CHAPTER 445: CHAPTER 413: DIFFICULTIES?

"Gu Yanjing, this isn’t our home, it’s Grandpa’s study!" Qiao Yuxian sat in the corner of the sofa, wrapped in a small blanket. She heard Gu Yanjing open the door and come in, and buried her head in her knees, whispering.

Gu Yanjing walked over and patted her head, correcting her, "This is my study."

Qiao Yuxian was silent for a moment, then raised her head and looked at him, "You’ve been smoking."

"No," Gu Yanjing looked at her flushed cheeks, "Shang Chen was smoking."

Gu Yanjing went out to calm down, stood in the hallway for a while, and then went outside to the courtyard.

Shang Chen happened to be outside, squatting and smoking.

Although when he saw Gu Yanjing, he quickly put out the cigarette.

But the place where Shang Chen was squatting had five or six cigarette butts, the smoke smell was quite strong, and Gu Yanjing stood there for a while and got the scent on him.

Qiao Yuxian looked at him, then buried her head back in her knees, continuing the previous topic, "This is Grandpa’s house, your study."

"So?" Gu Yanjing asked.

"So, why are you doing things in Grandpa’s house, your study..." Qiao Yuxian said half and stopped.

"What?" Gu Yanjing asked deliberately.

"What, what, what," Qiao Yuxian was anxious, "don’t you know?"

Gu Yanjing smiled slightly, "Just kissed once."

"You kissed many times," Qiao Yuxian corrected, "and you made a move."

Gu Yanjing’s fingers moved slightly, but he didn’t speak.

Not hearing him speak, Qiao Yuxian raised her head to look at him, "What? You don’t want to admit it?"

Gu Yanjing looked at her.

Qiao Yuxian was looked at again by him until she buried her face back, "You touched everywhere, and this isn’t even your own house."

"This is our own house," Gu Yanjing said, "The Gu Mansion now has my name on it."

Qiao Yuxian: "......"

Gu Yanjing patted her head again, "Go take a shower. I brought clean clothes."

"No," Qiao Yuxian said, "We’ve been in the study for so long, and if I go out and change clothes, what will others think? They might think something happened in the study."

"We are married," Gu Yanjing said, then added, "It’s legal."

Qiao Yuxian was speechless.

Gu Yanjing said, "Go."

"No," Qiao Yuxian said.

Gu Yanjing said, "Old Sir Lu went to the Lu Family."

Qiao Yuxian looked up at him again.

"Old Sir Lu said his family’s violets bloom more beautifully than those at the Gu Mansion," Gu Yanjing said, "Grandpa didn’t believe it and wanted to see for himself."

"Did he go by himself?" Qiao Yua asked.

"The family followed him there," Gu Yanjing said, "Don’t worry."

Qiao Yuxian felt relieved, looked at him again, got up from the sofa, wrapped the blanket around her, and went into the bathroom.

Seeing her enter the bathroom, Gu Yanjing looked at the clothes he had brought.

He had just brought the clothes up when he happened to meet Old Sir Lu.

Old Sir Lu was about to go to the Lu Family, and when he saw the clothes in his hand, his expression...

That look, as if he could see a great-grandson tomorrow.

Gu Yanjing clenched his hand, then took a stool, and placed the clothes on it outside the bathroom door.

He knocked on the door, "The clothes are on the stool outside."

Qiao Yuxian was silent for a moment inside before saying, "Got it."

...

Qiao Yuxian had breakfast too late.

She wasn’t hungry by lunchtime.

And after showering, she felt sleepy again.

So she slept in the study’s resting room.

Gu Yanjing kept her company for a while. Once she fell asleep, he left the study, leaving Shang Chen to guard outside.

He went to the Gu Family’s ancestral hall.

Gu Yicheng had been kneeling in the ancestral hall during the day for days now.

Even when his parents came to take him home, he refused to leave.

Because Gu Yanjing had said that unless he signed the divorce agreement, he would keep kneeling in the ancestral hall.

In the past, when he made mistakes, Gu Yicheng would admit them quickly and leave.

But now, Gu Yicheng was butting heads with Gu Yanjing.

He’d rather kneel here than sign the divorce agreement.

The ancestral hall’s door opened, and sunlight streamed in. Gu Yicheng knelt on the cushion, neither raising his head nor turning his body, just kneeling there.

Gu Yanjing walked in, and the door behind him closed again, the light turning into tiny glimmers.

Gu Yicheng listened to the slowly approaching footsteps and that familiar cold oppression.

He suddenly straightened up his body and turned around, surprised and filled with fear, "Brother?"

Gu Yanjing ignored him, went straight ahead, picked up the incense on the table, lit it, bowed, and placed it in the incense burner.

He looked at the tablets in the ancestral hall for a while, then said to Gu Yicheng, "Get up."

Gu Yicheng looked at him, paused, and slowly stood up.

His legs were numb from kneeling, so he got up slowly.

After getting up, he bent over, rubbed his leg for a bit, then stood upright.

He stood slightly behind Gu Yanjing, glanced at him, and said again, "Brother."

"Come here," Gu Yanjing said again.

Gu Yicheng hesitated for a moment, took two steps forward, and stood beside him, looking at the ancestors of the Gu Family together with him.

The two brothers rarely stood together like this.

Gu Yicheng was both scared of and respected Gu Yanjing.

Most of the time, he was either bowing his head or standing slightly behind him.

Gu Yicheng didn’t dare to look at Gu Yanjing. He didn’t know why Gu Yanjing came today and was too afraid to speak.

After a while, Gu Yanjing spoke, "Sign the divorce agreement."

Gu Yicheng frowned, "Brother. I won’t sign."

Gu Yanjing said bluntly, "Ji Xiaoxiao is pregnant."

He had Qiao Yuxian talk to Ji Xiaoxiao about it.

The pregnancy couldn’t be hidden, so it was better to let Gu Yicheng know before the divorce.

To avoid more trouble in the future.

Ji Xiaoxiao agreed, so he mentioned it to Gu Yicheng.

Gu Yicheng widened his eyes, shocked at Gu Yanjing. He couldn’t speak for a while.

Gu Yanjing still didn’t look at him, giving him time to react, waiting for him to speak.

After a long time, Gu Yicheng said, "Brother, could it be that she’s with you all, the child isn’t mine? Impossible, the child must be mine, it must be mine. She’s lying to you, she wants to use this as a reason to divorce me. The child must be mine!"

"So sure?" Gu Yanjing asked calmly.

"I trust Xiaoxiao. The child must be mine, it must be," Gu Yicheng said, "Brother, I can’t divorce her. The child will have the Gu surname. We can’t divorce. We absolutely can’t divorce. We can’t let Xiaoxiao raise the child alone; it’s too hard. We can’t divorce, can’t divorce."

"She can make you trust her so much, why can’t you make her trust you?" Gu Yanjing didn’t bother with what he said afterward and just asked him one simple question.

With just this one question, Gu Yicheng fell silent, not speaking anymore.

"Speak," Gu Yanjing said.

Gu Yicheng looked at him, swallowed, and said, "Brother, I really love Xiaoxiao. About that woman... I had my reasons for doing that. I truly had my reasons."

"What reasons?" Gu Yanjing’s voice slowly grew colder as he looked at Gu Yicheng, "To get the information you wanted from that woman?"

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