Gu Qingyuan raised her eyes and saw the young man's face clearly.
The handsome young man in purple round-neck brocade clothes showed a gentle smile when he saw Gu Qingyuan,
"cousin……"
He looked at Gu Qingyuan who was standing stubbornly by the door.
"Long time no see, cousin, don't you recognize this king's cousin?"
Before Gu Qingyuan could react, the eldest prince, His Highness King Qin, spoke again.
"I also heard about this from Aunt Luo today, and I just feel that this matter cannot continue."
He gently raised his eyes, looked out the window, and said slowly,
"My cousin can guess that this king is here, and she is as smart as before."
His eyes fell on Gu Qingyuan in front of the door again.
Under the skylight, the girl in front of the door holds the light behind her and has deep eyes.
He chuckled lightly, "Since we all know each other, I won't beat around the bush. Let's just say it straight, Aunt Luo."
The steward aunt, who was called Aunt Luo, stood up slowly, bowed to His Highness King Qin, and said,
"Earlier, I didn't know about this. It was only when I met a maid sold by the Qin family in Shandong that I became aware of it."
"It turns out that after Qin lost her virginity to Duke Chengen, she missed the opportunity to enter the palace. But at that time, Duke Chengen already had a wife, so it was absolutely impossible for Qin to be his concubine."
"At that time, General Gu, who was still just the prince of Zhenguo, suddenly came to propose marriage, and Mrs. Qin reluctantly agreed."
"At that time, Mrs. Qin had already diagnosed her pregnancy."
Gu Qingyuan chuckled, "That's even more ridiculous. My mother adopted me many years after she married into the Duke of Zhenguo..."
There was no need for His Highness King Qin and Aunt Luo to continue talking, she already understood what they wanted to say.
He told her openly and secretly that she was Qin's child and that she and Pei Jinting might be siblings.
Now that the two of them are together, it is unethical and contrary to the law of heaven.
King Qin frowned. The lobby of Linjiangxian downstairs had changed into music at some point. The melodious singing penetrated the floor and floated up.
Aunt Luo glanced at King Qin and said again,
"The reason for this will be known better by those who come to Zhenguo Palace. However, I do have something here for the young lady to take a look at."
She turned around and went behind the screen. Then, slight footsteps approached from inside to outside. She held a box of huanghuali in her hand and handed it to Gu Qingyuan.
King Qin's face was soft, with a smile on his lips, and he motioned for Gu Qingyuan to open it.
"Cousin, the truth is indeed cruel, but blindly avoiding it will only make everyone suffer."
"Even if there is even a little bit of news about this matter, it will be a great harm to both the Duke of Zhen and you."
"As for Jingheng...of course he has been hurt, but he is a man, and after so many years..."
King Qin did not say any more, but looked at Gu Qingyuan with gentle and tolerant eyes.
Gu Qingyuan clenched her palms, and finally took the box from Aunt Luo's hand. After opening it, there was a thin booklet on the thin scarlet velvet cloth.
The corners are already wrinkled, presumably from someone reading it frequently.
On the front of the booklet, there are a few words written, Ling Xiao's Notes.
Ling Xiao is the diminutive name of the Qin family, and few people know it, but Gu Qingyuan knows it, which is why she likes Ling Xiaohua.
When I see Lingxiao Flower, I feel like I am seeing my deceased mother.
She didn't know why, but she was suddenly afraid to open the booklet in front of her.
From those four words on the title page, she could already conclude that this book belonged to the Qin family.
The last character in Ling Xiao's notes is missing one stroke because Qin's father's name contains this character, so one stroke is missing to show respect for him.
Her head felt dizzy, so she closed her eyes and slowly opened the booklet.
There are many little secrets of the Qin family written on it. In addition to their own, there are also daily life with Gu Shao, the Duke of Zhenguo, and a small part about Gu Qingyuan.
It's just one of Qin's many notebooks.
She looked at the next few lines and said, "... I learned today that the adopted daughter who has been carefully raised by my side is actually my biological son... It's really a blind eye..."
Gu Qingyuan trembled all over and stared at the booklet closely. She clearly knew every word, but now that she put it in one place, she seemed not to understand its meaning.
The words on the booklet were like flies, flying around her, buzzing non-stop.
The booklet fell to the ground.
With a look of compassion on his face, King Qin slowly walked to her, picked up the book, and whispered softly,
"Cousin...this is indeed your mother's note, and it clearly states that you are her and Cheng'en Gong's child..."
No. Gu Qingyuan took a step back.
She saw those words. Her memory was actually not very good, but the few lines above seemed to be imprinted in her mind.
"This is really an injustice... After spending the night with Pei Shu that day, we actually had a secret knot..."
She also wrote doubts on the back, "I felt pity and never had an abortion. I thought it was a stillbirth, but I was deceived unexpectedly..."
"It's really God's will to make people..."
Gu Qingyuan was completely stunned, and her heart seemed to have a dark hole.
This hole, with its mouth wide open, sucked in all the bright and brilliant things.
Only boundless darkness remains.
Like a wave, it surged towards her and drowned her.
Her ears were deaf and she couldn't hear any sounds, and her eyes were blind and she couldn't see anything clearly.
Gu Qingyuan kept retreating and retreating until she reached the railing of the corridor.
A breath of bloody breath forced out of his throat.
She didn't bother to wipe the corners of her mouth, and suddenly raised her head, staring at the instigator of today.
"I don't know why His Highness took so much trouble to arrange such a scene. Do you want the Gu family to be disgraced? You will never be able to hold your head up?"
"It's a pity. The Gu family is so strong that their heads can be broken and their heads can bleed. The only thing they know is that they can't beat their pride until they are beaten."
King Qin approached Gu Qingyuan step by step and surrounded her between him and the railing, like an intimate embrace.
"How could it be? If you want the Gu family to be disgraced, you can tell the world..."
"Ayuan..."
This cry of his was so tender and sweet, and it was repeated thousands of times, making people fascinated when listening to it.
"You are my cousin. We grew up together, how can we let this matter hurt you."
"It's a pity that your mother passed away so early. If you knew about this, you wouldn't be able to rest assured about being reincarnated on the road to hell, right?"
He frowned, slowly leaned down and said,
"You have always been smart and astute. If I don't believe it, you won't know what to do."
He rubbed the wooden railing and said slowly,
"Now, the only way is for you to leave Jingheng and pretend this never happened. How about that?"
Gu Qingyuan felt as if she had fallen into hell, and the recurring nightmares seemed to have no end.
She couldn't believe it was all true.
"Yuanyuan..." A familiar voice vaguely sounded in her ears, and Gu Qingyuan tilted her head like a puppet.
I saw a blurry face, with the mouth opening and closing.
It took her a while to see clearly.
At the entrance of the corridor, the man was wearing a sky-blue robe. He was tall and stunning, with a suave look between his eyebrows. The sky-blue robe was sewn by her stitch by stitch.