Chapter 2389 The Man Who Cannot Be Named

In the kitchen, Gu Changhai helped his mother-in-law.

I watched the old lady add salt to the beaten eggs, but when I turned around, I saw her reaching for the salt shaker again.

"Mom, it's been salted."

The old lady was stunned and smiled helplessly, "Look at my memory."

Gu Changhai observed the old lady's demeanor and said with a smile, "What's wrong with you today? You seem absent-minded."

The old lady sighed and sat on the chair next to her: "It's all because of Han Ye's aunt!"

Gu Changhai sat on the chair next to the old lady, picked up the vegetables on the table, and picked them with the old lady, "What's wrong with Xiao Ke?"

The old lady glanced at him, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Did she tell you about her divorce?"

"She didn't say it, but I heard it from Shaohua."

"Then why did she divorce, do you know?"

Gu Changhai shook his head and said he was not sure about this. Shaohua didn’t say anything and he didn’t ask.

The old lady nodded, pondered for a moment, and finally told him.

Lin Ke, Han Ye's aunt, got married at the age of 21, before she graduated from university.

The reason why they got married so early was mainly because she was pregnant and didn't want to have an abortion, so it was considered a shotgun marriage.

Although getting married because of pregnancy is difficult to accept and even considered shameful for many conservative families, Han Ye's grandparents are quite open-minded. As long as two people truly love each other, it doesn't matter if the wedding happens two years earlier or later.

It’s okay if she wants to have a child. She can just take a year off and go back to school after giving birth.

The two elders' opinion at the time was that they did not object, but they also hoped that she would consider the consequences carefully, whether she should get married and have children so early, and what impact it would have on her studies and future life. She should think about it carefully before making a decision.

Lin Ke said at the time that she made the decision to get married and have children after careful consideration.

Seeing that she was determined, the two elders stopped trying to persuade her. Besides, they knew the young man, Lin Ke's childhood friend named Lu Rong. They grew up together and were childhood sweethearts, knowing each other very well, so they agreed.

Lin Ke held a low-key wedding, then took a year off from school to give birth to her daughter Shaohua. She then returned to school to complete her studies. After that, she went to Europe with her husband. They both studied abroad there, settled down there, and rarely returned to China.

These are all known to Gu Changhai.

Han Ye's grandparents, including Lin Ke's sister Wanqing, all thought so.

But last year, Han Ye's grandmother went to Vienna and lived with her youngest daughter Lin Ke for a while. It was then that she accidentally learned the true circumstances of Lin Ke's marriage.

Lin Ke got pregnant before marriage, and the father of the child was not her husband, or her ex-husband.

And her ex-husband's sexual orientation was not heterosexual, but homosexual.

When two people get married, it is purely a formality, just to help each other and deal with the public opinion of their family and the outside world.

Lu Rong's family cannot accept his sexual orientation because of their religious beliefs. Once he tells his family, it will inevitably cause them great pain and sadness, and will also bring shame to the family.

Lin Ke wanted to give birth to the child, but did not want to reveal the identity of the child's father, so she found her good friend, and the two hit it off and got married.

They support each other after marriage, and to outsiders, they seem loving and harmonious, but in fact, they are just good friends.

Now that Lu Rong's parents have passed away due to old age, he no longer has any psychological burden and does not need to hide anything.

It's similar for Lin Ke. Although his mother is still alive, the child has grown up and what happened back then has become a thing of the past.

So the two broke up peacefully and became free again.

Han Ye's grandmother accidentally learned about all this. She was angry at her little daughter for hiding the truth, but also felt sorry for her because she had to endure all this alone.

If Lin Ke had confessed to them at the beginning, they might have found it difficult to accept it for a while, but they would always stand on their daughter's side. They would not despise her no matter what, but would only feel doubly sorry for her. Then she would not have to go abroad, let alone wander abroad all these years.

Without this formal marriage, Lin Ke might even have met someone she truly loved.

Unfortunately, by the time I knew the truth, twenty years had passed.

How many twenty years can we have in our life?

The old lady felt sorry for her daughter.

But Gu Changhai believed that the past could not be changed. Since Lin Ke had regained his freedom, it was a good thing, better than living like this for the rest of his life.

After Gu Changhai finished speaking, the old lady shook her head and sighed again, "I thought so at first, too. I even asked her who Shaohua's biological father was, and whether he was single or had a family. Is there no possibility for the two of them?"

"What does Xiao Ke say?"

"She told me not to mention Shaohua's biological father anymore. She said there was no chance for her and that man to be together in this life, and she wouldn't tell me his name either," the old lady said, and sighed again, "I really don't know what kind of guy she provoked."

Gu Changhai thought about it and continued to counsel the old lady, saying that Xiao Ke was still young and had a long life ahead of her, and she might meet the right person in the future.

However, the old lady said that she no longer believed in her youngest daughter's judgment of men, otherwise she would not have gotten involved with a man whose name she could not reveal and had been in love with him for so many years.

As for the right person, the old lady didn’t know if there was one, but there was one who was not suitable at the moment.

Gu Changhai raised his eyebrows: "So, Xiao Ke has met a new partner again?"

The old lady shook her head helplessly. "A rock singer, even younger than Han Ye, only 27, is pursuing Xiao Ke. He wrote her into his songs and confessed his love to her at a concert. Xiao Ke rejected him at first, but recently I think she's softened her stance and might agree."

Gu Changhai smiled and said, "That's great, isn't it? Find a young man and start a new life."

The old lady glared at him. "If you've ever raised a daughter, you'd understand how I feel as a mother. She's older than them. In another twenty years, she'll be old, and that young man will only reach middle age and turn around and abandon her for someone younger and prettier. What will I do? I don't want Xiao Ke to be so miserable when she's old. Her youth has already been wasted by two men, and I can't let her old age be ruined too."

After listening to this, Gu Changhai felt that it made sense. However, matters of the heart were the hardest to persuade, so it was better to just relax and not worry about it.

The old lady stared at him for a few seconds, then as if a light bulb had turned on her head, she said, "Changhai, Mom wants to ask you a favor."

"You say."

"Go and test Xiao Ke's attitude and see if she's willing to agree to the young man. If so, you can help Xiao Ke check it out. If the young man is really not suitable, tell me, I will never let them be together. If you think the young man is okay, then I won't stop you."

In fact, Gu Changhai didn't like to meddle in other people's love affairs, but the old lady rarely asked him for anything, so since she said so, he agreed.

The old lady was anxious, so she told him not to have lunch at home, but to go directly to the mountain to pick up Lin Ke, and have lunch with Lin Ke at the Taoist temple. She also wanted to find out as soon as possible because Lin Ke would leave early the next morning, probably to look for that boy.

Gu Changhai quickly washed his hands, took off his apron, and left the kitchen.

Before leaving, he said goodbye to his two children and asked them to stay at home with their grandmother while he went to the mountain to pick up Aunt Han Ye.