Finally, Gu Yao carried her to the elevator door.
Zhou Chunhua eagerly awaited the arrival of the elevator.
However, when the elevator doors opened with a ding, she regretted it.
Because the elevator was packed with people!
All eyes were fixed on her.
The heat that had just subsided on her face instantly spiked again.
Without realizing it, her face pressed directly against Gu Yao's chest.
The firm touch made her body stiffen as if she had been electrocuted.
If she had known it would turn out like this, she should have left quietly in the middle of the night.
For Zhou Chunhua, this moment felt like an eternity.
In the elevator, those few minutes felt like an eternity.
Just when the silence made the air feel awkward, a woman slapped the man next to her on the shoulder.
"Look at her! Look how other husbands behave! 'Old married couple' is just an excuse for you men!"
Although the woman spoke in a low voice, in the elevator where even breathing could be heard clearly, it was as loud as thunder.
Sure enough, as soon as the woman finished speaking, several women turned to look at the man beside them.
The men's expressions were surprisingly uniform; their flushed faces looked like those of boiled hairy crabs.
So... Zhou Chunhua was even more embarrassed.
She kept praying in her heart: Get to the first floor quickly! Get to the first floor quickly!
Finally, the elevator announced, "We've arrived at the first floor."
The elevator doors opened, and everyone except them got off.
Just as Zhou Chunhua breathed a sigh of relief, someone squeezed in.
The man glanced at them first, then wisely withdrew.
As the elevator doors closed, she seemed to hear someone outside saying, "Young people these days really have no sense of propriety."
Zhou Chunhua lowered her head even further.
After several twists and turns, she finally escaped Gu Yao's embrace and sat in the passenger seat.
The awkward atmosphere reached its peak at that moment.
She didn't even have the courage to look at Gu Yao, let alone speak to him.
After all, it was her who ruined someone else's reputation.
She could only pretend to be nonchalant and look out the car window.
Fortunately, Gu Yao kept quiet about what had just happened and focused on driving.
After the car drove out of the underground parking lot, it turned and passed a street of stalls that had spontaneously formed next to it.
Because there were many people, the cars moved slowly.
All around me were shouts and curses, and the air was filled with all sorts of strange smells.
It smells like the fumes from fried rice or stir-fried vegetables.
She simply wrinkled her nose, and the car window, which had been open, slowly rolled up.
"Wait!" She unconsciously pressed the window control button.
Because... she just seemed to have seen Su Mu.
Looking closely, I saw a woman carrying a child on her back turning around not far ahead.
Zhou Chunhua raised her eyebrows instantly.
It really is Su Mu!
She was tidying up the clothes hanging on an aluminum alloy clothes rack.
Meanwhile, Li Anran was talking to a young couple nearby.
It looks like she's trying to sell the bag she's holding.
Today, Li Anran no longer wears a custom-made suit, but a simple T-shirt.
Her once fair face is now covered in dust.
The leather shoes that used to be like mirrors on my feet have been replaced with Crocs.
He was covered in sweat, completely unlike his former self.
To put it simply, right now, if Li Anran were thrown into a crowd, she would be so ordinary that she wouldn't be recognized at all.
Su Mu, standing next to him, seemed to have returned to the state he was before his divorce from Liao Nanxing.
Except... I wasn't as fat as I was back then.
Her simple clothes and unadorned face made her look much older than she actually was.
Especially when the child on her back was crying loudly, the way she patted the child's bottom and wiped the sweat from her head gave people a sense of heartache caused by the hardships of life.
The car suddenly stopped, and Gu Yao leaned over and whispered, "It really is Su Mu."
Zhou Chunhua then came to her senses and realized that the road was congested.
She turned her head and looked back at Su Mu, whispering, "Actually, this is quite good."
She didn't say that if it weren't for Su Mu's appearance, where would she have gotten the courage to stay away from that scumbag's family!
If she hadn't left Liao Nanxing, her later life would likely have been consumed by mundane daily routines. Trying to find Nini again is simply a pipe dream.
"You might be overestimating Su Mu," Gu Yao's voice rang out.
"What's the meaning?"
Gu Yao smiled mockingly: "If she were content with being an ordinary person, she wouldn't have chosen to interfere in someone else's family. The reason she's still by Li Anran's side is because she has no better choice."
"How could that be? Even I can see that Li Anran truly loves her. Some people might never meet someone who truly loves them in their entire lives! As long as she's not stupid, she should cherish Li Anran."
"Her? Ha! You think too highly of her."
Just as Zhou Chunhua was looking puzzled, Su Mu's complaining voice came from the other end: "Li Anran! How much longer are we going to live like this?"
Zhou Chunhua couldn't help but glance at Gu Yao a few more times.
He... has such a sharp eye.
Turning her head, she saw Li Anran holding Su Mu's hand and explaining, "Mu Mu, give me some more time. Don't worry, I will definitely not let you and Xiao Bao suffer for too long."
"That's enough!" Su Mu slapped Li Anran's hand away and roared, "I can't stand living like this in the wind and sun for another day! I don't want to live like this for another day!"
Working so hard from dawn till dusk all day, earning just a few hundred yuan, when will we ever be able to raise enough for Xiao Bao's surgery? Anran, I'm begging you, please try to find your friends, okay?
Aren't they all very rich? Let them help you, help us, okay? It's not that I'm unwilling to help you rebuild your life, nor am I afraid of hardship; I'm just afraid Xiaobao won't live to see that day!
After saying that, Su Mu cried pitifully, just like always.
"Mumu, it's not that I want to go, but even if I go, they won't help us!" Li Anran scratched her head in despair.
Su Mu grabbed Li Anran's hand and said urgently, "You haven't even gone, how do you know they won't help you? Anran, I'm begging you, please beg them for my sake, please?"
“I…” Li Anran clenched her teeth, her face contorted in pain.
Su Mu suddenly knelt down in front of Li Anran.
"Anran, will you take me to meet them? If you can't say it, I will! I believe that as long as I explain everything, they will definitely help us because of our years of brotherhood!"
At this moment, the car began to move forward slowly.
"See? What did I tell you? Su Mu isn't the kind of person who'd settle down and live a peaceful life." Gu Yao said with a half-smile, "He's clearly using Li Anran as a stepping stone. I really don't know how Li Anran could be so foolish as to end up like this for a woman like that."
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