After the prince was reborn, he forced me to marry him and took me into the East Palace

"I don't know him." Nan Yuan shook her head. He looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where he was. He shouldn't be an important person.

"Oh, I don't know him." Hua Qichuan also smiled, but no one knew how bitter it was.

"Well, I don't know what you like since this is our first meeting." Hua Qichuan said as he untied the jade pendant from his waist. He remembered that Nan Yuan had said before that she was going to Jiangnan and was short of money. The most valuable thing on him was this jade pendant.

"How about this..."

"Qi Chuan, the gift you prepared is here, did you forget?" Chu Zhixu saw that something was wrong and hurried forward to help.

Hua Qichuan just remembered it now, and was at a loss, saying: "Why don't you just keep them all."

Nan Yuan looked at Gu Jingheng's expression, and he also looked at Nan Yuan and said, "Look at what I'm doing. If you like it, take it."

Gu Jingheng's expression was no different from before, and Nan Yuan didn't think much about it. She took it and thanked him.

like?

Do you really like it?

Are the gifts from others so good? Are you so happy to accept them?

Did he never send it before or what? Why didn't she act like this when he sent it?

What she likes is this thing or the person?

Can’t Nan Yuan see the way Hua Qichuan looks at her?

The jade pendant is such an intimate object, yet she really dares to accept it!

Or are you interested in Hua Qichuan?

"Everyone, please take a seat." Chu Zhixu always felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange and took the initiative to ease it.

Nan Yuan held the gift in both hands and wanted to put it down, but unexpectedly Gu Jingheng just waved his hand and knocked everything to the ground.

With a "bang", Nan Yuan was startled.

Before I could react, my jaw started to hurt.

"Do you like it?" Gu Jingheng used force in his hands, pinching her face until it turned red, staring at Nan Yuan with cold eyes, "You have never seen good things before, isn't it ugly to eat like this, huh?"

Gu Jingheng's attitude was very frivolous and he didn't give Nan Yuan any face.

Nan Yuan felt a little pain from his pinch, but she felt even worse in her heart. She bit her lip and looked up at Gu Jingheng stubbornly.

How could he despise himself like this?

Perhaps this is his purpose.

He just wanted her to recognize her place, but unfortunately she thought he really wanted to bring her to meet his friends.

Nan Yuan was a little dazed and didn't dare to speak.

"You scared her." Hua Qichuan stepped forward to stop him.

It would have been fine if he didn't say anything. Once he started talking, Gu Jingheng became even angrier and the strength in his hands became uncontrollable.

Nan Yuan was weak to begin with, and he had been feeding her with medicine for such a long time. Now he threw her aside, and she couldn't even stand. She fell to the side, and her forehead hit the corner of the table, bleeding.

Nan Yuan frowned in pain but still said nothing.

There's no point saying anything, it will only bring more embarrassment.

Hua Qichuan glanced at Nan Yuan with mixed feelings and said, "You go out first."

Nan Yuan didn't know what the connection between them was. She only knew that Gu Jingheng had achieved his goal of humiliating her and there was no point in her staying any longer, so she stood up and wanted to leave.

"You are so obedient, why don't you listen to what I say? Or are you so fickle that you fall in love with every girl you meet?"

"Do you have to... do this to me?" No matter how hard Nan Yuan tried to suppress it, the bitterness in her heart gradually spread.

Gu Jingheng sneered and said, "Isn't what I said true?"

Nan Yuan knew what he wanted to say, just like he had said it to her countless times before.

Bitch, fickle, can't stand loneliness.

"If you weren't a fickle woman, would you go out and look for a strange man?"

"If it weren't for this, why would you still hook up with me after you got married to Xie Luochen?"

"Don't you just enjoy the feeling of having everyone in your hands? Now that Xie Luochen is gone, you're setting your sights on Hua Qichuan, right?"

Gu Jingheng's words echoed in Nan Yuan's mind word by word. Nan Yuan felt a little unsteady on her feet. She held onto the edge of the table to barely support herself, but the pain in her heart was more obvious than before.

Asking for trouble.

Nan Yuan said nothing, turned around and walked out. Her thin body looked extremely frail, but also revealed her stubbornness and forbearance.

Hua Qichuan took a look and felt heartbroken.

This is the kind of life she lives, no wonder she was so defensive when I saw her in the temple.

"Look? It's not yours even if you look at it again." Gu Jingheng's voice came from behind, which shocked Hua Qichuan's heart, but also made him wake up.

"If you're angry, just vent it to me. Why make things difficult for her? Look at her now. Can she withstand a few slaps from you?"

Hua Qichuan had good eyesight, so he naturally saw the scars on Nan Yuan's face and hands.

These didn't exist before.

It can only be done during this period of time.

From Gu Jingheng's attitude today, it can be seen that he will definitely beat or scold Nan Yuan.

Her life was even worse than she had imagined.

"Whether she can withstand it or not is none of your business. She is my bed-warmer. It's her fate if she dies or gets disabled." Every word Gu Jingheng uttered was colder than the last.

Hua Qichuan stood there in a daze for a long time before he slowly came to his senses, feeling an inexplicable sadness in his heart.

If he had a choice, he might have taken a gamble in the temple, risking his life and fortune to take her to Jiangnan, and perhaps things wouldn't have happened today.

But there is no "if" in life. Nan Yuan is now with Gu Jingheng, and he is the one who can decide her life or death.

Thinking of this, Hua Qichuan sighed and said, "I have nothing to do with her, never before and still not now. She is not the fickle person you say she is. There must be a misunderstanding between you two."

"You know me. If there is anything between her and me, I will admit it. I am not someone who dares to do something but not take responsibility for it."

"So, please calm down. Words can hurt people the most."

Gu Jingheng smiled, but his smile was cold.

suspicion?

They were entangled right under his nose, and he told him that he was suspicious?

Gu Jingheng suddenly remembered that Hua Qichuan had told him before that he was going to Jiangnan, and he was selling all his property to go to Jiangnan.

How could he forget it?

Nan Yuan’s maternal grandparents are from Jiangnan.

One by one, they all wanted to leave me and go to Jiangnan.

He doesn't believe that there is no trick here.

Oh, and how did they know each other?

Gu Jingheng suddenly thought of something and asked, "October 9th, where are you?"

Hua Qichuan was stunned for a moment, then replied, "October 9th, the day before I left for the Great Wall, of course I was at Ruyixuan, and it was you who arranged it for me."

Ruyixuan?

The restaurant was where Nan Yuan found the wild man.

Gu Jingheng's eyes darkened suddenly, and the smile on his lips became even bigger. He asked calmly, "What did you do? Did you order a woman?"

Hua Qichuan wanted to say no, but he saw that Gu Jingheng was suspecting that there was something going on between him and Nan Yuan. If he continued to say that he was pure and had no desires, he would not be bothered by anything.

Considering Jing Heng's suspicion, he might think that he was waiting for Nan Yuan.

So he changed his words and said, "I ordered it."

Sure enough.

Gu Jingheng clenched his hands into fists hidden in his sleeves, pinching his palms with his fingertips. The stinging feeling made him calm down a little, but there was still a murderous gleam in his eyes.

right by your side.

The adulterer he had been looking for for so long was right under his nose.

No wonder we couldn’t find it before. We sent so many people but still couldn’t find it.

It turned out that someone close to him betrayed him!

"Get out! All of you get out!" Gu Jingheng growled, with an extremely ferocious expression on his face.

Hua Qichuan didn't want to stay either, so he turned around and left. He would explain again when he calmed down.

I'm afraid I won't listen to what he says because I'm angry.

"Go!"

Seeing Shen Zhaixing still standing there in a daze, Chu Zhixu quickly winked at him.

"Oh oh oh, okay." Shen Zhaixing put down the wine glass in his hand that had already gone cold, and followed him out.

Walking on the bluestone road, Shen Zhaixing glanced at Hua Qichuan, who had a complicated expression on his face, and then looked back at the angry Gu Jingheng who had long disappeared.

He sighed and complained, "I said that Nan Yuan had a foxy look on her face and was a disaster, but no one believed me."

"You see, it's only been a short time, not only has he bewitched Ah Heng to the point of losing his soul, but he's also trying to sow discord between Qi Chuan and Ah Heng."

"If you ask me, this kind of woman should... ah——"

Before Shen Zhaixing could finish his words, he felt a pain in his chest and was kicked back several steps.

He stared at Hua Qichuan in disbelief and shouted, "What are you doing? Is there anything wrong with what I said? If it weren't for her, would you and Ah Heng have been able to quarrel?"

They were such good brothers before, almost wearing the same pants, and never had any quarrels. But now they are almost fighting, and isn’t it all because of Nan Yuan, that troublemaker?

Hua Qichuan grabbed Shen Zhaixing by the collar and said word by word: "This is a matter between Gu Jingheng and me. He is angry because he is petty and because I did something inappropriate. That's fine. But this matter cannot be blamed on Nan Yuan. She knows nothing. When something happens, putting all the blame on a woman is a waste of behavior."

"Also, you know, I have always had a bad temper. If you dare to say bad things about her in front of me again, I will beat you to a pulp!"

After Hua Qichuan finished speaking, he threw Shen Zhaixing to the ground and turned away.

Shen Zhaixing covered his aching chest and was unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

Why is this person becoming more and more irritable?

It was just a sentence. Is it necessary to be so furious?

"Okay, we're all angry, so stop making trouble." Chu Zhixu sighed and warned, "You need to control your mouth, otherwise you'll get into trouble sooner or later."

"I'm the only one who gets punched? You all take it out on me, right?" Shen Zhaixing said unconvincedly as he stood up while rubbing his chest.

The prince's bedroom.

Nan Yuan walked back into the bedroom filled with imperial power and blood in a daze.

In her eyes, those magnificent, splendid, luxurious things that everywhere showed nobility, elegance and respect, now became her shackles, trapping her!

Everything here is what she wanted but couldn't get in her previous life, but she can't avoid it in this life.

Gu Jingheng went through so much trouble, and now he feels bored, so he's using her to make fun of him, right?

Her dignity and face are worthless in his eyes!

Her life was trampled underfoot, and she was allowed to be humiliated by him at will!

“Heh…ha…”

She let out a low, hoarse laugh that seemed both self-deprecating and sad.

"What? Are you so upset that you can't see your lover? Are you so short of men?" Gu Jingheng stood behind her and said in a cold and sarcastic tone: "Or are you so cheap that you don't care about my kindness and have to do it secretly to be happy?"

His words were like a sharp dagger, mercilessly piercing Nan Yuan's wound and causing her to bleed profusely.

She raised her head and looked at the handsome face that she once loved and was infatuated with, but now she only felt hatred, without any emotion at all.

"Your Highness, please calm down." Nan Yuan didn't force herself on him. If she did, she would be the only one who would get hurt.

Gu Jingheng grabbed Nan Yuan's hand, dragged her in front of the mirror, pinched her chin and made her look at the person in the mirror.

He deliberately revealed the scar that Nan Yuan tried so hard to hide and showed it to Nan Yuan.

"Look at it yourself. What an ugly scar. How can you have the face to seduce others? Huh?"

Gu Jingheng pinched her jaw tighter and tighter, almost crushing Nan Yuan's bones. She looked at herself in the mirror.

It's really ugly.

The brown scar spread from the ear to the corner of the mouth. It could not be covered no matter what. It crawled on the face like a centipede, which was shocking.

The originally beautiful and exquisite little face now became hideous and terrifying, like a devil crawling out of hell.

Nan Yuan looked at herself in the mirror and smiled.

This time, she laughed very loudly, tears came out of her eyes, and even breathing became painful.

"The way you smile makes me sick. You look disgusting." Gu Jingheng patted her face in disgust and said frivolously and annoyedly.

"Come on, tell me, what else do you have to seduce Hua Qichuan?"

"You slept with him, right?" Gu Jingheng grabbed her long hair again, forcing her to raise her head and look at him, his eyes fierce and cruel.

He said, "You like him very much, huh? Have you liked him for a long time? Do you want to have a one-night stand with him? Does he know that you are a slut who can sleep with anyone? You are not worthy of him at all. How can you dream of going to Jiangnan with him? Does he want you?"

Nan Yuan looked at Gu Jingheng and suddenly felt that she was really blind and heartless for loving him for so many years.

"Come on, use all your skills and let me see how you seduce people." Gu Jingheng reached out to pull Nan Yuan's clothes.

Nan Yuan was shocked. She looked at the door, which was wide open. There were so many maids and servants in the yard, and countless secret guards hiding in the dark. There were so many people.

"Gu Jingheng, you can't do this, you can't do this to me!" Nan Yuan said with tears in her eyes, almost begging.

"Why, are you still afraid of being seen?"

"Why aren't you afraid when you do something like this to seduce a man?"

Gu Jingheng's hand fell on her belt and pulled it hard. Her outer shirt slipped off, revealing a white gauze dress with a low neckline, revealing her fair and slender neck.

Nan Yuan panicked and immediately protected her chest and kicked and hit him.

She would never dare to do anything out of line in public.

Gu Jingheng became even more annoyed when he saw Nan Yuan's reaction.

Does she love Hua Qichuan so much?

Do you love him so much that you resist so fiercely even when he touches you?

It doesn't matter if he's unwilling, he will definitely get what he wants.

Gu Jingheng forcefully pried Nan Yuan's hands apart, pushed her down on the table, and bullied her.

His movements were rough and brutal, with no gentleness at all.

"Get away, let me go!" Nan Yuan cried.

But to no avail.

Nan Yuan didn’t know how long this torture lasted. When she woke up, the sky was dim, like early morning.

Gu Jingheng had already left, and only the maids were left around to serve him.

Nan Yuan was very thirsty and she struggled to get out of bed.

"Just tell me what you want, my lady." A maid came up quickly and asked.

Nan Yuan shook her head. She didn’t want to see anyone, so she asked them to go down and she would do it herself.

But the maid looked at her as if she wanted to say something but hesitated. Nan Yuan was too lazy to guess and didn't want to guess, so she pushed her away and wanted to walk out.

But after taking a few steps, my neck felt tight.

She was stunned and looked back.

There was a chain hanging around her neck.