flstandardbreds Chapter 371 It's her, that crazy woman.
Chapter 371 It's her, that crazy woman.
The maidservant rushed forward and carefully helped her up. Looking at the stains on her body and the tear stains on her face, her eyes were filled with heartache and resentment.
"Princess, why are you doing this? He's just a deputy general, yet he's so arrogant, relying on the power of the General's Mansion!" the maid complained in a low voice.
Du Ruoling shook her head and remained silent.
She looked up in the direction Chu Ruohan and Gu Junze had left, her gaze complex and unreadable.
His fingertips clenched slightly, as if he could feel the resolute power in Gu Cheng'an's wave of his hand just now.
She remembered that night, when he was in a daze and deeply moved, he unconsciously murmured his name.
That woman, despite being heavily pregnant and overweight, still managed to easily capture his heart.
Gu Junze, Gu Cheng'an, one after another, they all revolve around her... Why?
Du Ruoling clenched her fists tightly, her knuckles turning bluish-white from the force.
She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.
No, now is not the time.
She hasn't won Gu Cheng'an back yet, so she can't afford to have a falling out now.
Chu Ruohan was protected by a menacing Gu Junze... If she went head-to-head with him, she wouldn't gain any advantage.
You must be patient and take it slowly.
"Let's go." She suppressed the surging jealousy and resentment in her heart.
The maidservant helped her leave the general's mansion.
The carriage slowly drove away, and as it passed through a quiet alley, suddenly—
"Uu——"
The horse let out a terrified neigh, reared up abruptly, the carriage shook violently, and then came to a sudden stop.
"What's wrong? What happened?!"
Du Ruoling was already in a bad mood, and now she was even angrier. She shouted at the outside, "What use are you if you can't even drive a horse properly?"
The coachman, still shaken, stammered, "Your Highness... Your Highness, it seems... it seems we hit someone?"
Du Ruoling frowned, her impatience growing.
She lifted the carriage curtain, and a gust of cold wind, carrying the damp smell of the alley, rushed in.
"Go down and have a look."
She lifted her skirt and, with the help of her maid, reluctantly stepped down from the carriage.
In the dim light, a figure was indeed curled up on the ground not far in front of the carriage, motionless.
That person's figure... why does it look somewhat familiar?
Du Ruoling took a few steps closer with suspicion, wanting to see the person's face clearly.
When her gaze fell on the man's disheveled hair and tattered clothes, and especially when she saw his face clearly, her pupils suddenly contracted and her expression changed drastically!
She gasped, instinctively taking a step back, her face drained of color, and cried out in shock:
"It's her?! That crazy woman!"
Du Ruoling subconsciously took a step back, bumping into the maid behind her, her face drained of color.
The owner of that face was none other than the former Marquis's wife, Gu Cheng'an and Gu Junze's biological mother, who should have perished in the fire and gone mad.
"You...you're not dead?" Du Ruoling's voice was filled with disbelief and horror. "That fire...it didn't kill you?"
Mother Gu slowly propped herself up from the ground. Her movements were somewhat sluggish, but her eyes were unusually clear, even carrying a hint of mockery.
She patted the dust off her worn-out clothes and looked straight at Du Ruoling with her cloudy eyes.
"What?" Gu's mother's voice was hoarse and dry. "Did I disappoint you?"
Du Ruoling forced herself to calm down and looked at her suspiciously, paying particular attention to her eyes, which were no longer dull and lifeless.
"Your madness...is cured?"
A terrible thought popped into my head.
"Did you wait for me here on purpose?" Du Ruoling's tone suddenly turned sharp. "What do you want to do?"
Mother Gu twitched the corners of her mouth, revealing a strange smile: "I'm here to help you."
"help me?"
Du Ruoling felt as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world and couldn't help but chuckle.
"What can you do to help me? Do you still think you're some high and mighty Lady Marquis, with everyone lining up for your charity?"
She would never forget how this woman used all sorts of methods to torment and humiliate her in the Marquis's mansion!
Thinking back to those days, Du Ruoling felt a burning hatred.
"See it clearly!"
Du Ruoling straightened her back, deliberately raised her chin, and spoke with undisguised contempt and vengeful pleasure.
"I am no longer the maidservant of Suijinxuan who you could manipulate at will! I am the Princess Anping, personally bestowed by the late Emperor! And you? A wanted criminal whose family was destroyed and who is barely clinging to life?"
Faced with Du Ruoling's sarcasm, Gu's mother showed no anger, but instead became even calmer.
"Gu Cheng'an is a piece of my flesh and blood." Gu's mother spoke slowly, her voice not loud, but clearly reaching Du Ruoling's ears.
"No one knows his personality better than I, his mother."
Du Ruoling sneered again: "Cheng'an has long since severed ties with you and your mother! Do you think he would still acknowledge you as his mother?"
"He likes sweet desserts and doesn't like the taste of ginger. He sleeps curled up like a child."
"He's stubborn and soft-hearted; if someone is even slightly kind to him, he'll want to repay them tenfold..."
Ignoring her sarcasm, Gu's mother continued speaking, each word like a small hammer gently striking Du Ruoling's heart.
"This child is very stubborn. Once he sets his mind on someone or something, nothing can change his mind. But he is also very opinionated and hates being deceived or betrayed."
Gu's mother's gaze fell on Du Ruoling, filled with a knowing understanding that seemed to know everything.
“If you hadn’t pushed him away step by step, using those underhanded methods to scheme and coerce him, how could Cheng’an have completely given up on you? I, as his mother, saw all the feelings he had for you back then.”
"You!" Du Ruoling's face turned pale and then red as she was struck on a sore spot. "Then why did you try so hard to break us up back then?!"
"What mother would want to see her carefully raised son marry a woman with no connections and who offers no help to his future as his legal wife?"
Gu's mother countered with a matter-of-fact tone, "If you become a mother one day, you might understand what I was thinking back then."
"I would never be like you!" Du Ruoling retorted immediately, with a sense of superiority from her modern education. "Interfering in your children's marriages, that's old-fashioned!"
Gu's mother did not argue with her, but simply looked at her calmly.
Du Ruoling felt a little uncomfortable under her gaze and suppressed her irritation.
"What exactly do you want? Just say it!"
A glint of light flashed in Gu's mother's cloudy eyes: "Find me a place to stay."
She paused, her voice alluring: "I will help you win back Gu Cheng'an's heart step by step."
Winning back Cheng'an's heart...
These words seemed to possess a magical power, instantly striking the deepest longing in Du Ruoling's heart.
Despite her feelings of disgust and disdain, the allure was undeniably irresistible.
Seeing Du Ruoling's hesitation, Gu's mother concealed a deep-seated hatred and intense killing intent beneath her lowered eyelids.
Her family, her wealth and glory, her youngest son Chengyan...
Gu Junze and Chu Ruohan ruined everything! Cheng Yan died such a tragic death!
How could she be willing to do so?
She wanted to live, she wanted revenge! She wanted Gu Junze and Chu Ruohan to taste the pain she had endured!
Blood debts must be repaid in blood!