PPS Chapter 119

“Gu Yusen, your father and I are not joking.”

“You cannot be with Chu Zhaoyi.”

Madam Gu looked at her stubborn son with helplessness. She had been harsh yesterday, and she hadn’t slept well all night, feeling worried and heartbroken.

Just because she didn’t interfere with the two sleeping together again last night didn’t mean she could allow them to continue living together.

Before knowing about this, it didn’t matter.

But now, it’s unacceptable.

Gu Yusen stood before his mother, his back ramrod straight, his eyes stubbornly defiant. His face still showed some fatigue, and the whip marks from last night still throbbed faintly.

He knew what his mother was talking about, and he knew why she opposed it, but he couldn’t compromise.

“Mom, my being with Chu Zhaoyi is not a momentary impulse,” Gu Yusen’s voice was low and firm, each word seemingly squeezed from the depths of his heart.

“I know your and Dad’s concerns, and I know the family’s responsibilities. But, I will not sacrifice my own happiness for the sake of being the so-called heir.”

Gu Yusen said “will not,” not “don’t want to,” his attitude was firm enough.

Madam Gu looked at her son, a complex emotion flashing in her eyes. How could she not understand her son’s determination?

Back then, his grandfather’s thinking was even more unenlightened. He insisted on choosing a wife for his son who could support the family, and she was naturally not on that list.

But in the end, it was Gu’s father who persisted, and the two of them overcame many obstacles to finally become husband and wife.

She had experienced it, so she understood it even more, so she felt even more heartache.

Therefore, she was even more aware that a large family like the Gu family was never a place where one could do as one pleased. The family’s reputation, responsibilities, and future were not things that could be easily discarded.

And she and Gu’s father had worked so hard for so many years in order to give Gu Yusen more room to choose. He could be free from these constraints and could freely choose the person he would spend his life with.

Even a girl from an ordinary family would be fine.

But as fate would have it, it was a boy.

“Sanmu, you’re still young, there are many things you don’t understand,” Madam Gu’s tone softened a bit, carrying a trace of helplessness and heartache.

“That child, Chu Zhaoyi… is indeed very good, and Mom can see that he’s sincere towards you. But, you’re both boys. Your father and I never demanded so-called matching social status, nor did we require your wife’s family to support us. But at least you have to leave an heir for the Gu family. We only have you as a son, this is your responsibility.”

Even if Gu Yusen had other siblings, it wouldn’t matter, she would let him do as he pleased.

“Responsibility?” Gu Yusen gave a bitter laugh, a hint of mockery in his eyes. “Mom, is the responsibility you’re talking about marrying someone I don’t love, and then having a child, just to continue the Gu family’s bloodline? Then what about my life? What about my feelings? Aren’t these important?”

Madam Gu was choked by his words, not knowing how to respond for a moment. Of course, she knew that her son’s feelings were important. She had experienced her parents’ disapproval, walking step by step to where she was today, so naturally she knew the hardships involved.

She sighed, her tone carrying a trace of fatigue: “Sanmu, it’s not that Mom doesn’t feel sorry for you. But you have to understand that not everything in this world can go as you wish. The Gu family has come to where it is today, not by being willful.”

“I can adopt a child, or take a child from the collateral line,” Gu Yusen felt that this was not a problem. Modern society was so developed, who required the heir to be their own biological child? It wasn’t like being an emperor.

“Who can still maintain their original intentions when faced with the Gu family’s enormous wealth? If there is no blood relationship, you will suffer in the future. Without blood ties, in the face of enormous interests, there will only be suspicion.” Madam Gu shook her head, this was what she was most worried about. Family feuds were not uncommon in large families.

It was just that the Gu family was sparsely populated, passing down for three generations with no relatives. The so-called collateral relatives, to be honest, were not closely related by blood.

Gu Yusen didn’t speak. He knew, knew that his parents had already given him the maximum amount of freedom.

But on this matter, he would not back down.

Madam Gu looked at her son, not speaking for a long time. She knew that she couldn’t convince him. But, as the matriarch of the Gu family, she couldn’t let this matter continue to develop.

“Sanmu, Mom will give you time to think it over carefully,” Madam Gu finally sighed, her tone carrying a trace of compromise, but also revealing a helplessness. Her gaze fell on Gu Yusen, as if she still wanted to say something, but she swallowed it back.

Hearing these words, Gu Yusen felt a burst of annoyance in his heart. He frowned, his tone carrying a hint of self-deprecation: “Mom, don’t worry, I haven’t even won him over yet.”

As soon as he said this, Madam Gu suddenly raised her head, her eyes filled with disbelief, with several large question marks almost materializing above her head.

Gu Yusen glanced at her, feeling speechless in his heart. He found it difficult to associate the woman in front of him, whose face was full of shock, disdain, and even a hint of schadenfreude, with the Madam Gu who had just been having a serious, formal negotiation.

From childhood to adulthood, Gu Yusen had been a favored son of heaven, obtaining everything he wanted through his own abilities. Except for being hospitalized at the age of twelve after being attacked, he had never suffered any setbacks.

He had thus become extremely arrogant.

Now he was actually suffering a setback in this kind of matter.

Not only did his parents disagree, but he couldn’t even win over the person he loved.

They had even slept in the same bed.

So they had a platonic relationship under the covers?

The expression on Madam Gu’s face changed again and again, and the anger that had arisen during the argument with Gu Yusen had also dissipated a lot. She pursed her lips and reached out to pat Gu Yusen’s shoulder.

As if to comfort him.

“Mom, if you can’t help it, just laugh, don’t hold it in,” Gu Yusen said, his face expressionless.