newbobooks Chapter 663 The truth comes out, but the result is something he can't bear.
Chapter 663 The truth comes out, but the result is something he can't bear.
The main hall was brightly lit, and Mei Zi was pinned to the cold floor by the shadow guards, unable to move.
Gu Xuan looked at this scene, then at his father at the door with a somber expression, and felt his blood run cold.
He wanted to explain, for Meizi's sake, and for his own.
With a thud, Gu Xuan knelt heavily on the ground.
Seeing this, Mei Zi struggled to raise her head and spoke before he could, "It has nothing to do with Young Master Xuan! It was all my idea, I was the one who wanted to do it!"
Supported by Haitang, Chu Ruohan slowly walked out of the inner room. She looked at the two people kneeling on the ground, and her gaze finally fell on Meizi.
“I really can’t understand it.” Chu Ruohan sighed softly. “Meizi, back then you knelt outside the manor gate with Xuan Ge’er, who was only a few months old, begging me to adopt him. Not only did I adopt Xuan Ge’er, but I also kept you in the manor and had you take care of him personally.”
“I even took your indenture from the third branch of the Gu family and gave you your freedom. I ask myself, I have done nothing to wrong you.”
"I'm sorry?" Mei Zi thought she had heard the biggest joke in the world.
She laughed, a chilling laugh, "You're just wearing a mask of hypocrisy! No matter how nice you talk, in the end you still have to give birth to your own son!"
She was really going all out, and blurted out, "Back then, wasn't it you who drove Aunt Li to her death!"
These words struck Gu Xuan like a thunderbolt, exploding in his mind.
He suddenly raised his head, looking at Meizi with disbelief, then turned to Chu Ruohan.
One is his biological mother, and the other is the mother who raised him from childhood and loved him dearly. How could this happen?
"Mother..." His voice trembled, "What she said isn't true, is it?"
Chu Ruohan's face paled slightly. She walked to the main seat and sat down, her voice filled with a deep sense of powerlessness.
"Indeed, great kindness can turn into enmity. Brother Xuan, since you want to know the truth, then I will tell you."
She paused for a moment, then said, "When I married your father, he... was ill and had difficulty walking. I thought he would never have any more children, so I decided to adopt him."
"You were exactly three months old at that time."
"But who knew that your biological parents would have such wicked intentions, wanting to use this as leverage to demand more. So I gave up the idea of adopting you."
"Later, your biological mother, Aunt Li, in order to make you my son and the rightful heir to the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, set a trap."
Chu Ruohan's voice was soft, but every word was like a knife, cutting into Gu Xuan's heart.
"She killed the wife at the time, who was also Gu Lu's mother, then faked it as an accident, and then paid for it with her own life..."
“She even went so far as to disfigure herself and take all the blame upon herself, leaving me with no reason to refuse to adopt you.”
Gu Xuan's back bent down inch by inch; so that's how it is.
It turns out that his life of luxury and being pampered for over a decade was built on the life of another person.
His biological mother turned out to be a murderer.
How will he face Brother Lu and Sister Lan in the future?
Thank goodness, they're not in Beijing right now!
As Meizi listened to these old stories being revealed, the last trace of color drained from her face.
She confessed to all her crimes of poisoning, and knelt and begged, crying, "Please, Duke and Madam, have mercy and leave a place for Young Master Xuan!"
"This servant is truly afraid. I'm afraid that once Madam has her own son, she will kick Young Master Xuan out!"
Gu Junze had been silent until now, when he spoke coldly, exposing all her pretense and excuses.
"And the title and estate of the Duke of Zhenguo."
Gu Xuan's face grew increasingly grim, as if he had been slapped hard across the face.
"Guards," Gu Junze's voice was devoid of any warmth, "take this criminal who attempted to murder the mistress of the house to the yamen and enforce the law impartially."
Two tall guards stepped forward and lifted up the limp Meizi.
Gu Xuan remained kneeling on the ground, never pleading for her.
Meizi was dragged out, and she looked back at Gu Xuan with reluctance.
Inside the hall, only the three of them remained.
Gu Xuan raised his head and looked directly at Gu Junze. "Father, I really didn't do it."
He tried to explain, but Gu Junze interrupted him sharply: "You didn't do it! But covering it up is the same as condoning it!"
"If I hadn't foreseen this and taken precautions, your mother and the child in her womb would have been killed by now!"
Gu Xuan's body trembled violently. He turned to Chu Ruohan and finally realized his mistake.
"Mother, I was wrong."
He knew he had hurt his mother's feelings.
He could have stopped it. He knew Mei Zi harbored malicious intentions, and after the first attack, he should have immediately told his parents. But he didn't.
He was blinded by those illusory statuses and future prospects, and chose to remain silent.
Chu Ruohan looked at him, and the last bit of warmth in her eyes disappeared.
“We’ve raised you for over ten years, so we have a mother-son bond. Now that you’re all grown up, you can do whatever you want from now on.”
After she finished speaking, she stood up, resolutely turned around, and went back to her room.
The sound of that door closing seemed to shut the door on Gu Xuan's heart completely.
He knew he was really wrong.
He knelt outside Chu Ruohan's door, motionless.
On a cold winter night, the wind is biting.
Suddenly, fine snowflakes began to fall from the sky.
The snow fell heavier and heavier, soon covering Gu Xuan's shoulders and hair with a thin layer of white.
His teeth were chattering from the cold, and his body was stiff, yet he remained kneeling upright.
Inside the room, Chu Ruohan was lying on the bed, but she tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.
Gu Junze walked in, tucked the blanket around her, and looked at the stubborn figure outside the window, his eyes turning cold.
He walked directly to the door and ordered the shadow guards standing under the corridor in a deep voice: "Send Gu Xuan back to the Eastern Camp and set off immediately."
The couple lay in bed, silent for a long time.
“This child,” Gu Junze finally spoke, his voice tinged with disappointment, “ultimately lacks mental fortitude and is indecisive.”
"Faced with family ties and future prospects, he chose the latter. He was both indecisive and foolish."
Chu Ruohan opened her eyes in the darkness, "In the end, she was just too young. She was easily swayed by a few words from others."