Night Fire Lingering

Wen Yan looked at Gu Yanci incredulously, and said somewhat incoherently, "You know... you said you were forced... three years ago, it wasn't me who schemed against you, you know?"

Gu Yanci knelt on one knee between her legs and gave her a definite answer: "Yes."

He gazed into Wen Yan's almond-shaped eyes, his voice slow and clear: "It is I who want to marry you, Wen Yan."

Wen Yan's mind went blank for a few seconds before she could react.

"You, you..." Wen Yan wanted to question him, to say it was impossible.

But if Gu Yanci wasn't willing to marry her, who could force him to marry her?

If it was the elders' idea, then Madam Gu did like her. However, Gu Yanci's mother, Ji Chang, completely disagreed with her marrying Gu Yanci. If Gu Yanci didn't want to marry her, he could have used Ji Chang as a shield. Why let Ji Chang hold a grudge for so many years?

"So you still think I'll let you go?"

Gu Yanci's smile carried a hint of gloom.

The light from the streetlamp shone through the window, reflecting the obsession and possessiveness in the man's eyes.

"Why?" Wen Yan couldn't understand. "Why...why did you propose to me?"

It's perfectly normal for adults to have sex. The Wen family's power is no match for the Gu family's. Even if they had been discovered three years ago, the Wen family wouldn't have made the unreasonable demand that Gu Yanci take responsibility, and Wen Yan herself certainly wouldn't have.

Gu Yanci gazed at the face of the person beneath him, which was smooth and delicate, with clear confusion in his almond-shaped eyes.

"What do you think, Zhizhi?" Gu Yanci asked in return.

"Because I am a decent Mrs. Gu, and I can help you win over your grandparents."

Gu Yanci narrowed his eyes, clearly not very happy.

“But Gu Yanci, I’m not your tool. I have emotional needs. My ideal other half—” Wen Yan looked up at him, recalling his previous words, her voice becoming somewhat indifferent, “is not like you.”

"What would that look like?" Gu Yanci's fingertips traced Wen Yan's cheek and chin, down to her neck, filled with desire and danger. "Like Gu Jingzhou? Or like Jiang Huaixu?"

Wen Yan didn't understand why Gu Yanci would suddenly bring up her brother Jingzhou, who had passed away many years ago. She refused to answer, saying, "That's my business."

It's none of your business.

Gu Yanci sneered: "Wen Yan, Jiang Huaixu has a heart condition. How many years can he live? You went through so much to choose someone who will die young?"

"Gu Yanci!"

"Am I wrong?"

Wen Yan's eyes flashed with anger: "It's not their fault that they're not in good health, and it certainly shouldn't be your reason to attack them!"

them!

Gu Yanci realized that although Wen Yan did not deliberately mention Gu Jingzhou, she was still thinking about Gu Jingzhou subconsciously.

Poor health? Isn't that Gu Jingzhou?

The untimely death of Gu Jingzhou is a prime example.

Isn't Jiang Huai Xu just like Gu Jingzhou?

"Wen Zhizhi, do you like Gu Jingzhou that much?" Gu Yanci suppressed the gloom in his eyes. "Is he really that good? They like him, and you like him too."

Wen Yan wondered who 'they' were, but she was too angry to ask Gu Yanci.

"Yes! Brother Jingzhou is gentle and patient. Isn't it easy to like him?"

There are many kinds of liking. The liking that Wen Yan is talking about is the younger sister's admiration for her older brother.

However, in Gu Yanci's opinion, liking is liking, what's with all the nonsense about different kinds?

He then heard a confirmation: she liked Gu Jingzhou.

She doesn't like him.

Gu Yanci stared intently at Wen Yan, his eyes filled with a deep blackness, like an abyss, unfathomable and unfathomable, with bottomless danger.

Wen Yan noticed that his mood was rapidly worsening, so she met his gaze firmly.

"Ah!"

Gu Yanci burst out laughing abruptly, but there was no hint of amusement in his eyes.

"So what if you like him?" The man parted his thin lips slightly, pinched Wen Yan's chin, lowered his head and kissed her with the utmost tenderness, but what he said was, "My Zhizhi, you are just my wife, Gu Yanci's wife."

It was three years ago.

It will be the same in three years.

Thirty years later, three hundred years later, the same will be true.

Live in the same quilt, die in the same hole.

"Gu Yanci, didn't you agree to divorce me before?" Wen Yan reminded him.

"That was before."

"Gu Yanci, were you lying to me before?"

Wen Yan finally realized why he had been dragging his feet and hadn't completed the formalities!

Gu Yanci pressed his body intimately against her and smiled with satisfaction: "Zhizhi is very smart."

"Gu Yanci!"

Wen Yan was furious at his shameless and unyielding attitude. She tried to push him away, but he grabbed her hands again.

Gu Yanci took out his phone and made a call, asking Zhou Qi to come back and drive them back to Longyu Bay.

"Gu Yanci! I want to go home!"

Wen Yan didn't want to go to Longyu Bay.

The man sat up straight, ignoring the wrinkles in his shirt, and slowly straightened Wen Yan's clothes, saying, "Longyu Bay is your home."

"I have my own home!"

"Wen Yan, I am your husband. My name is written in the spouse column. Your home is wherever I am."

Wen Yan thought Gu Yanci had gone mad.

That's insane!

Wen Yan tried to open the car door, but the back door was locked. Her hands were still half-crippled, so she was helpless and could only watch as the scenery outside the window gradually turned into the familiar Longyu Bay scenery.

The Rolls-Royce stopped outside the villa.

"Don't want to get out of the car?" Gu Yanci asked Wen Yan, who was sitting expressionlessly in her seat, unwilling to move. He said good-naturedly, "I can carry you."

Wen Yan glared at him fiercely, but finally got out of the car.

She can't sit in the car all night.

Moreover, Gu Yanci was truly capable of carrying her out of the car and back to the villa!

Wen Yan wanted to call Luo Beiqing, but then remembered that Luo Beiqing was probably with He Tingchuan, so she decided not to disturb him.

"Wen Yan, if you catch a cold here, you'll have even less energy to be angry with me," Gu Yanci reminded Wen Yan, who was reluctant to enter the house.

Wen Yan couldn't even call a car to leave because Longyu Bay is the most upscale villa area in the capital. Every household here drives their own car or is driven by a chauffeur, and taxis almost never pass by here.

Wen Yan thought for a moment and decided to wait until tonight before making a decision.

Maybe after tonight, Gu Yanci's lunatic brain will return to normal.

I have no idea what's wrong with me tonight!

Two months after she left, the villa's layout remained exactly the same as the day Wen Yan left, as if the house truly belonged to her and would only change because of her presence.

"I won't sleep in the same room as you," Wen Yan said coldly.

Gu Yanci said as he took off his coat, "No."

Wen Yan took a deep breath and controlled her emotions: "Gu Yanci, let's be reasonable. We are talking about divorce now, and I have the right to ask to sleep in separate rooms."

Gu Yanci corrected her: "There is no '们' (men)."