Chapter 834: My cousin is reborn and wants to snatch my marriage (extra)

Tang Buqing had another big fight with Gu Shiyao. Gu Shiyao scolded him for being useless and said that he was still only a fifth-rank official in his forties and that this was the only way he would live. She also said that if she had known that he was so useless and could never become prime minister, she would never have saved him, let alone married him. She scolded him for wasting her life...

Tang Buqing had been accustomed to Gu Shiyao's words of disdain for his uselessness, but this time, for some reason, when he heard her say that it was impossible for him to become prime minister again, he had a strange dream.

In his dream, he seemed to have relived his life of going to Beijing to take the imperial examination, passing the examination, entering officialdom, and getting married. However, in the dream, the person who saved him when he fainted on the road was not Gu Shiyao, but Gu Shichu.

Gu Shichu saved his dream self. When he learned that he was short of money, he carefully found an excuse to fund himself so that he could focus on studying and the imperial examination. He lived up to everyone's expectations and passed the examination. He successfully entered the Hanlin Academy and began his official career.

Later, in order to repay his kindness, he asked to marry Gu Shichu. Gu Shichu became his wife smoothly. She took care of the household affairs for him and was filial to his mother, allowing him to devote himself to officialdom without any worries. Although she and his mother had occasional frictions, he endured it silently in order not to be distracted or embarrassed.

In the dream, his career was very smooth and he was quickly promoted. Gu Shichu also gave birth to three children for him, two sons and one daughter. She was still diligent in taking care of her husband and children, socializing with the wives of his colleagues and superiors, and acting as his good wife.

He thrived in the officialdom like a duck in water. No matter what kind of difficulties he encountered, he could always turn danger into safety. In the end, he made further progress. So before he was forty, he became the youngest prime minister of the Yan Dynasty. From then on, he was second only to the emperor and above everyone else...

Tang Buqing was immersed in this extremely wonderful dream and didn't want to wake up at all, but he finally woke up.

The moment he woke up, he saw the simple bedroom and furnishings, which were not as luxurious and expensive as in his dream. His pupils shrank immediately, and then he smiled bitterly, completely sober. The popular Prime Minister's Mansion only belonged to his dreams. In reality, he was just a fifth-rank Hanlin scholar. Although he looked noble, everyone knew that his official career in this life had come to an end.

When he first passed the examination and entered the Hanlin Academy, he was full of ambition and wanted to achieve great things and become a famous official who would be remembered throughout history, but he did not do so.

Because Duke Anguo was dissatisfied with his bad relationship with Gu Shiyao and their distant relationship, he used his career to force him; and Gu Shiyao always held him back, offending the wives of his colleagues and superiors time and time again, making it difficult for him to make progress in officialdom.

Without these two people as helpers, he could have worked hard on his own if he was capable enough. However, because he often quarreled with Gu Shiyao and was involved in the struggle between Gu Shiyao and Tang's mother, he was exhausted physically and mentally, and did not have enough energy to focus on official business. As a result, he messed up several important things, so his boss no longer valued him.

Nearly ten years had passed like this, and seeing that he would have no future as an official in the capital, he thought about leaving the capital and becoming a local official to gain experience. Although this would be more difficult, it would be good experience for him to become an official in the capital in the future.

However, after Gu Shiyao learned of his plan, she once again held him back and ran back to the Duke of Anguo's Mansion, asking the Duke of Anguo to stop him from leaving the capital. No matter how he explained the pros and cons to the Duke of Anguo, it was of no use, so he could only continue to stay in the capital as a frustrated minor official.

Originally, his relationship with Duke Anguo was not that bad, but it was all because of Gu Shiyao. Gu Shiyao was anxious to have a child, and Tang Buqing refused to sleep with her. She ran back home to find her parents, so Duke Anguo pressured him overtly and covertly, asking him to have a child with Gu Shiyao.

Tang Buqing originally hated Gu Shiyao, and his father-in-law asked him to do so, so he became rebellious and completely treated Gu Shiyao as a decoration. Instead, he had one child after another with his concubine.

The Duke of Anguo felt that he was going against him and became even more dissatisfied with him. Not only did he stop helping him, but he began to suppress him constantly. That was why he was still only a fifth-rank official until he was in his forties.

If he hadn't still had his rationality and knew that he couldn't defeat Duke Anguo, Tang Buqing would really want to divorce Gu Shiyao.

Thinking of the dream in which he married Gu Shichu, Tang Buqing was stunned. Why was it like this in the dream? But it was Gu Shiyao who saved him in reality.

In fact, he did not have a good impression of his sister-in-law Gu Shichu, because she was too rebellious and not like a woman at all. Not to mention that she did not take care of her husband and children, it was said that she often asked Mingxun to take care of the children, and she did not take care of the children after they were born.

She even raced horses and played Cuju like the men, mingling with men in the competition and laughing out loud when she won. She didn't have a trace of the reserve and gentleness of a woman. But Mingxun didn't think there was anything wrong with it. He indulged her in everything and doted on her.

Every time Tang Buqing saw the couple at the Anguo Mansion, he thought it was very strange, but he couldn't help but envy their freedom.

However... the Gu Shichu in the dream was a gentle, virtuous, well-educated, filial and sensible wife and mother. She was his good helper in the dream, considerate and patient, and she would solve any difficulties by herself and would never embarrass him. She was the most perfect wife in a man's heart, and he in the dream also became the prime minister with the help of such a good wife...

Tang Buqing comforted himself that the dream was fake, but on the other hand, he couldn't help but imagine, what if Gu Shichu really married him? It is said that oranges grown in the south of the Huai River are oranges, and oranges grown in the north of the Huai River are bitter oranges. Gu Shichu became a rebellious woman when she married Mingxun, a playboy who loved to eat, drink and have fun. What if she married a steady and sensible scholar like him? Would she become a good wife and a good mother?

Tang Buqing couldn't help but pay more attention to Gu Shichu. Of course, he didn't have any ambiguous intentions, but he couldn't help looking at her and imagining the virtuous wife in his dreams who worked hard for him.

Gu Shiyao noticed that he was paying attention to Gu Shichu, and finally couldn't help but maliciously told him during an argument that his wife was supposed to be Gu Shichu, but she used tricks to ruin their marriage, and she also told him everything about her past life.

Tang Buqing was shocked when he heard this. Could he really become the prime minister one day? However, his fate took a turn when he married Gu Shiyao in this life. It was impossible for him to reproduce the glory of his previous life.

Therefore, he hated the culprit Gu Shiyao deeply and wanted to divorce her. However, Gu Shiyao still had her father to rely on, so she refused to be divorced and stayed in the Tang family, causing unrest in the Tang family.

As a result, the couple became resentful of each other and fought each other to the death like enemies for the rest of their lives. They became a laughing stock in the capital. In the end, the fight went too far and Tang Buqing could no longer be a fifth-rank official. He was dismissed from office and became a commoner. Now he had more time to fight with Gu Shiyao.

(End of this chapter)