The Female Lead Decides to Act Wickedly

Gu Jingyuan could understand his wife’s worries and anxiety, so he quickly smiled and said, ”Don’t worry, Ah Dian, no matter what happens, I’ve got it all covered!”

He Tiantian didn’t say anything more, but instead looked at Gu Jingyuan with trustful, hopeful eyes.

Gu Jingyuan originally felt that during their journey, Ah Dian seemed to have become much more distant from him.

He didn’t suspect that his wife had been replaced, but he couldn’t help but have doubts.

At this moment, seeing that familiar look in Ah Dian’s eyes, Gu Jingyuan’s heart melted. A familiar feeling, a familiar person, this was his wife He Dian.

”Let’s go! Let’s enter the city!”

Feeling his little woman’s complete dependence on him, Gu Jingyuan’s manly spirit soared in an instant.

He raised his whip, and with a loud crack in the air, the horse started trotting briskly.

”Brother Ah Ya, slow down, don’t bump into the guards at the city gate!”

He Tiantian continued to play the role of an ignorant villager.

Ordinary people had long engraved a deep respect and fear of the soldiers in their bones.

”No worries! Haha, I’m Gu Jingyuan!”

Gu Jingyuan felt quite spirited, he laughed heartily, ”Perhaps the gate guards might recognize me!”

This was not just wishful thinking, as memories rapidly flashed through his mind with similar scenes.

”He” wearing luxurious clothes, riding a tall horse, rushing in and out of the city gate with several similarly aged young men in finery.

And the soldiers guarding the gate would step aside and greet them with flattering bows.

In reality, though, things didn’t go as Gu Jingyuan had anticipated; the soldiers did not salute him.

Yet the soldiers’ reactions still made Gu Jingyuan very happy—

”My goodness, you, you—”

”Third Young Master Gu? Could it be the third master of the Gu Family?”

”Wasn’t it said that... I heard Marquis Nanning’s Mansion just held a funeral last month!”

”Maybe it’s just someone who looks similar?”

”Nonsense, how could anyone look so similar? I’ve been on duty at the city gate for more than ten years, and Third Young Master Gu has been coming and going right under my eyes. How could I mistake him?”

”Right, back then Marquis Nanning’s Mansion didn’t find him, and last month they only erected a cenotaph for Third Young Master Gu!”

”...So, you really are Third Young Master Gu?”

A few soldiers, when they saw someone missing for more than a year, could not stay at their posts and all rushed over to join the commotion.

They surrounded Gu Jingyuan, observing and discussing.

Although Gu Jingyuan felt awkward, he still extracted the crucial points from their conversations—

First, he was indeed Gu Jingyuan.

Second, the Gu Family had already presumed him dead and even held a funeral for him!

As the person involved, hearing himself ”declared dead,” Gu Jingyuan was naturally unhappy.

His already somewhat uneasy heart became even more unsettled.

It seemed that even Marquis Nanning’s Mansion did not cherish or miss him as he had imagined!

He Tiantian:...

She wasn’t surprised about this at all.

Because when she inherited the original owner’s memories, He Tiantian had discovered something unusual—

The original owner deliberately led Gu Jingyuan down the mountain to the county and found a bulletin board.

The missing person notice on the bulletin board not only clarified Gu Jingyuan’s identity but also left contact information.

Indeed, that is the correct way to conduct a search for a missing person.

If it only announces the identity of the missing person without providing any contact information, people who have seen the target, or the target themselves, cannot get in touch with those looking for them.

The notice for finding Gu Jingyuan’s whereabouts read: ”Anyone with information can go to East Street Ma’s Grocery to find Manager Ma, and will be greatly rewarded!”

Gu Jingyuan and the original owner went to Ma’s Grocery Store according to the address.

As a result, the shop was unexpectedly closed.

Gu Jingyuan asked the neighbors and was told: ”This shop, huh, just opened a few months ago, and after opening, it wasn’t doing proper business, it was searching for people everywhere!”

”But, strangely, a few days ago, the shop suddenly liquidated, oh, so many good things were handled like they were for free!”

”After selling the goods, the manager dismissed the staff and left the county alone!”

Gu Jingyuan was a bit dumbfounded, extracting the main points from the neighbors’ words—

This shop was likely opened by the Third Young Madam Ma of Marquis Nanning’s Mansion.

The purpose of the shop wasn’t to make money, but to closely search for the seriously injured, missing Gu Jingyuan.

Indeed, that matched the missing person notice on the bulletin board.

But the problem was, why did they stop the search after several months?