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Her bloodshot eyes were filled with desolation and despair. She gave him one last deep look before being taken away by her family.

Gu Fanghan slammed her fist on the door and roared to the sky.

"Xiao Rong..."

After Gu Fanghan finished speaking, the entire hall fell into a deathly silence.

For a moment, everyone's expressions changed, each with their own thoughts.

A complex expression, unlike anything he had ever seen, appeared on Gu Jinyan's handsome face.

He never imagined that his gentle and refined father had experienced such a heart-wrenching and tragic love affair in his youth.

Yin Liuli's expression remained calm.

She didn't quite understand why Sun Rong would make herself look so disheveled.

If they can't get married, they can't get married. Uncle Gu has no choice in the matter, and she is powerless to do anything about it.

If they're not meant to be, then he should just find someone else he is meant to marry, right?

A dignified separation, even if it means living a carefree life on your own, is quite nice.

Anyway, she won't cry and whine, or run to someone's door demanding an answer to a misunderstanding.

She was engaged to Gu Jinyan, and if Gu Jinyan had to marry someone else's daughter, she would turn around and leave.

Chu Lingyun felt a mix of emotions.

Isn't his current situation just like Sun Rong's?

He watched helplessly as his beloved junior sister was about to marry Gu Jinyan.

But he is not Sun Rong. No matter what choice his junior sister makes, he will silently protect her.

"Poor Xiao Rong..."

Yin Mei listened with tears welling up in her eyes, feeling a deep sense of pity for Sun Rong.

……

"I still remember Xiao Rong's eyes looking at me in the heavy rain."

Gu Fanghan spoke slowly.

That was the last time he saw Sun Rong.

His wedding date with Cheng Yi was set for six months from now.

Fearing he would cause trouble, his father locked him in the mansion for more than a month.

During this month, Gu Fanghan tried every means to glean bits and pieces of information about Xiao Rong from the servants.

Sun Rong fell seriously ill after returning home.

He was bedridden with illness and became emaciated.

Later, for some reason, many rumors circulated in the capital. She was said to be a desperate woman who was eager to marry and made a scene at the Gu family mansion because she couldn't get married.

The innocent Sun Rong became the talk of the town in Beijing.

"The young master of the Gu family is now the top scholar in the imperial examination. She, a mere daughter of a fifth-rank official, dares to dream of marrying him?"

"Of course! Young Master Gu has become the Emperor's son-in-law, she's a perfect match for him!"

"I heard that they weren't engaged at all; it was that Miss Sun who came to them on her own..."

"That young master of the Gu family never even looked at her. It was only after she saw him become the top scholar in the imperial examination that she started crying and begging to get close to him..."

"How can a young woman have no shame! Who would dare marry someone like that?"

……

There are countless other words that are even more offensive than this.

Sun Rong, and indeed the entire Sun family, became a laughingstock in the capital.

Gu Fanghan was extremely anxious.

He wrote several comforting letters to Sun Rong and bribed the maids who did the menial work to take the letters out.

But all those letters disappeared without a trace.

When Gu Fanghan heard news of Sun Rong again, she was already dead.

Not long after, Sun's father made a mistake in court, which angered the emperor, and he was dismissed from his post.

Unable to withstand the pressure any longer, the Sun family buried Sun Rong outside the city, sold their house and land in the capital, and returned to their hometown.

……

"Dead?"

In the deathly silence, Gu Jinyan couldn't help but ask, "Father, you didn't go looking for her again afterward?"

Gu Fanghan shook her head with a wry smile.

When Xiao Rong fell seriously ill, I tried every possible way to visit her at the Sun family's house.

But during those days, your grandfather replaced all the people around me, watching my every move. I tried everything, but I couldn't escape."

Yin Liuli frowned and said,

"Uncle Gu, how did Xiao Rong die? Judging from her ghostly appearance, her lips are bluish-black, and her face has a faint bluish tinge. Could she have taken poison?"

A tear rolled down Gu Fanghan's cheek as she sighed.

"It shouldn't be. She...she resents me and hates me, but why would she be so depressed?"

I heard that she had been ill for a long time and suddenly suffered from heart pain one day, and passed away before the doctor arrived.

I heard the news much later... I still remember the feeling of being struck by lightning.

Before she could finish speaking, Yin Liuli's eyes flashed with a sharp look.

His piercing gaze suddenly turned to behind Gu Fanghan, and he said coldly,

"Come out! What are you doing hiding like this? If you're not satisfied, come and ask him openly and honestly. We can clear things up then. I won't stop you!"

Not far away, in a dark corner devoid of any light.

A sinister-looking ghost was pasted on the wall.

It exuded a chilling aura, and its face radiated a frightening coldness, its features contorted in a menacing manner.

Those blood-red eyes were filled with resentment, staring intently at Gu Fanghan's back... as if they wanted to devour him alive at any moment.

Yin Liuli noticed that the ghost's lips and nails had turned a strange bluish-black color.

Ghosts often appear in their last moments before death.

Especially for those who die a violent death, whether they turned their heads, hanged themselves, took poison, or were hacked to death before they died, their appearance will remain frozen at that moment as ghosts.

Gu Jinyan's heart skipped a beat.

"Liuli, she's here again?"

Yin Liuli frowned.

"I shouted at her, and she disappeared again. Uncle Gu, I think she seems to have something to say."

But when I asked her to explain herself, she disappeared again.

"Xiao Rong!"

Gu Fanghan stood up abruptly and strode quickly in the direction Yin Liuli had pointed.

"Xiao Rong, come out! Come out! I know I let you down back then, and made you suffer so much injustice and pain..."

If you're not happy about this, then show yourself. Brother Fang Han will let you hit or scold him without a single complaint!

"Father!"

Gu Jinyan was startled and quickly chased after him.

Gu Fanghan called out to the darkness for a long time, but Sun Rong's ghost did not reappear.

"Xiao Rong!"

He looked up to the sky and roared, then burst into tears.

Yin Liuli slowly walked up to Gu Fanghan and said coldly,

"Uncle Gu, she is a vengeful spirit, a vengeful spirit haunted by resentment. Eight out of ten of her three souls and seven spirits are devoid of humanity, and she does not recognize her own family."

Even if you want to see her, you should examine your own yang energy and see if you can withstand her resentment!

Gu Fanghan stared at her blankly, tears welling in her eyes, and said...

"Xiao Rong died because of me. I have felt guilty towards her all these years, and I... I have never forgotten her!"

Over the years, I have been secretly visiting her grave to pay my respects on the anniversary of her death; it is something I owe her.

I can't just stand by and watch her be unable to be reborn. Yan'er said you are skilled in the arts of ghosts and spirits. Could you please summon her? I'm willing to do anything to make it up to her...

"You finally admit it!"

Princess Chengyi’s angry and cold voice came, “Gu Fanghan, all these years, your heart has been with that dead man. What am I to you?”

We've been married for eighteen years, and only now do I realize that I, the dignified Princess Chengyi, am not even as good as a dead man!

The air suddenly fell into a deathly silence.