The Fierce Farm Girl Has A Secret Space
Chapter 1101: Maintaining Image (5)

Chapter 1101: Chapter 1101: Maintaining Image (5)

"Young Master..." Chai Huan called out.

Gu Qingheng’s footsteps paused briefly, but he did not stop.

Chai Huan was one of the four maidservants left to him by his mother. After the incident that year, everyone protected him as they broke out of the Shu Region, but the assassins kept coming wave after wave. They had to split up to lead the assassins away. He had told them, as long as they were alive, they should fend for themselves. In the end, all four maidservants were injured and fell off a cliff, losing contact, leaving only Gu Yao and the wet nurse who had taken a stab for him...

When he stood up again, he had the Shadow Guard send out his unique signal. Anyone who had trained at the base would understand upon seeing it: it meant he had returned, and it was time for them to regroup.

The result, however, was that there was no news from the others, only an urgent message from Chai Huan. It was a signal sent out only in extremely urgent situations, and the result...

The most important rule in the base training was loyalty; they were to obey no one but their master. Chai Huan was no longer fit to serve as his guard, but in consideration of his mother’s memory, he did not kill her, thus fulfilling the loyalty between master and servant.

As for Dou Xuemei...

He had left his Xinxin and traveled day and night to get here, and it certainly wasn’t for this so-called cousin.

Don’t think he didn’t know that this so-called cousin indeed liked him, but she liked the perfect version of him. At the beginning, when his poisoning first manifested and he couldn’t stop coughing, the doctors couldn’t diagnose the cause, only suspecting tuberculosis. This good cousin turned around and left at the door. Why? Wasn’t it because she was afraid he’d infect her?

Now that he’s better, she comes running back full of affection? Does she take him for a fool?

As for her claim of spending two years in a nunnery meditating, he truly didn’t believe it was for him. How could such a selfish person wait for him, knowing that he was blind, lame, and barely alive? He really wanted to borrow Xinxin’s words to Song San: "Believe that, and you’ll believe anything!"

But let it go. He was a handsome and elegant young man, and Xinxin had entrusted him to always maintain his image. His head could be broken and his blood could flow, but his hair must never be disheveled. So, he wouldn’t curse. He’d just let her continue her act.

However, the real reason he would have someone investigate. He certainly wasn’t shouldering this scandal.

"Cousin..." Dou Xuemei didn’t stop and thus had to follow him once again, "In these three years with only ancient Buddhas for company, I was hoping that maybe the heavens would be moved by my sincerity and you would escape disaster. Now that you’ve really returned, don’t you want to talk to me? Your aunt loved me so much back then... Look, this is the coral bracelet she gave me... She even said that one day I should be your bride..."

Upon hearing about something from his mother, Gu Qingheng finally stopped and turned around. On that pale wrist, he indeed saw something that belonged to his mother. When the incident happened, he hadn’t managed to take with him anything his mother had with her. The Feng Family, though, had taken several items, but they were almost all pawned off in the past two years to pay for his treatment, and now, even if he wanted to redeem them, he couldn’t find them.

"When my aunt gave it to me, I was too small to wear it, but look, it fits perfectly now..." Dou Xuemei hurriedly sniffled, tears streaming down her face yet revealing a smile, "My aunt said at the time, Xuemei has pale skin, and wearing the red coral bracelet looks especially beautiful..."