When the two uncles from the Ren family received calls from their children, they were in utter disbelief, but they knew it was all true.

The elder Ren uncle instructed his youngest son to follow his grandfather’s arrangements for everything and not to act on impulse.

The second Ren uncle was close in age to Ren Cuiping, so their bond was stronger than that of his older brother.

After hearing his daughter recount what had happened, he stood frozen by the telephone, completely unable to accept the reality of the situation.

In the end, he told his wife and child that he was going to Qing City. He wasn’t sure if he wanted to stop his brother-in-law from divorcing or do something else entirely.

Su Shuochi pulled Gu Jiaojiao into the room. "Sweetheart, are you very upset by what Mrs. Sheng did?"

"Not at all. You know I wasn’t the one who was wronged at the Sheng family’s home before. Besides, she herself said to let the past be the past. So, the Sheng family are just strangers to me. Why would I care what strangers do?"

"That’s true, sweetheart. Why don’t you go take a shower? We should get some rest, too. We have important things to do tomorrow."

"Okay." With that, Gu Jiaojiao went into the bathroom.

When she came out, she saw the man had already taken off his white shirt and hung it on the bedpost, deliberately sitting shirtless in his wheelchair.

Su Shuochi watched as his wife stared, mesmerized, at his body. She looked so greedy he thought she was about to drool.

"Sweetheart~ Are you satisfied with what you see?"

"Mhm, very satisfied."

"Hahaha..." Su Shuochi let out a joyful laugh. ’All I have are my good looks and physique, but at least they can satisfy my wife.’

At that moment, he remembered her first day here, how her small hand had touched his chest as she gulped.

Every time he recalled that memory, he found it so adorable, not the least bit off-putting.

’This must be what my wife calls being seen through rose-colored glasses.’

"What are you spacing out for? Go take a shower," Gu Jiaojiao urged, drying her hair with a towel.

"Let me blow-dry your hair first, then I’ll go," Su Shuochi said, taking out the hairdryer.

’My wife craves my body, but don’t I crave hers just as much?’

She was tall, and her freshly washed face was as smooth as a peeled egg. She wore a silk pajama set and a pair of slippers.

Her features were exquisite, her aura extraordinary. She was, in every sense, a stunning and magnificent red rose.

Su Shuochi swallowed hard several times, thankful that the roar of the hairdryer covered the sound.

He desperately tried to focus his thoughts on the hairdryer’s mechanics. "Sweetheart, I want to make a hairdryer like this to sell."

"Oh? That’s not a bad idea. Su Shuochi, you know how to make a hairdryer?"

Gu Jiaojiao asked with great interest. Looking at the shirtless man before her, she suspected he was deliberately trying to seduce her, and she had evidence.

But since she was, in fact, seduced, she decided not to expose his little scheme.

"When you weren’t home, sweetheart, I took this hairdryer apart to have a look. It’s just a small electric motor that drives a rotor, which in turn spins the fan blades.

A hairdryer is a combination of a set of heating coils and a small, high-speed fan.

When the fan blades rotate, air is drawn in through the intake, creating a centrifugal airflow that is then blown out of the nozzle at the front.

When powered on, the heating coils generate heat. As the air from the fan passes over the coils, it becomes hot air.

If only the small fan is spinning and the heating coils aren’t hot, then it just blows cool air."

As she listened to his deep, seductive voice, a starlight twinkle appeared in Gu Jiaojiao’s eyes.

Her eyes, filled with a gentle smile, shone with adoration and admiration as she gazed earnestly at the man before her.

She hardly dared to blink. Her gaze was incredibly sincere and fervent, a love that came from the bottom of her heart.

Her sparkling eyes were dazzling, filled with single-minded respect and reverence.

It was as if an invisible flame was blooming, burning brighter and brighter until it became a small sun.

Su Shuochi had only started talking about the hairdryer to distract himself, but seeing his wife’s expression, he could no longer hold back and leaned in to kiss her...

「The next morning.」

Just as Su Shuochi and his wife finished breakfast, Gao Xiangming arrived in his car to take them to a site in the suburbs.

It was a good thing Gu Jiaojiao left quickly. Not long after she was gone, a sobbing Mrs. Sheng showed up at her door.

The night before, after dragging his wife home, Mr. Sheng had locked her in their daughter’s room, leaving Sheng Shiwu to stay with Sheng Shiwen at the hospital.

First thing in the morning, Mr. Sheng dragged his wife to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a divorce, but of course Mrs. Sheng was unwilling!

So, she wrenched her hand free from Mr. Sheng’s grasp and ran toward Gu Jiaojiao’s house.

From a distance, Mrs. Sheng saw Gu Jiaojiao and her husband get into a car and drive away. She ran forward desperately, but the car left her with nothing but a trail of exhaust.

At that moment, she felt the blood run cold in her veins. She had become all alone in the world for Yueyue’s sake.

But now, Yueyue despised her too!

"Ren Cuiping, even now, you still don’t see the error of your ways? If you knew this would happen, you should have never started!"

Mr. Sheng hadn’t actually wanted a real divorce; he just wanted to scare her. Who knew she would repeatedly go and cause trouble for Jiaojiao.

’Xiao Wu was right. If we don’t get a divorce, his mother will only become more brazen in enabling Yueyue’s mistakes.’

Not a single one of the onlookers spoke up for Mrs. Sheng. From the looks in their eyes, it was clear they were all gloating, eager to see her get divorced.

Ren Cuiping broke down in hysterical sobs, but she was still dragged away by Mr. Sheng to file the divorce papers.

The Sheng family courtyard and their daughter, Sheng Yueyue, would be left to Mrs. Sheng, while the three sons would go with Mr. Sheng.

Naturally, Ren Cuiping refused. Her daughter had made it very clear: if she got divorced, Yueyue would disown her. What good was it to have her daughter assigned to her?

The three-story house was even more useless. Living alone in that house of sorrow would only make her more miserable.

Unfortunately, Mr. Sheng stubbornly refused to back down. He said he would live in his work unit’s housing with his sons. The couple remained at a stalemate for a long time.

In the end, it was Mr. Ren himself who went to the Civil Affairs Bureau, which finally convinced Mrs. Sheng to compromise.

She promised Mr. Sheng she would stop fighting with him, that she didn’t want the courtyard, and that she would go to the hospital on time every day to take care of their second son.

Mr. Sheng remained silent. He had loved her for decades; how could he just give up on her?

’This divorce is what she forced me into!’

But Mr. Ren spoke decisively, "Liang Yuan, you’re taking the three sons, so the Sheng family courtyard should stay with you!

Cui Ping hasn’t been in a good state of mind lately. Her older brother and I have already applied to have her job transferred. We’re moving her to a position in Yun City."

Ren Cuiping had thought that after the divorce, she would be all alone. She never expected her father and brothers would still be willing to take her in.

Staying in the residential compound would only invite Ren Xiaofang’s ridicule, so she was more than willing to accept the job transfer.

Mr. Ren ordered his young grandson, granddaughter, and several bodyguards to drive Ren Cuiping away on the spot.

He left two bodyguards in Qing City to look after him and told his grandchildren to inform their parents.

He had found the Divine Doctor and would be staying at Qingcheng Mansion to treat his chronic arthritis.

Sheng Yueyue never would have dreamed that her parents, that model couple, would get a divorce.

In her previous life, right up until the day she died, her parents had been as deeply in love as when they were young.