Shiao Shiao looked at Gu Shengyin, who had changed into clothes suitable for traveling, and hesitated before saying, "Miss, are we really not going back to the Yan Family?"
In the original plot, Yan Ruohua had returned home immediately after being divorced by the Loo Family.
Her father treated her as the disgrace of the Yan Family, locked her up in a secluded small courtyard all day long, and did not allow her to see visitors.
Her dowry was also taken away by her mother.
A young lady from a prominent family, not favored, divorced, and with no silver coin in hand. One can imagine the kind of life Yan Ruohua led.
It was Auntie Lin, who had watched Yan Ruohua grow up from a young age, who knew the mistress’s family somewhat better: "It’s better for the young lady not to go back. With the master’s temperament, if he finds out that you and the young master... that Mr. Loo and you are divorced, I’m afraid he would be angry."
Gu Shengyin nodded and said, "Let’s first find a place to settle down, and once everything is stable, we can then send a message to the family."
Gu Shengyin brought along only Shiao Shiao and Auntie Lin to serve her, and then she had all of her dowry loaded onto a carriage. She herself got into another carriage and headed towards the residence she had decided on.
Gu Shengyin closed her eyes and began to think about what was to come.
In the original story, after Yan Ruohua was divorced and returned home, her life was extremely bleak. She had a wealth of talent, grace in her heart, but she lived a life of loneliness and passed away in her forties in her own courtyard.
It was only many years after her death that her poetry collection "Ode to Freedom" and her short story "Tears of Makeup," based on herself and revealing the injustices towards women of the era, began to shine brightly in the literary world.
People came to understand the brilliant yet tragic life of this astonishingly talented woman, and they expressed great regret and sympathy for her.
But all the regret in the world was of no use to Yan Ruohua at that time.
That was all in the distant future, and now that she had arrived in this world, Gu Shengyin would not allow Yan Ruohua to go through such a fate again.
As for Loo Zijun, the culprit behind Yan Ruohua’s tragic life.
A sneer formed within Gu Shengyin’s heart.
He prided himself on being a man of the new society, despised everything left over from the old era, and so he was quite disgusted by her, his arranged wife. Therefore, he advocated for love by choice and was madly infatuated with the actress Liu Yunyi.
An actress flirts with many, but her heart is often unattainable.
Liu Yunyi was affectionate to every man, but having seen so many men abandon their wives for her, she was stingy with her true feelings towards them.
She once said to Loo Zijun, "Divorce your wife, and I will be with you." This was nothing more than a casual joke, spoken without care, but Loo Zijun took it seriously.
When Loo Zijun, having divorced Yan Ruohua, rushed excitedly to find Liu Yunyi, she was laughing, nestled contentedly in the arms of another man, drinking wine.
Of course, Loo Zijun was not willing to give up; he wanted to win back Liu Yunyi’s heart.
But though the Loo Family was powerful, in Cloud City, there were many more influential families.
Loo Zijun had one of his legs crippled by one of Liu Yunyi’s numerous admirers and was carried back to the Loo Family.
The business of the Loo Family was also suppressed by rivals in the marketplace, with their circumstances getting increasingly difficult. In a desperate situation, Loo Zijun’s father fell ill, and Loo Zijun, who only knew how to strategize on paper, took over the family business.
As one might expect: in just a short three years, the Loo Family, which had previously been considered wealthy, had to rely on selling ancestral properties to barely make ends meet.
For such an ending, Gu Shengyin only wanted to say one word: Retribution!