Chapter 80 Don't Be Too Cocky
It was midnight and it was chilly outside. Gu Yan took off his cloak and wrapped Nuonuo tightly before taking Nuonuo back to the room.
The house was silent. Xueyan, the maid who was on guard in the outer room, heard the door opening and got up quickly.
Looking at the person who came through the dim candlelight in the room, Xueyan hurriedly said, "Prince."
Gu Yan said: "You can go out now. No one else needs to come in to keep watch in the house."
Xueyan responded, "Yes."
Gu Yan carried Nuonuo into the bedroom and lit the small lamp in the room.
Nuonuo hummed and said, "Mother."
Gu Yan held Nuonuo in his arms and opened the bed curtain. Yun Xiangye in the curtain was sleeping soundly without any care in the world.
When Nuonuo saw Yun Xiangye, she rushed over and hugged Yun Xiangye tightly, crying, "Mother."
Yun Xiangye was awakened by Nuonuo's crying. She quickly got up and hugged the crying Nuonuo to comfort her: "Nuonuo."
Nuonuo cried even harder in Yun Xiangye's arms.
Yun Xiangye hugged Nuonuo and coaxed her. She squinted at Gu Yan who was standing beside her and said, "You take care of Nuonuo so much, but how come you can't even sleep with her?"
Gu Yan frowned slightly, touched his nose and said, "Nuonuo missed you."
Yun Xiangye saw that Nuonuo was crying quite hard, so she hugged Nuonuo for a while to comfort her.
He then sang the boat-rowing nursery rhyme softly in the Yongxing City dialect, and Nuonuo finally fell into a deep sleep again.
Yun Xiangye placed Nuonuo next to her. Seeing that Gu Yan was going to sleep next to her, Yun Xiangye frowned.
Gu Yan placed his hands on Yun Xiangye's waist and held her in his arms.
Yun Xiangye frowned slightly and said, "Go back to the study!"
Gu Yan hugged Yun Xiangye's waist tightly: "Nuonuo missed you."
Yun Xiangye said: "So I let you go back to the study alone."
Gu Yan frowned, "Yun Xiangye, I'm here to give you a way out."
Yun Xiangye said: "Do I need you to give me a way out?"
After Yun Xiangye finished speaking, she turned her back to Gu Yan.
Gu Yan reluctantly leaned close to Yun Xiangye's ear and whispered, "I missed you too. I was wrong this time."
Well, as Qing Ming said, a real man can bend and stretch, and it is not spineless to bow to his wife.
Yun Xiangye laughed angrily and said, "What do you mean you are wrong? It was your fault in the first place."
Gu Yan frowned and said, "You think about divorcing me every day, or is it my fault?"
Yun Xiangye said: "If you were not wrong, would I think about divorce every day?"
Gu Yan took a deep breath, "Okay, okay, it's all my fault. I haven't had a good sleep for several days. I have to go to the morning court today. Please let me sleep peacefully beside you for a while."
Yun Xiangye snorted coldly and said, "Is this your attitude of admitting your mistakes?"
"Yun Xiangye, don't be too arrogant."
Yun Xiangye listened to Gu Yanzhi's words and chuckled, "Being arrogant because of your favor? Do I need your favor? Are you trying to act like the Prince of Ning in front of me again?"
Gu Yan took a deep breath helplessly and whispered, "I shouldn't say that you don't care about Nuonuo. I know that no one in this world cares about Nuonuo more than you."
Yun Xiangye listened to Gu Yan's apology and said, "Do you know why you said those words to hurt my heart? And you still want me to apologize to you?"
Gu Yan looked into Yun Xiangye's eyes and said, "Shouldn't you apologize to me? As my wife, you have always been planning for a divorce. Since you came to Chang'an, how many days have you not mentioned the word divorce?"
Yun Xiangye said coldly, "Is it me who wants a divorce? Everyone around you thinks you will divorce me. Rather than being divorced and abandoned by you one day, I'd rather divorce you as soon as possible."
Gu Yan frowned and said, "Why do you care about what outsiders say? Have I ever said I want to divorce you?"
Yun Xiangye said, "You didn't say you wanted to divorce me, but you kept your origins from me for three years. Aren't you also on guard against me?"
Gu Yan asked: "Why did you come back here after all the twists and turns?"
Yun Xiangye said: "Why can't we go back here? I want to treat you as my husband. What about you? Have you ever treated me as your wife?"
Gu Yan said, "If I didn't regard you as my wife, would I be so spineless as to let you beat and scold me again and again? Which husband in the world is as humble as me, and you still say that I don't care about you?"
Yun Xiangye said, "What you mean by caring is that I, a commoner from a small town, rashly came to the top families in Chang'an City without knowing the rules between the royal family and relatives, and let the people around you laugh at and look down on me one after another?"
Gu Yan said: "I will correct myself in the future, but if you say that I don't have you in my heart, that is absolutely impossible. You haven't been by my side these days, and I have been tossing and turning. I haven't had a good night's sleep for a long time."
Gu Yan placed his hand behind Yun Xiangye's head and kissed her lips, and his hand gradually moved up from her waist and became more dishonest.
Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan coldly and said, "You only like this kind of thing, you don't like me at all!"
Gu Yan looked at Yun Xiangye's eyes that were like ice blades, reached out and gently stroked her face and said, "I'm not a beast. If I just liked this kind of thing, do you think there would be no other women around me?"
Yun Xiangye frowned.
Gu Yan stood up and picked up Yun Xiangye horizontally, took her to the small couch behind the screen, bent down and kissed Yun Xiangye's red lips.
Yun Xiangye bit Gu Yan's lips hard until the smell of blood spread around her lips, then she slowly loosened her teeth.
Gu Yan didn't continue. He simply hugged Yun Xiangye and fell asleep. "Does biting me make you feel better? Can you let me sleep peacefully for a while?"
Yun Xiangye didn't respond, but she also agreed. After all, she was very sleepy and didn't have the energy to make a fuss with Gu Yan anymore.
It was already late in the morning when Yun Xiangye woke up. As soon as she woke up, she heard the noises of two children running around in the yard.
Yun Xiangye got up and watched Nuonuo and Jingru playing happily in the yard. She also got up to wash and put on makeup. Looking in the bronze mirror, she saw some blood stains at the corners of her lips. She wiped the blood stains and thought that Gu Yan was seriously injured yesterday.
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In the East Palace.
Zhao Rui looked at the scar on Gu Yan's lip and said with a smile, "Cousin, you are always injured when you come back to Chang'an. Are you being bullied even more miserably by your sister-in-law in Jiangnan?"
Gu Yan said: "She was so gentle when she was in Jiangnan..."
Gu Yan was halfway through his words when he glared at Zhao Rui: "What did you say?"
Zhao Rui laughed out loud, and Xie Shian beside him also chuckled softly.
Seeing the two cousins in front of him laughing at him, Gu Yan laughed sarcastically and said, "Beating is love, scolding is care. You are old enough that you have never even held a woman's hand, how can you understand."
Zhao Rui said, "Huh? Who said I have never held a woman's hand? I have embraced countless beauties, but cousin Shi An seems to have never even held a woman's hand."
Zhao Yun, who was sitting at the head, said, "Shi'an, you are only a few months younger than Gu Yan, so it's time to put marriage on the agenda."
Xie Shian said: "I have never found a good match, so I am not in a hurry."
Zhao Rui said, "But I heard that the second wife of the Fu family has been close to my aunt these past two days. If Fu Anran is really good and looks as beautiful as a fairy, what else can a husband ask for if he has such a wife?"
Xie Shian smiled faintly, "If you really feel that you have nothing more to ask for in a husband, I can help you become a matchmaker."
Zhao Rui raised his eyebrows and asked, "Really?"
Xie Shian said, "In a few days it will be the second day of the second lunar month. After the morning sacrifice on that day, we will have a rest in the afternoon. At that time, we will invite Jingyu and Junior Sister Lin to go on a boat cruise on the lake. Invite Fu Anran to go on a boat cruise in the name of Jingyu. We will go on the boat in the middle of the lake, and you can meet each other there."
Zhao Rui couldn't help but feel a little moved, "Then I'll respectfully obey your command."
Gu Yan said: "I'll go too."
Zhao Rui frowned and said, "Fu Anran has proposed marriage to you. Do you think it's appropriate for you to go boating with him?"
Gu Yan said: "Xiang Ye has been upset with me these past few days. I'll take her to the lake to relive our first encounter and recall the past. Maybe she won't be upset anymore."
Xie Shian smiled and said, "You want to go boating with your sister-in-law to revisit your first encounter. Why don't you go boating with us anytime and anywhere?
Could it be that your sister-in-law doesn't want to go boating with you two? So you can only find another excuse to take your sister-in-law to go boating?"
Gu Yan: “…”
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