Chapter 71 Let's Get a Divorce
"Yes, my family treats me very well. Little Bowl, when I realized that my parents didn't abandon me on purpose, and that I have family who love me, I felt at peace."
Right now, I don't want anything else but to stay by my parents' side and take good care of them. They've worried themselves sick over the years trying to find me, and their health has deteriorated. I want to spend more time with them.
Su Ruan nestled in Song Feiwan's arms, confiding her innermost thoughts.
"You're such a worry." Song Feiwan knew that Su Ruan had only told part of the truth.
Having been friends for so many years, she knew Su Ruan's character all too well.
The more nonchalant she appeared, the more she cared inside.
She has been healed in terms of family relationships, but she is stuck in a rut and has no intention of getting out of her emotional predicament.
"Do you really believe your own words? Are you really planning to stay inside the Li family forever and never leave? I know you're sad and upset and want to escape."
But you can't run away from life forever; some problems you have to face.
"...But this is the first time in my life I've ever fallen for a man, and it almost ruined you and your parents. How can I convince myself to forgive that bastard? It's impossible. I will never forgive him in this lifetime."
She spoke sternly, but tears involuntarily streamed down her face.
Song Feiwan sighed and pulled Su Ruan to sit down on the sofa.
"There are some things I originally wanted you two to handle yourselves, but now I've discovered that some people are just cowards who are unwilling to face reality."
"I don't care at all, so what are you being so stubborn about?"
After waiting for a long time, Su Ruan didn't say anything, just remained silent.
When Song Feiwan's stubborn temper flared up, she grabbed Su Ruan's arm and forced her to look at her directly.
"Forget it, I'll be the peacemaker. Su Ruan, actually, the whole thing is very simple. Gu Jinyuan is just a pitiful little guy being used by his own mother."
He's lying about being mistreated by his stepfather and stepmother. It's actually his own mother who's tormenting and abusing him.
Su Ruan looked up abruptly, "Huh? My biological mother?"
"Yeah, that awkward guy Gu Jinyuan only said that his stepfather and stepmother tormented him because he wanted to save face. He's talking nonsense."
His birth was all planned by his mother.
Song Feiwan has done nothing these days. Ever since she heard what Gu Jinyuan said to her that day, she went home and asked her parents to find out everything that happened back then.
Immediately afterwards, she went abroad to personally investigate Gu Jinyuan's childhood.
Perhaps because Gu Jinyuan no longer cared about the past, her investigation went very smoothly. After returning to China, she went home first and presented all the evidence of the abuse Gu Jinyuan had suffered to her parents.
Even Song Zheng, who had always been cold-hearted towards Gu Jinyuan and his mother, was taken aback.
He thought that Gu Jinyuan's mother gave birth to the child because she loved the child and couldn't bear to kill a little life.
Little did they know that Gu Jinyuan had been tortured to the point of near death several times under the care of that mad woman over the years.
People say that even tigers, though fierce, do not eat their cubs.
But that crazy woman was worse than an animal; she treated Gu Jinyuan as a tool she could use.
Unable to win Song Zheng's love, she drugged him to get his body and then carefully planned her pregnancy.
Knowing he had a wife, she repeatedly came to their door to pressure them into divorcing.
Fortunately, Song Zheng and Zhou Wanrou had a very deep relationship and did not believe her attempts to sow discord; instead, their relationship grew stronger.
Seeing that she couldn't separate the two, Gu Jinyuan's mother left and returned to China with resentment in her heart.
Song Zheng thought that the crazy woman had come to terms with it, but unexpectedly, when Gu Jinyuan was two years old, she came back to find him with the child.
At the time, Zhou Wanrou was heavily pregnant and about to give birth. She was agitated by that crazy woman, which caused her to give birth prematurely, almost resulting in the death of both her and her unborn child.
Song Zheng was furious and sent assassins to hunt down Gu Jinyuan and his mother.
He only wanted to deal with the crazy woman and didn't intend to involve the child.
But that crazy woman threatened the child's life and finally escaped in the chaos.
Even Gu Jinyuan, who was abandoned, was sent back to her by someone arranged by Song Zheng.
He thought this chase would make that crazy woman hate him completely, but to his surprise, she came back to him when their child was five years old.
At that time, he noticed that the crazy woman was mentally unstable. He didn't say much, but simply sent someone to take them away.
However, they failed to consider that Gu Jinyuan, who was only five years old at the time, was also a perverted little madman.
He only found out about his behavior when Song Feiwan told him.
At the time, his career was going well and his family was happy, so he didn't bother with that crazy woman.
But from then on, he was also very wary of the mother and son, so much so that when Gu Jinyuan returned to China at the age of twelve, they were not even allowed to enter the house.
No matter how much the mother and son pleaded on their knees in the rain that rainy night, Song Zheng ignored them.
This caused the madwoman to become even more insane, and Gu Jinyuan was tortured by his biological mother to the point of almost dying again.
In Gu Jinyuan's eyes, Song Zheng had taken his mother by force, causing her to become pregnant, and had no intention of taking responsibility.
He even forced his mother to have an abortion, and later hunted down the mother and child. Even when he grew up, he abandoned them without any pity.
Let them fend for themselves.
From that moment on, Gu Jinyuan harbored a deep-seated hatred for the Song family, especially for Song Zheng.
After learning the whole truth, Song Zheng and Zhou Wanrou looked at each other with some regret.
She also felt some guilt and pity towards Gu Jinyuan.
They promised Song Feiwan that as long as Gu Jinyuan behaved well in the future, they would no longer pursue Gu Jinyuan's repeated acts of retaliation.
Song Feiwan showed Su Ruan some evidence of Gu Jinyuan's childhood abuse, including testimonies from some servants and records left by the hospital.
She was also shocked; she realized that there really were mothers in this world who didn't love their children.
It's not just adoptive parents who abuse their adopted daughters; even biological mothers don't treat their children like human beings.
Compared to everything Gu Jinyuan had gone through, Su Ruan felt that her own experience didn't seem so tragic.
After Song Feiwan left, Su Ruan was absent-minded for several days.
As usual, the old butler came to ask her, "Miss, Mr. Gu has come to visit again today. Would you like to see him?"
Since being discharged from the hospital, Gu Jinyuan has come here every day, waiting outside the gate, hoping to see her.
Su Ruan didn't know how to face this person before, and she still harbored hatred in her heart.
But now she can no longer hate Gu Jinyuan, so let's say goodbye completely!
"Please invite him to the living room."
The old butler was taken aback, thinking he had misheard. He looked up at Su Ruan's face before hurriedly going down to make arrangements.
The two felt as if they were in a dream when they met.
In less than a month, everything changed drastically, and people became as reserved as strangers when they met again.
Su Ruan questioned Gu Jinyuan, "You deliberately approached me? Did you want to use me against the Song family?"
Gu Jinyuan panicked. He wanted to get revenge, but revenge was nothing compared to his wife. He knelt down and groveled at her feet.
"That's not how it is, honey, let me explain!"
Su Ruan gave a bitter smile. "It's already come to this, what else do you want to explain? Let's both preserve some dignity and part ways amicably!"
"What do you mean?" Gu Jinyuan looked up in alarm.
"Gu Jinyuan, you're a bastard! I want a divorce!" Su Ruan finally said it, and felt a great sense of relief.
divorce?
Gu Jinyuan's panicked eyes instantly darkened, and all his internal organs were being squeezed wildly, making him suffocate and go crazy.
He struggled to suppress the beast surging within him, his entire being radiating a gloomy aura, his eyes bloodshot, resembling a sinister demon crawling in the shadows.
"Su Ruan, you're my wife... You want a divorce? Only if you kill me..."
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