Chapter 52: Adultery 19

Gu Rong was standing in the small ancestral hall, having just finished offering incense to Tang Youjin with Gu Yanchen.

The Tang family is a scholarly family, Tang Youjin was beloved by everyone, and her death was so sudden. It is normal that they cannot accept it. However, Xue Huaisu has been obsessed with her for more than 20 years, and even Gu Rong is unwilling to look at her twice. They are clearly a grandmother and grandson, but they get along worse than strangers.

Gu Yanchen didn't know whether Gu Rong had ever felt resentment or hatred, but at this moment, he was suffering.

“When you came here before…”

I couldn't help asking, but after I opened my mouth, I didn't know how to continue.

Compared to Gu Yanchen's hesitation and hesitation, Gu Rong seemed calm: "What about when I came here? Are you asking if it was the same when I came here? Then I want to say that if it weren't for you, I would only suffer more indifference. What would you do? After all, she is not only my grandmother, but also your grandmother."

Xue Huaisu treated him very coldly and didn't want to see him, but his attitude towards Gu Yanchen was completely different.

To Gu Yanchen, Xue Huaisu was a competent grandmother, and she had done nothing wrong to him. This was Tang Youjin's healthy child, not the one who would bring death to her daughter. So, what could Gu Yanchen do? On what grounds could he accuse Xue Huaisu of being extreme and stubborn?

[Hasn’t this been the way we’ve been doing it all these years?]

This self-deprecating remark was not spoken aloud, but it was even more ironic and made Gu Yanchen feel particularly unbearable.

He couldn't even ask "Why didn't you tell him?" Just like Gu Rong said before, it was too late to say anything now. If he spoke again, it would seem like he was just making excuses for his original inaction. He was just trying to make himself feel better, which was hypocritical and perfunctory.

But why did Gu Rong feel that he would not stand up for him?

Is he so untrustworthy?

Realizing this, Gu Yanchen felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

He had never felt as tortured as he did now, every minute and every second in the Tang family - as if he was the one being treated coldly, as if he was the one being ignored - it might as well be him, because the more obvious the gap between his situation and Gu Rong's, the more unbearable it was for Gu Yanchen.

But compared to Gu Yanchen, Gu Rong sat calmly, as if he was used to everything.

At the dinner table, Xue Huaisu was talking about visiting the graves in two days.

Gu Rong was not allowed to go that day.

His birth brought about Tang Youjin's death, which Xue Huaisu considered ominous. Therefore, for so many years, he did not allow Gu Rong to go with him to pay tribute to his mother on this day.

The Gu family had no scruples about this, but Xue Huaisu lost her husband at an early age, and she was the grandmother of Gu Yanchen and Gu Rong, so Gu Chengyuan could not interfere too much. In addition, Gu Rong was young, so he could only take care of the child when he was young. As Gu Rong grew up, he gradually got used to such arrangements, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

But Xue Huaisu always had to repeat his words and bring them before Gu Rong.

"Be careful that day and don't do anything unnecessary."

Gu Rong actually wanted to ask what extra things he could do, but forget it, asking would only make things worse, as he cared about the elderly.

Besides Xue Huaisu, there was also Tang Youze, Tang Youjin's brother and their uncle, at the table. Gu Rong's relationship with this uncle was not very close. After all, because of Xue Huaisu, he and the entire Tang family were not close. In addition, Tang Youze only had Xue Huaisu as his only relative. Although they all knew that Xue Huaisu had been greatly stimulated by Tang Youjin's sudden death and that some of his actions were indeed extreme, as a son, he could not point fingers at him. Therefore, Tang Youze's attitude towards Gu Rong was also relatively cold.

Plus, we haven't gotten along much for many years, so it would be awkward to say a few more words.

So at the entire dinner table, no one would stand up to speak for Gu Rong, or rather, the same was true for the entire Tang family.

With a loud "bang".

Gu Yanchen stood up by the table, suddenly interrupting Xue Huaisu's muttering.

"Xiaochen?"

Xue Huaisu was almost startled: "What's wrong?"

Tang Youze also looked up: "Are you feeling unwell? Or is the food not to your liking?"

"I--"

At this moment, the cell phone suddenly rang. It was Wen Jianshan calling.

Gu Yanchen's heart couldn't help but tighten.

He grabbed the phone and pulled Gu Rong's wrist: "Come out with me."

After dragging Gu Rong to the backyard and making him sit on a stone bench, Gu Yanchen answered the phone.

He walked more than five meters away and looked back at Gu Rong. Gu Rong was also looking at him. When their eyes met, they seemed to have no idea what the other was thinking.

Wen Jianshan's voice came from the phone -

"...Yan Chen, the results are out."

Gu Yanchen retracted his gaze and whispered, "It looks like the result will overturn everything now, right, Uncle Wen?"

Wen Jianshan's tone was complex and difficult to describe. "How on earth did you find out? This...how could this be, eh?"

Gu Yanchen lowered his eyes: "Please prepare the results, I will come to get them later."

"You can't hide it from the old man."

"I didn't mean to hide it."

Gu Yanchen didn't know what his tone was now, but he felt that he was unusually calm: "I will talk to Grandpa about this matter in person and tell him the result as soon as I get it."

"So soon?"

Wen Jianshan was a little surprised.

Not fast.

Not fast at all.

Gu Yanchen even wanted to immediately reverse his misplaced life and let Gu Rong know that he shouldn't have been treated like this and experience the feeling of being treated like this...

But he didn't dare to think about what would happen if Gu Rong knew that he was taken away by mistake, if he knew -

"By the way, Yan Chen, there is something I want to tell you."

Wen Jianshan's tone was solemn and he seemed a little hesitant.

Gu Yanchen paused, "What?"

"It's just... when Gu Rong was in high school, he seemed to want to retrieve samples from your parents... your parents, but in the end it was nothing, so I didn't take it seriously. But now that I think about it... Yan Chen, now that the results are clear, then Gu Rong's behavior, well, I don't want to imply anything, I just want to tell you, to remind you."

Wen Jianshan couldn't help but speak up and said, "Maybe, I mean maybe, Gu Rong's motive for doing this is that he may have discovered his own life experience a long time ago?"

"Of course this is just my guess, or maybe I'm overthinking it."

Wen Jianshan couldn't help but sigh: "But I think it's better to let you know."

"Uncle Wen."

"What?"

Gu Yanchen was silent for only a few seconds before he said to Wen Jianshan, "Just pretend you don't know about this."

After hanging up the phone, there was silence again.

Wen Jianshan meant that Gu Rong might have known about his life experience a long time ago, but he chose not to say it or mention it, probably because of his identity as the second young master of the Gu family.

Otherwise, what's the point of him choosing not to say anything?

What else could he be doing this for?

Gu Yanchen couldn't help but turn his head to look at Gu Rong.

He saw that Gu Rong was still looking at him, but when he turned his gaze away, his eyes flashed and he quickly looked away.

At that moment, Gu Yanchen couldn't help but wonder, how many times had Gu Rong looked at him like this?