I became a villain master, but I conquered the heroine
Chapter 43: Secular Gu Mansion
The scene seemed so familiar, and so similar that the memories came to her like a flood, and a feeling of suffocation and powerlessness swept over her body.
That was the eternal pain in her heart, and she thought it would never heal. That was right, the pain engraved in her bones could not be forgotten just like that.
Seeing the scene just now, Gu Xi's eyes welled up with red, and a hint of bitterness appeared between his brows.
She felt as if a sharp knife was cutting straight into her heart. Her hand tightly grasping the hilt of the sword revealed her feelings at the moment.
It is like falling into an icy lake, the cold chills you to the bone; it is like jumping into a sea of fire, the flames burn you.
Gu Xi frowned and pursed her lips, some scattered fragments flashed through her mind, which was her childhood that she didn't want to mention to anyone.
That was her taboo, and the memories of that childhood were like an unknown grave in which a dead "widow" was buried.
In Qingshui Town, Yuncheng, there was a family named Gu, who had been engaged in the silk business for generations. In the south of the town, there was a family named Yun, who had been raising silkworms for generations.
The Yun family has a unique silkworm and mulberry planting technique. The silk produced by the silkworms is soft and elastic.
The silk produced is soft and delicate, comfortable and resilient to the touch, and lustrous. Its silk quality is well-known to everyone, and many silk merchants are vying to cooperate with it.
The two families had close contacts due to business dealings, and the heads of the two families often got together to discuss business matters, during which they inevitably mentioned their children.
The Gu family has an eldest son named Weihua, who is seventeen years old, handsome and as strong as a jade tree.
The Yun family has a little girl named Qianyun, who is fourteen years old, in the prime of her youth, and has an unparalleled beauty.
In order to strengthen the cooperation between the two families, the head of the Gu family proposed to the Yun family to establish a marriage alliance.
After the eldest son of the Gu family, Gu Weihua, had his coming-of-age ceremony, he came to marry Miss Yun and promised the Yun family that if Miss Yun married him, she would be the next mistress of the family.
Being the mistress of the house sounds so glorious and honorable, but little do people know that only a strong family can support such heavy honor.
Without the support of the family, all the youth and beauty would be in vain. Besides, how many years of youth do women in the world have?
In this way, the eldest son of the Gu family and the young lady of the Yun family made a marriage contract under the order of their parents and the matchmaker. When the time agreed by the two families came, they would hold the wedding.
Gu Weihua, the eldest son of the Gu family, is a handsome young man, and Yun Qianyun, the young lady of the Yun family, is extremely beautiful. They are a perfect match made in heaven, and everyone thinks that they are made for each other.
For a time, there was an endless stream of blessings from all sides, cheering and congratulating this beautiful marriage.
Unfortunately, God never fulfills people’s wishes. There are not so many happy families in this world.
After Gu Weihua performed the coming-of-age ceremony, he abided by his marriage contract and married Miss Yun Qianyun from the Yun family.
After they got married, they lived in harmony and treated each other as equals in the first few years, which became a good story. A year later, they gave birth to a girl, and named her "Xi".
"Xi" was given to her by her mother, implying a beautiful, gentle and virtuous woman.
However, they never expected that in just a few years, relying on the high-quality silk provided by the Yun family, the Gu family's silk business grew bigger and bigger, and was even exported overseas.
However, Gu Weihua changed his mind. He married another concubine on the grounds that Yun Qianyun had been married for several years but had not given birth to a boy and could not carry on the Gu family's bloodline. Gu Xi was only six years old that year.
Yun Qianyun was educated in a private school since childhood. She was well-educated, polite and gentle. She knew that she had not fulfilled her responsibilities as a wife, so she had to accommodate Gu Weihua and let him bring the concubine into the house.
The young Gu Xi could always hear her father and mother arguing outside the door, and every time she would hear words like "male adult", "family", and "the four virtues of women".
Little Gu Xi didn’t understand why her father and mother were always arguing, and her father didn’t seem to like her.
He never smiled at her and rarely asked her questions. Little Gu Xi hid behind a pillar, and every time she saw her father coming out of her mother's room, he would frown, snort coldly, and then leave.
Gu Xi always found her mother secretly wiping tears in the house. She asked her mother, but she was always unwilling to tell her.
Little Gu Xi was confused. Why? Why didn't her father like her? Why didn't her mother tell her why she was crying?
She had no other children of her age in the Gu Mansion, so Gu Xi had been very dull since she was a child. She lacked the innocence and liveliness of ordinary children, but had a rare maturity that was not seen before her.
Within a year after the concubine was brought into the Gu Mansion, she became pregnant.
Gu Xi could see her father coming out of Aunt Zhao's room every day. He would always have a smile on his face when he left, unlike when he treated her mother, when he always had a cold face.
After Aunt Zhao was pregnant for half a year, a doctor diagnosed that it was a boy. My father was very happy and rewarded everyone in the mansion, which also made him smile more.
The Gu family's silk business grew bigger and bigger, but the Yun family suddenly encountered an accident and gradually declined, and the Gu family and the Yun family gradually cut off contact.
One day, Gu Xi saw Aunt Zhao, the woman her father had married, feeding goldfish by the lotus pond in the mansion. She saw him and asked him to go over to her.
Little Gu Xi was ignorant and naive, so when he heard someone calling him over, he just walked over obediently.
Just as he walked up to Aunt Zhao, his foot was suddenly hooked on something and he tripped. He immediately lost his balance and fell towards Aunt Zhao.
Before Gu Xi's body touched Aunt Zhao, she opened her eyes wide and watched Aunt Zhao fall straight into the pond.
Then the maidservant beside Aunt Zhao shouted in surprise: "Help! Aunt Zhao has fallen into the water!"
"Someone, help! Aunt Zhao has fallen into the water!"
When the servants in the Gu Mansion heard the cries of the maidservant beside Aunt Zhao, one of them immediately jumped into the water, rescued Aunt Zhao, and hurriedly called a doctor to see her.
After examining the child, the doctor sighed deeply, stroked his beard and shook his head. Finally, he told everyone that Aunt Zhao had fallen into the water and was frightened, and the child could not be saved.
Gu Weihua was furious when she returned home. She did not investigate the truth of the matter and only believed the one-sided words of Aunt Zhao and the servants in the mansion, saying that Gu Xi deliberately pushed her into the pond.
Gu Xi was still young and had no way to defend himself, so Gu Weihua ordered that Gu Xi be locked up in the pitch-dark Gu family ancestral hall.
He also threatened that no one was allowed to visit her or bring her food. He wanted to see who dared to disobey him and where his authority as the head of the Gu family was.
The Gu Mansion's ancestral hall is dark all year round, and the tablets of the Gu family's ancestors are enshrined inside. The incense sticks flicker and look very creepy.
Being in such a dark environment would infinitely magnify one's fear, not to mention that Gu Xi was just a little kid.
Little Gu Xi curled up into a ball, shivering all over and burying his head in his legs.
A pair of small hands tightly hugged the back of her head. She was cold, hungry and scared. She huddled in the corner of the Gu Mansion's ancestral hall for the whole night.
Later she realized that this was the human heart, a twisted and dark human heart.
Regardless of whether she did it or not, some people say it was her, and she was just a tool for others to fight for power and profit. How ridiculous and sad.
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