Tang Ziyun sat uneasily on the high-end leather sofa in the club, waiting for the indifferent middle-aged man in front of her to speak.
“Here’s fifty million, leave my son.”
As the man spoke, his assistant placed a blank check with the amount filled in and stamped on the coffee table next to her.
Tang Ziyun's eyes reddened; she felt insulted: "Uncle, I didn't do this for the money..."
“Even if you’re not after money, you’re not the right partner for my son. Your union will only be a tragedy. Leaving him is better for both of you.”
"But……"
"Gu Zhenyue has a fiancée. His fiancée is the daughter of the chairman of Huafeng Group. Tomorrow is the day they will hold their engagement banquet. Are you sure you want to be a third party who breaks up someone else's marriage?"
The girl's face turned pale instantly.
He didn't tell her that he already had a fiancée when they started dating!
He lied to her!
"I see."
Tang Ziyun stood up, didn't even glance at the check, and turned away.
With her back to Gu Jianyun, the tears she had been holding back finally fell.
"Boss..."
"Have someone keep an eye on her and prevent her from having any further contact with Zhenyue. If she behaves herself, arrange a decent job for her."
"yes."
Tang Ziyun quickly realized Gu Jianyun's well-intentioned "arrangement," but the proud woman refused to accept such charity and chose to return directly to her rural hometown.
After listening to his subordinate's report, Gu Jianyun only commented, "She does have backbone," and then ordered the surveillance on her to be lifted.
Tang Ziyun only discovered she was pregnant two months after returning to her hometown.
Despite her mother's advice, she insisted on giving birth to the child.
Six years later, Tang Ziyun brought Xiao Gu Chen to Haitian City and settled down in a small but cozy rented house.
Tang Ziyun, a graduate of a prestigious university, quickly gained the appreciation of her superiors and received a promotion and raise after returning to work, thanks to her ability and hard work.
Two years later, she took out a loan to buy a small apartment of more than 80 square meters in Haitan City. In order to pay off the mortgage as soon as possible, she worked overtime until very late every day.
Fortunately, Gu Chen is very sensible and never acts up or acts willfully. Not only does he rank among the top students in his class, but he also prepares three meals a day for her.
The mother and son depended on each other for survival in this unfamiliar international metropolis, and their lives were bittersweet.
Until one day, Gu Chen excitedly told her that he had been signed by Huayu Entertainment and would be able to help her make money in the future, so she would finally not have to work so hard anymore.
Tang Ziyun smiled and gave her son a hug, praising him in the same expression and tone as usual, saying he was great and that he was her pride.
Unfortunately, your mother won't be able to see the day you become a superstar and shine on stage.
After Gu Chen fell asleep, Tang Ziyun's tears fell onto the diagnosis report of late-stage liver cancer.
When Gu Chen was framed and sent to prison, he lay weakly in a hospital bed. Tang Ziyun, powerless to do anything about it, finally let go of the pride she had held onto all her life.
She dialed the phone number that Gu Jianyun's subordinate had given her.
Surprisingly, it was him who answered the phone.
Hearing his ecstatic voice on the other end of the phone, Tang Ziyun's heart, which had been dormant for more than ten years, couldn't help but start beating.
That was the only true love of her life!
Tang Ziyun didn't want to cry. So many years had passed, and she thought she had grown strong enough.
Hearing his voice, she felt as if she had returned to the past, becoming the little girl who would whine and act spoiled towards him.
She tearfully told Gu Zhenyue that she was about to die, and her only wish before she died was for him to save their son.
After making that call, she held the phone to her chest, waiting anxiously and expectantly.
Tang Ziyun couldn't lie to herself; even after more than a decade, she still missed the man who had once given her warmth and sheltered her from the storm.
She knew that he might already have a family, and it was even very likely that he had a child with that noble lady.
She dared not hope for anything, she just wished she could see him one last time before she died.
Just one meeting is enough.
However, Tang Ziyun, lying in her hospital bed, ultimately did not live to see him.
Gu Zhenyue, who confidently told me on the phone that he would drive over to find me right away, disappeared after that call.
Even when she mustered the courage to call back, the call went unanswered.
Their son lost the plagiarism case, and his bright future was completely destroyed.
Tang Ziyun's life came to an end amidst these successive blows of bad news.
As the phone slipped from his thin, bony fingers, a headline popped up: Gu Zhenyue, the current president of the Gu Group, had died five days earlier in a car accident after being taken to the hospital.
Unfortunately, she can't see it.
Fortunately, she didn't see it.
...
Years later, Gu Zhentao deliberately gave that phone number to Gu Zhenyue, taking advantage of his eagerness to see his wife and children. Instead of waiting for the bodyguard to check the car as usual, he drove off. By the time he discovered that the car had been tampered with, it was too late, which led to their son, Gu Chen, discovering the tragic car accident.
Gu Zhentao was kicked out of the Gu family and lost everything.
...
On a drizzly morning, Gu Jianyun dismissed his subordinates and stood alone in front of the tombstone that Gu Chen had rebuilt for his parents.
As the aged fingers traced the inscription "Erected by Gu Chen, father of Gu Zhen and mother-in-law of Tang Ziyun," tears of regret streamed down the face of this old man who had experienced countless storms and hardships throughout his life.
"...If only I hadn't separated you two back then!"
Gu Jianyun knelt down, supporting the brand-new tombstone, and cried like a child who had just lost his parents, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry..."
He kept repeating those three words until the rain stopped, but his voice still didn't stop...
End of extra chapter three
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