Chapter 12: Still talking about divorce?
Gu Yan had lived for twenty-one years, but this was the first time he had received such a slap. Since he was a child, even his parents were reluctant to hit him.
Seeing Yun Xiangye still complaining about the pain in her hand, Gu Yan said angrily, "I have been very humble to you these past two days. I know you are angry with me, so I planned to take you to the palace to find your cousin today, but you are even more unreasonable."
Yun Xiangye said, "Gu Yan, have I been lying about my identity for three years? Or are my cousins saying behind your back that you are not worthy of being my husband, but only worthy of being my male concubine?"
Gu Yan frowned, "Yun Xiangye! What nonsense are you talking about? What about male favorites and concubines? Is this something a decent person should say?"
Yun Xiangye saw that Nuonuo on the bed showed signs of waking up, so she hurried over, patted Nuonuo gently, and said in a gentle tone: "Be good, sleep well."
Yun Xiangye then turned to look at Gu Yan with stern eyes and said in a cold voice: "If you really think that I am being unreasonable and don't like me, then write me a letter of divorce and be done with it. Anyway, you had to marry me because you wanted me to bring you good luck.
And I had to marry you because you saved my life."
Gu Yan listened to Yun Xiangye's words and frowned, "Are you forced to marry me just to save my life?"
Yun Xiangye said: "Yes, I have already been married off, and I swore that I would never marry in this life. If you hadn't saved my life, I would have had no choice but to marry you. Otherwise, I would never have married you."
Gu Yan narrowed his eyes slightly and his eyes turned red. After three years of marriage, he finally realized that Yun Xiangye had no choice but to marry him!
"Even if you were forced to marry me, you are still my wife now."
Gu Yan's voice was extremely cold. After he finished speaking, he reached out and took Yun Xiangye's wrist and went to the outer room. When they reached the small couch in the outer room, he lowered his head and kissed Yun Xiangye's red lips, biting the corner of her lips hard.
It took Gu Yan a long time to let go of Yun Xiangye.
Yun Xiangye saw the anger in Gu Yan's eyes and said, "You also know how to be angry."
Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan and said, "Gu Yan, why are you so angry? Don't you have to marry me because I am here to bring you good luck? If you really regarded me as your wife, you wouldn't put me in this situation today."
"You know very well that your family has a lot of property, and your mother is usually busy with chores and needs a sensible and versatile daughter-in-law to manage the family. In the past three years, you have never thought of raising me to be the daughter-in-law of the princess's mansion.
In your eyes, I am just a wife you have to marry, and in your heart I am just a dispensable person."
Gu Yan frowned and said, "You've been making enough noise these past two days, and I've been slapped. No matter how angry you are, it's time to calm down."
Yun Xiangye just found it funny. He never considered herself as his real wife.
Gu Yan concealed his true identity and let his cousin live in the Gu Mansion even though he knew that his cousin was interested in him.
Because I said the word "girl from the Wei family", he scolded me for insulting the reputation of Wei's cousin's daughter. Can these be offset by a slap in the face?
Gu Yan lowered his head and kissed the corner of Yun Xiangye's lips again, "Nuonuo is already two years old, it's time to give Nuonuo a brother or sister."
Yun Xiangye slapped Gu Yan again. She knew that Gu Yan didn't have her in his heart. She didn't know how to go on living in Chang'an City. How could she possibly have another child with him?
Gu Yan was slapped on the other side of his face again. He looked at Yun Xiangye in disbelief: "Are you done yet?"
Yun Xiangye said, "You are the Prince of Ning, there are many people who are willing to give birth to sons for you. Not to mention others, even Wei Xi was the first one who was willing to give birth to a son for you, and those girls Lan Yi and Zhu Yi in your room are probably also eager to give birth to more sons for you."
Gu Yan stretched out his hand and covered Yun Xiangye's red lips, "Yun Xiangye! Do you think Chang'an City is your small town in the south of the Yangtze River, Yongxing City? Cousin Wei has a reputation as a pure and innocent girl, why do you keep destroying her? If you are angry with me, you can beat me and scold me, what does it have to do with other women?"
"Lan Yi and Zhu Yi have served me for many years. I have not been in Chang'an City in the past few years, but they still keep my residence and storehouse in order. Even if you are jealous, you can't be careless..."
Yun Xiangye grabbed Gu Yan's hands tightly with both hands and bit the back of his hands hard. She didn't let go of Gu Yan until the taste of blood filled her lips.
Gu Yan looked at Yun Xiangye in front of him in surprise.
He first met Yun Xiangye in February, when he was boating on the lake with his friends and saw two women on a small boat opposite. He shouldn't have looked at them for too long, but when he saw the two sisters swimming and laughing, speaking the Wu dialect from the south of the Yangtze River, he couldn't help but look at them a few more times.
Unexpectedly, Yun Xiangye happened to fall into the lake. Yun Xiangye could swim, but the clothes she wore that day got tangled up, so she couldn't swim and was about to drown.
Gu Yan jumped into the lake to save her without considering the difference between men and women. After rescuing her, he found out that she was the owner of the famous Five-Color Embroidery Workshop in Fangqiao Town, Yongxing City.
She lost her parents at the age of fifteen and became an independent girl. She was gentle and generous. Whenever someone in Fangqiao Town wanted to marry off their daughter or marry a new daughter-in-law, they would come to Yunxiang Ye to embroider her clothes.
Gu Yan fell into the cold water in February and became seriously ill, and could not be cured even after long-term treatment.
His mother was a doctor, and he didn't believe in any of the old Taoist priests' talk about curing illness through good fortune.
However, his uncle Prince of Xiang and his aunt were both very worried at the time, so he agreed when he was drowsy.
After all, Gu Yan thought that if he rescued Yun Xiangye from the water, she would definitely not be able to marry anyone else in the future.
After getting married, Yun Xiangye was still very gentle. She made medicine for him and fed him medicine, and took good care of him.
After having a child, Yun Xiangye became an even better wife. During these three years, although they were not very loving as a couple, they were happy and contented in life.
But she had only been back in Chang'an for two days, and she had completely changed her usual gentleness and generosity and slapped herself twice?
He was biting the back of his hand hard like a child.
Yun Xiangye let go of Gu Yan's hand, and went to pack her luggage with red eyes and tears in her eyes.
Gu Yan stepped forward, held Yun Xiangye's hand and said, "Can you please be reasonable? You were the one who bit me and hit me? And you are the one who cried instead?"
Yun Xiangye wiped her tears with the back of her hand, shook off Gu Yan's wrist, and continued to pack her luggage.
Gu Yan just felt a headache, and pulled Yun Xiangye into his arms again and said: "Xiangye, you were not like this before, why have you become so unreasonable in the past two days?"
Yun Xiangye said, "Gu Yan, I don't believe you don't know what Wei Xi is thinking about you! Yesterday, she called you cousin, but called me Miss Yun, didn't you hear it? I am not worthy of being called cousin-in-law."
Gu Yan said helplessly: "You are too petty. Just call me cousin-in-law. I will let Wei Xi call you cousin-in-law tomorrow."
Yun Xiangye said: "Yes, I have a short temper, you write down the divorce..."
Gu Yan was really upset when he heard the word divorce. He kissed Yun Xiangye's red lips, blocking her from saying anything else...
He dragged her to the outer courtyard and closed the door of the inner room with one foot...
The north wind was howling outside, the windows creaked occasionally, and the shadows of the trees outside the window swayed.
On the small couch in the outer room, Yun Xiangye wanted to push Gu Yan away, but had to give in due to the disparity in strength.
Besides, Nuonuo was sleeping in the inner room, so Yun Xiangye didn't dare to make any big noise for fear of waking Nuonuo up.
Yun Xiangye couldn't push Gu Yan away, so she could only use her nails to scratch Gu Yan's fair back to vent her anger, but this made Gu Yan torment himself even more...
After a long time, Yun Xiangye lay in Gu Yan's arms with a few beads of sweat on her forehead.
Listening to Gu Yan's voice ringing in his ears: "Will you still talk about divorce in the future?"
Yun Xiangye was extremely angry and hated the physical difference between men and women, so she closed her eyes and pretended to be exhausted and fell asleep. While pretending to sleep, Yun Xiangye could feel Gu Yan washing her, and she fell asleep while pretending.
The next morning.
Before Gu Yan returned to Chang'an, he was given the position of Censor-in-Chief. Today was his first day to attend court and report to the government office.
When Gu Yangang went out, he met his parents who were waiting for him outside the main gate.
From a distance, Gu Yan heard his father's jealous voice.
"In these years, I've never seen you get up early to send me to the morning court. But when Gu Yan went to the morning court, you were happy to get up early to send him off no matter how busy you were, and you didn't even mind the cold."
Xie Zhixuan smiled faintly and said, "After all, Yan'er is attending the morning court on his first day, so I won't send him off in the future. Now that Yan'er is here, don't be jealous. Don't be afraid of being laughed at by your son."
"Dad, Mom."
Gu Yan walked to the gate and saluted.
It was still dark at 11am in winter. When Gu Yan approached, Xie Zhixuan and Gu Ling could see their son's face clearly under the light of the lantern.
The red and swollen finger marks on Gu Yan's cheeks were very symmetrical, and the person who slapped him must have used quite a lot of force.
Gu Ling laughed and said, "Your wife looked timid and weak, but I didn't expect that she is actually a martial arts master."
Gu Yan didn't understand what his father said, "Hmm?"
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