A Dream of the Yellow Millet (2)
Lin Zhen resisted the urge to roll his eyes for the entire morning.
After returning to the courtyard and having lunch, he tentatively said, "Don't call me when the time comes. I won't go."
"Yes, I'll do as you say," the tutor responded straightforwardly, without any hesitation or reluctance, as if skipping school was the most normal thing for Young Master Gu San.
Lin Zhen took a nap and woke up around three or four in the afternoon. When he opened his eyes, he immediately called out the name of his study partner. He was afraid that Mother Gu would vent her anger at his "uselessness" on the study partner, just like his mother did.
The study partner was sitting with Gu's mother in the outer room, and the boy's clear voice made Gu's mother laugh.
"My mother is here, why didn't you call me?" Lin Zhen was at a loss. If he dared to leave his mother like this, he would have been pulled off the recliner by the hair and thrown to the ground.
He didn't have his own yard, and his mother always came and went casually, treating him like a useful tool, never considering his feelings.
"Did you sleep through your sleep? Didn't you say you hadn't seen me for a week?" Mother Gu approached cautiously. Seeing no disgust on Lin Zhen's face, she immediately hugged Lin Zhen and cried, "It's all my fault. I made you go to school and made you and me feel so estranged."
Lin Zhen felt mixed emotions.
Aren't the Gu family known for their intelligence? Why are these Alphas being pampered like this?
Lin Zhen said a few soft words casually, and Mother Gu was coaxed into smiling like a flower. She sent a nanny over and said that the third brother was grown up and it was time to arrange for a concubine. She also brought a small portrait and asked Lin Zhen to choose his future wife.
Lin Zhen recalled the year when he was engaged by the Gu family. His mother sent a nanny to teach him how to please Alpha and forced him to read those disgusting storybooks.
He just felt embarrassed and disgusted.
I don’t want to get married anymore.
"This one from the Lin family is quite good. He may not be the best looking, but he's smarter than the others," Mother Gu said gently, pointing to the small statue of the young Lin Zhen. "Third brother, there are only two good paths for our Gu family: becoming a vampire or becoming the head of the family. Mother doesn't want to see you become an uneducated and unlearned playboy. You've been smart since you were young. It would be a shame if you continued to waste your time like this."
Lin Zhen looked at the portrait of "Lin Zhen" for a long time without saying a word.
He didn't expect that Lin Zhen, who was described as "stupid as a pig" by Lin's mother, would become a smart person in the mouths of other mothers.
"Third brother," Mother Gu sighed, her tone softening again, "I know you like pretty ones, but pretty Omegas are useless and too delicate to be a mistress."
Lin Zhen recalled the day he married into the Gu family. His makeup was smudged, and the maid who came with him as she touched up his makeup said, "Marrying out always gives you more options. If you stay home when you're old, people will just say that no one wants an Omega from the Lin family and laugh at us. How will that make the master and mistress look good?"
Lin Zhen seemed to be comforted and stopped crying. He thought at that time that maybe he was lucky and Gu San was a good husband, so his life should not be difficult.
But at night, Gu San came in half drunk. As soon as he saw him, he frowned and cursed in a low voice: "Why are you uglier than the portrait?"
At that moment, Lin Zhenxin felt very disappointed.
He knew that the person he married was not the one he thought she was.
"Third brother?" Mother Gu seemed to give up trying to persuade her. She took down the small portrait of "Lin Zhen" and picked up the portrait of the Pei family. She said with some dissatisfaction, "The Pei family's daughter has a bad temper and is impatient, but she is really beautiful. If he marries her, my third brother may not have a chance to become the head of the family."
Lin Zhen came back to his senses, and he said inexplicably, "Let's just go with Lin Zhen."
"...Okay, okay," Gu's mother became happy, thinking that her son finally showed some ambition.
But Lin Zhen was not moved by this. He suddenly had an inexplicable impulse.
He wants to take good care of himself for the rest of his life.
A few days later, my mother brought over a very beautiful human Omega, a skinny girl that the Pei family had snatched from the "beauty pageant".
Lin Zhen watched the Omega follow his mother with his head lowered, but nervous. His mother was very strict with this Omega, and the look in her eyes when she looked at the Omega even overlapped with that of Lin's mother.
It turns out that the Gu family and the Lin family are not much different.
Lin Zhen had previously wondered if he had been born into the Gu family, would he have had such a painful childhood? Now he realized that both families valued A over O, and were essentially the same.
"No," Lin Zhen was very familiar with the fear in the Omega's eyes. He had that look in his eyes before.
This Omega walks in a twisting manner with his butt very sticking out. She is the same slutty vixen that Lin Zhen hated the most in his previous life.
At this time, the foxy girl was still young, only thirteen years old, and her figure was still very green, but she already had a "natural and unpolished" charm.
For some reason, as soon as he understood the fear in the eyes of the person he once hated, he no longer hated him.
"Is it not pretty enough?" Mother Gu said flatteringly, "I'll pick another one for you tomorrow. There's no rush."
As he was about to take the person away, the Omega lowered his head and tears rolled down his eyes.
Lin Zhen knew why he was crying. The Omegas who were sent back to the other courtyard would have a worse life.
Lin Zhen thought about it and asked someone to stay.
He remembered that when he got married, there was no Omega. Perhaps in order to compensate Gu San for the grievance of marrying Lin Zhen, Gu's mother accompanied Gu San for a few days and then sent him back to the villa.
So they knew each other so long ago?
Lin Zhen curled his lips sadly. No wonder Gu San had just pretended to marry him, but he ran away every few days.
It's ridiculous that marrying him is such a humiliation.
"Take good care of the three young men, and go back to the Pei family tomorrow morning," Mother Gu warned in a bad tone. She felt dissatisfied that her son was being pried away by a vixen.
"Why do you want to send it back?" Lin Zhen asked knowingly.
"Third brother, the people from the Lin family haven't even entered the house yet, but there's already someone in your room. I'm afraid the Lin family is going to make trouble," Mother Gu's eyes softened as she looked at Lin Zhen, not as cold as before when she stared at the Omega.
"It's okay, Lin Zhen won't do that," Lin Zhen said as he handed a prepared letter to his mother and asked her to ask someone to deliver it to the Lin family.
In the evening, he combed the hair of the Omega named "Xiaoyin".
The thirteen-year-old Omega was too green and tender. As he was combing his hair, the reflection of the Omega in the bronze mirror shed tears. He seemed afraid that Lin Zhen would be unhappy, so he wiped the tears away secretly.
When they were lying on the bed, the little Omega hesitantly came up and seemed to want to untie Lin Zhen's pajamas. Lin Zhen grabbed his hand and said, "Stop making trouble and go to sleep."
The little Omega was stunned for a moment in surprise, and his face quickly flushed.
Lin Zhen knew that he was not flirting, but was touched.
Xiaoyin settled down here and became Lin Zhen's personal servant.
That day, Lin Zhen was practicing calligraphy in the study, and Gu's mother's people were outside the door asking to see him.
It’s a really good saying “After the husband’s death, one should follow the son”, but because Gu San is an Alpha, his mother actually needs to ask for his consent when she comes to see him.
Lin Zhen gave a sarcastic smile.
"Third brother," the mother's face flushed slightly, her coquettish expression clearly overshadowing her anger, "Why are you letting me send letters like that?"
Lin Zhen felt lost. Whenever he wrote something in the past, his mother would know about it almost immediately after it left his hand. When he gave it to Mother Gu, he thought that Mother Gu would open it and read it, but she didn't.
Why? Because he's an Alpha, a real man?
"It's spread all over the Lin family. They say our Gu San likes Lin Zhen very much. She just came to me and told me that she will marry into the family next month." Gu's mother laughed teasingly.
"He is only sixteen, wait two more years," Lin Zhen said. He knew that "Lin Zhen" was afraid. Although it was better for her to marry him than to stay in that poisonous place, he knew that "Lin Zhen" was afraid. The sixteen-year-old "Lin Zhen" did not want to get married yet.
Just this is enough.
Mother Gu sat for a while, and seeing that Lin Zhen was not interested, she got up and left.
Before she left, Lin Zhen asked her to deliver a letter to the Lin family.
She still didn't open it to look.
The servant who brought the letter back told her that the doorman at the Lin family had just received the letter and read it out.
There was a love message in the letter:
Lin Zhen, don’t marry anyone else, marry me. I will marry you in two years.
On the one hand, Gu's mother felt that her son was very clever, but on the other hand, she wondered why the Lin family was so unruly that a doorman opened the letter. She also felt a little resentful towards her future daughter-in-law "Lin Zhen".
Two years later, "Lin Zhen" married in.
"Lin Zhen" was obviously still crying.
Lin Zhen, wearing a groom's suit, held "Lin Zhen's" face and looked up and down at the eighteen-year-old "Lin Zhen" carefully.
The eighteen-year-old "Lin Zhen" was very handsome, probably the best looking he had ever been in his life.
What exactly is ugly about what Gu San said?
Lin Zhen really didn't notice.
Being looked at by Lin Zhen with such tender eyes of pity and nostalgia, "Lin Zhen" cried again, and her lips trembled with tears.
Omegas always have such a hard time, but they still have unrealistic ideas and want to get a moment of tenderness from Alphas.
Lin Zhen wiped the tears from his eighteen-year-old self, gently and carefully.
A layer of powder was also wiped off.
Lin Zhen smiled, "So you feel so wronged?"
Why can’t Gu San see it?
How strange.
It was obvious that when that man looked at the beauty, his eyes were like a wolf's, shining even at night.
It doesn't look like he's blind.
Lin Zhen choked up and said, "I'm hungry."
Lin Zhen recalled that on the day of his wedding, he was indeed hungry. The nanny said that it was unlucky not to eat, but Lin Zhen knew that this was not the case. They were just afraid that he would have a bad taste in his mouth after eating without rinsing it, which would make Gu San dislike him for no reason.
He is probably not a human being, he is a bitch sold to Gu San for his play.
"Eat it," Lin Zhen fed a piece of sweet cake into "Lin Zhen"'s mouth.
"Lin Zhen" seemed to have not expected that her husband would be so easy to talk to, and her face became even redder under her makeup.
Lin Zhen knew that it was not coquettishness, but touching.
After they drank the wedding wine, "Lin Zhen" felt sleepy.
Lin Zhen carried the eighteen-year-old "Lin Zhen" to the bathhouse, changed his heavy clothes, and wiped off the cold sweat on "Lin Zhen's" back.
"Lin Zhen" was very nervous at first, but when she saw that Lin Zhen didn't do anything strange, her face turned red again.
When the two went to bed at night, "Lin Zhen" hesitated to hold Lin Zhen's hand.
Lin Zhen laughed and kissed "Lin Zhen" on the cheek. There was no lust in that kiss, only pity.
Lin Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, then said weakly, "...I'm scared. Can we not have a child? The first letter you wrote me said you would only let me have one child. If you have another, you would take a concubine. Is that true?"
Lin Zhen pretended to be sleepy and said "hmm".
"Lin Zhen" half sat up, stared at Lin Zhen for a long time, then used his fingers to trace Lin Zhen's eyebrows and eyes that belonged to Gu San. After a while, he seemed to think that this action was too reckless, and immediately lay down and wrapped himself tightly in the quilt.
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