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Several guards kicked the door to the study.

Lu Ruoying and Chu Xunzhen stood behind them.

Bang!

The study door was smashed open.

The guards rushed in, and the next moment, Chu Xunzhen and Lu Ruoying, who were still standing outside, heard their exclamations.

"My lord! Quick! Save the lord!"

The guards' voices rang out.

Lu Ruoying stepped into the study, followed closely by Chu Xunzhen.

As soon as the two entered, they saw Gu Changfeng, who was bound hand and foot, lying on the ground.

Several guards rushed forward to untie him.

"Changfeng, how are you?" Lu Ruoying's voice rang out.

She hurried forward, wanting to see Gu Changfeng.

However, the next moment, she stopped in her tracks.

"I'm alright, Mother."

Gu Changfeng looked up, a strange smile on his face.

Lu Ruoying was so frightened that she took three steps back.

The guards also felt a chill run down their spines.

Gu Changfeng seemed to see Chu Xunzhen, and he froze.

"Chu Xunzhen?"

Gu Changfeng stood up in surprise and looked at her, but the next moment, he seemed to notice his current appearance, which was too disheveled.

He immediately said, "Please ask Mother and Ninth Princess to wait outside for a moment."

Lu Ruoying came out of the study, and Chu Xunzhen also came out.

She addressed Chu Xunzhen, "Your Highness, did you see that three days ago, my son Changfeng has been showing a strange smile from time to time? I was wondering if something unclean had appeared in the manor. I also heard that Daoist Piaomiao was in the manor, so I went there to seek help."

Chu Xunzhen was delighted upon hearing this.

Gu Changfeng's sly smile was her doing.

She had previously used a "smiling face curse" on him.

It seems that the Gu worms have already erupted.

This worm is not fatal, but it will cause him to fall into a state of mental confusion.

Outsiders who see his sinister smile will only feel terrified, which is just as good as preventing Gu Changfeng from causing trouble outside.

Unexpectedly, Lu Ruoying came to her for help.

Just then, the study door creaked open.

Gu Changfeng came out.

He looked at Chu Xunzhen excitedly and said, "Zhenzhen, I knew you would come looking for me. Has Nangong Yue treated you badly? I will definitely treat you well. I will write a letter right away and divorce Chu Wanrou."

Chu Wanrou stared coldly at Gu Changfeng.

How could Brother Changfeng treat her like this?

He actually wants to divorce her?

He was the one who asked to marry her back then, and now he's the one who's discarding her like trash.

Chu Xunzhen frowned slightly and suddenly looked at Lu Ruoying.

"Madam Lu, if Lord Gu speaks like this again, I will leave immediately."

Lu Ruoying's expression changed, and she said, "Changfeng, don't talk nonsense. I invited the Princess Consort here to treat you."

Upon hearing this, Gu Changfeng looked at Chu Xunzhen and said, "Zhenzhen, you don't know any medicine. I know that was just an excuse you used to come. Now that we've met, there's no need to lie to Mother anymore."

Chu Xunzhen was taken aback at first, then sneered.

She suddenly turned her head and said to Madam Lu, "Madam, I, the Princess Consort, cannot cure Lord Gu's illness."

With that, Chu Xunzhen turned around and walked away quickly.

She thought that she could treat Gu Changfeng as just an ordinary patient and use him to obtain the Black Widow's gall and body, but now she couldn't wait to leave.

The thought of him looking at her with such filth made Chu Xunzhen's gaze turn cold.

"Zhenzhen!" Gu Changfeng shouted anxiously, standing up as he was about to chase after her, but he was extremely weak.

After chasing for only two or three steps, Gu Changfeng fell to the ground with a thud.

A woman rushed over from a distance and helped Gu Changfeng up.

"My lord, are you alright?" she asked Gu Changfeng in a sweet voice.

Upon seeing the woman's appearance, Lu Ruoying was stunned.

Chu Xunzhen paused, turned around, and stared intently at the woman.

The woman's appearance was remarkably similar to hers, bearing a striking resemblance of seven or eight parts. She was even wearing the same color ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress) that she loved to wear before she got married.

"Who are you?" Chu Xunzhen asked coldly.

"This servant is Jinlan, and she is a maidservant by the master's side."

Chu Xunzhen glanced at the marks on Jinlan's neck, and a feeling of nausea rose from his chest.

Lu Ruoying looked at Jinlan's appearance, then glanced at Chu Xunzhen, her eyes filled with shock.

Her son actually found a woman who looks so much like the Ninth Prince's wife?

Gu Changfeng, holding Jinlan's hand, stretched out his hands to Chu Xunzhen: "Zhenzhen, I really miss you so much, do you know? That night I thought she was you, that's why I took her in. Zhenzhen, please come back to me, okay?"

Shouyi and Shou'er drew their long swords and stood in front of the Gu family members.

Chu Xunzhen looked at Lu Ruoying and said, "Madam Lu, I will remember the humiliation that Lord Gu has inflicted on me today."

Gu Changfeng watched Chu Xunzhen's retreating figure, reaching out to chase after her, but he was in a wheelchair and couldn't keep up.

His eyes were filled with pain, and they were even slightly red from being too excited.

Suddenly, he gave Lu Ruoying a strange smile.

Lu Ruoying was so frightened that her scalp tingled, and she ran straight back to the Chongding Marquis's residence.

In the blink of an eye, the entire Marquis of Loyalty's mansion was deserted.

Chu Wanrou also emerged from the shadows.

She stretched out her hands and forcefully covered Gu Changfeng's mouth, dragging him to a secret room in the Chongding Marquis's mansion.

"Rou'er! You're back? I was so worried about you these past few days. How are you?"

When Gu Changfeng saw Chu Wanrou, a look of hope appeared in his eyes, and he quickly asked her with concern.

"Really? Brother Changfeng, you're worried about me? Then why did you take my personal maid Jinlan away? I must have heard correctly, you're going to divorce me, aren't you?"

Chu Wanrou stared at Gu Changfeng with a strange look in her eyes.

Her brothers betrayed her, her father and mother betrayed her, and now even her brother Changfeng is going to betray her.

Looking at Chu Wanrou's sinister and eerie old face, Gu Changfeng's smile froze.

He said with a forced smile, "Rou'er, that's what I said to Chu Xunzhen on purpose. Rou'er, tell your husband, do you have a method for absorbing fortune? If your husband can help you, we can stay young forever."

Chu Wanrou's face now looks more than twenty years older.

Looking at that face, Gu Changfeng felt a sense of unease rising within him.

In her past life, Chu Wanrou wasn't like this. She was strong, independent, proud, aloof, and charming. But now, she's aged, unrecognizable, and terrifying.

Chu Wanrou gave a sinister laugh: "Alright, Brother Changfeng, I'll teach you."

With that, Chu Wanrou pulled Gu Changfeng into the secret room of the study.

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Inside the carriage, Chu Xunzhen monitored Chu Wanrou's every move through the Zi Gu.

She already knew that Chu Wanrou was secretly watching.

Chunxi looked at her princess and asked, "Your Highness, isn't Gu Changfeng disgusting? He actually deliberately chose a girl who looks so much like you as your concubine? This is a complete humiliation to you."

Chu Xunzhen sneered: "Gu Changfeng? I don't even need to deal with him, he's doomed anyway."

Through the feedback from the Gu, she already knew that Chu Wanrou had brought Gu Changfeng to the secret room.

Chu Wanrou has revealed her true colors at the Marquis of Ping'an's residence and is now insane.

It's easy to imagine that Gu Changfeng will be pleasantly surprised by the "surprise" his wife gives him.

They returned to the Ninth Prince's Mansion.

Chu Xunzhen asked Chunxi to prepare for her, as she wanted to take a bath.

Nangong Yue leaned against the couch, looking at the bright moon outside the window.

Chu Xunzhen had just finished washing up when she saw this picture of a handsome man under the moon.

Under the moonlight, the beauty mark under Nangong Yue's eye appeared even more alluring.

Chu Xunzhen glanced at him and smiled, "Your Highness, I'm going to bed tonight."

To avoid pressing down on him, she had always slept on the small couch next to him.

Nangong Yue looked at her; drops of water dripped from her dark hair down her collarbone, and her graceful figure was faintly visible beneath the light veil.

Suddenly, his eyes darkened.

"Sister, you've worked so hard. I'm much better now. Don't worry about pressing on my wound."

As Nangong Yue spoke, she picked up a dry cloth and gently wiped Chu Xunzhen's soaked hair.

Suddenly, Anshun's footsteps sounded outside the room.

"Your Highness, Chen Lianxin has run away."

Upon hearing this, Chu Xunzhen immediately stood up.

She hasn't interrogated her yet.

If she had known that Gu Changfeng was so hateful, she would never have agreed to the snake gall and wasted a whole day.

Nangong Yue paused, then placed her hand on Chu Xunzhen's shoulder, her magnetic voice ringing out: "Sister, don't be anxious. I deliberately let Chen Lianxin leave."

"Why is that?" Chu Xunzhen asked in surprise.

"Nangong Qing has disappeared. She will definitely try to find Chen Lianxin."

Chu Xunzhen understood.

Nangong Yue was trying to lure the snake out of its hole.

"Sister, you've had a hard time these past few days." Nangong Yue said, her well-defined knuckles wiping Chu Xunzhen's hair.

Chu Xunzhen enjoyed this moment of tranquility.

"It's not hard work," Chu Xunzhen said, suddenly remembering everything she had seen at the Marquis of Zhongyi's residence today.

She wanted to tell Nangong Yue, but considering that his injury had only just healed, she didn't want to upset him.

Suddenly, Nangong Yue leaned down and whispered in her ear, "What are you thinking about, sister? Why are you hesitating? You're not like the sister you used to be."

Upon hearing this, Chu Xunzhen blushed and came back to her senses: "I was thinking about today's events."

"Let me guess, is it about Gu Changfeng?"

Chu Xunzhen's eyes held a hint of annoyance: "The design of his Marquis of Loyalty's residence is based on my previous design. I don't like him living there."

Upon hearing this, Nangong Yue looked puzzled.

After a moment, he seemed to realize something and exclaimed in surprise, "Sister, you used to draw design plans for mansions?"

"I only did this in my spare time before," Chu Xunzhen chuckled dryly.

She couldn't very well say that she was reborn, could she?

She was afraid that if she revealed this secret, Nangong Yue would think she was a monster.

Nangong Yue looked at Chu Xunzhen with deep affection in her eyes.

His simple-minded sister is unaware that they have both been given a second chance at life.

Unfortunately, he couldn't say it, otherwise he wouldn't be able to continue existing, and his sister would lose their beautiful memories.

A cold wind blew in from outside the window.

The year was drawing to a close, and Chu Xunzhen looked at the sky outside, knowing that a drought was imminent.

Chu Xunzhen got up and wrote down a plan for disaster relief.

Nangong Yue is now able to get up. Although she needs someone to help her walk, she can walk on her own with the help of crutches.

Looking at the disaster relief plan written by Chu Xunzhen, he was surprised: "Sister, you wrote it so well."

"Your Highness, this is the disaster relief plan I have devised. Since last month, the Wan Yao Ge (Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion) has been stockpiling medicinal herbs. We already have some, but it's still not enough. Could Your Highness assist me by sending your men to neighboring countries to purchase more herbs?"