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Chapter 335 - Chapter 335 Chapter 335 The Suffering Wife VS The Mistress

Chapter 335: Chapter 335: The Suffering Wife VS The Mistress (Part Twenty-One) Chapter 335: Chapter 335: The Suffering Wife VS The Mistress (Part Twenty-One) Gu Shengyin was particularly surprised and asked her what was wrong.

Zhang Mingshu had come to consider Gu Shengyin a close and trusted friend over these past days, and upon hearing her question, the tears she had just managed to stop began to flow again.

“Cousin… my cousin came to see me yesterday!” Zhang Mingshu started, reaching for her handkerchief to wipe away her tears as she spoke.

Gu Shengyin did not speak, waiting for her to continue.

“He told me that he’s going to get married in another year and asked me to forget him, to find a good family to marry into… He also said, he said that he will never come to see me again,” Zhang Mingshu sobbed uncontrollably.

Gu Shengyin looked at her with a cold eye, wondering how many of her tears were truly shed for love, and how many were due to the distress of seeing a life of wealth and comfort slip through her fingers, not knowing what her own future would hold.

Gu Shengyin gently patted her back and said softly, “Isn’t that a good thing? Unless your cousin could marry you as his legal wife, marrying into a good family as a respected Lady Legal Wife is far better than being a concubine, isn’t it?”

“What do you know?” Zhang Mingshu, being in the throes of emotion, blurted out thoughtlessly, her mind occupied with the loss of wealth and status, “My cousin doesn’t want me anymore, what use is it to marry into another family? Could I have a higher status than in my cousin’s home? Could I live the life of the superior like that of gold and jade? Rather than marrying into a lesser family as a legal wife, I’d rather marry my cousin!”

Having said this, she seemed to have released a long-suppressed frustration from her heart.

Gu Shengyin was so angered that she trembled all over, “You, Zhang Mingshu, I had never imagined you to be such a woman, so greedy for wealth and willing to lower yourself! I thought you were a confidante, I was truly blind!”

Angered, she picked up the scissors from the table, tore the handkerchief in her hand into several pieces, and threw them on the ground, “I scorn associating with someone like you, let us break ties here and now!”

Zhang Mingshu too had spoken in a moment of impulse, and seeing Gu Shengyin taking it so seriously, she quickly said, “I was just speaking out of anger, why must Sister Meng take it so much to heart?”

By then, Gu Shengyin had calmed down and pulled away from Zhang Mingshu’s grasp, gently dusting off her sleeve as if to shake off some invisible filth, the entire gesture as graceful as Yun Liu, indescribably beautiful.

She seemed like a different person, no longer the Miss Meng that Zhang Mingshu knew.

“Who is your sister? Miss Zhang, please watch your words,” she said, her tone cold and distant, as she glanced at Zhang Mingshu before ordering the maid waiting outside the room to leave.

Angered by Gu Shengyin’s earlier disdainful actions, Zhang Mingshu made no effort to keep her, but rather sneered, “I knew it, you young ladies from official families never looked up to me, did you? How could someone born so high above understand my feelings? Since you look down on me, I won’t lose face by asking for your sympathy, let’s cut all ties! And Miss Meng, don’t you come by any longer!”

Gu Shengyin paused for a moment but ultimately straightened her back and walked towards the door, without ever looking back.

After getting into the carriage, Gu Shengyin finally leaned back against the seat, weary.

“Miss, what Miss Zhang said was really too much.” Although Jian Jia did not know exactly what had been said between the two, she could tell from Zhang Mingshu’s last remarks that there had been unpleasantness.

“From now on, don’t ever mention her in front of me again! I disdain to associate with such people,” Gu Shengyin said coldly.