Transmigrated into Substitute Bride ‘Fu Lang’

Transmigrated into Substitute Bride ‘Fu Lang’

Chapter 2: 顧家

(Gu Family) 

Chen Xing looked at the arrogant Madam Chen in front of him, but after holding back and enduring it, he finally could not hold back and directly said, “Sorry, Madam, I am afraid I can not listen to you on this matter.”

As soon as Chen Xing’s words left his mouth, the teacup that had been in Madame Chen’s hand flew past his face and landed on the floor behind him with a loud and clear bang’s sound.

Chen Xing was startled by this movement, but Madam Chen only raised her eyes, stared straight at him and said indifferently, “Do you think I am discussing it with you?”

Chen Xing looked at her and silently clenched his fist.

Madam Chen’s eyes swept over him. Her eyes lingered on his clenched fist for a few seconds, after that fell back to Chen Xing’s face, looking at his ‘unwilling to concede’ appearance and said indifferently, “I still have your ‘slave contract1‘, even if you can’t accept, it’s useless. I warn you, don’t harbor any bad ideas or I’ll give that thing to human traffickers, let them deal with you.”

Chen Xing’s eyes widened as he found it hard to believe and stared at Madam Chen. He remembered that this body was clearly the seed of Master Chen, how could there be such a thing as a deed of slave?

As if she could see Chen Xing’s doubt or she simply wanted to shock and attack him, the corner of Madam Chen’s lips curled up in a malicious smile, “Your mother thought she could get rid of her filthy status by hooking up with the Master. It’s a pity that even if she hooked up with the old man, now she’s still a lowly and despicable bitch.”

Chen Xing felt that her words were particularly harsh but he knew that he could not be impulsive. Although he had only been here for a few days, he knew the rules here. He knew that since Madam Chen had his sell-body contract so even if he managed to escape, if she took the deed and reported it to the authorities, the official could send someone to arrest him.

Chen Xing forced himself to be calm and tried to be submissive as he looked at Madam Chen above him, his tone cautious, “Madam, to whom do you want me to marry?”

Madam Chen played with her own cleanly trimmed fingertips casually and said indifferently, “To that young master of Gu Family. You should shed grateful tears for such a good marriage.”

On the way back, Chen Xing thought of the man he had only met once and frowned silently.

Although Chen Xing did not know what Madam Chen was up to, when she thought of her threats and warnings, he knew it inside, this was not a good thing. There might even be conspiracy or schemes behind it.

He felt terrified when he thought about what Madam Chen had said to him, that she would give Chen Xing’s future husband his deed of sale along with his dowry when he got married. If this Gu Young master (Gu Gongzi) vent his anger out on him because he replace the bride to marry, therefore the other party would have plenty of ways to torment him with his slave contract. After all, it was supposed to be a marriage alliance between the legitimate son and heir. However, it was replaced by him, this ‘lowborn’, anyone would also think of it as an extreme humiliation.

Chen Xing felt that Madam Chen was simply super vicious. He had to think of a way to solve this difficult situation.

Madam Chen’s speed was quick in handling things and after informing Chen Xing that he would be getting married, she sent her housekeeper to negotiate with the Gu family.

He was also in wonder regarding whether the Gu family had misunderstood that the bride was a legitimate daughter or because they were afraid of the Chen family’s current power; Gu Family originally wanted to withdraw from the marriage, yet they agreed to this, promised to come on time and to fetch the bride.

In the Chen family’s mansion here, also being informed of the marriage with the Gu family, which took the entire Gu family by surprise. Behind the scenes, they all wondered, how Madam Chen, with her shrewd character, could agree to this marriage?

It was until the servants realized what Madam Chen was talking about the marriage was only on the surface, since there was not much decoration in the residence, not even the slightest hint of going to get married, then it became clear that there must be a fraud. However, they did not dare to say it clearly because of Madam Chen’s deterrence.

On the day of the wedding, the servants there were shocked to find that the bride who was supposedly coming out from the lady’s courtyard, had actually come out from the servant’s courtyard. Zhou Guo was the only one with a stunned expression on his face as he looked at that person’s figure leaving.

The steward of the Chen family residence looked disgustedly at the procession of a few musicians in front of him and said arrogantly, “Master and Madam are not well today and cannot go to the Gu family, so please young master Gu be magnanimous and tolerate them.”

The man who came to pick up the bride smiled at his words, “It’s not a problem, my family’s young master is not well either, so it’s good to dispense with these formalities.”

The housekeeper looked at his ‘bending and scraping to curry favor’ appearance, his face became more and more disdainful as he said in a sarcastic and mean tone, “Madam also said that a married person is like a splash of water (which means something that can not be retrieved) so it would be better to have less contact in the future.”

That person looked up, he gave the housekeeper a deep look and the smile on his face grew bigger and bigger, “I will tell my family’s young master.”

After the housekeeper impatiently and excitedly closed the door in such a hurry, that person directed the men to lift up the sedan as they returned home with the miserably and pitiably small amount of dowry.

The moment he got into the sedan chair, Chen Xing felt that there was something wrong with it. The sedan was not very big but the cushions were so soft. But he had never been in a sedan before, so this doubt only flashed through his mind for a moment before he then thoroughly cast it aside to the back of his mind.

What Chen Xing was more worried about was how he would face Gu Lang when he arrived at Gu Family’s house later. He had heard the butler’s harsh words clearly just now and knew that they had not shown any respect to the Gu family, so if the young master Gu found out, it would be unavoidable for him to vent his anger on him.

Chen Xing was put into the room directly after entering the Gu family’s residence, which made him feel both puzzled and relieved. As he sat on the bed nervously, he wondered what he should say next to convince Gu Lang to give him back his ‘sell body contract’.

In a room not far away, a man dressed in white, stood in front of his desk as he calmly sketched a willowbiter bird with his brush, only when the last feather on the bird was completed did he put down his brush and asked indifferently, “How is it?”

[Willowbiter’s painting:

The person being questioned was the man who had just gone to pick up the bridegroom’s bride and the man who was questioning him at this moment was precisely the master of the house, Gu Lang.

Hearing his young master’s question, the man hurriedly repeated the steward’s words and finally said, “This little one has investigated it, the dowry given by the Chen family is a pile of used items or old property and this deed is the most valuable one of all. ”

Gu Lang took the deed in his hand, took a glance at the name on the top and sneered, “This Chen family is really good at trading, using a servant to exchange for so many things from my Gu family.”

The man looked at his family’s young master’s face whose expression was indistinguishable whether he was happy or angry so he carefully asked, “What does the young master want to do?”

“Naturally, I will go and take a look first at what kind of stunning beauty is worth so much of my Gu family’s bride price!”

Chen Xing sat in the room, thinking about ways to deal with the situation. Just when he was getting irritated and wanted to do something, a few coughs suddenly came from the door.

When he heard the cough, Chen Xing thought that Gu Lang was coming which made him nervous and sat rigidly, rehearsing what he was going to say in his mind several times.

Just as Chen Xing was getting more and more nervous, the door opened with a creak and a figure dressed in white slowly walked in.

Chen Xing stared nervously at the doorway. The moment he saw the face of the person coming, he was immediately stunned. He knew that Gu Lang was a famous prodigy since he was a child, but he did not know that he was so good-looking.

Looking at Chen Xing sitting on the bed in a red dress, Gu Lang’s eyes also flashed with a hint of surprise and amazement. It was no wonder that Madam Chen dared to exchange such a person for such a large bride price from the Gu family.

Chen Xing who was originally nervous, was even more panicked when he saw Gu Lang, not only did he not say anything as soon as he entered, but also stared at himself in silence afterwards, not knowing what he was thinking.

Just at the time when Chen Xing didn’t know whether he should speak first or not, Gu Lang already slowly walked towards him.

When he saw Gu Lang approaching, Chen Xing panicked. Although he himself liked men and had a favorable impression of Gu Lang’s face, he couldn’t accept having a sexual relation as soon as he met the person!

As he stared at Gu Lang who was about to get close to his face, Chen Xing kept calculating whether Gu Lang would sell him out in a fit of rage later, if he managed to make him lose consciousness.

Just as Gu Lang was getting closer and closer to Chen Xing, Chen Xing couldn’t resist the urge to prepare and raise his hands to hit him, yet Gu Lang suddenly leaned over toward him.

Chen Xing immediately jumped and hid on the bed.

Until Gu Lang stood straight again, he saw Chen Xing who was on the bed, staring at him with a defensive look on his face. He hesitantly shook the object in his hand and asked suspiciously, “What are you doing?”

After seeing what was in his hand, Chen Xing realized that Gu Lang was not trying to do anything to him, but he was just picking up the veil he had thrown on the floor. After hearing Gu Lang’s question, he even smiled awkwardly, not knowing how to answer his question.

Gu Lang didn’t seem to care whether he answered or not, as he placed the red veil which had been discarded by its owner on a clean shelf next to him, before he taught Chen Xing, “Even if you don’t like it, you shouldn’t treat it like this.”

Chen Xing looked at ‘in all seriousness’ Gu Lang who was giving him a lecture and muttered in his heart that this scholar was still a bit romantic.

After muttering in his heart, Chen Xing looked at Gu Lang’s handsome face. The thought that this person should not be so difficult to talk to, came into his mind. Thinking of what he had just thought, his eyes lit up as he hurriedly took two steps and ran from the bed to his side. He smiled at him, tried to fawn on him and said, “There’s something that I want to discuss with you.”

Gu Lang looked at him and frowned, sounding like he was lecturing a child who didn’t know how to be sensible, “Don’t play on the bed!”

Listening to Gu Lang’s lecture’s tone, Chen Xing who knew he was in the wrong, hurriedly got out of bed and put on his shoes, smiling at him as he curry a favor with him, “I know, I know, I’m just in a bit of a hurry, I really want to discuss something with you.”

Gu Lang looked at the beautiful face that suddenly came closer, his expression in his eyes became deeper and heavier and it took a few seconds before he said, “What is it?”

Seeing that Gu Lang had answered him, Chen Xing felt that his idea was going to turn out well, so he hurriedly said, “I just want to discuss something with you. I want to return the bride price your family gave to the Chen family and after that you return my contract of sale to me.”

Hearing Chen Xing’s words, Gu Lang’s eyes flashed through a few strange surprise expressions as he turned his head to look at Chen Xing who was staring eagerly at him and asked, “Do you know how much bride price my Gu family has given to the Chen family?”

[卖身契 : sell body contract; a slave contract/ an indenture to sell oneself or a member of one’s family]