Chapter 261 The Truth

Gu Huan was holding a cup of soothing warm soup, smiling absentmindedly. She was always looking for some happy events to dispel her recent anxiety. She felt happy when she heard that Zhou Chunyu had a lover.

Zhou Chunyu and his sister have been loyal to Mu Junyan through thick and thin. It would be great if we could help them fulfill their wishes, start their own families, and live happily together.

Hearing footsteps, I turned around and saw Zhou Zhilan coming in with a frustrated look on her face.

Donghua and Dongqing were not in the room, so Gu Huan prepared to have a good talk with Zhou Zhilan.

Gu Huan smiled and waved at her: "Sister, come here quickly."

Zhou Zhilan seemed to have regained her former spirit and energy.

He was drawn away, and walked over like a lost soul, sitting opposite Gu Huan sullenly, not saying a word.

Gu Huan originally wanted to tell her that her brother had a lover, but she noticed something was wrong with her. Normally, her voice would come before her, but today she was mute?

He quickly pulled her aside and looked at her carefully: "What's wrong with you? Why are your eyes red?"

Zhou Zhilan came back to her senses and shook her head quickly, "It's okay."

His voice was hoarse and choked with sobs.

Gu Huan understood: "You know I asked your brother to go back to Bianjing, right? You don't want to leave your brother and are worried about him?"

Zhou Zhilan shook her head: "No. You should let him return to the capital. The master needs someone to pick him up."

Gu Huan knew that Zhou Zhilan was loyal and generous, but she still felt a little guilty.

"Really... I'm worried about Ziyuan. Chiyan and the others don't know how to serve others, and Dongmo and the others are young."

"The emperor has kept him in the palace. He claims to be protecting him and preventing others from framing him, but in fact he is holding him captive. I am worried that there is no one in the duchy who can handle major events. I think that if something serious happens, at least there will be someone to deal with it."

Gu Huan held her hand with an apologetic look: "Only your brother has this ability. He is most familiar with the various forces in Bianjing and is familiar with all the ministers. I trust him the most. But... I am really sorry for you and your sister."

Zhou Zhilan sniffed and said, "It's okay. It's not about this."

Gu Huan looked at her, but she didn't ask too much about the relationship between the two siblings.

I wanted to tell her the good news, and said happily: "Your brother has a sweetheart in Bianjing, do you know? Whose daughter is she? I can find a suitable official female relative to go to the other party's house to test the waters. If she is also interested, we can ask the best matchmaker in the capital to come to propose marriage. In short, we must make it perfect."

Zhou Zhilan stared at her blankly: "Did my brother tell you that he has a lover?"

"Yes. But he was shy and refused to tell me who the girl was. You two are siblings with such a deep relationship, you should know, right?"

Zhou Zhilan lowered her eyes to hide the sadness in them.

Na Na said: "I don't know, he never said it."

Gu Huan was puzzled.

Why does Zhou Zhilan seem like a different person?

She asked tentatively, "Don't you want him to get married? Your parents are gone, and your eldest brother is like a father, so it's only natural that he loves you. If he gets married, won't you have a sister-in-law who loves you? Besides, if he doesn't get married, you can't get married either."

"I won't marry."

Zhou Zhilan looked up suddenly, and the tears in her eyes could no longer be controlled and fell.

Gu Huan was so frightened that she didn't know what to do. She quickly took out her handkerchief to wipe her tears: "Why are you still crying? You...how can you not get married? If your brother doesn't marry, and you don't marry, what will happen to the Zhou family's incense? I just want you to have your own happiness. Naturally, you should choose the person you like to marry. Don't worry."

Unexpectedly, Zhou Zhilan cried even harder.

Gu Huan was dumbfounded.

She didn't know Zhou Zhilan could cry like this.

He quickly hugged her and coaxed her: "Okay, okay, if you don't want to get married, then don't get married. It's good to be free."

Zhou Zhilan snatched Gu Huan's handkerchief, wiped her tears and snot, and said with a sob, "Let him marry. Madam, you marry him a wife as beautiful as a flower, and then I'll see if he really dares to marry her!"

Gu Huan was stunned.

This tone... isn't right.

Zhou Zhilan stood up angrily and took a look at the dirty handkerchief: "This handkerchief was given to me."

After saying that, he turned and left.

Gu Huan thought something was wrong. What happened?

Zhou Zhilan took two steps and then stopped. She turned around and ran back. Her eyes were red and she said seriously, "I want to get married. Madam, please help me find a handsome and talented man as soon as possible. I will get married within half a year... no, within a month."

Gu Huan: “…”

It seemed that she noticed something.

He quickly grabbed her, with a look of astonishment on his face, lowered his voice, and asked carefully: "You... don't like your own brother, do you?"

Zhou Zhilan was stunned and her face turned pale and then red.

She stamped her feet, as if she had something to hide, and turned and ran away.

Gu Huan is going crazy.

You guessed it right?

This...how is this possible!

Just as she was getting anxious, Zhou Zhilan ran back like the wind, grabbed her hand, her eyes as red as a rabbit.

He hesitated to speak, his face flushed red.

Gu Huan was driven to death by her: "Oh my dear sister, considering that I'm pregnant, can you please speak frankly? Do you want to drive me and the baby in my belly to death?"

Zhou Zhilan quickly lowered her head to look at her belly, then looked up again with tears about to fall.

"We are not siblings."

"ah?"

Gu Huan suddenly understood: "You like him? He doesn't like you?"

Zhou Zhilan shook her head and held it in for a long while: "He...was seriously injured and can't have children."

After saying that, he left Gu Huan, whose mind was in a mess, and ran away again.

Seriously injured and unable to survive?

ah?

Zhou Chunyu can’t have children?

So, they originally liked each other, but because of this they always called each other brother and sister?

Gu Huan's head felt like it had been hit by a hammer and was buzzing.

Damn it, what has she done?

Donghua walked in with a lantern, and was startled to see Gu Huan staring at the window with a dazed look on her face. She quickly put down the lantern and hurried over.

"Ma'am, what's wrong?"

Gu Huan came back to her senses and grabbed Dong Hua's wrist: "Did you know that Zhou Zhilan and Zhou Chunyu are not siblings?"

“Yes.”

"Ah? You all know?"

Gu Huan’s eyes widened.

"What's wrong?"

Gu Huan’s brain was about to explode. What kind of thing was she doing?

"Go and call Zhou Chunyu over."

Things need to be made clear. If they really love each other, she will naturally help them.

But……

Gu Hua grabbed Dong Hua who was about to leave and asked, "Do you know anything about them?"

Donghua blinked: "I know."

"Come on, tell me what's going on between them."

Gu Huan pulled Donghua and asked her to sit down.

Donghua was confused: "Madam, do you want to know... everything about them? I also heard it from Sister Zhilan."

"Tell me everything you know."

Gu Huan was extremely upset, and it was all her fault that she had acted as a matchmaker without understanding the situation clearly.

Donghua blabbered and told in detail everything she knew from beginning to end.

Gu Huan was stunned after hearing this.

It turns out that Zhou Zhilan's father was a general of the Mu family army.

Zhou Chunyu was originally a soldier under Zhou Zhilan's father. After a brutal battle, Zhou Zhilan's father pulled him out from a pile of dead bodies, and carried Zhou Chunyu, who was still breathing his last, back to the barracks, saving his life.

That year, Zhou Chunyu was fifteen years old and Zhou Zhilan was only three years old.

With Mrs. Zhou's meticulous care, Zhou Chunyu managed to survive. When he woke up, he opened his eyes and saw the chubby baby staring at him with a pair of big watery eyes.

When the baby saw him open his eyes, he happily called him "brother".

From then on, Zhou Chunyu became the adopted son of the Zhou family.

Zhou Zhilan became Zhou Chunyu's little tail.

After Zhou Chunyu recovered from his injury and returned to the battlefield, the relationship between the brother and sister became even deeper.

Because Zhou Zhilan was the only daughter in the Zhou family, when Zhou Zhilan was thirteen years old, she, who had practiced martial arts since childhood, also went to the battlefield and fought side by side with Zhou Chunyu. At that time, Zhou Chunyu had already become a fifth-rank general.

Seeing that their relationship was getting better and better, Zhou Zhilan had a wild, straightforward and strong personality. Her parents felt that it would be difficult for her to marry, so they simply treated Zhou Chunyu as a son-in-law. They knew each other well, and the two had a good relationship.

After asking the two children, Zhou Zhilan was unexpectedly ecstatic. Zhou Chunyu was worried that he was too old than Zhou Zhilan, but the family of three had no objection. Zhou Chunyu also liked Zhou Zhilan from the bottom of his heart, so he agreed.

A beautiful marriage was thus happily settled.

However, right after that, the old Duke and the late Crown Prince unfortunately died in battle, and Zhou Zhilan's father also died in that battle.

Zhou Chunyu was seriously injured in that battle.

Afterwards, after Zhou Chunyu recovered from his injuries, he went to work at the Duke's Mansion in Bian Jing with Zhou Zhilan, and their marriage was never mentioned again.

Five years have passed and everyone has forgotten that they were ever engaged and has gotten used to them calling each other brother and sister.

Gu Huan was stunned after hearing the whole thing.