seven-year itch - Chapter 19

In the days that followed, I still stayed at the company.

Every day, I sent Jiang Wan a photo of myself at work.

I planned to wait until her birthday, then go home with the gifts I had prepared for her and Huanhuan.

After all this time, she should have calmed down by now.

I believed that, deep down, there was no way Jiang Wan felt nothing for me.

But what I didn’t expect was that when I returned home with a bouquet of roses in my hands, the person who opened the door was Zhou Qing.

“What are you doing here?”

I frowned deeply.

Zhou Qing was wearing a sexy silk camisole nightdress.

We hadn’t seen each other for two months, and she looked even more alluring now.

But at this moment, I had no other desires at all.

Zhou Qing threw herself into my arms, her voice nasally.

“What kind of attitude is that!”

“You clearly said you’d come find me after some time, but it’s already been two months and you haven’t contacted me even once. So I had no choice but to come find you myself~”

Zhou Qing traced circles on my chest.

“Look at this dress I’m wearing, do you remember it? You picked it out for me back then, it was the first gift you ever gave me.”

“Jiang Wan doesn’t love you anymore. She’s the one who called and asked me to move in. She said she’s willing to let us be together.”

I could hardly believe my ears.

I pushed Zhou Qing away and rushed into the villa.

I ran straight to the master bedroom on the second floor.

All of Jiang Wan’s things were gone.

Everything in the children’s room was gone, too.

Zhou Qing’s belongings were strewn all over the house.

The only thing Jiang Wan left behind was the folder containing the Divorce Agreement.

Zhou Qing came over and handed me the Divorce Agreement.

“I’m pregnant.”

“When are you going to sign the divorce and marry me?”

I raised my eyes to look at Zhou Qing.

“Pregnant?”

“We used protection every time. How could you possibly be pregnant?”

Zhou Qing’s eyes instantly reddened.

“What do you mean by that?”

“Are you saying the child isn’t yours?”

“That day in the car, did you use protection?”

It dawned on me.

That day at the hotel, Zhou Qing kept seducing me.

I couldn’t hold back and went in directly.

I laughed in anger.

I slapped Zhou Qing across the face.

“You did it on purpose that day, didn’t you? You seduced me on purpose, deliberately made me not use protection, purposely left your underwear in the car! And half a year ago, you blocked Jiang Wan’s number, and then sarcastically said that if it was really urgent, why didn’t she call me directly? You made it so I couldn’t receive Jiang Wan’s calls, made her start to suspect I was cheating early on, didn’t you?!”

“Say something!”

I grabbed Zhou Qing’s neck in a fit of rage.

In an instant, everything connected in my mind.

Why did Jiang Wan suddenly stop calling me?

Why, when I told her last minute that I’d be bringing Zhou Qing to the banquet, did she not even ask a single question before agreeing?

Turns out she had known all along.

And I’d been smugly thinking I’d hidden everything so well.

At this thought, I slapped Zhou Qing again.

Blood trickled from her mouth as she used all her strength to push me away.

But she couldn’t budge me.

At that moment, the villa’s front door opened from the outside.

I thought Jiang Wan had come back and turned around in delight.

But instead, I saw my parents standing at the door with somber faces.

My father had been Jiang Wan’s advisor back in university.

He had played a part in bringing Jiang Wan and me together.

My father strode over and separated Zhou Qing and me.

He didn’t say a word before slapping me across the face.

“Haven’t you embarrassed yourself enough?”

“Gu Ming, what exactly are you thinking? How did you end up like this?!”

“Now that things have come to this, if you don’t get divorced, what are you trying to do? Do you want everyone to know? Do you want your mother and me to live out our old age in unrest?!”

My mother wiped her tears at the side.

“Gu Ming, just get a divorce! Jiang Wan said if you get divorced now, for the sake of all the years you’ve been married, she’ll give you a third of the assets.”

My eyes widened in disbelief.

“Dad, Mom, you’re telling me to get divorced?”

“Did Jiang Wan ask you to come?”

“Weren’t you both always so fond of Jiang Wan? How could you urge me to divorce her!”

My father’s face flushed with anger.

“When you let her down, did you ever think about any of that?”

“Gu Ming, you’re getting divorced whether you want to or not!”