Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 767 - 765

Chapter 767: 765

Seeing the people sent by the Wang Mansion to move the dowry, Ruxue didn’t dare to stop them! She assumed Mrs. Gu couldn’t bear to part with the betrothal gifts from Du Yijin, without overthinking, she hurriedly pulled Mrs. Gu towards the main courtyard saying, "Madam, Miss Gu is nearly beaten to death by young master! You must go save her!"

What? Gu Hongxia was nearly beaten to death by the Crown Prince? What happened?

After hearing this, Mrs. Gu glanced at the dowry being carried away and didn’t know what to do for a moment!

"Madam, hurry up! Miss Gu is nearly beaten to death!" Seeing Mrs. Gu still unmoved, Ruxue became anxious and yanked Mrs. Gu’s arm towards the main courtyard.

Mrs. Gu stomped her foot and didn’t care about her property, she quickly started running towards the main courtyard.

If Gu Hongxia was killed in Du Mansion, mother wouldn’t let her off!

Luckily, Du Mansion was not very big. Mrs. Gu managed to arrive before she ran out of breath.

The front of the main courtyard was filled with people who had come for the wedding. Seeing Mrs. Gu, they couldn’t help but start whispering. Shangguan Xuanyi turned his head and gave the crowd a cold glance, silencing them all.

Mrs. Gu looked at the atmosphere and her unease grew. She didn’t care about saluting the royal family and hurriedly ran into the room. The sight met her eyes was Gu Hongxia, wearing a bright red wedding dress, unconscious in the corner with traces of blood at the corner of her mouth.

There was no one inside the room, they were all standing outside.

"Hongxia!" Mrs. Gu was frightened and quickly rushed over, with trembling hand she checked her breath, it was a relief to find she was still breathing.

"Summon the doctor, Ruxue, go fetch a doctor quick!"

Ruxue heard this and quickly ran out.

"Don’t go!" The voice of Du Zhongkai, seething with suppressed rage, rang from behind them.

Mrs. Gu turned around and sobbed, "Master, if we don’t summon a doctor, Hongxia will die! "

"Send her back to the Gu family! If she wants to die, let her die anywhere but the Du Mansion! I don’t want the unluckiness!" Du Zhongkai said angrily.

"Master, how can you be like this? Hongxia is my niece! Isn’t my niece your niece too?" Mrs. Gu said disbelievingly.

"I don’t have a niece who would intentionally kidnap my daughter and try to replace her at her own wedding! If you don’t send her back to the Gu family, I will have her thrown out of the Du Mansion! If the Crown Prince comes out and sees her still here, he won’t spare her life! Her death won’t be pitiful, just don’t dirty my place!" Du Zhongkai said mercilessly, leaving no room for negotiation.

He even had the idea to divorce this wife, the cause of one disaster after another, all affecting his child!

What? Replace Du Yijin as the bride? It was then that Mrs. Gu realized Gu Hongxia was wearing a bridal dress! What exactly had happened? How could Gu Hongxia replace Du Yijin? Du Yijin was so strong how she could be replaced by Hongxia? Could this be Du Yijin’s plot? Her brain felt overwhelmed!

"Still not leaving!" Noticing Mrs. Gu in a daze, Du Zhongkai shouted again.

"Madam, we should quickly send Miss Gu back to her home! The Crown Prince was very furious earlier!" Ruxue said, pulling the stunned Mrs. Gu. The Crown Prince’s demeanor just now was too frightening, she didn’t dare to see him again tonight, fearing she would have nightmares about it.

Mrs. Gu came back to her senses. She had been married to Du Zhongkai for many years, she naturally knew he was serious, he was genuinely angry.

Thinking of how Gu Honggen was kicked by the Crown Prince and had only just recovered, she was startled, not daring to delay any longer. She and Ruxue quickly carried Gu Hongxia away.

After Mrs. Gu left, Du Zhongkai walked up to the wedding procession and offered a bow with his fists clasped, performing a courtesy: "I apologize for the long wait, my daughter will come out in a bit."

"Mr. Du, we can’t have the bride switched this time again. Prince An scared us too much just now, my fragile heart couldn’t bear it." Di Shaowei jokingly said.

Du Zhongkai shook his head hurriedly and promised: "It won’t happen, it won’t."

Ah, what a mess this has become!

Now that Du Zhongkai mentioned that Du Yijin would come out soon, everyone knew that the wedding would continue, and they began discussing how to get Shangguan Ruixi drunk that night.

"Brother, this task is up to you!" Di Shaowei thought of Shangguan Xuanyi’s fierceness on his wedding night and patted his shoulder.

"Killing a chicken with a butcher’s knife! Overkill! You shrimp soldiers and crab generals can handle this!" Shangguan Xuanyi coolly said.

Shrimp soldiers and crab generals? The crowd was collectively bewildered.

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Inside Du Yijin’s boudoir, after Shangguan Ruixi finished feeding Du Yijin the last spoonful of ginger soup, he looked at Du Yijin with a bandage around her head and her hands wrapped up like rice dumplings, and asked with a pained heart: "Are you in pain?"

"It’s bearable." Du Yijin shook her head slightly, her expression plain. It definitely hurts, but it was tolerable.

A pang of pain clenched Shangguan Ruixi’s heart. If it weren’t for his negligence in taking care of her, she wouldn’t have been knocked out in the bathroom, and then swapped out with someone else!

He stood up and coldly glared at the maid and the old woman who were too frightened to even breathe properly and said, "Help the crown princess get ready again, be careful not to hurt her. If anything goes wrong this time, I will have your heads!"

The maid and the old woman quickly agreed and then began to get busy. Fortunately, there were two sets of wedding dresses prepared for the crown princess’s wedding, otherwise they wouldn’t know how to end this day!

The crown prince’s face was terrifying; they had never seen him so angry all these years.

If at first they thought that the crown prince didn’t like the crown princess because of her low background, causing them to look down upon her as well, now they knew they were utterly wrong!

Just now, the way the crown prince was taking care of the crown princess looked as if he was in so much pain that he was on the verge of tears. But it was the crown princess who maintained her calm expression, as if she was not the one that got hurt. Whoever dares to say in the future that the crown prince does not like the crown princess, she will slap them!

This time, as they changed Du Yijin’s clothes and did her makeup, their respect and caution were taken to the extreme.

Shangguan Ruixi left the room and stood in the corridor, struggling to restrain his anger. Whenever he thought back to that scene, he felt as if he was about to explode with rage!

If he wasn’t so familiar with her figure, if he hadn’t noticed something off from the way she walked, and if he hadn’t caught a glimpse of the bride’s exposed hand, his beloved girl, whom he had tried so hard to marry, would have been replaced by someone else!

When Shangguan Ruixi found out that the bride was not Du Yijin, he thought Du Yijin didn’t want to marry him and intentionally had someone take her place. In his anger, he kicked the imposter away.

At his action, his servants screamed out in shock while many more didn’t even dare to breathe.

Everyone couldn’t understand why the groom had kicked the bride away!

Even Du Zhongkai was taken aback! He was about to confront him when someone caught a glimpse of the bride’s face and exclaimed in surprise, "This is not Miss Du!"