The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 585 - 585 282 Knowing the Truth (Second Change)_2

Chapter 585: 282 Knowing the Truth (Second Change)_2 Chapter 585: 282 Knowing the Truth (Second Change)_2 As soon as the young boy put his sword away, he ran over to him, saying, “Brother, my name is Gu Yan, you can call me Yanyan or Ayan! Um… Mummy calls me baby, and if you like, you can call me that too!”

Seeing him drenched in sweat, Gu Yan took off his own small scarf from his neck and offered it to him, saying “Here.”

But the other party didn’t accept it, and looked at him coldly, “I am not your brother, and you are not my brother.”

Back then, he didn’t understand what that gaze meant, and felt somewhat hurt. But as he grew older and thought about it, that wasn’t just pain, it was the agony of a knife cutting across his tender little heart.

“You are my brother! You are father’s son and so am I!”

“But you are not my mother’s son. We can never be brothers!”

Having been discarded in the cold, he was only three years old at that time.

The pain was probably so intense that he still remembers it even now.

But did he give up on him?

No, he didn’t.

He didn’t understand why their father was the same but their mothers were different. So, he asked his father.

His father told him that, of course, he was his brother and he was his brother’s younger sibling.

Right, he knew it!

He was very happy.

But then, he saw his father storm into his brother’s courtyard and dragged him out of his study to give him a severe beating.

“Who allowed you to bully your younger brother? If you dare to speak nonsense again, I’ll break your legs!”

No, don’t break his brother’s legs!

He hurried over, clung to his father’s thigh, begging him to stop, “Don’t hit him, don’t hit… don’t hit!”

Carrying him, his father walked away. He saw his brother kneeling there, looking furious and humiliated.

He tried to approach his brother.

His brother roared at him, “Don’t come to me anymore, I hate seeing you! I hate you! I wish you had never existed in this household!”

He actually wanted to say to him, Brother, my third and second brothers beat me, they bruised my arm, it hurts so badly.

But at that moment, his heart hurt even more than his arm did.

He thought he was different from his other two brothers. He had seen him stroke a little rabbit found on the ground, and rescue a little bird trapped on a tree. He was such a kind person. He even liked little birds, then surely he must like him, who was so adorable.

But he didn’t. He detested him. He wished he had never existed.

He handed over his heart to him with complete devotion and admiration, only to be discarded by him like an old, worn-out shoe.

Yet even so, when he was locked inside the dark room by his third brother, he was still hoping it was him who would come. Just once… just once, he wished he could protect him…

He was his beloved older brother after all…

Later he left, boarded the carriage that carried him to Villa.

He kept looking back from time to time.

Back then, he thought that if his brother could come out and look at him, all his grievances would disappear, he wouldn’t leave, and he wouldn’t be afraid of being bullied by his third and second brothers any more.

But he didn’t come.

He couldn’t help it anymore, buried his face in his mother’s bosom, and burst into tears.

He had been waiting for his brother to visit him for ten years in the Manor, but he didn’t come. He finally made himself accept the reality little by little.

He wasn’t his brother, and he wasn’t his brother either. They may share the same father, but they could never have any relationship.

Memories swirling in his mind, Gu Yan closed his eyes.

In the quiet, moonlit night, the entire military camp fell into silence.

Gu Changqing sat on the mat, not sleepy at all.

Suddenly, there was some noise outside the door, followed by the sound of two bodies falling to the ground.

Gu Changqing’s eyes hardened, and an alert light flashed through them.

The next second, the door to the punishment room was kicked open, and more than ten cold hidden weapons were shot towards him!

They were trying to turn him into a sieve!

Gu Changqing quickly rolled away from the ground, grabbing the mat at the side of the wall. Using a softness to overcome hardness, he deflected all the hidden weapons and threw them back at the attacker!

The attacker seemed to have been prepared, and didn’t rush into the punishment room. When the hidden weapons were shot back, he quickly hid behind the outer wall.

The hidden weapons struck the ground outside the punishment room with a clang!

Only then did the attacker go into the room with his sword, intending to assassinate Gu Changqing.

Gu Changqing’s hands and feet were chained, he raised his hands and used the chain between the shackles to seize the attacker’s sword. He gripped the sword in his hand and stabbed it fiercely towards the attacker’s chest!

Yes, he was injured, but his movement skills were still far superior to the attacker.

The masked attacker in black was nearly stabbed by Gu Changqing, and hastily retreated from the punishment room. Gu Changqing’s foot shackles were chained to an iron ring on the wall. He couldn’t go after him.