I want to make progress

Chapter 2: Pearls and Gravel

Now, in the end, she has to bear all the consequences. It's really...

Shu Yunfu had a ferocious look on her face as she squeezed the cup in her hand. The cup was almost broken by her. Anyone who prevented her from living a good life was her enemy!

"No matter what, now that it's like this, we have to stay away from the Duke. After all, I'm his brother's woman now. He probably won't do anything to me openly, but behind my back... Hmm? Yuyan, what's wrong with you?"

"The country... the country... the Duke of the country!"

Things have come to this point, and she has no choice but to face it. Looking at Gu Changting's expression today, she should just stay away from him. But just after she said a few words, she saw Yuyan with an expression as if she had seen a ghost. Just as she was about to turn around, Yuyan's words made her whole body stiff.

Damn it! If someone heard it, it would just add fuel to the fire!
"I……"

"go out!"

She turned around tremblingly and met Gu Changting's gloomy face. She was about to speak when she was interrupted. Looking at the angry man, she shrank her neck and dared not say another word.

They could only watch as Yuyan, the girl, slipped away knowing the situation, without worrying at all that her master would be eaten by Gu Changting.

"you……"

There were only two people left in the room. Shu Yunfu could not bear the low pressure and opened her mouth to argue, but as soon as she opened her mouth, her slender neck was strangled by a big hand. She found it difficult to breathe instantly. Her small face, which was the size of a palm, turned red with discomfort, and her back was hurt by the collision of the table behind her.

"You climbed onto my bed and turned around to become Gu Changheng's woman. What a beauty trap, what a rift!" His breath froze, and he exerted force with his hands, "Tell me! What is your purpose! Were you sent by Shu Hanshan?"

Shu Yunfu was stunned, she grabbed his hand and looked at the furious man, and suddenly realized that this man thought she was sent by her cheap father!

"Well……"

This man's grip was really strong, and he wasn't afraid of hurting her. "Duke, please don't wrongly accuse me. After all, one night of marriage is worth a hundred days of love. How dare you kill me!"

"Besides, it wasn't me who climbed into your bed. It was you who took advantage of me. I saved you, but now you're blaming me for what I did. It's really hurtful~!"

She curled her lips into a smile, tilted her head back, and looked straight at the man with a pair of sparkling eyes. With a scolding sound, she put her hand painted with scarlet cardamom on the man's thin waist. The hard feeling reminded her of the ridiculous night two days ago. She knew better than anyone how this man had a body that made women covet.

"Do you really doubt me, or are you jealous?"

Her delicate hands climbed up, but the man took a few steps back as if he was avoiding the plague, which made her feel very unhappy, but...

"Cough cough..."

She touched her neck which had been freed again, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she looked at the man with hooks in her eyes. As long as there is a reaction, it's good!

"stop!"

Gu Changting stared at the vixen-like woman in front of him with a sullen face, gritting his teeth. In the past, he thought she was smart, but today's incident made him realize that this woman in front of him was not as pure and kind as he thought. In his opinion, everything about her was a hidden agenda.

"What the Duke said is really sad. Could it be that the Duke doesn't want to recognize me? It's not what I want to have ended up like this."

Being pushed away, she pouted sadly, tilted her head, and said with a distressed and aggrieved look: "Duke, your brother is indeed a young talent. It is not an injustice for me to be his concubine."

"But compared to the Duke, it's incomparable..." She poured a cup of tea, and with her white and tender fingers, she moved closer to him step by step, her eyes sparkling and full of stars, "With pearls and jade in front of me, how can I see the gravel!"

"Well……"

Gu Changting moved his neck uncomfortably. He didn't know how to respond to such straightforward words.

But he was even more confused in his heart, and just as he opened his mouth, he forced a sip of tea and swallowed the tea in his mouth with indifferent eyes. He wanted to see what words her eloquent mouth could say.

"whee……"

She smiled, tossed her long sleeves, and sat back at the table. She poured herself a cup of tea, took a sip from the cup with both hands, and said slowly, "Actually, the Duke shouldn't ask me this question..."

With one hand on her face, she turned her head to look at him, her eyebrows slightly raised, "Duke, don't you know that your cousin has always been in your heart!"

She didn't believe that the Gu family didn't know that Gu Changheng had someone in his heart. After all, she had heard of the reputation of the Duke of England's Mansion. She didn't believe that Gu Changting, as the head of the family and the current Duke of England, wouldn't be unaware of it. If that were the case, the Duke of England's Mansion would have been gone long ago, and only outsiders like them didn't know about it.

At the beginning, she knew the situation of the two brothers very well. Gu Changheng was in his twenties, but he had never married, had no concubines, and even had no maid.

If she hadn't overheard the secret accidentally later, she would have really thought that Gu Changheng was a good man who kept his chastity, but she didn't expect that he was such a scumbag!
I couldn't help but recall the situation when I discovered Gu Changheng's secret by the lotus pond that day...

More than a month ago, the imperial court sent an imperial envoy to Xuancheng to investigate the case of embezzlement of special funds for dam construction. The imperial envoy was none other than the famous Duke of Yingguo, Gu Changting, a big shot around the emperor!
Knowing that such a huge Buddha was coming, the officials of Xuancheng, both high and low, were on high alert, fearing that they would not entertain him well enough or be implicated. After all, everyone knew that although the Duke of Yingguo was young, he was very capable.

Especially those who have extended their hands are in a state of panic all day long, but they dare not show any abnormality.

Originally, entertaining the imperial envoy had nothing to do with the Shu family and a small official like Shu Hanshan. At most, he would serve as a background board and helper beside the big guys.

However, Gu Changting was not satisfied with the place that the prefect had prepared for him to stay, nor was he satisfied with the prefect's mansion. He just took a fancy to the exquisite little house of the Shu family, saying that it looked comfortable.

Anyway, she didn't know whether Gu Changting felt comfortable or not, but the Shu family was facing a great enemy. They suddenly received such an important task and were in a panic. If time allowed, they would have to renovate the entire yard.

As a result, the Shu family was delighted to get a young, handsome and capable imperial envoy, as well as the imperial envoy's cousin, who was also a young talent, Gu Changheng.

It would be fine if these two were greasy fat guys with big bellies and unshaven beards, but these two were top-notch wealthy sons-in-law in the entire Dayong in terms of identity, status, appearance and talent. All the ladies in Xuancheng's upper society were immediately agitated.

(End of this chapter)