The very familiar handwriting that Chang Geng had copied many times before wrote a lot of pages. First, he confessed his mistakes earnestly, then using words that could reach the boy's heart, he explained reasonably and eloquently as to why he had left without bidding goodbye. Finally, he expressed how much he missed Chang Geng straightforwardly and promised that if the Northwest was safe, he would return to the manor before the end of the year for new year celebration.

Chang Geng read through it from start to finish, then put it aside with a smile, because even if he used his toe to think, he would still know that this letter didn't come from the hands of the Marquis of Order himself.

The sickeningly sweet words such as 'separated by thousands of miles, tossing and turning all night', 'eat more and dress warmly, don't let me be worried', were impossible to have sprouted from the soil of Gu Yun's head. He could tell from the lengthy words and sentences that Shen Yi wrote them in Gu Yun's stead.

At most, the bastard yifu only copied them down.

However, Chang Geng sadly came to realize that even though he was fully aware of this, when he imagined that these words had really come out of the pen in Gu Yun's hand, he could not help but want to engrave every single one into his eyes.

Unfortunately, Gu Yun did not keep his promise.

Gu Yun felt guilty. This time, he kicked out Shen Yi, who had made promises on his behalf, then personally took up arms and wrote a very long letter to Chang Geng.

Chang Geng smiled in frustration after reading it, although he felt that this letter was quite sincere, Gu Yun honestly had no talent in coaxing others and had completely poured oil into the fire instead.

Marshal Gu first talked about a bunch of trivial matters that he thought were interesting and entertaining. He wrote a thousand words, off-topic for thousands of miles. At the end, he used the words 'busy with military affairs' to sum up the reasons why he could not return to the capital.

Chang Geng did not care about how to properly grill scorpions in the desert for them to taste delicious. He had searched the long letters several times back and forth, but had never found the sentence he cared about the most: if Gu Yun could not come back this year, then when could he come back?

However, there was nothing following after 'busy with military affairs', only a long list of gifts was attached.

Perhaps Gu Yun felt that apologizing in words was not enough, so he expressed it in action 一 he sent all the good stuff he was able to gather this year back to the manor, giving it all to Chang Geng: from jewelry and treasures, to weapons, some with flaws and imperfections, so on and so forth.