After Gu Qingwu finished filming her new drama, she did not move back to the He family's ancestral home for vacation, but chose to live in the large flat she lived in before her marriage.
The unpopular apartment had been vacant for a long time, so it took a lot of effort to decorate it when moving in. So she took Xiaolier to the mall to replace the velvet sofa and blanket, and also added a lot of furry toys, exquisite tableware and a lot of flowers.
After buying every item on the shopping list on her phone, Gu Qingwu felt that the apartment became much warmer. She placed the tea cups for the family of three on the glass cabinet with satisfaction, her eyes curved, she looked for a while and then took a photo with her phone and sent it to He Sui Chen.
Outside the kitchen, Xiao Lier came to her with a doll in her arms, and said slowly in a baby voice, "Mom, drink some yogurt."
Gu Qingwu put away his phone and walked over, squatting in front of her. He asked very gently and patiently: "Can you tell mom again? What do you want to drink?"
The little guy is a bit lazy. In the past, all he did was call daddy whenever he wanted something.
He Sui Chen could understand his daughter's needs, and gradually, she had no desire to express herself at her age. If she wanted to drink water, other children would say: My little mouth is so thirsty, mom and dad, I want to drink water.
The little carp will only look up at you eagerly with his little face, and simply say one word: "Thirsty."
After Gu Qingwu realized this, he would try his best to communicate with her more and guide her slowly.
Little Li'er put his face on the doll's chest, tilted his head and looked at his mother for a long time, as if thinking about something. Finally, his big eyes showed a little confusion, and he continued slowly: "Dad said that the baby can drink a bottle of yogurt in the morning..."
This means that he had remembered what He Sui Chen said, and just now he came to remind Gu Qingwu to give her yogurt.
"Okay, Mommy knows."
Gu Qingwu gave her a kiss on the forehead as a reward, then stood up and went to the refrigerator to get some. When he found that there was no children's yogurt left, he turned to the little girl and said, "Let's go out for a while."
There was a convenience store downstairs of the apartment. She didn't even need to change her clothes. She just put on a black mask, tied her hair into a lazy bun, leaving only a pair of beautiful dark eyes exposed, and then went out holding Xiaoli'er's hand.
While waiting for the elevator, Gu Qingwu took out his mobile phone and replied to the message in the work group. After a while, he got into the elevator and went downstairs.
When they walked into the bright hall, Xiaoli suddenly tugged at her clothes and said in a baby voice, "It's my brother."
Gu Qingwu's eyes showed confusion. He followed the direction pointed by the little man and saw a slender and beautiful woman holding a little boy in overalls standing not far away. After taking a closer look, he realized it was Yu Siqing.
Perhaps she also heard the voice, Yu Siqing turned around and looked over with a look of surprise.
Half an hour later.
In the park downstairs in the community, Yu Jiafan was sitting on a bench with Xiaoli'er drinking yogurt, while Gu Qingwu and Yu Siqing were chatting a few steps away. No one expected that it would be such a coincidence that they lived in the next-door apartment on the same floor in the same community.
"I heard that you moved out of the He family villa a month ago?"
"Well... Fanfan wants to continue living in Sicheng. I can only put the plan to go to New York on hold and wait for him to slowly accept it and then see how the situation develops." Yu Siqing booked a flight to New York after moving out of the He family villa, but the child didn't want to leave because his family was here.
Yu Siqing knew very well in her heart that in Yu Jiafan's world, father and second uncle would always come first, followed by mother.
She had no choice but to stay in Sicheng and continued living there, so she used her savings to buy an apartment in this community.
During the conversation, Gu Qingwu did not mention He Yunjian at all, which made Yu Siqing feel relieved. She smiled and continued, "Fanfan was still thinking about his sister last night. Now that we live close to each other, we will have a companion."
This was true. In the evening, when Gu Qingwu was about to prepare dinner, Xiaolier automatically went next door to play with his brother.
When He Suichen came back from get off work, he saw that his daughter was not in the warm and spacious living room. He put down his suit jacket and went to the master bedroom and the children's room first. After looking around the apartment, he didn't see her. So he went to the kitchen and looked at Gu Qingwu who was very busy. He asked her in a gentle tone, "Wife, did you forget to bring anything back when you went out to buy groceries?"
Then, he glanced at the egg custard that Gu Qingwu had cooked for the children, and felt that this possibility was unlikely.
Before he could take back his words, he saw Gu Qingwu turn off the fire, turned around and said, "Ah? I took my wallet and phone home."
He Suichen stretched out his arm and naturally hugged her waist, and took the plate of freshly baked vegetables. He didn't know how it tasted, but at least it looked good. He put it in front of the table, and while he was lowering his head to kiss her, he said, "Where's our daughter?"
Gu Qingwu finally realized what he was looking for, and said with a curved red lip, "Okay... When you got home, it was your daughter you were looking for instead of me. It seems like I, the original wife, will soon fall out of favor."
"You want to be jealous of your daughter?"
"I'll eat..." Gu Qingwu grabbed his tie with her white fingertips, slowly twisting it around, and entangled in the man's heart. Her overly beautiful eyes were smiling, and even the tails of her eyes contained a hint of affection: "If you don't coax me... forget about seeing your daughter tonight."
He Sui Chen raised his slender eyebrows, and the next second, he carried her to the master bedroom and coaxed her into a good mood.
The night outside the window was completely dark. Gu Qingwu was awake, lying on the big white pillow, too lazy to move. He listened to the rustling sound of He Suichen putting on his trousers on the edge of the bed. After a while, he began to tidy up the mess in the master bedroom, putting the quilt and pillow hanging on the floor back in place.
After Xiaoli'er was born, the two of them would choose to be intimate when there was no one around, and they would draw the curtains tightly to block out any light.
Gu Qingwu stretched and sat up, her long black hair entwined around her snow-white arms. She hugged the pillow and stared at the man's tall and slender figure: "Yu Siqing lives in the apartment next to ours..."
He Suichen turned to look at her with some surprise, and said in a low voice: "Didn't she take Fanfan abroad?"
"Fanfan doesn't want to leave."
Gu Qingwu yawned, and her white feet slid down from the edge of the bed, gently touching He Suichen's knees: "Can your brother's mental illness be cured?"
He Sui Chen's eyes fell on the instep of her feet, which were slender and delicate, and her skin seemed to be sprinkled with a soft layer of light by the warm yellow halo.
Every inch of her body was perfect, with a deadly allure that made the man itch even without deliberately trying to seduce him. He leaned closer and whispered, "That depends on whether he is willing to be cured."
Compared to He Sui Chen, who witnessed his parents die in a car accident when he was three years old and became a discarded chess piece in the family.
The psychological pressure that He Yunjian endured was no less than that of his younger brother, because he had been under the pathological control of He Yuliu almost since he was young. However, the men in the He family were not the kind of people who would just accept things passively. In such an environment that suppressed human nature, only extreme personalities would be born.
Therefore, before he became the head of the He family, the first thing he carefully planned was to undermine He Yuliu's power.
If He Sui Chen had seized power and usurped the throne, he wouldn't need any excuse.
But He Yunjian needed it. He was the heir that He Yuliu had cultivated with great effort. If he didn't have a reasonable excuse, it would only arouse the anger of the family.
Yu Siqing's existence and that child are the perfect shield for He Yunjian.
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Gu Qingwu listened to him talking about the inside story very slowly, rested her head on the man's knees, blinked her dark eyes and asked, "When did you see through your brother's plan?"
"After I took over the family that year..." He Sui Chen realized what He Yunjian had done in the family business before the car accident, so he quietly cleared some obstacles on the list for him, and after he woke up after years of coma, he handed over the remaining unfinished tasks.
It's not as simple as He Yuliu forcing him to abdicate. Instead, He Sui Chen is using He Yuliu to get away perfectly.
In other words, if it weren't for the accidental car accident, He Sui Chen would have continued to stay in his Nanming Temple to live in seclusion, and would not have been involved in the He family's dispute over power.
Gu Qingwu put her face against his palm and asked him in a whisper, "If I hadn't let you go back then, would you have left?"
"No." He Sui Chen gave Gu Qingwu the right to choose. If she chose to return the jade token to the He family, he would continue to stay in Nanming Temple, at least until Gu Qingwu was taken back by the Gu family, and then he might leave.
If she hadn't left the jade token, He Sui Chen would have gone to New York at night and would not have been able to save Yu Siqing, who had committed suicide by slitting her wrists.
If that were the case, He Yunjian's mental illness would not be cured. This series of events was like a butterfly effect, and no link could be missing.
Gu Qingwu thought for a moment and said, "You don't care about the position of the head of the family, nor do you care who is in power in the He family... Even if you are in power, you will not be kidnapped by your aunt's family affection, so you must break the ancestral precept of not marrying children of the Yanling Gu family, and no one can stop you. But brother, I still don't understand how you convinced the old patriarch?"
He Sui Chen's slender fingers stroked between her eyebrows. He was not in a hurry to answer, and a faint smile appeared in his eyes.
Gu Qingwu was impatient and called him in the tone of a lover: "Mr. He?"
He Suichen pressed his index finger between her smooth lips, neither too light nor too heavy, rubbing them for a while before speaking: "At that time, He Yunjian was unconscious, and Fanfan has not yet returned to his ancestral home. I told the old patriarch that if the He family wanted to ruin my marriage, I would abandon the He family name and marry into the Gu family as a son."
At that time, He Sui Chen gave the old patriarch two choices: to break the old rules set by the ancestors, or to change his surname to Gu.
The old patriarch had never revealed this to anyone, not even He Yuliu knew that he used this to get the handwritten marriage certificate.
Gu Qingwu was stunned for a few seconds, and subconsciously said: "Brother, if you don't care about the family like this... the old patriarch still wants you to be the new patriarch?"
"Because I made a deal with the old patriarch. As long as I can marry you... I will stay in the He family for the rest of my life."
He Sui Chen will no longer run to the temple to escape from the world and become a leisurely young man who does not bother with the world. He will stay in this place where his ancestors have lived for generations and be responsible for the prosperity of the family until he and Gu Qingwu grow old together.
The old patriarch was obviously foresighted. When He Yunjian's heart disease had not healed for a long time and his whole body was almost broken from the bones, it was He Suichen who stepped out to take charge of the company's affairs again.
If there hadn't been this deal, no one could have predicted whether He Sui Chen would stand by and watch someone die.
Gu Qingwu didn't know about this relationship when she married him. Her eyes were slightly hot. Fortunately, they had a deep relationship and she was so moved that she didn't cry while hugging him. She rubbed her forehead against his and gently pressed it against his palm: "Brother, I love you so much..."
He Sui Chen's heart was hooked by her moist breath, and he almost wanted to continue pressing into the quilt.
Fortunately, he still had some sense and did not forget his daughter who was still playing in the apartment next door.
And the sumptuous dinner that Gu Qingwu had worked so hard to prepare.
When Yu Siqing took Xiaoli'er over, she had already fed her half full with shrimp and egg custard.
This apartment is slightly smaller and is decorated in a natural wood style. A bunch of fresh and elegant flowers is placed on the table, matched with white gauze curtains. It can be seen that the hostess has decorated it with great care. In the corner of the wall are Yu Jiafan's painting supplies and stacked sketchbooks.
Gu Qingwu invited her and the children to have dinner next door.
Yu Siqing smiled faintly and declined. She knew that He Sui Chen would come back here after get off work, so she didn't want to disturb the couple's alone time.
Gu Qingwu looked at Yu Jiafan, who was sitting quietly in front of the French window fiddling with a sketchbook. Just a second after his gaze fell, Yu Siqing said softly beside him: "When Fanfan encounters something he likes, it is easy for him to fall into his own little world. He took his sister away without knowing it."
Autism will affect a child's entire life and needs to be cured slowly with patience and gentleness.
Gu Qingwu felt that Yu Siqing had had a hard time these years, so he said, "After all, Fanfan is Xiaoli'er's cousin. If you need any help, don't be polite to me and He Suichen."
Yu Siqing looked at Gu Qingwu with gentle eyes, hesitated for a few seconds, and lowered her voice: "Can you not tell He Yunjian... that I live here?"
"He Yunjian is not in Sicheng..."
Yu Siqing was surprised by Gu Qingwu's words. At first, she thought he was on a business trip, until she heard her say, "He went to New York to treat his mental illness. It was recommended by a psychiatrist."
"Heart disease?"
"You've lived in the He family villa for so long... Don't you know? He Yunjian has a headache. Long-term medication has made him extremely irritable and depressed. He was forced to stop working by He Suichen some time ago, and he is seeing a psychiatrist."
Yu Siqing's face clearly showed confusion. After a while, she silently pinched her palms with her fingertips and shook her head: "I don't know."
She didn't even know that He Yunjian had been taking long-term medication in private, otherwise she would not have used words to provoke him before leaving.
Gu Qingwu guessed something and comforted him, "It's okay, He Yunjian has gone to get treatment."
The subtext of these words indirectly told her: He Yunjian will not bother you.
Yu Siqing's frail figure stood in front of the door for a long time, until Yu Jiafan accidentally broke a glass, which suddenly woke her up. A layer of chill had already crept up her back, gradually spreading to the depths of her heart.
In the next half month.
Gu Qingwu lived next door and was on vacation. Her daily routine was to take care of her daughter, prepare dinner, and wait for her husband to come home from work, experiencing what it was like to be a good wife and mother.
Yu Siqing did not see He Yunjian in the community, the elevator, or anywhere else.
He did not show up at his brother's house, as if he was really working hard to treat his illness and had no time to care about anything else.
This made Yu Siqing's tense heart gradually relax, and she began to have frequent contact with Gu Qingwu, no longer on guard against anything.
The author has something to say: A joint extra chapter of the He brothers, the He clan leader's family is the god assist in the eldest brother's pursuit of his wife (>w
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