Yun Xiangye, while boating on a spring day, lost her footing and fell into the lake. She was rescued by Gu Yan, a wealthy young master who was recuperating in Jiangnan.
To repay his great kin...
Gu Yan said, "I don't care about you? Do you really think that the Red Book of Iron Certificate is easy to obtain? Don't I love you enough? If I didn't love you, why would I let you slap me?"
Yun Xiangye said, "I don't feel the slightest bit of your so-called love for me. Gu Yan, I want to divorce you for only one reason: you don't love me, and I don't want to leave my hometown and be bullied and ridiculed for a husband who doesn't love me."
Gu Yan really couldn't understand. Yun Xiangye had been quarreling with him for so long, just because she felt that he didn't love her?
Gu Yan laughed angrily and said, "I don't love you? Do you want to listen to what nonsense you are talking about? How could I not love you?"
Yun Xiangye said, "If you loved me, how could you let me be in such a difficult situation as soon as I arrived in Chang'an City? How could you let the maids around you look down on me? How could you let your relatives and friends look down on me? You put me in a situation where everyone can bully me, just because you don't care about me and look down on me."
Gu Yan said: "I am not in charge of the maids in the mansion. My mother is busy in the medicine shop, so it is my grandmother who is in charge of the maids. Wei Xi is by my grandmother's side, so it is inevitable that she can bribe some maids. Do you think Qing Ming, the most important person by my side, has ever looked down on you?
Except for the Crown Prince, have my good brothers like Zhao Rui, Shi An, Lin Yu ever looked down on you?
When you and Nuonuo came back, even His Majesty and His Majesty came out of the palace to welcome you. And you still say that I look down on you? I'm afraid it will snow in June.
You can't take it out on me just because some insignificant people look down on you."
Yun Xiangye said, "Oh, Gu Yan, don't try to quibble. Were you protecting Wei Xi from the beginning? You wanted me to stop her from damaging her reputation. If you loved me, would you protect another woman?"
Gu Yan paused. "I've explained to you countless times that it was because Wei Yu was the daughter of the Duke of Wei. I wasn't trying to protect her, but I was worried you'd offend someone you shouldn't. And after I saw her true face, didn't I cut off all ties with her?"
Yun Xiangye said: "So-called love is partiality. I really can't feel your love.
You didn't believe me from the beginning and thought I was damaging Wei Xi's reputation, just because you didn't love me.
Just like I will always believe in my Nuonuo, but you blame Nuonuo for no reason for Princess Nan'an.
In your eyes, we, mother and daughter, are not favored at all. You have never loved us sincerely!
That's why you never told me your identity, and you didn't care about my situation in Chang'an City. It's not because you are inconsiderate as a man, but because you don't love me.
You will think that as long as you give me the title of Crown Prince's Consort, you love me, and you don't care how much trouble this position of Crown Prince's Consort will bring me.
That wasn't love at all. You just married me out of helplessness and pretended to love me.
What you call love is the same no matter which woman you marry. It is not love for me.
It's just that since you were a child, you have seen that your parents, relatives and elders are only couples, and they are deeply in love with each other, so you learn to love your wife like your elders. This wife can be anyone, and you have never truly loved me.
You don't know the real me. You think I am gentle in Jiangnan because you don't know me at all. I lost my parents when I was fifteen, and then I fought with my uncles to take over the embroidery workshop. Why do you think I am only gentle?
Gu Yan, I am not in your heart at all. You don’t understand what true love is!
Our marriage was a matter of fate and helplessness. Since we don't love each other, it's better to divorce and let each other go our separate ways. If we can't be husband and wife, we can still be siblings. I sincerely hope that you can find a woman you truly love."