Anyone know how Wen and Gu Xiang met? He seems to care a lot for her. She is more like an adoptive sister than…
*WARNING: MAJOR SPOILER! *
Wen Kexing does provide Gu Xiang's backstory (Chapter 64 in novel) to Cao Weining (as he's not sure if Cao Weining would still love/want to marry her after knowing her background. By the way, he says he's still loves her!) Hopefully the drama shows Gu Xiang's backstory as well.
But in the novel, Wen Kexing says: “I...when I was ten or so years old, a half-grown child myself, I took A-Xiang in. I knew her father and mother--they had died, and she was too young then, still swaddled in blankets. Her mother had hidden her somewhere; their enemies had not noticed her, and she managed to escape with her life.”
Cao Weining didn’t even dare to make a single noise, listening on with an expression near pious.
Wen Kexing continued, “She’s actually not my maidservant...although we address each other like master and servant, I have never treated that lass as an outsider--she is like my own little sister.”
He smiled, paused, then added, “If I were to feign some seniority--I watched her grow up, so she is a little like my daughter. The place we stayed in when we were younger is not somewhere meant for humans to live in. I was a child too, and stumbled many times over the course of raising her. I burnt her mouth the first time I fed her congee--for A-Xiang to survive until now, it wasn’t easy on me, but in truth...it wasn’t easy on her too.” - all credits for english translation above: wenbuxing
So, poor young orphan Wen Kexing raised orphaned baby Gu Xiang.... that's so sad! But hope that helps!
Wen Kexing does provide Gu Xiang's backstory (Chapter 64 in novel) to Cao Weining (as he's not sure if Cao Weining would still love/want to marry her after knowing her background. By the way, he says he's still loves her!) Hopefully the drama shows Gu Xiang's backstory as well.
But in the novel, Wen Kexing says:
“I...when I was ten or so years old, a half-grown child myself, I took A-Xiang in. I knew her father and mother--they had died, and she was too young then, still swaddled in blankets. Her mother had hidden her somewhere; their enemies had not noticed her, and she managed to escape with her life.”
Cao Weining didn’t even dare to make a single noise, listening on with an expression near pious.
Wen Kexing continued, “She’s actually not my maidservant...although we address each other like master and servant, I have never treated that lass as an outsider--she is like my own little sister.”
He smiled, paused, then added, “If I were to feign some seniority--I watched her grow up, so she is a little like my daughter. The place we stayed in when we were younger is not somewhere meant for humans to live in. I was a child too, and stumbled many times over the course of raising her. I burnt her mouth the first time I fed her congee--for A-Xiang to survive until now, it wasn’t easy on me, but in truth...it wasn’t easy on her too.”
- all credits for english translation above: wenbuxing
So, poor young orphan Wen Kexing raised orphaned baby Gu Xiang.... that's so sad! But hope that helps!