Chapter 168: He is going crazy with jealousy; go see the child

Qin Shu frowned slightly; she did not go over, but instead turned and walked toward the balcony to wait for the press conference to begin.

The balcony was quiet, and there was no one around.

Just as Qin Shu walked over, her wrist was grabbed by someone and she was pulled inside.

Before she could even gasp, she had already been dragged over by the person.

Gu Tingyan gripped Qin Shu's wrist and pulled her into his embrace; the man's warm breath sprayed against Qin Shu's neck, and his long, fair fingers pressed against the spot on her neck that was most sensitive.

He knew Qin Shu too well and knew she would definitely run to a corner like this.

Sure enough, he had managed to ambush her.

Qin Shu was the same as always; whenever she attended this kind of banquet, she would always secretly sneak off to a corner to hide.

She did not like to flatter or fawn over others, socializing made her irritable, and she did not like drinking red wine or champagne.

In this kind of setting, it was impossible to avoid drinking for the sake of socializing.

Therefore, Qin Shu would always hide away as soon as she was done dealing with people, terrified of being discovered.

Qin Shu raised her eyes to see the man's face clearly, and a wave of anger immediately surged up; she said sharply, "Let go of me!"

Gu Tingyan held her slender, white wrist tightly, and thinking of her intimate interaction with Ji Yanli, he was nearly driven mad with jealousy.

He endured for a long time before he could stop himself from going over to kill Ji Yanli.

Gu Tingyan's pitch-black eyes stared fixedly at Qin Shu's face, and he asked with persistent paranoia, "What exactly is your relationship with Ji Yanli?"

Seeing Qin Shu appear at the venue with her arm linked with Ji Yanli's, Gu Tingyan's sanity was almost completely devoured.

Jealousy fought frantically in his mind.

He thought of that night when he sat in his car waiting downstairs at Qin Shu's home all night, watching them move into the same house like a couple.

The moment he saw the lights in that room go out, Gu Tingyan finally understood what it was like to watch the woman he loved living with another man.

What it meant to have one's heart pierced by a knife; that feeling of heart-wrenching, life-is-worse-than-death agony was suffocating.

Gu Tingyan never wanted to experience it again.

Hearing Gu Tingyan's interrogation, Qin Shu raised her eyes to look at him coldly and let out a soft laugh: "Mr. Gu, how is it that even you have come to ask this question?"

Gu Tingyan paused: "Did Chu Sheng look for you?"

Qin Shu sneered: "What, didn't you discuss it with your fiancée?"

"Both of you husband and wife have come to ask the same question."

"What relationship I have with him, what the hell does it have to do with you?"

Gu Tingyan's chest heaved violently, and he stared at Qin Shu with his pitch-black eyes, emphasizing: "We are not husband and wife."

He did not say anything more than that.

Not husband and wife, yet still a fiancée.

Qin Shu's gaze scraped across Gu Tingyan like a knife: "Stay away from me."

She rubbed her slightly reddened wrist and said with cold sarcasm: "When the time comes, your fiancée will say I'm seducing you again."

"If she sees us pulling at each other, I won't be able to explain myself."

No matter how much she, Qin Shu, might like someone, she would never stoop to being a mistress.

What's more, her love for Gu Tingyan had long since been buried and exhausted during their five years of marriage.

As far as she was concerned, Gu Tingyan was nothing more than an ex-husband today.

"Mr. Gu, a qualified ex-husband should act as if he were dead."

Qin Shu kept a cold face and shook the man's hand off; Gu Tingyan let go of her hand as she moved, and the man leaned against the wall and lit a cigarette.

Hearing that sentence from Qin Shu—that a qualified ex-husband should act as if he were dead.

Gu Tingyan took a drag of his cigarette, held it in his mouth, and lowered his head with a soft laugh; just how much did she resent him to not want him to appear before her?

"Huahua, do you hate me that much?" Gu Tingyan said in a hoarse voice.

Qin Shu's expression was cold and detached: "No."

"Gu Tingyan, I don't hate you."

This sentence was like a heavy hammer striking Gu Tingyan's chest, turning his face deathly pale; without love, there would not be hate either.

People who once loved each other deeply cannot be friends, because they have loved and they have hated.

Qin Shu looked at Gu Tingyan and said earnestly: "Gu Tingyan, you go on living your life well and don't come to disturb me."

"Honestly, I don't want to get involved between you and Chu Sheng."

Gu Tingyan bit down on his cigarette, feeling a dull, throbbing pain in his heart, as if his heart had been torn apart by a pair of giant hands.

He had never imagined that one day, Qin Shu would tell him to live his life well with another woman.

The corners of Gu Tingyan's eyes turned red; he did not answer Qin Shu's question, and the man's deep voice rang out by Qin Shu's ear: "Find some time to go see Chenchen."

"He misses you very much."

Qin Shu's body stiffened slightly.

She and Gu Tingyan were divorced, and the two were no longer husband and wife, yet they could not sever their connection; they still had two children together.

As for Nangong Jin, Qin Shu did not intend to tell Gu Tingyan, but Chenchen was a connection that could not be severed; he was born into the Gu Family and would be a member of the Gu Family for the rest of his life.

The Gu Family would not give the child to her either.

Gu Tingyan looked at Qin Shu's pale little face, unable to bear it, and seeing her sad and sorrowful appearance.

In the past, he had no ability to protect her, and everything from here on out was a debt he owed.

Gu Tingyan did not ask why Qin Shu had disappeared after that great fire, or why she had faked her death.

As long as she could return alive, it seemed nothing else mattered.

He only wanted her to live.

Gu Tingyan's voice was hoarse: "Go see the child."

"Huahua, Chenchen is not doing well."

Thinking of her first child, Qin Shu could not help but feel a sharp pain in the depths of her heart.

That was the child she had given birth to with full hope, the crystallization of the love she and Gu Tingyan once shared, endowed with so many expectations and beautiful dreams.

Yet that child was snatched away from her side by Lin Jingshu and Gu Huaiyuan the moment he was born.

He did not grow up by her side, and he did not have such deep feelings for his own biological mother; sometimes, he was so cold and indifferent that it made Qin Shu feel that Gu Yichen was the true child of the Gu Family.

He was exceptionally intelligent and gifted, far more mature than his peers, but he was also just as rational and calm, valuing his own interests just like the people of the Gu Family.

Yet Qin Shu did not blame Chenchen for not having deep feelings for her.

She respected his choices.

Because in the past, she lacked the ability; even when her own child was snatched away, she had no way to protect him.

She had not raised Gu Yichen, nor did she hate him for not having deep feelings for her.

But he was, after all, her own flesh and blood.

Qin Shu did not know why Gu Yichen was not doing well, assuming he was just sick with a cold or a fever.

Too many things had happened four years ago, and in Qin Shu's condition, had she been further provoked, she would not have been able to survive at all; Gu Tingyan had not told Qin Shu the truth about Gu Yichen's situation.

Gu Yichen loved Qin Shu very much; his love was buried deep within his heart, and he dared not show it.

Four years ago, she thought the child who did not love her had broken a leg, and bleeding, he dragged that broken leg through a blizzard for a very, very long time before reaching her side, where he stood guard for a very, very long time.

Lin Jingshu's people went looking for them, and it was only because Gu Yichen refused to leave the side of the severely injured and unconscious Qin Shu that they did not manage to dispose of Qin Shu and the child in her womb in time.

And Qin Shu knew none of this.