The couple finished their wild vegetable soup without tasting a thing, completely oblivious to its inherent bitterness.
Xu Yulan set her bowl and chopsticks aside as soon as she finished eating. "Out with it. What's the story behind all your injuries? Didn't you promise me before? No more gambling."
"These injuries are all because of Kai Yuan," Gu Kaichen replied.
"Gu Kaiyuan? He laid a hand on you?" The fact that he hadn't been beaten over gambling, but rather by Gu Kaiyuan, was unacceptable to Xu Yulan. What right did Gu Kaiyuan have to hit her husband?
"Are you stupid? You just stood there and let him hit you? Didn't you know to fight back?" At that moment, Xu Yulan had clearly forgotten that Gu Kaiyuan knew martial arts. If it had been a real fight, there was no way Gu Kaichen would still be standing there.
"He didn't hit me. He had that lapdog servant of Ms. Bai's rile up the bystanders, and they pelted me with stones."
