Chapter 132 How Can You Even Not Want Nuonuo?
Gu Yan laughed and said, "You and I didn't intend to divorce, why would I bring this up?"
Yun Xiangye listened to Gu Yan's words without making any excuses. She didn't want to make her uncle and aunt worry about her at this critical juncture.
Gu Yan put his hand on Yun Xiangye's shoulder, and Yun Xiangye moved Gu Yan's hand away.
Gu Yan chuckled, put his hand on Yun Xiangye's shoulder and said, "You also move my hand away like this in front of my uncle and aunt?"
Yun Xiangye asked, "How can it be considered decent if you put your arm around my shoulder in front of my uncle and aunt?"
Gu Yan took Yun Xiangye into his arms, chuckled and said, "You and I are husband and wife, why should we be indecent?"
Yun Xiangye pushed Gu Yan and said, "It's time to go back to the courtyard. Nuonuo must be missing me."
Gu Yan said to Yun Xiangye, "We can take a boat back to Qingfeng Garden from here. It will be faster and we don't have to go around the lake."
Yun Xiangye looked across the lake, which was indeed the scenery outside Qingfeng Garden, so she followed Gu Yan onto the small boat docked by the lake.
Gu Yan did not let the maids get on the boat, he rowed the boat by himself.
Yun Xiangye sat at the bow of the boat holding a peony, looking at the setting sun in the west. It had been a long time since she had such a moment of tranquility.
Yun Xiangye saw that the boat was spinning in the middle of the lake. She looked at Gu Yan who was rowing the boat and asked, "Why are you spinning all the time?"
Yun Xiangye stood up and looked at Gu Yan and said, "Don't tell me you can't row a boat?"
Gu Yan nodded.
Yun Xiangye asked, "How come you picked up the oars and rowed just now if you don't know how to row?"
Gu Yan said: "I thought rowing was not difficult..."
Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan helplessly, "This lake is not big, but not small either. If you can't paddle, how can we reach the shore? Although it is spring, it is already dusk and very cold."
In spring, the temperature difference is huge, with warm days and cold nights. Once the sun sets, it is still like winter. The lake water gradually becomes freezing and you can't swim back to the shore.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and they didn't bring lanterns with them.
Gu Yan looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "You grew up in a water town, so you should know how to row a boat, right?"
Yun Xiangye: "Who says that people who grew up in a water town can row a boat? We have boat girls and boatmen who specialize in rowing boats. I'm not going to be a boat girl, so naturally I can't row a boat..."
After Yun Xiangye finished speaking, he shouted towards the shore, "Is there anyone there?"
Unfortunately, this part of the lake is a seldom visited place for the Princess's Mansion, and no one could hear Yun Xiangye's cry for help, and no one could respond.
The sky was getting darker and darker, Yun Xiangye's throat was sore from shouting, so he stopped shouting.
Gu Yan still tried to control the direction, but the night wind blew and it was useless for him to row the boat.
The boat kept drifting with the wind.
Yun Xiangye said to Gu Yan, "The wind is blowing, you'd better not row anymore. When night falls, the maids will see that we haven't returned yet and will definitely come to the lake to look for us."
Yun Xiangye put the peony in her hand aside, then went into the boat and lay down to rest.
The boat rocked gently, so she was not afraid of being trapped on the boat.
Gu Yan came over, took off his coat, put it on the boat, and let Yun Xiangye sleep on his clothes.
Yun Xiangye gradually fell asleep as the boat swayed in the wind.
When she woke up, she still felt very shaken. She opened her eyes and saw only darkness. "Gu Yan, are you still there?"
Gu Yan held Yun Xiangye's hand and said, "I'm here."
"The maid didn't come to find us?" Yun Xiangye asked, "We won't have to stay on this boat all night, will we? Otherwise, you can swim back and find someone to save me..."
Gu Yan said: "I will not go into the water again in spring. I still remember the illness I got when I saved you. If Qingming can't find me tomorrow during the day, he will come to look for me."
At that time, Gu Yan really had a close call with death. He even thought he was going to die in Jiangnan.
Yun Xiangye also thought of Gu Yan's dying appearance when he went into the water earlier, and whispered, "Then we can only wait until Qing Ming comes to find us during the day."
Yun Xiangye walked outside the boat. Today was the ninth day of March. The moon was half full and the moonlight shone on the lake with a soft glow. It was not so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of you.
Yun Xiangye sat on the deck, looking at the stars in the sky.
Gu Yan also sat down next to Yun Xiangye, put his clothes on her, and held her in his arms. "It seems like it has been a long time since you and I have quietly admired the moon and stars together. The last time we quietly admired the moon together was during the Mid-Autumn Festival, before Nuonuo was born."
Yun Xiangye recalled the Mid-Autumn Festival that year. She was already five or six months pregnant and Nuonuo was already in her belly. At that time, she thought that she would live a happy life with Gu Yan in Fangqiao Town.
At that time, she had never imagined that one day she would become a royal relative and the eldest princess's daughter-in-law.
Yun Xiangye couldn't help but look at Gu Yan. In fact, the husband she fell in love with in the past three years was not the Gu Yan of today. The reason why she was so angry might be because she didn't really understand Gu Yan in these three years.
"Gu Yan, I think, once my sister's matter is settled, we should get divorced."
Gu Yan frowned and said, "Why do you insist on getting a divorce? What good will a divorce do for you? You said I don't love you enough and don't care about you enough, so I will try my best to make you feel that I love you and care about you."
Yun Xiangye said: "Because I realize now that I have never truly loved you. What I love is the gentle and considerate husband in Fangqiao, not the high and mighty Prince Ning. Everything about you now makes me feel strange..."
"I am still myself." Gu Yan couldn't help but frowned, "If you insist on getting a divorce, I still say the same thing, you keep Nuonuo, and you can get a divorce if you want."
"Okay, Nuonuo can stay in the princess's mansion and follow you."
Yun Xiangye slowly agreed, "It's up to you to do what you want with Nuonuo, but I will come to see Nuonuo twice a month. If you get married and find a stepmother for Nuonuo in the future, then you can return Nuonuo to me. But until my sister's matter is settled, please keep the divorce a secret from your uncle and aunt."
Gu Yan didn't expect Yun Xiangye to agree. He couldn't help but clasped his hands on Yun Xiangye's waist and frowned, "How can you not even want Nuonuo?"
"I didn't give up Nuonuo." Yun Xiangye cried, "I just don't want to quarrel with you anymore."
Gu Yan said: "Isn't it okay if you don't quarrel with me? If you don't quarrel with me, I will naturally be in harmony with you and love you, and I won't come to quarrel with you."
Yun Xiangye wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and said, "I don't want to leave my hometown for a husband who doesn't love me."
Gu Yan said: "Since you said that you would come to see Nuonuo twice a month, then don't you still have to stay in Chang'an City?"
Yun Xiangye said: "You still don't understand. I can stay in Chang'an for the sake of expanding the Five Colors Embroidery Workshop and for Nuonuo, but I don't want to stay for a husband who doesn't love me."
Gu Yan said: "Since we are all staying in Chang'an, what's the difference?"
Yun Xiangye shed a tear and said, "Of course there is a difference. The most beautiful compliment between husband and wife is to respect each other like guests, but in the end, they are still sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different dreams.
Gu Yan, the husband I want is not one who treats me with respect, but one who loves me wholeheartedly.
Now that I am by your side, I have lost my joy and happiness, and you also think I am noisy, so it is better for us to separate. For Nuonuo, you and I are still her most beloved father and mother..."
Gu Yan said, "I don't mind you being noisy. Go ahead and make a scene. As long as we don't divorce, you can make a scene with me every day."
Yun Xiangye said: "Do you think I am joking about divorcing you? I am doing this just to get a divorce. The one I married to repay my gratitude and bring good luck was the son of a medicine merchant, not the son of the eldest princess and Prince Ning.
You deceived me from the beginning, so the outcome of our marriage was doomed from the beginning."
Yun Xiangye looked into Gu Yan's eyes under the moonlight and said, "No matter what, there is only one reason why I want a divorce."
"Gu Yan, I just can't accept the fact that the person next to me has kept his identity a secret from me for three years!"
"For the past four months, I have been trying to endure it for Nuonuo, but I really can't accept that the person I have been sleeping with for three years has been lying to me."
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