The handsome guy next door loves to flirt.

Xie Huixin's family is also very powerful, not much less so than the Li family. No wonder Gu Cheng insisted on forming an alliance with her family. She also thought of something: was it because Huainan was in poor health that the Sheng family felt it was unfair to the Gu family, which is why they agreed to let her marry Huainan so that she could have another child for the Gu family?

Yun Shu's head started throbbing again when she got back. No wonder Ming Kun's uncle had said her marriage was unlucky and her fate was full of twists and turns. Was her life really going to be the same as her previous one? Was she really destined to marry into the Sheng family...?

At this point, she didn't dare to call Mingkun. She knew that Mingkun's abilities were limited. This was a coalition of several major families. How could he possibly defeat them all by himself?

Tears silently streamed down her face. In the end, Mingkun was still implicated by her. She really shouldn't have gone to get the marriage certificate with him in the first place. She had hurt him. If it weren't for that, she could have escaped on her own. But now that she had someone to rely on, she really didn't dare to leave.

When Gu Cheng got home, he saw Yun Shu sitting there motionless. He felt a little guilty towards his daughter and went to her side, saying, "Yun Shu, accept your fate! Dad used to be just like you. Now you understand why Dad didn't go to pick up your mother back then, right?" Gu Cheng thought about how he was exactly like Yun Shu back then, and how similar their marriages were.

"Hmph! I can't understand! If you weren't an official, you could be with my mother as an ordinary citizen, right?" Yun Shu mocked disdainfully. Comparing him to her made her feel disgusted. He abandoned her mother for his career, but she wasn't him. She didn't abandon Ming Kun to marry into a wealthy family. Hearing this made her angry, and she felt a fire about to burst out of her heart.

Gu Cheng was surprisingly good-tempered this time and didn't get angry or scold Yun Shu. He knew that she had been upset these past few days, so it was normal for her to be in a bad mood.

"You think I could have been with your mother if I had given up everything back then? You're too naive." Gu Cheng glanced upstairs, knowing Li Meng should have gone out, and their twin daughters were at school, leaving only him and Yun Shu in the living room. "Li Meng insisted on marrying me back then. If I had been with Yanxia then, the Xu family would definitely have been targeted by the Li family. The Xu family is just a small family in the countryside; it would have been too easy for them to deal with us. These past years, I've lived a very repressed life. I know you've been bullied by them, but to protect you, I had to distance myself from you and be more affectionate towards Yun Huan and Yun Le. That way, Li Meng wouldn't always be trying to get rid of you, this thorn in her side. Fortunately, your grandparents protected you very well before."

Gu Cheng sighed and explained that while his career was partly motivated by political ambition, he had initially been determined to marry Yun Shu's mother, but he was later arrested and brought back. His father explained the seriousness of the situation to him, which finally led him to decide to marry Li Meng.

Yun Shu scoffed, completely ignoring his words. "Could you make up any more outrageous stories? You're not trying to say you actually love my mother and haven't forgotten her all these years, are you? And you say you love me, but you just slapped me a couple of days ago! Do you treat Yun Huan and Yun Le like that?! Humph!" After saying that, Yun Shu was too lazy to argue with him about their supposed father-daughter bond anymore; she felt nauseous. She only wanted to confirm one thing: "Is it because Huai Nan's health is poor that the Sheng family agreed to give the child to the Gu family after the marriage?"

“I didn’t know about this at first. Back when you were little, the two families only talked about becoming in-laws. Last time, on the anniversary of your grandmother’s death, your grandfather said that Huainan’s grandfather brought up your marriage again, and that’s when I remembered that the two of you were just getting engaged. Your grandfather only mentioned this condition when he was talking to the Sheng family about it, and I didn’t expect the Sheng family to agree. So your grandfather went along with it and agreed to the marriage.”

"You never told me this, and you tricked me into signing that agreement. I was just used and sold out by you like that."

Gu Cheng looked at Yun Shu, who was still angry with him, and felt helpless. He couldn't even have a calm talk with her. It seemed that he had really treated her badly in the past.

On the other side, Mingkun looked at his and Yunshu's wedding room. The room was renovated and cleaned, and the furniture was gradually being bought and put in. However, the room was missing its female owner.

Thinking of this, Mingkun felt sad and helpless. He fiddled with his phone, wondering how Hua Zi's investigation had gone.

Nancheng is a large city, and there are quite a few wealthy families. The Gu family and the Sheng family are not very famous in Nancheng, but they are also century-old families with deep-rooted influence, especially the Sheng family, whose members were said to have held a high position in the military in the past.

Could that Sheng Huainan be very outstanding, with advantages in youth and other aspects? My conversation with Gu Cheng also broke down, and at this point I really started to doubt his abilities. Yun Shu… he couldn't even protect his own wife; was he even a man? Frustrated, I still wanted to find a time to arrange a meeting with Sheng Huainan.

Thinking of Sheng Huainan, I wondered if Huainan had found out about him. So I immediately called to ask.

"Hua Zi, how's the matter I asked you to investigate going?"

"Ah Kun, this time it's going to be a big deal. I advise you... if you don't have a deep relationship with Yun Shu, you should break up!" What Hua Zi didn't say was that those families were all well-known and powerful families in Nancheng, and none of them could be easily offended.

"No way! I won't break up with Yun Shu. She hasn't given up yet. What do I, a grown man, have to be afraid of? If I were to be so cowardly as to break up with her first, I would be worse than a woman, and I would even hurt Yun Shu." Ming Kun objected agitatedly, his eyebrows furrowed, showing that he was in a very bad mood at the moment.

Hua Zi felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing his brother's vehement opposition. He had ignited his brother's anger, and now he felt embarrassed. "Ah Kun, I was just saying, don't get so worked up. If you don't want to break up with her, you might suffer later, Ah Kun... can your family withstand another blow?" For over three years, his sister's situation had been a huge mess, costing a lot of money and requiring many people to help her divorce her ex-husband. He wondered if the Xiao family could handle another one.

Mingkun's eyes darkened for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure and said, "It's alright, I'll know what I'm doing!"

"Hey, forget it! Since you've already made up your mind, I don't want to try to persuade you anymore. I've already sent the information on those companies to your email. Go take a look yourself. You can't explain it in just a few words." Actually, Hua Zi didn't want to put pressure on Xiao Mingkun. He knew his good friend must have had a tough few days.

After thanking Hua Zi, Ming Kun opened his email and checked the Gu family's information first.