Chapter 421
Her body shrank back as she spoke rapidly, “Your Highness, the Second Prince, I’m just a concubine, and a concubine’s life isn’t worth much, but I’ve only just spread the ‘good news’ and yet I died in your hands, do you think that the onlookers will not think too much about it?” Her voice was slightly hoarse and permeated by undisguised sarcasm and threats.
“Your Highness is also aware of how important the emperor’s eldest grandson is.”
“Does Your Highness think that the onlookers will not wonder why you would rather not have the Imperial Eldest Grandson and strangle me, your concubine?”
Gu Jing’s pupils shrank slightly, and his eyes turned sinister again.
As if Qin Xin had seized his key point, her eyes immediately lit up astonishingly and pressed on step by step, “They will say that His Highness, the Second Prince, is wearing a green hat, or ……”
She deliberately paused for a moment, her disdainful gaze sweeping over Gu Jing’s lower abdomen.
“Not working at all.”
The four words were said as light as a mosquito’s whistle but it was as heavy as thunder.
Gu Jing: “!!!”
He raised his hand high and was about to strike Qin Xin’s face.
This time, Qin Xin directly stuck her face over, as she word by word said, “Slap me! Feel free to slap me, it’s best to bring the people outside here….”
Gu Jing could not hit her anymore; he could only pause his hand midair, as his thin lips pursed into a straight line.
Qin Xin was right, if she died now, how should he explain to the public!
If there was an extra slap mark on her face right now, he was afraid that Empress Dowager Liu and his mother consort would ask him why he had hit Qin Xin. They do not care about a mere Qin Xin, but they do care about the “Emperor’s eldest grandson” in Qin Xin’s womb.
“……” Qin Xin knew she had made the right bet.
She was actually far from showing such a composure; her back was dripping with cold sweat, so much that her middle coat was soaked.
Based on Qin Xin’s understanding of Gu Jing, he was a person who loved his face and liked to pretend that everything was going well.
As expected, even at this moment, he still wanted to hide it!
He would rather hold his tongue than allow a slightest possibility of anyone else discovering his flaws, and to him, that would be worse than letting him die!
In the past, she loved him deeply, so she was willing to tolerate everything about him, whether it was his strengths or weaknesses, but now——
It was Gu Jing who had treated her unjustly in the first place, so do not blame her!
Thinking about her life after she married the Second Prince’s Mansion, Qin Xin hardened her heart and left the last point of guilt behind her head.
“……” Gu Jing glared at Qin Xin without blinking as the veins in his neck throbbing while his fists clenched tightly, and his knuckles cackling.
He wished he could devour Qin Xin alive, but he could only endure it.
He used to love Qin Xin so much, even after Empress Dowager Liu harbored grudges towards him. However, Qin Xin has disappointed him time and time again, and now she even has an affair and is pregnant with a bastard child!
Qin Xin had actually done this to him!
Gu Jing slowly and with difficulty questioned, “Whose is it?”
Whose bastard was that?!
“It’s not important.” Qin Xin straightened her collar to hide the bruise caused by Gu Jing and used this action to hide her nervousness.
She was afraid and uneasy, but it was no use being afraid or anxious. At this point, she had no other way to go, and could only follow this path.
She knew that even if Gu Jing would not kill her today because of his concern for Empress Dowager Liu outside, but after returning to the mansion after some time had passed, it would still be easy for him to kill her a violent death.
Even if she died inexplicably at the Second Prince’s Mansion, there would be no one to avenge her, and she was afraid the Qin family would instead gloat and applaud her death.
The only one who could save her was herself, and if she wanted to keep this child, she must convince Gu Jing.
“Not important?” Gu Jing laughed back in anger. His voice was as cold as that of ice.
Qin Xin said in a seemingly calm tone, “The Emperor wants his eldest grandson, and you, Your Highness, also need a child, don’t you?”
“……” Gu Jing could not speak as if he had been pinched, speechless.
The importance of a heir goes without saying, both for the common people and the royal family.
Seeing this, Qin Xin makes up her mind. Knowing that she had once again grasped Gu Jing’s weakness, she told herself that she understood Gu Jing, and she could definitely persuade him.
“Aside from this one in my womb, where else would Your Highness want to get a child from?” She touched her flat belly and looked at Gu Jing smiling. If Gu Jing wanted to have the emperor’s eldest grandson, he had to have a woman, but would he dare let others know of his secret?
Gu Jing: “!!!”
Qin Xin added, “Whether what I said is justified or not, Your Highness can think about it.”
“This child has actually come at just the right time, he will be the ‘rightful’ royal eldest grandson, Your Highness, don’t you think so?”
Qin Xin raised her eyes and met Gu Jing’s eyes.
Gu Jing stood motionless on the spot, with only those sinister eyes flickering brightly and darkly, recalling everything from six months ago in his mind.
If not for Yelu Luan, how would he have ended up in this situation!
This was a humiliation that no man could bear, all of which were brought to him by Yelu Luan and Qin Xin, as well as that wild man…
Gu Jing narrowed his eyes, releasing a thick murderous intent all over his body.
For a moment, Qin Xin almost thought that he would pounce on her regardless, making her heart shrink violently.
However, Gu Jing did not, and with a heavy flick of his sleeve, he opened the curtain to go out by himself.
When the curtain fell again, Qin Xin’s tense body relaxed and took a long sigh of relief.
She knew she had once again made the right bet.
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