Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times
Chapter 471 - 330: Swear Not to Share a Husband with Another

Chapter 471: Chapter 330: Swear Not to Share a Husband with Another

Gu Changsheng’s eyes were sharp as knives, scanning keenly over the demure Yhan Qinrui standing below.

She refused to believe there was a woman in the world who wouldn’t mind her man’s ex-wife!

Unsolicited kindness was suspicious, either manipulative or thieving!

Whatever Yhan Qinrui was plotting, Gu Changsheng could guess with her toes a thing or two about it!

"Sister Changsheng, why be so aggressive? When your mother-in-law drove you out of Li Mansion, my husband was at the frontier and unaware of it!" Yhan Qinrui explained, her head lowered.

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng let out another laugh, "Unaware? He might have been unaware at that time, but didn’t he still marry you afterward?"

"From my divorce to your entrance into the family, it’s barely been more than half a year. With the background of both your families, this short period of time certainly seems hasty and impatient!"

Yhan Qinrui choked on Gu Changsheng’s words, and for a moment, didn’t know how to respond.

The change in the scene was so swift that the onlookers remained bewildered for a long while before they could make sense of the relationship between the two women.

"This Princely Heir’s wife, is she truly the ex-wife of Lady Changsheng’s former husband whom he remarried?"

"I heard Lady Changsheng once leaped into marriage with a family in Capital City, but who knew it was not just any official family, but the Marquis Mansion!"

"What’s with this new bride seeking out the divorced ex-wife; what’s all this fuss about?"

"These affairs of the elite, who can say for certain? Maybe that Li Mufeng, the Princely Heir, has had a change of heart!"

"Isn’t it said that with Lady Changsheng’s current capabilities, anyone blind would be envious and would love to take her home to treasure her?"

"That’s exactly it! Lady Changsheng is like a walking gold mine! Who wouldn’t cling to her?"

"I reckon it’s not necessarily so..."

"..."

The hushed whispers of the onlookers turned into sarcasm in the ears of Gu Changsheng and Yhan Qinrui.

"Sister Changsheng, pay no attention to their nonsense. My husband intends to take you back to the capital, and it’s certainly not for your wealth or power!" Yhan Qinrui blurted out in panic, her face filled with anxiety.

What if Gu Changsheng believed these ignorant people and didn’t follow her back to the capital?

Seeing the figure that Gu Changsheng had become, even the always haughty Yhan Qinrui had to admit that, in both looks and aura, Gu Changsheng far surpassed her, possessing enough charm to arouse a man’s feelings!

She must not let her husband see Gu Changsheng again! Lest he rekindle old flames and reminisce about the past!

She had to get Gu Changsheng to leave Liuzhou with her! Then, on the way back to the capital, she would eliminate her! To cut off future troubles and ensure her own place in her husband’s heart!

Gu Changsheng looked at Yhan Qinrui’s expression, her phœnix eyes unblinking, catching every fleeting trace of scheming in her eyes, and dismissed with a scornful smile, "Take me back to the capital? Is that your plan?"

Yhan Qinrui heard this and quickly nodded.

In her heart, her husband, who she had adored since childhood, was so perfect that Gu Changsheng could not possibly remain indifferent to him!

To be taken back to the capital was surely what she would desire the most!

"You think I would joyfully and eagerly follow you back to the capital?" Gu Changsheng, whose thoughts were crystal clear, immediately grasped Yhan Qinrui’s intentions as she spoke with a smirk playing on the corner of her lips.

Startled by the response, Yhan Qinrui looked up in disbelief, "What do you mean, Sister Changsheng? Don’t you want to return to the capital? Don’t you want to be by your husband’s side?"

She had to go back with her to the capital! Absolutely had to leave Liuzhou City! To escape His Highness Prince Mu!

At this moment, Yhan Qinrui finally understood why even the Emperor Zhoulin was so attentive to Gu Changsheng!

With her appearance and aura, Gu Changsheng indeed had the qualifications to enchant His Highness Prince Mu!

And because of this woman, her husband had lost the chance to command a million soldiers in Southern Fujian!

"Isn’t my meaning clear enough?" Gu Changsheng, looking down from her superior position, breezily blew on her fingertips and said, "Do you really think I’m a fool? Or are you all taking me for a fool, so easily deceived?"

"I thought His Majesty had sent over a eunuch as a masterstroke without shedding blood, but to my surprise, he esteemed me so highly, he even had a backup plan!"

"With Huo Shuixian still in Liuzhou City, you from Li Mansion are making a move as well. Is this to ensure a foolproof plan, a two-pronged approach? Even if Zhou Mu couldn’t resist the allure of the Qingcheng Huo Shuixian, how can you be so sure that I would willingly return to the capital and re-enter Li Mansion?"

Upon hearing this, Yhan Qinrui was instantly struck dumb, her eyes wide with disbelief.

Gu Changsheng knew it all! She actually knew everything!

And she didn’t just know, she had boldly spoken it aloud!

"How dare you! To speculate about the imperial will is a crime of great irreverence; are you not afraid of implicating your entire family?" Housekeeper Yan said sharply, reprimanding her the moment he heard her words.

Hearing this, Gu Changsheng immediately laughed, "Oh dear, you’ve scared me so! I’m truly terrified!"

"Quit trying to pin such a huge charge on me! If I were afraid, I wouldn’t have spoken out like this! I even dared to beat and kill the envoy eunuch, so if you dare to continue being so insolent, be careful, or I’ll beat and kill you too!"

Gu Changsheng’s tone was fierce, and her eyebrows and expression were arrogantly defiant!

Startled by her demeanor, Yan Qinrui inadvertently took a step back.

Yan Qinrui, born into a distinguished family in the Capital City, had always mixed with the elite noble ladies. She never knew a woman could be so outrageously domineering!

Disregarding the Emperor, lawless and unrestrained!

"Yan Qinrui, you had the position of the heir’s wife and yet you couldn’t bear it, traveling miles upon miles to Liuzhou City. You claim it’s to fetch me back to the Capital City, but we both know the little scheme you have in mind, isn’t it unnecessary to spell it out?" Gu Changsheng slowly descended the staircase, sidled up to Yan Qinrui, and spoke softly, "Isn’t it because you want to get rid of me? Who are you putting on this empathetic facade for?"

"If I were truly a fool, the Emperor wouldn’t have found himself at a loss with me, right?"

Yan Qinrui’s face, normally composed and graceful, revealed a slight crack upon hearing those words.

Gu Changsheng! She had actually guessed Yan Qinrui’s thoughts!

Yan Qinrui suppressed the shock in her heart, her voice filled with grievance, "Sister, you worry too much. I am not a person of narrow-mindedness. In families like ours, it’s normal to have three wives and four concubines. How could I have such despicable thoughts?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng chuckled softly, "Even if I suspect the intentions of an honorable person with a villain’s heart, even though you are of noble birth with such great magnanimity, it’s just that..."

"How can you assume that I, Gu Changsheng, would be content to share a husband with you?"

Having said her piece, Gu Changsheng turned and walked back up the steps, her voice rising, "I, Gu Changsheng, am no chaste martyr, and I cannot enact the loftiness of serving only one husband! I will not pretend to be a paragon of virtue. Now, let me make myself clear!"

"When the Li Mansion, ungrateful and coercive, cast me aside, that was when I, Gu Changsheng, severed all ties with the Li Mansion!"

"Be he the Princely Heir or even the Heavenly Emperor’s Father, I, Gu Changsheng, have my principles, and I swear never to share a husband with another!"

No sooner had Gu Changsheng’s voice fallen than the surroundings erupted into an uproar.

"Not share a husband with anyone? This..."

"Lady Changsheng is really too fierce! Even Wang Laoer, the pancake seller in the back street, has taken a concubine!"

"Exactly! Which man with a modicum of wealth doesn’t have three wives and four concubines? Let alone the households of the elite! Isn’t Lady Changsheng’s thinking a bit too fantastical?"

"That’s exactly it! Having three wives and four concubines is nothing out of the ordinary, so why does it seem like such a heinous and unforgivable crime to Lady Changsheng?"

"Lady Changsheng probably just doesn’t want to return to the Capital City and rekindle her past with that heir, hence she’s using this as an excuse, right?"

"I don’t think so! Lady Changsheng is a person of her word! She’s the kind that makes an impression!"

"This is a big deal. Could it be that Lady Changsheng wants the Princely Heir of the Li family to divorce his current wife?"

"..."

A variety of speculative comments filled everyone’s ears.

Yan Qinrui’s face went through several changes, shock written all over it.

Gu Changsheng appeared composed and nonchalant.

What shocking words hadn’t she spoken? What earth-shattering, ghost-weeping deeds hadn’t she done? She was long accustomed to such spectacles!

Gu Changsheng curled her lip in disdain, thoroughly scorning Emperor Zhoulin in her heart.

Damn old man, rather than focusing on the affairs of the state, he decides to trouble her!

The Li Mansion! That was the emotional woe Gu Changsheng least wanted to revisit!

Heaven knows she was inexplicably married off, saddled with a son, and then abandoned, and how utterly indignant she felt inside!

She should have been an unmarried, chaste lady, yet fate turned her into a mother. Where could she even go to seek justice?

Listening to Gu Changsheng’s rejection of sharing a husband, deep inside, Yan Qinrui was overjoyed!

Because even the Li Mansion would not dare to discard her, Yan Qinrui!

Yet, Yan Qinrui still didn’t believe it! She couldn’t believe that Gu Changsheng truly felt such disdain for the Li Mansion and her husband as she claimed.

"Don’t you miss your husband at all? Don’t you care about the love of the past?" Yan Qinrui asked, her voice tinged with barely perceptible jealousy.

She couldn’t erase the fact that her husband had once married Gu Changsheng. Even if she was deeply resentful, she couldn’t deny it!

Gu Changsheng glanced at Yan Qinrui, her voice dripping with scorn, "Your sweet honey is my deadly poison! I, Gu Changsheng, am not one to retrace my steps! There are plenty more men in the world, many better than Li Mufeng. Why should I hang myself on a crooked tree?"

"Yan Qinrui, you truly overestimate your dear husband!"

At her words, a flicker of joy passed in Yan Qinrui’s eyes, but it quickly faded, replaced by a woeful expression. "But even if you don’t consider yourself, you must think of your son, right? Despite his infirmity, he is still your husband’s flesh and blood, bearing your husband’s blood in his veins!"

"As a mother, how can you bear to see him illegitimate and subject to the pointing fingers of the world? Put yourself in your son’s place. If you come back with me to the Capital City, no matter what, he will be the legitimate son of the Marquis of Weiyuan’s Mansion, and who would dare to despise his imperfections?"