The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1253 - 1253 611 True colors revealed

Chapter 1253: 611 True colors revealed Chapter 1253: 611 True colors revealed Prince An said, “You don’t need to give me an immediate answer. After all, this is a serious matter. You should consider it carefully after you return, and do not make a hasty decision that you might regret in the future.”

Having said this, he stood up and walked out of the hall. He had to pack his luggage.

Gu Jinyu also stood up, watching his retreating figure and said with a trembling voice, “I’m willing! I am willing to marry you! As long as you don’t disdain my origin, I am willing to go to the borderlands with you!”

Prince An slowly turned around, “When I was a prince, I never scorned your origin, and certainly not now.”

Gu Jinyu smiled with relief, “That’s good.”

Prince An looked at her intently and said, “However, your father may not agree. If you are determined to marry me, elopement might be the only option.”

“I’m not afraid!” Gu Jinyu declared.

Prince An said, “Alright then, I will wait for you at the city gate early tomorrow morning.”

After Gu Jinyu left, Liao Quan came over and looked at Prince An with an indescribable expression, “Are you really going to take her with you?”

Gu Jinyu had stolen Gu Jiao’s credit before and kept causing trouble for Gu Jiao and the Yao Family, Liao Quan felt she was a big trouble herself.

Prince An said bitterly, “After all, there is a marriage contract between us. If she is willing to elope, I have no reason to let her down.”

After Gu Jinyu returned to the Marquis Residence, she immediately sent the maidservants in her room away.

The maidservants were dumbfounded.

“Miss, what’s the matter?” asked a head maidservant.

Gu Jinyu opened the wardrobe, turned her head towards the door, and commanded, “No one is to come in!”

“Miss! What on earth happened?” the head maidservant called out from the doorway.

“I told you not to come in!” Gu Jinyu took all the clothes out of the wardrobe.

Never having seen Gu Jinyu in such a state of disarray, the head maidservant didn’t dare to leave her unattended.

She pushed the door open and saw clothes all over the bed. She was immediately flabbergasted, ignoring Gu Jinyu’s orders and stepped into the room, “Miss! What are you doing? Why have you taken out all the clothes? You… you…”

She saw Gu Jinyu grab a chest and stuff the clothes into it without a second thought.

The head maidservant hurriedly said, “Miss, are you moving out?”

Gu Jinyu replied sternly, “No one is to interfere with me! And no one is to speak of my return!”

The maidservants at the doorway exchanged glances.

Sensing trouble, the head maidservant secretly signaled them with her eyes, whispering, “Go and call for the Marquis!”

One of the swifter maidservants went to fetch him.

The Marquis happened to be at the Residence today; the estate that the Empress Dowager requested had finally been finished after a series of renovations and expansions, and now only a handover ceremony was left to be held. He had asked the Imperial Astronomical Bureau to calculate an auspicious date.

And he was now waiting for the result in the Residence.

A maidservant reported at the doorstep, “Marquis! You must come quickly! Something has happened to Miss! She’s been gathering clothes ever since she returned, and she is not allowing the servants to speak a word of it!”

The Marquis frowned and immediately went to Gu Jinyu’s Courtyard.

After Gu Jinyu packed a box of clothes, she began to pack her jewelry. Just as she pulled open the drawer of the dressing table, the Marquis strode into the room, hands clasped behind his back.

“Jin Yu, what are you doing?”

He asked gravely.

Gu Jinyu’s body shook, and a fine hairpin slipped from her palm, falling to the ground with a snap, its pearls scattering.

She turned around in panic, using the dressing table to shield herself, “Father…”

The Marquis glanced at the still-open chest on the floor and then at the hairpin broken by Gu Jinyu’s mishandling, his gaze growing steadily colder, “Jin Yu, are you planning to leave secretly?”

“I… I…” Gu Jinyu stumbled over her words.

The Marquis coldly looked at the head maidservant, “Where did the young Miss go today?”

The head maidservant replied in a low voice, “To… Bishui Alley.”

The Marquis’s eyes chilled, “Did that girl bully you again?”

Gu Jinyu quickly said, “No, Father! It has nothing to do with my sister! It’s me! It’s me who met Prince An! I want to go to the borderlands with him!”

The Marquis frowned, “Borderlands? Has he also been exiled? You—”

Gu Jinyu stepped forward, grabbing her father’s arm, “Father! He wasn’t exiled! He volunteered for the borderlands, and for this, he has renounced his title. He is a good man of honor and affection, and I am willing to follow him! Please grant me this wish, Father!”

The Marquis replied without a second thought, “I do not agree!”