IBTSOME Chapter 86 Part 2

I BECAME THE STEPMOTHER OF MY EX-HUSBAND

 

Chapter 86 Part 2: The Truth

 

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Gu Hui Yan took the time to return to the mansion. The old Yan Wangfei learned that Gu Hui Yan didn't know about this matter at all, and there was nothing like falling in love at first sight or would not marry without love this kind of thing. Old Yan Wangfei was relieved, and didn't plan to pay attention to this woman. Anyway, this kind of thing had no effect on man. At most, he would be said to be romantic. But for the woman, her reputation would be destroyed. If she couldn’t marry Gu Hui Yan, then the only way to prove her innocence was to hang herself from the roof beam.

 

But what does this have to do with old Yan Wangfei? She didn’t care whether this woman was dead or alive. Her son should be matched with a brocade garment jade meals noble girl from the capital. Why should an ordinary girl bind her son? Old Yan Wangfei intended to continue to seek candidates for Shizi Consort in the capital, but Gu Hui Yan stopped her.

 

No need, marrying any wife was the same to him, however he couldn’t do harm to this woman. Gu Hui Yan had been honed in the army these days, and what he saw was life and death, blood and war have made Gu Hui Yan grew up quickly. He had become more and more responsible, and more and more like the master of a vassal state. It was his responsibility to protect this land and protect the people here. It was impossible for Gu Hui Yan to be like an ordinary young master, solely engrossed in their own comfort, regardless other people’s life and death.

 

Anyway, he was going to marry a wife after all. In that case, he might as well marry Shen shi. By the way, it wasn't until this time that Gu Hui Yan knew the woman's surname was Shen, and she was a county deputy’s daughter in Linhe County.

 

It could be imagined how reluctant old Yan Wangfei was. But she couldn’t persuade Gu Hui Yan. Such a thing was simply an unexpected calamities for Gu Hui Yan, it was baffling from beginning to end. He could completely ignore it, no matter whether Shen shi was dead or alive. However, he still married Shen shi in accordance with public opinion, which was equivalent to saving Shen shi again. Old Yan Wangfei was unbearably angry, but she also understood, this was her son, strict with himself, self-disciplined and full of sense of responsibility.

 

This was the truth about the so-called hero saving beauty, falling in love at first sight, and lovers breaking through the social status and finally getting married.

 

After marrying Shen shi, Gu Hui Yan certainly wanted to have mutual respect with his wife and manage their lives well. But Shen shi's mother had died since she was a child, and there were three older brothers above her. Her father and older brothers simply spoiled her to the bones. The Shen family was extremely defensive towards the stepmother, for fear that the stepmother would treat Shen shi harshly. Later the stepmother also put up her hands and didn’t care. She wanted to see if these men raised Shen shi like a pet, what kind of virtue they raised in the end.

 

Sure enough, as her stepmother expected, she was... childishly unrealistic. She always spoke with a coquettish tone, and always felt that everyone in the world was pampering her. Her father and elder brothers always gave her whatever she want, that Shen shi really grew up in isolated atmosphere. Fifteen years old’ Shen shi never washed her face herself, to washed her hands, she only need to spread her fingers and let her older brother come, even walking still let her older brother carried her. The stepmother looked at all this coldly, without speaking or reminding.

 

Every woman hopes to be spoiled by her father and brother like a princess. Actually this was a very tragic thing. People are human because they have independent personality and ability to support themselves.

 

Later, Shen shi married Gu Hui Yan in the eyes of ten thousand people, and the Shen family's father and brother couldn't help crying on the spot and eagerly sent Shen shi to get married. Only the Shen family’s stepmother stood at one side, looking at Gu Hui Yan with sympathy.

 

Gu Hui Yan only felt strange that day. After returning to the mansion, he understood what the Shen family stepmother's eyes meant. However, spilt water was difficult to retrieve. Gu Hui Yan really tried to get along with Shen shi, but Shen shi was completely immersed in her own world. She chased people for a thousand miles because Gu Hui Yan’s appearance was too dazzling, she rightly felt that this was a hero who saved the beauty, and Gu Hui Yan must like her when he saved her. Later, when the guards of the mansion wanted to send her home, she refused, and stubbornly waited for her ‘husband’ to return. When asked, she was not hesitant to tell her "beautiful encounter" with Gu Hui Yan. In this way one pass ten, ten pass a hundred (tn: how rumors spread). One person was immersed in the fantasy and couldn't extricate herself, and the other didn’t know anything because of leading the army to fight, and the news was delayed. When Yan Wang Mansion and Gu Hui Yan knew about it, everything was too late.

 

What's frightening was that Shen shi was still dreaming after marrying. She still thought that Gu Hui Yan had deep love for her, and that old Yan Wangfei was cold to her because she was a bad mother-in-law. She thought that Gu Hui Yan liked her, that Gu Hui Yan liked to eat freshwater fish, and that the old Wangfei wanted to separate them, but she never actually opened her eyes to see what kind of person Gu Hui Yan was.

 

After Gu Hui Yan just got married, he stayed for only seven days before returning to the army to continue fighting. Later, every time he went home he wanted to get along properly with Shen shi, but Shen shi as always did not listen or look, and Gu Hui Yan really had no way to stay at home. In his short marriage, Gu Hui Yan never felt any family warmth, Shen shi also never cared about his food and clothes, his well-being, or asked about his injuries. As time passed, Gu Hui Yan spent most of his time in the army, even if he was free, he never return to his home.

 

This was why Bu Mama and others boasted about Shen shi's good destiny, but never dare to be presumptuous in front of Gu Hui Yan. This was a very interesting thing in the mansion. It was rumored that Yan Wang liked to eat freshwater fish. It was rumored that Yan Wang and Shen shi’s first encounter was legendary, their love could touch other people’s heart. But when Gu Mingda and Zhou Mao Cheng, the true confidants of Yan Wang, talked about Shen shi, they didn’t have a good face. Zhou Mao Cheng had always persuading Gu Hui Yan to remarry, and Gu Mingda would risk the world to come to persuade Gu Hui Yan because of Lin Wei Xi's fainting.

 

Some things only outsiders could clearly see. From the time Lin Wei Xi appeared, Gu Hui Yan constantly made exceptions, and now he had no principles and bottom lines. Gu Mingda was happy from his heart for Gu Hui Yan. Gu Hui Yan was the god in the hearts of everyone in Yan fief. As long as Yan Wangfei treated Gu Hui Yan sincerely, Wangfei was their loyal mistress.

 

Gu Mingda understood Gu Hui Yan's scruples. You should respect the dead, and moreover the dead was his wife. How could a man of character tell other about the bad things of Shen shi many years after her death? Due to Gu Cheng Yao's face, Gu Mingda couldn’t say much about Shen shi, but it didn’t mean that Gu Mingda could sit back and watch others use this "legend" and "love" to destroy the relationship between Wangfei and Yan Wang.

 

Speaking of Gu Cheng Yao, Gu Mingda also had complicated feeling. Gu Cheng Yao was born when they were busy marching the armies. Shizi grew up next to Shen shi. The old Wangfei tried to take Gu Cheng Yao several times to raise him, but she was blocked by the wailing Shen shi. After these few years, Gu Cheng Yao was raised to be extremely conceited. To say something rebellious, Gu Mingda felt that Shizi was very small-minded, didn’t have overall view at all. Shizi kept saying filial piety, but Shen shi told him that Yan Wang liked to eat fish, shrimps, crabs and other river fish, which Gu Cheng Yao noted down. In the eighteen years of father and son, didn’t know how many meals have been eaten at the same table together, but Gu Cheng Yao had never noticed what Gu Hui Yan liked to eat.

 

Of course these words were not something that he could say as a subject. Gu Mingda closed the door gently, leaving all the space in the room to Gu Hui Yan. It was useless to say more, what Yan Wang really needs now was silence.

 

Gu Hui Yan was sitting in the dark room. He didn't know how long he had been sitting. When he came back to his senses, he was already standing in front of the storage box, holding a delicate white cloth in his hand.

 

There was a heavy rain that day when Lin Wei Xi rushed into his study, and he took this to Lin Wei Xi to wipe her hair. What did Lin Wei Xi say at that time, she didn't like the silk cloth because it’s not absorbent, and asked him to prepare a cotton cloth.

 

Gu Hui Yan was amused and helpless at the time, saying "Yes" half-heartedly. But who knows, after that, he really kept clean cotton cloth in the study.

 

The night didn’t affect Gu Hui Yan's sight. He slowly ran his fingers across the fine silk. That day, in the heavy rain, Lin Wei Xi's dribbling wet hair seemed to also pass to the palm of his hand. When Lin Wei Xi asked him today, Gu Hui Yan also really wanted to know, why he agreed to Lin Wei Xi's, acted in a pique, marriage proposal?

 

He stood quietly for a while, and slowly put the silk back in the wooden box, restoring everything to its original state. In fact, this was the wooden box that Gu Hui Yan really carefully kept. Fortunately, it was not this one that got wet today.

 

He thought he might have something to say to Lin Wei Xi.

 

TN: THEN SAY IT DAMN IT!

Anyway Happy Lunar New Year 🎉🐂

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