IBTSOME Chapter 85 Part 1

I BECAME THE STEPMOTHER OF MY EX-HUSBAND

 

Chapter 85 Part 1: Dead Person

 

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Gu Hui Yan looked at Lin Wei Xi's eyes, her apricot eyes were round and round, her hands’ strength was not too big for him, but it clearly reflected its owner's stubbornness.

 

Sometimes, she was really stubborn.

 

Shen shi, he hadn’t thought of this name for many years. This was not pleasant memory. Gu Hui Yan didn’t want to mention it, especially to Lin Wei Xi. She was also pregnant, and the imperial physician told him that she need to rest. Gu Hui Yan didn't want to disturb their lives with these old things.

 

Gu Hui Yan was silent for a moment, probably it was the first time he rejected Lin Wei Xi's wish: "The imperial physician has ordered you to rest. You should take a good rest first, let’s talk about it later."

 

Lin Wei Xi's hand refused to let go. She looked at Gu Hui Yan stubbornly. Just like borrowing wine to pretend to be crazy, Lin Wei Xi also used her pregnancy to ask something that always in her mind: "Why do you carry that wooden box with you? Why on earth did you agree to marry me?"

 

Gu Hui Yan sighed silently. He sat on the edge of the bed and glanced at the maid beside the bed. Wan Xing and Wan Yue immediately understood, they hurriedly lowered their heads, signaled to other servants with their hands, and withdraw from the inner room.

 

Gu Cheng Yao and Gao Ran were also standing outside, separated by an arched partition, only a general view of the situation inside could be seen. When Wan Yue came out and saw Gu Cheng Yao's eyes looking inside, she secretly frowned, and recklessly walked to Gu Cheng Yao’s front, and crouched down to give salutation: "Shizi. Shizi Consort."

 

Although Wan Yue looked respectful, her body blocked Gu Cheng Yao's sight. Gu Cheng Yao retracted his eyes and coughed unnaturally, "What's the matter?"

 

"Wangye and Wangfei has matters to say, let us all retreat. Shizi, Shizi Consort, Wangfei is fine. You two should come back tomorrow to greet Wangfei."

 

Gu Cheng Yao also didn't know what he wanted to do by staying here, but after Wan Yue said this, he was bound to be unable to continue standing. Gu Cheng Yao and Gao Ran could only take their leave. When they went out, the two were silent, didn't know what they were thinking.

 

Gu Cheng Yao was walking back to his study, and couldn't help but recall the scene he had only vaguely see. Lin Wei Xi seemed to be crying, she leaned on her father's shoulder and kept crying for a long time.

 

Why would she cry? Was she not happy to be pregnant with his father's heirs?

 

These thoughts were so complicated that, in the end, only a sentence endlessly lingering in his ears. Lin Wei Xi asked his father stubbornly while crying: "It was I who hang on to you not to leave and let you take me away from Shunde, and then it was I who shamelessly asked you to marry me.... Why on earth did you agree to marry me?"

 

Gu Cheng Yao smiled lightly, with an inexplicable sadness in his smile. It turned out she was the one who took the initiative to marry his father.

 

At that time the matter of Gu Hui Yan wanted to marry Lin Wei Xi was a taboo in the mansion, everyone wanted to know why. For more than ten years Gu Hui Yan had adhere to his own viewpoint, and there was no warning a few days before he made this decision. What happened that day, why did Gu Hui Yan suddenly decide to remarry? And he was going to marry the daughter of his subordinates, which couldn’t be said as an upright thing.

 

Of course Gu Cheng Yao was also curious, but everyone in the mansion knew that this matter could not be asked, no one dared to challenge the authority of Yan Wang. Until now, Gu Cheng Yao finally knew that it was Lin Wei Xi who took the initiative to run over and said she was going to marry Yan Wang. It's no wonder that father kept secret about this matter and didn't even allow them to mention it.

 

Gu Cheng Yao wanted to tell himself that she was crying because her pregnancy was not what she wanted, and she might have had to suffer. But now he couldn’t lie to himself anymore. Lin Wei Xi liked his father very much. She cried so badly today that she didn't even care that he and Gao Ran were outside. It was all because she saw Shen shi's relics and misunderstood his father. This what was called deeply care.

 

Gu Cheng Yao stood up and stared at the white peony outside the window in a daze.

 

When Gao Xi was alive, she also liked to play with these flowers and plants. Such light and elegant peony was what she liked. She had such an irritable personality, but actually had such a delicate and patient hobby. Gu Cheng Yao laughed at himself at the thought of this. Perhaps, he had never known Gao Xi before. Gao Xi was not impatient, just as she was not without a coquettish side.

 

In the sweet fragrance bedroom, the maids had retreated, and even Gao Ran and Gu Cheng Yao were sent away. With no outsiders in the room, Lin Wei Xi finally felt reassured asking these words: "Wangye, what on earth am I in your heart?"

 

Gu Hui Yan also paused. He couldn’t stand seeing her cry, couldn’t stand seeing her be wronged, or even seeing her smiled at others. Many things had changed invisibly, Lin Wei Xi was the only "exception" in his boring and harsh life for many years. What was Lin Wei Xi to him?

 

Lin Wei Xi didn't wait for Gu Hui Yan's answer, and went straight on: "I found Wangfei Shen's relics in the study today. My maid accidentally broke the vase and wet the letters inside."

 

Gu Hui Yan had heard people talk about this matter before, at that time Lin Wei Xi was still unconscious. He didn't care about it. Even when he heard it now, Gu Hui Yan only said: "If it gets wet, it gets wet. Just let it dry."

 

Lin Wei Xi finally felt better when she heard this answer. She continued to ask: "That box is not small, it’s still a bit cumbersome to carry it around on the journey. Why did you bring it with you?"

     

In fact, if Lin Wei Xi didn’t say it Gu Hui Yan would forget about it. Gu Hui Yan sighed. It seemed that Lin Wei Xi would not be satisfied if he doesn't say it clearly today.

 

Gu Hui Yan put a soft pillow behind Lin Wei Xi, and said in a very casual tone: "It’s true that this was left behind by Shen shi. The letters inside are the letters that have been exchanged many years ago, and probably something from Gu Cheng Yao. She always carefully collected things, no one is allowed to move or see. Later, she died of illness. I was not in the mansion at the time, and my mother already gone at the beginning of the year. No one in the mansion could keep it, so this wooden box was put in my study. After all, on the inside it was a dead person’s personal items, plus the hair and skin of Gu Cheng Yao when he was born, it was not appropriate to leave it to other people’ hands, so I kept them away."

 

Gu Hui Yan said casually, but in fact he was thinking, which servants made their own decisions and brought this box to the outside palace? Moreover, he kept the wooden box really for safekeeping, and would never put it in a place where it would be hit by something. Who was it that deliberately fiddled with these in front of Lin Wei Xi?

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