"What are you saying? Where are you? Do you know what time it is?" Gu Qingyan also raised her voice.

"Oh." Shen Zhi Qiu glanced at her phone screen. "It's 11:15 PM now. If Mr. Gu doesn't have a clock at home, he can check the time on his phone. There's no need to call to ask for the time."

"Shen Zhi Qiu, you've really made something of yourself. I really underestimated you before. You're quite the sharp-tongued one!"

"Oh, are you done? If there's nothing else, I'll hang up." Shen Zhi Qiu didn't want to say anything more to him. Thinking of how Xiao Wan Qing shyly admitted to being pregnant today, she felt a little nauseous.

"If you dare hang up, I'll call Shen Yanshan right now and tell him you want a divorce," Gu Qingyan threatened, raising an eyebrow.

"Are you sick, Gu Qingyan? Why are you calling my dad in the middle of the night?" Shen Zhi Qiu was a little annoyed. She didn't want her dad to know that she wanted a divorce yet.

"Then come back now, and I won't call."

Shen Zhi Qiu's face turned ashen. She suddenly felt very sad, and Gu Qing Yan knew exactly how to handle her.

Since her mother passed away, her grandmother had developed dementia due to excessive grief. Without hesitation, Shen Yanshan sent the elderly woman to the best sanatorium in Nancheng. It was expensive, but the scenery was beautiful, nestled against the mountains and by the water, and the caregivers there were all carefully selected. Her grandmother's health gradually improved, and her complexion became rosier. Every time Shen Zhi Qiu visited her, she could sense that her grandmother was doing very well there.

She initially thought Shen Yanshan was doing this out of consideration for her mother, but she never expected that Shen Yanshan intended to use her grandmother as a hostage to control Shen Zhi Qiu. Shen Zhi Qiu would generally not resist whatever he wanted her to do, and it was Shen Yanshan who readily agreed to her marriage into the Gu family.

Given her current situation, if she disobeys Shen Yanshan, she will be unable to pay her grandmother's exorbitant monthly hospital fees.

Gu Qingyan was aware of all these circumstances, so his suggestion to call Shen Yanshan was a blatant threat.

She lowered her head, her mind racing. Should she ask Lu Jia to transfer the money she had earned over the past few years to her? But she quickly dismissed the idea; now was not the time.

After a long silence, Shen Zhi Qiu's fingers, gripping the phone so tightly they turned white, suppressed the urge to curse and said coldly, "I'm going back now."

"If you had come back earlier, none of this would have happened, right? Shen Zhi Qiu, let me tell you, my patience has its limits." Gu Qingyan sat in his study, a slight smile playing on his lips, and hung up the phone with a satisfied expression.