Having transmigrated into a book, who would still want to be a secondary wife?

Hearing Song Ruozhen's words, Gu Huan'er and Gu Zhaoyuan looked again and saw a wisp of green smoke drift by. The original courtyard had disappeared and was replaced by a tomb.

Upon seeing the grave, Gu Huan'er instinctively gasped, "Ah—"

She quickly hid behind Song Ruozhen, her eyes filled with terror.

She truly risked her life to accompany Zhaoyuan today, using all her courage.

A look of disbelief flashed in Gu Zhaoyuan's eyes. "How could the courtyard be gone?"

“Take a closer look,” Song Ruozhen said again.

Gu Huan'er carefully examined the grave in front of her, and after discovering the words written on the tombstone, she couldn't help but look at Gu Zhaoyuan.

"Qu Shenzhi's tomb?"

Gu Zhaoyuan stared wide-eyed in horror, her heart churning with turmoil, unable to distinguish whether what she was seeing was reality or a dream.

"How could this be? Is this a smokescreen? How could a perfectly good courtyard suddenly turn into a cemetery?"

Gu Huan'er had calmed down by now. Her cousin had told her before that Qu Shen was dead, so she was very surprised when she saw the courtyard.

On the contrary, now that she had confirmed it was a cemetery, she was not so shocked.

"Cousin Zhaoyuan, Qu Shen actually died two years ago."

Looking at Gu Zhaoyuan, whose eyes were full of confusion, Song Ruozhen explained, "You met him in your dream and remembered your promise with him. It's not a preordained marriage, but because he's a lecherous man looking for a wife."

"How could this be..." Gu Zhaoyuan was speechless for a moment. Her mind was a mess, and she didn't know what to say.

"This kind of thing has actually happened to more than just you. There are often lustful ghosts like this. They are dissolute in life and cannot bear the loneliness after death, so they want to find a wife in the human world."

When I saw you yesterday, I noticed you were tainted with an aura of death, and after hearing your story, I understood the situation.

Song Ruozhen slowly recounted the whole story. She saw that although Zhao Yuan looked shocked, she did not deny anything, so she knew that Zhao Yuan was a reasonable girl.

Although it's hard to accept this at first, it doesn't make one doubt that she intentionally deceived them.

"A lustful fiend?"

Gu Zhaoyuan stared blankly at those four words, thinking that ever since she met Qu Shen, he had always been a refined scholar who had never overstepped any boundaries, so it really didn't seem like him.

"He's just a ghost who uses his tricks to deceive an innocent and naive girl like you."

"You can only see him here. He can't go anywhere else with you. Think about it carefully... From the time you met until now, have you been anywhere else besides this place?" Song Ruozhen asked.

Gu Zhaoyuan thought about it carefully, "I see him in my dreams almost every day. In my dreams we go to many places, but in reality it seems we only meet here."

He said he preferred quiet and, for the sake of my reputation, didn't want others to see us together, lest it arouse speculation.

When she heard Qu Shen's words, she not only didn't find them inappropriate, but on the contrary, she thought he was indeed a responsible and good man.

The fact that she went to such lengths to protect her reputation is remarkable. If it were someone with malicious intent, knowing they were not good enough for her, they would probably be eager for everyone to know that their relationship was extraordinary, so that even if their families objected, the marriage would still go through.

“That’s right.” Song Ruozhen nodded.

Gu Zhaoyuan's expression was complicated, and she still couldn't believe it. "This...this is too unbelievable. I see him every day. How could a ghost do this?"

She used to think that ghost encounters were just stories, something to listen to but not to take seriously. But now she's the one who's encountered a ghost!

"You must have been influenced by something of his to get involved with him."

Many people have similar experiences, seeing many things in their dreams, but most of them are forgotten when they wake up the next day and do not have any impact.

But... if you remember it so clearly, and even went out of your way to find it, then that's exactly what I wanted.

Gu Zhaoyuan remained silent for a long time before saying, "Cousin, if it weren't for your help yesterday, when Mother gave me this amulet, what would have become of me?"

If someone else had told her this, she wouldn't have believed it was true.

However, she knew her cousin's abilities and had witnessed them firsthand, so she had no doubts and believed that her cousin would not conspire to fabricate such a lie in order to help her mother stop her from being with Qu Shen.

Therefore... this matter can only be true.

"Of course he's dead!" Gu Huan'er couldn't help but say, "A lustful glutton like that wants to find a wife will definitely have to drag you down to the underworld to be his wife!"

Song Ruozhen nodded, "He will try every means to coax you into eloping with him despite your family's objections, and finally get married in this courtyard."

Your life force will be completely absorbed by him, leaving you a corpse, becoming his true ghost bride.

The moment the words left her lips, Gu Zhaoyuan felt a chill run down her spine, the coldness creeping up from her feet. She was just a hair's breadth away from losing her life.

"Why did I have to run into something like this? I thought it was fate that arranged this for me because God saw that my marriage was not going well!"

Gu Zhaoyuan couldn't help but tear up. The emotions she had been holding back finally broke down at this moment, and she squatted down and started crying.

"I thought he was a good person, but he turned out to be inhuman and even tried to kill me!"

Song Ruozhen spoke gently, comforting you: "Don't overthink it. Anyone can encounter this kind of thing. It's not your fault. This time you just happened to encounter something supernatural and happened to find it, which proves that you are a person blessed by God."

Every cloud has a silver lining; believe that your good fortune is yet to come!

Hearing Song Ruozhen's words, Gu Zhaoyuan couldn't help but raise her head, her eyes blurry with tears, and said, "Cousin, why am I so unlucky!"

My childhood sweetheart suddenly fell for someone else. I just didn't want to lose too badly, so I wanted to find someone caring and get married as soon as possible to completely give up on him.

It turned out... it was a ghost!

"If this gets out, I'll be so ashamed I won't be able to show my face in public!"

Song Ruozhen smiled slightly and said, "What's there to be afraid of? Right now, everyone who knows about this is one of our own people. No one else knows about it except us."

This is a secret; none of us will tell anyone.

"My cousin is right, no one else knows about this except us."

"Tell the servants in the manor to keep their mouths shut, and just pretend nothing happened!"

Seeing that Gu Zhaoyuan was worried about this matter, Gu Huan'er laughed, "These are all minor things. You've just escaped with your life!"