She couldn't help but stare at him, "Love is not measured by a house!"
"But if a man really loves his woman, he should consider her and try to give her the best!"
"But that's not what women want! It's not just a house, it's just money!"
“But it’s impossible without those things!”
"Why not? There are so many people who are not married now!"
"But our marriage failed back then! You haven't learned your lesson yet? That Zhuo Shixi clearly doesn't love you enough. Break up with him quickly, do you hear me?" He demanded arrogantly.
Bo Min couldn't help but get annoyed, "Guan Shouheng, who do you think you are? Why do you order me? And why do you speak ill of Zhuo Xi?"
"I'm telling the truth! You said he was a painter, right?"
"Artist!" she emphasized more deliberately.
He snorted and criticized, "That's even more unreliable! An artist's inspiration can run out at any time! What if he suddenly loses inspiration? Go drink the northwest wind?"
"Guan Shouheng! Stop talking nonsense! Don't curse Zhuo Xi!" She couldn't help raising her voice, not allowing him to curse her friend like this.
Hearing her defending other men in this way, his face became even more gloomy, "As far as I know, most painters are very carefree! What does he paint? Does it include the human body? He knows many female models, right?"
Bo Min couldn't help but grit her teeth and tried to clarify for her friend, "Zhuoxi is not as nasty as you think!"
"You mean I'm dirty?" He glared.
"I didn't say that!"
"But your attitude tells me that's what you think! Mint, I'm doing it for your own good, don't be deceived by messy men!"
She was angry, "I'll say it again, Zhuo Xi is not a messy man!"
"That's enough!" He didn't want to hear her talking about other men anymore.
"Not enough!" She was unwilling to end the topic like this, and had to make a clear argument, "Guan Shouheng, let me tell you, don't be self-righteous! You simply don't understand which is more important for women, love or bread!
"
"Of course it's bread! Didn't you just choose bread back then?"
They quarreled again without knowing it. It was still a very real issue. After many years, their positions were still different.
She bit her lip slightly, and he still didn't understand why she was so desperate on that typhoon night.
It's not that she can't endure hardships. From the moment she met him, she knew who he was. From the day she chose to be with him, she knew that her future life would never be the same as before at home.
However, she still married him because she wanted to get happiness from him, a kind of happiness that she had never gotten from her parents before.
But after getting married, she discovered that the gap between ideal and reality was so big. When she needed him by her side, he would always go out to work to make money.
He didn't understand that if she wanted money, she would never choose to be with him. Grandpa left her a lot of money, which they could use together.
She didn't understand why he insisted on fighting for himself and working hard even though they could live a good life. Why did he value his self-esteem so much? Her money wasn't stolen from murder and arson, so why couldn't she be just and aboveboard?
Land use?
After the typhoon night, she once hated him. She hated that he gave her a dream, but then broke it for her with his own hands. So she was very cold to him at that time. It was a punishment for him and a punishment for herself.
.
Until that day, because she wanted to attend her grandma's art exhibition, she bought him a suit. After they argued, she discovered that he had also bought a suit for himself, so she ran to the hospital to find him, but when she saw
When he got along with the girl named Liu Heting, he was so relaxed and stress-free, and she had no courage.
She was even thinking that if she had not met him, she might have chosen one of those famous men and lived heartlessly. If he had not met her, he might have found a girl like Liu Ting.
, know how to be gentle to him and know how to be considerate to him.
Maybe they were wrong from the beginning.
Perhaps, because of this, fate soon separated them ruthlessly.
Guan Shouheng was also upset, why she still didn't understand that all his efforts were for her and the child!
If he has no self-esteem, no backbone, spends her money with peace of mind, and just talks and laughs with her every day, will she still like him like that? Even if she likes him temporarily, how long can such like last? Their marriage
It’s for life!
She has been surrounded by many famous men since she was a child, and none of them is a big spender. If he becomes like that and spends women's money, is he still a man?
And their children, if they grow up in a family with a significant gap between their parents, how will they view their father when they grow up? How will they view money issues?
He admitted that he was immature in some aspects back then, and his self-esteem was particularly strong and fragile. He often ignored her feelings, but that was all because he loved her so much.
After the typhoon night, he tried hard to make it up to her, but she didn't need it anymore. On the night of his grandma's art exhibition, he was humiliated by her mother, but for her, he tried his best to endure it, but he didn't expect that even that wouldn't work.
, no matter how hard he tried, he still couldn't fight against fate, and was completely defeated in the end.
Unknowingly, the two stopped arguing again. Outside the window, big raindrops could be heard hitting the glass window, like his sharp sarcasm, hitting her fragile heart with every word.
The bus was just one stop away, so she got up early and said, "Whatever you think, it's already over."
"Is it really over?" He suddenly stopped her from leaving.
"What do you mean?" She didn't understand.
"You said love is more important than bread, then why did you insist on divorcing me back then?" His face became darker and his eyes became sharper, like a sharp sword piercing her heart.
Her breath suddenly suffocated, and her hands subconsciously grasped the hem of her skirt, "Lidu Li is gone, is there any point in investigating the reason now?"
"No? Is it because you can't stand the hard life, so you have to leave me, a poor boy? Or do you think that the corruption case will implicate me, so you deliberately force me to leave? Can the meaning of the two be the same?" He sharply exposed the question.
the essence of.
She was shocked, he actually guessed it?!
"Guan Shouheng, don't be so sentimental! You think of me too great, and you think of yourself too important!" She denied it strongly.
"Am I pretentious? Then how little love do you have? Otherwise, why are you still wearing the wedding ring I gave you?" His questioning tone, like his eyes, was so sharp, as if he wanted to
All her secrets are revealed.
"I said it's just a habit, and hasn't the ring been returned to you?"
"Do you dare to say that it wasn't done deliberately to hide it?" When she left before, she could have taken the ring away, but she didn't and chose to put it on the bedside!
"You have such a rich imagination!" she firmly denied.
"It's not that I have a rich imagination, it's that you treat everyone else as a fool!" He glared angrily, his eyes sharp, as if he could see through her heart.
She suddenly felt flustered, even scared, her jaw tightened, and she gritted her teeth and asked, "Guan Shouheng, what do you mean now? Don't you hate me anymore? Just because I'm down and out, your hatred disappears?"
"I... won't forgive you, but I can stop hating you!" He stared at her, his heart tightening sharply. It hurt, but he could bear it, so it shouldn't be that difficult not to hate her.
She trembled in her heart, he was crazy! Really crazy! How could she be able to let him retreat to this point?
What's the next step? What does he want to do next?
Forgive her, reconcile with her? Reunite with her?
"Guan Shouheng, you are joking with me, and you want to deliberately tease me, right?" Her voice was trembling slightly, because her heart was trembling.
"No!" he replied firmly.
How can it be?
Her eyes widened with an expression of disbelief.
Guan Shouheng stared at her surprised eyes, feeling sour in his heart. He must have gone too far recently, embarrassing her and finding fault with her everywhere, so now she doesn't believe anything he tells the truth.
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He really needs to examine himself. In fact, he is just like what she said last time, childish and immature. He does not distinguish between public and private affairs. He brings his personal grudges to work, deliberately makes things difficult for her, and wants her to bow to him. He
He deliberately forced her to stay up late to translate the copy, and deliberately asked her to do the most difficult work. But because she was not convinced, she took them all and completed them well beyond his expectation.
What he didn't know was that her life was already so difficult, and he was still putting pressure on her. He felt like he was rubbing salt into her wounds. He was going too far and... he should apologize.
"I'm sorry." He said apologetically.
In fact, he had been thinking about this sentence all day long and wanted to say it to her, but he kept hesitating.
She didn't know that in the eyes of others, he was now high and successful, but in fact only he knew that deep down he still had low self-esteem.
It's just that he is different now from ten years ago. He can now afford to buy a villa and wear famous brands, but in front of her, he will always feel inferior.
That's why he was so mean to her before, doing everything possible to suppress her and torture her, just to make her bow to him.
Because only then will he truly feel that he is successful.
All his efforts and achievements were just to prove it to her alone.
But when he knew what she had gone through in the past ten years, he only felt heartache, so painful that he almost couldn't breathe, because no one knew better than him how torturous that difficult life was.
Her situation now is very similar to his back then, but it's even worse than him, several times worse.
He was just an illegitimate child and was looked down upon by most people, but she was a corrupt woman and despised by everyone.
His mother was also seriously ill and hospitalized back then, but now her mother was lying in a prison hospital. He couldn't imagine the pressure she had to endure every time he went to see her.
No matter how poor he was back then, there was still hope in life. He could study, take exams, and go abroad if he saved enough money. But as for her, she had nothing.
Moreover, she fell hard from a high position, and the huge gap was enough to crush people's hearts to death.
He remembered that she didn't even take a taxi back then, and was always driven by a driver in a limousine. But now, after she gets on the bus, she knows how to swipe her card and is familiar with every stop sign.
He... really couldn't hate her anymore.
The bus arrived at this time. As if it was difficult to face it, Mint squeezed out from his side in fear and ran wildly into the rain.
Feeling him chasing from behind again, she turned around with a scream and said heartless words, "Guan Shouheng, don't be too naive. Even if I divorce you because I'm afraid of hurting you, so what? Have you forgotten?
Oh...I not only divorced you, but also took away your child? I am a cruel woman, so you don’t have to sympathize with me at all! Everything I am doing now is retribution! You forgot about the child
?"
One word awakens the dreamer.
Guan Shouheng's heart trembled heavily and he glared at her angrily.
Yes, he can't forget it. How could he forget it?
She also looked back at him, with sadness in the corners of her eyes. She saw her stubborn face in his gloomy eyes.
"Are you short of money now?" He suddenly asked her in a hoarse voice.
"……What do you mean?"
"If you need money, you can sell it to me." His words were harsh, but his expression was not hateful.
She was stunned and didn't understand. The rain curtain was so random that she couldn't read his eyes.
"what do you want to say in the end?"
Guan Shouheng raised his hand and wiped his face, wiping away the rain on his face and the sadness in his eyes, and then said slowly, slowly, "I'm not humiliating you. I also know that you can't be a lover.
I also know that... you can't have any more children, so I will buy you for a while, at least during the expo when we work together, we will no longer be tit-for-tat, we can cooperate happily at work, and in private... we can go on dates when we are free."
Dating?
She gasped, what did he mean? He couldn't possibly want to chase her again, right?
"You...why are you doing this? Even if you don't hate me, you can't like me anymore, right?"
"Of course I can't like a woman who cruelly takes away my child!" He said forcefully, as if to remind her and himself.
Her heart was trembling heavily. Although she knew it was impossible, she still felt a little stinging.
"Guan Shouheng, although I am very poor now, you know that I am very expensive." She laughed self-deprecatingly.
"It doesn't matter, no matter how much it is." He was very honest and didn't tease me.
"...What if I want all of your wealth?" She asked with a smile, but her face was always wet, I don't know if it was rain or tears.
He also smiled, "It's really in line with your style! But, yes! As long as you make money, I don't care."
This time it was her turn and she couldn't laugh or cry.
So scary!
She doesn't know how much money he has now, but it's not an exaggeration to say that simultaneous interpreters of his level are making money every day, and they often come into contact with high-level people or business elites, as was the case with her father back then.
, make use of your position to make many friends, obtain first-hand business information around the world, cooperate with them, invest, and earn low-risk, high-return huge profits, millions and millions of dollars.
Not only that, in some non-governmental international business meetings, if the simultaneous interpreter does a good job, it will greatly increase the turnover rate of both parties participating in the meeting. When the representatives of both parties are happy, they will give "tips" based on the profit of the contract.
, maybe only 0.01%, but when converted, it is also an astonishing number, tens of thousands at a time, hundreds of thousands are just ordinary.
So, his current net worth is really immeasurable, but he actually looks down on her so much that he uses all his net worth to buy her a date for a period of time?
"Guan Shouheng, are you really crazy? I am just a woman who abandoned you. Is it worth it?" She asked heartbrokenly, but she didn't know whether it was for him or for herself.
He shrugged and said nonchalantly, "Maybe it's not worth it, but that's not important."
"Then what's important? With so much money, it's impossible to buy Miss Universe."
"But Miss Universe can't fulfill my dream, the dream of my youth. Only you can achieve this." He looked at her face seriously, as if he wanted to pursue the memories of the past, "You don't know, the me back then,
I really want to give you the best things. Every time I take a group tour abroad, I am always envious when I see tourists buying things. I have taken a fancy to many things and want to buy them for you, but at that time
Financial conditions did not allow it, so I could barely support you and the children at that time, but later I became rich, but you and the children were gone."
Her heart trembled heavily, why had he never told her this?
"Promise?"
She nodded heavily, "I promise you, but I don't want money."
for free?
He was slightly stunned.
She stood up on tiptoes and took the initiative to kiss his lips, "I'm free on Sunday."
After saying that, she ran away quickly. In this way, she left him alone in the confused rain, preventing him from chasing her and preventing him from discovering An An's existence.
This is why she doesn't want money. The child is an eternal pain in his heart, but she can't give him a cure, so she is willing to agree to his conditions and make up for him.