Waaah, I'm being forced into loving my yandere wife's brain.

When Lin Zhiyao heard about Old Master Gu, who was completely different from the one she remembered, she pursed her lips slightly, neither refuting nor completely believing him.

Let's hear what Shen Jin has to say first.

"But later I found this room, read her notes, saw the prescriptions she wrote down line by line, the folk remedies she tried, and her feelings about each herb, and I felt..."

Shen Jin didn't finish speaking.

The last syllable even carried a hint of a sob.

But Lin Zhiyao seemed to understand his unfinished words, and her almond-shaped eyes softened.

She went through a similar period herself.

Holding Grandpa Gu's belongings, I felt as if Grandpa Gu was still by my side.

Lin Zhiyao hesitated for a moment, then said, "But in my memory, Grandpa Gu is a very good person... If he knew you were a child of the Gu family, he shouldn't have treated you like this. Could there be some misunderstanding?"

Shen Jin paused for a moment, then readily agreed, "Yeah, maybe."

There's no point in arguing with a dead person.

Lin Zhiyao: "When did you leave the Gu family?"

Shen Jin paused, gazing intently at her, "Nineteen years ago."

She was only three years old at the time.

They haven't come to take care of the family yet.

Even though there was no impression of Shen Jin in her mind, it still made sense.

Hearing Shen Jin's words, Lin Zhiyao, though still having some unresolved doubts, believed most of it. In her few remaining childhood memories, she had indeed never seen Grandpa Gu's son before, and then one day, Gu Yuanshao suddenly appeared. However, she was very young at the time, so she didn't notice much of anything amiss, but now, looking back, there were indeed many strange things about him.

However, the truth may only be known to the older generation, but now, with the passing of their loved ones, it has all vanished with the wind.

Lin Zhiyao thought to herself, placing her palm on the rough surface of the wooden frame, which had uneven textures, probably formed by years of dust and slight dampness. She slowly walked along a row of wooden lattice panels.

"Did you live here when you were a child?" Lin Zhiyao asked.

"Yes, before the Gu family sent me away." Shen Jin followed her, his footsteps very close. "Later, I was sent to a farmhouse to be fostered until I was able to come back and find these things on my own. No one in the Gu family cared for this house; the key was always hanging in the old gatehouse. I put in some effort to get my hands on it."

Lin Zhiyao stopped.

Remembering something, she turned her head and tilted it towards the direction of Shen Jin's voice.

"Your mother...how did she die?"

Shen Jin did not answer immediately.

The room fell silent.

half an hour.

Shen Jin continued, "She died of illness. Later, I saw her notes. She knew all along that she couldn't be saved, so she wrote down the prescriptions and treatments one by one so that future generations could see them. She said that the mistakes she made in her life should not be repeated by others."

He smiled, but the smile was brief, and he almost immediately withdrew it.

"So I've always thought, if one day I meet..."

"You want to pass on the pharmacopoeia and spirit left by your mother."

Lin Zhiyao picked up where he left off.

"Hmm." Shen Jin nodded slightly, and taking advantage of the moment when Lin Zhiyao's consciousness wavered, he stepped forward and gently embraced her. "So, Yaoyao, do you still hate me?"

Lin Zhiyao was taken aback.

She gently shook her head in his arms.

Lin Zhiyao was angry because Shen Jin had deceived and taken advantage of her, but now that Shen Jin had so frankly revealed his past and true feelings, she... couldn't be angry anymore.

Shen Jin gently stroked the back of Lin Zhiyao's head, kissed her hair, and smiled knowingly.

Shen Jin pulled his arms back.

Yao Yao is back by his side.

*

The next five or six days.

Shen Jin didn't let Lin Zhiyao out of his sight.

Lin Zhiyao would occasionally ask about Gu Yuanshao, worried that Shen Jin might do something bad... Although imprisonment seemed like a very bad thing now, Lin Zhiyao had been under house arrest by Gu Yuanshao for so many years, so she didn't think it was particularly excessive.

After all, Lin Zhiyao believed that, given Gu Yuanshao's scumbag nature, if she weren't blind, she would definitely have been locked up as well.

So as long as Gu Yuanshao is not dead and has not been deliberately tortured, that's fine.

Lin Zhiyao genuinely felt this way.

When Lin Zhiyao asked about Gu Yuanshao, Shen Jin initially gave her a few perfunctory answers, but later, probably because he was unhappy, he would pinch her cheeks and kiss her as soon as Lin Zhiyao uttered the word "Gu".

then.

Then we'll play games that only our best friends would play.

Lin Zhiyao refused because she was weak and often nearly collapsed, which is why Shen Jin finally let her go.

and.

What she found most physically difficult to endure was...

Since Shen Jin opened up, he took it even more for granted to stay at the Gu family's house. So, every day, he would grab Lin Zhiyao and play games that best friends play.

They always like to come up with new tricks.

Lin Zhiyao gradually couldn't take it anymore, "Ugh... Dr. Shen, please, please don't kiss me anymore... Ugh!"

Lin Zhiyao turned her head to avoid Shen Jin, but he turned her face back to him, further reinforcing her earlier attempt to escape.

then.

Lin Zhiyao's almond-shaped eyes were hazy, and in her dazed state, she touched the new clothes that Shen Jin had prepared—she had a keen sense of touch and a good memory, so she would never mistake them.

Lin Zhiyao instantly snapped out of it, her almond-shaped eyes red and wet, her expression pitiful, "Waaah... Can you please not try anything new today..."

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