When they arrived the General’s residence, Luo Xinglan arrived at the same time. She even smiled and hinted Gu Xietian to spend some time and enjoy himself with the two dancers...
Gu Xietian could not see any jealousy or anger in her eyes.
Gu Xietian was extremely mad and dragged her back to her courtyard. Once again, he forced himself on her.
Ever since they got married, Luo Xinglan had never crazily rejected his requests for sexual intercourse. Although he succeeded, Luo Xinglan had left many bleeding scratches on his face and body. He could never forget her glares which were brimming with hatred, as though she was looking at trash or a beast!
She has triggered his nerves again and he left after slamming the door.
He found her to be too arrogant. There were so many gentle girls outside, why would he even bother to take a 30 year old woman’s emotion into consideration?
He felt he should punish her more and change her.
Therefore, he started a series of punishments.
For example, he moved her from a nice courtyard to a broken one. She was left with one servant, from eight previously, and she was locked in the courtyard.
He cut her meal budget from more than ten dishes in every single meal to two.
Needless to say, both the master and the servant shared a meal or starved together when the food was not delivered in a timely fashion.
That was during the winter, when it was snowing all the time. There was no firewood in her courtyard and the room was as cold as a freezer.
Leng Xiangyu had taken over the managing authority from Luo Xinglan, as she has been locked in her courtyard.
Gu Xietian did not check on her for almost half a year and he even allowed the mistresses and servants to bully her secretly...
Besides, he had always brought his mistresses into the courtyard next to Luo Xinglan's, to have fun there. They played music and games, and enjoyed delicious food. Gu Xietian knew Luo Xinglan would definitely smell the aroma of the food and take notice of his presence.
That was not the worst thing he could do. Gu Xietian even neglected Gu Tiannuo and prioritized his other children. He put all the blame on Gu Tiannuo even when he was not at fault, but that of the other siblings. And every single time when he scolded Gu Tiannuo, he deliberately chose to do it when they were just beside Luo Xinglan's courtyard, so that she could hear it.
Gu Tiannuo was already 11 years old. He used to be a happy kid but gradually turned to depression. He wanted to visit his mother so badly but he was not allowed to do so.
The objective of Gu Xietian was to let Luo Xinglan know that he was the master of the family and the only way to have a better life was to please him...
He was not aware that his random desire had caused her to be pregnant. His torture had wrecked her menstrual cycle and she only discovered that she was pregnant when the baby was about four months old in her womb. The critical environment she was in and the depression she faced had drove her to malnutrition. This indirectly led to the malnutrition of the fetus...
A healthy and strong female knight had turned into a scrawny lady in half a year.
This was all until Gu Tiannuo succeeded in seeing his mother after breaking into the courtyard. He panicked when he knew his mother was pregnant, and even fainted from high fever. The one and only servant was also in a state of panic...
Gu Tiannuo took the risk to break into his father’s meeting hall (Baihu Hall). An 11 year old boy knelt down on the floor with a pair of teary eyes and kept kowtowing to his father. He even hurt his forehead while begging the general to save his mother.
Gu Xietian had finally found out that Luo Xinglan was pregnant. He was shocked by the news and quickly rushed to Luo Xinglan's courtyard.
He realized Luo Xinglan had grown so thin, with a baby bump protruding from her belly. He had no idea whether Luo Xinglan had a strong determination or that the fetus was meant to live, as she had been released by the God of Death after a series of rescue work.
Gu Xietian was guilty and quickly moved Luo Xinglan out from the broken courtyard and got the servants to prepare a wide array of nutritious food for her.
Luo Xinglan had changed to be another person since she moved out from the broken courtyard. She always looked towards a specific direction and did not move at all for half a day.
She refused to talk to anyone.
Luckily, she ate whatever food which was prepared for her and she finally grew slightly meatier than before.
In fact, there were a few occasions in the palace. Gu Xietian had rejected the attendance on behalf of Luo Xinglan with the reason of her not feeling well and had brought Leng Xiangyu along instead.
The Emperor had invited all the government servants again for dinner after Luo Xinglan moved out from the broken courtyard. This time, he told Gu Xietian to bring Luo Xinglan along and he also specially granted her a cozy chariot...
Gu Xietian anxiously brought her along and surprisingly, he returned fruitfully.
During dinner, the baby was appointed to be engaged to one of the princes in the future if it was a baby girl. However, the Emperor did not specially mention which prince would marry the baby girl even though there were a few of them were within the same age to be engaged.
Two months later, Luo Xinglan had delivered a premature baby girl, which was Gu Xijiu.
With a premature delivery coupled with malnutrition, the five-month-old baby still looked very tiny and fell sick frequently. Luo Xinglan thought the baby might not be able to survive.
She had gradually turned better but she was not passionate about life anymore; everything seemed to be unimportant to her.
Gu Xietian finally felt relieved when the family had returned to its peace.
He had terminated Luo Xinglan's house arrest and even allowed her to pray in the temple nearby. Of course, there were a few servants and guards that followed her closely.
However, he did not expect Luo Xinglan to plan another escape. At one point, she brought Gu Xijiu along to pray and successfully escaped with the help offered from her senior disciple!
However, things were not going smoothly. Gu Xietian was running some errands nearby and immediately rushed over when he got the news. He was mad and kept searching with his subordinates and they finally came to the end of the cliff.
It was a borderless ocean right at the bottom of the cliff with many strange rocks. Gu Xietian gave Luo Xinglan two options as he looked at her helpless face. One, to follow him home and he would forget about the incident today. Second, to catch her and remove her title as the official wife and she could only be his mistress.
Gu Xietian could not bear the insult of his wife trying to run away with another man. Therefore, he had the idea of killing her senior disciple regardless of Luo Xinglan’s decision...
He thought she would obey him after giving her the two options.
However, things seemed to go beyond his imagination. Luo Xinglan glared at him coldly and laughed as she raised her head. She chose the third option and jumped off the cliff with her baby!
The baby suddenly cried when they were in mid-air.
She felt a wave of sympathy for the baby and tried her best to throw the baby up to the cliff as she fell into the ocean...
Coincidentally, Gu Tiannuo who just arrived at the scene had seen everything. Initially, it was already difficult for him to forgive what his father had done to his mother, and now, he decided to burn bridges with Gu Xietian and left the family. He accidentally entered the Dark Forest and there, his news had stopped at its entrance...