Chapter 401: Breaking Up (2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Fourth Master Gu smiled and added, “It’s been hard on Uncle and the elders. When I move to the new house another day, I’ll treat all the elders to a drink at home.”
From the beginning to the end, no one asked for the second branch’s opinion.
Gu Jian’s face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. He was so angry that he couldn’t control himself.
The second branch should have split 15%, but because the third branch had split it, it was reduced to 12%. There was only 12% left.
He felt that these two concubine brothers were simply too cowardly. He let the third branch take another layer of flesh from them just like that.
However, he didn’t dare to say a word, afraid that if he said another word, the patriarch would suggest expelling the second branch.
After sending off the patriarch and the elders, Gu Yuan returned to the main hall again. He said bluntly, “Second Uncle, Second Aunt, I’ll give you 10 days. The second branch must move out within 10 days.”
Gu Yuan’s expression was cold as he spoke. His tone was calm and firm, giving off a murderous aura.
Gu Yuan had always been a person who dared to say and do things. Gu Jian didn’t doubt that if he dared to leave a day later, he, the unruly nephew, would dare to pack their second branch’s luggage and throw them out of the residence.
With that, Gu Yuan ignored the reactions of Gu Jian, Madam Wang, and the others. He simply led Gu Yanfei out of the main hall.
The siblings had just walked down the few stone steps in front of the hall when Gu Yunrong’s slightly tense voice came from behind. “Brother!”
Gu Yunrong picked up her skirt and hurried over the threshold as she called out to Gu Yuan.
“Can you wait another month?” Gu Yunrong looked at Gu Yuan a few steps away and asked softly.
“No,” Gu Yuan said without thinking.
Gu Yunrong’s face stiffened.
Under the heavy eaves, the warm sunlight shone down, making Gu Yunrong’s figure half under the sun and half in the shadow. Her right eye, hidden in the shadow, was abnormally deep.
Her eyebrows twitched, and she questioned calmly, “Brother, are you really so heartless?”
Gu Yunrong looked at Gu Yuan with a sorrowful warmth in her eyes. Her tensed fingers turned slightly pale.
Gu Yuan also looked at Gu Yunrong on the stone steps and asked, “Should I be affectionate to someone who wants me to die and make room for him?”
Gu Jian and Madam Gu’s confession was because they wanted him to die. He wasn’t that magnanimous.
Gu Yunrong was speechless.
She also felt that Madam Gu and Gu Jian’s confession was inappropriate. If she had known earlier, she would definitely have persuaded them.
Gu Yunrong took a deep breath and asked with difficulty, “What about me?”
“Big Brother, I’m about to get married.”
They had been siblings for 14 years. Was he not willing to consider her?
Her slender figure stood upright like a white birch tree in the wind and rain, and there was a faint sadness in her expression.
They had clearly relied on each other since they were young and grew up together. Was everything that had happened in the past 15 years fake?
Gu Yuan stared deeply at Gu Yunrong with eyes as dark as the calm sea. They were calm, but they had shocking power.
Gu Yuan said slowly, “What relationship do we have?”
“I was good to you in the past because you were my sister.”
“Since you’re not my sister, why should I tolerate you?”
His few words were spoken extremely naturally. His calm voice was emotionless, and an unfamiliar, indifferent expression appeared on his face.
Gu Yunrong couldn’t believe her ears. She felt that the Gu Yuan in front of her was so unfamiliar.
Even though, in the few months after Gu Yanfei’s return, her big brother was no longer the big brother he used to be, she always felt that Gu Yuan still had a trace of brotherhood with her.
In the past, she could still deceive herself and tell herself that the heartless words that Big Brother said were all because Gu Yanfei was around. Big Brother was like this because he cared about Gu Yanfei.
But now…
Gu Yunrong stared at Gu Yuan without blinking. Gu Yuan’s eyes were as deep as the sea and as firm as a mountain.
She recalled how Gu Yuan had protected Gu Yanfei time and time again previously. Now, Gu Yuan didn’t care that she was about to get married at all.
Gu Yunrong’s heart ached. That sourness spread to her eyes, which were faintly covered in a layer of mist.
The bitterness gradually increased, making the corners of her eyes dry and tight.
Even though the Gu family had been confiscated, this manor hadn’t been taken back. Marrying from this manor was completely different from getting married from the second branch.
Her wedding with Kang Wang was the most important day of her life.
She hoped that her wedding would be grand and perfect. This was also her last saving grace.
This was also her last request for Gu Yuan.
She really didn’t understand why Gu Yuan would treat her so heartlessly. It was as if several ice thorns had pierced her heart at the same time. It was so painful that her lips turned pale.
In addition to her heartache, her face showed some embarrassment.
“Yanfei, let’s go.” Gu Yuan called Gu Yanfei and the siblings left side by side.
Gu Yunrong’s cherry lips were tightly pursed into a straight line as she stared at Gu Yuan’s departing figure.
After a while, she seemed to have finally made up her mind, but she also seemed to have gritted her teeth and abandoned something. She said word by word, “You guys have let me down.”
Its all because of you.
Gu Yuan is no longer my big brother.
Gu Yunrong raised her chin. Her expression was 30% arrogant, 30% determined, and 40% mocking. There was no longer any trace of her usual friendly smile on her lips. It was as if she had suddenly become a different person.
Gu Yanfei, who was in front, vaguely felt an inexplicable chill on her back. It was as if a cold wind was blowing over, and the hair on her neck instantly stood on end.
She looked behind her back.
What greeted her eyes was the boiling golden luck around Gu Yunrong.
Gu Yunrong was still standing under the roof in front of the main hall, motionless, but the luck around her was stirring crazily.
The black aura mixed in with the golden luck suddenly became even thicker. Previously, it was only a few threads, like expensive silk being hooked by a few threads. Now, almost a third of the luck was covered by the black aura.
The black aura spread out menacingly.
Gu Yunrong’s fair face looked like a female ghost that had returned from hell against the black fog. It was cold and gloomy, but there was a hint of madness..