Just as he was thinking, the door was pushed open, and Shen Congwen entered.
She slowly closed the door. "Mr. Gu, you’ve arrived."
Gu Yuanshan seed a little stiff; after all, he had wronged Shen Congwen. He smiled faintly. "I was just passing by, so I thought I’d drop by to see you."
Shen Congwen smiled and personally brewed a cup of tea for Gu Yuanshan. She was quite adept, even preparing the type of tea Gu Yuanshan preferred. Gu Yuanshan savored the tea, a bitter taste in his mouth. He hesitated for a long ti before finally speaking. "Congwen, because of your parents, you practically grew up in the Gu family. Although I... had to let you go with Anxi, there are so things we still need to be particular about."
Shen Congwen held the teacup with her elegant fingers, bringing it to her lips. Seemingly understanding his aning, she smiled. "Mr. Gu, are you referring to my relationship with Zhou Yunchen?"
Gu Yuanshan earnestly advised, "You’re a gentle and cultured person, a promising young individual. Don’t let Zhou Yunchen lead you astray."
Shen Congwen chuckled softly, sipped her tea, then looked up. "My relationship with him is real. We’re going to et our parents later."
Gu Yuanshan’s expression was a ss; he looked incredulous. "You’re not just... underground? You’re even eting parents? Congwen, this is too reckless! Did he give you so kind of love potion?"
He stood up and paced back and forth a few tis. "Although I’m not your father, I still have to manage this. Look... my will already designates ten percent of the Gu corporation to you; that was decided from the beginning. I’ll add another ten percent now. I don’t think Anxi will object. It will take effect imdiately under your na. Leave Zhou Yunchen, find a good girl, get married, and continue the Shen family line."
Shen Congwen slowly drank her tea, her hand trembling slightly. She disguised it with a light cough. "Continuing the Shen family line... I’m afraid I won’t be able to do that."
Gu Yuanshan was quite disappointed and said in a low voice, "Congwen, you’ve never disappointed before."
Shen Congwen felt a wave of emotion. Who can truly understand the twists and turns of fate in this world?
She smiled faintly. "Mr. Gu, you don’t need to feel guilty about what happened before. I don’t need your compensation either. Besides, money probably can’t change my decision."
Gu Yuanshan looked sowhat dejected. "But you should live a normal life."
Just as Shen Congwen was about to speak, the sound of the door opening was heard, followed by Zhou Yunchen’s voice. "Congwen and I live a very harmonious and normal life, you know."
Hearing this voice, Gu Yuanshan felt like his head was about to explode.
He had been tricked by Zhou Yunchen not just once or twice. He also blad himself; it was his greed back then that made him push Congwen towards that man surnad Zhou again and again.
Over there, Zhou Yunchen approached with a wide smile and sat down beside Shen Congwen. As if to provoke Gu Yuanshan, he put his arm around her shoulder. "I’ve already prepared the gifts. We’ll go to your family’s ho later."
He was so blatant, not exercising any restraint or moderation at all. Gu Yuanshan felt like he was about to faint—
This sort of thing... shouldn’t they be a bit more discreet? Why are they parading it around outside?
His voice trembled. "Mr. Zhou, you now have power and money. Please, let Congwen go. He is very innocent and not suitable for you."
Zhou Yunchen said, "Oh?" then smiled and looked down at Shen Congwen. "What do you say?"
Shen Congwen knew he was doing it deliberately, out of so malicious amusent. So, she looked up at Gu Yuanshan and said seriously, "I am serious."
Gu Yuanshan stared at her blankly, feeling as if he no longer recognized Congwen.
When Congwen was by his side, he was always so gentle and handso. Now, such words could actually co out of his mouth so smoothly. He... he felt there was no hope left. He stood up, and the expression on his face suddenly made him look several years older.
Shen Congwen felt a bit conflicted. After all, she had been with Gu Yuanshan for many years, and it wasn’t like he was entirely bad.
Zhou Yunchen was also sowhat touched. Although he despised Gu Yuanshan’s character, today Gu Yuanshan was genuinely concerned for Congwen. Zhou Yunchen cleared his throat. "Mr. Gu, I am serious about Congwen."
He put his arm around Shen Congwen’s shoulder and smiled. "We will get married, right here in the country... Yes, and we also plan to have one to three children, depending on how many Congwen is willing to have. So, Mr. Gu, do you still think we’re not suitable?"
Gu Yuanshan was completely stunned. "What? Have children... Congwen..."
Zhou Yunchen smiled faintly. "When we get married, we will definitely invite Mr. Gu for a celebratory drink."
Shen Congwen glanced at him but said nothing.
Gu Yuanshan’s lips began to tremble—
Does Zhou Yunchen an... Congwen is a girl? A girl who can marry a man and bear children?
It’s unbelievable! Congwen was with him for so many years, and he never noticed!
He even did a divination for Congwen, saying he would be without a wife his whole life... The next second, Gu Yuanshan felt as if he’d been struck by lightning.
That’s right! The divination said Congwen would be without a wife, but it didn’t say without a husband!
So that’s why she was completely unmoved by Mingzhu’s repeated advances. Because she herself is a girl, how could she possibly like Mingzhu?
Gu Yuanshan steadied himself on the sofa and slowly sat down, finding it sowhat difficult to digest this fact.
He lifted his aged eyes and looked at the handso young couple before him... His vision went black for a mont.
This... this was too unexpected.
Gu Yuanshan, after all, had weathered many storms (including being cuckolded before). He composed himself and slowly asked, "Zhou Yunchen, did you have these intentions before you knew the truth, or after?"
"Before," Zhou Yunchen replied with a smile.
Once they were in the car, Shen Congwen was flipping through the gifts he had prepared and casually asked, "Was what you said earlier true?"
He was driving and glanced at her. "Are you talking about ’before’ or ’after’?"
Shen Congwen didn’t make a sound and continued to flip through the gifts.
Zhou Yunchen glanced at her, thinking she currently resembled Anxi a bit. Like a small animal that enjoys rummaging through things and making a ss, but then refuses to clean up.
He quite enjoyed this feeling. After savoring it for a mont, he finally answered her question. "My answer was very serious. As for the specifics, that’s for President Shen to experience and understand."
After speaking, he glanced at her again, his eyes carrying a hint of seduction. Shen Congwen found it quite unbearable and warned him, "When you co to my family’s ho, don’t speak recklessly."
Zhou Yunchen said nothing, rely tightening his grip on her hand.
Congwen was very good. Perhaps it was this tomboyish personality she had developed that suited him. She wouldn’t get hung up on trivial matters and was quite magnanimous about so things...
Zhou Yunchen went to the Shen family. The ensuing chaos, a flurry of feathers and barking dogs, won’t be detailed here.
anwhile, when Gu Yuanshan returned to the Gu family ho, he neurotically went to his study for another divination. Afterwards, looking at the resulting hexagram, he was stunned for a good while before muttering, "No wonder. This makes sense."
Shen Congwen’s hexagram showed ’a dragon and phoenix among mortals’.
Does that an Zhou Yunchen is destined to be King Jingyao’s successor in the future?
He hurriedly perford another divination for Gu Anxi and King Jingyao... Seeing the results, Gu Yuanshan felt sowhat relieved. It has changed again. The connection between these two has been resolved.
He sat in his study and suddenly burst out laughing, his laughter mingling with tears of an old man.
Throughout his life, he had been obsessed with divination. How much had he missed? How can one rely on this to foresee the encounters in a person’s life?
Gu Yuanshan smashed the ancestral tools he used for divination, vowing never to touch them again.
This matter startled Tang Yuan and her daughter. Even Gu Ning and his Aunt Gu Rong heard about it and ca over late at night...
Gu Yuanshan had locked himself in the study alone.
Gu Mingzhu pursed her lips and whispered to Tang Yuan, "He must have been angered by Brother Congwen. He went to persuade Brother Congwen, but he refused to leave Zhou Yunchen."
Tang Yuan also said, "Congwen has truly backed herself into a dead end this ti. If this goes on, Zhou Yunchen’s future will be ruined too. How can the world tolerate such a thing!"
Gu Mingzhu’s lips curved slightly. This was precisely what she wanted. Zhou Yunchen’s ruin would ensure Uncle Min’s safety, and then she could slowly enter the Min Family and beco the young lady of the Min Family.
She wanted to see Zhou Yunchen ruined, and then see Brother Congwen full of regret...
In a few days, it will be King Jingyao’s banquet. If they attend together, it will surely beco a scandal. She could already imagine how the newspapers would write about the two of them!
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