To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

"No..." Even if it hurts, I have to pretend to grit my teeth!

But clearly, he didn't believe it.

He somehow obtained red medicine and cotton wool, and holding her hand, he carefully applied it to her wounds.

The medicine was cool and irritated the wound, it really hurt...

She bit her lip tightly in pain, her face contorted in pain, but she didn't utter a sound.

He glanced at her indifferently. "She asked for it."

After saying that, he let go of her hand, put away the medicine and other items, and prepared to open the door.

Seeing that he was about to leave again, she shouted anxiously, "Where are you going?"

He was taken aback by her shout and turned around.

"Have you ever thought about me? If you don't sleep in the same room as me, what will your mother say about me?" she retorted.

"Mom won't..."

"She wouldn't do it in front of you! But what about after you left?" She looked unhappy. "I don't care! You try walking out this door today!"

He seemed somewhat helpless, but in the end he didn't leave. He just took a blanket from the cabinet, made a makeshift bed on the floor, and lay down without saying a word.

Night fell, and a deathly silence descended.

So quiet, she could hear her own frantic, chaotic heartbeat, thump, thump...

She felt she didn't want to go on like this anymore!

She pressed her pounding chest, let out a soft scream, jumped off the bed and ran to his makeshift bed on the floor, managing to squeeze in next to him.

He sat up abruptly, his eyes flashing with a cold, predatory light in the darkness. "What are you doing?"

It was as if she had done something wrong, hence the interrogative tone.

She was trembling all over, but her mind was racing. Pointing to her bed, she said, "There are...there are mice..."

He got up, turned on the light, and rummaged around in her blankets for a while before turning back to her with a cold face and asking, "Where are the mice?"

His towering figure and fierce, menacing gaze made her mutter under his oppressive aura, "There's just... now, he might have escaped..."

He just stood there, like an iron tower, without saying a word.

She simply closed her eyes, 'If you don't say anything, I won't say anything either!'

Finally, he spoke first, "There aren't any now, go back to your bed!"

"Oh...oh..." Lin Qingping slowly got up from his makeshift bed on the floor, sat down on her own bed, watched him turn off the light, and watched him fall asleep on the makeshift bed on the floor again.

She smiled slyly, ran towards him again, and skillfully and quickly squeezed next to him.

"What is it now?" His voice boomed in the darkness.

She could clearly hear his impatience, but so what? She squeezed even tighter, pressing herself against him. "I'm... I'm still scared. What if the rats come back?"

Gu Juncheng: ...

"Whatever." His cold words ended the conversation for the night. He slept soundly, seemingly no longer wanting to talk to her.

She pressed herself against him, closed her eyes, and curved her lips into a smile.

He was so hot. In the middle of summer, she felt like she was sitting next to a furnace when she was pressed against him, but she didn't intend to move at all.

However, he suddenly spoke in the darkness.

“I happen to have a few days off this time, let’s find some time to get a divorce.”

Lin Qingping: ? ? ?

What does this mean? They actually want a divorce?! This never happened in my past life!

She sat up abruptly, staring directly at him in the darkness, her face tense as she exploded, "Gu Juncheng! You're such a scumbag!"

Gu Juncheng was stunned by her scolding.

Lin Qingping was furious. "I'm already married to you! The wedding was a huge success, everyone in the surrounding area knows I'm your wife, Gu Juncheng! We've only been married a short time, and you want a divorce! How am I supposed to face people after this?"

Gu Juncheng was stunned for a moment, then said, "I can tell the people outside that it's my fault, that it's my fault."

"So what? I'm the one who'll get spitted at! I'm a perfectly healthy young woman, and now I'm suddenly going to be divorced! How am I supposed to get married? Who would want me? Besides, you're in the military, what will people say about me?" Lin Qingping retorted sharply.

Gu Juncheng was speechless.

"I don't care! Since I married you, you have to take responsibility for me! You're hardly ever home all year round, don't you know how much you owe me? And you still want to divorce me? Gu Juncheng, let me tell you, between you and me, only I can bring up divorce! You have no right to do so!" After her outburst, Lin Qingping lay down with her back to Gu Juncheng.

Hearing the silence behind her, Lin Qingping felt quite shameless, but if she didn't do this, how could she dissuade him from getting a divorce?

Hmph! Gu Juncheng, you've really made something of yourself! You actually brought up divorce! This never happened in my past life!

Lin Qingping's face remained tense until the next morning.

The atmosphere in the Gu family was very tense during breakfast. Although the breakfast was good this morning, because Gu Juncheng had returned, everyone had an extra egg, but no one ate with great relish.

Even Lin Qingping's parents-in-law didn't dare to say anything. It was just that in the six months since their daughter-in-law married into the family, she had been breaking pots and pans, causing all sorts of trouble, and her temper was really not to be trifled with.

There was another person eating quietly: Li Zhiyuan.

Li Zhiyuan is Gu Juncheng's son.

But he wasn't his biological son; he was the child of Gu Juncheng's comrade-in-arms. His comrade had sacrificed his life, and with no one to take care of the child, Gu Juncheng brought him back to raise him.

She should be five years old now, and has been with Gujia for almost a year.

Because of this child, Gu Juncheng's childhood sweetheart and fiancée broke up with him, which led to the Gu family marrying her at a "high price" in a fit of anger.

Li Zhiyuan probably knew that he was a "trouble" for Gu Juncheng and even the Gu family, so he stayed in the Gu family cautiously, keeping quiet and rarely making a sound, so that his presence was almost imperceptible.

In her previous life, Lin Qingping disliked this child and never gave him a kind look. She took most of the milk powder, nutritional supplements, and boys' clothes and shoes that Gu Juncheng sent back to her parents' home, and the child grew up wearing ill-fitting clothes.

But this same child, during the last days of her illness, came to visit her in the hospital, cooked her a hot soup, gave her money, and called her... Mom.

But all that money ended up in my nephew's pocket!

Looking at the thin and small Zhiyuan, Lin Qingping felt a pang of sadness and gave him the egg from her bowl.

This simple action almost made Zhiyuan drop the bowl in fright.

Everyone else was looking at her too. This was really unusual. In the past, she had never been modest. She would eat the best food first and take the good stuff back to her parents' home. Respect for elders and care for the young were not things that existed in her.

Lin Qingping herself felt awkward, cleared her throat, and said, "I feel down and don't want to eat."

Zhiyuan lowered his head, peeling the egg piece by piece, it was hard to tell whether he was afraid to eat it or just couldn't bear to...

"By the way, Chengzi, you left in a hurry on your wedding day and didn't even go back to your parents' home. After dinner, you can accompany Pingzi back to her parents' home." Mother-in-law Liu Fen looked at Lin Qingping's face, trying to ease the atmosphere.