Hearing Gu Yaoqing's undisguised contempt and scorn, Yu Linwan's voice cracked as she yelled, "Gu Yaoqing! You scumbag!"
"If I'm a scumbag, what does that make you? Gu Yaoyang was in a coma for only three months before you married me. When Gu Yaoyang wakes up, won't your intestines be filled with regret?" Gu Yaoqing's gaze was sinister. "Regret is useless. You're my wife now. Even if you die, you're mine! Do you understand?"
"Scumbag! I want a divorce!" Yu Linwan's tears gushed out.
"Divorce? What are you thinking? You think you're worthy of divorcing me?" Gu Yaoqing, having shed his pretense, spoke plainly. "Your surname isn't even Yu! Do you think you've maintained your current status and life because of whom?
Don't think I don't know why you accepted my proposal. You're just relying on me being the young master of the Gu family. You know that by marrying me, the Yu family will continue to acknowledge you as the fake daughter because of my influence.
Yu Linwan, you still dream of divorcing me. Are you willing to give up your current wealth and status?
After this incident, do you think the Yu family will still keep you if you divorce me?
Wake up!"
Hearing Gu Yaoqing's words, Yu Linwan felt as if she had been doused with a bucket of ice water, causing her entire body to tremble.
Her knees buckled, and Yu Linwan sank to the floor. She couldn't fathom how she had ended up in this situation.
"Also, I'm heading back to the capital now. Swallow all your dissatisfaction, bury it deep, and don't say anything out of line in front of my family. To the outside world, you'll say Wen Shengsheng seduced me, and I was momentarily confused. We're still deeply in love, understand?
If you have any objections, as the Gu family's young madam, there are plenty of women who would jump at the chance to become the future matriarch of the Gu family.
I can easily cast you aside and marry a genuine daughter.
You should be grateful for what I bestow upon you!
Do you understand!" Gu Yaoqing asked coldly.
A bitter taste filled Yu Linwan's throat, her mind went blank, and her body felt devoid of strength.
"I'm asking you! Do you understand!" Gu Yaoqing, displeased with Yu Linwan's silence, questioned her again. "My patience is limited!"
"I... I understand," Yu Linwan replied weakly, her voice frail.
"Good girl, remember what I told you," Gu Yaoqing finally offered a satisfied smile.
Women, once controlled, become incredibly subservient.
No matter what he wanted, Yu Linwan just had to endure it.
When he was happy, he would toy with her like a dog; when he was unhappy, he could replace her with a more obedient one at any time.
After Gu Yaoqing hung up the phone, it slipped from Yu Linwan's grasp and fell to the ground.
Only then did her grief and indignation surge, and Yu Linwan collapsed onto the bed, wailing.
She couldn't understand. She truly couldn't understand.
How could something like this happen?
From childhood, she had been the pampered young lady of the Yu family. How had she suddenly become a fake, and how had everything that belonged to her become illegitimate?
She had once believed she had the most outstanding fiancé. Although Gu Yaoyang was somewhat aloof, she believed that as long as her gentleness was accepted by Gu Yaoyang, she could still live a happy life.
Yet, out of jealousy and fear, she had set that fire.
She didn't know why the fire had suddenly spread so intensely, not only causing the Yu family matriarch to fall into a deep coma but also leaving Gu Yaoyang in a coma for three months.
Over those three months, she watched Yu Zixuan gradually take control of the Yu family.
She was terrified, feeling that she could be kicked out at any moment.
If that day came, would staying with a living dead man still be useful?
It was at that moment that Gu Yaoqing proposed to her.
She was both scared and flustered, so she could only turn to Gu Yaoqing.
But then Gu Yaoyang suddenly woke up.
After Gu Yaoyang awoke, she became a joke, an extraneous person.
She often felt the gazes of others upon her filled with mockery and disdain.
How she wished Gu Yaoyang had just died; how good that would have been.
How good it would have been if Gu Yaoyang had never woken up.
But he still woke up.
Fortunately, not long after, Gu Yaoyang became completely independent from the Gu family.
At that time, she was truly relieved. That period was the most relaxed and happy time for her.
However, Gu Yaoyang soon established Gu's Entertainment. With his intelligence, composure, and resolute methods, Gu's Entertainment grew from nothing and eventually soared to become the most powerful empire in the domestic entertainment industry.
Meanwhile, Gu Yaoqing, time and again, revealed his foolishness, pettiness, jealousy, and even his over-reliance on his mother.
The more Yu Linwan compared Gu Yaoqing to Gu Yaoyang, the more unbearable her pain became.
She had missed out on an excellent man who should have been hers, missed out on an entertainment empire that should have been half hers.
That period was truly agonizing; she had even considered suicide.
Truly, if the knife hadn't been too sharp, and if she hadn't been afraid of pain or leaving scars on her body, she would have gone through with it.
The torment of this suffering caused her to waste away day by day.
Later, it was Gu Yaoqing who suggested that they could also cooperate in an entertainment company, to be named [Wan Qing Entertainment].
What Gu Yaoyang could achieve, they as a couple could also achieve, perhaps even better.
They should crush Gu Yaoyang under their feet!
Yu Linwan knew Gu Yaoqing made this decision out of jealousy, but she, like someone confined in darkness, finally saw a glimmer of sunlight and accepted it with relief, as if she had found salvation. She was even inexplicably drawn to follow Gu Yaoqing to City Z—where Gu Yaoyang resided.
Yu Linwan wanted to prove she wasn't wrong, to prove that Gu Yaoyang was the one who was mistaken.
But reality was so cold and cruel.
The more she tried to prove she was right, the more reality repeatedly told her she was terribly wrong.
She was wrong.
Yu Linwan sobbed uncontrollably, unable to grasp how she had gone wrong.
She was merely afraid of getting hurt, so why was she the one who ended up hurt?
Her outstanding fiancé was snatched away by Xia Qingtian, and even her husband had been seduced by Wen Shengsheng.
She was unwilling! She was truly unwilling!
With this thought, Yu Linwan clenched her fists tightly at her sides.
Just then, Yu Linwan's phone rang.
Seeing the caller ID, Yu Linwan's cries abruptly ceased.
After a moment of hesitation, Yu Linwan picked up the phone and answered the call: "Hello..."
"Ms. Yu, have you considered my offer?" a synthesized voice came from the other end of the phone, speaking with the casual tone of a long-lost friend.
"Who are you?" Yu Linwan didn't know who this person was who called her whenever she failed, but she vaguely felt that this was the only beam of light she could rely on in the darkness.
"Me?" A light chuckle came from the other end of the phone. "Someone who can help you."
Yu Linwan fell silent, but her tear-swollen eyes grew brighter and more determined.