Chapter 72 Shen Yujie Gets Dumped
Willow Alley
Gu Yihan took out the key from her handbag and opened the door, signaling Lu Huailin to push the bicycle into the yard.
Lu Huailin looked at Gu Yihan with a resentful gaze and said, "We haven't had our wedding banquet yet, and I don't want to make you feel wronged."
Gu Yihan: "..."
Gu Yihan rolled her eyes and said to Lu Huailin irritably, "What are you thinking? I didn't say you were going to stay here tonight!"
"Crunch"
Neighbor Aunt Wu opened the door with a basket on her shoulder and saw Gu Yihan talking to a man in military uniform at the door.
"Oh my, Xiao Han! This is..." Aunt Wu looked at Lu Huailin with shining eyes.
Gu Yihan found Wu's expression somewhat amusing, and took Lu Huailin's hand, introducing him: "Aunt Wu, this is my husband."
"My lover? Xiao Han, you're married?" Aunt Wu exclaimed in surprise as she looked at Gu Yihan.
Gu Yihan was puzzled by Aunt Wu's strong reaction and nodded: "Are you surprised that I'm getting married?"
Aunt Wu glanced at Lu Huailin with a complicated expression.
He carefully pulled Gu Yihan's arm and walked her to the side, whispering, "These past few days, there's been a young man who keeps hanging around this area. He says he's your lover."
Gu Yihan looked at Aunt Wu with a confused expression and said, "Aunt Wu, did you hear me wrong? How come I didn't know I had a lover?"
Aunt Wu looked at Gu Yihan earnestly and said, "That's right, yesterday he said he was going to look for you at the gate of the machinery factory."
Gu Yihan immediately thought of Xing Xiaofeng and said to Aunt Wu with a smile, "Aunt Wu, that's not my boyfriend."
Aunt Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Aunt Wu didn't mean anything by it, she just wanted to tell you that breaking up a military marriage is illegal."
Gu Yihan smiled and nodded to Aunt Wu, saying, "Don't worry, Aunt Wu, I'm not that kind of person."
Although Aunt Wu was whispering to Gu Yihan, Lu Huailin, with his keen ears, still heard it.
The thought that the man from that day had actually coveted his wife made him feel uncomfortable.
Aunt Wu chatted with Gu Yihan for a while, then remembered that she still had to go buy groceries.
Aunt Wu then turned around and smiled at Lu Huailin, saying, "Xiao Han is the prettiest girl in our alley, you must treat her well."
“If my grandson weren’t so young, I would want Xiaohan to be my granddaughter-in-law.”
Lu Huailin knew that the other party also cared about Gu Yihan, and he was very happy for her.
Then he earnestly assured Aunt Wu, "Don't worry, Aunt Wu, Xiao Han is my wife, the closest person to me in the world."
After smiling and saying goodbye to Gu Yihan, Aunt Wu left quickly like a gust of wind, afraid that she wouldn't be able to buy fresh vegetables.
Gu Yihan pulled Lu Huailin's hand and walked into the courtyard: "Don't stand at the door."
Lu Huailin followed Gu Yihan into the courtyard and saw that the courtyard was clean and tidy.
There was a stone table in the courtyard, and four stone benches were placed around the table. After parking his bicycle, Lu Huailin sat down on the stone benches.
Gu Yihan brought out a stool from the house. Seeing that Lu Huailin was already sitting on the stone bench, which wasn't cold on his bottom even in the summer, she didn't ask him to change stools.
"Would you like tea or coffee?" Gu Yihan asked Lu Huailin from the kitchen doorway.
"You still drink coffee?" Lu Huailin knew Gu Yihan's family situation; under normal circumstances, she wouldn't be used to drinking coffee.
Seeing that Lu Huailin had no choice, Gu Yihan brewed both and placed the coffee and tea directly on the stone table.
She explained, "The coffee was brought by my friend. Her cousin is also serving in the army in Kunming. He's quite good-looking; you should know him."
Lu Huailin had just picked up his coffee and taken a sip when he heard Gu Yihan praising her friend's cousin for being good-looking, making the coffee taste even more bitter.
He put the coffee down and didn't drink it anymore.
Gu Yihan thought Lu Huailin wasn't used to coffee, so she picked up a cup of tea and handed it to him: "You're not used to it, are you? Drink tea. We Chinese people prefer tea."
Seeing that Lu Huailin was hesitant to take the teacup, Gu Yihan looked up at him in confusion, only to see him looking at her with a wronged expression.
Lu Huailin was very unhappy, but he said with a wronged expression, "Is your friend trying to introduce her cousin to you?"
Gu Yihan: "..."
Gu Yihan never expected that Lu Huailin, who appeared aloof in front of outsiders, would act like a puppy in front of her, almost as cute as Mao Mao.
Gu Yihan glared at Lu Huailin and said irritably, "He has a girlfriend."
Upon hearing that he had a girlfriend, Lu Huailin's lips visibly curled up, and he picked up his teacup and took a sip of tea.
"Lin Yifei's girlfriend is incredibly skilled; she can knit lifelike animals. But she doesn't even like me. You're just worrying about nothing," Gu Yihan said speechlessly.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Seeing that Lu Huailin choked on his tea, Gu Yihan quickly got up and patted him on the back a few times.
Lu Huailin quickly grabbed Gu Yihan's hand and asked, "Are you talking about Lin Yifei?"
Gu Yihan looked at Lu Huailin with a puzzled expression: "What's wrong? Why are you so agitated?"
Immediately, Gu Yihan's face turned cold, and she looked at Lu Huailin, saying, "He can't possibly steal your girlfriend. If that happens, we should break up as soon as possible..."
Before Gu Yihan could finish speaking, Lu Huailin pulled her into his arms and silenced her with a kiss.
After a while, Lu Huailin whispered in Gu Yihan's ear, "Divorce is impossible. I have never been with any other woman besides you."
Gu Yihan pushed Lu Huailin away, put her arms around his neck and said, "Then why are you so agitated?"
"Sigh, it's all because of Shen Yujie. He scrimped and saved to support that girl's schooling."
"I was worried that they weren't getting enough nutrition, so I sent them my monthly meat and sugar coupons every month."
Lu Huailin gritted his teeth and said, "I've reminded Shen Yujie many times, and he still laughs at me. In the end, the woman he met dumped him as soon as she got a job."
Gu Yihan sat on Lu Huailin's lap, shifting to a more comfortable position, and looked at him with bright, sparkling eyes.
He urged, "Is she Lin Yifei's girlfriend? Dr. Shen is quite nice, how did she get dumped?"
Lu Huailin nodded slightly and looked at Gu Yihan, saying, "Shen Yujie didn't tell me the specifics either. If you want to know, ask him when you see him."
"Okay, let's not talk about him anymore. You still haven't told me why Xing Xiaofeng said he was your boyfriend."
Gu Yihan didn't hide anything and told Lu Huailin about Teacher Shen's scheme to scheme against her and his dealings with Shen's father in the steel trade.
Lu Huailin frowned and said, "You mean, Sister Zhuang from your department took all the blame upon herself, and Teacher Shen's father was only demoted?"
Gu Yihan looked at Lu Huailin and nodded: "Yes, he was able to get out through the connections of Director Xing of the Revolutionary Committee."
Lu Huailin looked at Gu Yihan thoughtfully and said, "You don't understand Director Luo. He's the kind of person who can't tolerate any nonsense. This matter isn't that simple."
Gu Yihan thought for a moment and said, "Sister Zhuang's son is not her lover's. The former deputy factory director Shen used this to threaten Sister Zhuang."
Lu Huailin stroked Gu Yihan's hair: "Don't worry about this. I'll apply for housing as soon as I get back to the army. You should go there as soon as possible. By the way, do you prefer an apartment building or a bungalow?"
Gu Yihan thought of the tenement buildings of the past, which offered no privacy whatsoever: "I like single-story houses, Mao Mao can't live in an apartment building."
Lu Huailin glanced at his watch; it was getting late. With a reluctant expression, he said, "I should go now, or I'll miss you."
Gu Yihan stood up from Lu Huailin's embrace and said, "You wish."
Gu Yihan saw Lu Huailin, who was reluctant to leave, to the door and said, "Give me a hug."
Lu Huailin quickly pulled Gu Yihan into his arms and said, "I'll go back to the army tomorrow to apply for housing first. You should come find me as soon as possible."
After saying that, he let go of Gu Yihan, got on his bicycle, and didn't even look back. He really didn't want to leave once he saw her.
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