Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

"You are the ungrateful dog."

Gu Tingye smiled and replied to Xiao Qinshi, stepped over the threshold, and walked straight to Gu Yankai, "Father, I'm late."

Gu Yankai grabbed him and said, "Why are you here just now?"

"As soon as the servant sent by the palace finished speaking, I rode my horse and rushed over, but I didn't expect that I was still too late."

Gu Yankai looked at Xiao Qinshi: "So, you are planning this too?"

"In the eyes of you and your son, everything I say and do is calculated. Why do you still have to put on an act?" Xiao Qin was desperate.

"It's obviously you who has been acting all along, Madam Qin. I'm afraid you studied girls' school in a southern opera troupe?" Gu Tingye smiled.

Xiao Qin slammed the table and said, "You are a disobedient and unfilial thing. I have worked so hard to raise you for so many years, but now you have turned against me."

Gu Tingye said calmly: "Oh, I really want to thank you, mother. If it weren't for you protecting me, I wouldn't have to live such a hard life these years."

"Enough." Gu Yankai interrupted the confrontation between the two. Every argument at this moment was a waste of time.

Gu Tingwei then came to Gu Tingye and pulled him, saying, "Second brother, please persuade father and mother. They want to divorce, and mother wants to take me back to Dongchang Prefecture. I don't want to go back there. I want to be with second brother!"

"Gu Tingwei!" Xiao Qin scolded, "Get over here! You two are mortal enemies, why are you still with him!"

"I do not!"

"Listen to your mother," Gu Yankai said weakly, "Although she is vicious, what she said is not wrong. If the government really sentences me to exile, then all the nephews and nieces of the Gu family will be implicated. You are not married yet, so if you follow her back to the Qin family, you will still be a noble son."

After hearing what Gu Yankai said, Gu Tingye knew that things were heading in the most serious direction.

"No, father, I don't care about my identity. I just want to stay in this house and not go anywhere!" Gu Tingwei insisted.

Gu Tingye felt warm in his heart. He patted Gu Tingwei on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, no matter where you go, you are always my good brother, Gu Tingye. Father does this for your future. Be obedient."

"Second brother..." Gu Tingwei shed tears.

Soon, Gu Yankai wrote the divorce letter and he and Xiao Qinshi each put their fingerprints on it.

Xiao Qinshi reached out to take the divorce letter, but Gu Yankai held her back and said, "You are jealous and mean, causing unrest in our family, and even plotting to kill us father and son. Logically, I should divorce you based on the seven reasons for divorce. However, for Sanlang's sake, I don't want him to have a mother with a bad reputation, so I wrote you a divorce letter. If you really want to do good for him, you should cultivate yourself from now on! What is yours is yours, and what is not yours, no matter how hard you try, will all be in vain in the end."

"Oh, if you have time to teach me a lesson, why not teach your son a lesson and let your beloved Dalang repent for his sins! Among the three brothers, only Gu Tingye's skills were taught by you. The stupid Sanlang knows nothing, and your good Dalang is so jealous that he is about to vomit blood. As a father, you probably don't know anything, right? If you want to say that the two brothers have been in this situation today, you, Gu Yankai, are the culprit. I am just following the trend. Don't put all your sins on me."

She snatched the divorce papers from Gu Yankai's hand, carefully checked the words on it, and after confirming that they were correct, she pulled Gu Tingwei and walked out.

Gu Tingwei looked back repeatedly, and Gu Tingye waved at him: "It's okay, you go. I'm at home."

"If we don't leave now, we won't be able to leave when the imperial envoy comes." Xiao Qin pulled Gu Tingwei away with force.

Gu Yankai watched the mother and son leave in silence.

Gu Tingye: "Don't be sad, father, I'm still here."

Gu Yankai patted his hand gently: "My child, I was blind and didn't realize it earlier, so you suffered so much injustice. Now this is my retribution..."

Gu Tingye didn't want to dwell on the word "before", and asked: "Father, is the emperor angry?"

Gu Yankai nodded: "The emperor wants me to hand over my title and my imperial seal in exchange for your elder brother's life."

Gu Tingyu then spoke with a slightly trembling voice: "Father, Erlang...all this is my fault, I apologize to you..." After that, he knelt down with Shao Shi and Sister Xian.

Gu Yankai ignored him. Gu Tingye stepped forward and pulled the couple up. He said to Sister Xian, "My niece, get up too." Then he turned to Gu Tingyu and said, "I accept your apology, brother. But I'm afraid it's not just us father and son that you have to apologize to."

It is impossible to say that he has no feelings for Gu Tingyu. When he was still young and ignorant of the world, Gu Tingyu was his imagination of all the "talented men" in the world. His elder brother has good calligraphy, good poems, good articles, and is good at planning, making decisions, and understanding people's hearts. Gu Tingye has never doubted it to this day. If it were not for his poor health, his elder brother would have been able to call the shots in the court long ago. His admiration for Gu Tingyu back then was just like Sanlang's admiration for him today. In his imagination, the three brothers should have formed the most invincible iron triangle in the world.

Gu Tingye looked at the withered idol in front of him and was filled with sorrow: "Brother, you could have defeated me completely with this move. But you planned everything but didn't expect that my father would go to the palace to see the emperor for me. One wrong move and our whole family is doomed, brother."

Shao felt sorry for Gu Tingyu, so she stopped him and said, "Second brother, this time we owed you something, and we admit it. But your eldest brother has already apologized to you, and the family has already broken up, so don't say anything more. Do you think we must die before you are satisfied?"

This confused wife of Dalang has not yet gotten rid of the inertia of "fighting Erlang", and she forces Gu Tingye into a corner as soon as she opens her mouth.

Gu Tingyu held Shao and said to Gu Tingye, "Your sister-in-law feels sorry for me, so don't take it to heart. You should have seen clearly over the years that she has no bad heart. It's our stepmother, uncles and aunts who are bad... Now all of them have fled, and from now on, there will be no barriers between us brothers." As he said that, he went to hold Gu Tingye's hand.

Gu Tingye turned away from him and asked Gu Yankai: "Yes, father, where are my capable uncles and aunts? Shouldn't they be cursing here at a time like this?"

Gu Tingyu smiled at the hanging hand and said, "They? As soon as they heard that the emperor wanted to take away the title, they were busy moving things from the warehouse. Those are what your mother left for you. Do you want to..."

Gu Tingye waved his hand: "I have the list my father gave me, with the seal of the head of the family, and my grandfather's handwriting, all of which are evidence. I will take these things to the government office to sue them and ask the officials to get the things back for me. I won't go to confront them myself, so as to avoid being charged with rebellion."

Gu Tingyu originally wanted to create a common enemy for the two brothers in order to bring them closer together, but, obviously, Gu Tingye saw through his plan and refused.