Be in low spirits

Gu Jinluo took a pen and a notebook to count the dowry, paused, and then said: "There must be someone at my parents' home, not to mention that there are still many things waiting for me in Anjiang. Oh, why is this wedding dress Western-style? These servants are really..."

"Luoluo, don't be busy. Grandpa has prepared a wedding dress for me." Yao'er knew that she had never let it go, and no matter how much she said, it would only expose her scars.

Yao'er took out the wedding dress that her grandfather had prepared for her from the bottom of the box and spread it on the bed. Gu Jinluo thought of the pocket watch that her mother had left for her. Her father had never prepared a dowry for her so carefully. All he left for her were money and the pile of properties. He warned her that behind those properties were the homes of countless employees and that they must not be left homeless. She couldn't help but shed tears, almost falling on the red wedding dress.

She tilted her head back to prevent the tears from falling, wiped her tears, touched the wedding dress and said, "It's great that Grandpa also prepared a wedding dress for you."

"Luoluo, when you get married, your sister will prepare a wedding dress for you and sew it for you stitch by stitch." Yao'er knew that for so many years, she had a lot of pain in her heart that she had no place to express.

"No need. When I, Gu Jinluo, get married, of course I have to find the most expensive designer." She forced a smile, not knowing whether she was comforting herself or her sister.

"Yao'er, remember, if the Yang family ever gives you any grievances, the Gu family will always be your mother's home. You can come back anytime. Don't belittle yourself, okay?" She stood up, turned around, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and explained.

Yaoer knew that once she got married, she would be the only one left in the Gu family garden.

Ye Fan returned to Jinghua, still couldn't remember what the pocket watch meant to him. After the injury, he was left with sequelae and selective amnesia. He only had fragments of many things. As for Yang Lin, he only roughly remembered some things from the military academy.

Jiang Yunran had been taking care of his injuries in the garrison hospital. After the war, she followed him back to the Ye Mansion and became the family doctor of the Ye Mansion. After Yang Lin knew the whole story, he hoped to make him remember everything about him and Gu Jinluo, and often told him about their past, but he still couldn't remember.

He found Jiang Yunran, hoping to persuade her not to fall too deeply in love with Ye Fan.

When Jiang Yunran was treating his injuries in the army, he saw that he always held the pocket watch in his hand and knew that it must be something very important to him.

"I knew from the beginning that he had someone in love." She had been prepared to be rejected, but whether it was because of his injury or because of him as a person, she couldn't let it go.

"Doctor Jiang, why are you making it so hard on yourself? If he really fell in love with you, he wouldn't keep you waiting like this." Yang Lin was worried that Ye Fan would really fall in love with this doctor over time, and he was also worried that he would really not remember her in the future.

"General Xiao Yang, I also want to meet this Gu Jinluo you mentioned." Jiang Yunran has always wanted to know what the story behind that pocket watch is.

On the day of Yao'er's wedding, Yang Huaichen kept crying and would not stop until Gu Jinluo held him and comforted him. So she had no choice but to see him off to the door. Aunt Liu knew that she was feeling sad and wanted to hold the child for her, but Uncle Wu pulled her and shook his head.

The newspaper headlines were full of news about the marriage between the Yang and Gu families, but Gu Jinluo closed the door, refused to see any guests, and stayed at home to tease Huaichen.

Two days later, Gu Jinluo couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. He stood on the second floor, looking at the empty Gu family garden. It had been three years since he returned to Anjiang from Jinghua.

She opened an orphanage in Anjiang. Every Tuesday, she wore plain clothes to deliver things to the children, taking Huaichen with her. On this day, on the way, someone gave a speech in the square. She found it interesting, so she stood there and listened for a while, then ordered the guard behind her: "Check the identity of this person."

The person who gave the speech that day was Shen Zeqing. Both of his parents were diplomats. He was a university professor and founded the Communist Youth Society. He was recruiting members, but could not get sponsorship. She called people over and sat in the tea room to chat.

Since she returned to Anjiang, there has been an endless stream of people proposing marriage to her. She was overwhelmed by it, so she found this man to propose a fake marriage. She could sponsor him to set up the Communist Youth Society, and he would help her block those people who pretended to propose marriage.

Huaichen was sent back to Jinghua half a year after Yaoer married into the Yang family.

Gu Lang still married Zhou Mengli, and the new president took office. The Gu family gave him a large sum of money, which allowed him to keep the arms route.

Gu Jinluo and Shen Zeqing announced their marriage one year after they met, which caused an uproar in Anjiang. Gu Lang rushed back to Anjiang by train overnight to find out the reason.

Seeing that he looked exhausted, Gu Jinluo stopped trimming the flowers and asked, "Have you met my sister-in-law?"

"Who is this Shen Zeqing?" he asked, holding a newspaper.

"Zeqing? A professor at the National University, your brother-in-law." She had thought that many people would have questions after announcing her marriage, and she knew that she would have to explain things back and forth.

"Why do you want to marry him?" Gu Lang was a little annoyed by her attitude and felt that she was treating marriage as a joke.

"We both liked each other and had similar family backgrounds, so we got married. Isn't it normal for a man and a woman to love each other?" She continued to trim the flowers and plants.

"Luo'er, I know you were hit hard by Ye Fan's breaking off the engagement, but you don't have to make such a fuss about getting married, right?"

When Ye Fan was mentioned, Gu Jinluo stopped what she was doing. For so many years, no one dared to mention this name in front of her. When she heard it again, she still couldn't remain calm.

Gu Lang snatched the scissors from her hand. She forced a smile and replied, "Okay, brother, we're going to get married anyway. Zeqing is a very nice person and treats me very well. Don't worry. This is not a joke."

Gu Lang didn't know what to say, so he could only confirm with her again: "Have you made up your mind?"

She nodded, put away the scissors, put them in the drawer in the living room, and locked herself in the study.

A shooting occurred on the street of Jinghua. Ye Fan and Jiang Yunran were walking on that street. The sound of gunfire passed by his ears. He looked upstairs and saw the gunman hiding on the third floor of Guxiang Apartment. When he saw him looking upstairs, he quickly packed up his things and prepared to run.

Ye Fan sent Jiang Yunran to the wall pillar across the street and told her not to run around. He crossed the street and ran towards the apartment. When he entered the apartment, he remembered a scene where he seemed to be putting shoes on a woman here.

The gunman came down from upstairs and saw him and started fighting with him.

The gunman hit him on the head with the butt of the gun, and he felt dizzy for a while, and then his vision went black.

In his dream, he remembered everything. The pocket watch belonged to Gu Jinluo. She was waiting for him. She did not reply to any of the letters he sent. Was she angry?

He just felt someone grabbing his throat, preventing him from waking up. He was sweating with anxiety, and a female voice called him, "Xingzhi, what's wrong with you?"

He gathered all his strength to break free from that hand, woke up from his sleep, pulled out the IV drip in his hand, and was going to find Yang Lin and Su Yaoer to find out why Gu Jinluo didn't reply to his letter.

Jiang Yunran shouted after him, but it was no use. Ye's mother heard the noise and saw him running out of the room. She asked, "Where are you going? Xingzhi!"

"I'll go find Luoluo!" After giving the instructions, he ran towards Yang's house, with blood still oozing from the needle wound on his hand.

After hearing what he said, Yaoer remembered everything. She questioned him angrily, "You remembered? Then why did you write that letter to break off the engagement?"

"What letter of broken engagement? I haven't written one." He couldn't hide his anxiety even as he sat on the sofa. The servant was helping him stop the bleeding.

"You still have the nerve to say that? Luoluo locked herself in the study for several days after seeing the letter! Why wrap it up? Just let him suffer like that!" Yao'er was pregnant and her stomach hurt from anger. She had to stand up and walk a few steps to get relief.

Yang Lin quickly comforted his wife, telling her not to get upset and to go back to her room to rest. She looked at Ye Fan, still angry, and gritted her teeth and said, "No! I want to see him repent!"

"What letter of breaking off the engagement? I didn't write one. Who gave it to me?" He was eager to know what was in the letter? How did it become a letter of breaking off the engagement?

"Young Master Lang said that he was transferred from the military hospital to Jinghua, so he handed it over to Luoluo." Yaoer remembered the news she received from Gu Lang a few days ago that Luoluo was married, and she didn't know whether she should tell him.

"I'll go to Anjiang to talk to her and make things clear." He stood up from the sofa. The servant didn't notice and the cotton swab rubbed against the wound. He screamed out in pain subconsciously: "Hiss..."

"Don't go." Yaoer didn't know how to tell him.

Yang Lin also grabbed his wrist and said, "The new president requires that the generals stationed in Beijing should not leave Beijing at will."

"What should I do? I'll go find Gu Lang."

"Ye Fan, you shouldn't go after so many years. She has her own life to live." Yao'er felt that since they had missed each other, there was no need to force it.