Chapter 22: Painful Confession (Part 1)

Gu Wanning closed her eyes, because she felt the previous owner’s surging anger.

“I know you resent being sent to the farm, but that wasn’t Wanqing’s decision.”

“Your family is trying very hard to make up for it, why do you have to vent your anger on Wanqing?”

“Wanqing has given in to you in every way, she has given you all the good things, what else do you want from her?”

“…”

These words, like a tide, flooded into her memories, making Gu Wanning’s head ache.

This was the previous owner’s scar that no one could touch.

Although Gu Anqi hadn’t said these things yet, Gu Wanning was already starting to lose control.

“Gu Wanqing is innocent,” Gu Wanning looked coldly at her own brother, at this upright gentleman who was praised by countless people, “It’s my fault, Gu Wanning, it’s all my fault.”

“It was my own decision to leave my parents and family, to be raised like a dog on the farm.”

“It was my own decision to be compared to everyone, and to Gu Wanqing who took all the advantages, and then be ridiculed.”

“It was my own decision to marry the Marquis of Yingchuan who didn’t even look at me, to be disliked.”

“Even today, it was me who affected Gu Wanqing’s reputation. Gu Wanqing is innocent, she didn’t say anything; I was mocked, and I should just endure it, otherwise I would be holding back the noble Princess.”

She said these words with a cold, almost mocking smile on her lips.

Today, Lu Baozhu provoked her first, and she didn’t mention Gu Wanqing at all.

In the end, it was still her fault.

“That’s not what I meant.” Gu Anqi said, “I didn’t blame you. I just said that you sisters have misunderstood each other too deeply, don’t be so aggressive.”

“I’m aggressive?” Gu Wanning laughed angrily, “You put me on the farm for ten years, you ignored me. Gu Wanqing learned music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, I cooked and fed pigs; Gu Wanqing went on outings with her sisters, I squatted by the roadside selling wildflowers, I dreamed of meeting a noble person and giving me some money.”

“You gave her everything, why did you bring me back? Just to tell me that I’m not as good as her, that I’m not even worthy of carrying her shoes?”

“The King of Qin is noble and upright, countless women in the capital like him. Just because I’m Gu Wanqing’s sister, my liking for him became shameless? I haven’t even dared to say a word to him, and I’ve become a shameless woman in your eyes.”

Is it shameful to have a crush?

No.

What’s shameful is those who expose someone else’s crush and then trample on them.

The previous owner didn’t really like the King of Qin that much, it was just the kind of hazy crush a little girl has, and that was because the King of Qin had smiled gently at her.

—In fact, he was smiling at Gu Wanqing.

Gu Wanning was mistaken.

But is it wrong for a humble girl who no one likes to fall in love with a man who is gentle to her?

They kept warning her, treating her like a criminal, they couldn’t wait to lecture her eight times a day.

Who is more shameless, who is more twisted!

“We got married one after the other, she had a grand wedding procession, I only had two hundred taels of dowry.”

“The dowry matter, you are the same as your other sisters. Wanqing married a prince, so she had more, but it was only one thousand taels… the rest was, was given to her by the prince… and he originally wanted to give you more, but the family really couldn’t afford more at the time.”

“So, you are all good people, it’s just that I’m being petty and ungrateful.” Gu Wanning laughed so hard that tears came to her eyes, “Mr. Gu, the upright gentleman, Mr. Gu, think about this explanation yourself, don’t you find it ridiculous?”

Prepare to give…

I was going to give you the whole earth!

Who are you trying to feed pie to here!

Pfft!

Gu Anqi remained silent for a long time before he spoke with difficulty, “Wanning, I’m sorry. Maybe some things in the past, I didn’t consider you enough. But you have to believe that everyone in the family hopes you are happy.”

“You don’t need to appear in front of me, I’ll be fine.”

“Wanning…”

Gu Wanning closed her eyes, she felt the moisture in her eyes, she could barely control it.

That was the previous owner’s unyielding resentment.

“You all have your reasons, you are all very tolerant, you look down on a little girl who shouldn’t have suffered, but who has suffered a lot, and who is bumping into walls in a new environment. She can’t have any resentment, she can’t make any comparisons, otherwise she is being uncultured and ungrateful.”

“She actually never understood why her parents treated her like stepparents. Later, she found out that they weren’t her biological parents.”

“She envied Er’ya, she was beaten by her mother, but she was also loved by her mother.”

“She thought that true parental love was unconditional, it didn’t need to be bargained for.”

“But later she found out that only if she was obedient could she get some pity.”

Everyone expected her to be obedient and sensible, it turned out that family love also had conditions, because she was the newcomer.

From the moment she was born, she was abandoned.

“Yes, Gu Wanqing is a good person, she lets me be, she pities me… but I originally thought that those were what I deserved, I didn’t need to fawn over her to get them, but you said that I should be grateful to her.”

“But why? We are twin sisters, why are our fates so different?”

“I thought and thought, but I couldn’t figure it out. No one was willing to think for me, so I foolishly made a fuss, hoping that someone would notice me, but the result was even more disgust.”

“Do you know what I hate you most for?”

“I hate you for abandoning me, I hate you even more for pretending to be good for me, and trampling on me over and over again!”

“If I had stayed on the farm, that naive little girl, maybe I would have gotten married on the farm when I turned fifteen, given birth to children, and spent my whole life working hard for a living, and I would have been content.”

“But you took me away from the farm, you told me that this was a better world, but I don’t fit in with this world. You looked on coldly, you pointed fingers, but no one thought about what kind of impact I was experiencing.”

“Mr. Gu,” Gu Wanning’s tears were about to fall, “I really thank you!”

“Wanning, Wanning…” Gu Anqi looked ashamed, “It’s Brother who didn’t think much, it’s Brother who didn’t do well. We all feel guilty towards you, but we don’t know how to make it up to you. You also…”

“You, I… yes, I should have known that I’m not part of your family. You want to make it up to me, you want to, did you do it? Yes, I’m like a hedgehog, I don’t let you get close, so don’t blame you, blame myself, it’s my own fault, I have no one to blame but myself.”

“Don’t say that about yourself, Brother… I’m ashamed. You should have told Brother your thoughts earlier…”

“So, I have to beg on my knees, right?”