The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

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Third Young Master Quan’s status was not as high as Xiao Heng’s. He hurriedly cupped his hands in a salute and said, “Goodbye, brother-in-law. Goodbye, elder sister-in-law.”

Gu Jiao had no desire to waste words sparring with Gu Jinyu. Together with Xiao Heng, she turned to ascend the steps.

“Be careful.” Xiao Heng said, holding her hand and warning her about the chests set on the steps.

Four years have passed…

Hasn’t he long grown weary of her?

Why then do the two of them appear even more inseparable than before?

Jealousy surged thick and hot in Gu Jinyu’s heart.

Why did all the good things under heaven fall into Gu Jiao’s lap?

In what way was she herself inferior to that girl?

“Elder sister!” She suddenly called out to Gu Jiao.

“Anything else?” Gu Jiao asked.

Gu Jinyu raised her chin arrogantly. “Nothing in particular, I simply wanted to say that elder sister’s veil is very pretty. Elder sister did not used to wear a veil, yet both times when meeting me, she has worn one. Truly, elder sister need not trouble herself so. In front of me, what is there to feel ashamed about?”

Gu Jiao said evenly, “Me, feel ashamed?”

Third Young Master Quan, too, had heard the rumors that the Little Marquis’s new wife was an out-and-out ugly woman.

After all, Little Marquis Xiao was famed as the most handsome youth in the capital of the State of Zhao. To be matched with an ugly wife, how lamentable!

By now, a sizable crowd of common folk had gathered around to watch the scene, and even the passing carriages stopped to see.

They all wished to know whether the Young Marquis’s wife was truly as ugly as rumored. Was it really true that she was so hideous as to draw the indignation of both gods and men?

A person’s sanity didn’t collapse in a single night.

To be frank, what Gu Jinyu did today was far from wise. Even if she managed to make Gu Jiao lose face in public, it would not bring her any real benefit.

It was an act of harming others without profiting herself.

Yet, ever since Gu Jiao’s return, Gu Jinyu had suffered blow after crushing blow from her, as if beaten down from a higher dimension, leaving her rationality eaten away until almost nothing remained.

She no longer cared whether she herself gained anything; as long as she could make Gu Jiao a laughingstock in the capital, then even if it was a case of hurting a thousand enemies while damaging eight hundred of her own, she would accept it.

It wasn’t just a day or two that Gu Jiao’s appearance was “ugly”.

However, in the past, she was only an insignificant little medical woman, and no one had any expectations of her looks.

Now, however, she had climbed high to marry the Little Marquis who outshone all of the capital of Zhao, and naturally people would feel that her looks were unworthy of him.

This marriage was nothing short of a flower stuck in a heap of dung!

And men, after all, valued their pride.

If his wife had shamed him so greatly before others, then surely the Little Marquis would feel a thorn in his heart, and in the future he would no longer dare to go out with her, right?

Gu Jinyu thought gleefully, and the gaze she cast at Gu Jiao carried with it a mocking air she herself did not notice.

She believed Gu Jiao must surely be furious, yet the reality was the opposite. Gu Jiao’s expression remained very calm.

“Elder sister, are you not angry?” She asked.

Gu Jiao looked at her and said, “I am not angry. I only feel that you are pitiful. There are so many rays of light in this world, yet you see only darkness.”

Gu Jinyu’s pupils shrank.

“Let’s go.” Gu Jiao said to Xiao Heng.

Gu Jiao, in truth, was also a young girl who liked beauty, but she would never let that fondness give rise to strange thoughts.

She did not belittle herself for being plain, nor did she act arrogantly for being beautiful. She did not care how others saw her, and she would never, for the sake of a few words meant to provoke, tear off her veil.

Xiao Heng also did not care how others judged him, mocking him for marrying an ugly wife and the like. But what he could not endure and would never endure was for Gu Jiao to suffer even the slightest grievance.

“Wait a moment.” He said to Gu Jiao.

Then he looked at Gu Jinyu, his voice low and heavy, “You’re saying that my wife feels ashamed in front of you. Then I ask you, when my wife was saving lives, what were you doing? When my wife invented the bellows, what were you doing? When my wife fought on the battlefield, guarded the border, treated plagues, protected the nation and its people, where were you, Gu Jinyu?”

His gaze swept across the crowd of onlookers, those who delighted in the spectacle, “My wife won resounding merit at Yuegu City, and His Majesty personally conferred her the title of County Princess Protector. The peace and safety of your lives today, are they not bought with the blood of my wife and the soldiers of the army? What right do you have to criticize her looks! For my wife to be willing to marry me is the greatest blessing of my three lifetimes! This marriage is what I waited four years for! It was only after I begged the Empress Dowager, begged my imperial uncle the Emperor, that the wedding date was finally set! My wife is the most beautiful woman in the world, and she need not prove herself to anyone! If anyone should feel ashamed, it is every one of you before her!”

His words left all who listened drenched in shame.

As a woman, she had accomplished deeds beyond what countless men could ever achieve, and yet they dared to disparage her appearance.

Gu Jinyu’s heart was struck with towering waves.

She had intended to disgrace Gu Jiao, but instead, the Little Marquis publicly confessed to Gu Jiao, dispelling all the rumors and doubts surrounding their marriage.

This marriage, he had begged for it…

It was his fortune of three lifetimes…

It was him.

It was him who wished to marry her. He had waited four years, only to welcome her with his true identity…

Why?

Why was Gu Jiao able to encounter such a good man?

Xiao Heng sighed and said, “My dear wife, in any case, looks are not important. If they wish to look, then let them look.”

The crowd: But you just said no need to prove it?

Gu Jiao was not one who liked to wear veils. The last time she had worn one was at Yao shi’s request, and this time was only to give Duke An a surprise.

Yu Ya’er descended from the carriage. She cast a cold glance at Gu Jinyu, then came to Gu Jiao’s side and snorted, “Some people insist on inviting humiliation upon themselves. Young miss, you may as well grant her wish!”

Chunliu rolled her eyes, “Hah, we still don’t know who it is that’s truly humiliating themselves! No matter how prettily you talk, in the end, you’re still just an ug——”

Gu Jiao’s veil was blown open by the wind.

Chunliu stared at that indescribable, peerless face, and in an instant, her throat could no longer produce a single sound.

How could this be?

Back at the jewelry shop, she had seen the eldest young miss’s face with her own eyes, and it had not looked like this.

Where was that glaring red birthmark?

Why had it disappeared without a trace?

The shock in Gu Jinyu’s heart was no less than Chunliu’s. Chunliu had only seen Gu Jiao once, but Gu Jinyu had seen her countless times up close.

She had even personally sketched Gu Jiao’s likeness before.

“No… impossible… impossible…”

She stared at that flawless face in disbelief, unable to accept the transformation of Gu Jiao from an ugly girl into a beauty of celestial perfection.

She had already lost everything to Gu Jiao, and the only thing she could take pride in was her own appearance.

Yet now, even her appearance had been utterly crushed!

To even say it was a comparison was already giving her too much credit.

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In the suspenseful supernatural novel “Records of Mortals,” Jiang Baiyan, once a solitary and impoverished youth, finds refuge in the Shi family of Chang’an due to his extraordinary bloodline. With his clear and captivating peach blossom eyes, this seemingly innocent young man conceals a fanatical and malevolent lunatic within. Destined to succumb to darkness amidst hardship and degradation, he becomes a harbinger of chaos.

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From what she knew of the plot, Jiang Baiyan was just a silent, timid, and often bullied pitiable character.

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Jiang Baiyan had never encountered someone like Shi Dai.

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Jiang Baiyan: ...?

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Jiang Baiyan: ...?

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Jiang Baiyan: ...?

He hasnʼt finished his lines yet though…