C11 Shao Doesn't Love You

"Lu Yao, it's impossible for you to borrow money from anyone." Fu Xuezi snorted, sounding utterly sure. "The bank would certainly not lend you the money, you don't have a house to sell, and the friends you have are all poor. From where are you going to get this two million yuan?"

"You think Shao Yunchen cares about the relationship you two have? I'm sure you must have realized the answer too by now. If he cared about you, he would have invited you at least once to the company to meet his colleagues, in these three years that you two have been married."

Fu Xuezi smiled mockingly and continued, "You know what's hilarious? I've been in the company for more than a year now, but I realized that no one there even knows that Shao Yunchen is married. Don't you think it's funny?"

That one comment knocked down the fortress that Lu Yao had built in her heart.

Ridiculous! How could it not be funny?

Her marriage to Shao Yunchen was a big joke. There had not been an actual wedding. Only a marriage certificate and his contract existed between them. Just like that, she had his ring on her finger.

"Lu Yao, stop lying to yourself now." Fu Xuezi took two steps forward and looked at her condescendingly. "Shao Yunchen doesn't love you. There's more than a little gap between you two."

Lu Yao raised her head to look at Fu Xuezi. "And when did you two get together?"

Fu Xuezi did not expect Lu Yao to question her. She was stunned for a moment, but did not reply. She had only wanted to push Lu Yao's buttons and see where it went, hoping that she would be convinced to divorce Shao Yunchen.

Lu Yao laughed a little. She understood the situation now. She slowly folded the cheque in her hands and tore it to pieces.

She threw the pieces of paper at Fu Xuezi. "I will divorce Shao Yunchen," she said softly. "But you should keep the money for yourself."

Lu Yao shoved her aside with her shoulder and walked away.

Fu Xuezi, despite her intelligence, was left embarrassed. "You really don't know what's good for you!" she shouted at Lu Yao's retreating figure.

Lu Yao ignored Fu Xuezi.

After she left her mother at her apartment, the lawyer called her to ask if she had raised the money yet. The trial was going to be held in a few days. Lu Yao told him that she would arrange for it as soon as possible and hung up the phone with a heavy sigh.

The more she thought of it, the more she regretted ripping apart the cheque. She was anyway about to divorce Shao Yunchen. What was so wrong in taking up Fu Xuezi's offer of two million yuan? She cursed her conscience.

"Yao Yao," her mother said. "Is the lawyer urging you to raise the money again?"

"It's fine, I can handle it." Lu Yao smiled, wanting to put her mother at ease. "Help me put away my clothes in the wardrobe. I'll go out and buy some vegetables, then I'll come back to prepare dinner for you, all right?"

"Yao Yao, don't be so distressed. If there's really no other way, then forget about it. Your dad will at most stay in prison for a few more years, but I only have one daughter. I want you to live a good life."

"Mom, don't worry. I know what I'm doing."

Mrs. Lu was insistent that her daughter stay away from trouble. Lu Yao promised her over and over again that she would not do anything stupid, and only then did she calm her mother down.

Leaving the apartment, she took out the business card in her pocket. She dialed the number written on it. "Dongnan, do you have time?"

Less than ten minutes after Lu Yao arrived at the cafe they had decided to meet at, Xiang Dongnan came as well.

He was holding an adorable little girl in his arms, about four or five years old.

As Xiang Dongnan sat down, he smiled helplessly. "I'm sorry, Tian Tian was a little upset in the afternoon, so I went to the kindergarten to pick her up. There was a bit of traffic on the way."

"It's all right." Lu Yao glanced at the little girl. "Your daughter is adorable."

Tian Tian seemed to be a little afraid of strangers. She hid her face in Xiang Dongnan's neck. When Xiang Dongnan asked her to say hello to Lu Yao, she was very shy. She stared at Lu Yao with her round eyes.

Lu Yao smiled at her, envy striking her heart.

In the early days of her marriage to Shao Yunchen, she had envied seeing couples with little children of their own. So she had racked her brains to think of a way to conceive a child. She tried things like poking holes in the condom and getting Shao Yunchen drunk so she could seduce him and get pregnant by accident.

Shao Yunchen, on the other hand, was smarter than she had initially thought. He exposed her tricks each time and told her sternly not to mess around. He said he was not ready for a baby for at least four years.

For at least four years! He was well aware that after four years, they would get a divorce.