Chapter 417
Chapter 417
Gu Jing was extremely disappointed with Qin Xin and couldn't help but express his anger, "You can't even handle such a trivial matter!"
"Didn't your grandmother always love you the most? Why don't you ask her nicely with affection?"
As far as he knew, Old Madam Qin had always been simple-minded and soft-hearted. If Qin Xin could persuade her to fill that hole with property from the eldest house, his predicament would naturally be solved.
Don't you have one yourself?! Qin Xin's hand tightly clenched into a fist under her sleeve, and her nails sank into her tender palm, recalling the humiliation Qin Jiu and Old Madam Qin had inflicted on her.
Suddenly, fire surged up in her heart.
She knelt and begged, putting her face down in front of Qin Jiu and Old Madam Qin, allowing them to humiliate her. She did her best for him, but what did he give her in return?!
On impulse, Qin Xin could not help but talk back, "Gu Jing, do you think you're still the same glorious Second Prince from before? You look down on me, but what can you do, you still have to rely on me to cover up for you ......"
These words went straight to Gu Jing's sore spot, reminding him of the threat Qin Xin had made to him that day in the public hall.
Gu Jing only felt all the blood in his body rush to his head, and without thinking, he raised his hand and slapped her.
"Slapped!"
The sound of a crisp slap echoed in the air, while the inner servant in the corner shrunk his neck and hung his head, pretending that he did not see or hear anything.
"Get out!" Gu Jing furiously pointed outside the house, "Get out of here!"
Gu Jing's heart was beating like a drum, feeling as if his past self was simply blind that he falls in love with such a woman.
"..." Without saying a word, Qin Xin covered her red and swollen face from Gu Jing's slap, turned around, and left the study room.
This was not the first time Gu Jing had hit her, and though she had a glimmer of hope before, this time it had disappeared completely.
This kind of Gu Jing was not worthy of her nostalgia at all and not worthy of her heart!
Qin Xin, who had gone out from the outer study met Shu Xiang's worried eyes, and cried out with concern, "Miss!"
However, Qin Xin ran past Shu Xiang and moved towards the direction outside the mansion without turning back, let alone a trace of nostalgia.
Qin Xin ran faster and faster until she was panting heavily before stopping.
The people she passed through also saw the five fingerprints on her face and pointed at her, but Qin Xin did not see nor was she aware of this.
She stood there with a blank expression on her face, unsure where she could go.
She did not know how long she had been standing there before moving towards a familiar road, walking through three or four streets before finally arriving at the Marquis of Zhongyi's residence.
Qin Xin stood at the door for a long time before finally summoning the courage to knock on the corner gate.
The concierge looked at Qin Xin awkwardly, "Second Miss, Old Madam will not see you."
Qin Xin lowered her head and swallowed her anger as she said. "You go to inform grandmother that ...... that I have nowhere else to go."
In her two lifetimes, apart from Lingnan, this was the place she was most familiar with, and now that she had nowhere else to go, she had no choice but to return.
She deliberately showed the red five fingerprints on her face, trying to get the concierge to relay the message to Old Madam Qin and soften the old madam's heart.
The concierge had no choice but to send another person to Ronghe Hall to inform them, Qin Xin waited and waited outside the door, and what she waited for was yet another refusal, "Second Miss, Old Madam said you can go back to wherever you came from."
Slap!
Qin Xin felt that she had been slapped hard in the face again, and the sympathetic gaze from the concierge made her feel both ashamed and resentful.
All she could do was walk.
The slender and thin figure walked amidst the seething autumn wind that blows the fallen leaves on the ground, and looks like it would also blow her away.
She wandered alone on the road, lost in thought, and before she knew it, it was dark, the sky had already dimmed, and a faint curved moon was faintly visible.
Seeing that the curfew was approaching, there were fewer people on the streets, and the houses and shops along the streets were lit up with lanterns.
Qin Xin felt as if she had been abandoned by the entire world, was all alone, and this made her heart sink and a mist loom in the rim of her eyes.
Suddenly, a black-painted flat-top carriage stopped beside her.
Qin Xin subconsciously turned her head to look, and saw that the curtains of the carriage window had been raised by a fan handle, and revealed a handsome and gentle face, the very same blue-clothed gentleman she had encountered at the Jingxin Temple today.
Qin Xin: "..."
Qin Xin's eyes slightly widened as she looked at the other party in surprise, not expecting to meet him twice in just one day.
Thump, thump, thump!
Qin Xin's heartbeat accelerated, and her heart which was originally like a stagnant water seemed to have flowed into a living spring, and her foggy eyes shimmered with a faint light.
"Madam, what a coincidence." The third master smiled slightly, showing even more gentleness, making people feel good looking at him. "May I give the madam a ride?"
Qin Xin stared at him in a daze, unsure whether she heard him or not.
Seemingly afraid that Qin Xin would be scared, the third master added, "Don't misunderstand, madam, I'm not a bad person, my last name is Gu, and my first name is Xi."
Gu Xi? Qin Xin's eyes slightly widened once again. Wouldn't he be Wang Yu's third son?
Gu Xi got off the carriage and elegantly extended his hand to Qin Xin as a gesture of invitation.
As if she were under some kind of bewitchment, Qin Xin stretched out her hand and entered the carriage.
Immediately thereafter, Gu Xi also got on the carriage, the curtain fell, and the driver who drove the carriage whipped the horse to start moving.
The carriage galloped forward on an open street and disappeared into the night.
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