Chapter 121 Chu Yunlan Goes Crazy
"You disgraceful thing, go back to your room!" Marquis Jingning scolded, looking at Chu Yunlan with disgust in his eyes.
Chu Yunlan met Marquis Jingning's gaze, forced a strange smile from his throat, and stumbled to a stop in front of him.
Seeing that he dared to come forward, Marquis Jingning's face turned pale. "You didn't even make the list, and you still have the nerve to prepare a family banquet with such fanfare! Luckily, Shuang'er was quick-witted and said it wasn't appropriate to host a banquet before the results were announced. Otherwise, you would have completely disgraced me!"
After Marquis Jingning finished cursing, he was too lazy to look at Chu Yunlan again and was about to leave with a wave of his sleeve.
However, his sleeve was grabbed by someone. Marquis Jingning turned around and met Chu Yunlan's cold eyes, which were full of sarcasm. They were father and son by blood, but now they were like enemies from another world.
"Father thinks I'm embarrassing? Isn't this what Father wants? He wants me to embarrass more people and make more mistakes so that I can make way for that bastard in Aunt Liu's belly!"
As soon as the word "bastard" came out, Marquis Jingning's face suddenly changed, and he raised his hand and slapped Chu Yunlan in the face.
"Ah! Lan'er!" Ji Jinglan screamed and rushed forward to support Chu Yunlan who was knocked to the ground, staring at Marquis Jingning with resentment.
Suddenly, a muffled rumble of thunder exploded from the gray sky, and a white light streaked across the heavens. Marquis Jingning looked at the mother and son, half-kneeling on the ground, both gazing at him with hatred. He suddenly stumbled, cursed, turned around, and stumbled away.
Seeing the figure of Marquis Jingning almost fleeing in panic, Chu Yunlan pushed away Ji Jinglan who was holding him in his arms and rubbing his face, and a sarcastic laugh escaped from his lips.
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When Chu Xinrou came over, the main hall was dead silent. Chu Yunlan was sitting on a chair. Seeing her coming, he curled his lips and said, "Xinrou is here."
Chu Xinrou looked at Chu Yunlan's smile, and a chill ran down her spine. She walked over and placed the bird's nest in her hand on the table, mumbling, "Brother, this is the bird's nest cooked in the kitchen."
Chu Yunlan looked down at the bird's nest, but didn't touch it. Instead, he stared at Chu Xinrou.
In the past, when he studied until late at night, there was always a figure who would take the trouble to cook nutritious midnight snacks in various ways and bring them to his desk, gently urging him to take care of his health.
But Chu Xinrou never did it. She always complained that the smoke from the kitchen was suffocating and the sharp knife would hurt her hands.
Chu Yunlan closed his eyes, and the scenes in his dream flashed through his mind. Endless regret poured in from all directions, enveloping his entire heart.
He was wrong. He shouldn't have kicked Chen Shuwei out of the house.
If Chen Shuwei were still alive, she would definitely give him advice and urge him to do so, and would carefully revise his application paper, and he would never fail the exam.
He was not like Chu Xinrou, who was unwilling to even write a paper for him, but was willing to spend some money to hire someone to write it for him to fool him, causing him to fail the exam!
It was Chu Xinrou who ruined him! It was all Chu Xinrou! Why did she come back? Why did she drive Shen Shuwei away after she came back?
She ruined everything for him!
Chu Yunlan opened his eyes and looked at Chu Xinrou. The latter noticed that something was wrong with his expression and took a half step back cautiously, calling out carefully, "Brother?"
The next moment, Chu Xinrou was grabbed by the neck by Chu Yunlan and pressed against the table. She felt a sharp pain in her throat. She tried to speak hoarsely, but only fragmented syllables came out of her throat. "Big... Big Brother, I..."
Chu Yunlan's eyes were red as he tightened his grip, "Why did you come back? It's all your fault! You've ruined my path to success and my career!"
"Do you know that I was once a noble and a prime minister, and that I assisted the Third Prince in ascending the throne, a man second only to the emperor and above everyone else? Now you've ruined it all!"
Chu Xinrou opened her eyes wide, the pain of suffocation made her eyeballs bulge, her whole face was flushed red, and boundless fear swept her into the deep sea like a tide.
She regretted coming to the Marquis' Mansion. Why did she come to the Marquis' Mansion? If she had not come to the Marquis' Mansion, but had endured those hard days in the Shen family, then all the good days that Shen Shuwei was living would have been hers, instead of being like this now -
Chu Xinrou's consciousness began to fade. She lay on her back on the table. Suddenly, her right hand touched a cold object. She gathered all her strength to pick up the object and smashed it hard on Chu Yunlan's head.
The sound of shattering porcelain was like thunder.
Chu Yunlan pushed away the unconscious Chu Yunlan, ran out in panic, covering his neck, but bumped into Ji Jinglan who was coming back.
When Ji Jinglan saw Chu Yunlan bleeding from his forehead, her eyes suddenly narrowed.
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"Lan'er! Lan'er, wake up!" Ji Jinglan lay in front of the couch and cried, while Chu Xinrou was held by two maids and stood beside her.
The doctor who had treated Chu Yunlan's wound shook his head and stood up. "Your eldest son was just emotionally agitated and hit by an external object and temporarily fainted. Madam, don't worry."
"There's no need to leave too many people in the room, so as not to disturb the patient's rest."
Ji Jinglan gradually stopped crying after hearing the voice, sent the doctor away, and walked towards Chu Xinrou with red eyes.
"Mother... Mother." Chu Xinrou called out anxiously, "It was my eldest brother who started to strangle me first. He's crazy—"
"Pa!" The crisp sound of a slap made Chu Xinrou turn her face to the side.
"Take her away." Ji Jinglan said indifferently.
If it weren't for the fact that she was still engaged to the Jiang family, the fact that she attacked Lan'er would be enough to teach her a lesson.
Chu Xinrou felt a chill in her heart, and she tried to struggle regardless, "You can't do this to me! I'm the eldest daughter of the Marquis' Mansion! You little dog slave, let me go!"
Chu Yunlan woke up at this time. He sat up in a daze, recalling the memory that came to his mind when the vase hit his head, and was stunned for a long time.
Ji Jinglan could no longer care about Chu Xinrou and rushed to Chu Yunlan's bed to check on him. "Lan'er, are you feeling okay? Chu Xinrou, that bitch, dared to attack you. I'll have her locked up and released after the wedding with the Jiang family is complete."
"No." Chu Yunlan interrupted Ji Jinglan and looked at Chu Xinrou past Ji Jinglan with a faint gaze.
The cold light in his eyes startled Chu Xinrou so much that she even forgot to struggle.
"Did the Shen family give you a peace locket when you were young?" Chu Yunlan asked.
Chu Xinrou was stunned and forgot to speak for a moment.
Chu Yunlan narrowed his eyes in impatience. Chu Xinrou nodded repeatedly, as if waking from a dream. "Yes... there is such a peace locket. It belongs to my father... Shen Yuan. I saw it in his study."
At that time, she thought the peace locket was beautiful, so she secretly took it and wore it. At that time, Shen Yuan happened to be away for several months, so no one found out about it.
It was not until Shen Yuan came back and found that the peace locket was missing that he became furious and ordered the servants in the mansion to search. She was so scared that she threw the peace locket into the pond.
Afterwards, the whereabouts of the peace locket became unknown, and Shen Yuan sold out many servants in the mansion.
This incident left a shadow on Chu Xinrou, so she still remembers the peace locket clearly.
"I want you to draw the shape of that peace locket," Chu Yunlan said, his words trembling with excitement. "Also, from today on, you will approach Princess Anyang."
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