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

Shen Yao remembered something and punched Bo Yuxiu.

I felt a little uncomfortable between my legs when I moved.

Her face flushed involuntarily.

The man's lips silently brushed against Shen Yao's ear.

It made Shen Yao feel a rush of oxygen.

Around 1 a.m., Shen Yao finally returned to the hospital.

"Your lunch is here."

As soon as Shen Yao entered the room, she noticed the intense scrutiny from Gu Tianyou.

However, she pretended not to see it.

After taking his own lunchbox, Chen Jie went outside to eat.

Shen Yao originally wanted him to feed Gu Tianyou.

However, the man lying in the hospital bed had already spoken.

"You feed me."

Perhaps because of his illness, Gu Tianyou's voice didn't sound as cold and hard as usual.

Instead, she appeared unusually vulnerable and helpless.

Shen Yao, unusually, didn't get angry and patiently fed him some porridge.

Gu Tianyou ate about half a bowl, then shook his head and said he wouldn't eat anymore.

Shen Yao knew that he couldn't eat too much after just having surgery, so she didn't force him and peeled an apple for him.

She cut the apple into small pieces and fed Gu Tianyou some more.

Gu Tianyou, who doesn't usually like apples, actually ate them obediently.

Shen Yao couldn't help but tease, "It's rare to see you being so well-behaved."

Gu Tianyou looked up and stared straight at her. "I can always be this obedient."

Shen Yao lowered her eyes, refusing to meet his gaze.

After helping Gu Tianyou finish lunch, Shen Yao casually told the man that she couldn't come to see him that evening, as she had to go to the lab at 8 a.m. the next day.

Furthermore, she is already working on establishing her own pharmaceutical company and hospital, so she will be very busy.

Gu Tianyou was anxious and couldn't speak for a moment, but he held Shen Yao's hand tightly.

Shen Yao looked at Gu Tianyou with some anger.

"Don't be so naive, okay? I need to go out and work to support myself."

Gu Tianyou's Adam's apple bobbed, his breathing became heavier, and he uttered three words with difficulty, "I'll take care of you."

Shen Yao was amused by those words.

Suddenly, tears streamed down her face.

She forcefully pulled her hand away from Gu Tianyou's. "Gu Tianyou, you're really ridiculous. You were the one who made me sign the agreement to leave with nothing and fired me from the hospital when we got divorced. Now you're telling me you'll support me? Don't you find that ironic?"

Seeing the woman cry, Gu Tianyou felt as if a mountain was pressing down on his heart.

He feels very uncomfortable.

He wanted to sit up and hug the woman.

But he couldn't do it.

He hated his own weakness and incompetence.

He could only reach out and try to wipe the tears from the woman's cheeks.

Just as their hands were about to touch, the woman turned her head away.

Gu Tianyou's hand slammed heavily onto the bed.

It was as if his heart had fallen heavily from a great height, making a loud thud.

"Let's...let's start over."

After a long silence, Gu Tianyou looked at Shen Yao and said something else.

Shen Yao cried even harder, tears streaming down her face.

She suddenly stood up, feeling as if she were about to split open.

Her body instinctively moved away from Gu Tianyou.

"Do you think relationships are like running a business, where you can just start over whenever you want? A heart can't withstand so many patching and mending. You know that?"

Shen Yao was emotional.

She can't stand hearing Gu Tianyou mention getting back together.

Everything from the past is buried deep in my heart.

However, the slightest touch will bring a surge of sadness.

How she longed to go back to the past and embrace the version of herself that was not loved.

She even wanted to erase everything from the past.

"Yaoyao, please believe me one more time," Gu Tianyou pleaded.

His eyes were red, his nose was sore, and his heart felt heavy.

After dying once, the first person he remembered upon waking was the woman in front of him.

He suddenly realized that nothing else mattered; only this woman was the most important.

"No, I will never trust you again. Don't bring this up again. We are nothing more than half-family now. I only take care of you because of my late grandfather, not because I still have feelings for you."

"Yaoyao, after more than twenty years of relationship, are you really willing to give it up?"

"I'm reluctant, but once the water has been spilled, I don't mind throwing away the whole basin."

"I can't bear to part with you, Yao Yao. Come back to me." Gu Tianyou looked helplessly at Shen Yao with blurry eyes, like a useless person.

Shen Yao used to think that Gu Tianyou's apologies were all pretentious.

She even felt that the man's desire to get back together was only because his pride was hurt, and that's why he wanted to conquer her in return.

And now, at this very moment, she actually saw tears in the eyes of this cold-hearted man.

She doubted her eyes.

But the tears in the corners of the man's eyes, glistening under the hospital lights, were impossible for her to ignore.

pain.

Hate.

doubt.

contradiction.

Shen Yao turned around, composed herself, and said without turning her head, "I am Bo Yuxiu's wife now, Mr. Gu, please watch your words. I will come to see you again tomorrow night. In the meantime, you should obediently accept the doctor's treatment."

After saying that, he ran away as if fleeing before Gu Tianyou could reply.

She didn't want to hear a man's voice anymore.

She didn't even know what she was afraid of.

"Come back."

Gu Tianyou called out to Shen Yao in a hoarse voice.

He even tried to get up, but his limbs were beyond his control.

He was in so much pain that he wanted to tear his own body apart.

Chen Jie rushed over and held Gu Tianyou down.

"Mr. Gu, you can't get too agitated. The doctor said your heart isn't doing well either. If it's like last time, you won't survive. If you really want Miss Shen back, you need to get better quickly, pull yourself together, and pursue her like a man! So what if she's married? As long as she's alive, you still have a chance!"

These words were like God enlightening all beings, completely awakening Gu Tianyou.

He calmed his excited emotions, and his previously dim eyes looked at Chen Jie with bright eyes.

"You're right. As long as Yao Yao isn't dead, I still have a chance."

Seeing how seriously Gu Tianyou had taken it, Chen Jie wanted to slap himself.

Oh no, those were just random words I said to motivate my boss to survive, but he took them as gospel.

Chen Jie quickly corrected him, "But, Mr. Gu, look at you, you're so handsome and so rich, you don't need to hang yourself on one tree, right? There are plenty of fish in the sea."

Gu Tianyou said firmly, "No, you're wrong."

Chen Jie quickly chimed in, "Yes, I was wrong."

Stealing another man's wife is really wrong.

Before Chen Jie could finish his last sentence, Gu Tianyou interrupted him.

"Shen Yao, even if she dies, she will still be my woman, and she must be buried in the ancestral graves of the Gu family!"

Hearing this, Chen Jie felt a chill run down his spine.