Gu Yan quickly shook her head. “No regrets. I just suddenly remembered—Uncle Qu, you didn’t bring the household register. It’s still not too late to have someone go back and get it now.”
Liang Yueran couldn’t help rolling her eyes. “Gu Yan, have you lost your mind? With my cousin’s status, do you really think he needs a household register to get a marriage certificate? Even if he didn’t have one, if he felt like it, someone would deliver the marriage certificate to him without him even showing up.”
Ah, that made sense.
Once Gu Yan understood, she immediately took Qu Xiao’s hand and pulled him inside.
Soon after, Gu Yan emerged holding two red booklets, her face beaming with a foolishly happy grin.
Liang Yueran couldn’t resist walking over to Qu Xiao and whispering, “Cousin, don’t you think you should take her to see a doctor? Something seems off about her.”
She had personally witnessed Gu Yan’s disgust toward her cousin before, how she had tried to avoid him at all costs.
Yet now, here she was, clutching their marriage certificates and grinning like an idiot.
It just didn’t add up.
Qu Xiao glanced at Gu Yan’s radiant smile, and the corners of his lips unconsciously lifted. “I think she’s perfect just like this.”
Gu Yan turned her head and grinned goofily at Qu Xiao before tucking the marriage certificates into her coat pocket.
“Uncle Qu, I’ll keep the marriage certificates safe with me, okay?”
Liang Yueran couldn’t help adding, “You’re not thinking that without the marriage certificates, my cousin won’t be able to divorce you, are you?”
In an instant.
Both Gu Yan and Qu Xiao’s smiles froze, and their eyes simultaneously turned toward her.
Liang Yueran instinctively swallowed and took a step back. “I was just saying… You two probably won’t get divorced, right?”
Qu Xiao’s expression turned serious. “I’ll have Yu Yang take you back first.”
Gu Yan and Liang Yueran shook their heads in unison. “No.”
Qu Xiao frowned at them. He had no intention of bringing them along to the Qu Family’s den of wolves.
In the end, Qu Xiao still took them with him.
All because Gu Yan had said she didn’t want to be separated from him right after getting married—and Qu Xiao had agreed to wait for them.
There were many times when Liang Yueran couldn’t help but admire how thoroughly Gu Yan had her cousin wrapped around her finger.
The car stopped at the entrance of the Old Mansion.
Qu Xiao got out first, followed by Gu Yan and Liang Yueran.
The bodyguards at the door looked at him and respectfully addressed, “Master Qu.”
Without even glancing at them, Qu Xiao led Gu Yan, Liang Yueran, Yu Yang, and two trusted bodyguards inside.
As they entered the main hall, they saw that almost all the Qu Family members had gathered—even Qu Ting, his third uncle, whom Qu Xiao had once beaten so badly he broke a leg, was present.
Noticing Old Master Lin seated to the side, with Lin Feifei sitting beside him, Gu Yan’s brow furrowed slightly before smoothing out.
Lin Feifei, the young lady of the Lin Family—if she remembered correctly from her past life, she had been set up on a blind date with Qu Xiao.
Seeing Qu Xiao arrive, Old Master Qu waved him over. “Xiao Xiao, you’re here. Come quickly and greet your Grandfather Lin.”
Qu Xiao didn’t even lift his eyelids, let alone go greet any “Grandfather Lin.”
Qu Bai let out a light chuckle. “Grandfather, you went through the trouble of setting up a blind date for Big Brother, but look—he’s already brought two women with him. Seems like this matchmaking was a waste of effort.”
Staring at Qu Bai’s insincere smile, Gu Yan’s brow furrowed again.
He was Qu Xiao’s half-brother, but he was a treacherous man. In her past life, he had even approached her to collaborate in harming Qu Xiao, though she had refused.
She knew that no one in the Qu Family liked Qu Xiao, and they were even more wary of his growing influence, always wanting to keep him under control.
In this lifetime, Gu Yan would never give anyone the chance to harm him.
Gu Yan looked at Qu Bai with a smile, reached out to hold Qu Xiao’s arm, her voice carrying laughter, but her words struck right at the heart.
“Second Young Master Qu, are you saying that any woman standing beside you is your woman? Then if you walk with your mother, would she be your woman too? Besides, even if Qu Xiao isn’t interested in blind dates, there’s still you—why don’t you just step up instead?”
Everyone present was stunned, including Qu Xiao himself, who turned to look at Gu Yan.
Was she speaking up for him?
Old Master Qu and the others clearly knew that Qu Xiao had always been fixated on Gu Yan, who was ten years younger than him from the Gu family.
But Gu Yan had always disliked him for being too old and found him repulsive—why was she suddenly defending him today?
And why were they so intimate?
Old Master Qu frowned, glaring furiously at Gu Yan. “Xiao Xiao, how dare you bring this ill-mannered woman in here? Guards, throw her out!”
Two bodyguards entered from the doorway.
Qu Xiao merely glanced indifferently at Old Master Qu, then drew a gun from his waist and fired two shots at the approaching bodyguards.
The bullets struck directly into their thighs. Though the gun was silenced, it still terrified everyone.
The screams of the two bodyguards echoed through the hall, unsettling the servants, Old Master Lin, and Lin Feifei.
Gu Yan and Liang Yueran were also badly frightened, but they showed little expression.
Gu Yan had already died once before, and Liang Yueran had been taught how to shoot by Qu Xiao and Liang Yan, who feared someone might target her.
Qu Xiao tossed the gun to Yu Yang, curling his lips into a cold smile as he looked at Old Master Qu. “Yu Yang, give each of them 500,000 for medical expenses. If anyone else dares to enter, aim for the head—don’t bother saving bullets.”
“Yes, sir.”
Watching the two bodyguards being dragged away, Old Master Lin also stood up. “Old Qu, we outsiders won’t intrude on your family meeting. I’ll take Feifei and leave now; we can talk another time.”
Old Master Lin, holding the sweat-palmed Lin Feifei, stood up. He had made up his mind.
No matter how powerful the Qu Family was, he would never let his precious granddaughter marry a madman like Qu Xiao.
Seeing Old Master Lin quickly escort Lin Feifei out of the Old Mansion, Old Master Qu slammed his hand heavily on the tea table, his face cold as he stared at Qu Xiao.
“You finally come back, and this is how you oppose me? Don’t forget who is the chairman of The Qu Corporation, who is the head of the Qu Family.”
Qu Xiao let out a cold laugh, looking at him with utter disdain. “Go see whether they recognize you as chairman or me, Qu Xiao.”
“You!” Old Master Qu was so enraged he couldn’t even form a complete sentence.
“Xiao Xiao, how can you speak to your grandfather like that? Apologize to him at once.” A beautiful woman’s voice rang out.
Qu Xiao’s gaze turned completely icy. He stared coldly at Wang Qiuyu sitting beside Qu Mou, his voice terrifyingly frigid.
“It seems any stray cat or dog can act like the master in this house.”
Qu Mou’s face instantly darkened. “Do you have any sense of propriety left? How dare you speak to your mother like that? Apologize to her immediately.”
“Mother?” Qu Xiao let out a cold laugh, looking at him with undisguised mockery. “She’s your mother, isn’t she? My mother was driven to her death by you long ago. If you like her, you can call her mother, but I don’t have a mother who shamelessly climbed into someone else’s bed.”