CH 42

Gu Hui Yan’s qi gong was excellent. He remained calm, as if he hadn’t heard anything. When everyone in the hall saw him and Shizi enter, they promptly greeted them. Lin Wei Xi stood up as well when she heard the clamour and greeted, “my Prince.”

Gu Hui Yan supported Lin Wei Xi naturally. She was halfway through giving a Wanfu salute and had to stand up with Gu Hui Yan’s support. Everyone else in the room was a little surprised when they saw this. Gao Ran stared at the hand he used to support Lin Wei Xi’s arm and couldn’t believe that he could take such good care of someone. Was Lin Wei Xi incapable of taking care of herself?

Gu Cheng Yao looked away from their intertwined hands and greeted Lin Wei Xi with focused eyes, “Mother.”

Lin Wei Xi never expected Gu Hui Yan to help her up in front of everyone. The wife nurtured the family; she was responsible for bearing an heir and presiding over the ancestral hall. The husband only needed to be respectful and not intimate. This had been her understanding for the longest time and she never expected a man to be so attentive to her. Her brain couldn’t keep up. In a daze, she was led to a seat by Gu Hui Yan and sat down next to him.

Gu Cheng Yao followed and took a seat. There were a total of four people in their family. Gao Ran’s position suddenly became awkward as she was the only one there who couldn’t sit. It was proper for the daughter-in-law to wait on her mother-in-law during meals, and she definitely couldn’t carelessly sit down before her mother-in-law allowed her to.

Coincidentally, Gao Ran was the only person there who had a wound. After the food was served, Gao Ran lifted her chopsticks as if to serve Lin Wei Xi food. Lin Wei Xi glanced at her hand and said, “Shizi Fei, no need to feel impatient to fulfil your filial duty. Your hand is still injured, so just sit down. Otherwise it’ll look like I’m bullying you. Then it’ll be this stepmother’s fault again.”

Under Lin Wei Xi’s words lay an accusation. Gu Cheng Yao couldn’t continue to listen, so he stood up and said, “It was my fault for disrespecting Mother yesterday. Mother, please forgive me.”

How nice it was to have a powerful father who could force others to forgive him. Lin Wei Xi smiled lightly and said, “you flatter me. Shizi is the residence’s only heir. I’m only the second wife, so how could I dare criticize Shizi.”

These past few days, Lin Wei Xi had painstakingly changed the way she addressed Gu Hui Yan from formal to informal. She was no longer his subordinate’s daughter, but his wife. She didn’t want Gu Hui Yan to see her as a child. But at the moment, Lin Wei Xi’s words reflected her feelings of sincere love and respect for the hero standing in front of her that she held in both her lives◇. It was her fortune that she was able to marry Prince Yan.

Gu Hui Yan had heard many exaggerated praises from the people around him, but he didn’t actually think much of his achievements. He wasn’t as noble as people imagined. At fifteen, he commanded the army for the residence and the fief. From twenty onwards, he fought in various regions to gain power. At thirty, he entered the capital to save the Emperor, but it wasn’t necessarily for the sake of the country. He knew that he was actually very selfish, and the various praises the world sang of him were much too embellished. As for the repeated victories and no defeats that he brought since he joined the army, as the commander, Gu Hui Yan didn’t think this was anything worth bragging about.

Going to war wasn’t child’s play. Each and every move involved human lives. It was the commander’s duty to seriously deliberate the plan before making a move.

However, even if Gu Hui Yan thought it was nothing, a young beautiful girl was now looking up to him and watching him with those eyes. He couldn’t stop himself from feeling a hint of male pleasure. Especially since it was his lovable wife who’d seriously and intently said ‘I admire you very much’.