Still, what Feng Tianyi said earlier made sense to him. Perhaps he should give his elder brother a chance to explain himself after their long separation.
A week later, He Lianchen found himself standing right outside the huge front door of the He family mansion. It had been over a decade since the last time he'd been here, and he couldn't believe that the day he would be able to step to this place again would come.
When he told Gu Yuyao that his elder brother reached out to meet him, his wife insisted that it was time for him to face the problem he'd been avoiding for such a long time.
"I know that you are upset with your brother, Lianchen. But you have to understand that he has no one to rely on for the past years to keep you safe," Gu Yuyao said as she played with his hair while he lay on their bed.
"Why now?" he scoffed. "I could have helped him defeat our Uncle if only he believed that I was capable."
