After the divorce, Mr. Gu spent every day at the crematorium.

While Shen Yao was lost in thought, her phone vibrated.

There are two WeChat messages.

One of them is by Shen Dequan.

"If I don't see 15 yuan in my account within three days, I'll take a knife and slit my wrists at the gate of the Gu family villa to ruin your reputation!"

One of them is by Gu Tianyou.

"Shen Yao, don't think you're safe just because you've hooked up with Huangfu Hao! What is Huangfu Hao's status, and what is yours? He's just playing with you!"

After reading these two messages, a suffocating sense of despair gripped Shen Yao like vines around her neck.

The desperate vines tightened their grip, almost suffocating her.

She sat on the hospital windowsill, her feet dangling in the air, looking down at the eighteenth floor below, and closed her eyes in despair.

A few days later, in her newly purchased Japanese home, she wrote down a sentence.

"Living towards death, from this day forward, I am no longer myself."

In the following time, Gu Tianyou was busy finding a senior physical therapist for Ye Yingying and had no time to pay attention to Shen Yao.

Shen Yao, who usually bombards Gu Tianyou with questions, hasn't contacted him for a full two weeks.

Gu Tianyou felt that Shen Yao had become very strange and unfamiliar lately.

But the company's new project kept him incredibly busy, so he didn't delve into the reasons behind it. He was confident that Shen Yao must have been the one who contacted him first.

It wasn't until a month later, when he returned from a business trip out of town, that the maid rushed over to tell him that Shen Yao had moved out, and he realized that something was wrong.

But remembering how Shen Yao would always put on airs and run away from home whenever she got angry, he immediately waved his hand.

"She can leave whenever she wants; the family won't miss her!"

"Young Master, the Young Madam has moved all her belongings away, and she also took Mimi with her."

Mimi is a stray cat that Shen Yao adopted. She likes her very much and cherishes her.

Gu Tianyou is a clean person, and he gets annoyed every time he sees a cat.

He also said that if Shen Yao had touched the cat, she would not be allowed to enter the bedroom.

Therefore, Shen Yao had no choice but to keep the white tabby cat, Mimi, in the second bedroom.

Every time Shen Yao pretended to run away from home, Gu Tianyou would go to the second bedroom to check on her.

As long as Mimi is still around, Shen Yao will definitely be back within three days.

As it turned out, Shen Yao returned almost the very next day.

The reason is that he can't let go of Mimi.

Gu Tianyou thought with a sense of superiority that this woman actually couldn't bear to part with him.

Now, hearing from the maid that Shen Yao had taken Mimi away as well, Gu Tianyou felt panicked.

He tossed his coat onto the sofa and hurried upstairs.

When he opened the second bedroom door and there was no longer any "meowing" sound from Mimi, Gu Tianyou felt a bad premonition.

"Is this woman serious?"

Gu Tianyou still couldn't believe that the woman who had been entangled with him for nearly 20 years was really willing to leave him.

This woman would even bark like a dog for him.

Everyone in Shenzhen knows that Shen Yao has been pursuing Gu Tianyou for many years.

Therefore, this woman could not bear to leave him.

Thinking this, Gu Tianyou quickly walked down the stairs to his car.

Five minutes later, the black Maserati drove away from the Gu family villa.

When Gu Tianyou arrived at the neurosurgery department and entered the ward where Shen Yao had once stayed, he found an unfamiliar face lying in bed.

He stopped a nurse and asked, "What about the patients who stayed here before?"

The nurse was startled by his fierce expression.

"Sir... I'm new here, I don't know."

Frustrated, Gu Tianyou turned around and went to the nurses' station to inquire.

Only then did he learn that Shen Yao had been discharged from the hospital three days earlier.

Gu Tianyou took out his phone and called Shen Yao, but no one answered.

An elegant French restaurant plays soft, light music. A woman in a long, off-the-shoulder blue dress exudes grace and poise.

She raised her glass and clinked it with a foreign man's.

The foreign man praised her for being very beautiful, saying she had the charm of an oriental beauty.

An elegant and beautiful woman had her phone constantly vibrating in her bag.

"Do you want to take this call?" the foreign man suggested to the woman.

The woman glanced at the screen of her phone in her bag and saw the three large characters "Gu Tianyou".

She immediately shook her head. "Let's get back to business. I'm very interested in your proposed collaboration."

The foreign man's eyes lit up, and he immediately began to explain his purpose.

After finishing our business, we returned to our newly rented apartment at 10 p.m.

As soon as the door opened, Mimi wagged her long, thin tail and meowed as she walked over, rubbing against the woman's long, fair legs.

Shen Yao picked it up and kissed it.

After taking a shower, Shen Yao finally had time to pick up her phone and saw that Gu Tianyou had called her three times and sent her three WeChat messages.

"What trick are they playing now?"

"If it weren't for Grandpa's birthday in a couple of days, do you think I would have contacted you?"

"Grandpa loves you so much, don't forget his 75th birthday!"

In the past, Shen Yao would have been very upset to see such a message.

But now, she just glanced at it and read it without replying.

the next morning.

Shen Yao then received a call from Old Master Gu.

"Yaoyao, come over with Ayou for dinner tomorrow."

"Yes, I will definitely be there for Grandpa's birthday."

"Good, good, good! My Yao Yao is just so sensible!"

Grandpa Gu didn't notice that Shen Yao used the word "I" instead of "we".

hang up the phone.

Shen Yao walked to the dressing mirror, looked at her face, and could no longer see the bruises.

The cigarette burns on his arm were still quite noticeable.

As soon as Gu Tianyou returned home, he received a phone call from his grandfather questioning him.

"You brat, did you bully Yao Yao again? Apologize to her right now!"

As soon as the call connected, Old Master Gu launched into a tirade of abuse.

Gu Tianyou's tone was also unfriendly after hearing this.

"Grandpa, did Shen Yao complain to you again?"

"Don't worry about whether she's complaining or not, just apologize to her."

Grandpa Gu didn't care about anything else and was solely biased towards Shen Yao.

In Gu Tianyou's view, this must be Shen Yao trying to sow discord between Old Master Gu and others.

Hmph, just as I expected. The woman pretended to ignore me, but secretly she was using Old Master Gu to put pressure on me in order to achieve reconciliation.

Thinking about it this way, Gu Tianyou's frustration of the past few days suddenly cleared up.

Ah, this woman still loves herself and cares about herself.

Upon receiving this answer, Gu Tianyou felt a surge of joy.

He didn't understand why he was like this.

But that doesn't matter. In short, he will never fall in love with Shen Yao.

After ending his conversation with Grandpa Gu, Gu Tianyou dialed Shen Yao's number.

Shen Yao happened to see his call.

Thinking that she would meet him tomorrow morning and go to see Grandpa Gu together, she still pressed the call button to answer.

"Shen Yao, how can you be so scheming! You've complained about me to Grandpa again, haven't you? What else can you do besides these dirty and despicable tricks? Forget about it. Even if Grandpa forces me to marry you, I will never acknowledge you as my wife in my heart!"