"Don't talk nonsense." Empress Dowager Yuan suppressed the turbulent emotions in her heart and smiled lightly, "Miss Gu has already been engaged!"
Queen Mother Yuan stared at Prince Kang intently and gripped the armrest tighter with her right hand.
She came to Prince Jing's Mansion today to choose a principal wife for her son, and secondly, she also wanted to see Gu Yunyan. She planned to take a step back and let this girl become a concubine, which would also fulfill her son's wish.
But now, Empress Dowager Yuan changed her mind and began to dislike Gu Yunmeng.
Her son is a man of great talent and ambition, and will conquer the world in the future. As a king, he cannot be obsessed with a woman.
Daji brought chaos to the Shang Dynasty, and King You of Zhou set fire to the princes to win the smile of a beauty... As a monarch, being greedy for beauty is a sign of disaster for the country! "Mother, you are wrong, that is the marriage of the second Miss Gu." King Kang looked directly into the sharp eyes of Queen Mother Yuan and said seriously.
"..." Empress Dowager Yuan was stunned. Her first reaction was, isn't Gu Yunyan the second Miss Gu? Most of the other people around were also confused.
King Kang summoned his personal eunuch, pointed in the direction of Zhuoxin Water Pavilion and ordered: "Second Miss Gu is in the water pavilion, go and call her over."
Gu Yanfei and Gu Yunzhen in the water pavilion also heard it clearly. Gu Yunzhen frowned, and his mind recalled the chaos in the Rose Pavilion just now. The picture froze on Fang Mingfeng's bloody face.
After a while, the eunuch in blue quickly entered the water pavilion and politely bowed to Gu Yanfei, "Second Miss Gu, the Queen Mother and His Royal Highness Prince Kang invite you to come over and talk."
Gu Yanfei put down the teacup, stood up leisurely, held down Gu Yunzhen who wanted to go with her, and said with a smile: "Big sister, I will be back soon."
Everyone else in the water pavilion looked at her in unison, with different expressions on their faces.
"Second Miss Gu, please." The eunuch in blue stretched out his hand as a gesture of invitation.
Li Zhulang looked at Gu Yanfei's graceful back in despair, his shoulders drooped in frustration, and one thought kept echoing in his mind: This beauty actually has a marriage contract?! A gentleman loves a beautiful lady.
The beauty was already engaged, so wouldn't it mean that he had already completely lost before he even had the chance to marry her? Li Zhulang stood there in a daze, wanting to cry but unable to. The young boy patted his cousin's shoulder to comfort him.
The autumn wind was blowing, and the road from the water pavilion to the polo field was extremely quiet. The rustling sound of the branches and leaves became clear, and the water vapor by the lake was brought a hint of coolness by the wind.
Under everyone's gaze, Gu Yanfei walked to the other side of Gu Yunyan, bowed and saluted to Empress Dowager Yuan. His movements were standard yet a little casual.
Prince Kang didn't pay any attention to Gu Yanfei, or rather, he didn't even look at her. He said coldly, "Tell the Queen Mother, are you and the Prince of Yingguo arranged to be married?"
"No." Gu Yanfei uttered these two words with a smile.
A smile bloomed on her pretty little face, like the sun rising after the clouds dispersed, and the half-opened crabapple buds dotted the branches.
As the two words "Gu Yanfei" came out, the people around gradually became agitated, whispering to each other.
Today, many people noticed Gu Yanfei's unfamiliar face, especially because her face was so beautiful and pleasing to the eye that both men and women couldn't help but take a few more glances at her.
However, most of them did not know her identity. They only heard that her last name was Gu, so they thought she was a girl from the Gu family.
Now it seems that this strange Miss Gu seems to have an "extraordinary background"!
King Kang frowned and squinted at Gu Yanfei. The little girl stood there obediently with a faint smile. It was hard to tell whether she was deliberately going against him or she didn't know about the engagement at all...
"Your Highness Prince Kang is right," Gu Yanfei cleverly answered the other party's words with a calm and light smile, "The one who has an engagement with the Duke of Ying's Mansion is the eldest daughter of the Dingyuan Marquis's eldest branch."
The ribbons that tied her hair fluttered in the wind, and her flowing skirt danced in the wind, as bright as a cold moon. The girl seemed to be surrounded by an ethereal aura, which formed a sharp contrast with the chilly King Kang.
"It is clearly written in the engagement letters of the two families." Gu Yanfei turned his gaze to Gu Yunyan and continued, "It is well known that the eldest daughter of the former Marquis Dingyuan is Gu Yunyan."
Gu Yanfei tilted her head and smiled and asked Gu Yunyan, who was only half a foot away from her: "Yes or no?"
Gu Yun'er's pupils shrank slightly and the end of his eyebrows twitched.
Prince Kang also had a bad look on his face. He squinted his eyes and stared at Gu Yanfei. Only then did he look at Gu Yanfei straight in the eye.
Facing this pair of lovers, Gu Yanfei's smile deepened, but it did not reach his eyes.
In her previous life, after Gu Yanfei returned to Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, she and Gu Yunyan were registered as twins under the names of their father Gu Ce and mother Xie. However, the Gu family never clearly introduced her identity to the outside world, and whenever they talked about her, they were always vague.
At that time, she grew up being beaten and scolded, and later, under Aunt Xu's repeated humiliation, suppression, and humiliation, she became more and more cowardly. She was trapped in the Marquis' Mansion all day long, not daring to interact with others and having no chance to argue for herself.
As a result, almost all the mansions in the capital did not know that she was the real daughter of a marquisate. They only regarded her as an orphan from a distant relative or as an adopted child.
Obviously, she is the true descendant of Gu family, but she has become an unspeakable existence and is treated as a fish eye pretending to be a pearl.
Until her death, her identity remained ambiguous…
This was also her inner demon, which made her depressed when she was young.
It was the same in this life, and the old things repeated themselves. Even though Gu Yunmeng was adopted into the second house, the Gu family had no intention of clearing their name.
It didn’t happen in the previous life, it doesn’t happen now, and it certainly won’t happen in the future.
Gu Yanfei turned his head slightly, looked at Gu Yunyan who was close at hand, and asked again: "Yes and no?"
A few strands of black hair fell down her cheeks as she moved, and the small pearl earrings swayed gently below her earlobes. There seemed to be a bright light flowing in her eyes, so bright and eye-catching.
"..." The color on Gu Yun'er's face faded a little, and her cherry lips pursed slightly.
With just a few words, Gu Yanfei forced himself into a dilemma.
No matter how she answered now, it would be wrong.
If she answered yes, it would be tantamount to publicly acknowledging Gu Yanfei's identity as the only daughter of the eldest son.
If she answered no, then the person who was engaged to the Duke of England was her, Gu Yunyan.
(End of this chapter)
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