Chapter 290 You said Shen Chu is a daughter
Sixth Brother, do you like me?
Those few words, though few, struck Pei Yuan, causing his heart to suddenly race.
His breathing was noticeably heavier than before.
Has Shen Chu finally sensed his feelings?
He took a deep breath, gripped Shen Chu's shoulders with both hands, and looked at her with focused and intense gaze.
"I...."
Just then, a series of urgent and terrified screams suddenly came from outside.
"Ah! Shen Zhihai, don't come any closer!"
It was Aunt Qiao's voice.
Shen Chu's expression changed, and she turned around and rushed out quickly.
Pei Yuan's hand froze in mid-air.
Damn it, who's shouting outside?
It was Marquis Changning who was making the fuss.
He rushed in, carrying a large knife and with disheveled hair, hacking at anyone he saw.
"Where is Chen Chu? Tell Chen Chu to get out here."
"Where is that bitch Qiao? I'm going to kill you all."
Aunt Qiao, protected by two maids, was forced back into a corner, her face pale with fright and trembling.
Marquis Changning looked like a madman, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at Aunt Qiao.
"It's all your fault, you bastard! Your bastard son is dead, but you still managed to attract a jinx to the capital."
If it weren't for that wicked star, Shen Chu, how could my dignified Changning Marquis's mansion have fallen to this state?
"Qiao, go to hell!"
Marquis Changning raised his broadsword and slashed fiercely at Aunt Qiao.
Aunt Qiao was so frightened that she sat on the ground, screaming with her eyes closed.
"Achu, save me."
Just as the broadsword was about to fall on Aunt Qiao's head, Chen Chu lightly touched the ground with her toes and kicked the sword out of Marquis Changning's hand.
Clang.
The broadsword fell to the ground.
Marquis Changning staggered and turned around. When he saw Shen Chu, his eyes suddenly flashed with intense hatred.
"It was you! You ruined my Changning Marquis's mansion! How could you be so heartless?"
You lived in the Changning Marquis's mansion, ate my food and drank my water, and in the end you even turned around and bit me.
How could you be so heartless?
Shen Chu sneered.
"Although I live in the Marquis's mansion, my food and living expenses are not earned by myself, but given by my aunt. I have never spent a single penny of yours."
"Pah! Qiao is my woman, and her money is rightfully mine."
Marquis Changning spat angrily at Shen Chu.
“Your father, Shen Zhixing, has always been one step ahead of me since I was a child. He always steals my thunder and suppresses me, which has prevented me from ever getting ahead.”
"After he finally died, my Changning Marquis's mansion enjoyed a few years of glory, but I never expected it would all be ruined by you."
Shen Chu looked at him coldly.
"If you hadn't stolen my father's family letters from my grandfather's study back then, my father wouldn't have been framed and died unjustly."
Your current predicament is entirely your own fault; you deserve it!
"You!" Marquis Changning's beard trembled with anger, and his expression changed constantly.
Suddenly, she knelt down on the ground with a thud, her face ashen, and grabbed Chen Chu's clothes.
“Ah Chu, the Changning Marquis’s Mansion and the Ning’an Marquis’s Mansion are from the same lineage. Our ancestors were the same.
If you plead with His Majesty not to strip the Marquis of Changning of his title, I will definitely help you in court in the future.
Now, you are the only one left in the Ning'an Marquis's mansion. A single tree cannot make a forest; you cannot go far in the court by fighting alone.
Marquis Changning grabbed Shen Chu, pleading with a hopeful expression.
Chen Chu scoffed and freed the hem of her dress.
"You? Help me in the court? You're just a sixth-rank official, not even as high-ranking as me. What qualifications do you have to help me?"
Marquis Changning's expression froze.
“Chen Chu, you can’t write two 'Chen' characters in one stroke. The Changning Marquis’s Mansion is what I’ve worked so hard to build up to where it is today. How could you be so heartless as to destroy my manor just like that?”
Shen Chu looked down at him condescendingly and snorted coldly.
"When you stole my father's letters back then, didn't you ever think that you couldn't write two 'sinking' characters with one stroke?"
A strong killing intent flashed in the eyes of Marquis Changning.
He suddenly jumped up and grabbed Shen Chu's neck tightly.
"Chen Chu, go to hell."
Before his hand could even touch Shen Chu, his body was suddenly sent flying like a kite with a broken string.
Bang.
Marquis Changning crashed into a tree, screamed, and fell to the ground.
Pei Yuan landed steadily beside Shen Chu and asked with concern, "Are you alright? Did he hurt you?"
Shen Chu shook her head, feeling a warm feeling in her heart.
"I'm fine, he can't hurt me, don't worry."
Pei Yuan's expression softened slightly, and he turned to look coldly at Marquis Changning.
Marquis Changning was dazed and confused after the fall. When Pei Yuan glared at him with cold eyes, his legs went weak with fear.
Aunt Qiao picked up the large knife he had dropped, staggered over, and held the knife horizontally in front of Marquis Changning with trembling hands.
Her hands were trembling violently, and her eyes were frighteningly red.
Marquis Changning glared at her fiercely, "Qiao, do you want to kill me? You've really gone too far... Ahh!"
Before she could finish speaking, Aunt Qiao raised her knife and slashed at him.
It struck the left leg of the Marquis of Changning.
With one cut, flesh rolled outwards, and blood gushed out.
"This knife is repayment for my poor child's seventeen years of suffering in the Taoist temple. She has never enjoyed a single day of parental love since birth."
Just because Chen was born and caused trouble, people said she was a jinx, so you wouldn't even put her in the family genealogy, and instead just gave her the name Chu, you heartlessly sent her to a Taoist temple.
When the past was recalled, Aunt Qiao was in tears and gritted her teeth.
Another blow landed on the Marquis of Changning's right leg.
Aunt Qiao trembled even more violently.
"This knife is payment for my child's life. The Chen family sent people to the Taoist temple to kill her. I don't believe you knew nothing about it. You're clearly just pretending to be ignorant."
You heartless bastard, you don't deserve to be a father to this child.
The Marquis of Changning's legs were stained red with blood, and he screamed in agony.
While pressing his arms to the ground and desperately trying to move backward, he shouted:
"You bitch, you're insane! You're insane! I'm not fit to be a father, so what makes you think you're fit to be a mother?"
Aunt Qiao trembled so much that she could no longer hold the knife, and it fell to the ground with a clatter.
She collapsed to the ground, covering her face and sobbing uncontrollably.
"I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy."
"If I had been even a little bit smarter back then, if I had even a little bit of a mother's heart, I would never have let you send him to the Taoist temple."
They certainly wouldn't knowingly claim she was a son while publicly declaring her a boy, allowing her to live as a man for so many years.
"What? You...you're saying Shen Chu is a daughter?"
Marquis Changning was stunned and so shocked that he forgot to cry out in pain.
Aunt Qiao raised her head, looking at Marquis Changning with a mixture of crying and laughing, her expression indescribably strange.
"Shen Zhihai, you don't know, do you? You don't have any so-called eldest son born out of wedlock."
I had a daughter back then, and she shouldn't have been named Chenchu. I secretly gave her a different name.
Large tears slid down Aunt Qiao's face.
She murmured absentmindedly, "My child has a name. Her name is Miaomiao, Shen Miaomiao. She shouldn't be called Shen Chu."
She's a girl, she's my daughter.
Aunt Qiao's mournful cries echoed through the courtyard.
Marquis Changning stood there stunned for a long time, then suddenly looked up at Shen Chu with a terrifying and urgent gaze.
"You gave birth to a daughter, but what about him? Is he a daughter too?"
Pei Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze fixed intently on Shen Chu.
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