Chapter 18 I really should let my brother see your face now

Pei Jian watched coldly as the two of them stood inseparable at the door of the Wen residence.

There was a nameless fire burning in his heart. He tried hard to suppress his anger. After all, he was not really 19 years old. At this moment, he was just temporarily controlled by an emotion called unwillingness.

Pei Jian kept reminding himself of this.

Until Nian Xi brought Gu Ci into the corner gate.

At that moment, his expression changed drastically.

Pei Jian stared at the corner gate of the Wen Mansion, as if a sharp sword was piercing his heart.

She actually brought Gu Ci into the corner gate?

She actually brought Gu Ci into the corner gate!

In Pei Jian's life, the pursuit of power and wealth occupied most of his life. In his impoverished memories, the small garden behind the corner gate was a rare paradise.

At that time, he had just entered the officialdom and was busy with the Ministry of Revenue. He could never find time to see her, and he often canceled planned events for some reason. This was the first time that Nian Xi got angry with him and said she would never talk to him again.

After he coaxed the man, Nian Xi took him into the corner gate, "It doesn't matter if you leave the court late in the future. Mrs. Wang's little daughter will be on duty beside me, no matter how late it is."

Her cheeks blushed and she said to him, "I want to see you."

He remembered it clearly. It was the season when the golden osmanthus was fragrant. He couldn't help but hold the girl in his arms. The osmanthus petals fell and filled his body with fragrance.

The throbbing feeling at that moment, no matter how many years have passed, whenever I think of it, it seems like yesterday.

One can imagine what this garden behind the corner gate meant to him and how important it was. It was like a harbor. No matter how fierce the court battles were, or how stormy the weather was, no matter how dangerous the road was, there was always a place to return to.

In his previous life, he and Nian Xi had known each other for more than half a year before she brought him into the corner gate!

I have only known her for two months. Why?

What on earth does he rely on?!

Pei Jian stared at the door, standing there like a clay sculpture.

What was supposed to be his encounter with Nian Xi turned into Gu Ci's first meeting with her. The talisman that wished him good luck was given to Gu Ci by Nian Xi, and there was also his unique memory of the corner door, in which another man was standing.

Everything is wrong.

So what are they doing now?

There has never been a more difficult moment than this one.

When everything no longer belongs to him, Nianxi will be with another man, just like they did in the past...

Pei Jian's eyes hurt at the thought, and the anger in his chest was like a beast charging forward, clamoring to tear to pieces the thief who stole everything from him.

Before anything got out of hand, he turned and strode out of Yeebridge Street.

There was a raging fire in his heart, but his hands and feet were cold, freezing his limbs, his blood and his breathing. He was tortured repeatedly in the world of ice and fire, and finally, the string called reason broke.

Gu Ci, why is he there?

Pei Jian turned around and went back.

Gu Ci has left.

When he said the name Yingguo, the gatekeeper Wang Po looked as if she had seen a ghost. Pei Jian laughed happily. He was not lying. This was indeed what Nianxi had said to him.

"Why are you here?"

Nian Xi thought that Gu Ci had left and returned, but she never expected that the person waiting here would be Pei Jian.

In the last few years, she and Pei Jian had less communication. Occasionally, she saw him lecturing his subordinates, and he was so imposing. He didn't speak loudly, but on the contrary, he just sat there silently, without saying a word, and yet he had a kind of majesty that made people shudder. When he raised his eyebrows, his subordinates' legs would go limp and fall to the ground.

At this moment, Pei Jian gave her the same familiar feeling.

With a temperament that could stir up trouble, and deep emotions that she couldn't understand, he didn't move a step, but approached her step by step.

Nian Xi took a step back and asked cautiously, "How did you get in?"

The sky gradually darkened. A few stars hung in the sky. Four or five lanterns in the distance made the garden dim.

There were only two of them.

"I see resignation coming out of here."

His voice was cold and deep, like jade from a cold pond, without a trace of warmth.

The terms are completely different.

He was passionate and enthusiastic. He always smiled when talking to her. He would bend down slightly to accommodate her height, and his facial features were delicate and smooth when he listened with his ear tilted.

It had been a long time since Pei Jian looked down upon Nian Xi like this.

She probably never understood Pei Jian.

Otherwise, how could he be so frank and say without hesitation that he saw Gu Ci coming out of here.

What do you think?

Peeping? Stalking?

I never thought that one day Pei Jian would be mentioned together with these two words.

"I'll tell Father."

The night breeze blows away the heat of the day and brings a hint of coolness.

All is silent.

Nian Xi didn't want to stay here with him, so she turned around after saying that.

Pei Jian stepped forward and strode in front of her, forcing her to retreat step by step until she was against the osmanthus tree behind her and had nowhere to retreat, and then he stopped.

Nian Xi tried her best to suppress her panicked heartbeat, looked up at his tightly pursed lips, and said, "I really should let my brother see your face now."

So as to avoid finding faults all day long.

Pei Jian heard the protective tone in her words, and after a moment of silence, he lowered his eyes to look at her, "I came here to give you some advice just for your brother's sake, so listen carefully—"

The two were very close, so close that Pei Jian seemed to still smell the rich and fragrant aroma of osmanthus flowers from that year.

Nian Xi refused to look at him and turned her head away.

From Pei Jian's perspective, he could see her thick raven blue eyelashes trembling slightly, casting a beautiful arc under her eyelids.

Pei Jian did not hide his strength, and said in a cold voice, "I don't know what your relationship with Gu Ci is, but I advise you to think it through. The Zhenguo Mansion has been guarding the northern border for generations. This is the responsibility and mission of the Gu family, and Gu Ci is no exception."

"If one day the Northern Territory is lost and Gu Ci is the only one left in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, and he has to go to the Northern Territory to quell the rebellion and revive the Gu family, and he will never be able to return to the capital, what will you do?"