Rong Helian was slapped and turned his face to the side. The stinging pain on his face was not as strong as the shock in his heart. He looked up blankly at the girl in front of him, and saw that her eyebrows were cold and her face no longer had any of the intimacy of the past.
"I don't know when you came up with this idea, but how can you say such a thing?"
"Do you think you're the same Chen He who had no relatives or friends back then, the child no one knew who could easily forget the past? You've lived in the Rong family for six years, not just six days. Your father treated you like his own son. Who in the capital doesn't know who you are? And who doesn't know your connection to the Rong family?"
"Just by saying 'leave the Rong family', can you erase all the past? Or can you make people forget that you were once listed in the Rong family tree and that you are my brother? If what you just said gets out, others will not think you have any loyalty. They will only say that our Rong family's backyard is filthy, that my father raised a son who coveted his sister, and that the Rong family has produced a shameless daughter who committed incest with her brother."
"Zhizhi..."
Rong Helian's face turned pale.
Rong Yue's eyes were cold: "Don't say that I have never had such feelings for you. Even if you remember even a little bit of your father's kindness to you, you should never have such a lustful thought."
"When you say these words, where do you put your father and your sister? Do you want to destroy the Rong family's century-old reputation and make them a laughing stock in everyone's eyes?!"
Rong Helian watched Rong Yue leave, and watched the moon he had guarded for years be coldly separated from him. When he turned around, he saw Rong Qianan standing by the hanging flower gate.
He never spoke to him nor scolded him.
But Rong Helian felt ashamed.
…
Rong Yue and the seventh prince Xie Tianyu began to discuss marriage. Rong Qian'an originally disagreed. He did not want his daughter to marry into the royal family, let alone a prince who wanted to compete with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
But Rong Yue said that she liked Xie Tianyu and insisted on marrying him. Xie Tianyu also saved her life. Moreover, after Xie Tianyu met Rong Qianan and talked with him alone, Rong Qianan relented.
Rong Helian watched the two of them discuss the marriage and go through the ceremony, watched them exchange engagement letters, watched Xie Tianyu enter the house, and watched Rong Yue distance herself from him.
He was filled with pain, but could do nothing. The joke he had made in trying to stop their marriage had already caused people to question the Rong family and talk about Rong Yue and his adoptive father. He was afraid that his impulsiveness would ruin Rong Yue and the Rong family.
But Xie Tianyu was not a good match.
Xie Tianyu appears to be gentle and kind on the surface, but he is actually quite ambitious in private. Rong Helian can choose not to force Rong Yue, and can give in and stop being greedy, but he does not want to see Rong Yue marry a man who is full of ulterior motives.
On the day of their engagement, Rong Helian drank a lot of wine out of sadness. He also unexpectedly learned that Xie Tianyu and Rong Yue's acquaintance and the life-saving grace were all planned in advance. He went to Rong Yue's yard and wanted to tell her everything and persuade her to reconsider the marriage.
But who would have thought that he would run into Rong Yue, who had been drugged and whose clothes were disheveled. He rushed in to check the situation, but before he could call anyone over, the unconscious Rong Yue suddenly woke up. What she saw was himself lying drunk beside her, and things got out of control afterwards.
"The rebellious son of the Rong family, He Lian, behaves in a rebellious manner and is unbearable to be taught."
"I will now apply the Rong family rules and expel you from the Rong family. From now on, you are not allowed to use the Rong family name, and you are no longer a member of our Rong family."
…
"call!"
When Gu Helian suddenly woke up from her dream, her forehead was covered in cold sweat.
Rong Yue in his arms was disturbed by his movements and was a little confused when she opened her eyes: "What's wrong?"
Ever since Xiao Yan returned to the capital with a great victory last year and the court was stable, Rong Yue stayed with Tang Ning in the capital for a few months, and was then "tricked" into coming to Zuozhou by Gu Helian, who had returned from the north, with sweet words.
Before coming, she made three rules: she would not enter the main house of the Gu family, would not deal with those people in the Gu family, and Gu Helian could not be as presumptuous as in Jingzhong.
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