Gu Yanwei smiled softly, "I was just joking with you, why are you so angry?"
The Ninth Princess still had her lips pouted, as if she was hanging a gourd, so Gu Yanwei handed her a skewer of roasted meat in his hand, "I wonder if this will make the princess happy?"
The Ninth Princess' expression immediately changed, "Brother Nine is the best to me."
The Ninth Princess's innocent and lovely appearance caused even more laughter in the venue.
At this moment, a strong wind suddenly blew, and Dao Yue immediately stood up, "There is an assassin!" and hurriedly protected everyone behind him.
A dozen black-clad assassins suddenly rushed over, and Gu Yanwei's guards also rushed over immediately, but those assassins were well-trained and beat the guards to a pulp in a short while. But at this moment, someone suddenly attacked from behind and kidnapped Gu Yanran without making a sound.
Shen Qingqiu wanted to chase after him, but as soon as he took a step, he felt weak all over and could only fall down due to exhaustion.
Gu Yanwei hurried forward to help the person, but Gu Yanran had already been taken away by the thieves. No matter how anxious Shen Qingqiu was, he didn't know why he had no strength at all at this moment.
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Dao Yue chased Gu Yanran all the way up.
"You are chasing me like this, do you like the girl in my arms very much?" The thief ran forward, teasing Dao Yue.
Gu Yanran was already very scared when she was threatened, and now seeing him teasing her and Dao Yue like this, she bit the man's wrist in anger.
"You!" The man pushed Gu Yanran away fiercely, but in the end he just looked at her for a long time without doing anything.
"This young lady is in my hands now. Whether you can rescue her or not depends entirely on you!" The man in black said as he carried Gu Yanran away again. Dao Yue quickly drew his sword and followed him. The two of them instantly started fighting each other.
Gu Yanran watched the two people fighting in horror. She wanted to scream but didn't dare to, for fear of disturbing Dao Yue.
The man seemed unable to defeat Dao Yue, and the brick knife actually rushed towards Gu Yanran. Gu Yanran was so scared that she called out Dao Yue's name reflexively. When she came to her senses again, Dao Yue was already in front of her.
Gu Yanran opened her eyes wide, "Master Dao?"
A trace of blood flowed from Dao Yue's lips. It turned out that he had just blocked the knife for her. The man in black changed his expression. He didn't know what was going on. Dao Yue was obviously injured, but he suddenly ran away.
"Master Dao, are you okay?" Gu Yanran hurriedly went to help Dao Yue.
But she felt blood on her hand, "Oh my God, so much blood!" The woman in the inner house had never seen such a big scene.
Gu Yanran thought that the bloodiest and scariest scene she had ever seen in her life was the day when Princess Changping slashed her face with a knife. But now that she saw the knife bleeding more and more, she realized that blood could flow to this extent.
"Mr. Dao, hold on for a while. I will take you back right away." Gu Yanran lifted the man up with great effort and walked forward step by step.
But her delicate body couldn't carry a man weighing over 100 pounds. After taking two steps, they both fell to the ground. Dao Yue groaned, perhaps because of the wound caused by the fall.
Gu Yanran became more and more scared, "Master Dao, are you okay?"
Dao Yue shook his head, but Gu Yanran blamed herself very much, "It's all my fault. Why am I so useless? I can't do anything except causing trouble?" Otherwise, why was she kidnapped?
If she had half of Qingqiu's ability, she probably wouldn't have ended up like this.
Looking at the current scene and thinking about the past, Gu Yanran couldn't help but feel sad, with big tears falling down, "Master Dao, I'm useless, I'm sorry for you, you saved me but I can't even take you back..."
Dao Yue watched her cry and felt pain in his heart, "Fourth Miss, don't cry."
Maybe it was because of the excessive blood loss that made his head dizzy, or maybe it was because he felt sorry for her crying, Dao Yue even forgot his own identity, "Fourth Miss, it hurts me to see you crying..." As he spoke, his hand touched Gu Yanran's face, "I won't tell you, because I'm afraid there will be no chance in the future, Fourth Miss, I like you."
Gu Yanran was stunned for a moment and even forgot to cry.
What did Dao Yue say? Doesn't he know that he is Qing Qiu's fiancé? !
If it was a normal situation, Gu Yanran would definitely push the person away, but now Dao Yue was injured... and she was also confused when she just learned the news.
"You..." As soon as he lowered his head, Dao Yue fainted.
Gu Yanran had no choice. She couldn't let Daoyue stay here alone no matter what. But she didn't have the strength to drag him away, so she gritted her teeth.
We can't just watch him die, we need to stop the bleeding.
Thinking of this, Gu Yanran first took off his coat, then went to the side to get some clean water to wash his back.
The sword wound looked really horrible, Gu Yanran wiped the area carefully. Shen Qingqiu had a lot of medical books, Gu Yanran also read them in her spare time, although she was not proficient in them, she still knew the most basic hemostatic herbs.
After finding the herbs and applying them to Dao Yue, the bleeding soon stopped and Gu Yanran finally felt relieved.
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"How's the matter going?" Gu Yanwei asked.
The man knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, it was my fault. I was just threatening Dao Yue with Fourth Miss Gu as you said, but he suddenly rushed over to block the sword for Fourth Miss Gu. I couldn't retract my sword and accidentally stabbed Dao Yue."
Gu Yanwei was stunned for a moment, "Is the knife wound serious?"
The man knelt there, unable to speak for a long time.
"Then what are you doing back here?" Gu Yanwei asked, "Why don't you go and bring Dao Yue and Gu Yanran back?"
"But..." The man hesitated, "But if I go now, won't it be exposed?"
"Ask others to go find them?" Gu Yanwei frowned and looked at him, unable to understand why he had such stupid subordinates.
"Yes, yes, yes!" The man quickly retreated.
Gu Yanwei put his hands behind his back, frowning. He understood Shen Qingqiu's personality. Even if Dao Yue broke off the engagement with her, she might not be angry. But if it was really because of him that Gu Yanran and Dao Yue were hurt, then she would probably be angry with herself.
Originally, he wanted to delay for a while so that their marriage could not go on, but now that Dao Yue was injured, that was naturally not possible.
The next day, Gu Yanwei's guards found Dao Yue and Gu Yanran hiding under a cliff and brought them back safely.
Shen Qingqiu took the pulse of each of them.
The Ninth Princess quickly asked with concern: "What happened?"
Shen Qingqiu said, "Nothing, Yanran was just a little frightened." He looked at Dao Yue again, "Although the wound on Dao Yue's back is serious, fortunately the bleeding has stopped. Now just apply some medicine and wait for the wound to slowly heal."
The Ninth Princess also felt relieved.
Concubine Rou was too embarrassed to speak up, "Since Miss Gu was frightened, we shouldn't have left so early. If we continue to stay, I'm afraid the emperor will become suspicious."
Gu Yanwei hurriedly said, "I'll send someone to escort the queen back to the palace."
Concubine Rou smiled and looked at her, then prepared to leave with the Ninth Princess.
After getting cured here and playing with Shen Qingqiu, the Ninth Princess naturally didn't want to leave. But she was sensible after all, so she just looked at this place reluctantly, and then looked at Shen Qingqiu, "Don't play too much, you must come to the palace to find me after you return to the capital."
Shen Qingqiu smiled and nodded.
A few people escorted Concubine Rou and the Ninth Princess to the carriage.
As soon as I got back to the door, Wang Xi came over, "Princess, you are finally back. Lord Dao has woken up and is clamoring to talk to you!"
Shen Qingqiu frowned. From her memory, Dao Yue was not such an impatient person?
Maybe there was something important, thinking of this, Shen Qingqiu hurried forward. Dao Yue was already in the room, and after seeing Shen Qingqiu, he knelt down.
Shen Qingqiu frowned, "What are you doing?"
Dao Yue said: "I have something to tell the princess."
“If you have something to say, just stand up and say it. You are kneeling with such injuries. Don’t you want your wound to heal?” Shen Qingqiu said.
Dao Yue felt even more ashamed when he saw that she was still so concerned about his injury at this time. "Dao Yue has done something wrong to the princess. Wu Yan said to the princess, "Princess, please let me kneel down, otherwise I am afraid I can't say the next words."
Shen Qingqiu looked at him suspiciously, "Are you sorry for what happened to me?"
Dao Yue lowered his head, and after a moment he said, "The princess said before that if I don't want to marry into the Dao family, I can just treat it as a fake. Once the current difficulties in the Marquis' Mansion are over, if we can't get along, we will no longer have anything to do with each other."
"Yes," Shen Qingqiu said, "Or do you have any new ideas today?"
Dao Yue bowed and said, "At that time, Dao Yue didn't have anyone in his heart, and he admired the princess, so when the princess mentioned this matter, Dao Yue never regretted it at all."
Shen Qingqiu roughly understood what was going on when he heard this, "You have someone in your heart now, and you don't want to marry me?"
Dao Yue gritted his teeth and said, "Please forgive me, Princess."
Shen Qingqiu's brows were cold and gloomy. "Dao Yue, I'm not pestering you. If you didn't want to get married, you could have said it a long time ago. Why did you wait until now? The wedding has been scheduled for so long now, how can it be easy to cancel it rashly?"
Dao Yue naturally felt very guilty, "I have been hesitating all those days, I couldn't understand the feelings in my heart. But it was not until that day that I realized that when she was hurt, I could do anything to protect her... Princess, I know I am sorry for you, and I also know that it is not easy to cancel the marriage now. I don't want to cancel the marriage with you."
Shen Qingqiu was stunned for a moment, "You didn't think..." She thought Dao Yue was going to break the contract and marry the person he loved.
"I remember everything the princess said before, but I think that if I have someone I like, I should tell the princess. Dao Yue doesn't want to deceive the princess."
The implication of this was that they wanted to be a fake couple. This was Shen Qingqiu's real thought. Now that he heard him say this, he was not angry. Instead, he curled his lips and looked at him, "That's fine. If you really need it in the future, we can get divorced. But I'm curious, who is the person you like?"
She actually asked such an ignorant man to come to her and talk to her for such a long time.
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