After my luck was stolen, I led my whole family to defy fate and change our destiny.

"Ha, feelings of inferiority and self-blame?"

Gu Xinyi sat up from her seat and waved her sleeve, saying, "Why should I feel inferior or blame myself? It was you who couldn't be born, not me."

Cui Sheng's brow twitched violently, and he tentatively asked, "Madam, have you been under too much pressure lately because of gossip? Why are you starting to talk nonsense?"

Gu Xinyi paused, she couldn't reveal that her sister-in-law had brought the imperial physician.

Gu Xinyi looked coldly at Cui Sheng: "I'm not talking nonsense. I had a divine doctor check my pulse, and I'm fertile. But you, why have you been drinking medicine with me for so many years? You know perfectly well why."

Cui Sheng's eyes were filled with malice: "What do you mean?"

"literal meaning"

Cui Sheng took Gu Xinyi's hand and said, "Madam, have you misunderstood something? You have been unable to have children for so many years, but I have never looked down on you. I only drank the medicine with you because I was afraid you would suffer."

Gu Xinyi shook off Cui Sheng's hand: "It's clearly you who can't have children, so why did you bribe the doctor to say I can't?"

Gu Xinyi's voice was choked with sobs and grievances.

With his pride exposed, Cui Sheng's fingers clenched until they turned white: "You know?"

"Yes, I know everything, so let's get a divorce."

Cui Sheng's eyes reddened, and his face contorted with rage: "Divorce? You wish! I'd rather tie you to this Cui mansion and kill you than agree to a divorce!"

"you……"

Gu Xinyi's heart pounded violently: "If we get a divorce, wouldn't you be able to legitimately bring all your mistresses over? You can even give them the status of a legal wife?"

Cui Sheng stared into Gu Xinyi's eyes: "You were following me?"

Gu Xinyi: "Who's following you? If you don't want anyone to know, then don't do it in the first place."

Cui Sheng grabbed Gu Xinyi's chin: "That's right, I'm keeping a mistress, so what? What good is your talent if you don't know how to please me?"

"I only made a small request in bed, and you rejected me in every way. You're so old-fashioned and boring. No one else would flatter and fawn over me like that."

Gu Xinyi thought her heart was numb, but hearing Cui Sheng's blunt and explicit words still made her heart ache.

How could the person she's loved for so many years be such a jerk?

She disdainfully shook off Choi Seung's hand: "Is this your excuse for having a mistress?"

Choi Seung looked at her with a hint of mockery and took a step closer: "Jealous? If you do something to please me today, I might be able to treat you a little better."

"fart"

Gu Xinyi glared at him, clutching her chest as she asked the question that had been troubling her for so long: "Back then, on my way back to the capital, I fell into a hunter's trap. Who saved me?"

Choi Seung's brows furrowed with resentment: "What? Now you know it wasn't me? So what if it wasn't me? It was raining so hard that day, I saw you were soaking wet, and I married you. You should be grateful."

Gu Xinyi: "So you just happened to see me and then pretended to be my savior. You're shameless..."

Cui Sheng grabbed Gu Xinyi's wrist, staring at her fiercely: "So what? You should be grateful I didn't divorce you, otherwise you and your brother would have been doomed sooner or later if you went back to the Gu family."

Gu Xinyi struggled a few times but couldn't break free: "Bullshit, divorce me then! I don't want your thanks!"

"That won't do. If I divorce you now, wouldn't that ruin the good reputation I've built up? If you remarry and have children, everyone will know that I'm the one who can't have children."

Gu Xinyi's anger surged to the top of her head: "Shameless scoundrel..."

Cui Sheng: "Hahaha, as expected of a lady from a prominent family, you don't even know how to curse properly. Now that you know, from now on you will stay in the Cui residence and are not allowed to go anywhere else."

Gu Xinyi's brow twitched: "You want to imprison me? My brother is the Minister of the Imperial Secretariat!"

"Don't mention your brother to me. I used to consider his feelings, but now he's just a prisoner. Why would I be afraid of him?"

Cui Sheng's voice suddenly roared.

"I asked your brother to promote me, and what did he say? He said I should first go to the Hanlin Academy to gain experience? What's the point of gaining experience in a position with no real power? He just looks down on me."

"I've been fawning over your brother and you like a grandson!"

Looking at the man in front of her who was yelling at her and whose eyes were red with dissatisfaction with his family, Gu Xinyi suddenly felt like a stranger.

Even if she didn't understand politics, she knew that even though the Hanlin Academy didn't have real power, the emperor's ears went directly to the Hanlin Academy, making it a close advisor to the emperor.

It's a good place for many high-ranking officials to get their credentials, and her brother was really thinking about Cui Sheng's sake.

All of this was actually for her, but what did she do? She repeatedly defied her brother for this man, and even missed her sister-in-law's childbirth and her niece's one-month celebration.

Gu Xinyi's suppressed emotions gradually collapsed, and large tears streamed down her face: "Why didn't my brother consider you? The Hanlin Academy is full of close advisors to the emperor. Your abilities will be discovered by His Majesty one day."

"Hahahaha!" Choi Seung laughed loudly, looking up at the sky.

"Who wants to be a powerless close advisor to the emperor? What I want is power and profit. How many years would I have to endure in the Hanlin Academy? Gu Mingtang could have easily transferred me directly to an official position with external benefits, but he refused. Isn't that looking down on me?"

"Ah, tell me!" Choi Seung suddenly rolled up his trouser leg, revealing a long, hideous, and terrifying scar.

"See that? All I wanted was to take a concubine, and Gu Mingtang actually went to such lengths, saying he'd break my legs if I dared to take a concubine, and even threatening me with my future. He doesn't treat me like his brother-in-law at all."

"Which man in the world isn't lustful? Which man isn't greedy for money?"

"That Gu Mingtang was all a hypocrite, but what happened? He still got set up."

Gu Xinyi's chest hurt even more. It turned out that her brother loved and cared for her more than she had imagined. She felt like she couldn't breathe.

Gu Xinyi: "Good job... My brother is too merciful, why didn't he beat you to death?"

suddenly……

She seemed to realize something, and she frowned: "Do you know who framed my brother?"

Cui Sheng's eyes flickered, and he said viciously, "No one framed your brother; he brought it all on himself."

"You're just as vicious as your hypocritical brother; you even want your husband dead."

Cui Sheng angrily shook Gu Xinyi's shoulders, knocking the hairpin off her head.

"Let go, you're hurting me!"

"Does it hurt as much as my heart? Does it hurt as much as the injury on my leg?"

Cui Sheng vented his dissatisfaction with Gu Mingtang on Gu Xinyi.

He shoved her hard, and Gu Xinyi slammed her head against the table behind her, bleeding profusely and losing consciousness on the spot.

Wang Fugui paced anxiously around Gu Xinyi's head.

Suddenly, it remembered something.

It took out a hemostatic talisman and stuck it on Gu Xinyi's head. After Gu Xinyi's bleeding stopped, it performed a punch and kick routine on Cui Sheng without actually causing any harm.

She cursed him as a scumbag before flying away to deliver the message.

Cui Sheng merely glanced coldly at Gu Xinyi on the ground; she was truly annoying.

He wouldn't have gone to see a doctor if he hadn't kept Gu Xinyi as a secret about her infertility.