Chapter 1007: The Alliance of Attack and Defense: A Divine Assist

The hallway.

Gu Zhihao looked at the tightly shut bedroom door, feeling incredibly aggrieved in his heart.

He did not feel that he was in the wrong.

That meant his wife was wrong.

If she was wrong and refused to change, what could be done?

File a complaint.

Having made up his mind, he went to the kitchen to make a bowl of soybean paste noodles, fried a golden-brown sunny-side-up egg to place on top of the noodles, carried it to his wife's door, knocked, and left.

Even if he was angry, he still had to cook for his wife; he couldn't let her go hungry.

A habit formed over several years.

Once a habit is formed, it creates muscle memory and becomes a part of the body; doing these things didn't pass through his brain at all, required no thought, and were all natural occurrences.

Shi Yuke didn't want to pay attention to him, but she also didn't want him to go on endlessly.

She opened the door, but there was no one outside; only a bowl of freshly made soybean paste noodles sat at the doorway, the golden, crispy-edged egg emitting an enticing aroma.

Suburban Villa.

Ji Yingjie was at home playing with the two children, while Shi Yucheng had gone to the river to fish to make fish soup for his wife.

Nianyin had gone to the company, and only the servants and bodyguards were at home.

He was stopped at the entrance by a bodyguard: "What are you here for?"

The bodyguard's gaze was unkind and very vigilant.

This was a high-end Villa area, where every inch of land was worth an inch of gold.

The guests who came here were either rich or noble, yet the man before him wore cheap clothes and shoes bought from a street stall; even the servants were dressed better than him.

It wasn't that he didn't have nice clothes, but he couldn't bear to wear them.

Gu Zhihao felt that spending so much money on a piece of clothing was not cost-effective, and if it got dirty or even damaged, it would be even less cost-effective.

He hadn't expected to be stopped by a bodyguard here.

Gu Zhihao announced his identity: "My name is Gu Zhihao, and I am the son-in-law of the master of this house."

The bodyguard looked him over: "Wait here, I'll go inside and report."

Ji Yingjie was very happy to hear he had come: "Bring him in quickly."

She was just bored, and Gu Zhihao had come; wasn't that just perfect?

He couldn't have come for any other reason; it was nothing more than having another conflict with Shi Yuke and coming to seek help.

Ji Yingjie looked down on such a "spineless" man from the bottom of her heart, but she was still very willing to meddle in the domestic affairs of the couple.

Gu Zhihao didn't come empty-handed this time; he had brought quite a lot of sea cucumber and bird's nest, which of course cost a lot of money, and his heart ached.

"Mother, hello."

He bowed and scraped, very polite.

"These are supplements for you, sea cucumber, bird's nest..."

He thought he would show off a bit, not knowing that Ji Yingjie didn't even take these things seriously.

Her entire focus now was on gossip, and she brushed the items placed before her to the side: "Stop talking nonsense, just say it directly; what happened between you and Shi Yuke again? Tell me so I can be happy... no, let me hear it, I'll help you resolve your worries, after all, we are family."

But Gu Zhihao wouldn't say: "It's nothing, I came to find Father, where is Father?"

Ever since the incident where the marriage certificate was burned, he had been strictly warned by his wife not to tell Ji Yingjie and Nianyin about their affairs, otherwise, she would show no mercy.

Shi Yuke hadn't included her father in that, because she knew Gu Zhihao and her father had a good relationship, and if there were too many restrictions, perhaps none of them could be enforced.

"Speak, if you don't speak, I won't tell you where my husband is."

Having finally gotten a lead on some gossip, she wouldn't easily let such a good opportunity go.

He didn't want to talk, but he didn't dare offend his mother-in-law.

So he picked up the gifts he had brought to divert her attention: "Look at this sea cucumber, how large it is..."

"Take it away, the sea cucumber our servants eat is larger than this."

Gu Zhihao:...

He picked up the bird's nest gift box again: "This is the best bird's nest in the mall."

Ji Yingjie continued to tear him down without hesitation: "Forget it, it's not even Blood Bird's Nest, let alone the best; look, the bird's nest pieces are all broken, I never eat this kind of inferior bird's nest."

Gu Zhihao:...

He felt a bit embarrassed.

Ji Yingjie's patience was never good to begin with, and now it had been completely worn away.

"Hmph! Even if you don't say it, I'll find out; I'll send someone to your residential complex to ask around and I'll know everything, and then I'll tell Shi Yuke that you were the one who told me, and you'll be in for it."

"You can't do that, I'll say it, I'll say everything."

Gu Zhihao compromised and told her everything that had happened at home recently, without leaving a single detail out.

Ji Yingjie "slapped" the coffee table and asserted: "You guessed right, your wife definitely has something going on with a young male model."

He clenched his fists, wanting so badly to beat her.

No man would be willing to be cuckolded, and even less willing to have it pointed out to his face with such certainty.

But he didn't dare; if he dared to lift a finger against Ji Yingjie, this old woman could make him leave horizontally.

"What, you don't believe it?"

Ji Yingjie was beaming, her eyes shining: "Even if it's nothing for a short time, after a long time, something you don't want to see will definitely happen; your wife never looked up to you in the first place, and at a time like this, you actually let her openly bring a man home right in front of you? Tsk tsk, you're really broad-minded..."

She rubbed her hands in excitement: "Don't worry, leave this matter to me, I have a way to help you."

"What way?"

"Go back and when she's not there, install a camera in the room where she livestreams; isn't that room off-limits to you? Then don't go in; you can watch just as well from another room. Once you discover your wife and that young model, you take a screenshot to threaten her; if she dares to divorce you, you'll release the screenshot, and she won't dare to."

Gu Zhihao:...

"That won't work, what kind of solution is that? If you make me watch, I'll feel worse than dead, I won't watch."

"Then use the child to threaten her, tell her that if she divorces you, you will fight for custody, make it so she can't even see the child, and find the child a stepmother in the future."

He shook his head again: "No, I can't say that, Yuke would definitely be very sad, I can't bear to see her sad, when she's sad my heart softens, and I'd agree to anything."

"Useless, you deserve to be dumped!" Ji Yingjie said, frustrated by his lack of progress.

"How about this."

Ji Yingjie said as if she had made a great decision: "I will pack up and move back in these next two days."

Gu Zhihao:...

He was so shocked he couldn't speak, staring at her with wide eyes.

"What? Not welcome?"

Ji Yingjie immediately glared back, her eyes flashing with a fierce light.

"No, no, that's not what I meant..."

He wanted to explain, but didn't know how to put it.

He didn't even know how to handle the "ancestor" already at home, if his mother-in-law's family moved back in, wouldn't the place be turned upside down?

Ji Yingjie was righteous and confident: "Don't be ungrateful, I'm moving back entirely for your sake, think about it, when I live at your house, will Shi Yuke look at you with displeasure?"

"A person's energy is limited, if she puts all her attention on me, won't she have no time to pick on you? Maybe when she wants to find an ally to deal with me, the first person she'll think of is you."

"By then, the two of you will share a common enemy, with a unified goal, and slowly your feelings will be cultivated, you blockhead, why don't you hurry up and thank me?"

He still felt something was not quite right, but he couldn't say exactly what was wrong.