Chapter 398: Real Name (1)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Grandmother!” Gu Yunrong, who was at the door, rushed in like a gust of wind with her skirt fluttering behind her.
She hurriedly supported the swaying Madam Gu and looked at the haggard old woman with a worried expression.
“Are you alright? The doctor said that you can’t be angry.”
Gu Yunrong stroked Madam Gu’s back as she looked at Gu Yanfei, who was sitting motionlessly on the chair.
It was only now that Gu Yunrong understood why Gu Yanfei doesn’t care about Madam Gu at all, and even hated her.
So that was how it was. Gu Yanfei already knew that Madam Gu wasn’t her biological grandmother.
She even felt that Madam Gu had taken away everything that should have belonged to her biological grandmother.
That was why she wanted to disrupt the peace in the Marquis Mansion!
Gu Yanfei was also looking at Gu Yunrong. His almond-shaped eyes were like a pool of still water. They were so bright, clear, and calm.
They looked at each other quietly.
Gu Yanfei stared into Gu Yunrong’s eyes and said calmly, “This is returning it to its rightful owner.”
This sentence was meaningful.
With that, she greeted Gu Yuan with a smile. “Brother, let’s go.”
Everyone left the main hall in an orderly manner, leaving the people from the second branch looking at each other. Everyone was in a daze.
Everyone escorted the patriarch to the Gu family’s ancestral hall on the west road of the Marquis Mansion. Then, they opened the ancestral hall and changed the family tree.
The patriarch personally presided over it. He burned incense and bowed to the ancestral tablet. He then said righteously, “Only those of the legitimate wife and concubine can uphold the family style.” It could be considered as telling the Gu family’s ancestors the cause and effect of changing the family tree.
Then, the patriarch solemnly invited the Gu family tree out and laid it on the long table.
The patriarch should have personally edited it. Seeing that Gu Yuan’s gaze was fixed on the family tree, he turned to hand the wolf hair brush in his hand to Gu Yuan. “Yuan’er, you do it.”
To others, this was a small matter. No one raised any objections.
Gu Yuan didn’t decline politely. He thanked the patriarch and took the pen calmly. Then he personally added a name to the family tree—
Qi Zhaoning.
This was the name of their grandmother.
Gu Yuan added this name to his grandfather Gu Xuan’s name. Then, he moved his father Gu Ce’s name to his grandfather and grandmother’s names. Then, it was his mother and his siblings’ names.
Gu Yuan wrote these few names very slowly. With each stroke, his mood surged. For some reason, he felt a power as heavy as a thousand pounds from these words.
Gu Yanfei took out the tablet that she had prepared long ago and asked Gu Yuan to write their grandmother’s name. He placed the tablet beside the Old Marquis’ tablet.
At this point, it would be considered clearing the name of their grandmother.
Gu Yanfei smiled as she looked at her grandfather and grandmother’s tablets in front of her. Her gaze finally landed on her grandfather’s tablet.
The Substitute Talisman was still in this tablet.
Ordinary people had mortal bodies and couldn’t see anything abnormal. However, Gu Yanfei was different, and her eyes were nourished by spiritual power. She could clearly see a faint white light escaping from her grandfather’s memorial tablet and slowly lingering around this new memorial tablet.
Gu Yan smiled faintly. Her clear eyes exuded a dazzling light in the slightly dim sacrificial hall.
She knew that this white light was a soul.
The last time, she hadn’t seen anything. She had only felt a faint soul aura from her grandfather’s tablet.
Now, her grandmother’s soul was clearly a little more solid than last time.
How nice.
The smile on Gu Yanfei’s lips deepened, and the corners of her eyes curled into a happy arc.
As a substitute, her grandmother, Qi Chaoning, had clearly lived before, but she was a person who “didn’t exist in the world.” Her life, opportunities, and luck were all for the sake of Madam Gu, Qi Chao’an.
After death, the substitute’s soul would dissipate into the world, unable to reincarnate.
The fate of every substitute was destined to be a tragedy that would destroy their souls.
“Sister,” Gu Yuan called out softly, holding a few incense sticks in his hand.
The incense pillar had already been lit. Wisps of white smoke slowly floated up, making Gu Yuan’s cold eyebrows look a little hazy, adding a gentle feeling.
Gu Yuan handed three incense sticks to Gu Yanfei.
The siblings walked to the two futons together and knelt down in unison. They solemnly shouted at the two tablets of their grandparents in front, “Grandpa, Grandma, your Grandson and Granddaughter are here to greet the two of you..”