Xu Qingyan always came back with a lot of money. Qin was very skilled in embroidery and could sell it. The family lived well, supported their children, and bought 16 mu of land, which saved them a small amount. The old couple and the eldest wife of the Xu family also benefited from his money and bought 6 mu of land as well.
Xu Qingyan's whereabouts were mysterious and he earned a lot of money. Most villagers suspected that he was engaged in an illegal business, and some even said that he was a bandit.
The last time Xu Qingyan returned home was six years ago, and he never returned since then. People said that he must have been caught and beheaded by the government, or killed by someone.
Qin waited for four years, convinced her husband was truly dead. Overwhelmed with grief, she remained bedridden until this day. When Xu Lanting was one year old, she fell seriously ill again. The family, while supporting Xu Lanzhou and Gu Wangchen's education and their medical care, had no income other than from the farmland. They had spent all their savings and even sold eight acres of land.
The original owner's fiancé, Gu Wangchen, had been exceptionally intelligent and a keen student since childhood. His father had died young, leaving him to depend on his widowed mother, Miao. Knowing she couldn't afford to support her son through the imperial examinations, Miao shamelessly approached the Qin family, hoping to marry her son Xu Lanyin, hoping the Xu family would help support his education.
Xu Qingyan and Qin disliked Miao, but were deeply drawn to the intelligent and handsome Gu Wangchen. They also felt that their daughter, raised in the countryside, would surely find a son-in-law with a better future than Gu Wangchen. They agreed, and since they had a childhood sweetheart relationship, their daughter's future would be easier. They agreed, and when Xu Lanyin was seven and Gu Wangchen was eleven, the Xu family arranged a marriage. From then on, the Xu family paid for Gu Wangchen's education, pens, paper, and inkstone, as well as his participation in various activities. They also frequently made him new clothes.
Gu Wangchen was incredibly talented and diligent, finally living up to everyone's expectations. He passed the imperial examination two years ago, at the age of seventeen. This happy event delighted the original owner, and to save money for Gu Wangchen to take the provincial exam, she secretly sold six acres of land in April of this year at Miao's instigation. This angered Xu Lanzhou so much that they had a fight, and Qin's health, which had been somewhat better, was further aggravated by the anger.
The original owner's grandparents, uncles, and cousins all came to scold her. Old Mrs. Xu also beat her and went to the Gu family to ask for money. Gu Wangchen hid, and Miao refused to return it...
But the original owner didn't regret it, because Gu Wangchen said that after he finished the autumn exam, regardless of whether he passed or not, he would marry her. Thinking that she would soon become the wife of a juren, the original owner's heart was filled with sweetness.
Gu Wangchen set off for the provincial capital, Shizhou Prefecture, to take part in the provincial examination eight days ago.
None of this mattered. What mattered was that Xu Lanyin remembered that in her previous life, the name of the most affectionate male supporting character in the online novel "Rebirth of a Concubine's Daughter" was also Gu Wangchen...
"Rebirth of a Commoner's Daughter" tells the story of Su Qing, a commoner, who is reborn with splendor and ultimately becomes the Princess of a County, a winner in life. However, Xu Lanyin traveled through time before the book was finished, and she has no idea how it will end.
In that book, the male supporting character, Gu Wangchen, had a country fiancée who died young. The author's description of this female supporting character is very limited, only a few hundred words after adding them in. She is described as spoiled, foolish, and extremely jealous, and was once caught stealing pears because of her greed. Because her family paid for Gu Wangchen's education, she showed disrespect to Gu Wangchen and his mother. For a country girl like her, with no moral integrity and no talent, to be paired with the talented, beautiful, and gentle Gu Wangchen was a waste of talent. Xu Lanyin appears four times, each time visiting Sujiazhuang to beg the female protagonist, Su Qing, to let her man go. Su Qing was so enraged that she fainted, and then was mercilessly berated by Gu Wangchen.
After the male lead Gu passed the imperial examination and returned home, he immediately ran to tell the female lead Su the good news. Upon hearing the news, the female lead Xu became jealous again and ran to Sujiazhuang to argue with the male lead Gu. On the way back, she fell into the river and drowned.
The author doesn't even name Xu Nvpei's relatives. It simply states that after her death, her mother died of anger, her eldest brother disappeared, and her youngest brother died of illness. The author uses a critical tone, implying that Xu Nvpei's actions ruined her life and her entire family. The following year, after Gu Wangchen passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi, he demonstrated his gratitude and deep affection for his fiancée's family by paying for the reconstruction of their tomb, earning praise from the villagers. Later, Gu Nanpei, citing mourning for his fiancée, turned down several promising marriage proposals, only to marry two years later after being persuaded by the heroine.
The mourning period for his fiancée who died early was just an excuse. The real reason he didn't want to get married was that he had Miss Su in his heart, and no other woman could enter his heart.
Because the cannon fodder female supporting role has the same name and surname as herself, Xu Lanyin tends to look at things from the perspective of the female supporting role Xu when she is reading. No matter how stupid the female supporting role Xu is written and how good the male supporting role Gu is written, she still feels that the female supporting role Xu is pitiful and pathetic, and the male supporting role Gu is an ungrateful pig's hoof.
And I complained while reading the book, saying that any man who loves the loyal heroine is a good person and whatever he does is right.
In ancient times, the male supporting character was forced to live off his wife, and his infidelity stemmed from the fact that the female supporting character was immoral, disrespectful to his mother, and the fact that the female protagonist, Su, was too beautiful and intelligent. In public, he was a gentleman, gentle as jade, hardworking and enterprising, an inspirational example of a humble background. Behind the scenes, he was deeply in love with the female protagonist, his love so intense that it became obsessive. Even after the female protagonist married, he married another woman, and his heart remained solely with her. But his feelings were based on respect for the female protagonist, and he was a man of propriety, a man who was physically respectful but emotionally unfaithful...
When the heroine is by the water, he will recite softly, "Reeds are lush and green, white dew turns to frost. The so-called person I rely on is on the other side of the water..."
When the heroine is under the flowers, he will recite softly, "The peach tree is young and tender, and its flowers are bright and beautiful..."
When the heroine smiled, he would recite softly, "One smile can conquer a city, another smile can conquer a country..."
Even if I stand in my own yard, I will look at the moon and recite, "The moon is bright, and the people are beautiful. I am sad, and my heart is tired..."
The psychological activities are even more disgusting and speechless. For example:
Miss Su, I am pleased with you...
Don't you like me? Oh, I understand...
I really want to hold your little hand, but I can't blaspheme you...
You are getting married tomorrow. Will you still think of me in the future...
I'm getting married tomorrow, and I only have you in my heart, not her...
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Gu Wangchen was portrayed as a nymphomaniac, a psychopath so envious that Xu Lan's teeth ached. As a psychiatrist, she felt that such a perverse, infatuated man might exist in the world. While such a man might pass the imperial examination, he certainly wouldn't be a smooth-talking, tactful man with a smooth career. Perhaps the author's writing was immature, and their desire to convey Gu Wangchen's unwavering love for the heroine led them to overdo it. To her disbelief, many female readers still adored Gu Wangchen and wept over his wasted affection...
Is it just a coincidence of names, or did I just follow the trend and end up in the book?
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