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Chapter 50 The Scandal Can No Longer Be Hidden

"I released the snake to kill him so I could become a widow." Chu Ruohan's words finally brought everyone out of their shock.

Yes.

As long as Gu Junze lives, Chu Ruohan will remain firmly in the position of the Crown Prince's wife.

She must be crazy to murder her own husband.

A widow with no sons or daughters, having no one to rely on in her later years, how could she be so foolish as to cut off her own escape route?

"Huai Shu, Huai Shu, is the master behind you really this impatient?"

A deep, cold voice echoed in Huai Shu's ears, carrying a hint of mockery, causing him to lower his head even further.

"Last time, in your panic, you used Fu'an as an excuse, confident that Gu Junze would trust you."

Chu Ruohan walked step by step toward Huai Shu, "But Fu'an left the Marquis's mansion two months ago. Could it be that his soul left his body and came back to find you?"

Chu Ruohan had felt that the name sounded familiar before. In her previous life, she was mistreated by the servants and went hungry every day. Fu'an took pity on her and gave her two white steamed buns.

He was a filial son. His elderly mother was frail and often ill, and he barely managed to afford medicine and treatment thanks to his meager salary from the Marquis's mansion.

Two months ago, his mother's condition worsened, so Fu'an asked for leave from the household, which was approved by Aunt Zhao.

Everyone was confused. What was going on about last time?

Huai Shu was inwardly groaning. He gritted his teeth and said, "Young Madam, stop making excuses. You should have married the Second Young Master, but he preferred a maid to you, so you ended up marrying the Heir Apparent instead."

Although the Marquis of Anyang tried his best to cover up this scandal, everyone in the room knew the truth.

But now, a servant has exposed this secret.

Marquis Anyang's anger surged, and his gaze toward Huai Shu turned cold.

Huai Shu forced himself to continue, "Young Madam, you've always disliked the young master for being a cripple, and you've vented all your resentment on him..."

Upon hearing this, Chu Ruohan merely smiled lightly, her beautiful eyes filled with sarcasm.

Chu Ruohan interrupted him directly, "Huai Shu, do you think you can slander me with just a few words?"

"Let me guess, everyone's here to catch me cheating!" Chu Ruohan's gaze swept over everyone, finally settling on Gu's mother's face.

“If I were the person on that bed, and Huai Shu, who is standing next to Gu Junze, were to say these words now, it would be to convict me of conspiring with my lover to murder Gu Junze.”

"A woman who commits adultery and murders her husband is probably doomed to die, isn't she?"

Madam Gu felt a little uncomfortable under Chu Ruohan's gaze, but she still tried to remain calm and said, "If you are truly innocent, the Marquis's mansion will not wrong you."

Chu Ruohan sneered, her gaze falling on Huai Shu again, this time with a clear threat: "Huai Shu, who is your master?"

Huai Shu trembled slightly, but refused to utter a single word: "Young Madam, I was merely stating the truth; I had no master instructing me."

Chu Ruohan moved closer to him and lowered her voice, saying, "Let's see how long you can keep up your stubbornness."

"Yu Ling!"

Yu Ling entered the room with a maid, who immediately knelt down with a thud.

Isn't this the maid who just reported that Chu Ruohan was having an affair with a man in the room?

"My lord, it was the Lady of the Marquis who instructed me to release poisonous snakes into Hongmeng Courtyard and Zizhu Pavilion." Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked and turned their gazes to Gu's mother.

A hint of panic flashed in Gu's mother's eyes. She had no one else to rely on, which was why she had entrusted this matter to Qingxue.

Wasn't she from Cheng'an? How could she have betrayed them so quickly?

"You lowly servant, stop spouting nonsense! Slandering your master is a grave crime!"

"The Lady Hou said that as long as the Heir Apparent dies, the Second Young Master can become the Heir Apparent. Moreover, the Lady Hou is also planning to send a man into the Young Mistress's room."

Everyone then realized that behind all of this was a drama of a stepmother murdering her stepson and framing her daughter-in-law.

As a result, they were defeated instead.

"You wretched servant, how dare you slander me! Guards, drag her away!" Madam Gu's voice was shrill, but none of the servants moved.

At this moment, Song Ruyan threw in a man who was tied up tightly.

The man was beaten black and blue, his eyes were swollen and he couldn't even open them. "I was just following orders. The Lady Hou gave me a large sum of money and asked me to cooperate with her plan. I really dared not disobey."

"The Lady Hou said that as long as I follow her arrangements, there will be a great reward after the matter is accomplished, and she will send me away from the capital to go far away."

"I haven't accomplished anything..." she said, and started sobbing. This woman was too cruel.

It seems his baby has a crack; will he still be able to have children in the future...?

The Marquis of Anyang's forehead veins bulged, his eyes wide open, staring intently at Gu's mother.

Today's farce has completely ruined the Marquis's reputation.

It became a joke.

Steward Ma coldly observed this farce, saying, "How can such a dignified Marquis's mansion have so many sordid affairs? I will report today's events to the Emperor truthfully."

Marquis Anyang was completely panicked. Although this matter was solely the fault of Gu's mother, if the Emperor investigated, the entire Marquis's mansion would be implicated.

He pointed at Gu's mother and cursed, "You vicious woman, your heart is so cruel, the Gu family can no longer tolerate you."

Seeing that her scheme had been exposed, Gu's mother knelt down with a thud and crawled to the Marquis of Anyang.

“My lord, I am doing this for our son. Junze is a cripple; how can he shoulder the future of the Marquis’s mansion? I am doing all this for the sake of the Marquis’s mansion.”

"Someone come here," the Marquis of Anyang summoned his servants.

"Place Madam under house arrest in a secluded courtyard. No one is allowed to visit her without my order. I will investigate this matter thoroughly, and if there are any accomplices, they will not be let off lightly."

“No need,” Chu Ruohan said loudly, “I have already reported it to the authorities, and the Prefect of the Capital will be here to arrest him soon.”

Marquis Anyang still wanted to suppress the matter and minimize public opinion?

There are no doors.

Gu's mother collapsed to the ground, the charge of murdering her stepson weighing heavily on her; she was finished.

There was no one more Granny Wang who could take the blame for her.

But then, as if she had just remembered something, she suddenly shouted, "Gu Junze is dead, the position of heir can only belong to my son! Everything I did was simply to follow the trend of the times, the glory of this Marquis's mansion cannot be ruined in the hands of a cripple!"

Her eyes were filled with madness and despair, her hair was disheveled, and she had completely lost her former dignity.

"Hahaha……"

"I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you," Chu Ruohan said in a cold voice.

Gu's mother instantly stopped her maniacal laughter, her expression freezing as she stared intently at her. "What did you say?"

"I told you you'd be disappointed." Chu Ruohan slightly raised her chin, a hint of barely perceptible pleasure flashing in her eyes.

Behind everyone, Ying Qing pushed Gu Junze slowly out of the inner hall.

As if she had seen a ghost, Gu's mother's eyes widened instantly. She pointed at Gu Junze and only managed to utter a complete sentence after a long while.

"You...you're still alive? How is that possible?"