Be in low spirits

Gu Jinluo felt uncomfortable. After drinking four glasses of white wine, he had never been able to drink much to begin with. This was something he had only developed over the years. He waved at the driver, and he retreated.

She said, "General Ye!" and put out a hand to hold his chest. Shen Zeqing quickly grabbed her hand, moved, and stood between the two of them.

"Let me introduce you. This is my husband, Shen Zeqing. Zeqing, this is General Ye." She didn't know if it was because of the person in front of her or the alcohol, but she felt very uncomfortable anyway and leaned towards Shen Zeqing.

The more Ye Fan looked at him, the more uncomfortable she felt. It was fine if they were holding hands, but she leaned on him and said he was her husband? Then what was he? What was the waiting for these years?

"Your husband?" He couldn't believe his ears. She could say these three words to him while hugging another man!

"Hello, General Ye, my name is Zeqing." Shen Zeqing stretched out his right hand, wanting to shake hands with him.

Ye Fan frowned at him, then looked at the not-so-sober Gu Jinluo. This time he was completely sober, and repeated his name through gritted teeth: "Shen Zeqing!"

"It's me." Shen Zeqing was a scholar, and he spoke slowly and elegantly.

Gu Jinluo patted his hands and said, "It's time to go back to the hotel."

Shen Zeqing pulled her towards the car, and Ye Fan said from behind: "Mr. Shen, I have two things to say."

Shen Zeqing looked back at him, and probably guessed that there might be some relationship between the two.

"I'm a rough man, so my words may not be nice. Luoluo likes to grab the quilt when he goes to bed at night, and always needs someone to coax him to fall asleep. I wonder if he still does that now?" He looked at the two people's arms around each other, and he was about to explode, but he had to pretend to be calm and expressionless to provoke.

Gu Jinluo lowered his head and smiled, saying, "Haha, it really doesn't sound good."

It was the first time that Shen Zeqing had seen such a straightforward provocation. He didn't know whether Gu Jinluo kicked the quilt when he slept at night, and he didn't know what to say in response.

Gu Jinluo was sober now. He patted Shen Zeqing's hand and said to him, "Get in the car and wait for me. It's okay."

Ye Fan looked at the two of them in love, and his breathing became unsmooth. He turned around and scratched his head, wondering why he couldn't let her go? They had only been together for less than a year, but he hadn't forgotten her in more than six years.

The watch hidden in my arms is still warm, but the person in front of me is no longer the same person as before.

"General Ye is also interested in the sex life between us?" Gu Jinluo was a little impatient. There were two children in the hotel and she had to go back to see them.

Shen Zeqing closed the car door and looked at the two people outside the window. He could roughly guess that the two must have had a relationship before.

How could Ye Fan care about other people's affairs? He only cared about the person in front of him. He looked at her seriously. She was wearing an indigo velvet cheongsam, her hair was simply tied up with a camellia-shaped hairpin. She seemed the same as she did that night many years ago, yet also a little different.

He leaned over to get closer to her face and said with a malicious tone, "Wei is very concerned about Miss Gu."

Gu Jinluo subconsciously took two steps back and said with a cold look in her eyes: "Zeqing and I treat each other with respect. He respects me very much." After she finished speaking, she wanted to go back. Ye Fan sneered: "That's all?"

Gu Jinluo turned her back to him, lowered her head, closed her eyes and thought for a while, then walked up to him and said, "My husband and I are in perfect harmony, and we love each other deeply. We have a lot of fun that a rough man like you can't experience!"

Ye Fan had been holding back because she was holding hands with another man, and now hearing such words, he was even more furious. He grabbed her wrist, stared at her fiercely and said, "Don't think I dare not kill him!"

The pain from her wrist seemed like a lesson for her poor judgment of people back then. She didn't even cry out in pain. Instead, she pursed her lips, gathered her strength, and slapped him hard.

Ye Fan let go of her wrist and poked the side of her face that was slapped with his tongue. It hurt so much that blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.

Yang Lin's voice came from behind him, calling for him: "Xingzhi, Xingzhi..."

Gu Jinluo got into the car and ordered the driver to drive.

Yang Lin watched the car drive away and wanted to help Ye Fan. Ye Fan raised his elbow and said, "Don't touch me!" Looking at the direction the car drove away, he staggered to his car and tried to open the door.

Yang Lin was puzzled. How could he laugh when he was slapped? "What's going on? Did you feel good when you were slapped by someone else?"

"What did you say? Did you know she was married?" Ye Fan heard his muttering and looked at his brother whom he had known for more than 30 years in disbelief. His wife was married to someone else, and his brother also helped to conceal it?

"Ah...ah, you've been married for several years, and your children are already grown up." When Yang Lin went to pick up Yao'er, he seemed to see two children in the room, who were younger than Huaichen. He guessed that they were their children, so he walked forward and supported Ye Fan.

"Child?" Ye Fan was shocked when she heard these two words. She married someone else and had a child? Just because of that letter of breaking off the engagement?

"Ah, they look like twins." Yang Lin recalled the two children in the room, probably three or four years old, but he had never heard Yao'er talk about it. But he only heard Yao'er talk about it later.

"What? Children? Twins?" He originally wanted to chase after them and ask for clarification, but now the word "children" was the only thing circling in his mind.

These two words exploded in his mind like two fireworks, and every falling firework burned every nerve in his body. He stumbled up from the car door and looked for the bottle of wine he had just held.

Yang Lin followed him and explained: "Um...I didn't tell you because you couldn't remember it before? Then you remembered it..."

"Why are you hiding it from me when you can't remember?" He turned around and roared, his voice full of unwillingness and trembling.

“No...you...others have let it go, why are you still..." Yang Lin thought that he had let it go for more than two years, so he kept Jiang Yunran in Ye Mansion.

Ye Fan felt that his blood was surging up, and his heart seemed to be squeezed by a big hand. It was difficult to breathe. He covered his chest and vomited blood. Then his eyes went dark, and he heard Yang Lin shouting in his ears: "Xingzhi, Xingzhi, why are you vomiting blood again..."

At the hospital, the doctor said it was caused by anger and told Yang Lin to drink less in the future. Jiang Yunran rushed to the hospital and asked why he suddenly vomited blood. Yang Lin just said he was angry.

Gu Jinluo sat in the car without saying a word. Shen Ze cleared his throat and asked, "That General Ye?"

"General Ye's third uncle is the former secretary-general, so we have some friendship. I'm sorry to trouble you today." She and Shen Zeqing have always had a very clear boundary. The two of them cooperate on the surface, but other than that, they don't have much interaction.

"It can be seen that General Ye has feelings for you." Men of letters and scholars love to listen to these romantic stories and are more sensitive to the word love.

"Mr. Shen has crossed the line." Since receiving the letter, she no longer talked about any love affairs. She had a fake marriage with him just to avoid those who were sincere or had ulterior motives.

Back at the hotel, she cheered herself up and played with the two children for a while. The maid took the two children to take a bath. Only then did she have time to sit in the study and look at the contracts of Jinghua.

Over the years, all she had in front of her were contracts and account books, as well as managers with ulterior motives in various places. She hadn't touched the piano and cello in the Gu family garden for a long time. Thinking of this, it seemed like she hadn't been to the opera house for many years.

The next day, she had nothing to do, so she asked the guards to send the two children to Yang's house to play with Huaichen, while she went to Lin'an Mansion to meet her brother.

Speaking of his sister-in-law's pregnancy, Gu Lang seemed unhappy and didn't want to say more.

Gu Jinluo put down the coffee and said, "Brother, my sister-in-law has rarely returned to the Gu Family Garden in recent years. She thinks that you stay in Beijing all year round, so she doesn't want to go? If so, why not bring her to Beijing and buy a house for her, so that your family can be reunited."

Gu Lang knew that marrying Meng Li had harmed her, and now that she was pregnant, he felt that he had committed an even graver sin. "Luoluo, have you really had feelings for Shen Zeqing over the years?"

At this point, she didn't know how to respond and just stared at him blankly.

"If so, why didn't you have children for all these years?" Gu Lang knew that the couple had always been incompatible, and she had never let go of Ye Fan in her heart.