What Lord Chen, Senior Gu—Gu Zhengnan could not make sense of it anyway.
But clearly, the relationship between the two was even more intimate than he had expected.
That made him let out a slight breath of relief.
Now, the Marriage Contract had been postponed, and there were many possible changes; the matter of Qingcheng had yet to be settled. Though the clan had made a plan for this trip, in the end they had not consulted Chen Ping'an about it.
If problems arose on Gu Qingchan's side as well, he feared their relationship with Ping'an would find it hard to remain as it had been before.
Fortunately, the two of them still maintained a fairly good relationship. They had not seen each other for a bit, but there was no estrangement in the way they spoke.
Terms of address like Senior Gu and Lord Chen from earlier were mostly habits from the two of them interacting in private.
Now that their positions had changed, they simply had not had time to alter them yet.
For instance, before Chen Ping'an had risen to power, in front of Gu Qingchan, he had clearly only been a junior. Addressing her as Senior Gu was perfectly reasonable.
As for Gu Qingchan, when they met before, she could still call him Ping'an, but now that Ping'an had broken through to the Celestial realm and his status had changed, perhaps she felt it was no longer quite proper to address him that way. That was why she had temporarily settled on calling him Lord Chen.
Mm, that should be it.
Gu Zhengnan's thoughts were clear and penetrating, and he quickly figured out the cause and effect of the matter.
Even if there were some discrepancies, he feared it would not be far from what he