Chapter 26: A Marriage Wrong from the Start is Destined to Have No Conclusion

Gu Tingyan held the pen, his breathing becoming rapid and irregular, as if a knife had pierced his chest, causing his fingertips to tremble involuntarily.

Gu Tingyan had signed projects worth billions and had always been composed, yet now, a mere divorce agreement made the pen feel as heavy as a thousand pounds in his hand.

Gu Tingyan signed his name on the divorce agreement with slightly trembling fingertips.

After he finished signing, he handed it to Qin Shu with a pale face, his voice hoarse: "If you have any other demands, you can bring them up to me."

"Consider it my compensation to you."

Compensation?

Qin Shu's tone was cold and distant: "President Gu is truly affectionate and righteous, always liking to compensate others everywhere."

A cold, mocking look appeared on Qin Shu's face; she took the agreement and turned to follow the nurse: "I have the same blood type as her, you can use my blood."

"Great, hurry and come in with me!"

Hearing this, the nurse hurriedly pulled Qin Shu inside.

Gu Tingyan sat in the chair watching Qin Shu's departing back, and a mouthful of scarlet blood sprayed out.

His entire body collapsed straight onto the floor.

Chu Xuanming shouted anxiously: "Doctor! Someone come quickly, someone has fainted!"

Jiang Chenxue was also shocked: "What happened to him?"

"Brother-in-law!" Chu Yu, hearing that Chu Sheng had attempted suicide again, came to watch the excitement.

She rolled her eyes inwardly, unable to understand why her sister attempted suicide every single day.

Yet she had a tough life and just wouldn't die.

Chu Yu ran over in a panic and, together with the nurse, rushed Gu Tingyan into the emergency room.

Standing outside the operating room, Chu Yu looked at Chu Xuanming: "Dad, Gu Tingyan was perfectly fine, how did he faint?"

"How would I know?"

Chu Xuanming lowered his eyes; could it be that Gu Tingyan vomited blood from anger because Qin Shu wanted to divorce him?

Qin Shu lay on the hospital bed, closing her eyes to let the nurse draw blood; she was afraid of pain and never looked at the needle when getting injections or infusions.

"I'm about to insert it," the nurse said, giving her a bit of mental preparation.

Qin Shu furrowed her brows as the needle pierced her vein: "Mm."

Lying on the bed, Qin Shu felt her blood slowly draining from her body, her heart growing cold along with it, and a tear flowed from the corner of her eye.

When Qin Shu walked out, Chu Xuanming was guarding the door, but Gu Tingyan was gone.

Gu Tingyan must have gone to watch over Chu Sheng.

Qin Shu curled her lips in a mocking smile; if this lingering, inseparable couple were even a little bit honest, Qin Shu would respect them for it.

If Gu Tingyan truly had feelings for her, he should have just thrown a divorce agreement at her.

Instead, he had to hide behind the guise of debt and compensation to engage in illicit affairs—one willing to be the mistress, the other openly cheating during marriage.

Qin Shu really owed them nothing.

However, it didn't matter anymore.

The past was like clouds and smoke; all love, hate, and grievances should end with this piece of divorce paper.

From now on, whoever Gu Tingyan wanted to see or whatever he wanted to do had nothing to do with her.

He could do whatever he pleased.

Qin Shu walked out from inside with a pale face, and Chu Xuanming's expression was complex when he saw her.

Qin Shu reminded him with a cold face: "Remember to transfer the money to my card."

Chu Xuanming's face turned livid, as if he didn't even want to look at her for another second.

That face of Qin Shu's looked too much like her mother's, and her appearance was even more striking than her mother's.

Chu Xuanming sneered: "You'll get what's yours."

"Once you get the money, hurry up and divorce Gu Tingyan."

"You two aren't a match!"

"The only person he loves is Chu Sheng."

Qin Shu wanted to laugh upon hearing this, mocking: "Not a match?"

"Five years ago, why did you force me to enter this marriage?"

"Why didn't you say I wasn't a match for him back then?"

Gu Tingyan was crippled and couldn't bear to part with Chu Yu, so he used her as a stepping stone, a ladder for him to climb higher.

Now that Chu Sheng was back, he wanted to kick her away.

Facing Qin Shu's questioning, Chu Xuanming snorted coldly, not feeling the slightest bit in the wrong.

Chu Xuanming said coldly: "You received the compensation you were owed, didn't you?"

"Why bother putting on this pitiful act."

"Huahua!"

Su Tuantuan came over as soon as she received Qin Shu's message; seeing Qin Shu's pale face, she hurried over to support her.

Supporting Qin Shu, Su Tuantuan looked coldly at Chu Xuanming, standing up for her: "Mr. Chu, Huahua is your own daughter, after all."

Own daughter?

Chu Xuanming only felt it was ironic; if Qin Shu were truly his own flesh and blood, he wouldn't have ignored her for so many years, let alone divorced Qin Zhiyun!

He had loved that woman so much back then, yet she had dealt him a fatal blow.

The DNA test from back then showed that she had no blood relation to him at all.

Su Tuantuan's eyes reddened, and she roared: "What did she do wrong to deserve being treated like this by you!"

With tears welling in her eyes, she said with intense hatred: "You are her biological father, not her enemy!"

"Heh..."

Chu Xuanming's heart trembled slightly, and he gave a mocking laugh. He looked at Qin Shu's face with eyes full of disgust and said coldly, "My family affairs are not for an outsider like you to manage."

"I have no relationship with him whatsoever."

Qin Shu leaned halfway against her, her face pale, her voice weak: "Tuanzi, take me away."

Su Tuantuan took Qin Shu away, looked back, and glared fiercely at him: "Chu Xuanming, you will face retribution sooner or later!"

Retribution?

Chu Xuanming never believed in retribution!

He was a poor boy who crawled out of a mountain ditch, and to reach his current status, he had suffered every hardship, tasted every bitterness, and had almost severed all family ties.

Now, sitting on a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, he had already surpassed most people in the world!

He, Chu Xuanming, was still living just fine; he had only ever believed in himself!

Only cowards used retribution to comfort themselves; now, he controlled a conglomerate worth over ten billion, and his son-in-law was Gu Tingyan.

Over these past five years, he had received no shortage of benefits from Gu Tingyan.

He would only ever become a person above others!

Su Tuantuan sent Qin Shu back to the villa, brewed chicken soup for her, and only left with peace of mind after watching Qin Shu finish it and fall asleep.

Qin Shu heard the sound of an engine from downstairs, her mind hazy, and she drifted off to sleep just like that.

By the time she woke up again, it was already seven o'clock the next morning.

Gu Tingyan had not returned.

Qin Shu dragged her suitcase; inside it were only a few pieces of clothing she had bought herself.

She did not take a single one of the jewelry pieces, the cabinet full of luxury bags, or the haute couture dresses that Gu Tingyan had gifted her.

Qin Shu looked at the clothes in her closet; they were all solid, plain colors—little white dresses, the type that leaned toward the "little white flower" style of Chu Sheng.

In truth, her face was too vivid and bright; it was better suited for wearing sexy, alluring red dresses.

She was indeed prettier wearing red dresses.

Qin Shu took off the ill-fitting ring on her finger, as if removing this ill-fitting marriage from her life.

A marriage that was wrong from the very beginning was destined to yield no results.

These five years of marriage to Gu Tingyan felt as if they were stolen.