Chapter 804: My cousin is reborn and wants to snatch my marriage (13)
The remote little courtyard was already filled with people watching the fun. No matter how Zhou tried to keep some privacy for her daughter, it was of no avail. Others looked at Gu Shiyao, who was entangled with the strange man, with shocked, contemptuous or gloating eyes.
Regardless of whether she was innocent or not, judging from the current situation, she was destined to end up in disgrace. In an instant, she went from being the envied and noble eldest daughter of a Duke's Mansion to a frivolous, dissolute and lowly woman.
"Tsk tsk, even though the prince of Qiyanghou is a playboy and has no real ability, Gu Shiyao can't be so crazy as to have an affair with someone in her fiancé's house, right? What on earth is she thinking?"
"What are you thinking? Just for excitement! Hehe, maybe he doesn't like the prince and does it on purpose."
"No one is watching! How could the Duke of Anguo raise such a daughter? It's immoral!"
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The people around were watching the show and whispering to each other. Zhou was angry and hateful. After pulling the man off the bed, she slapped the unconscious Gu Shiyao hard and said, "Wake up!"
Gu Shiyao finally woke up because of the pain, but it was worse than being unconscious at the moment. When she realized that she was almost naked, and saw the man on the ground who was as embarrassed as her, and the onlookers outside the door with different expressions, she was shocked so much that her eyes went dark and she passed out.
Zhou hurriedly called on the maids and servants she brought with her to help take Gu Shiyao away.
At this time, the mistress of the mansion, Madam Qiyanghou, finally appeared. She looked at the scene in front of her. Her future daughter-in-law was actually having an affair with another man in her mansion, at her birthday party! This showed that she did not take the Qiyanghou Mansion seriously at all!
"Zhou! Gu Shiyao! Great, great! How dare you, mother and daughter, humiliate our mansion like this! Just wait, the Marquis and I will never let this matter go easily! We don't want this marriage! Who would dare to marry such a withered woman? Get out of my mansion right now..." The wife of Marquis Qi Yang was so angry that her chest kept heaving. If she didn't have a trace of rationality left, she would have wanted to have Gu Shiyao beaten to death.
She was having an affair with someone behind her fiancé's back in broad daylight, and in his house! She was so arrogant and blatantly humiliating their mansion. How could she not be angry? She was almost furious.
"No, Madam Marquis, you misunderstood. My daughter was framed. How could she do such a thing..." Zhou was anxious to explain to Madam Marquis, but Madam Marquis would not listen to her at all. She thought that everything was her excuse, so she unceremoniously ordered everyone in the Anguo Mansion to be driven out, even Gu Shichu was not an exception.
Gu Shichu: ...This is really an unexpected disaster.
Gu Shiyao was very satisfied with this ending. She was not a good person and did not believe in repaying evil with kindness. She only believed that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth could make the perpetrator feel the pain of the victim.
It was Gu Shiyao who wanted to frame her and Mingxun first, and she and Mingxun were just fighting back. If she was still the simple and innocent girl of the original owner, Gu Shiyao's frame-up would have succeeded, and her end would be even more miserable than Gu Shiyao's current situation. After all, Gu Shiyao would have Zhou who loved her and Duke Anguo to help her clean up the mess, but the original owner did not have such good treatment. After experiencing all that Gu Shiyao did, the original owner would either be killed or sent to a nunnery to fend for herself.
It was for this reason that even though Gu Shichu was implicated and driven out by the wife of Marquis Qi Yang, he was in a good mood.
But Zhou and Gu Shiyao were very distressed. On the way back home, even though they did not ride in the same carriage with Zhou and her daughter, Gu Shichu, who was following behind, could hear Zhou's angry questioning of Gu Shiyao in the carriage in front.
This kind of scandal with a romantic connotation is the easiest to spread at the fastest speed, not to mention that the heroine in the scandal is a noble lady who actually had an affair with someone in her fiancé's house...
The public loves to see a high and mighty favored child of heaven fall into the mire overnight and become despised by everyone. The erotic scandal of Gu Shiyao perfectly fits this point, so her story spread among the wealthy families in the capital within a day and became the topic of conversation after dinner.
Even if Zhou came to her senses and wanted to ask those present to keep the secret, it would be impossible because it was too late. Moreover, some of the female relatives among them had the same or even higher status as the Duke of Anguo's Mansion. They were not afraid of the power of the Duke of Anguo's Mansion, so Zhou had no way of stopping the spread of this matter.
"What's wrong with you? Why would you have an affair with someone... and be discovered in public?" Zhou dragged Gu Shiyao back to the main courtyard, closed the door, and began to inquire about what happened and try to find a solution.
However, after Gu Shiyao woke up in the carriage and realized the seriousness of the situation, she collapsed and could only cry hysterically, unable to say any useful information.
"Mother! Mother! I'm finished..." Tears were streaming down her face, her eyes were red and swollen, and she could only say this sentence over and over again.
After all, Zhou was a person who had experienced a lot of things. Although she also collapsed, she was able to endure it better than her daughter. Therefore, she knew that crying was useless and she could only understand the situation and then deal with the follow-up matters.
Seeing that Gu Shiyao was still broken and irrational, she slapped her hard again and cursed, "Hold on! Tell me why this happened!"
Gu Shiyao was awakened by a slap in the face. She didn't dare cry anymore and could only tell Zhou everything that happened before she lost consciousness.
"You said you originally wanted to set up Gu Shichu and Mingxun for an affair?" Zhou couldn't believe her ears. "Why did you do this? What good would it do for you? Even if you didn't want to marry Mingxun, there are many ways to do it, without having to frame him. Why did you do this? And at the birthday banquet of the Marquis of Qiyang's mansion and his wife? Do you know that even if your plan succeeds, our mansion will offend the Marquis of Qiyang's mansion?"
"Mother, mother, I was wrong..." Gu Shiyao finally realized that she had overestimated her abilities, and cried bitterly as she explained, "I don't know why I made a mistake..."
"Why else? You're causing trouble in someone else's house, how could they not know? Only the owner of the Qiyang Marquis's house could turn the tables on you, but you're in the wrong!" Zhou was so angry at her own daughter, "How could I not know you were so stupid? It's all my fault for spoiling you too much. You became lawless and self-righteous..."
Zhou regretted his decision now.
(End of this chapter)
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