Traitor Concubine Growth Manual

Chapter 21

There was a wind blowing, the dark clouds suddenly dispersed, and the cold moonlight illuminated the surrounding scenery, but it could not illuminate the darkness of people's hearts.

An Liangyuan suddenly laughed, with despair and regret in her eyes, the guard was still arguing, but her gaze slowly fell on the saber in his hand.

Chu Yan suddenly realized something, and the moment An Liangyuan got up, she rushed out behind Gu Qi, screaming, "No!"

She guessed right, An Liangyuan really wanted to seek death, and the target was the sword in the guard's hand.

Chu Yan rushed over at the first moment, and held down An Liangyuan's hand a second before she took the sword, with astonishing strength, her eyes fixed on the desperate woman, "Is it worth it? For a despicable Liar, just wasting your own life like this, do you think he will change his mind?"

An Liangyuan finally couldn't help crying bitterly, covering her face at a loss like a child and crying, "Liar! They are all liars! When I entered the palace, my father told me that the emperor was interested in me, so give me a better and more complete one." But after entering the palace, I discovered that the emperor didn’t even know who I was! I was so young, but I lived like a widow for so many years, and finally met a man who said he loved me, but in the end I became a What a joke! What love, what vows, are all deceptive nonsense!"

The guard was also interrupted by her, watching her cry, listening to her desperate words, his face was red and white, with remorse, anger, panic, and struggle, but the only thing he didn't have was his love for this man. Women's pity.

Chu Yan turned her head and took a closer look at the expression on his face. There was a flash of disdain in her eyes, and then she walked up to the prince in a few steps, and said neither humble nor overbearing, "Chu Yan hopes that the prince will listen to me."

Gu Qi looked at her blankly for a moment, then slowly said, "Say it."

"Fornication in the harem is a capital offense, but being seduced by others is justifiable, and the crime is not death. The one who is more at fault is naturally the one who seduced others." Chu Yan glanced at the guard and noticed that there was a smile on his face. He was happy, and then smiled coldly, interrupting his wishful thinking mercilessly, "But in my opinion, An Liangyuan lives in the harem, and there is no chance to meet this guard. How could a well-behaved lady from a famous family make such a mistake?"

"You're talking nonsense!" The guard suddenly panicked, pointing at An Liangyuan and said, "His Royal Highness, it's really not a slave who committed a heinous crime on purpose, it was her! She was the one who seduced me!"

"Tempting you? An Liangyuan knew it was hard to save her life after being smashed by someone, but did she ever tell you that you weren't right?" Chu Yan asked the man sharply, "If you were to seduce you, why would you put your heart and soul into you? Tempting you, why do you feel great joy and sorrow for you? On the contrary, you are greedy for a moment and covet her beauty, so you use a lot of lies to deceive people. An emotional liar like you is the world's most Shame on the most damned person!"

The guard was terrified, looked at Chu Yan with hatred in his eyes, and quickly drew his sword, "I'll kill you bastard!"

He is a son of the Lian family, and he has been in the guards for more than ten years. Naturally, he has two brushes, and he stabs towards Chu Yan regardless of his life.

Chu Yan never expected him to be so impulsive, and she couldn't dodge it immediately, so she could only watch helplessly as he stabbed herself with the sword.

It was getting closer, and the tip of the sword was only a few inches away from her slender neck.

At this critical moment, Gu Qi pulled off the jade pendant from his waist and flicked towards the point of the sword that pierced Chu Yan's throat. The sword tilted and stabbed to the side.

In the next second, Gu Qi firmly grasped the guard's pulse door, and when he exerted force on his hand, there was a click, and the guard screamed in pain.

Chu Yan only cared about showing off, and even ignored that rabbits would bite when they were in a hurry, and almost cost her own life. When she realized it, she realized that her whole body was drenched in cold sweat.

"Come here." Gu Qi glanced at her lightly, not knowing who he was talking to.

And the next moment, four gray-clothed men suddenly appeared in front of them from nowhere like lightning, and Chu Yan was taken aback for a moment before realizing that they were the legendary bodyguards.

In other words, he is the dead man of the prince.

She didn't even know the existence of these four people from the beginning to the end. It is really... Chinese martial arts are extensive and profound.

Gu Qi looked coldly at the guard whose wrist had been removed by him, and ordered the four guards without looking back, "Take him to the Ministry of Punishment and wait to be dealt with."

The four guards responded in unison, and then one of them covered their mouths and the other carried the person, and they quickly disappeared in front of Chu Yan with the guards.

Everything is like a movie, surprisingly fast and confusing.

But for Chu Yan, this was really a scene that could only be seen in movies before.

The prince...knows martial arts?

She was tangled up in a strange way, but she saw that the person she was tangled in slowly turned around and looked at her, "Who do you think you are? You ran to judge justice when you were dying, so what you said before you want to be a female officer is just Do you mean to be the first female judge in my Xuan Dynasty?"

Chu Yan was dripping with cold sweat, lowered her head and said sincerely, "Thank you, Your Highness, for saving your life."

It was a fact that she was negligent, and it was also a fact that he saved her.

Gu Qi didn't expect her to thank her so readily, she bowed her head like a child who made a mistake, knowing that she was wrong, so she waited for his reprimand.

Her shiny and fair lotus neck became more and more slender and weak under the moonlight. Thinking that this thin neck was almost pierced by someone a moment ago, Gu Qi felt a little scared for some reason.

He glanced at An Liangyuan who was still there crying alone, and asked Chu Yan mockingly, "Don't you want to seek justice? Then tell me, how should we deal with this woman?"

Chu Yan looked back at the heartbroken man, there was pity in her eyes, but also shamelessness.

"If Your Highness is willing to listen to Chu Yan's words, then put her in the cold palace and call her sick." She turned her head and looked at Gu Qi, "This matter is a scandal in the palace and should not be publicized, but An Liangyuan did such a thing Come on, although it is hateful, but there are also reasons for forgiveness, maybe... the crime does not deserve death."

"Excusable circumstances?" Gu Qi looked at her, frowning, "It's just self-inflicted, how can there be excusable circumstances?"

Chu Yan pondered for a moment, as if hesitating whether to say it or not.

"Just say it." Gu Qi dismissed her worries.

Chu Yan got reassured, bit her lips, and then looked up at him, "Emperors have been so ruthless since ancient times, but today's emperor cares about the imperial concubine Rong. It has become a good story among the people. But for this group of women who he has forgotten in the harem, the emperor is not a lover, but... but a heartbreaker."

"Presumptuous!" Gu Qi abruptly interrupted her, his voice still tinged with anger, "Did you dare to judge the emperor's right and wrong by yourself?"

Chu Yan shrank her neck in fright at the sudden angry shout, and then looked at him bravely, "His Royal Highness told me to just talk..."

She looked at him with aggrieved eyes, startled and frightened, but with an unyielding spirit, "If life is just like seeing you first, what is the autumn wind and sad painting fan? Waiting for leisure to change but old people's hearts, but old people's hearts are changeable." I dare not say that the emperor did something wrong, but if His Highness puts himself in the shoes of these forgotten concubines, they were sent to the palace at the most beautiful age of a woman, but they lived their lives as the emperor's women all their lives , if you don’t have a thought, how will you spend the rest of your life?”

Gu Qi stared at her uncertainly, but Chu Yan took a deep breath, and simply finished speaking her own principles in one go, and then lowered her head, "Chu Yan is bold and reckless, and I hope His Highness will punish her."

She is sincerely admitting her mistakes, but only because of her audacity and unrestrained speech, not for what she said.

Obviously, she didn't think she was wrong at all.

She was betting that the prince was a man of right and wrong, that he would not kill her because of her outspokenness.

And in fact, after nine years of observation, she felt there was a 90.00% chance that she wouldn't get hurt.

As a result, Chu Yan won the bet.

Gu Qi looked at her for a long time, until the cold wind made Chu Yan couldn't help shivering, only then did he hear his cold and distant voice blowing into his ears accompanied by the night wind.

"It's a good thing to speak out and give advice, but before speaking, it's best to weigh whether your own head is safe or not, enough for you to say such crimes a few times."

Chu Yan was taken aback by these words, then raised her head to look at him.

With the grand moonlight as the background, the man looked at her against the light, with a condescending expression and a calm face, but there was brilliance in those quiet eyes, like stars in the night sky.

He understood her, and with the position and identity of an ancient person, he agreed with her who came from hundreds of years later.

Chu Yan's heart skipped a beat, a little unpleasant, but to be precise, there was an inexplicable sense of relief in it.

Gu Qi looked back at An Liangyuan, "You go back to your Suxin Palace, and I will wait for you tomorrow."

Chu Yan whispered, "What if she seeks death?"

Gu Qi glanced at her, "What are you doing to me?"

Lifting his long legs, he walked back along the path.

Chu Yan looked back at An Liangyuan who was still crying, shook her head, sighed, and followed the prince step by step.

The sharp cold wind stiffened her face, she rubbed her hands, let out a breath, and watched the thin white mist disappear in the air.

She is not a meddlesome person, and she also understands that in the palace, she is already too busy to take care of herself, and she can't meddle in her own business at all.But she just couldn't help it, couldn't help spurning such a man, couldn't help but sympathize with the one who was left behind.

Because once upon a time, the she who lived in the modern society was thrown into the most embarrassing moment in her life by that gentle and modest teacher.

She is in love with a teacher and a student, she loves vigorously and without hesitation, she even studies hard for that man, throws away the laziness and slack in the past, only stays in the university for the postgraduate entrance examination, and then studies for a doctorate, and stays with him to teach.

That was her teacher, the teacher who once looked up to the stars in the sky, and the teacher who pointed out the direction for her confused college life.

She respected him and loved him, but in the end she received a phone call from him that was supposed to be comforting on the day when she failed in the title evaluation: "Wei Meng, we are not suitable, so let's do it this way."

So be it?

She gritted her teeth and asked him, "What does it mean? What does it mean not suitable?"

And he told her, "The life you want is freedom, but I just want to work hard and go to a better place little by little."

So she understood that he thought she was not motivated, that she was still a little lecturer when he was getting better and better every year and even bravely rushed to the position of vice president.

Yes, she muddled through, she was carefree, but who told her that she loved her reckless attitude of squandering life?

She hung up the phone, sang karaoke, got drunk, talked nonsense, and cried a lot at the end. She finally recovered and planned to live a good life. Who knew that three months later, she came to Xuanchao inexplicably.

Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother remarried and went to other provinces. She has never been heard from since. When she was 17 years old, her father got bowel cancer and passed away a few years later.Later, she went to college and met him. He used to be all her motivation and hope, and the warmest sunrise in her solitary life.

Later... there is no later.

Chu Yan has been in Xuanchao for so long, in fact, she has always wanted to see him again, and asked him if he regretted his decision at that time, but she also knew that this was just a ridiculous idea.

She can't go back, they can't go back.

Gu Qi didn't hear the person next to him speak, so he turned his head to look at her, unexpectedly, he was stunned in place when he saw it.

It was because Chu Yan Mingming beside her was walking on the path calmly, but there were two teardrops hanging on her thick eyelashes, which were crystal clear and crumbling.

Her expression was unprecedentedly peaceful and tranquil, but there was a dazzling brilliance in her eyes that was about to come out.

Gu Qi was startled, for some reason he wanted to reach out to catch the two beads, and then stood there hesitantly, but the owner of the teardrops took advantage of this time and abruptly wiped away the tears by himself.

Chu Yan chewed on the word Wei Meng, which used to belong to her for 29 years, but now no longer belongs to her name, and suddenly wiped away her tears and smiled.

She is Zhao Chuyan, not the stupid Wei Meng back then.

She has a lot of time and confidence to live a life that is exciting enough and shining enough.

Such a smile made Gu Qi a little distracted.

He asked her, "Why were you crying just now? Why are you laughing now?"

Chu Yan laughed again and again, and replied to him quite poetically, "If you cry in the past, you will not be persuaded, but if you come with a smile, you will be chased. In fact, the lost road is not far away. I feel that today is right and yesterday was wrong."

Tao Yuanming's poem was changed by her ingeniously, but it couldn't be more suitable for her current mood.

Gu Qi didn't speak, just looked at her relieved expression and suddenly bright smile, and once again looked at the dark and unclear road ahead.

In this imperial palace, if one can really maintain such a smile and not change it no matter when and where, that is a very precious skill.

He no longer had this chance, if someone around him could smile like this consistently, it would be a relief to watch.

(End of this chapter)