said is not true, right?"
Chu Ruohan's face turned pale. She walked to the main seat and sat down, her voice revealing a deep sense of powerlessness.
"It's true. A great favor from a long time ago turned into hatred. Brother Xuan, since you want to know the truth, I will tell you."
She paused, "When I married your father, he...was ill and couldn't walk well. I thought he'd never have children again, so I decided to adopt someone."
"At that time, you were exactly three months old."
"But who could have known that your biological parents would have such evil intentions, trying to use this as a threat to gain more. So I gave up the idea of adopting you."
"Later, your biological mother, Concubine Li, set up a scheme to ensure that you could become my son and the legitimate heir to the Zhenguogong Mansion."
Chu Ruohan's voice was very soft, but every word was like a knife, cutting into Gu Xuan's heart.
"She killed the then-formal wife, Gu Lu's mother, and disguised it as an accident, then sacrificed her own life in exchange..."
"He even went so far as to disfigure himself and take all the blame on himself, leaving me no reason to refuse to adopt you."
Gu Xuan's back bent inch by inch. So that's how it was.
It turns out that the life of luxury and attention for him for more than a decade was built on another life.
His biological mother was actually a murderer.
How should he face Lu Ge'er and Lan Jie'er in the future?
Fortunately, fortunately they are not in the capital now!
As Mei Zi listened to these old stories being revealed, the last trace of color drained from her face.
She admitted all her crimes of poisoning and kowtowed while crying: "Please, Lord and Madam, have mercy and leave a place for Young Master Xuan!"
"I'm really afraid that if Madam has her own biological son, she will kick Young Master Xuan out!"
Gu Junze had been silent the whole time, but now he spoke coldly, exposing all her disguised excuses in one sentence.
"And the title and family property of the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion."
Gu Xuan's face became increasingly ugly, as if he had been slapped hard in the face.
"Come here." Gu Junze's voice was cold and emotionless. "Take this criminal who intends to murder the mistress of the house to the government office and enforce the law impartially."
Two tall guards came forward and lifted up Mei Zi, who was as limp as mud.
Gu Xuan remained kneeling on the ground without begging for mercy for her.
Mei Zi was dragged out, and she looked back at Gu Xuan reluctantly.
There were only three of them left in the hall.
Gu Xuan raised his head and looked directly at Gu Junze, "Dad, I really didn't do it."
He wanted to explain, but was interrupted by Gu Junze: "You really didn't do it! But shielding someone is the same as condoning them!"
"If I hadn't noticed it in advance and taken precautions, your mother and her unborn child would have been killed by now!"
Gu Xuan's body trembled violently. He turned to Chu Ruohan and finally realized his mistake.
"Mom, I was wrong."
He knew he had hurt his mother's heart.
He could have stopped it. He knew Mei Zi had evil intentions. He should have told his parents right after she made the first move. But he didn't.
He was obsessed with the illusory status and future and chose to remain silent.
Chu Ruohan looked at him, and the last bit of warmth in her eyes disappeared.
"We've raised you for over ten years, so we have a mother-son bond. Now that you've grown up, you can do whatever you want in the future."
After she finished speaking, she stood up and resolutely turned back to her room.
The sound of the door closing seemed to completely close Gu Xuan's heart.
He knew that he was really wrong.
He knelt outside Chu Ruohan's door, motionless.
During the coldest nights of winter, the wind was biting cold.
At some point, tiny snowflakes began to float in the sky.
The snow fell heavier and heavier, and soon a thin layer of white fell on Gu Xuan's shoulders and hair.
He was so cold that his teeth were chattering and his body was stiff, but he still knelt straight.
In the room, although Chu Ruohan was lying on the bed, she was tossing and turning, with no sign of sleep.
Gu Junze walked in, tucked the corner of the quilt for her, and looked at the stubborn figure outside the window with a cold look in his eyes.
He walked directly to the door and solemnly ordered the shadow guards standing guard in the corridor, "Send Gu Xuan back to Dongying. Leave immediately."
The couple lay in bed in silence for a long time.
"This child," Gu Junze finally spoke, his voice filled with disappointment, "is ultimately not mentally strong enough and is wavering."
"Between family and career, he chose the latter. He was both indecisive and foolish."
Chu Ruohan opened her eyes in the darkness. "In the final analysis, I'm just too young. A few words from someone provoked me, and I became swayed."
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