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

"Gu Tianyou, please don't do this."

Shen Yao remained frozen in place.

She tried to comfort the man.

However, she found that men couldn't comfort her at all when they were with her.

The man's sobs gradually subsided.

Shen Yao finally came to her senses.

She raised her hand and gently stroked the man's head.

I still don't know what to say.

I don’t know how long it took.

The man finally stopped sobbing softly.

He raised his scarlet eyes and looked at Shen Yao.

Those eyes, which had been filled with tears, lost their usual arrogance and hostility, becoming clear yet dreamy.

Shen Yao stared into those eyes, her mouth moving.

"Gu Tianyou, I'm cold."

After she said that, Gu Tianyou realized that he had just taken off all the woman's clothes.

Women nowadays wear almost nothing.

Gu Tianyou quickly put his suit jacket on the woman.

The woman's frame was much smaller than the man's, so when the man's suit was on her, it looked like a child wearing an adult's clothes.

Gu Tianyou tightened his suit jacket and then cupped the woman's face in his hands.

Looking into the woman's confused and wary eyes, he bent down, lowered his head, and kissed her fiercely.

Then he quickly let go.

"Shen Yao, unless it's an emergency, I will definitely come home. I will sleep with you every night."

Upon hearing the word "sleep," Shen Yao immediately tensed up.

Gu Tianyou seemed to realize what she was thinking.

"Don't worry, I won't force you anymore."

The woman clearly didn't believe her.

"You said the same thing last time, and the result was..."

Gu Tianyou cupped the woman's face in his hands. "Don't worry, I'll wait until the day you're willing."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yao instinctively thought, "It's impossible to wait until that day."

However, she was afraid of angering the man.

"Talk is cheap; if you say you'll do it, you have to do it."

"Look at my performance tonight."

After dinner, Shen Yao saw that Gu Tianyou had already taken a shower and was lying in bed.

She was a little scared.

Living under the same roof, if the man really wanted to force himself on her, she wasn't entirely confident she could win.

At 10 p.m., Shen Yao turned off the lights, chose the edge of the bed, and lay down.

It was as if there was a 38th parallel between her and men.

They stood back to back.

In a dark room.

They could clearly hear each other's breathing.

Shen Yao didn't dare to move, and pricked up her ears, wanting to know if the man was asleep.

A few minutes later, she heard the rustling of the blankets behind her.

Two large, hot hands wrapped around her waist from behind.

Shen Yao felt a shiver run down her spine.

"You promised me you wouldn't touch me."

The man's body pressed against hers.

"Don't worry, I won't do anything, I just want to hold you while we sleep."

After she finished speaking, Shen Yao felt the man hug her.

Shen Yao tried to struggle, but the man's embrace was very tight.

"Believe me."

A man's voice came from behind.

Upon hearing his words, Shen Yao gave up struggling.

She lay stiffly on her side, her ears perked up, listening to the man's movements.

The man began to breathe evenly shortly after resting his head on her neck.

Upon hearing this voice, the tension in Shen Yao's mind gradually eased.

Before she knew it, she had fallen asleep.

Springtime flies when it arrives.

After the hot summer, autumn has arrived in the blink of an eye.

After late autumn comes winter.

The deep city is cold and damp in winter.

Days with falling cold snow seem very long.

Fortunately, after the harsh winter, spring arrived.

In February of the following year, Shen Yao returned to work at the research institute.

With 1-year-old Haoxuan safely weaned, Shen Yao finally officially began her work.

With Wang Ma taking care of her, she felt at ease.

That year, Shen Yao observed Gu Tianyou and discovered that he still cared for Xiao Haoxuan quite a bit.

"This man shouldn't have noticed anything."

Otherwise, given Gu Tianyou's bad temper, he wouldn't be so calm once he discovered the truth.

It's even more impossible that she would treat Xiao Haoxuan so well.

Shen Yao felt that her analysis was correct.

He then put on his white coat with peace of mind and returned to the new laboratory.

My recent project involves developing a new drug to treat childhood epilepsy.

As the initiator of the project, Shen Yao is about to get busy again.

Before leaving, she told Gu Tianyou that he didn't need to wait for her to come back for dinner tonight.

However, when she returned home at 9 p.m. and saw Gu Tianyou sitting in the living room reading a magazine, she was stunned.

"Why aren't you sleeping yet?"

"Wait for you."

Gu Tianyou put down the magazine in his hand and looked at Shen Yao.

As she spoke, she got up and walked over, hanging the bag off her shoulder on the coat rack.

Another year has passed in the blink of an eye.

They have been living under the same roof for about two years.

After that night, apart from sleeping in the same bed with Shen Yao every day and holding her while sleeping, Gu Tianyou never forced Shen Yao to have sex with him again.

Seeing that the man was still waiting for her, Shen Yao also put aside her usual aloofness.

"Go to sleep, I can do it myself."

"I'll heat up some food for you."

As Gu Tianyou spoke, he began to walk toward the restaurant.

Shen Yao stopped him, "Gu Tianyou, no need, I already ate outside. I was too hungry when I came back, so I ate outside."

Gu Tianyou paused slightly as he walked into the restaurant.

He turned around and looked at Shen Yao, his handsome face unable to hide his disappointment.

"Okay, then go take a shower, I'll get you some clean pajamas."

Shen Yao refused again, saying, "I can do these little things myself."

Upon hearing these words, Shen Yao saw a clear sense of disappointment in the man's eyes.

The man forced a faint smile.

“I am your husband. If you do everything yourself, wouldn’t I be very incompetent?”

After saying this, Gu Tianyou turned and went upstairs.

For some reason, Shen Yao felt a sense of loneliness as she looked at the man's figure from downstairs.

This man has changed a lot over the past year.

It could even be described as a complete transformation.

This huge change made Shen Yao very uncomfortable.

She only felt better after she recently started working and no longer had to face each other all day.

For a fleeting moment, Shen Yao would also reflect on herself, wondering if taking revenge on a man in this way was too cruel.

However, when she thought of her dead child, her ears which were not as good as before, and Bo Yuxiu, Shen Yao felt that she had done the right thing.

Having adjusted her mood, Shen Yao climbed the stairs step by step and arrived at the second floor.

For more than a year, the two of them have been sleeping in the master bedroom.

Shen Yao pushed open the door and heard the sound of hot water gushing from the bathroom.

She went into the master bedroom and closed the door behind her.

Then they saw Gu Tianyou walk out of the bathroom.

"The hot water is ready, you can take a bath now."

Shen Yao looked up and met the man's eyes, then immediately looked away.

"Thank you."

The politeness in her tone was almost unlike what a wife would say to her husband.

The light in Gu Tianyou's eyes gradually dimmed.