A husband found in the village? I bought a regent for a penny!

At this moment, Gu Xixi had only stood up halfway.

She was half-bent over, her fingertips barely touching the handle of the teapot, a rather unsteady position.

The sudden turn of the carriage caused Gu Xixi to lose her balance and fall forward before she could adjust.

In the nick of time, she saw Mu Nanzhao's chin rapidly approaching in her field of vision. Without thinking, to avoid hitting it, she reached out and grabbed wildly!

While using this leverage, she used all her strength to steady herself.

At the same time, the force with which the carriage turned was also decreasing.

Gu Xixi's eyes revealed a sense of relief after surviving a disaster. Just as she was about to catch her breath, the carriage, which was turning a corner, braked suddenly again.

"Xixi!" He Jinglan rushed over to help, but saw Gu Xixi's eyes slowly widen, her pupils constrict, and her lips slightly parted in fright...

The following scenes seemed to slow down countless times before He Jinglan's eyes, broken down into detailed slow motion.

Gu Xixi's hands were originally tightly gripping the sides of Mu Nanzhao's clothes.

The moment the brakes came on, Gu Xixi uncontrollably pressed herself against Mu Nanzhao.

Fortunately, Mu Nanzhao was a martial artist and not so delicate. Even when Gu Xixi pressed down on him with all her weight, he managed to hold on and not be knocked down.

However, there is still a forward lurch immediately after braking.

In her panic, Gu Xixi gripped even tighter.

As a result, she and Mu Nanzhao both fell sideways onto the floor of the carriage.

Although the above scenes are vivid, they actually happen in the blink of an eye.

He Jinglan snapped out of her daze and hurriedly asked, "You two didn't..."

Before he could finish speaking, Old Li's helpless and anxious plea came from outside.

"Miss Dou! My young lady has guests today, please reschedule for another day..."

The carriage curtain was suddenly lifted from the outside.

A girl in a red Hu-style dress appeared alongside the bright sunshine of the day.

"I'm not looking for He Jinglan. I don't have a good relationship with her. You know perfectly well who I'm looking for!"

As she spoke, she noticed something on the car floor and casually looked down at it.

Her almond-shaped eyes widened instantly.

"You! You..."

He Jinglan saw that the girl in red had already turned pale, her impatience mixed with a cold smile.

But when she saw the girl in red react like this, she looked down and was also taken aback.

At this moment, Gu Xixi encountered a series of unexpected situations, fell heavily, and was still dazed.

She tried to get up, and just as she was about to adjust her posture, she noticed something was wrong.

A vast expanse of white?

What did she see?

Gu Xixi's gaze slowly moved to the porcelain-white skin, the well-defined chest muscles, and the two most important points were pink and tender.

Further down... are neatly arranged, firm and powerful abdominal muscles.

Wait, why does it feel so solid and powerful!

Gu Xixi's gaze finally settled on her two hands, one on each side, which were tearing open Mu Nanzhao's clothes, with part of her palms pressed against his abs.

The carriage was deathly silent.

After realizing what she had done, Gu Xixi's mind went blank, as if a steam train was rushing through her brain.

Unable to think for the moment, she acted on instinct, shoving Mu Nanzhao's clothes shut. "Stop looking!!"

He Jinglan snapped out of her daze and quickly turned her face away, "Yes, yes, I won't look, I won't look. Don't look at what is improper."

Although Mu Nanzhao and He Jinghui used to practice martial arts together, often with their upper bodies bare, He Jinglan had long been used to it.

Even after a long time had passed and they suddenly met again, He Jinglan felt no emotion.

Both have muscular physiques, but she still prefers Meng Chengping's tanned skin, honed by the scorching sun and sandstorms of Northwest China.

However, Gu Xixi's unprecedented display of food possessiveness made He Jinglan unable to help but curl the corners of her mouth and glare at the girl in red provocatively.

The girl in red angrily slammed down the curtain and rushed into the carriage.

Outside the carriage, Old Li had just seen the Regent and Boss Gu fall down.

He was filled with unease and struggled for a moment before explaining out of a sense of duty, "Miss, just now a child ran across the road, and I had just turned to avoid him when Miss Dou jumped out and blocked my way. I really didn't have time to react."

He Jinglan lifted a corner of the curtain, poked her face out, and smiled, "Uncle Li is always the most reliable driver, I know it's not your fault. If you have to blame someone, blame..."

She lowered the curtain and turned to the girl in red inside the carriage, "It's all because some people are blind, stopping a carriage in broad daylight just to chase after a man!"

"Thank goodness Uncle Li is an experienced driver, otherwise Dou Rongshan, you'd be lying under a horse's hooves right now!"

Dou Rongshan is Mu Nanzhao's cousin, but not his biological cousin.

The Mu family is a prominent and prestigious clan, and Dou Rongshan comes from the maternal family of one of Mu Nanzhao's cousins.

His father, General Dou, was honest and upright, skilled in training troops, and stationed in the Shu region for many years.

The Dou family and the He family had a long-standing relationship, and Dou Rongshan and He Jinghui, the siblings, had known each other since childhood.

Last year, Dou Rongshan returned to Beijing to live with her grandmother and mother.

That's how she finally met up with her childhood friends.

Of course, this includes her beloved cousin... Mu Nanzhao.

And their childhood rivals... He Jinglan.

Dou Rongshan rolled her eyes at He Jinglan, "If I bumped into someone, I'll take responsibility for it myself! I won't try to extort money from your He family."

He Jinglan retorted, "That's hard to say. You can know a person's face but not their heart."

"After all, you've been hypocritical since you were little, and you always like to pretend to be a man!"

Old acquaintances, with whom you know each other inside and out, can be incredibly dangerous.

Dou Rongshan was indeed angered, forgetting why she had jumped into the carriage in the first place, and said, "I'm hypocritical?"

"It's more real than you dressing up like a porcelain doll since you were little, pretending to be a lady from a wealthy family!"

He Jinglan: "What, you've already been rejected, why are you still clinging on?"

"How dare you block my carriage! I'd like to invite you aboard!"

Dou Rongshan: "Hmph, I think you're still up to no good, otherwise why would you hide him in your car!"

He Jinglan laughed dismissively, "Hide? Do I need to hide? I said I'd see him, so what? Because I don't have your infatuated mind. Selflessness brings fearlessness."

Dou Rongshan's face flushed red when her sensitive spot was hit.

While the two were exchanging sharp words, Gu Xixi had already gotten up and found a seat some distance away.

Mu Nanzhao also took his seat in the same spot.

Compared to Gu Xixi, he, the one who had been stripped naked, was quite composed, calmly and unhurriedly straightening his clothes.

Instead of showing any anger at being offended, there seemed to be a hint of...pleasure in the flicker of his eyes?

Gu Xixi's eyes were unfocused. She didn't say a word, held the teacup with both hands, and drank it down to calm herself down.

Dou Rongshan, unable to win the argument with He Jinglan, turned her attention back to her, asking, "Who are you!"

"You were the one who said not to look, weren't you? Why can you just say you won't look and then not look!"

"The prince is my cousin. What is your relationship with him?"

Gu Xixi was in a state of utter confusion and couldn't be bothered to deal with this inexplicable person.

Dou Rongshan continued speaking, one sentence after another, talking to herself:

"Oh right, I get it! You did that fall on purpose, you vixen, didn't you?!"