Tian Rui was moping in the room at this time, when she heard the sound of the door opening, she simply turned around and played with the bonsai.
Guo Zhengde entered the room and looked at Tian Rui's appearance. After living together for so long, he naturally knew that she was angry at this time.
Guo Zhengde held Tian Rui's shoulders from behind and said softly: "Madam, don't blame me. I have been busy with work during this period and have neglected your feelings. Please forgive me."
Tian Rui became even more angry when he heard this. He immediately turned around and burst out his grievances.
"I understand you! Do you mean that I don't want to make trouble unreasonably? You mean that if you forget our anniversary, I should also be considerate of you and find countless reasons in my heart to persuade myself. Are you forced to do so? Even outside Even if you are bullied by outsiders, you must keep your manners, because I am Guo Zhengde, the wife of Section Chief Guo!"
Guo Zhengde listened quietly to Tian Rui saying everything without any expression. He just looked at Tian Rui with gentle eyes, and then said softly: "Does it feel better to say it?"
Tian Rui immediately broke her guard and said angrily: "Guo Zhengde, every time I get sulky, you do this. You deliberately say some angry words to make me burst out and scold you. Don't you like it very much?" scold!"
Guo Zhengde said with a smile: "I definitely don't like being scolded, but sulking is not good for your health."
Tian Rui was immediately laughed at by Guo Zhengde.
"I'm usually serious, but now I'm not serious."
Guo Zhengde laughed and said: "We are an old married couple, why should we be so serious?"
As he said this, Guo Zhengde put his arm around Tian Rui's waist and helped her sit down at the table.
Even though Tian Rui knew that Guo Zhengde used this trick every time he made her angry, she just liked this trick, and at this time, most of her anger was gone.
"Wen Hui told you everything?"
Guo Zhengde always looked at Tian Rui tenderly, without saying a word, just nodded slightly.
"This girl has a quick mouth."
"How could you not tell me if something like this happened?"
"It's not a good thing. Telling you will only increase your troubles."
Guo Zhengde was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then smiled and said: "Okay, let's not talk about the unpleasant things."
"oh."
"Today is not over yet, do I still have a chance to make amends?" Guo Zhengde suddenly said mysteriously.
"Remedy? How to remedy it? The lantern festival in Lihua Lane has ended long ago." Tian Rui said without interest.
But Guo Zhengde mysteriously pulled Tian Rui up from his seat and took her out of the room.
"Why are you going out so late..."
Before Tian Rui finished speaking, she saw the sky lanterns rising in the yard.
"I missed tonight's lantern viewing party. I can only give you a slightly simple but special lantern show."
Tian Rui looked up at the rising sky lantern, and for some reason, a feeling of freedom and openness suddenly arose in her heart.
Guo Zhengde saw Tian Rui looking fascinated, and the light in his eyes was just like when they first met.
"Is it beautiful?"
"Beautiful..." Tian Rui murmured.
"I also saw the most beautiful scenery in the world."
You look to the sky, I look to you.
At this moment, Guo Zhengde seemed to have returned to that year, today, and then.
His heart, which had been tired for many years, seemed to be beating alive again, and the emotion he thought he had lost seemed to be back.
The two cuddled together and watched the sky lanterns rise into the sky and turn into stars.
"After all these years, you actually learned how to be romantic. Did you learn it just to trick the little girl?"
Tian Rui's unintentional words seemed to expose Guo Zhengde, causing Guo Zhengde to panic briefly.
However, Guo Zhengde is no longer the young scholar he once was, and has long since learned to conceal his emotions.
"It's not just to trick you, a little girl." Guo Zhengde joked.
Tian Rui chuckled in Guo Zhengde's arms.
Tian Rui was silent for a moment, then suddenly turned her head and looked at Guo Zhengde seriously.
Said: "Zhengde, I know that you have always thought that I married you all these years. In other words, the whole world thinks so. Only I know that this is not the case. With your talent and ability, it is I admire you."
While Guo Zhengde was panicked when he heard this, he was also moved by being exposed to the inferiority complex he had hidden in his heart for many years and being understood.
All kinds of emotions were intertwined, leaving Guo Zhengde speechless.
The reason why he is cautious in everything he does in life is actually to maintain his somewhat stubborn self-esteem.
But after being exposed by Tian Rui's words, he felt that none of these were important. Only the people in front of him were the most important.
In this matter, everyone in the world and even Guo Zhengde are common people, and only Tian Rui is the wise man who truly realizes the great enlightenment.
However, that was not the only thing that surprised Guo Zhengde.
"You have worked hard over the years to do everything well. Outside you are the responsible Section Chief Guo, and at home you are a devoted and good husband. In fact, there are some things that I can see through and understand..." At this point, Tian Rui It seems a little difficult to say.
"The whole continent is like this...you don't have to be devoted to me..."
"Ah..." Guo Zhengde was indeed a little confused at this time. On this issue, the two of them had never been so clear.
"What I mean is that you can take concubines, I can understand and accept it." Tian Rui mustered up the courage to say.
Guo Zhengde didn't know what expression he should make at this time. If he was disloyal to Tian Rui by hiding his beauty in the Golden House of Blazing City, then what should he say and do now?
In fact, Tian Rui is smart. It is normal for men to have concubines in the Nine Provinces Continent, and some people even use this to judge whether a man is successful.
Since it was the general trend, Tian Rui chose to follow the general trend to give herself and Guo Zhengde a step down.
Only then did Guo Zhengde truly admit in his heart that Tian Rui wanted to marry him. She is still the bright and talented girl she was back then, but she has become filthy.
Guo Zhengde secretly swore in his heart that he would never let go of Tian Rui's hand in this life.
The two simply asked their servants to take the dinner outside, and the hazy moonlight added a sense of freshness to the meal. Just like their marriage for many years, the sudden change in Tian Rui today also gave off new vitality.
"I am treated so shamelessly outside, so you must be squeezed even more in the academy." Tian Rui said softly.
Guo Zhengde paused for a moment with the chopsticks in his hand, and finally stopped after adding a chopstick dish to Tian Rui opposite him.
"It's okay, that's how the workplace is. It's easier to work your way up to making them fear the power in your hands than to work hard to hope that some people will sincerely cooperate with you."
Guo Zhengde's words were relatively straightforward, and he also exposed some of the darkness in the workplace. However, the two people present were no longer ignorant of the world and were more able to accept such truth.
Tian Rui nodded and continued: "Well, when you are promoted to the director of the Security Office, those swaying wallflowers will come to please you."
"With the recommendation from the old director, your promotion to director should be a sure thing, right?" Tian Rui asked casually.
Guo Zhengde looked at Tian Rui as if he was making a decision. Finally, as if he had figured it out, he said, "Madam, I don't plan to be promoted to director."
Tian Rui stopped holding the chopsticks in her hand, looked up at Guo Zhengde in surprise, and asked, "If you don't want to be promoted to director? Then you still plan to become section chief?"
Then Tian Rui showed a hint of anxiety and said: "Zhengde, I understand your style of doing things, but I feel that you can no longer keep a low profile at this time. You have just made a breakthrough, so you should show some enterprising spirit..."
Guo Zhengde smiled and waved his hand, signaling Tian Rui to calm down, and then explained: "Madam, you are right, we can no longer keep a low profile. It's okay if they try to stumbling upon me in the courtyard, but I can't tolerate them. I’m bullying my family, let alone you!”
Tian Rui was stunned. She could see that the true anger reflected in Guo Zhengde's eyes was true.
"Zhengde, in fact, what happened tonight was just a coincidence. Don't be impulsive..."
Guo Zhengde walked up to Tian Rui, took her into his arms, and said with a smile: "Madam, I understand, you are afraid that I will be impulsive. I am not the stupid young man I used to be, who would not do stupid things."
"But one thing about me hasn't changed. That foolish young man back then could do all the stupid things for you, and I can do it too now."
"If I can't even protect my wife, how can I fulfill the promise I made to you and how can I be worthy of my father-in-law who entrusted you to me?"
Tian Rui was a little touched, as if she saw the poor scholar blushing in front of his father and promising to protect him with his whole life.
"Madam, since they all want me to enter the game, I will show it to them. When the game is disrupted by me, they will not be able to retreat if they want to." At this time, Guo Zhengde truly It shows the demeanor of the hegemon in the mortal realm.
Guo Zhengde turned around and remembered that his wife was still beside him. He quickly calmed down and said, "It's just... madam, I will still need my father's side..."
Before Guo Zhengde could finish speaking, Tian Rui puffed up her chest and said, "Husband, just rush forward, and I will do my best to protect you."
Guo Zhengde was moved and took Tian Rui into his arms. It seemed that some of the constraints in his heart were broken invisibly. In the past, he always trapped himself in the eyes of the world. Only now did he realize that warriors are originally from this world. Those who go against the trend will eventually become ordinary beings.
Guo Zhengde, who was feeling a new state of mind, did not notice a hint of cunning in the eyes of Tian Rui in his arms.
