The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 694

Chapter 694: 327 Marriage Proposal (Two More Updates)

Gu Changqing returned to the Marquis Residence.

Gu Chengfeng and Gu Chenglin had gone to the Back Mountain to pick fruits, so he returned to his room alone.

He sat down by his bed.

With no outsiders around, his perennially icy face finally showed a hint of expression. He furrowed his brows and undid his clothes.

His neck, shoulders, even the backs of his hands, and wrists were all covered with startling scratch marks. Some spots even oozed blood which had dried, sticking to his clothes and causing him to gasp from the pain when peeled off.

"Oh my! Master!"

The manservant entered, clutching freshly laundered clothes. He spotted Gu Changqing’s neck full of scratches, froze in shock, then asked, "Which vixen did this!"

Gu Changqing’s gaze turned icy as he swiftly put on his clothes: "Don’t you know how to knock?"

The manservant stammered, "I didn’t know you were back! I was just tidying up the room and stepped out to fetch the laundry. I didn’t expect you to be back... By the way, what happened to you, Master? Which lady did this to you? Was it someone from outside or from our own residence?"

He didn’t dare to say "vixen" again.

"None of your business." Gu Changqing stood indifferently, hanging his waist sword on the rack.

"Oh." The manservant came to the bed, folding the clothes one by one, and hanging the others in the closet.

"Why do you say it was a woman?" Gu Changqing suddenly asked.

The manservant said, "Isn’t it clear? Those are definitely the marks of a woman’s nails, what man keeps his nails long?"

Gu Changqing’s eyes flickered: "No more nonsense."

The servant muttered, "If Master says not to speak, then I won’t."

Gu Changqing stood in front of the sword rack, the places on his body that were scratched ached faintly. Unlike the sharp and direct pain of sword and knife wounds, this kind of pain was strange and unfamiliar to him.

The image of her affected by some medication in the carriage crossed his mind. Gu Changqing shut his eyes.