"Brother?" Gao Ran almost found it laughable, and she really laughed, "You treat him as a brother, but the other side may not be. In this world how many conflict happened because of the stepmother and the previous wife's di son. The succession of Qinwang's title, who can resist this temptation?"
Gu Cheng Yao subconsciously felt unhappy after hearing these words. He did not like to hear someone talked like this about Lin Wei Xi: "Others are short-sighted and blinded by greed, but she is not such a person."
Gao Ran originally just wanted to give a reminder, but hearing Gu Cheng Yao's words, the rage in her heart burst out, and her tone became extremely bad: "What does Shizi mean? Do you think she is not such a person? Huh, what a joke. She is selfish and cold. Now because of her pregnancy, father is even more confused by her, and will give her anything she want. Do you really think she doesn't care like she showed? Okay, even if she doesn't care about the title now, but once she gives birth to a son, will she have no crooked mind at all?"
Gu Cheng Yao felt that this conversation could not go on, how could Gao Ran become so unreasonable. Gu Cheng Yao said: "The succession of title is a ritual law. That kind of fight hand and foot for the title will not happen in our family. My father is not such a person, nor is she. I don't know where you heard such words, it's an insult to father and her. Besides, where did you put me? I'm eighteen years old. Do I still need to rely on very low inner house tricks to keep my position?"
Gao Ran, as if her tail being stepped on, was unusually stirred up: "Very low? Who is Shizi talking about?"
"I just stated the facts and didn't point to anyone." Gu Cheng Yao said coldly, "Why do you think this is a personal attack?"
Although he said so, but both of them well aware that what Gu Cheng Yao talked about was Gao Ran's attack to Yun Hui. This matter had been covered up, and Yun Hui had also sent out for almost half a year. But feelings were like a mirror, once there was a crack, it would not be able to return to the original form no matter how much it repaired. Yun Hui's affair was the crack that lies between Gu Cheng Yao and Gao Ran. Gao Ran's conspiracy was revealed, her public persona collapsed, and Gu Cheng Yao refused to trust Gao Ran anymore.
Gao Ran's eyes felt sore at the thought of this, and couldn't bear her tears. It's because of Yun Hui, and also because of that Yin Yang pot. If it wasn't for that wine pot that was not handled cleanly, how could she be suspected by Gu Cheng Yao, and how could Duke Yingguo Shizi be angry at Han shi because of the matter of spoiled concubine years ago.
The wrong step was because of her small mistake here, the Yin Yang pot was discovered by Gu Cheng Yao, and her image for many years had also ruined. Later, Duke Yingguo Shizi being meddlesome and annoyed Gu Cheng Yao. Gu Cheng Yao threw the yin yang pot to Duke Yingguo Shizi, causing Han shi and Gao Chen to fall into crisis. Han shi was afraid of exposing what she had done, when Duke Yingguo old madam asked about Shizi's whereabouts, she concealed her conscience and shook her head, said didn't know, which led to the death of Duke Yingguo Shizi. Now Han shi was living in panic every day. The old madam seemed to be suspicious. She had been checking who Shizi had met before his death. What if the old madam traced along the vine and found out about Han shi?
During this time, Gao Ran's inside and outside matters were not going well. In Duke Yingguo Mansion, Gao Ke had a strong momentum, and the adoption's matter became very noisy. Han shi was also in desperate situation because of Duke Yingguo Shizi's death. Gao Ran was exhausted by these things, but her husband and wife relationship with Gu Cheng Yao was also getting worse.
Gao Ran felt unspeakably at a loss. Wasn't her current situation the same as before Gao Xi's death? The husband and wife were indifferent, and they were fed up of seeing each other. Gao Ran always laughed at Gao Xi when she married Gu Cheng Yao. She felt that Gao Xi had no EQ and no brains to lead her life like that, and actually destroyed such a good hand. Then what about her? She obviously married as a live-saving benefactor who lost and regained her identity, but what was she doing now?
Gao Ran was so scared to think about it. She was different from Gao Xi, at any rate Gao Xi had a princess grandmother, but she had nothing. Once she lost Gu Cheng Yao, her situation would be much worse than Gao Xi. Gao Ran was sobbing and choking. She had been good at calculating all of her life, if she cried she must cry perfectly, lovely pitiful. But only then did Gao Ran realize that when she was really sad, she couldn't care about her appearance.
This was probably the first time Gao Ran really cried in years, but Gu Cheng Yao still looked at her coldly. He didn't believe Gao Ran was really crying, he just felt that Gao Ran was acting again.
"Shizi, it was so beautiful when we met, why is it like this now?"
Gao Ran really couldn't figure out the answer. She always felt that she was different from others. What's more, she and Gu Cheng Yao met before marriage and had such an unforgettable love. They had been going around for several years, during which they almost married other people, with great difficulty they were together again. To reach here was not easy, and the emotional foundation was so deep. Why it become like this?
Gu Cheng Yao seemed to think of what happened back then. Gao Ran saw Gu Cheng Yao standing quietly in place, seemingly recall the past, she slowly leaned over, wanting to hug Gu Cheng Yao.
Gao Ran approached step by step. When her hand was barely encircle Gu Cheng Yao's body, he grabbed her wrist. Gu Cheng Yao slowly but unhesitatingly pulled her away.
"I'm in love with the kind and charming girl who is willing to save a life even if she never know him, not you."
Gao Ran's face was drained of the blood: "Why is it not me? Shizi, it's indeed I who rescue you at the back of the mountain that year. The time, place, and details of your clothes at that time, I can match them all."
"But you said that the jade pendant was originally yours, and you also said that Gao Xi learned that I was looking for a lifesaver, so she forcibly snatched half of your jade pendant, and even collude with Grand Princess Shou Kang to send the jade pendant to father to replace your credit. You also said that you did not have a good life in Duke Yingguo Mansion. Because you are a shu daughter, you always suffer in silence. You were bullied by Gao Xi but you didn't dare to say anything, even when she snatched your predestined marriage you were helpless. "
"Shizi, this is a misunderstanding." Gao Ran sadly clutched Gu Cheng Yao's sleeve, raised her face and said to him, "How can you think of me like that just because Yun Hui's one side words?"
"Misunderstanding?" Gu Cheng Yao couldn't help but laugh. Although he was laughing, there was a sadness that could not be concealed in his laughter. "Then do you know that Gao Xi is dead because of these misunderstandings? Do you think she is already dead anyway and won't be able defend herself, so you pour dirty water on her, saying that she bullied you, pushing you around, and took your life-saving grace. Even after we got married, you still stopped me in the Duke mansion's garden in order to destroy your sister's marriage."
Gao Ran's face was pale and scary: "You blame me for ruining your relationship with Gao Xi? But this is originally mine. I told you the real person who saved you is me, so you blamed me for telling you the truth?"
Gu Cheng Yao closed his eyes in pain. If there wasn't Gao Ran or if he didn't accompany Gao Xi back to Duke Yingguo Mansion back then, what would happen? He still thought that Gao Xi was the girl who saved him. The sweetness of the first month of their marriage could continue. Gao Xi would slowly let go of her defense and spikes, becoming coquettish and clingy, perhaps very soon, they would have their first child...
But that would never be possible, and he would never have the chance to know if he hadn't treat Gao Xi coldly, would they have become a couple. Gao Xi was dead, and his father got out of his mother's influence and married Lin Wei Xi.
Gu Cheng Yao's obsession with life-saving grace was all influenced by Shen shi. The impact of childhood on a person was ineradicable. When he was a child, Shen shi told him every day about Yan Wang's life-saving grace to her, in the end the two broke through the secular barriers and became husband and wife. Gu Cheng Yao was not interested in these heroes rescued damsel in distress' story who was full of female fantasy, but when the same thing happened to him, he still couldn't help but fall into Shen shi's reasoning. He fell madly in love with a girl without seeing the other person's face, and even traveled far to find his savior, which was similar to what happened to Shen shi back then.
At first Gu Cheng Yao thought that the person was Gao Xi, the two get along well in the first month, but then Gu Cheng Yao found out that he had been deceived. The person who saved him was not Gao Xi, but Gao Ran. Gu Cheng Yao couldn't bear such deception, more so couldn't prevent the faint condemnation in his heart. Shen shi had great admiration for life-saving grace, if he continued to treat the false benefactor Gao Xi well, it would be like betraying his mother.
Therefore, the following things was out of control. He married Gao Ran, his real benefactor, but he couldn't find his original feelings. Before he could develop a relationship with Gao Ran, he learned that Gao Ran used despicable means to frame Yun Hui and always slander her sister Gao Xi.
Yun Hui had been with Gu Cheng Yao for eleven years, and in his heart she was like an older sister. Gao Ran even used the crime of adultery to slaughter Yun Hui. Gu Cheng Yao couldn't bear it. In particular, what Gu Cheng Yao couldn't accept was the truth about the sisters Gao Xi and Gao Ran that Yun Hui revealed.
What was true and what was false?
With so many things happened, why Gao Ran thought they could go back to the beginning? Gu Cheng Yao felt more and more that it was too arbitrary for him to fall in love with someone just for life-saving grace, but when he finally understand his heart, it was too late.
Gu Cheng Yao pushed Gao Ran away, disregarding her pale, paper-like face, and said coldly: "I have something to do outside, so I won't be back at night. You are after all Shizi Consort, as long as you know your place, I will give you the primary wife's face. Let me remind you again, Wangfei's pregnancy is a happy occasion for the mansion. Whether she gives birth to a boy or a girl, it is my sibling. If you dare to have a crooked mind, not only me, but my father will not spare you lightly..."
Gao Ran's tears slipped uncontrollably from her eye, her knuckles turned white, and she exhausted all her strength to grab the corner of Gu Cheng Yao's clothes: "Shizi..."
However, Gu Cheng Yao pried her hand bit by bit, and then left without looking back.
Gao Ran was so close but sadly unable to hold Gu Cheng Yao. Gu Cheng Yao took his clothes away from her hand, she suddenly lost the strength in her hand and fell to the ground. Gao Ran sat on the ground, and stared at the beautiful decorations around her, for a long time lost her senses.
She always knew that she was different. She had more knowledge, a more open mind, and a richer experience in wooing men than these feudal women. So she had always been confident that she could put everyone under her feet and lead a life that everyone envied. The first half of her life was just like the novels she had read in the previous life. Although she was a shu daughter, but in all aspect her life went smoothly. Her noble di older sister was not as good as her, her cute cousin was not as good as her, all women were not as good as her, and all men secretly in love with her. Gao Ran married grandly as she wished for, she married a first-rate aristocrat, and she deserves to live a life where everyone was inferior to her. But why was her situation like this?
Gao Ran sat on the ground for a long time. The maid outside heard Shizi and Shizi Consort quarreled and did not dare to approach, even until a long time they did not hear Shizi Consort's movement. They were afraid that something happened, gathered their courage and lightly knocked on the door: "Shizi Consort..."
Gao Ran came to her senses, and quickly wiped her face, wiping away the tears that were not dry on her face: "What's the matter?"
"There are people from Duke Yingguo Mansion here, Han yiniang send someone to give you something."
"Send it in." Gao Ran ordered coldly. She got up from the ground and sorted her clothes with a gloomy face. After a while, she suddenly remembered something, "How can Duke Yingguo Mansion suddenly come Yan Wang Mansion? Who brought it?"
"It's Master Gao Ke. The young master is grateful to Wangfei for her grace, so he made a special trip to thank Wangfei."
Hearing this name, Gao Ran's face quickly sank. She sneered, and cursed in an angry voice: "Birds of a feather flock together."
The maid outside vaguely heard what Gao Ran said, but she didn't hear clearly, so asked carefully: "Shizi Consort, what did you say?"
"Nothing." Gao Ran replied lightly. She held the table and slowly sat on the embroidered stool.
The words from the previous life were true, men are unreliable. Only money, power, and brother from the same parent would not betray you.
A fierce light flashed in Gao Ran's eyes. How could she catch a tiger if she didn't enter the tiger's lair. She must let her younger brother become the heir of Duke Yingguo Mansion. All those who stand in the way must die.