Chapter 161: No Need to Keep Connected

Yun Xiangye wiped her lips with the back of her hand and frowned, "You are an official appointed by the court after all, how can you tease a decent woman like this?"

Gu Yan said: "I just don't want to hear some unpleasant words from you."

"After the divorce, you can't talk to me calmly? You previously complained that I didn't care about you and lied to you about my identity. Now we can start getting along again..."

Yun Xiangye asked, "What do you mean by starting over? Can the deception I suffered before be put to rest by a divorce?"

Gu Yan said: "I have truly admitted my mistakes, and I also know that I have indeed neglected your feelings, but I have never cared about other people's feelings... Even the thoughts of His Majesty and His Highness, I have never cared so much."

Yun Xiangye snorted, "What do you think? You even cared about Wei Xi's feelings and her reputation being damaged."

"I don't care about Wei Xi at all." Gu Yan stared into Yun Xiangye's eyes and said, "I care about you. I'm afraid that if you offend Wei Xi, I won't be able to protect you. After all, she is the niece of the Queen."

Gu Yan said: "Xiang Ye, I indeed neglected your situation when you first came to Chang'an, and I didn't expect that you would end up divorcing because of this matter.

You said I didn't love you, you said I just had to marry you for the sake of getting married, but now we are divorced, I no longer have to marry you. Instead, I really want you to be my wife again."

Gu Yan remembered what his mother said to him yesterday, and deliberately added, "My desire to marry you again has nothing to do with Nuonuo, and it's not because I want Nuonuo to have both her parents."

Gu Yan held Yun Xiangye's hand and said, "It is I who want to marry you and live a loving life with you until old age."

Yun Xiangye shook off Gu Yan's hand.

Gu Yan once again held her wrist tightly and said, "Xiangye, since I saved you again... please give me another chance. Let's both calmly put aside the past grudges and start over, okay?"

Yun Xiangye struggled to free herself from Gu Yan's wrist, "Not good."

Gu Yan said: "I will prove that I love you, not that I don't care about you as you said. After returning to Chang'an, I just entered the Imperial Censorate and was busy with official duties. I didn't spend much time with you, so you suffered a lot of grievances and were misunderstood by others.

I will spend more time with you in the future. Even if you don't want to start over, give me a chance to pursue you again, okay?"

Yun Xiangye said: "I only know that you and I have divorced. There is no need to linger on, nor is there any need to spend more time together."

Gu Yan felt helpless. Yun Xiangye was really stubborn. He couldn't help but frown and said, "Don't you have any feelings for me at all? You said I don't love you, what about you? Have you ever truly loved me? We've been married for three years, and you want to divorce for such a small matter..."

"It's still a small matter?" Yun Xiangye said, "We've been married for three years, and you've been hiding things and deceiving us from the beginning!"

Gu Yan said, "I didn't lie to you. Renyuan Pharmacy is the property of Princess Sheng Zhao. Everyone in Chang'an knows about it. You yourself didn't even ask about my background. Can I also say that you don't care about me?"

Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan in front of her and took a deep breath.

Gu Yan said: "I never deliberately concealed it from you from the beginning. You didn't ask me, so I didn't lie to you."

Yun Xiangye: "Gu Yan, you are simply unreasonable. How could I have thought that my husband is the son of a princess and a prime minister?"

Gu Yan said: "If you had paid some attention to me, you would have found out my identity. You didn't ask anyone to come to Chang'an to inquire, so you didn't pay any attention to me either."

Yun Xiangye recalled the past when Gu Yan's uncle and aunt, now the Prince of Xiang and Princess Xiang, came to her and asked her to get married because of Gu Yan's life-saving grace. Yun Xiangye really couldn't repay kindness with enmity.

At that time, Princess Xiang only said that Gu Yan was the eldest son of the owner of Renyuan Pharmacy and came to Jiangnan for recuperation.

Renyuan Pharmacy has many businesses in Jiangnan and is an old store that is over a hundred years old.

Yun Xiangye never doubted Gu Yan's family background. After the marriage, her uncle suggested sending someone to Chang'an to investigate. After all, Gu Yan was already eighteen years old when they got married. She wondered if he could get married in Chang'an.

But at that time, Yun Xiangye had already found out that Nuonuo was pregnant, so he did not go to Chang'an to investigate.

After all, sending people to Chang'an to investigate would take at least half a year round trip.

Renyuan Pharmacy is spread all over Jiangnan. They just thought that Gu Yan's identity as the young master of Renyuan Pharmacy was not fake after all. However, they did not expect that he was indeed the young master of Renyuan Pharmacy, but he had another identity that was hidden.

Yun Xiangye became even more angry after listening to Gu Yan's words: "What do you mean by whether I am sincere to you or not? I trust you, my husband, but you say that I am not sincere enough to you?"

Gu Yan: “…”

Yun Xiangye said angrily, "Get out of the way. I have to go back, so that Run'er and the others won't worry."

Gu Yan let go of Yun Xiangye's hand, "I haven't committed any murder. You have to give me a chance to reform. I haven't committed any heinous crime. You've beaten me, punished me, and divorced me. Do you want to keep quarreling with me like before?"

Yun Xiangye ignored Gu Yan and just tried to identify the direction. Once she found the direction of the farm, she started walking.

Gu Yan blew a whistle, and his big chestnut horse came running over.

Gu Yan looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "Get on the horse. This place is about six or seven miles away from the farm. If you walk there, it will take you half an hour."

Yun Xiangye raised her eyes to glance at Gu Yan, then got on the maroon horse. She didn't want to make others worry too much.

Gu Yan also climbed onto the horse and hugged Yun Xiangye's waist tightly. When Yun Xiangye resisted, Gu Yan sped up his riding.

Yun Xiangye didn't dare to quarrel with Gu Yan on horseback anymore. It was not worth falling off the horse for Gu Yan.

In less than a quarter of an hour, they arrived at the farm.

Yun Xiangye heard Nuonuo's crying from afar, and her heart ached.

After Gu Yan stopped the horse, Yun Xiangye quickly ran to Lin Boyan's side and hugged the crying Nuonuo in her arms, "Mom is here, don't cry, baby, don't cry."

After seeing Yun Xiangye, Nuonuo cried for a long time before she stopped sobbing.

Gu Yan walked to the side of Nuonuo and took Nuonuo from Yun Xiangye's arms, "Be good, with daddy here, mommy will be safe."

Hu Yun looked at Gu Yan from the side and couldn't help but look at Gu Yan twice more. She touched her nephew's head and thought that her nephew was not blessed enough to have Yun Xiangye as his stepmother.

Gu Yan was met with Hu Yun's gaze. He had been accustomed to women's gazes since he was a child, but this was the first time he had seen such an unrestrained and blatant look. Such impolite girls were rare in Chang'an City.

"Xiang Ye, this is..."

Yun Xiangye said, "She is the sister of the leader of the North City Horse Gang. She came to teach me how to ride a horse today."

Gu Yan frowned slightly: "I taught you to ride a horse, but you let the horse get scared and go crazy?"

Hu Yun said, "The sound of firecrackers just now startled the horse, and I didn't pull the reins, but no matter what, it was indeed my fault."

Yun Xiangye hurriedly smiled and said, "It's not your fault. I shouldn't have mounted the horse when no one was holding the reins. Fortunately, nothing happened."

Lin Bolan looked at Gu Yan coming over from the side, feeling a little guilty, "Brother, it was you who controlled the frightened horse, right? Fortunately, you were there."

Gu Yan glanced at Lin Bolan calmly and said, "Don't follow Zhao Rui and make trouble."

Lin Bolan blushed and replied, "Yes, Senior Brother."

Yun Xiangye said to Hu Yun, "Let me take you back to West Street first. Thank you very much for today. I'm sorry for scaring you."

Hu Yun just smiled faintly and said, "Nothing."

Yun Xiang, Ye Hu Yun, Lin Bo Lan and Xiao Hu Fang got on the carriage. Nuonuo was not frightened by the frightened horses at all. She was addicted to riding and wanted Gu Yan to take her riding.

Yun Xiangye was still a little frightened. She lifted the curtain and looked outside. She felt relieved when she saw Nuonuo giggling in Gu Yan's arms.

Hu Yun looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "This Prince Ning looks well-dressed, how could he do such a thing as abandoning his wife? He has such a good-looking face for nothing."

Yun Xiangye said: "He didn't abandon his wife either. I was the one who proposed the divorce."

Hu Yun frowned and looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "Are you crazy? He is the prince of Ning Wang, so handsome, powerful, and extremely wealthy. There are only a few men like him in the world. If you marry him, who wouldn't envy you? You actually want to divorce? You must be crazy to divorce someone who is powerful and wealthy."

Yun Xiangye smiled faintly and said, "I have never been poor since I was a child. Although I cannot compare to the millionaires in the Princess's Mansion, I have no worries about food and clothing in this life. I also have my own property, so I can live a good life even if I leave Gu Yan.

I hate deception the most, and I don't want to spend my whole life with a husband who doesn't love me but shares a bed with me. I have given my heart, and what I want is also sincerity, not power. What use is overwhelming power to me? I don't want to bully others, nor do I covet others' servility to me because of power. All I want in my life is to live a peaceful life and make a few more beautiful clothes.

If my husband does not love me, if he is not honest with me, if he has deceived me and wronged me, then there is absolutely no need for me to be his husband anymore."