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[Scores have just been opened and will increase later.There is no system, pure rebirth, a bit slow to start, and the first few chapters are all foreshadowing.The female protagonist appears in Chapter 11, and the male and female protagonists establish their love in Chapter 26!】

[Newbies are on the road, I hope more bookshelf support!I have been wandering for half my life, just because I have not met my master. If you don't abandon me, I am willing to worship you as a foster father!】

【Alternate history!Little web article!It is better to store your brain and eat it.There are discrepancies between this book and the system in real history, such as the setting of the protagonist's search for flowers, etc. These are purely for plot needs. Please do not take it seriously. Thank you!】

[The story won’t be too long, adoptive fathers don’t need to keep books, just read as much as you want.】

Autumn, the thirty-seventh year of Chongsheng's reign.

Gu Chen, the Duke of Daqian Town, is guarding the bedside of his beloved wife Liu Ruoli.

Liu Ruolan, who was a talented girl in the capital at that time, was already furious at this moment: "Gu Chen, I have always been in love with your good friend, Yang Kaiji."

She didn't say "husband" or "husband", she just called him by his name politely.

Gu Chen's mind was buzzing and he thought of many things.

In the first year of Chongsheng's reign, he was dressed in bright red wedding clothes, entered the Marquis Cheng'en Mansion in the capital, and married Liu Ruoli, a talented girl from the capital.

He was an orphan born as a refugee, and was appointed by the new Emperor Chongsheng to be the Wen Tan Hua and Wu Zhuang Yuan in the first year of Chongsheng.

Chengenhou Liu Ming took a fancy to his talent, and Liuhou knew that the new emperor was implementing the new policy of "suppressing the gentry and ignoring family status", so he became his son-in-law.

On their wedding night, he said he would treat her well in the future, but she didn't raise her head and just hummed.

When he went on an expedition, she walked him to the door; when he returned to Beijing, she prepared meals and waited for him.

The two of them were always polite to each other, like a pair of extremely respectable strangers.

"I don't understand. I gave you a first-grade life. I have never touched another woman in my life. My salary and salary are all handed over to the government. I will never ask what you want. In the past, I only thought that you had a cold nature, but you...why did you fall in love with Yang Kaiji?"

Liu Ruolan looked at him, and suddenly there was a little light in her cloudy eyes.

"Because you don't understand me."

Gu Chen was stunned: "But you never say what you want."

"So you can't guess?" Her voice was extremely thin, like a cold wind: "Every time you ask me to open my mouth, you know my preferences?"

"Every time you come back, you ask me, 'How is my wife?' and I say 'yes' and you believe me. You don't know how to talk about yourself, you don't ask me if I want to go play somewhere, you don't ask me if I want to read a storybook, and you don't ask me if I feel bored guarding this house by myself."

"Your stupidity is really speechless. You never understand me."

These words were like a knife, piercing into Gu Chen's chest.

He has been diligent in state affairs all his life, from the Hanlin Academy to the county and state capitals, and from the Ministry of War to the Northern Territory Army.

Outside, he fights to protect the country and the people, he works up and down to run errands for the court, and everything he does is to make the people of the world live a good life.

At home, she said her life was "good", so he naturally believed her.

He never thought she would lie to him.

"Then answer me truthfully, what exactly do you want?" he asked.

Liu Ruolan really didn't want to talk to him, so she finally spoke out of compassion:

"Talent." She said in a low voice: "A person who can talk about poetry and songs with me, a person who can hear the joy, anger, sorrow and joy in my piano music, a person who knows what I want without me having to say it."

She paused and sighed again.

"Yang Kaiji understands, and he understands his wife Bai. Back then, I should have begged my father to choose Yang Kaiji as my son-in-law."

Yang Kaiji was the top scholar in the same class of Jinshi as him.He is a talented man from a poor family, with great literary talent and good eloquence.

The top three in liberal arts that year were Yang Kaiji, Pei Zhang, and Gu Chen.The three of them came from different backgrounds, one was from a poor family, one was from an aristocratic family, and he was a refugee.

The three are lifelong friends.

And his wife has always admired his best friend?

"I can memorize all his poems. He understands romance, the love between children, and the unspeakable thoughts a woman hides in her heart."

"What about you? You can only tell me about border wars, Beihu's movements, food and grass supplies, and the life and death of soldiers."

A tear fell from the corner of Liu Ruolan's eyes.

"Gu Chen, what I want is not a life or honor, what I want is a husband who understands me. You can't give it to me, you never can."

"If there is an afterlife..."

Suddenly, she coughed violently and her whole body was shaking.

"I... don't want to be your wife anymore."

After saying this, her hand dropped.

Mrs. Zhenguo passed away.

Gu Chen sat in front of the bed, thinking of many things that he had never cared about before.

Remembering that every time he and his friends Pei Zhang and Yang Kaiji would have a party, she would smile, dress up, and follow him out.He thought she wanted to go out for a walk, but now he realized that it was Yang Kaiji she wanted to see.

Thinking of her great joy when watching Yang Kaiji compose poems at the August Poetry Club, he thought she was just appreciating Yang Kaiji's talent, but now he realized that it was the look in a woman's eyes when she looked at her sweetheart.

Chongsheng forty-two years, the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month.

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