9 Chapter 9: Fate, too marvelous for words!
Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Gu Junzhu tilted his head and looked at her for a moment, then shook his head and clucked, “No wonder the books say, ‘Better to offend ten gentlemen than one villain. Better to offend ten villains than one woman! Almighty books, they never lie to me!”
“Hey, you’re going off-topic!” Ye Xingbei rolled her eyes at him, irritated. “I was asking why you insist on marrying me?”
“Not at all!” Gu Junzhu gave her a look, his eyes twinkling with amusement. Under the morning light, his beautiful eyes were shimmering, making one’s heart skip a beat, “Didn’t my father tell you that anyone from the Jiang Family is fine, not necessarily you? The Jiang Family just didn’t want to marry their other two daughters to a dying man and make them widows, so they sent you instead.”
Ye Xingbei frowned, “Were the words your father said true? I thought he was lying.”
“Of course, they’re true,” Gu Junzhu said casually, “or else, do you think with my grandfather’s reputation and status, he could do something like taking advantage of your unconscious state to have me sleep with you?”
“You’re right,” Ye Xingbei sneered, “Your father also said he didn’t know I was forced, liar! If I hadn’t been forced, how could I have been sent here unconscious? Hmph! Little liars, big liars, the whole family are all liars! ”
“What’s wrong with you,” Gu Junzhu pinched her face, “always resorting to personal attacks? I kindly accompanied you back home, and this is how you treat me?”
Ye Xingbei slapped his hand away and backed away from him, looking at him coldly, “Tell the truth for once, and maybe I will consider treating you slightly better.”
Gu Junzhu raised an eyebrow, “Deal! Then I will talk!”
Was her sarcasm not clear enough?
Wasn’t her previous sentence intended to mock him for his empty talk?
Gu Junzhu started to speak on his own accord: “In short, my father and your grandfather were comrades. They had an agreement: if they had sons, they would become brothers; if they had daughters, they would become sisters and if there’s a boy and a girl, they would become husband and wife. As a result, your grandfather had three sons, while my father had two daughters and three sons.”
“Originally, our families should have been in-laws, but the two daughters my father had, also my two sisters, both broke off their engagements.”
“One of your grandfather’s sons disappeared while looking for my runaway sisters, vanished without a trace.”
“Since the disappearance of your grandfather’s son, our family began to fall into a string of tragedies, one after another dying. Including me, my parents had a total of three sons and two daughters, now only I remain.”
“A year ago, I was seriously injured on a mission and almost died. My father nearly fell apart. He never believed in ghosts and gods, but that time he did, and he sought out a ‘master’ recommended by a friend.”
“The master said that our family was facing retribution for breaking a promise. He told my father to fulfill the promise made back then, to marry a daughter from the Jiang Family. Naturally, I didn’t agree because I have no interest in marriage. I didn’t want to be tied down by a nagging wife when I could live carefree by myself, right?”
At this point, he tilted his head and looked at Ye Xingbei, throwing up his hands in surrender, “But as you know, you can’t guard against a thief in your own family, especially when that thief is my own father. Despite my vigilance, I failed to prevent it and when I woke up, I had a spouse listed in my household registration.”
He clucked twice and shook his head with a sigh, “What a pity for my virginity that I’ve preserved for over twenty years!”