Chapter 54: It's Not Like I Can't Afford to Support You

Qin Shu walked over and saw a table full of food, all of which were things she loved to eat.

She suddenly felt that her instant noodles were particularly shabby: "Why did you buy so much?"

Qin Shu would never wrong her own stomach for the sake of feeling wronged; she sat down at the table without standing on ceremony and tossed her already-cooked instant noodles to the side.

Gu Tingyan picked up a piece of braised pork with his chopsticks and placed it in her bowl: "Shall I hire a nanny for you? To come over and cook for you on time every day?"

Gu Tingyan knew that her cooking could poison people, and it tasted terrible!

"No need."

Qin Shu looked at the fresh and delicious piece of braised pork in her bowl and swallowed her saliva silently.

She picked it back up and put it into his bowl, her face full of reluctance: "I'm joining the film crew soon, I can't eat this."

Qin Shu kept hypnotizing herself: "I am a self-disciplined actress!"

Gu Tingyan: "..."

Gu Tingyan did not understand at all why Qin Shu insisted on looking for trouble: "Why suffer like this? It's not like I can't afford to support you?"

Qin Shu's hand holding the chopsticks paused: "That's different. Before, your legs were disabled, and I could only revolve around you."

"Now that you can stand up, you don't need me anymore."

Gu Tingyan's throat felt tight: "Who said I don't need you?"

"Huahua, I need you."

Qin Shu paused, pretending she didn't understand the implication in his words.

"Gu Tingyan, we are going to get a divorce."

"Can we not?"

Qin Shu: "A gentleman does not go back on his word."

"I have never been any kind of gentleman."

This conversation ended on a sour note; Gu Tingyan waited for her to finish eating, cleaned up the food containers, and carried the trash out the door.

Gu Tingyan instructed: "Call me if anything happens."

"Mm."

Qin Shu watched Gu Tingyan go out, then closed the door and locked it.

The Chu Family.

All day long, Chu Sheng had been in a state of panic, waiting for the sanctions from Gu Tingyan that felt like the arrival of the Grim Reaper.

Night fell, and the day passed.

Chu Sheng was safe and sound; she hadn't waited for Gu Tingyan's retaliatory strike, and a glimmer of hope couldn't help but arise in her heart.

Perhaps Gu Tingyan was just too angry that she had lied to him; once his anger subsided, Chu Sheng decided she would go and coax him properly.

After all, he still had feelings for her.

The threatening words were just something he said.

Chu Sheng relaxed, and exhausted, she lay on the bed and fell asleep.

She thought Gu Tingyan had let her off.

The next day.

Gu Tingyan sent her a message, and Chu Sheng picked up her phone happily.

"Go apologize to Qin Shu, don't forget."

Seeing this message from Gu Tingyan, Chu Sheng's pupils shrank; she raised her hand and smashed the phone against the wall, shattering it into pieces.

Why should she go and apologize to that bitch!

She gritted her teeth in hatred: "Qin Shu!"

She wouldn't apologize! Absolutely not!

Chu Sheng didn't believe that if she didn't apologize, Gu Tingyan could bring himself to destroy her!

If he had the ability, he should just kill her!

The woman's pale face carried a sickly whiteness in the shadows, looking crazy and paranoid.

A day passed quickly, and Gu Tingyan began to implement his revenge against the Chu Family; in just half a day, the Chu Group lost one billion in the stock market.

Chu Xuanming called Gu Tingyan to plead for mercy, but Gu Tingyan didn't answer.

Chu Xuanming could only call Gu Huaiyuan and said in a deep voice: "I don't know what Qin Shu said to Tingyan, but he is now targeting Sheng."

"He wants Sheng to kneel and apologize to Qin Shu; in just half a day, the Chu Group's stock lost one billion!"

Chu Xuanming sneered: "He is hurting the enemy by a thousand and losing eight hundred himself!"

If the Chu Family suffered losses, Gu Tingyan would also lose money; he was using money to hedge against the Chu Family!

Gu Huaiyuan was stunned when he heard this; he hadn't expected his son, who had always been steady and calm, to do such an unreasonable thing.

He was simply a foolish ruler!

How could he rest assured about handing the Gu Group over to Gu Tingyan in the future!

"Qin Shu is a disaster!"

"He is simply becoming lawless!"

After hanging up, Gu Huaiyuan called Gu Tingyan, but he didn't answer after several attempts.

A Zhong sent him a message instead: "Mr. Gu, President Gu says that if you want to stop him, don't acknowledge him as your son in the future."

Gu Huaiyuan was shocked to his core.

A Zhong said: "Miss Chu originally impersonated the Madam to date President Gu; she lied to him, and President Gu needs to vent his anger."

Seeing this, Gu Huaiyuan was stunned: "What impersonation?"

A Zhong told him everything.

Gu Huaiyuan fell silent after hearing this; so, he had thought Tingyan liked Chu Sheng, when in fact, the one he liked was Qin Shu.

Furthermore, Gu Huaiyuan understood his own son; he hated being deceived by others more than anything.

Chu Sheng had stepped on his bottom line.

If this had happened to anyone else, it would likely be impossible not to be angry.

Although Gu Huaiyuan did not like Qin Shu, he would absolutely not go against his own son for the sake of Chu Sheng.

Gu Huaiyuan called Chu Xuanming and said earnestly, "Look at the good deed your daughter has done."

"Make her go and apologize to Qin Shu."

"This is Tingyan's intention; otherwise, I cannot help you either."

After hearing this, Chu Xuanming's heart turned cold; he hung up the phone and looked at Chu Sheng: "Did you hear what your Gu Shu said?"

Chu Sheng's face turned pale instantly; her fingers gripped her skirt tightly, and her eyes were bloodshot.

"Dad, if you want me to go and kneel to her, you might as well let me die!"

Chu Sheng returned to her room and smashed everything inside!

The air pressure in the villa was very low, lingering with a terrifying atmosphere; the masters' faces were grim, and the servants were as silent as cicadas in winter.

Hearing the sound of things being smashed upstairs, Jiang Chenxue's heart also sank: "Isn't Gu Tingyan being too excessive?"

Her face was grim: "Isn't this humiliating Sheng?"

Chu Xuanming sat on the sofa smoking, his face terrifyingly gloomy.

He had poured a great deal of effort into raising his eldest daughter, Chu Sheng, and from the moment he learned she was dating Gu Tingyan, Chu Xuanming had become even more attentive to her.

Who would have known that now that she had returned, she could not hold onto Gu Tingyan's heart.

Instead, Qin Shu had picked up a bargain.

If Chu Xuanming had known about the current situation, he would never have tricked Qin Shu into coming home from school.

Marrying Qin Shu into the Gu Family was not as good as having married Chu Yu in the first place.

Even if Chu Sheng had returned, Chu Yu could have given birth to the eldest son of the Gu Family; what would that have to do with Qin Shu?

Chu Yu had just returned in a hurry after finishing work at the hospital; as soon as she entered the door, she heard the sound of Chu Sheng going crazy upstairs, and her heart trembled.

Chu Yu was very afraid of her own older sister.

Chu Yu's face was grim: "Dad, I heard from my colleagues at the hospital that our family's stock market value evaporated by one billion in less than half a day?"

At the mention of this, Chu Xuanming felt even more stifled.

By nightfall.

Gu Tingyan had people set up a trap, and the Chu Family's stocks were still in turmoil.

Chu Xuanming kept a constant watch on the stock market, and finally went to knock on Chu Sheng's door, his voice cold: "Go and apologize to Qin Shu."

Inside the room, Chu Sheng turned pale upon hearing her father's words.

She pulled open the door, her eyes bloodshot: "I won't go."

Chu Xuanming raised his hand and slapped her, his expression unprecedentedly fierce: "Go and apologize, otherwise, don't acknowledge me as your father!"

Chu Sheng's fingers were tightly clenched into fists, and her whole body could not stop trembling.