Discouraged? Gu Xiaonuan's dictionary doesn't have this word.
Moreover, Gu Xiaonuan's resilience was cultivated through a long accumulation of life's experiences. Encountering someone as difficult to conquer as Si Yuchen just provided an opportunity to see if her steadfast perseverance over the years would falter because of this man.
Gu Xiaonuan didn't care how the house servants viewed her relationship with Si Yuchen. In love?
That was just a show Si Yuchen put on for them; they were the Si Family's servants. Discovering that Si Yuchen even had a wife was already a huge secret.
If they further discovered that Si Yuchen had a poor relationship with his wife, then that would be an enormous secret.
Si Yuchen wanted to appear loving and sweet with her in front of the servants. Gu Xiaonuan acknowledged that men don't want to be watched for fun by others.
Si Yuchen was such a cold person, yet still had his own rules and demands for his emotional life.
