The mistress has no feelings, why do you provoke her?

When Gu Huaizhou returned to his study, he had his trusted aide bring him some food.

He then instructed the servants to boil water in preparation for a bath.

Before long, the food was ready.

Gu Huaizhou, who had always looked down on steamed buns, grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth.

After a few bites of steamed buns, he was nowhere to be seen as elegant and composed as before.

He looked just like a beggar returning from a famine, as if he wanted to dump the whole plate of food into his mouth.

Seeing how he ate, Zhou said with heartache, "Eat slowly, no one will take it from you."

Gu Huaizhou ate three steamed buns in a row before stopping.

He burped because he ate too quickly.

Zhou poured him another cup of hot tea: "Quickly, press it down."

Gu Huaizhou took it, and after a few sips of hot tea, his icy body finally warmed up.

The hot water was ready, so he went to the bathhouse to shower, while Zhou waited outside.

When Gu Huaizhou came out again, he had already regained his former glamorous appearance.

He knew why Zhou hadn't left, so he knelt down at her feet: "Mother, if you want to hit me or scold me, I'll take it all."

Zhou wanted to beat him to death, but when she thought of how he was about to freeze to death, she couldn't bear to do it.

She put on a stern face and asked, "You, you really did have an affair with your sister-in-law?"

Knowing that he could no longer hide the truth, Gu Huaizhou nodded: "Mother, Miaoyin and I are truly in love. Please grant us your blessing."

"You, do you know this is incest? She's your sister-in-law! If this gets out, will the Marquis's family still have any reputation left?"

Once the affair between Gu Huaizhou and Jiang Miaoyin is exposed, the entire Marquis's mansion will be implicated.

All the unmarried women and men in the household will be implicated. Who will dare to marry them then?

Zhou was so anxious that she felt like the sky was about to fall.

Gu Huaizhou, however, remained surprisingly calm. She said to Zhou Shi, "If our son marries Miaoyin, our affair will not be exposed. On the contrary, people will think it's a beautiful story. It's not uncommon for a brother-in-law to marry his sister-in-law."

"But, but you have a wife now."

A cold glint appeared on Gu Huaizhou's face. He poured a cup of tea for Zhou Shi and said, "I have it now, but I won't have it in the future."

The coldness in his eyes was chilling, and Zhou was terrified: "What, what do you mean by that?"

“Mother, Song Wenjun is the daughter of a merchant. Apart from some family property, she can’t help your son at all. But Miaoyin is different. Her maternal grandmother is the Princess of Huaiyang, which can help your son’s career. She is the only daughter of the Jiang family. Are you worried that the Jiang family will not help our Marquis’s Mansion in the future?”

Gu Huaizhou pushed the teacup towards Zhou Shi, who hesitated before taking it, but still felt uneasy: "What if your affair is discovered?"

“My son will never let such a thing happen.” He leaned close to Zhou’s ear and whispered, “If I can get Jiang Miao to give birth to an heir for our Gu family, I will be able to control the whole situation. Song Wenjun is just a stepping stone for my career. Jiang Miaoyin is the one I truly love.”

Zhou suddenly looked up, her eyes filled with terror as she stared at Gu Huaizhou, and asked, "You, you just said, offspring?"

“That’s right.” Gu Huaizhou simply said it all: “Yan Yan, he is my and Miao Yin’s son.”

The more Zhou listened, the more alarmed she became, her eyes widening into copper bells.

Her eyes darted around in a panic, and she felt a buzzing sound above her head, as if something was about to leave her body.

She was so nervous she could hardly breathe. She clutched her chest tightly with her hands and asked again, "Then, what about Song Wenjun's child?"

Zhou had never seen Jiang Miaoyin pregnant, but she had watched Song Wenjun's belly grow bigger little by little.

Gu Huaizhou smiled coldly and said, "She doesn't deserve to give birth to my child. I strangled that bastard to death and fed it to the dogs the moment it was born."

"Ah..." Zhou screamed in terror. She looked at Gu Huaizhou in disbelief and asked emotionally, "But, that's your own flesh and blood! How could you be so heartless?"

“My Gu family bloodline has always been noble, how can we allow lowly merchants to confuse us? Song Wenjun, she is not worthy.”

Zhou slumped back into her chair. Gu Huaizhou had given her too many frights, and she was about to break down.

I thought he was just messing around with Jiang Miaoyin, but I never expected that the two of them had a child.

They were then placed under Song Wenjun's care.

The more Zhou thought about it, the more terrified she became. She clutched her chest, feeling as if her heart was about to jump out of her throat.

"What if, what if Song Wenjun finds out?"

Gu Huaizhou was extremely confident and smiled contemptuously: "She will never find out, even if she dies. Didn't the mother find out? She protected the child like the apple of her eye, and wouldn't let anyone else touch him. How could she know that the child wasn't her own?"

Zhou agreed with this point.

She had witnessed how Song Wenjun treated her children.

"No wonder Jiang Miaoyin dared to come to me; it turns out she has a powerful backer and knows I can't touch her." Zhou Shi laughed self-deprecatingly.

Jiang Miaoyin and Gu Huaizhou completely outmaneuvered the people in the mansion.

If Gu Huaizhou hadn't been trapped in Jiang Miaoyin's room this time, she probably wouldn't have known until her death.

Seeing that Zhou had accepted the facts, Gu Huaizhou said to her earnestly, "Mother, I have my reasons for doing this. Although I have inherited the title, Father has many illegitimate sons. There is no guarantee that I won't be overthrown one day. Only by finding a powerful backer can we, mother and son, be secure."

Jiang Miaoyin is beautiful and has the power he desires, so why wouldn't he want her?

Mrs. Zhou slumped into her chair, having gradually come to accept the truth after her initial excitement.

She still couldn't calm down; she needed some quiet time.

"You two can handle this matter yourselves. Now that you are a marquis, you don't need your mother to interfere in many things. There is only one thing: your relationship with Jiang Miaoyin. You must not let even the slightest word of it leak out."

Gu Huaizhou respectfully replied, "Yes, son understands."

Zhou nodded, then staggered back to her own courtyard.

Akifuin.

As soon as Song Wenjun returned, she received news from Qingshan that Gu Huaizhou had escaped.

She smiled as she looked at the note, then burned it over a candle.

Xiao Tao vividly described to Song Wenjun: "Madam, you didn't see it. The Marquis looked so disheveled, just like a beggar. I heard that when he crawled out of the hole, his face was covered in dust."

Song Wenjun was not as optimistic as Xiao Tao. She forced a smile and said, "Gu Huaizhou was able to crawl out alive, so he will be more cautious in his actions in the future, and every step we take will be more difficult."

"Don't worry, Madam, I will definitely tell Qingshan to be more careful in his work."

“I trust Qingshan to do things well, but there’s something more important right now,” Song Wenjun said.

Xiao Tao looked at her in confusion: "What is Madam talking about?"

"Don't forget, Qi's mother's body is still in the water. Gu Huaizhou has been extremely busy these past few days and doesn't have time to deal with the body, but we can help him out."

A cold glint flashed in Song Wenjun's eyes; every move she made would deal a fatal blow to Gu Huaizhou.

The exposure of his affair with Jiang Miaoyin was a breach, and what she needed to do next was to make that breach bigger and bigger.

Until Gu Huaizhou's disguise was completely torn away, leaving him nowhere to hide.

Gu Huaizhou, you will eventually pay a bloody price for what you have done.