“Don’t play dumb. You are clear that Qianshan was my childhood sweetheart…” Mentioning Shen Qianshan, Ziyan flushed. Gu Qiang understood her meaning instantly. It turned out that she did it because of Shen Qianshan.Shen Qianshan had no relationship with Gu Qiang, but he always got her into trouble. However, what Gu Qiang needed to do right now was extricate herself from here. After all, the infanta was not of evil nature. So long as Gu Qiang persuaded her, the situation would probably not be terrible.“Your Highness, please believe that I have no relationship with the Ninth Duke. Besides, you are childhood sweethearts to each other. I haven’t known him long. How can it be compared with your relationship?” Gu Qiang explained with an earnest expression. The infanta looked at Gu Qiang, who had bright piercing eyes and looked sincere. She regarded unconsciously what Gu Qiang said reasonable.Seeing the infanta so innocent, her guards thought her u

Chui Xue felt sorry for Gu Qiang too and said in a low voice, “Right. Our lady has suffered so much, but Ye was still curious about the reason why you didn’t greet her today. She wouldn’t die even if you didn’t greet her!”“How did you reply to her?” Gu Qiang put aside the money given by her brother and asked casually.“We said you were not well and couldn’t go to greet her. Though her servant didn’t believe, she said nothing.” Ting Feng answered.She was indeed a smart girl. Gu Qiang thought more and more highly of her.Thanks to the excuse Ting Feng gave to Ye, no one came to bother Gu Qiang the whole day.At dead of night, moonlight beamed through the window. Gu Qiang’s bed was surrounded by moonlight. The silver light flew slowly like water.Gu Qiang turned over, but she couldn’t fall asleep. Then she got up, sat on a chair before the window, and opened her diary. She was clear that there would be noth

Therefore, Gu Qiang told Shen Qianshan, “I haven’t got it sorted. After I sort it out, I will come to see you again. I still need to be taken here by Jin Ye, right?”Shen Qianshan nodded. Jin Ye walked over and said, “Your Highness, news comes from the palace that Empress Dowager is infected with the plague.”Jin Ye came over to take Gu Qiang back originally, but unexpectedly he brought such terrible news. She turned around to look at Shen Qianshan and kept silent.Empress dowager was Shen Qianshan’s mother. Gu Qiang knew he must feel terrible, but she couldn’t do anything.Shen Qianshan bit his lips and told Jin Ye, “Got it. I will go to the palace right now to see my mother.”“I’m afraid you can’t. The person from the palace wrote in the letter that Empress Dowager was quarantined.”What? She is Empress Dowager. How could she be quarantined?Shen Qianshan rose instantly and told Jin Ye, “Sen

The fifteen-year-old Gu Qiang sat in the yard of the Gu Family and looked at Ye and Gu Zhihua cleaning their houses, which were close together. Ye told her to come here on purpose. She didn’t know why in the beginning, but now she did.Ye asked servants to carry out an emerald screen. It was very heavy and featured by a design of a beauty playing the zither. So beautiful.The design was engraved so well that one couldn’t take his or her eyes away from it. Besides, the screen looked familiar to Gu Qiang.It looked familiar of course. Gu Qiang recalled immediately where she saw it before. It was left behind by her deceased mother and used to be placed in her mother’s room. Why did Ye carry it out?Gu Qiang stood up instantly, rushed to Ye, pointed at the screen, and said, “Why is it here?”Ye was stunned. The screen was given to Gu Qiang’s mother by Prime Minister Gu. It was said that he was obsessed with her mother and

Since Gu Qiang came round last time, she seemed to be different completely. She often went out. Her life was quite different, too. It seemed that she was scheming something important. It was her privacy, but Ting Feng was worried about her.“Stay here. Ye and Gu Zhihua may come here to find faults with us anytime. If you are here, I will be not worried.” Gu Qiang said slowly.Ting Feng was much more mature than Chui Xue, so Gu Qiang trusted more in her.Gu Qiang went out and walked on the street. There were many pedestrians. But different from before, they looked listless, walked in a hurry, and looked around with cold eyes.Because disaster victims had flooded into the capital, many people here were refugees. Perhaps some of them even suffered from the plague.Empress Dowager wasn’t spared in the heavily guarded palace. Civilians in the capital were not protected at all. How could they not be jittery?Gu