Chapter 24 Is He That Important?

Go to the capital city.

Gu Huai quietly stroked the note in his hand, lowered his eyelids slightly, and seemed calm on the surface, but complex emotions were hidden deep in his eyes.

The coldness deep in his eyes was like a torrent that could tear apart the so-called peace at any time.

Changhe County, Changxi Village?

Could Lu Mingchao, who had been accustomed to the hard life in a remote and poor countryside since childhood and had never worn gold and jade and never eaten delicacies, live out his hard life?

If you can't get used to it, how long can you persist?

In front of Gu Huai's eyes, Lu Mingchao seemed to be frowning, twirling his handkerchief and covering his mouth and nose with disgust.

If you can't stand it, you will come back naturally.

But Lu Mingchao is stubborn, and it is very likely that he will stay in Changxi Village just to hold on and save his dignity.

Forget it. Even if he was tired of Lu Mingchao's nagging, he had been summoned by Brother Gu Huai for several years.

Out of a little kindness, he gave Lu Mingchao a ladder.

The strip of paper burned to ashes under the tinder.

"No words."

When the last flame went out, Gu Huai wiped his hands and spoke in a deep voice to the outside of the study.

The servant responded and pushed the door open.

"Has the young lady returned home yet?" Gu Huai asked casually.

"I will go and ask the young lady to come over."

Gu Huai nodded, picked up the book on the desk and started reading casually.

After a while, a playful and somewhat arrogant voice was heard as the door was pushed open.

"Brother, are you looking for me?"

Gu Zhen smiled brightly, and the pear-shaped swirls on her cheeks made her look even more cute and naive.

Gu Huai closed the book in his hand, raised his eyes, looked at Gu Zhen who was sitting idly, and couldn't help frowning.

"No rules."

Gu Zhen had long been accustomed to his brother's strict and strict manner of scolding, so he didn't care at all. He didn't even raise his head, but tapped his fingertips on the jade plate, hesitating which piece of cake to eat first.

"Brother, did you ask Buyan to call me over here just to scold me?"

"If you want to do this, I'm leaving."

Gu Zhen finally chose the cake that she was most satisfied with.

She would never be like the spineless Lu Mingchao who was used to her brother.

Gu Huai: ...

Gu Huai took a deep breath and said, "You used to like going out for fun, but why do you seem to be so uninterested lately?"

"It's all because of the mess at the Yongning Marquis's Mansion." Gu Zhen bit a piece of cake angrily and continued, "As soon as I left the mansion, I was either dragged by the girls I knew to ask about Lu Mingchao's suicide, or I happened to run into Lu Minghui by chance and was forced to watch her tearful face. My interest in appreciating plum blossoms was waning."

"I used to be disgusted with the fact that Lu Mingchao was superior to me in every way except for his family background. Now I realize that when you are disgusted with a person to a certain extent, it is not that you are disgusted with him/her, but that you feel that even one more glance at him/her is unnecessary."

"I have discovered that your fiancée and I may be born incompatible and have the potential to become a vicious sister-in-law."

Gu Zhen ate two cakes in a row, drank a cup of tea, and leaned back in his chair lazily. "Brother, you didn't even like Lu Mingchao and kept postponing the marriage. Why do you accept and cherish Lu Minghui?"

"Could it be that you were born to be ugly and pretentious?"

Gu Huai's breathing stagnated, and his expression was a little ugly. "Gu Zhen, where is your upbringing?"

The voice is shy, like the sound of metal and stone.

Gu Zhen was a lawless and spoiled person. He swung the teacup and it fell to the ground with a clatter. "Didn't my brother ask first?"

"Brother, you have been staying indoors for a while now. I'm afraid you don't know what the ladies in the capital are saying when they have tea. They say that you have given up pearls and got fish eyes."

Gu Zhen's voice was like a pebble whose edges had not yet been smoothed by the stream, striking sharply at Gu Huai's heart.

"What is the purpose of pearl fish? Nonsense."

"Didn't you hate Lu Mingchao before? Now that she's gone, you're speaking up for her again."

Gu Zhen sneered, "I hate her because she is prettier than me and has always been better at school than me. I am the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo, but I have to live under the shadow of Lu Mingchao, so I just can't accept it."

"But the most I can do is not give her a good face."

"When Lu Mingchao was unconscious and trying to commit suicide, I went to visit her at the Yongning Marquis's residence. The wound on her forehead couldn't stop bleeding."

"The wife of the Marquis of Yongning has a pretentious face, but in fact she is cruel and cold-hearted. If I hadn't brought the golden medicine given by my family, Lu Mingchao would have bled to death at that time."

"If I have the chance to meet Lu Mingchao again in the future, I must make her kowtow to me three times and admit that I am a kind person."

Gu Huai's throat tightened, as if he had swallowed a nail, and it hurt terribly.

"How is that possible?"

"Everyone in the capital knows that the Marquis' wife loves Lu Mingchao the most."

Gu Zhen rolled his eyes speechlessly.

Her brother said that she was smart and promising at a young age, and it was true that she was smart and promising at a young age.

To say it's stupid, it's really stupid.

"Brother, do you have anything else to say?"

"If there's nothing left, I'll leave."

Gu Huai calmed himself down and gave Bu Yan a wink.

Bu Yan sighed inwardly, but gritted his teeth and spoke helplessly, "Yesterday when I went out of the palace to select a seal for the prince, I heard that Miss Lu went to a very remote place, which seemed to be Changxi Village in Changhe County."

"People say that the place is poor and bad, with poor water and not enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear."

"The weather is cold, and Mingchao girl is still injured. There is no good doctor in this remote place. I don't know if she can make it through this."

"I can only hope that the girl from Ming Dynasty will survive the disaster and have good fortune in the future."

To be honest, Bu Yan really couldn't understand his own prince's thoughts.

The prince kept saying that he was fed up with Miss Ming Chao, and when Miss Ming Chao really left, the one who was unhappy was still the prince himself.

What are you trying to achieve?

If the Crown Prince's rejection of Ming Dynasty girls was not so well known, he would have married her in late summer or early autumn.

Gu Zhenteng stood up suddenly and said in a lost voice, "Is that place really that bad?"

Under the pressure of Gu Huai's gaze, Bu Yan nodded heavily.

Gu Zhen was a little panicked and kept pacing in the study.

"Lu Mingchao can't die."

"I have been fighting her for so many years and we still haven't been determined. She has never admitted that I am a kind person. It would be so pitiful and aggrieved if I just died like this."

Gu Zhen glared at Gu Huai, who showed no emotion at all. The more he looked at him, the more he disliked him.

"Lu Mingchao sought death in order to keep his engagement with you."

"I don't know how your heart can be so cold and hard."

"No, I have to go see Lu Mingchao. Even if she doesn't survive and dies, I can buy her a coffin and give her a grand funeral, and burn more paper money, so that she can open her eyes and find a caring and considerate husband in her next life, and don't fall for a cold-hearted person."

"snort."

Gu Zhen kicked away the debris on the ground, kicked the door open and left angrily.

The door swayed and did not close for a long time, and the cold winter wind rushed in.

Gu Huai achieved his goal, but he did not feel relieved at all.

It feels heavy and I can hardly breathe.

She wanted to commit suicide in order to keep her engagement with him...

In Lu Mingchao's heart, is he more important than his life?

A visitor comes from afar】