Chapter 6 Let’s Divorce
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When Wen Ruyan saw me, she was scared as if she had seen a ghost. She began shouting madly and smashing around, as if I had really violated her. Seeing her like this, Gu Tingchen immediately hugged her in his arms.
His chest had always been warm and comforting.
Wen Ruyan gradually calmed down and murmured Gu Tingchen's name. While Gu Tingchen, my husband, kept comforting her, "it's ok. She won't do anything to you with me being here."
Gu Tingchen's moment of tenderness only belonged to her. When he turned around, he asked me coldly, "what are you doing coming to the hospital? Go home at once."
In front of Wen Ruyan, he always asked me to go home.
I withdrew my sight not to look at Gu Tingchen’s tenderness towards Wen Ruyan. At this moment, Wen Ruyan, taking the advantage of Gu Tingchen's indulgence to her, suddenly spilled a cup of hot water on my face. I screamed in pain, stepped in panic, and hit something. When I was about to fall to the ground, someone held my arm.
I looked up helplessly at him: "Tingchen."
He looked at me a bit anxiously, then lightly glared at Wen Ruyan and took me to the emergency room. From the mirror, I saw my exquisite makeup had been melted by hot water.
Only leaving half a face with a blood scar.
That scar was from the noon when I fell, and from the scratching of my nails.
Gu Tingchen found gauze and medical alcohol. He was silent, and began to sterilize me. Although I felt hurt, I kept silent, quietly enjoying the short moment of warmth he gave me.
My black hair was wet, and I turned my head slightly and looked at Gu Tingchen's long and fair fingers. I couldn’t help calling him gently: "Gu Tingchen."
He answered in a low voice: "huh?"
I asked gently, and almost greedily: "I’ll give you the assets of my family and agree to divorce. Are you really not willing to have a romance with me?"
Gu Tingchen fingers stopped. He looked up at me confusedly, and asked the question he had asked before, "since Ruyan returned yesterday, you have been strange. What on earth do you want?"
Gu Tingchen had said that he does not have too much patience with me. His frown at this moment showed that he had been out of patience. I reached out, touched his eyebrows and asked: "are you really not willing?"
My voice was very light and humble.
Perhaps because it was the first time that I had touched his eyebrow bone, I became more and more addicted the more I touched it. Gu Tingchen suddenly grabbed my wrist. His voice was low and enchanting, and also sounded as if it was a sharp blade: "I can have a romance with anyone, even a fool, but not you. Stop daydreaming."
Like being burned, I quickly took back my hand and put it on the side of my body. The sorrows and grievances in my heart were suddenly magnified at this moment, and I suddenly didn't want to bear it any more.
Gu Tingchen continued to apply the ointment to my face. He looked attentive.
I smiled and asked him, "Tingchen, do you think that I won't feel hurt?"
He subconsciously asked, "huh?"
I smiled and said in a low voice, "is it because you think I would never feel hurt, never cry and never make a scene that you have been bullying me unscrupulously? But, Gu Tingchen, I was just 20 years old when I married you. It was an age when I could not bear the indifference, hatred, and neglect from others, especially from my husband who I relied on the most. In fact, I am really not as tough as you think."
Gu Tingchen looked at me in shock. His eyebrows were really pretty. I looked quietly and suddenly heard him ask, "why do you want¡¡to have a romance?"
Estimating that chairman Gu would arrive in no time, I blinked and decided to end the topic. I casually said, "Gu Tingchen, let's divorce. I'll give you the assets of the Shi family."
Gu Tingchen suddenly used more strength, I felt too painful to take a breath, but I still pretended to be heartless, smiling and saying: "I am tired of this kind of life. Haven't you always wanted to marry Wen Yan?"
Gu Tingchen: "¡¡"
His handsome face looked gloomy. I took the divorce agreement out of my handbag and still smiled briskly, "Tingchen, you will be free as soon as you sign it."
I didn’t want to let go of him, but what was the use even if I kept hold of him?
Besides, I didn't want to persuade myself anymore to forgive him for hurting me.
Gu Tingchen took over the divorce agreement and read it carefully. Finally, he simply asked only one question, "are you even giving up the assets of your family?"
"I will only keep 5 million and give all the rest of the assets to you."
"¡¡"
He held the divorce agreement and sat still for a long time. I took a pen out of my handbag and gave it to him. He hesitated for a long time before solemnly signing his name.
I was sad. He had signed it anyway.
In his heart, he had actually wanted to get divorced.
An agreement finally ended my marriage with him.
I took the agreement over and forced a smile, "I'll have the lawyer handle it and send you the divorce certificate in a couple of days. The shares of Shi family will be transferred to you in the next few months."
Then I would be finally left alone for the rest of my short life.
Seemingly to have straightened out my thinking, I felt relaxed all over. Even the injury on my face seemed not to hurt so much. Finally, I became willing to let go of him, and willing to give him the freedom he wanted.
By this moment, chairman Gu probably had arrived, so, Gu Tingchen and I stood up and went to Wen Ruyan's ward. As we got to the door of the ward, we happened to hear chairman Gu questioning Wen Ruyan in a cold voice: "those who kidnapped you were hired by yourself, weren’t they?"
Wen Ruyan had always been afraid of him, so she answered in a tone of fear: "Nonsense! I didn’t hire them!"
"I already have all your transfer records, and you are still trying to deny? Wen Ruyan, don’t you try to shift the blame on my daughter-in-law! Even if she divorces my son, I would still not allow you to be the next Mrs. Gu!"
I turned my head to look at Gu Tingchen, whose expression remained unchanged after hearing the conversation. Thinking it over, I felt that I had made an unnecessary move. Gu Tingchen was a smart man, who could ascertain a lot of things without help from others.
He had not debunked Wen Ruyan’s lie, but even comforted her pretending not to know anything instead. It turned out that he had simply been indulging her, and I had been foolishly trying to prove that I was innocent.
I even bothered his father.
Thinking of this, I turned and left in a hurry. As soon as I ran to the hospital entrance, I sensed something wrong and subconsciously touched my hot nose.
In the center of my palm, there was something dazzlingly red.
Under the quiet night sky, there were still white snowflakes dancing in the air. I reached out to hold them, and then my legs suddenly became too weak to support myself. I fell heavily on the steps covered by snow.
At that moment, I seemed to have seen Gu Tingchen from the past.
He called me little girl gently, and asked in a low voice, "you little girl, why not go home? It’s so late."
I smiled happily and brightly: "I like to listen to you playing the piano, can you play “The street where the wind resides” for me?"
"ok, I'll play it for you in class tomorrow."
That year, I finally did not have the courage to enter the classroom to listen to the piano song he played, but squatted outside, and cried at a loss under the green window on the white wall.
Falling in love with Gu Tingchen seemed very simple.
¡¡
I fell on the steps, and still had a little consciousness. I even saw that warm Gu Zhenting, and seemed to hear him calling me by my ear.
"Shi Sheng, wake up! Hold on!"
Vaguely, I seemed to hear another sad tone begging me gently: "as long as you are all right, I promise to have a romance with you, even if you want it to last for a whole life."
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