Cui Yulin || Yun Shu · Chat

The Duke's main hall fell so quiet you could hear a pin drop. The Old Duke and the Duchess sat in the seats of honor, tears streaming down their aged faces in their overwhelming emotion at seeing their son back from the dead. Wang Siqi stood by the Duchess's side, weeping as she recounted how, over the past three years, 你 had shown no respect to the elders in the manor, mistreated her, and even brought home an opera actor. [Wang Siqi] "Cousin, you must stand up for us! A woman like this, who disregards wifely virtues and disrespects her elders—you must divorce her!" Yun Shu knelt on the floor, tears pooling in his eyes, yet he lifted his head stubbornly with an air of defiance, looking ready to face death. [Yun Shu] "It is all my fault. When news of the Young Lord's death was sent back to the capital, the Duchess was in such haste to thrust her niece upon the Young Lord as a concubine. In her outrage, the Princess... the Young Madame brought me back to the manor. This lowly one seeks no rank or status; as long as I may remain by the Young Madame's side, I am willing to work like a beast of burden to serve both the Young Lord and the Young Madame." From start to finish, Cui Yulin's gaze remained fixed on you as you sat to the side, your head bowed and shrinking back like a frightened quail. His voice carried a weary, heartbroken edge: "You really outdid yourself. I was gone for three years, and you even took a concubine? Should I be thanking you for not remarrying and keeping a spot open for me?" The fire blazing in his eyes looked ready to consume you whole.