The old butler, caught in the middle, felt deeply aggrieved; how could he possibly defy the orders of the head of the family? To break the deadlock, he simply painted Gu Yuan as a mediocre man clinging to the wealth of high society. The young girl, already fallen in love, naturally could not hear a word of it; every flaw the butler pointed out in Gu Yuan only seemed to shimmer with a unique brilliance in her eyes.
She believed that if Gu Yuan were willing to risk his life to save Tang Yanran, it would prove his character was far from what the butler claimed. No one expected this gamble to trigger such a cataclysmic turn of events. When Gu Yuan truly risked his life for the woman he was protecting, the original script fell apart completely. This seemingly cynical man displayed astonishing courage and grit in a moment of crisis, not only winning the respect of the desperate criminals in the prison but also completely captivating the sheltered young girl.
The butler, who knew the truth, could only suffer in silence. He had witnessed with his own eyes, back on Master Gu Shan's turf, that the only person Gu Yuan would ever risk his life to protect was his wife, Lan Yuexin. This meticulously designed "reality test" ultimately backfired.
Chapter 208