Chapter 30: Five whole years, you really can endure

Qin Shu frowned: "You were here all last night?"

Gu Tingyan did not speak, his gaze fixed on her, guessing whether she was lying; seeing her attitude, he knew she truly did not remember.

Gu Tingyan let out a soft chuckle.

He suddenly thought of a saying: As long as I, the Empress, do not die, you lot will always just be concubines!

As long as he did not divorce, it would always be impossible for Ji Yanli to be with her.

Qin Shu felt his laughter was quite chilling, and she furrowed her brows: "What?"

"Very surprised? Not the wife you imagined?"

Gu Tingyan stared at her face, his eyes unfathomable.

Back when Qin Shu dared to take an axe and split his door open directly, he should have known she was not the kind of gentle woman who could be controlled.

When she loves you, you are the moon in the sky.

When she doesn't love you, you are a pile of dog shit on the ground.

Gu Tingyan lowered his head and chuckled muffledly, his chest vibrating in waves.

Married for five years, he had actually never fully grasped Qin Shu's true nature.

He had even thought she and Chu Sheng were the same type of woman.

Qin Shu's temperament looked gentle and soft, but she was actually a little stubborn donkey who never yielded to anyone; her previous submissiveness to him was only because he had relied on her love for him.

Qin Shu: "..."

Qin Shu felt that Gu Tingyan might be crazy.

Qin Shu cursed: "You're sick."

Hearing her curse him, Gu Tingyan was still laughing; he looked up at Qin Shu: "Five whole years, you really can endure."

No wonder she hung out with Ji Yanli when they were little; two little bastards.

One more capable of enduring than the other!

Gu Tingyan sneered: "Even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles couldn't endure as much as you."

Qin Shu: "..."

Qin Shu gave a mocking smile: "If you didn't like that type like Chu Sheng, would I have needed to pretend?"

Gu Tingyan paused slightly.

Qin Shu gave Gu Tingyan a look of disdain and smiled mockingly: "I really don't know how you could like Chu Sheng."

She was laughing at his poor taste.

Gu Tingyan: "..."

Gu Tingyan's dark, deep eyes stared at her: "Then what about you, what do you like about me?"

Qin Shu paused and said expressionlessly: "Your face is good-looking."

Gu Tingyan: "..."

Gu Tingyan's Adam's apple bobbed, his eyes looking straight at her: "Then if I were disfigured in a car accident, would you still like me?"

Qin Shu looked at him and said: "Is there any point in saying these things now?"

"Gu Tingyan, do I need to remind you?"

"We are getting a divorce soon."

Gu Tingyan's heart sank abruptly; he loosened his tie, his voice low: "Qin Shu, I don't want a divorce."

Qin Shu's expression changed instantly, and she stood up sharply with a fierce look: "Gu Tingyan, are you playing with me?"

She forgot she was in the car, she was too angry.

As Qin Shu stood up, her head hit the roof of the car, and the pain brought tears to her eyes.

She sat back down, rubbing the top of her head incessantly.

"It's all your fault!"

Gu Tingyan: "..."

Gu Tingyan leaned over, his large hand covering her head, rubbing it gently: "Come here, let me rub it for you."

Qin Shu swatted his hand away: "Get lost."

Gu Tingyan: "..."

Now that they were really getting a divorce, she was becoming increasingly impolite to him.

Gu Tingyan looked down at Qin Shu, his voice gentle: "Didn't you ask me what I liked about Chu Sheng?"

Qin Shu's body stiffened slightly; she had always been curious deep down.

But loving someone makes a person timid.

In this marriage, Qin Shu was a coward.

She never dared to ask Gu Tingyan anything about Chu Sheng; if she asked, there would be comparisons in her heart.

She would fall into deep pain.

Unconsciously comparing Gu Tingyan's favoritism toward Chu Sheng and his coldness toward her.

Gu Tingyan said: "I have known her online for a long time, many years."

The corner of Qin Shu's mouth twitched, and she widened her eyes in disbelief: "You even had an online romance?"

Gu Tingyan: "..."

He, with this face, having an online romance?

In reality, Gu Tingyan would never lack for girlfriends, yet he had an online romance.

It cracked Qin Shu up.

"Hahahaha, it's killing me, you actually had an online romance!"

Gu Tingyan: "........."

Gu Tingyan leaned against the car, lost in memory, and continued:

"In my first year of junior high, I met her, and she said her name was Spades K."

Qin Shu: "???"

Qin Shu was stunned.

Spades K?

How could it be such a coincidence?

Qin Shu had a hacker persona; she possessed talent beyond the ordinary, and after her family fell on hard times during her childhood, she taught herself programming online and learned to write code...

By her second year of junior high, she was already somewhat famous in the hacker world.

Gu Tingyan said: "One day in my second year of junior high, school ended early, and I went home ahead of time."

Qin Shu suddenly looked up at him, her heart beating violently.

"I caught my father having an affair with his own widowed sister-in-law."

"They even had an illegitimate child about my age."

"My mother still doesn't know to this day."

Qin Shu's heart gave a fierce jolt; she had been married to Gu Tingyan for five years and had never once seen this widowed sister-in-law.

Gu Tingyan chuckled, his mouth bitter: "This is a family scandal."

Gu Tingyan opened the window, took out a cigarette, and lit it.

"I found her and paid her to handle things for me."

"The evidence was irrefutable, and later, I kept it from my mother."

"I threatened him, saying I would make this scandal public; my father is a man of status and reputation, and he couldn't withstand that kind of public opinion."

"I forced my father to send that mother and child out of the country."

"During that time, I was very miserable because my father had always been a tall and respected figure in my heart; I had admired him since I was a child."

Gu Tingyan took a drag of his cigarette: "I never thought he would have an affair."

With a cigarette dangling from his mouth, he chuckled and looked at Qin Shu: "I hate him, so I will never be a person like him."

Gu Tingyan was telling her that he had not had an affair.

"During that time, it was she who comforted me, and we chatted very well."

When Qin Shu first saw Gu Huaiyuan's face, she had probably guessed a bit, but she hadn't thought deeply about the matter Gu Tingyan had entrusted her to investigate back then.

After all, she had many such clients.

She couldn't very well be narcissistic enough to think that all her clients would fall in love with her.

Qin Shu's expression was ugly, and she looked at Gu Tingyan with an indescribable look: "And then, you just... fell in love with her?"

This kind of work was called an emotional consultant, and there was money to be made just by chatting with people.

At that time, she would take at least twenty cases a month, chatting with twenty men and women to relieve the distress in their hearts.

Gu Tingyan's eyes were dazed: "Something like that."

He looked at Qin Shu: "She and I were of one mind."

The corner of Qin Shu's mouth twitched wildly: "........."

One mind my foot!

If you counted it that way, she was of one mind with twenty people a month!

She had, after all, read books on psychology like "How to Win Friends and Influence People," "Murphy's Law," "Flow," "Personality Psychology," and the "I Ching."

Gu Tingyan said earnestly: "She really understood me."

Qin Shu: "?"

When her clients paid the final balance, they had all said the exact same thing to her.

Female clients would say: Spades, you really understand me; if you were a man, I would have fallen in love with you.

Male clients would say: Spades, if only you were a woman, I would definitely have fallen in love with you.

Qin Shu looked at Gu Tingyan and said with a complex expression: "Is there a possibility that you recognized the wrong person?"

Gu Tingyan scoffed: "How is that possible?"

"She met me in person."

Qin Shu: "?"

Qin Shu frowned: "When?"

"In my second year of high school."

Qin Shu sat in the chair, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

In her second year of high school, her mother had committed suicide due to severe depression; not long after, her grandmother fell ill, and her grandfather, unable to bear the blow, also passed away.

During that time, she had disappeared for a long period and had taken a very long leave of absence.

But why was Chu Sheng able to impersonate her?

Qin Shu thought about it carefully; it must have been that time she returned to the Chu Family and knelt on the ground begging Chu Xuanming to save her grandmother.

She knelt for a very, very long time, and Chu Xuanming probably agreed to save her grandmother because he found her embarrassing.

Qin Shu brought her grandmother from the countryside to the Chu Family, and during that time, she slept in the servant's quarters of the Chu Family and used a computer.

Chu Sheng had stolen her account and even deleted it.

It must have been at that time that Chu Sheng discovered her account and met with Gu Tingyan.

During that time, Qin Shu was terrified that her grandmother would also leave her, so she watched over her night after night.

By the time her grandmother was discharged from the hospital and she had recovered, a long time had already passed.

Gu Tingyan loved the wrong person.