July of the eleventh year of Chengde, Wanqinghou Mansion.
In Kuanhe Hall, several betrothal gifts were placed, and everyone was smiling and feeling happy.
Gu Xiyan's sudden arrival instantly turned the bustling lobby into silence.
Liu Shuzheng was the first to react. He lowered his face and shouted: "What are you doing here? Aren't you embarrassed enough?!"
Gu Xiyan glanced at the man who gave birth to her but did not support her, and her emotions did not fluctuate.
She chose to ignore Liu Shuzheng and walked directly to the handsome Zhou Xing.
Speaking of King Zhou Xing of Qin, his reputation was not only known far and wide in the capital, but also throughout the entire Jin Dynasty.
It is said that there is no other young master in the world, and Zhou Xing is the first young master in the Jin Dynasty. This is partly because he is the grandson of the prince and has a distinguished family background.
I don’t know how many noble girls want to marry Zhou Xing. She once thought she would be the luckiest one.
The bloody experience in her previous life told her that provoking Zhou Xing would be a disaster.
Zhou Xing didn't expect that Gu Xiyan would show up when he came to propose marriage. He looked at her face as pale as snow and felt uncomfortable.
Today, only three days have passed since he broke off his engagement to Gu Xiyan.
What's more, the person he proposed to marry today was Gu Xiyan's sister Liu Chaoyan.
"Xiyan..."
"The daughter of the people respectfully invites His Royal Highness the King of Qin to Jin'an." Gu Xiyan bowed her head and bowed. Her voice was crisp and clear, covering up Zhou Xing's silent murmur.
She put down the wooden box in her hand and took out a rattle, "This is the rattle given by His Highness to the girl when she was four years old."
Her mother was still alive when she was four years old, and she was once the apple of her parents' eyes. Zhou Xing was seven years old at the time, and the rattle was his first birthday gift to her. Over the years, the rattle has been well preserved, as if it were brand new. She took out the nine-link ring that was as shiny as new and said, "This is the nine-link ring that was given to me by His Highness when I was five years old."
It's just that she's not smart, and she didn't learn to solve the Nine Links until she was six years old.
She took out in turn the birthday gifts given to her by her birthday party in previous years. Each of them was intact, which showed how much the owner cherished these gifts.
"This is the birthday gift given by His Highness to the daughter of the common people that year." Gu Xiyan finally took out a jade hairpin with butterfly tassels.
Maybe it was left in the box for too long, and the originally eye-catching and exquisite headdress has now become dull.
Just like Zhou Xing's bright eyes when he looked at her, they later became obscure.
Zhou Xing had played an important role in her life in the past twelve years. When she was walking alone, as long as she thought about Zhou Xing accompanying her, she felt that there was still hope for her life.
She didn't know what kind of attachment she had for Zhou Xing, but it didn't matter anymore.
The warmth that Zhou Xing had given her was shattered into dust by his own hands on the day he came to propose marriage to Liu Chaoyan.
"The daughter of the common people once thought about wearing it on the day she got married and marrying His Highness the King of Qin, but..."
She smiled with relief and took a look at the dazzling array of gifts in the wooden box. "These are all gifts given by His Highness to the daughter of the people. Now the daughter of the people has returned them all to His Highness. The reason why the women of the people showed up on such a good day like today
, I feel that since we have to break off, we must break off completely and let everyone bear witness."
"Since it is a gift to you, I have no reason to take it back, so take it back!" Zhou Xing felt anger burning in his heart.
In the past two years, he has found Gu Xiyan more and more boring, and he has become more and more disdainful of Gu Xiyan. But these birthday gifts she presented today reminded him of how deeply involved he and her have been over the years.
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It's just that the person he wants to marry cannot be a down-and-out noble girl with no sense of existence, but Liu Chaoyan is completely different from Gu Xiyan.
If Gu Xiyan, just like her name, is gradually fading into silence like the setting sun, then Liu Chaoyan is a bright and warm rising sun, smart, lively, beautiful, and also a person who is loved by thousands of people.
Behind Liu Chaoyan stood the entire Wanqinghou Mansion, and Wanqinghou was still a close minister of his father.
Even for the sake of the throne, he cannot marry a woman who is of no use to him.
He should have been pleased with Gu Xiyan's knowledge and wisdom, but when he saw that Gu Xiyan wanted to break up with him so cleanly, he was at a loss and didn't know why.
"Things that don't belong to civilian girls can't be taken back by civilian girls." Gu Xiyan saw the strange looks in the eyes of those around her.
There was pity, displeasure, and hatred. She used to care a lot about other people's eyes, but she has died once, and she will never be as stubborn as she was in her previous life, ruining her life for an unworthy man. In her previous life, when she knew that Zhou Xinglai was proposing marriage to Liu Chaoyan, she cried for a whole day.
At that time, she thought that Zhou Xing was her only support in her barren life, and losing him would mean losing everything.
It wasn't until she died and her soul was trapped beside Zhou Mu for decades that she realized that a mere Zhou Xing was nothing.
She learned self-love and self-respect during those years when she was with Zhou Mu. The biggest mistake she made was that she should not place her hopes on others, let alone rely on others to live like a dodder flower.
Gu Xiyan looked around everyone and said word by word: "I show up today, and I hope everyone here can bear witness. From now on, His Highness the King of Qin and I will have such a happy relationship..."
As soon as she exerted force, the butterfly tassel jade hairpin in her hand broke into two pieces.
In her previous life, her engagement was broken off, but she fell in love with Zhou Xing again, and was later forcibly abducted by him. Zhou Xing forced her to be his concubine, which not only ruined her reputation, but also caused her death in Fallen Fairy Mountain.
It was the box of birthday gifts given to her by Zhou Xing that made the world think that she was entangled with Zhou Xing after Zhou Xing got married, making it difficult for her to defend herself.
These gifts were once a honey pot for her twelve years of loneliness, but later they became arsenic that cost her life.
In this life, she just wants to stay away from Zhou Xing and not have anything to do with him.
"I have finished what I want to say. I will not disturb His Highness King Qin's good deeds. I will leave!" Gu Xiyan threw the broken butterfly jade hairpin at Zhou Xing's feet, turned around and wanted to leave this place of right and wrong.
Zhou Xing looked at Gu Xiyan's back and felt a little panicked for no reason: "Xiyan, stop!"
Liu Chaoyan rushed over at some point. When she heard Zhou Xing calling Gu Xiyan, she still had the innocent smile on her face. She rushed to Zhou Xing and diverted his attention: "Brother A Xing finally came to offer me a job."
Yeah!"
She was born delicate and beautiful, innocent and lovely, and her clear and beautiful pupils were filled with trust and love for Zhou Xing.
Even if he is as noble as Zhou Xing, being looked at by such a beautiful girl with such eyes will greatly satisfy his male vanity.
Zhou Xing touched her head and looked at her gently: "I said I would marry you, and I will never break my promise."
Liu Chaoyan nodded vigorously, and regardless of the presence of so many people watching, she quietly hooked Zhou Xing's finger and smiled like a flower.
Zhou Xing was dazzled by her sweet smile. When he looked up again, Gu Xiyan had disappeared.
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