Gu Yuan's expression looked calm, but his slightly hoarse voice revealed that he was not as calm as he appeared.

He had been on duty at the Jinwu Guard and had not returned home for several days. He had no idea that Gu Yanfei had quietly handled the matter in just two days.

His sister! Gu Yuan rubbed Gu Yanfei's head, feeling proud and warm in his heart.

The brother and sister went to the Gu Family Ancestral Hall on Gu Mansion West Road together. Gu Yanfei personally placed the revised Gu Family Genealogy in front of the tablet of his grandmother Qi Chaoning.

The lingering scent of sandalwood permeates this dimly lit ancestral hall.

The brother and sister each held three incense sticks and knelt on the cushion, kowtowed three times respectfully. Gu Yuan took the lead in inserting the incense sticks into the three-legged incense burner in front of the tablet.

Gu Yanfei held incense sticks in her hand and looked at her grandmother's tablet. Her cherry lips moved slightly and she muttered something.

This is the last step.

The thin blue smoke from the burning incense stick drifted into my eyes, and tears welled up in my sore eyes.

In the slightly blurred vision, the white light on the grandmother's tablet gradually became brighter, lingering around the tablet like smoke and fog, as if touching Gu Yuan's forehead.

Gu Yuan seemed to sense something, raised his head and looked straight ahead, but he was just an ordinary human with mortal eyes and could not see anything.

Gu Yanfei felt a sore nose and hot eyes, and raised his hand and made a quick gesture.

The air seemed to vibrate slightly, creating layers of invisible ripples.

In the ancestral hall that was closed on all sides, a cool breeze blew for no reason. In an instant, the two rows of candles on the candle racks on both sides were almost blown out. The candle flames shrank into a dot, and the surroundings suddenly became dark.

The white light passed over Gu Yanfei's head and then disappeared...

The wind stopped, the candles on both sides started burning again, and the light in the ancestral hall returned.

"Sister?" Gu Yuan looked at Gu Yanfei, who was a few steps away, with a slightly excited look and asked silently.

"Grandmother's soul has just returned to reincarnation." Gu Yanfei said as she walked to the incense burner and inserted the three incense sticks in her hand into it.

The last time, after she cleared her grandmother Qi Chaoning's name, her grandmother escaped the fate of being torn apart. Her soul gradually condensed together, and after being nourished by incense in the ancestral hall for more than a month, her soul finally became much stronger and recovered 70% to 80%.

It’s just that Qi Chaoning is Qi Chaoan’s substitute. As long as Qi Chaoan is bound to her, she cannot escape this cage and cannot be reborn.

Now, Gu Yanfei has finally cut off this last bond.

From then on, there was no longer any trace of Qi Chaoan or her bloodline in the Gu family tree, only Qi Chaoning was left.

From this moment on, Qi Chaoning and Qi Chaoan no longer have any relationship.

Qi Chaoning is just Qi Chaoning herself, the wife of her grandfather Gu Xuan and the biological mother of her father Gu Ce. She is no longer a substitute for anyone.

And after being trapped for more than thirty years, her soul was finally able to return to its place and enter reincarnation again.

Gu Yanfei felt relieved, the corners of his lips and eyebrows curled up slightly, and his eyes were full of light.

"It feels so good..." A low sigh escaped from Gu Yuan's thin lips, and the corners of his cold lips slowly curved up.

He clasped his hands together and bowed three times respectfully to the tablet, and finally felt at ease.

The brother and sister quickly came out of the ancestral hall. The air outside was much fresher than inside the hall, with the faint fragrance of pine and cypress, which was refreshing.

“Meow!”

As soon as I went out, I saw a ball of yellow, white and black fur flashing by like a storm not far ahead. The cat meowed while chasing a colorful butterfly, with its feather duster-like tail standing high.

The calico cat's shiny fur sparkles in the sun, and it is incredibly beautiful.

Gu Yuan looked at the cat's back in surprise, "Qingguang is back?"

If his sister had not emphasized that Qingguang was not lost, Gu Yuan would have considered calling on the people from the Five Cities Military Department to search the entire city for the cat.

"I came back the day before yesterday." Gu Yanfei pretended to brush his left sleeve, fearing that his elder brother would ask where Mao had been these days, so he calmly changed the subject, "Brother, why did you come back so early today? Did you take a rest?"

Gu Yanfei looked at Gu Yuan with a little sympathy.

My eldest brother is really busy. He has to work on weekdays and is always busy. When he has a day off at home, he is busy practicing martial arts and reading military books. He refuses to rest for a moment and wishes he could use twelve hours as twenty-four.

Gu Yuan nodded slightly: "I'm taking a day off today."

"Yan Fei, how about we go out for some horseback riding this afternoon? I've made an appointment with Lu Si, Fan Beiran, Yue Jun and the others. I'm going to invite you, Ah Qin and the others to go out for some horseback riding together."

"Lu Si recently got a Ferghana horse, and he told me to make sure you ride on your Hongyu, saying he wants to race with you."

Horse racing. Gu Yanfei was also somewhat tempted, but still shook her head, "I have to go and add makeup to Li Yunmeng later."

Adding makeup to Li Yunyan? Gu Yuan stopped and looked at Gu Yanfei with raised eyebrows in astonishment.

Just adding makeup. Gu Yanfei smiled and said calmly, "She will be getting married tomorrow."

"..." Gu Yuan subconsciously wanted to tell her that she didn't have to go, but then he thought that whatever his sister did had her own reasons, so he changed his words and said, "I'll wait for you."

Gu Yanfei stretched out two fingers to pinch his elder brother's sleeve and shook it gently, "Brother, you go first, I will catch up with you later on Hongyu."

"Okay, remember to catch up." Gu Yuan nodded in response and looked at his sister lovingly. His narrow and long phoenix eyes were exceptionally bright and gentle in the midday sun.

Gu Yuan didn't care at all when Li Yunmeng and King Kang would get married. He just let it go in one ear and out the other and had long since forgotten about it.

This is not the case for others in the capital.

In the past two days, all eyes in the capital have been watching this marriage, and Li Yun'er's life experience has become a hot topic in the capital.

These gossips were also more or less heard by Li Yun's maid Xia Lian, but she did not dare to tell Li Yun's maid. Xia Lian looked at Li Yun's maid worriedly and made tea silently.

Li Yunmeng, who was sitting by the window, scooped a spoonful of bird's nest into his mouth and frowned slightly.

This bird's nest is not good enough, it's not the top quality blood bird's nest.

She swallowed it with difficulty and wiped the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief. Her eyes inadvertently swept across a four-fold rosewood carved and embroidered satin screen in front of her on the right. A corner the size of a longan was knocked off the base of the screen.

Li Hao only lived in this house for one day, and it became like this.

Whenever Li Yun'er saw the flaws on the screen, he would feel depressed.

She had run away from the house in anger before, but she had nowhere to go. She could neither go to Prince Kang's Mansion nor go back to Luwei Hutong, so she had to come back.

At that time, Li Hao was clamoring to kick her out. Aunt Li cursed and called her "money-losing thing" on the left and "bitch" on the right, but Li Yun'er didn't care anymore.

She told the Li family directly: "I have to marry out of my house!"

"When the wedding day comes and King Kang comes to pick me up, where do you want him to see me living?"

"If you don't let me marry in style, that would be a nuisance to King Kang. Think it over carefully!"

Li Yunmeng knew that it was useless to reason with the despicable people like the Li family. He could only suppress them with power and make them afraid.

After she said this, Aunt Li and Father Li immediately became afraid and had no confidence. After all, the man Li Yunyan was going to marry was the Prince Kang, a royal relative.

Aunt Li was also worried about offending Li Yunyan, the future Princess Kang, so she muttered a few words about "pretentious" and "difficult to raise", but she still obediently let her grandson move out of this carefully decorated house.

At that time, the room had already been made a mess by the naughty kid Li Hao. Not only did the rosewood screen have obvious flaws, he also smashed the vases and flower pots. Torn pages of books, paper balls, and broken porcelain pieces were everywhere on the floor, and the walls were scribbled with ink.

Faced with the messy house that looked like it had been stormed through, Li Yun'er almost collapsed, but he could only hold his anger temporarily, write down the account first, and let the servants tidy up the house, repair what needed to be repaired and clean what needed to be cleaned.

Xia Lian came over with a cup of freshly brewed hot tea. Seeing Li Yunyan looking at the screen, she consoled her, "Miss, everything will be fine after tomorrow."

Li Yun'er picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea to get rid of the sweet taste in his mouth, and hummed softly.

That’s right, for her, the most important thing at the moment is her wedding ceremony with King Kang.

When she gets married tomorrow, she can naturally move out of here.

tomorrow……

Li Yun'er half-lowered his eyelashes and looked at the tea leaves floating in the tea soup, his pupils flickering.

Today is the day before her wedding, and it should have been the day for friends and relatives to come and add to her dowry. However, she has waited from yesterday to today, and no one has come.

Those girls who were good friends with her in the past, those relatives from the Gu family, those elders who were once kind and loving to her... none of them came.

Perhaps something changed when she changed her surname from Gu to Li.

They all look down on her.

Li Yun'er pursed her lips, her dark and deep eyes were surprisingly calm.

Tell yourself in your heart that it’s okay.

Time will tell what a person's true character is. It's better for those who curry favor with the powerful not to come.

It is enough for her to have Prince Kang. Prince Kang is sincere to her and the feelings between them are the purest.

And Fang Mingfeng...

She can only let him down in this life.

"Bang!"

There was a loud slamming of a door outside, so loud that it seemed to shake the windows of the room. Li Yun'er put down the white porcelain teacup in his hand, frowned, and looked displeased.

"Grandma! Grandma, I want to eat malt sugar, Ergouzi won't let me eat malt sugar!" Li Hao shouted excitedly outside the house with a shrill voice, his voice was so sharp that it seemed to pierce people's eardrums.

"Which stingy guy doesn't give you candy?" Aunt Li said angrily, and spat, "Bah, bah, what a stingy person. Hao brother, don't play with him in the future."

"Grandma will take you to buy candied haws, okay?"

"Maltose, I want maltose!" Li Hao shouted louder and louder, crying and yelling like a tantrum.

"Okay, okay, my dear grandson, your crying makes me feel sad, so let's eat maltose..." Aunt Li coaxed her grandson without any principles, "Grandma will ask someone to buy you maltose right away."

“…”

It was very noisy outside, so Xia Lian hurried over and closed a half-open window, and the room suddenly became much quieter.

Xia Lian looked at her own daughter with heartache. The girl had suffered so much during these days. It was all the fault of Master Gu Er. If he had not harbored the Yu family, the girl and the prince would have been married long ago. Why would she have to live under the same roof with such a dirty family today!

Li Yunmeng became even calmer, as if he didn't hear the vulgar voices outside.

She adjusted the big red silk flower on her hair and whispered, "Xia Lian, go to the Gu Mansion to pick up the second Miss Gu."

"If she refuses to come, just say..."

She paused, her eyes darkened, and continued, "Just tell her that the betrothal gift that King Kang gave me was snatched away by the Li family, and ask her to ask my eldest brother to help me for the sake of our past friendship."

The corners of her rosy, plump lips curved into a sarcastic arc.

"Yes..." Xia Lian knelt down and saluted.

She was about to leave when a short, fat servant hurriedly lifted the curtain and came in, and nervously said at the door of the room, "Second Miss, Second Miss Gu is here, she is outside the house."

Li Yunmeng breathed a sigh of relief. The originally tense lines at the corners of his lips gradually relaxed and turned upwards, and a look of confidence appeared on his face.

Gu Yanfei really came! She knew that Gu Yanfei liked to laugh at her and see her helpless and miserable appearance, so how could she not come!

Li Yun'er raised his chin slightly, and the lines of his jaw looked even thinner.

Xia Lian held the handkerchief in her hand and stared at her blankly, feeling vaguely that her own girl seemed to have become a little different, a little strange.

Maybe too many things have happened recently, no wonder the girl's temperament has changed.

Li Yunyan was immersed in her own thoughts and murmured, "Then let her be happier."

As she spoke, she stood up and smoothed her dress.

She went out of the house to greet Gu Yanfei in person.

The servant who came to report the news followed Li Yunyan like a shadow, and pointed to a black lacquered flat-top carriage parked outside the gate as she walked: "Second Miss Gu is in that carriage."

As he spoke, the rear door of the carriage opened, and Gu Yanfei, dressed in a purple Hu clothing embroidered with wisteria flowers, jumped out of the carriage nimbly.

Hearing that guests were coming, the Li family members gathered in the courtyard.

Aunt Li and Father Li thought that this strange girl looked familiar, but Li Hao only had eyes for the black flat-top carriage. His eyes sparkled and he said enviously, "What a magnificent carriage!"

"Father, grandmother, please buy me a carriage like this!"

Just as he was about to throw a tantrum, he heard Li Zhaodi beside him shouting in a complicated tone: "Erya!"

Li Zhaodi had just met Gu Yanfei in Tianhe Garden, so she naturally remembered her.

Aunt Li and the others first subconsciously looked at Li Yunyan, but a moment later they realized why they felt that today's guest looked familiar, and blurted out, "Er Ya, you are Er Ya."

Both mother and son were shocked, staring at Gu Yanfei outside the door.

Gu Yanfei had her hair tied up in a fluffy black bun today, with only a white jade hairpin and two small velvet flowers in her hair. The red musk necklace on her wrist made her skin look as crystal clear as cream, just like a red plum blossom in the snow, bright and beautiful.

When Aunt Li came to her senses, her first reaction was to curse the girl to death, but when the words came to her lips, she immediately closed her mouth, put on a flattering smile, and called out: "Er Ya."

The Erya now is completely different from the Erya in Huaibei. She is so noble. The hairpins, beads, jade pendants, etc. on her body must have cost hundreds of taels of silver.

Yes, Erya changed her surname to Gu, and now she has become a noble person who is high above everyone else.

Aunt Li didn't dare to scold, she rubbed her hands ingratiatingly, walked to the door, bowed and nodded, and stretched out her hand as if to invite in, "Come in quickly."

Father Li also smiled warmly and flatteringly at Gu Yanfei.

Only Li Hao still had an arrogant look on his face. He rushed towards Gu Yanfei quickly, stretched out his hand, and said in a domineering tone: "Erya, did you bring me any delicious food..."

In Li Hao's opinion, no matter how beautifully Gu Yanfei is dressed now, she is still the person he can call upon and dismiss at will.

"Brother Hao, come here!" Li Zhaodi quickly pulled Li Hao back and persuaded him in a low voice, "Be obedient."

Li Zhaodi still remembered that when they were in Tianhe Garden, even Zeng Ya was obedient in front of Gu Yanfei.

Things are different now. Gu Yanfei is now a girl from the Gu family. The people she interacts with are all daughters of the Duke's and Earl's families. She is no longer the person she can easily bully. If Gu Yanfei wants to kill her with just one sentence, it would be as easy as crushing an ant.

At this moment, when she looked at Yan Fei again, fear exceeded jealousy.

(End of this chapter)