Finally, as if defeated, he said in a hoarse voice, "Stop crying."

Then, Gu Chengyu resignedly picked her up and carried her to the second bedroom, placing her on the bed and covering her with a blanket.

She turned to the side, her back to him, and curled up.

Gu Chengyu stood by the bed and looked at her for a long time. In the end, he said nothing, turned around and left with a gloomy face, and gently closed the door.

...

Bar counter in the living room.

Gu Chengyu took several large gulps directly from the mouth of the whiskey bottle.

The strong liquor burned, but it couldn't extinguish the turmoil in my heart.

She had never done that before.

That indifference, that coldness that made him feel a sense of dread he had never experienced before.

He ran a hand through his hair in frustration, took out his phone, and saw several push notifications about arranged marriages on the screen. He swiped them away without even looking at them, opened his chat with his mother, and typed rapidly:

[Mom, the marriage alliance is canceled. Explain this to the Song family immediately.]

Less than ten seconds after the message was sent, Mrs. Gu's phone started ringing off the hook.

Gu Chengyu answered the call, and immediately came Madam Gu's angry rebuke, a far cry from her usual elegance:

"Gu Chengyu! What's wrong with you?"

"You personally agreed to the marriage the day before yesterday, and I personally released the news to the media today. Now the whole city knows that the Gu and Song families are going to get married."

"Only two days? You're already backing out after just two days? Do you think this is a joke?"

"Does the Gu family still have any sense of shame?"

"Besides, you're a man, so at most people will say you're a womanizer, fickle, and playful."

"But have you thought about Song Qingwan?"

"What did she, a respectable socialite, do wrong to deserve such public humiliation?"

"How is she supposed to maintain her standing in high society after this? How many people will laugh at her behind her back, saying she was discarded like trash before even getting married? Do you know how awful the word 'abandoned wife' sounds?"

"You're a complete bastard!"

Gu Chengyu listened expressionlessly, and only after his mother finished yelling did he reply indifferently, "I never thought of marrying her."

"Then why did you nod back then? Huh? Were you playing with your parents and the Song family?" Madam Gu's voice trembled with anger.

"Yes, Mom, just take it as that." Gu Chengyu's voice was weary.

"I will give compensation to the Song family, but a marriage alliance is absolutely out of the question."

After saying that, he ignored his mother's even more vehement rebuke on the other end of the phone, hung up immediately, and threw the phone aside.

He took another big gulp of wine, the spiciness shooting straight to his head.

Yes, he regretted it.

He shouldn't have tested her or provoked her in that way.

Now he only has one thing on his mind: cancel this damned marriage and coax that little thing lying inside, silently weeping, back.

As for what would happen to Song Qingwan? He didn't care at all. (This chapter has been read. Please click to continue reading the next chapter!)