After My Rebirth, I Escaped My Marriage

Chapter 998: Chapter 998 Can you mind your own business less?

Gu Zhichuan’s expression shifted from impatience to anger, “You’ve bribed someone close to me again?”

“Bribe sounds so unpleasant.” Mrs. Gu’s eyes darted around as she stammered, “Mum is worried about you, just casually asking about your situation, I wouldn’t harm you. He’s paid by our Gu family, so what’s wrong with telling me a few things? Isn’t that what he’s supposed to do?”

Yes, she wouldn’t harm him, but who could tolerate being watched by those close to them and having their movements reported to someone else?

Mrs. Gu truly wore down all his patience and tolerance.

As a son, he was willing to provide for her, but Mrs. Gu’s actions were like ropes tying him down, attempting to restrict his every move to comply with her wishes.

“Go back, I’m fine,” Gu Zhichuan didn’t ask who had been bribed, as Mrs. Gu likely wouldn’t tell him, but he had ways to find the person.

His voice was cold, long since worn of any familial warmth by Mrs. Gu’s repeated actions.

“Fine, Mum is in your way now, can’t even speak the truth here.” Mrs. Gu felt displeased as she listened, “If I’m such a bother, hurry up and get married. Will I have time to care about you once I’m holding a grandchild? Do I ask too much of you? Can’t you grant Mum this one wish?”

Speaking of marriage made Mrs. Gu angry, “Back then, our family was a match for the Qin family. Now look at what’s happened because of Feng Yangyang’s meddling, she’s ruined your prospects!”

It was in Mrs. Gu’s nature never to see herself as the problem.

Now that everyone outside knew Gu Zhichuan still had lingering feelings for Lin Gantang, who would want to marry their daughter into this? Those who were willing mostly eyed his family’s wealth, and Mrs. Gu looked down upon those from lower households.

But now, they could only look for a match from families with inferior conditions to the Gu family.

“Give up already, Lin Gantang is about to have a child, what are you clinging to?” Mrs. Gu spat, “It’s clear you’ve broken up, yet you can’t stop thinking about her, like a persistent ghost.”

Gu Zhichuan’s face looked as if it could wring out ink, had the person before him not been his birth mother, he could not guarantee he wouldn’t have said something even harsher, “You know we’ve broken up, so why slander her? The one at fault here is me, Mum, can’t you see the difference between right and wrong when you say things like this without embarrassment?!”

Mrs. Gu was left speechless, but in her heart, her son was perfect. How could her Zhichuan be at fault?

Mrs. Gu stubbornly refused to admit it.

With an impatient wave of her hand and a stern face, she said, “Fine, but since you say that whatever love or resentment you had with her is in the past and forbidden to mention, then I’m bringing Yue’er back! It’s all in the past, right? She, Lin Gantang, is living luxuriously as Mrs. Wen, so why should my daughter continue to suffer abroad! Just because Lin Gantang…”

“How much longer are you going to be so unreasonable!!” Gu Zhichuan exploded, “The one who was wrong in this matter from beginning to end is me! You! The Gu family! Everyone but Lin Gantang! Can you please stay out of my affairs! Can you?!!!”

Mrs. Gu was frightened.

Gu Zhichuan’s chest heaved as he forcefully opened the door.

Mrs. Gu finally dared not make a sound.

Watching his mother leave, who repeatedly refused to listen and blamed others, Gu Zhichuan’s anger took a long time to subside, leaving him feeling cold inside.

Thinking back to the time with Lin Gantang, she must have endured so much pressure from the overwhelming Mrs. Gu without his knowledge.

Lin Gantang had complained before, but he thought she was just being capricious.

Later, when she stopped complaining, he believed that her issues with his mother were minor.

Now, his remorse and self-reproach were of no use. Gu Zhichuan chuckled self-deprecatingly, the regret and discomfort clear in his eyes.

Sitting in the empty room, he started smoking, reaching out to the cat crouched in its bed.

The cat did not wish to pay him any attention, getting up and walking away haughtily, refusing to let him touch her.

Outside the window, the dark night enveloped everything, with only a solitary light still on.