Chapter 16 If you can get a divorce, then get one.
Gu Lingxue's words make sense.
There was already a rift between the two women, and they didn't even go in to greet each other at the hospital entrance. This was not only impolite, but it would also make their relationship even more strained in the future.
"Then I'll go and retrieve the car that sank into the sea."
Chen Yuan found an excuse and ran away in a flash.
Gu Yanchen lifted his foot and walked out of the hospital.
Gu Lingxue didn't know what he was going to do, so she quickly jogged to catch up.
A short while later, the two arrived at a nearby congee shop.
Gu Lingxue understood; he wanted to buy breakfast for Ji Ying.
Gu Yanchen packed porridge and snacks according to Ji Ying's taste. When he turned his head, he saw Gu Lingxue drooling over the long-unseen steamed buns, but she didn't say anything.
His gaze fell on the gauze on her wrist, and he finally felt a pang of pity.
"Brother, aren't you going to eat?"
Gu Lingxue looked at the breakfast on the table with great joy. Although she really wanted to eat it, she refrained from picking up her chopsticks immediately.
Gu Yanchen glanced at the time. "Eat quickly, your sister-in-law will be hungry when she wakes up."
Gu Lingxue pushed her lotus seed porridge in front of him.
"You should eat something too. If you're hungry, you won't have the energy to make your sister-in-law happy."
Gu Yanchen didn't respond to her words, but sat down opposite her with a calm expression.
After breakfast, the two returned to their hospital room.
They were stunned by what they saw when they opened the door.
The hospital bed was empty, but the discarded hospital gown was neatly folded and placed at the foot of the bed.
Realizing something, Gu Yanchen picked up the phone and dialed.
She only remembered halfway through dialing that he was still on her blacklist.
Gu Yanchen was breathing heavily, and Gu Lingxue stood to the side without daring to make a sound.
Just then, Aunt Yang called.
"Mr. Gu, Madam came back, but she took some things and left again. Can she be discharged from the hospital?"
Gu Yanchen pinched the bridge of his nose. "What did she take?"
"Her bag and the bracelet the old lady gave her, she wouldn't be thinking of selling her jewelry and leaving, would she?"
Gu Yanchen breathed a sigh of relief, "No, I know where she went."
Ji Ying has a weakness: her caregiver will die if he stops taking his medication. So even if she suffers a lot of anger, she will swallow it all herself.
Gu Yanchen was confident that she would come back.
Once he gets back, he'll have plenty of time to win her back.
Hearing him say that, Aunt Yang felt relieved.
“I told my wife why there was no water in the basement. It was because when Aunt Lü was here, the cleaning staff moved the water and didn’t put it back. You didn’t mean to hurt her, but my wife didn’t react much after hearing it.”
Gu Yanchen hung up the phone, his lips pressed into a thin line.
"Shall we go find your sister-in-law?" Gu Lingxue asked.
"I'll take you back to your old house."
"ah?"
Gu Yanshen will always be unpredictable.
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A few hours later, Ji Ying appeared at the entrance of a house on the outskirts of the city.
The afternoon sun was intense, and she couldn't tell whether the heat on her body was from a fever or from being exposed to the sun.
Just as I reached the door, the middle-aged woman inside opened it.
The two met eyes unexpectedly.
"Why are you here at this time?" the woman asked.
Apart from some swelling, Ji Ying appeared otherwise normal.
"Where is Grandpa? I've come to see him."
Lin Meizhen was deceived by a man in her early years and gave birth to a son. She became disillusioned with love and has remained single all these years.
Although I have no experience in being a couple, I could tell from Ji Ying's barely visible eye bags that she had probably been wronged by her husband's family.
She made way for her to enter.
"Taking a nap? I haven't been feeling well lately, maybe..."
She choked up.
"...He can't handle stress, try talking to him about something happy."
Ji Ying lowered her eyes, walked into the courtyard, and easily found her grandfather's room.
The old man was asleep, and his bedside was covered with medicine.
My grandfather has heart disease, and because of his age, he cannot have a heart transplant. He can only rely on medication to manage his condition each month.
At the age of 13, she was pulled from a ditch. When she woke up, she didn't know who she was, who her parents were, or where her home was. After several transfers, she was sent to a children's welfare home.
But less than a month after she arrived there, she was adopted by an old man.
The older man was a wealthy businessman who claimed to have no children. However, when she arrived at his home, she discovered that he had children and adopted her only to satisfy his unusual fetish.
Ji Ying barely escaped with her life on the line, but with nowhere to go, she could only wander around.
She had lived near a trash can in a small alley for six months when the family's son, Lin Yan, found her on his way home from school and took her home.
Lin Meizhen's reaction at the time was particularly emotional.
"Ayan, don't you know our family's situation? I'd rather not have a cat or dog that eats too much than we do, and you've brought a person home? What are you planning to do?"
Lin Yan knew his mother was a snobbish person, but during his rebellious phase, he liked to go against her.
"I'll take care of her, it won't be a burden for you."
Lin Meizhen was furious. "You're only 13 years old. You still need me to support you. What can you possibly support?"
At this moment, Grandpa spoke up.
"One more person means one more meal. Since she's come to our family, it's fate that she's here. Don't you often lament that Ayan has no siblings to help her? Now that God has sent you a child, are you going to refuse?"
Lin Meizhen has a sharp tongue, but after venting her frustrations, she still accepted Ji Ying.
The entire Lin family treated Ji Ying very well, especially her maternal grandfather. Because there was another child in the family who needed to go to school, the 60-year-old still went to sweep the streets for others.
The days spent in the Lin family were the happiest time in Ji Ying's memory, until Lin Yan passed away unexpectedly four years ago, and her grandfather was so devastated that he developed a serious heart condition.
It was during that emergency trip to the hospital that she met Mrs. Gu at the hospital entrance.
At that time, her grandfather would die if he didn't undergo the exorbitantly priced surgery, so Ji Ying had no choice.
For four years after marrying Gu Yanchen, the Lin family would deposit every penny of the monthly living expenses, the old man's medicine expenses, and treatment expenses into Lin Meizhen's account on time.
This was her condition for marrying Gu Yanchen.
And she did not disappoint Old Madam Gu's trust.
Now that the Gu family has risen to the top of the wealth pyramid, the entire business world fears Gu Yanchen's ruthless decisiveness, but no one knows that this is the outline of a superior that Ji Ying has carefully sculpted with gentle words over the past four years.
She doesn't owe the Gu family anything, but without their financial support, she hasn't figured out how to carry the burden of the Lin family.
But if we're married, we must get a divorce.
As Ji Ying was thinking, her grandfather woke up as if he had some kind of premonition.
Seeing her sitting by the bed, the old man's cloudy eyes cleared.
"Why didn't you wake me up when you got here?"
He tried to get up, and Ji Ying quickly helped him.
"You need to get enough rest to stay healthy. Being able to sleep is a blessing."
Grandpa leaned against the pillow, and you could tell she was forcing a smile.
He never experienced great wealth or high status in his life, but he had a keen understanding of human relationships and social dynamics.
A marriage between people of unequal social standing meant that Ji Ying had no say in the Gu family.
Even if she suffers injustice, her husband will consider the interests of the family and will not give her real justice.
Although she was an adopted granddaughter, she and Lin Yan were like the apple of his eye, and he loved them both dearly.
"Girl, don't bother with me. My old life isn't worth you clipping your wings and humbling yourself to stay with the Gu family. If you can get a divorce, then get a divorce."
"Dad, how could you let her get a divorce?"
Lin Meizhen walked in excitedly.
"If she can't get any money from the Gu family, you won't be able to use the specially approved imported medicine, and you'll die."
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