[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-687":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"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},1544222,2006,"Chapter 687 - 687 678 Gu Youyou's Blueprint","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-687",687,"\u003Cp>687: Chapter 678: Gu Youyou’s Blueprint 687: Chapter 678: Gu Youyou’s Blueprint Jie’s Second Young Master shook his head and said, “Don’t worry, I won’t do anything foolish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What are you thinking about, silly girl?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>want to clear things up with her, and I should at least apologize to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I don’t dare to face her, I’m too ashamed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I never expected to push her to that state one day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If back then…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it wasn’t for my misinterpretation of that sachet, and coincidentally that both Du Wanqing and I had lost our mothers…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enough, enough, stop talking about it,” Xie Qinyun interrupted irritably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t want to hear these words, and I’m sure Du Sister would feel the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you’re going to see her just to say these things, then I think it’s better not to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I asked Sister Du last time, now that you know your mistakes and the misunderstanding has been cleared, is there still a possibility for you two?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do you know what she said?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did she say?” His eyes lit up with a glimmer of hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She said that you and the Concubine both lost your mothers that year, and the comfort you found in each other was real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hurt you’ve caused her because of the Concubine over these years was also real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps she really loved you once, but that love was ground away bit by bit by the repeated injuries you inflicted upon her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no fate between you and her, and if there was, it was a calamitous one, and now even that calamitous fate has ended.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jie’s Second Young Master felt his legs go weak, almost unable to stand, as the last string of hope in his heart snapped suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had thought that as long as the misunderstanding between them was resolved, there would still be a possibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she was right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The harm he had done to her was real, driving her to such a state, how could it be undone by simply resolving a “misunderstanding”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the still waters in his heart froze into ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine, I’ll come back with you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miss Du put down the ledger in her hand, with neither sadness nor joy, as she watched a familiar carriage drive away from the inn across the street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no fate between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If only that year, when she had handed him the small tiger sachet, he had been willing to look up, or if she could have run a little slower…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>perhaps things between them might have been different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, Miss Du picked up a drawing from her hand and called for Cuiya.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The drawing was a congratulatory gift from Gu Youyou, and the clothing it depicted was the most beautiful she had ever seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did the fabric ordered from the Jin Family come back?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cuiya set aside her work, clapped her hands, and ran over joyfully to look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you talking about Doctor Gu’s drawing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve ordered the lotus-pink fabric already; the Jin Family’s clerk delivered it yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do you need it now, Miss?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, bring it here,” said Miss Du.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon Cuiya brought the fabric Miss Du had requested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miss Du smiled and said, “I want to make the first set of clothes myself and send it to Doctor Gu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cuiya, do you remember Doctor Gu’s measurements?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cuiya confidently smiled and said, “Don’t worry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as Cuiya has seen them once, she can recall the measurements to near perfection even without a ruler.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clothes you make will surely fit Doctor Gu perfectly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally seeing the true face of that woman, Jie Zhonglin still couldn’t believe it after so long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had trusted her so much, defended her in every way, yet he was unaware of how venomous she was behind his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His sister once said he was blind in both eyes and heart, and indeed, she was right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the disheveled woman kneeling and weeping before him, he hated himself for being so foolish, deceived for so many years by such a hypocritical face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jie’s Second Young Master closed his eyes and took a deep breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not sending you to the Governor’s Office is already merciful enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m allowing you to leave the Jie Residence because I feel that not all of your arrogant and malicious deeds over the years are entirely your fault; I’m also to blame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren’t for my inability to distinguish right from wrong, if I hadn’t placed my trust in you in everything, you wouldn’t have become what you are today.”\u003C\u002Fp>",767,"2026-06-06T06:54:58.678Z",1,"novelbin.me","9d2d31d6a1f1ea72b2bc2fdc3e8a1c295cf34056278398b6b6e09265bebfc713","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-688","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-686",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]