Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 1 - Detention
Chapter 2 - Concubine Yun
Chapter 3 - Encountering Joy Is The Norm Of Happiness
Chapter 4 - Fire
Chapter 5 - The Bath
Chapter 6 - The Bean-Like Plum Flower
Chapter 7 - Dealing With Anger
Chapter 8 - The Scheme
Chapter 9 - Fine Time, Beautiful Scenery
Chapter 10 - Paying Respect
Chapter 11 - The Punishment Of Protracted Kneeling
Chapter 12 - Mischievous Young Master
Chapter 13 - Tease
Chapter 14 - Unexpected Pleading
Chapter 15 - Sunbathing In A Hot Summer Day
Chapter 16 - The Illness Examination
Chapter 17 - Eavesdropping Inadvertently
Chapter 18 - Intimacy
Chapter 19 - Hostility
Chapter 20 - Unfamiliar Father And Mother
Chapter 21 - The Reason Of The Visit
Chapter 22 - Who Is The Little Fat Sheep?
Chapter 23 - The Ins And Outs Of The Matter
Chapter 24 - Losing When Taking It Seriously
Chapter 25 - The Fragrance Of Agarwood
Chapter 26 - The Wonderful Redwood Of Yingge
Chapter 27 - The Carved Rabbit
Chapter 28 - The Sachet
Chapter 29 - To Sympathize
Chapter 30 - The Summoning
Chapter 31 - Opposing Each Other With Equal Harshness
Chapter 32 - Condemning
Chapter 33 - Nothing To Discuss Regarding Kissing You
Chapter 34 - The Birthday
Chapter 35 - Going Out
Chapter 36 - Jingtian City
Chapter 37 - Pay The Money
Chapter 38 - The Idle Man On The Street
Chapter 39 - The Ecstasy Of The Purple Lilac
Chapter 40 - The Man Who Forced A Man
Chapter 41 - Eight Naked Men
Chapter 42 - Can’T Provoke A Black Belly
Chapter 43 - The Pendant
Chapter 44 - The House Of Danqing
Chapter 45 - The Interrogation
Chapter 46 - The Hidden Mind
Chapter 47 - The Warning
Chapter 48 - The Incident At The Restaurant
Chapter 49 - The Discussion
Chapter 50 - Fighting To The End
Chapter 51 - Borrowing A Sword To Hurt People
Chapter 52 - Away On The Summer Holidays
Chapter 53 - The Resort At Mountain
Chapter 54 - The Heavily Scented Building
Chapter 55 - The Scream Of The Small Lotus
Chapter 56 - The Misunderstanding
Chapter 57 - Blackmail
Chapter 58 - Test The Waters
Chapter 59 - The Meaning Of Executing With The Firing Squad
Chapter 60 - Each Person Has His Own Aspiration
Chapter 61 - The Heavy Bundle Wrapped In Cloth
Chapter 62 - The Joy In The Forest
Chapter 63 - The Cliff
Chapter 64 - Little Fourth Flipped Out
Chapter 65 - Ashamed
Chapter 66 - Keep Watch At Night
Chapter 67 - The Mysterious Voice
Chapter 68 - The Starved Girl
Chapter 69 - Inadvertently Peeping At A Bath
Chapter 70 - The Overbearing Maid
Chapter 71 - Hopelessly Entangled
Chapter 72 - The Perfect Coordination
Chapter 73 - Seeking Justice
Chapter 74 - Stealing A Kiss
Chapter 75 - Doesn’T Remember Anything
Chapter 76 - The Resentment
Chapter 77 - Skillfully Deflected
Chapter 78 - The Hidden Meaning Behind The Words
Chapter 79 - A Bag Of Gold
Chapter 80 - Carefree
Chapter 81 - Obsessed
Chapter 82 - Discussing In Private
Chapter 83 - Bewildered
Chapter 84 - The Flowery Bright Moon Was Covered In The Dark Fog
Chapter 85 - Every Night Holding A Handsome Man While Sleeping
Chapter 86 - The Mental Disparity
Chapter 87 - Enemies On A Narrow Road
Chapter 88 - Ream On
Chapter 89 - Identity
Chapter 90 - The Silence
Chapter 91 - The Emotional Outburst
Chapter 92 - The Search
Chapter 93 - The Truth
Chapter 94 - Wife, Don’T Be Angry
Chapter 95 - Concealing The Original Motive
Chapter 96 - Retain
Chapter 97 - The Night Of Gentleness
Chapter 98 - Don’T Want To See
Chapter 99 - I Am Your Mother
Chapter 100 - I Don’T Even Have A Copper Coin
Chapter 101 - Shang Xin
Chapter 102 - The Unspeakable Career
Chapter 103 - The Emerge Of The Feeling
Chapter 104 - Inquiring
Chapter 105 - The Ulterior Motive
Chapter 106 - The Slave Contract
Chapter 107 - Counting One’S Chickens Before They Are Hatched
Chapter 108 - Price Competition
Chapter 109 - Please Sir, Get Into The Boiling Pot
Chapter 110 - Get Out
Chapter 111 - Using Violence Is The Right Way Of The King
Chapter 112 - Mooncake
Chapter 113 - The Banquet Of The Mid-Autumn Festival
Chapter 114 - Ill-Timed Person
Chapter 115 - Little Cousin Sister, Please Conduct Yourself With Dignity
Chapter 116 - The Beggar At The Lantern Market
Chapter 117 - The Strong Love
Chapter 118 - Half-Cooked Rice
Chapter 119 - Bringing Trouble To Oneself
Chapter 120 - Thousand Five Hundred Liang
Chapter 121 - Very Stupid, Very Naive
Chapter 122 - The Sudden Grievous News
Chapter 123 - The Past
Chapter 124 - Absolutely Not
Chapter 125 - Grief
Chapter 126 - A Very Strange Thing
Chapter 127 - Searching For Clues
Chapter 128 - Pregnant
Chapter 129 - Candy
Chapter 130 - Who Is The Real Culprit?
Chapter 131 - Old Madam Is Furious
Chapter 132 - Prefer To Die Than To Admit
Chapter 133 - Why Torture Me By Hellish Means?
Chapter 134 - I Hated Him For A Long Time
Chapter 135 - Old Accumulated Grievances
Chapter 136 - Punishment
Chapter 137 - One Word Sentenced For Life
Chapter 138 - Risking One’S Life To Protect
Chapter 139 - Get Poisoned
Chapter 140 - Miscarriage
Chapter 141 - Old Madam, Save Her
Chapter 142 - Where Did The White Arsenic Come From?
Chapter 143 - Innocence
Chapter 144 - The Method Of Poisoning
Chapter 145 - The Miserable Past
Chapter 146 - Not To Stop Until Death
Chapter 147 - Not Believing At All
Chapter 148 - The Hidden Ugliness
Chapter 149 - Ironclad Evidence
Chapter 150 - Shifting The Misfortune To Someone Else
Chapter 151 - I Will Stay With You Forever
Chapter 152 - Rumor
Chapter 153 - The Sky Was About To Change
Chapter 154 - The Letter Of Announcing Divorce
Chapter 155 - No One Owed The Other
Chapter 156 - Goodbye
Chapter 157 - Shameless
Chapter 158 - Extort
Chapter 159 - Selling Herself To Save Her Mother
Chapter 160 - No Choice But To Suffer In Silence
Chapter 161 - Freeing Herself
Chapter 162 - New Home
Chapter 163 - The Life Outside Of The Residence
Chapter 164 - Tailoring
Chapter 165 - On A Windy Night With A Dark Moon
Chapter 166 - Catching A Thief
Chapter 167 - The Date Of Returning Is Distant
Chapter 168 - False Alarm
Chapter 169 - With One’S Heart Set On Speeding Home
Chapter 170 - Something Is Going To Happen
Chapter 171 - Question Intensely About Her Whereabouts
Chapter 172 - The Break Off Of The Relation
Chapter 173 - Facing An Imminent Catastrophe
Chapter 174 - Fleeing For One’S Life
Chapter 175 - Struggle In The Rain
Chapter 176 - The Reunion
Chapter 177 - An Old Friend That One Doesn’T Want To See
Chapter 178 - Rushing Back To Jingtian City
Chapter 179 - The Desolation In Aftermath Of A Disaster Was Everywhere
Chapter 180 - The Ban
Chapter 181 - Meeting But Doesn’T Know Each Other Yet
Chapter 182 - Locked Up In The Dungeon
Chapter 183 - Visit The Prisoner
Chapter 184 - Provoking Intentionally
Chapter 185 - Mess Less With Him
Chapter 186 - Unreconciled
Chapter 187 - Clear The City To Search For Someone
Chapter 188 - Clues
Chapter 189 - Five Silver Liang
Chapter 190 - Sorry, I’M Late
Chapter 191 - Embracing Indifferently
Chapter 192 - What Kind Of Weirdo?
Chapter 193 - The Most Incurable Poison
Chapter 194 - The Odor
Chapter 195 - Mean And Despicable
Chapter 196 - Revert The Incident By Taking Liberties With A Woman
Chapter 197 - The Marriage
Chapter 198 - Throw Out
Chapter 199 - The Deep Feeling
Chapter 200 - Obituary Notice
Chapter 201 - Backfire
Chapter 202 - The Taboo Feelings
Chapter 203 - Eavesdrop
Chapter 204 - Affectionate Couple
Chapter 205 - The Back Garden In The Middle Of The Night
Chapter 206 - Escape
Chapter 207 - The Discovery Of The Incident
Chapter 208 - Taunting Sarcastically
Chapter 209 - Stealing A Kiss
Chapter 210 - Wait For Me To Deal With A Matter
Chapter 211 - Dressing And Grooming Oneself
Chapter 212 - The Wedding
Chapter 213 - The Dejection Of The Wedding Night
Chapter 214 - The Jade Pendant
Chapter 215 - The Past Fate
Chapter 216 - Decreed By Fate
Chapter 217 - Why Care About Who Wants To Cross The Single-Log Bridge?
Chapter 218 - Do Your Best And Listen To The Mandate Of Heaven
Chapter 219 - Could Die In Peace
Chapter 220 - Arranged Properly
Chapter 221 - Giving You The Cold-Shoulder
Chapter 222 - To Bully Intolerably
Chapter 223 - You Are Something!
Chapter 224 - New Rules
Chapter 225 - Wife, Your Medicine
Chapter 226 - Ten Fingers Intertwined
Chapter 227 - Don’T Turn Your Back On The Good Period Of Time
Chapter 228 - The Happiness Of A Dragon And A Phoenix (Twins)
Chapter 229 - Little Fourth’S Marriage
Chapter 230 - Perish That Thought
Chapter 231 - Loosen The Reins Only To Grasp Them Better
Chapter 232 - Begging Earnestly
Chapter 233 - Ending Part 1 The Happy Occasion Filled The House
Chapter 234 - Ending Part 2 The Happy Occasion Filled The House
Categories Genre: All, Historical, Josei, Ongoing, Romance Status: Ongoing Alternative names: Gazing Huan, Seeking Affection, 顾盼生欢, ______
Total Chapters in book: 235
Estimated words: 424262 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2121(@200wpm)___ 1697(@250wpm)___ 1414(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 424262 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2121(@200wpm)___ 1697(@250wpm)___ 1414(@300wpm)
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Chapter 24 Losing when taking it seriously
The two looked at each other for a moment.
Gu Xiran laughed first, “Why don’t you say anything?”
Shu Huan was helpless. She could only insist, “What do you want me to say? You remember things about me better than myself. Why don’t you tell me why it is like that?”
Gu Xiran’s eyes had a trace of craftiness in them. “You really want to hear the answer?”
Shu Huan nodded.
His tone turned dully, “There are two explanations. The first one is…”
Shu Huan didn’t say anything and waited nervously for him to continue. In the end, she discovered that this person had the talent of not resting before making people astonished because of his words.
He said, “You are not Shu Huan!”
It was so close to the truth, so Shu Huan’s heart beat faster and she panicked a bit, “If I’m not Shu Huan, then who am I?”
“I haven’t finished yet.”
“Then continue…”
“The second explanation is that even if you didn’t die on the wedding night when you committed suicide by hanging, you went through the death’s door. So, now you have a duller look on life and death. If one doesn’t even care about life and death, then the way she would look on other things would be more open-minded.”
“…”
Was he talking about himself?
If she remembered correctly, when the original owner committed suicide by hanging, he was shocked. He also almost died! Also, Gu Xihe had told her that his second big brother was very boring and dull. The present second big brother was a lot more interesting. The aura he sometimes revealed would let people not dare to show lack of respect for him…
While she was still thinking about this and that, Gu Xiran’s gaze swept over her. “Which explanation do you think is more reasonable?”
“Of…of course the second one…”
Even if she knew that it was the wrong one, she had to blatantly admit to it in fear that she would expose her true identity.
The people of ancient times were very superstitious. Who would know how they would look on the matter of time-traveling? On the bright side, it was reincarnation in someone else’s body. On the other hand, it was another soul seizing the body. No matter which one, it wasn’t accepted by the world!
Gu Xiran raised an eye-brow and revealed a though-provoking smile, “I also feel that is the right one. If you aren’t Shu Huan, your parents would’ve long caused an uproar.”
Ay, after half a day, it turned out that he was suspicious of her identity!
She was a fake. She lied to Gu Xiran. Even though, she knew that she had no right to be angry, she still said a bit annoyed, “It’s right to be cautious with a marriage, but do you have to investigate so carefully? Is it that old madam even investigated through our eighteen generations?”
“No.” Gu Xiran said with self-ridicule, “How would old madam spend so much time and effort on me? I let people go investigate.”
“You?” The answer was unexpected. Shu Huan frowned, “You investigate so carefully because you are afraid that I will harm you?”
“That is not the case.” Gu Xiran reached out for the crystal fruit plate on the table and picked up a peach. He held it in his hand and looked at it for a long while before he raised his eyes and smiled, “I just wanted to know for what kind of reason someone would commit suicide by hanging on the wedding night.”
His tone was light and sounded more mocking than serious.
Shu Huan didn’t know whether he was joking or not.
Then, she realized that Gu Xiran’s face suddenly came closer to hers. In his eyes flashed laughter and curiosity. He lowered his voice, “You hate me so much that you prefer to die instead of spending the wedding night with me?”
Shu Huan panicked a little, “No…that’s not it…”
Gu Xiran’s voice lowered even more, “Then, what is it?”
He should ask the original owner about this. How would she know…?
Gu Xiran came a little closer, “Too shy to say it? Or is it that you don’t want to say it?”
His nose nearly touched her face!
Shu Huan’s heart almost jumped out of her chest. She quickly took a step back, “It’s just not that. Why do you have to ask so thoroughly?”
“Oh…,” Gu Xiran narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled, “Since it’s not like that, why don’t we have our wedding night now?”
When he said the last words, his voice was almost inaudible.
Shu Huan took a step back and one more step back. She touched her face. It was so hot that it burned. She said angrily from shyness, “Now it’s daytime!”
Gu Xiran didn’t care, “Then, at night?”
“…”
“F*** me!” Shu Huan finally got anxious and swore. “Lecher! Pervert! Get far away from me!”
Her voice just fell when she felt a pain on her forehead. She was flicked on the forehead by him.
“Don’t swear!”
Shu Huan rubbed her forehead and refused to comply, “Did I swore? I rub…I rubbed the table, rubbed the floor, rubbed the wood, can’t I…?”
Rub and f*** sound almost the same.
“You can!” Gu Xiran casted a sidelong glance at her. “Be a bit quicker. Time is worth money.”
“…”
She was speechless!
She had to pretend to die. Anyways, she can’t roll in the sheets with him! Once she rolled, she would be tied here and wouldn’t be able to get out anymore!
Shu Huan lowered her eyes and pretended to be mute and deaf. How could she had thought that Gu Xiran was at a higher level? She heard him heave a very long sigh. “My self-esteem is hurt.”
“…”
Hold back. Ignore him!
Gu Xiran sighed again, “I’ve lived for more than ten years with an ill body. I finally got married. The result turned out to be me being disliked. Preferred to die instead of spending the wedding night with me…”
Hold back. He had servants to help him move. There’s concubine Yun to warm his bed. Besides, he seemed to be getting better from the illness. There was nothing pitiful about him!
Gu Xiran’s tone turned mournful, “That’s right. Such an useless person like me whose hands can’t lift anything, shoulders can’t carry anything, who need the support of servants to walk, who take medicine as a meal every day and who was waiting for Yanwang’s brush to fall on the paper to go to the netherworld; who would be willing to marry me? It was better to die sooner to let my wife remarry while she’s still young.”
Yanwang: the king of the netherworld
Endure the internal injury!
Shu Huan complained, “Why do you have to curse yourself?”
Gu Xiran’s gaze turned sad. “What I said is the truth. Could it be that you don’t think like this?”
“I didn’t think like that! I just…,” Shu Huan was at loss for words. She choked till her face got red. Her emotions inexplicably turned fretful. There was an uncontrollable impulse in her heart rushing out…
To just confess!
Regardless of the consequences, it was better than to be restrained to death by the saying “a hidden trouble hard to mention”.
Just as she was about to reveal everything, she didn’t expect that Gu Xiran’s mournful expression would vanish at this moment and he revealed a mischievous smile, “I was teasing you. Why did you become so serious?”
“I…,” Shu Huan was tongue-tied. In her heart, she stabbed at him a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times….
Gu Xiran saw that her expression was not right, he immediately stretched and stood up. He yawned, “I suddenly feel a bit tired. I will go take a nap. When it’s time for lunch, no need to call me. You can eat first.”
“You…,” Shu Huan hasn’t recovered yet from her anger as she pointed at him. She was so angry that she couldn’t even speak well.
“What about me?” Gu Xiran took a few steps and then came back. He looked at her and reached out his thumb to flatten her frowned eyebrow. He said laughingly, “Don’t be angry. When you are angry, you are very ugly! See, you are more pleasing to the eyes like this.”
While talking, he lazily walked to the inner room.
“…”
This person is hateful, hateful, too hateful!
Shu Huan sulked alone in the same place. She obviously knew that she obviously would be fooled by him, but she still was fooled by him! She didn’t know whether she should scold him for being treacherous and sly or scold herself for being a fool and an idiot.
While she was thinking about that, she raised her eyes and saw concubine Yun pull away the curtain and came in. She (Y) seemed to be in deep thoughts. When she met her (SH) eyes did she snap out of her thoughts and smiled, “Second young mistress, I already sent out master and madam-in-law. Should I go let people prepare the table now?”
Total Chapters in book: 235
Estimated words: 424262 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2121(@200wpm)___ 1697(@250wpm)___ 1414(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 424262 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2121(@200wpm)___ 1697(@250wpm)___ 1414(@300wpm)
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