[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-mr-gu-s-first-doting-marriage":3,"chapter-mr-gu-s-first-doting-marriage-mr-gu-s-first-doting-marriage-chapter-754":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Mr Gu's First Doting Marriage",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},732995,971,"Chapter 752 - 753: How am I inferior to Uncle?","mr-gu-s-first-doting-marriage-chapter-754",754,"\u003Cp>Chapter 752: Chapter 753: How am I inferior to Uncle?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The term “aunt” seemed to instantly touch Gu Zhaohan’s sensitive nerve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was once the term he resented the most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It took him four years – four years of effort just to extricate himself from the association with these two words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He merely went abroad to attend a seminar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything seemed to suddenly revert back to the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cage above his head clanged shut and fell from the heavens, once again entrapping him within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Zhaohan could not accept it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he had matured and become calmer over these years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But looking at the guilt on Xia Yangyang’s face, he understood everything and could no longer bear it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having been around Gu Zhaohan for so many years, Xia Yangyang had gradually come to know him quite well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone said that Doctor Gu is cold and aloof, like a walking iceberg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Xia Yangyang knew that Gu Zhaohan simply hid behind a shell of icy armor to protect himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath this icy exterior, Gu Zhaohan was a man who had flesh, blood, and warm emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Yangyang turned to Qi Chen and said, “I want to speak to Gu Zhaohan alone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Yangyang was afraid that these two would start fighting again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Chen replied, “Well, I’ll go back to my room first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Yangyang turned and went to the small balcony on the second floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Zhaohan followed her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, Gu Zhaohan could not control himself and grabbed Xia Yangyang’s hand, “Tell me, what’s really going on?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Yangyang responded, “Gu Zhaohan, I’m sorry.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the words “I’m sorry” left her lips, Gu Zhaohan’s heart already knew the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over these years, Xia Yangyang had never stopped saying “I’m sorry” to him. Over and over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These words seemed to have become his nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes, the sound of Xia Yangyang’s voice saying “I’m sorry” in his dreams was enough to jolt him awake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Chen never expected such dreams to become reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Zhaohan could no longer hide his feelings. His fingers tightened their grip and his voice revealed an indescribable pain, “Why, why did I work hard for three years without success, and my uncle succeeds in less than three months? Where am I inferior? Was I not good enough for you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Zhaohan never thought that he would one day ask such self-deprecating and juvenile questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if he was reciting lines from a clichéd TV melodrama.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gu Zhaohan had long known the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Love is not something that you can expect a response from just because you’re good to someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being nice to someone who doesn’t need it from you is just a one-sided wishful thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Yangyang said, “Gu Zhaohan, you’re excellent. You needn’t compare with your uncle. You two lead entirely different lives.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To me it’s the same, ever since we were little, he’s always been given more than I have, be it the family business, our grandfather’s attention, or our mother’s love. Grandfather wanted me to study finance, to avoid competing with my uncle, I studied medicine instead. I didn’t mind, but what I can’t bear is why the only thing I want is always taken away by him, again and again. In the past, I swallowed it because you were married, but what now? Does the three years I spent accompanying you mean anything to you? Can’t you see that I’ve given everything for Xia Ye? Yangyang, I don’t understand it. I don’t understand how he can beat me so easily.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Yangyang’s heart ached in waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could she not understand Gu Zhaohan’s efforts all these years?\u003C\u002Fp>",616,"2026-06-02T11:18:24.992Z",1,"novelbin.me","6bb125bd2153206bfd8d469aa157cbb9a3b87bf4465029b32aa338265a329e1b","mr-gu-s-first-doting-marriage-chapter-613","mr-gu-s-first-doting-marriage-chapter-612",2419,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmr-gu-s-first-doting-marriage-cover.jpg"]