Forced to be a concubine? I turned around and married the scumbag's father.

"The thugs sneaked into the pond, and the guards searched around it. They found traces of water leading to Zuimo Pavilion, but when they went there, they were told that the young master had just left. We searched the entire mansion and couldn't find him, so it's impossible. Therefore, I suspect that the young master took him away."

Zhou Zhilan's face turned ugly: "Did the thugs come in with you, young master? Who are they? Why did they try to kill you, madam?"

"We don't know yet without evidence. I'll ask when you return, young master."

Gu Hua chimed in, "No need to ask. He won't tell you anyway. You just need to confirm whether Wu Yuan is still there."

"Wu Yuan? Yes, just check if that guy is here and you'll understand."

Zhou Chunyu's eyes widened, and he exchanged a glance with Zhou Zhilan. He immediately led his men to go there personally.

Zhou Zhilan frowned and lowered her voice, saying, "We've already been secretly monitoring Zui Moxuan. How did he get here so quietly! His skills are terrifying."

The more she thought about it, the more worried she became.

"This person is very strange."

Gu Hua recalled that familiar voice calling her name.

Could it be...

impossible.

Gu Hua shook her head, rejecting her own idea.

"What's strange about him? What did you notice?"

"He didn't seem to be here to kill me. Although it was too dark in the room to see his face, I could sense that he wasn't murderous. He drugged us to keep us from knowing he was there, so what was his purpose? There's nothing valuable or important in my room."

If it were a spy stealing something, they should go to the study.

Gu Hua became more and more confused the more she thought about it.

Zhou Zhilan became increasingly nervous as she listened: "No, I need to arrange for a few maids with good martial arts skills to guard you."

He walked away in a hurry while talking.

Soon after, Donghua and Dongqing were fully awake, and the two felt a chill run down their spines when they thought about it.

If something happens to the lady, they will have no choice but to atone with their deaths.

"Madam, please sleep a little longer. We will stay with you."

Gu Hua's mind was a mess. She nodded haphazardly and lay back down on the bed.

I was so nervous just now that my body ached and I drifted off to sleep.

The next day.

Gu Hua slept until the sun was high in the sky.

Zhou Chunyu and Zhou Zhilan were already waiting for her in the east wing.

“The person last night was no ordinary person; he came and went without a trace. Young Master vehemently denied taking anyone out, and coincidentally, Wu Yuan said a few days ago that he had something to do and left the Duke’s mansion. There is no evidence to prove that he was the intruder.”

"In any case, we'll increase our guard. All the maids in the manor who know martial arts have been transferred here to guard you and the old lady."

Gu Hua listened silently.

The gentle call from last night still lingers in my mind.

Like the voices of people who have been separated by life and death, filled with longing when they reunite after a long separation.

Every time she thinks about it, her heart aches.

Brother Ji, is that you?

If it were him, she would actually stab him with her own hands.

She didn't dare to think about it anymore.

Zhou Zhilan suddenly remembered: "Right, didn't you stab him? Where did you stab him? Have our people and the patrol officers keep an eye out."

Seeing Gu Hua in a daze, he gently patted her thigh: "What's wrong?"

Gu Hua snapped out of her daze: "Nothing, what did you just say?"

"Where did you hurt that person last night?"

"thigh."

Zhou Zhilan looked at Zhou Chunyu: "Brother, you hurt your thigh."

Okay. Got it.

……

After that incident, everything calmed down.

The man was not caught, and Wuyuan never entered the mansion again.

Three days later, Gu Hua remembered that something big was going to happen today.

She hadn't faced Yao Yao directly yet, so she used this opportunity to probe Yao Yao's true strength.

After dinner, Gu Hua took Dong Hua and Dong Qing for a walk in the garden to digest their food. As they walked, they arrived at the pond next to Xuan Yun Hall.

I saw Yao Yao sitting in the pavilion by the water feeding the fish.

Gu Hua walked over and stood beside her, watching dozens of koi fish happily vying for food.

Yao Yao glanced at her sideways and said, "Please forgive me, Madam, but my belly is too big to perform the proper etiquette."

Donghua was angry and was about to speak when Gu Hua waved her hand to stop her.

"It's alright. The child comes first."

Gu Hua sat down opposite her, took a small handful of fish food from her hand, and scattered it into the water.

"Aunt Yao drinks tonics every day, doesn't she?"

Yao Yao paused, her hand still holding the fish food, and looked at her in surprise: "Yes, what's wrong?"

Gu Hua waved to Dong Hua and the other girl. Dong Qing led Yao Yao's maid away, but Dong Hua refused to go far, keeping a close eye on Yao Yao, afraid that she would do something bad.

"It's nothing, just reminding you to be careful."

Yao Yao raised an eyebrow: "You care about me?"

“The child is innocent.” Gu Hua looked at her calmly.

Just then, a maid from Jiaochun Garden came over carrying a food box. Seeing that Gu Hua was also there, she bowed to her.

"Auntie, it's time for your tonic."

A hint of nervousness flashed in Gu Hua's eyes.

Yao Yao looked at her curiously while taking the tonic handed to her by the maid.

"Does Madam think there's something wrong with this medicine?"

Gu Hua couldn't say it directly.

On this day in her past life, at this very hour, Yao Yao drank a bowl of tonic here, and her child was aborted.

She smiled and said, "I know Gu Wanru's personality quite well. She appears dignified and gentle on the surface, but she is very strong-willed at heart. She has been working hard to take care of her health recently. I just guess that she doesn't want a concubine's child to be born first."

Yao Yao looked at the medicine bowl, then at her.

“I take this medicine every day without any problems, so why do you insist that I can’t take it today?”

Yao Yao smiled and said, "You two have already fallen out, so why should I believe you?"

"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. You can have the royal physician examine you, and it's not too late to drink it if there's no problem."

Yao Yao smiled and scrutinized Gu Hua in front of her: "Why are you helping me?"

That's right, the bowl of medicine in her hand was indeed an abortion pill, because she had prepared it herself.

It seems that Gu Hua thought Gu Wanru was trying to drug her.

But how did she know?

Yao Yao scrutinized Gu Hua.

She was not as harmless as she appeared; she even forced her to kill her own mother and injured the young master twice.

She was also a ruthless person.

Gu Hua, unaware of her thoughts, followed her own and said, "The fact that the child was able to be born into your womb means that you have a mother-child bond. If you abort it, it will become a karmic entanglement for you."

Yao Yao scoffed, "Then I've had far too many bad karmas in my life. This isn't the first child I've aborted. Children born to people of our status will suffer even more than I have. Why would I give birth to him?"

She suddenly leaned closer to Gu Hua: "Are you trying to win me over and form an alliance with me?"

Gu Hua didn't say anything.

An alliance is impossible; it's not necessarily a bad thing to let her misunderstand.

Moreover, since Yaoyao allied with Gu Wanru and helped her bring Wuyuan into the manor, Gu Hua wouldn't believe that Yaoyao also wanted to form an alliance with her.

To get something out of a tiger, you have to get close to the tiger first.

It all depends on who can fool whom.

Yao Yao laughed loudly for a while, then suddenly stood up.

With her large pregnant belly sticking out, she gave Gu Hua a seductive smile: "Since you reminded me today, I'll give you a big gift. Just wait and see the show."

Gu Hua watched her leave with her entourage and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

His original intention was to get close to Yaoyao, but he also didn't want an innocent child to die.

As for her grand gift, Gu Hua had no expectations whatsoever.

As long as it doesn't ruin her grand plan, that's fine.

……

Yao Yao returned to her room, took out a white jade bowl from the drawer, poured the abortion medicine into the small bowl, and drank it in one gulp in front of the maids.

"Go and summon the young master to the Brocade Pavilion."

As she walked, carrying the jade bowl, she gave instructions to her trusted confidants.

Gu Wanru was embroidering when Yaoyao suddenly barged in with her entourage.

"you……"

Yao Yao held a small bowl in her hand and shoved it directly in front of Gu Wanru, staring at her with teary eyes: "Why did you abort my child?"

Gu Wanru looked bewildered: "When did I abort your child? What's wrong with you?"

Yao Yao suddenly clutched her lower abdomen, her face turning deathly pale with pain: "Young Madam, why did you abort Young Master's first child? He's already so big, are you trying to kill me too?"

Yao Yao's maid screamed in fright and rushed to support her, while someone hurriedly went to call the palace physician.

Gu Wanru's expression changed drastically. She suddenly realized something and pointed at Yaoyao, shouting angrily, "You drugged yourself, trying to frame me!"

"What's wrong? What's going on?"

Mu An rushed in and saw Yao Yao lying pitifully on the ground, barely alive, with blood under her skirt.

"Gu Wanru, how dare you commit such a heinous act! Yaoyao is already five months pregnant, do you want her and her unborn child to die together?"

Gu Wanru panicked: "It wasn't me, it was her! It has nothing to do with me!"

Yao Yao's trusted maid handed a white jade bowl to Mu An: "Young master, this is the young mistress's special bowl. Our concubine miscarried after drinking the medicine in this bowl."

Mu An looked and saw that it was indeed true.

"The evidence is irrefutable. What do you have to deny? As the legal wife, you can't bear children yourself, yet you still try to harm the concubine's child. Gu Wanru, you've violated the seven grounds for divorce, so I can divorce you!"

Gu Wanru was completely stunned.

"What? Yaoyao had a miscarriage at Jinxiu Pavilion?"

Gu Hua was stunned when she heard the news.

What is Yao Yao up to now?

But let me clarify one thing: Yao Yao didn't want this child at all.