This time, Long Yan went out to conduct the heir assessment like Rao Rao.
It was originally planned that he would not be able to go home if he did not complete the assessment. After all, he had just entered the world and his identity had just stabilized.
Unexpectedly, his father called him several times in succession, saying that Xiurong was about to die.
Thinking of his wife who was married in secret, Long Yan felt a little uncomfortable.
Long Da had been waiting for him at the entrance of the Hidden World Family for a long time. When he saw him getting off the plane, he immediately greeted him.
"How is the young lady?" Long Yan said helplessly.
Long Da lowered his eyes and replied in a low voice: "The young lady is very ill this time. The patriarch asked me to specially invite Mr. Yu from the Yu family, but the Yu family said that the young lady is suffering from depression. , plus my body was severely injured during childbirth, so... "
Seeing that Long Yan's expression was a little gloomier, Long Da stood aside and said nothing.
The speedboat soon sailed into the Long family's territory. They changed to a smaller boat and finally arrived at his island half an hour later.
Although he had only been away for half a month, looking at everything familiar, Long Yan felt as if he was in another world.
Compared to the bustling Los Angeles, this place seems particularly quiet.
Lush vegetation is everywhere, but the gray sky makes people feel extremely depressed.
Long Yan sighed and quickly walked towards his yard.
What he didn't expect was that his father was also there.
"Father... "
Chief Long turned around slowly, his serious face showing a rare hint of exhaustion.
"You're back."
"Well... Xiurong, she..." Long Yan frowned slightly. The yard was filled with a strong smell of Chinese medicine. One can imagine how sick she was this time.
"Go in and see for yourself, I'll wait for you in the study." After the leader of the Long clan finished speaking, he patted Long Yan heavily on the shoulder and left.
His father's actions made Long Yan feel even more confused.
He walked quickly to the front of his main house, but he refused to move his legs.
Back then, when his marriage to Rao Rao did not come to fruition after Rao Rao had an accident, a girl from a branch of the Yu family replaced Rao Rao.
Yu Qi also changed her name to Yu Xiurong, which means beauty and prosperity.
Although Xiurong is not as good-looking as Rao Rao, she is still a dignified and generous lady. The most important thing is that she does it voluntarily, and she admits that she has liked Long Yan for a long time.
Just because Rao Rao was always there, even though Long Yan was married to Xiurong, he didn't care much about his Mrs. Long.
Xiu Rong is also very sensible and never asks Long Yan to do anything. She spends her days quietly either reading books or helping learn to take care of the Long family's business and taking care of the inner house.
He never interfered with what Long Yan did or who he was with.
Even though there was no emotion at all at first, after all, after being together for so many years, Long Yan gradually got used to it.
But he also knew in his heart that what he wanted was not a woman with this kind of personality.
The wind is blowing gently. The Hermitage Family has a special location. It is spring all year round, and the scenery is naturally fixed. Although the Long Family Manor is extremely exquisite everywhere, if you look at it too much, you will not be able to help but feel bored. of.
Thinking of this, Long Yan inevitably felt a little irritated again, and he walked straight in with his long legs.
If you can vaguely smell the aroma of medicine outside, then when you walk into the room, Long Yan feels as if he is in an alchemy room.
When several girls saw Long Yan coming, surprise appeared on their faces.
"Master, you are back."
Long Yan snorted inaudibly and strode towards the master bedroom.
Opening the door, he caught a glimpse of the slender figure on the large bed.
He walked forward slowly and silently looked at the familiar yet strange woman on the bed. In his memory, every time he came in, Xiurong would happily come forward to greet him and take care of everything at home for him. .
But this time, the woman just lay quietly on the bed. Although she was not so skinny as to be skinny, her sunken eyes made her feel distressed no matter how she looked at them.
After all, she is the young lady of the Long family!
"Is this how you take care of the young lady?" Long Yan raised his eyebrows and glanced coldly at the girl standing next to him.
Before he could say anything else, the girls all knelt on the ground, their heads hanging down and not daring to make a sound.
"Don't blame them..."
Long Yan felt that his palms suddenly became cold.
Looking back at his wife, the woman slowly opened her eyes. It was still the familiar her, but the look in her eyes had been replaced by sallow, and she looked so dull.
Long Yan squeezed her hand and couldn't help but tighten it.
"Ayan..." The woman called his name softly, as if it was coming from a distance, and Long Yan was in a daze.
"I'm here." Long Yan felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by her obsessed gaze.
"What's the matter with you? I've only been out for less than a month, and you can actually do this to yourself?" Long Yan coughed a few times and deliberately lowered his voice.
Xiu Rong was not annoyed that he accused him when he first came up.
She struggled to sit up with the help of the little girl. She leaned against the bed and panted for a long time before saying again: "My health has not been good since the last time I gave birth... But our child won't follow me... . ”
"Wouldn't it be a bad thing to let the child go with you?" Long Yan said forcefully, but he felt a little distressed in his heart. He still remembered that he was also amazed when he lifted the hijab during the wedding night.
"yes"
"So... I asked my father to call you back this time."
"Um?"
Xiurong coughed weakly, and a little maid quickly handed over a handkerchief and a cup of ginseng tea. She pursed her lips with the handkerchief, then drank a few sips of the ginseng tea, and her complexion finally improved.
"Ayan... I want to ask you for something."
Long Yan's heart skipped a beat and he held Xiurong's hand tighter.
Looking at the woman's pale face, he had an ominous premonition, but the coldness in his palms made him unable to bear to refuse: "Say. If I remember correctly, this is the first time you have said, please, tell me." , As long as I can do it, I will definitely do it.”
Xiurong smiled, she was gentle and elegant even when she was ill.
Although she is a branch of the Yu family, she has been taught by Yu Qi since she was a child, otherwise the Long family would not have been so cheerful and agreed back then.
"I want a divorce..."
"Or you can just declare to the outside world that I am dead."
"Or, I can just leave... I remember back then, although we held a wedding, my name was not included in your Long family's ancestral hall. The child is only one year old now, and it is not an urgent matter. If you remarry in the future, Just let the bride recognize her."
"If you don't want to... you can send him back to the Yu family. My father, I, and the leader of the Yuqi clan have already told you."
Her voice was not loud, but every word was extremely weighty, and it took root as soon as it fell on the ground.
But Long Yan never dreamed that Xiurong would take the initiative to file for divorce.
Although, he has always been dispensable to this marriage, and he also told Xiurong back then that if one day they couldn't survive anymore, the two would separate.
But he didn't expect...
"Do you know what you are talking about?" After all, he cared about her body. Although Long Yan was angry, he still suppressed his anger.
"I know it. I also discussed it with my father and they both agreed."
"So... are you confident now?" Long Yan smiled angrily, feeling more and more that the woman in front of him was so strange to him in his memory.
Xiurong shook his head weakly and said softly: "No... I just want to go out for a walk and do something that I have never done before. You also know that with my status, I am not qualified to go outside and experience Yes, I was born in a hidden family, and I will also be in this hidden family when I get married."
"Although we say our family is very good, in the end it's just this big square place with an unchanging sky and an inconvenient temperature."
"I... There is not much time left now. I know that the person you have been thinking about is not me, so... Ayan, can you let me go?"
The woman spoke intermittently, with a strange light shining in her eyes.
Long Yan wanted to interrupt her several times, but when he saw that the handkerchief the little girl was holding was covered in blood stains, he found that he could not say anything.
yes
Xiurong was right, even if he had a child, he still had no love for her.
And... not only her, why didn't she want to stay outside for a while longer
The kind of life without too many rules and without too many etiquette.
And... the cute apprentice he recently took on, his eyes are very similar to Rao Rao's.
Thinking of this, the resistance in Long Yan's heart has faded.
The couple just sat facing each other, neither of them speaking a word.
When Long Yan figured it out, he found that the woman on the bed had already fallen asleep. Even in her dream, her brows were furrowed, as if she had suffered great suffering.
"How long has this been going on, ma'am?"
He gently let go of the cold hand, stood up and walked outside.
The doctor was already waiting at the door. When he came out, he respectfully answered his questions.
"Do you only have 3 months left to live?"
"Yes... three months is a conservative estimate... Madam's condition... has deteriorated from the inside to the outside, and it can no longer be treated with medicine."
"Okay... you guys go down."
Long Yan waved his sleeves and went to the study.
That night, he talked with his father for a long time.
Early the next morning, bad news came from the Long family. The young lady of the Long family, Yu Xiurong, passed away due to illness. Long Yan's son was named Long You, and the two entered the Long family's genealogy together.
The funeral was not a huge one, and no other members of the hidden family were even notified. However, there were a lot of rules and procedures. It was not until the coffin was buried three days later that Long Yan returned to Luo City.
He didn't know it, just before his plane took off.
The Yu family also sent a plane, on which sat Qin Sirao, and the deceased young lady of the Long family who had changed her name and wore a mask - now named Yu Sinuo.