Chapter 81 He has to call me Brother-in-law
"Tell me, how do you know he's the current Grand Secretary? As far as I know, my cousin hasn't been back to the capital for seven years. You weren't in the capital when Brother Yun entered officialdom."
Ji Wenxuan's heart skipped a beat when Gu Shuyan asked him that question, but he didn't show any panic on his face.
"You keep calling him 'Brother Yun, Brother Yun,' and with that cold personality and the surname Yun, I can guess it's him."
Gu Shuyan naturally didn't believe Ji Wenxuan's answer, but she didn't press him for more information.
In his previous life, Ji Wenxuan's ending was not good. After the eldest branch of the Ji family was removed from the family genealogy, people said that Ji Wenxuan had a mental breakdown and went insane.
Now it seems that she really doesn't understand any of the people around her, and even this cousin in front of her is quite different from the playful person she remembered.
Why are you looking at me like that?
Ji Wenxuan gave Gu Shuyan a hard knock on the head. “Our Grand Secretary is very dangerous. You should avoid contact with him in the future.”
Gu Shuyan was tired of hearing the same thing again.
Thinking of the person she saw in her dream when she was poisoned, Gu Shuyan fell silent.
Seeing this, Ji Wenxuan assumed that Gu Shuyan had taken his words to heart, so he patted her reassuringly and then went back to the guest house he had prepared for her.
"Miss, if I may be so bold as to say this, we should indeed keep our distance from someone like the Grand Secretary."
Although Mingyu didn't know what the two people in the carriage had said, she had followed Gu Shuyan all the way and was extremely worried about Gu Shuyan's behavior, which was completely different from usual.
"Mingyu, if someone illuminates your path when you are most helpless, would you despise them because they are considered a bad person by the world?"
Gu Shuyan gave an irrelevant answer.
"No, if there really is such a person, I will personally guide him onto the right path."
After Mingyu finished answering, she suddenly understood what Gu Shuyan meant. Thinking of what Pearl had mentioned before about Gu Shuyan being rescued by Yun Yichen, she realized why her young lady would be so close to such a dangerous person.
However, Mingyu was unaware that Gu Shuyan had no memory of what happened that day, since she was already unconscious when Yun Yichen saved her.
She was referring to the time at the Crown Prince's residence when she, having lost her loved ones, hid behind a rockery intending to hang herself. At that time, Yun Yichen, dressed as a guard, said to her, "Life is unpredictable. If the Crown Princess leaves like this, are you really willing to accept it? The little prince is not even a year old yet. Can the Crown Princess bear to abandon him? Perhaps if you hold on a little longer, things will take a turn for the better!"
Yun Yichen wasn't wearing a mask at the time, so Gu Shuyan didn't recognize him. However, those words did give her the courage to live.
It was that sentence that helped her get through those incredibly dark and terrifying days and nights.
"Let's go back, I'm a little tired."
As Gu Shuyan spoke, she and her maid walked towards the inner courtyard. No one noticed that Ji Wenxuan and Yun Yichen, who were supposed to leave, were standing side by side under the same tree, watching them.
"I never imagined you were so important to my little cousin. You've transformed from a devil into a white moonlight; I never knew you'd ever been so gentle?"
Ji Wenxuan teased, putting his hand on Yun Yichen's shoulder. "But Yun Yichen, if you really marry my little cousin, won't you have to call me brother-in-law from now on?"
"Don't even think about it."
Yun Yichen rolled his eyes at Ji Wenxuan, but unexpectedly did not refute Ji Wenxuan's words.
"I'm not trying to be mean, but your personality is really unlikable. I don't know what your little cousin sees in you?"
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