The old lady is reborn

He Yuan was just trying to figure out what was going on and feeling depressed when Han Zhang, Marquis of Dongyang, came in with brisk footsteps.

While taking off his coat and handing it to the maid, he asked his wife, "Did everything go well today?"

He Yuan looked at him and said, "You've been away from here for twenty years. Why did you suddenly ask them to cut down the trees half a year ago?"

Dongyang Hou sat down and held his wife's hand: "It was the housekeeper who mentioned it in the letter, but I didn't take it seriously."

Then he asked, "Do you have anything else to ask?"

"Has the incense on the carriage been changed when you came?"

"Yes."

"why?"

"I want to talk to her before you meet her."

"Lu Yiyi?"

"Yes."

"I don't know."

"You know I had a past with her. All these years have passed, and I think she should be just like me, just wanting to live a good life. But I have to ask first, so I can feel at ease."

"Are you relieved?" She quietly exerted force to break free.

Dongyang Hou held on tighter: "I'm afraid that if there is even the slightest mistake, I will lose you. I have to talk to you first before I can let you see me."

He Yuan recalled that in her dream, she was trapped here, and she felt depressed all the time: "I don't want to live in the old house."

"Want to change house or place?"

He Yuan felt that she had been too troubled, and thankfully her husband was willing to tolerate her: "I want to go back to Kyoto."

Dongyang Hou said: "I will stay here for a year or two. When I have a grandson and my illness has been cured for a long time, I will let my son inherit the title.

When I am no longer the Marquis of Dongyang, it won’t be a problem if I don’t live in the Marquis’ Mansion. I can just buy a house in Kyoto and we can move there.

How about this?"

He Yuan nodded.

"Now, play a game of chess with me?"

"Okay." The two of them set up their Go board and played two games, talking and laughing warmly, making others envious.

Far away, someone stood in the dark, looking at the shadows of the Dongyang Marquis and his wife cast on the window by the candlelight for a long time.

Both of them deserve to die!

Han Zhang seemed to realize something and looked out the window, seeing only the night.

He Yuan was completely unaware of this and was still chatting with her husband about the chess game.

A figure walked alone in the garden of the old house and seemed to sigh deeply.

The moon came out from behind the clouds, finally shedding its light, illuminating the man's figure.

Lu Yiyi.

Twenty years have passed. Are you the same as me? Just want to live your life well?

What if I don't want you to live a good life?

Lu Yiyi gritted her teeth. She and Dongyang Hou were childhood sweethearts. Later he went to Kyoto and came back as a young man.

Those days were so wonderful, so wonderful that my heart trembled.

But then?

He left, and before he left, he suddenly seemed like a different person. He seemed to hesitate and want to pull out the sweet-scented osmanthus tree he planted with his own hands. Although he seemed to think that this was too abnormal and left the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, it was unknown what he was thinking.

When he left for Kyoto a few days later, he didn't even plan to say goodbye to me. If I hadn't chased him out and asked him with tears in my eyes why, he probably would have left without saying a word.

Han Zhang did not tell her why. Instead, he advised her to forget him as soon as possible and find someone else she loved. She said that there could be different choices in life.

Then, he disappeared into his own world for twenty years. When he came back and met again, the first thing he did was to confirm whether he still had any improper thoughts.

Hate...too much...

Seeing that his wife had fallen asleep, Han Zhang got up, put on his clothes, and walked in the small courtyard.

In the past twenty years, he tried his best to save many Qingliu people who were "going to die" and avoided two large-scale exterminations.

The century-old family was able to survive and prosper, and now, he just wanted to spend the rest of his life with his wife, but just now he clearly felt that someone was outside the house, spying on them...