Chapter 8: Anyway, I Don’t Agree to Divorce!

“Jiang Yue, let’s talk!” 

Gu Ye’s voice snapped Jiang Yue out of her thoughts. She turned around and saw Gu Ye staring at her with cold, icy eyes. 

Jiang Yue knew, the moment had finally come. 

“Alright!”

She put down the chopsticks and followed Gu Ye into the main room.

“What do you want to talk about?” Jiang Yue glanced at the small stools by the Eight Immortals table, about to sit down. But when Gu Ye entered and stood up, she felt that if she sat, her presence would seem weaker. So, she sat halfway before quickly standing up again.

“Jiang Yue, since our marriage, no matter what you’ve done, I’ve tolerated it! But you shouldn’t have given Ningning alcohol! Do you know she’s only three years old? What you did almost killed her!” Gu Ye’s tone was cold.

This was something the Original Owner had indeed done wrong. Jiang Yue lowered her head and sincerely apologized on the Original Owner’s behalf: “I’m sorry! It was my fault!”

Apart from the apology, Jiang Yue didn’t know what else she could do. She feared that even if she wanted to make up for Ningning’s harm, Gu Ye wouldn’t allow it.

Jiang Yue could feel a sharp, almost tangible cold glare sweeping over her. Gu Ye’s aura was too strong.

Gu Ye narrowed his eyes and looked at Jiang Yue, suspicion flashing across his phoenix-shaped pupils. This was the first time Jiang Yue had apologized to him. In the past, no matter what she did, she always refused to admit her mistakes.

He suddenly asked: “What happened to the injury on your head?”

“Injury?”

Jiang Yue had no idea that Gu Ye had started to suspect her, and that he had been to the Ji family, knowing about her wall collision incident.

When Jiang Yue heard him mention the injury, she instinctively reached up to touch her forehead. It still had bandages on it, and when she lightly touched it, a sharp pain shot through.

“I accidentally bumped into it.” Jiang Yue didn’t want to tell Gu Ye the truth.

How could she explain? Should she tell him that his wife, in order to compete with the fake daughter for affection and stay in that house, had angrily slammed her head into a wall, nearly killing herself, and now she was merely a soul inhabiting a dead body?

Gu Ye probably wouldn’t believe such a ridiculous story. 

Gu Ye said nothing.

Jiang Yue quietly lifted her eyelids and glanced over. Gu Ye was standing near the door, wearing a white shirt with the hem tucked into military green trousers. His broad shoulders and long legs exuded a strong masculine presence, and just standing there, he radiated a powerful aura of male hormones.

However, the expression on his handsome face was extremely cold. Since the first time Jiang Yue had seen Gu Ye yesterday, he had always worn this same expression when facing her.

After a long pause, Gu Ye spoke again, his tone still businesslike—cold and distant. “I will draft the divorce papers as soon as possible. The approval process will take time. If things go quickly, it might take half a month; if not, it could take a month or two. You can leave today. Once the approval comes through, I’ll notify you to come back and complete the formalities.”

“What? Divorce?” Jiang Yue was shocked, her voice rising by eight degrees.

Although she had known in her heart that she and Gu Ye would divorce sooner or later to make way for the Female Lead, hearing the word “divorce” come directly from Gu Ye’s mouth at that very moment still left her stunned.

It wasn’t that Jiang Yue had fallen deeply in love with Gu Ye upon her arrival. On the contrary, her admiration for him was purely based on his looks—there were no feelings involved.

Divorce wasn’t the issue. The issue was that Gu Ye wanted to kick her out!

But Jiang Yue had nowhere to go!

She couldn’t return to the Ji family, and her foster parents, the Jiang family, had also fallen out with her. She had thought about going out and making her own way, but nowadays, you needed a letter of introduction just to go out; without it, you couldn’t even buy a train ticket.

Jiang Yue thought and thought but couldn’t understand how the Original Owner had ended up in such a dire situation.

“Gu Ye, you went through all that trouble to bring me back from the Provincial Capital, just to divorce me?” Jiang Yue grew increasingly angry as she thought about it. It was clearly the Original Owner’s fault, but now she, as the successor, had to bear the blame. How was that fair?

“What do you mean I brought you back from the Provincial Capital just to divorce you?” Gu Ye repeated Jiang Yue’s words in confusion. “Isn’t it you who kept insisting on a divorce?”

“But I don’t want to divorce now!” Jiang Yue said firmly.

“Don’t want to divorce?” Gu Ye narrowed his eyes, staring coldly at Jiang Yue. He had only gone on blind dates to find a mother for Ningning. Jiang Yue was a high school graduate with an education, clean and beautiful in appearance, so he had immediately taken a liking to her. At that time, he had also made it clear that he had a daughter.

Furthermore, Gu Ye had told Jiang Yue explicitly that he already had Ningning and wouldn’t have any more children. Jiang Yue had agreed to all of it.

Back then, Gu Ye truly believed that this little girl was reasonable. Even if there were no feelings between them, as long as Jiang Yue treated Ningning as her own child, he would treat her well.

Marriage was supposed to be like this, right? Two people living together, peacefully growing old, just like how the older generations had done.

But on their wedding night, Jiang Yue immediately caused a scene. Not only did she refuse to let him touch her, but that wasn’t the worst part. She also insisted that he send Ningning away or else divorce her.

Gu Ye would never send Ningning away. However, getting a divorce right after marriage would be a blow to his pride, so the two of them had been fighting like this ever since.

It wasn’t until he returned from a mission that he saw Ningning drunk on alcohol because of Jiang Yue, and the harshly worded divorce letter Jiang Yue had left behind, that he decided he could no longer tolerate it.

“Jiang Yue, do you treat marriage and divorce as a joke?” Gu Ye scoffed, looking at Jiang Yue with a gaze full of sarcasm.

Jiang Yue curled her lips in disdain and decided to defend herself. “Gu Ye, whether you believe it or not, I’m not the same as I was before!”

However, she couldn’t speak about the supernatural, and her words sounded too weak.

Gu Ye couldn’t help but laugh. “Not the same? How are you different?”

He looked Jiang Yue up and down. In truth, Gu Ye, keen as he was, could sense that Jiang Yue seemed somewhat different from before. However, this woman was known for playing tricks and causing trouble. Who knew if she had been driven out by her so-called biological parents, left with nowhere to go, and now was pretending to be pitiful in front of him!

“I’m different! Give me time, and I can prove it!” Jiang Yue didn’t like the way Gu Ye was looking at her. Even if he didn’t love her, did he really have to look at her with such a disgusted and disdainful gaze all the time?

“I don’t need you to prove anything!” Gu Ye’s gaze was cold and distant, as if he had had enough and no longer wished to tolerate it.

“Anyway, I don’t agree to divorce!” Jiang Yue was so angry that she raised her head and said defiantly: “If you dare submit the divorce papers, I’ll go find your superiors!”

In order to avoid divorce for now, Jiang Yue decided to act as a troublesome woman. If necessary, she was prepared to cry, throw a tantrum, and even threaten to commit suicide to put on a show.

Jiang Yue had a vague feeling that the reason she, who should have been long gone, was still standing here today was likely because Gu Ye had gone to the Provincial Capital to save her, changing the course of her life.

Therefore, to keep her life intact, the safest option was to stay by Gu Ye’s side!

Upon hearing this, Gu Ye’s face suddenly darkened. His eyes shot a cold, sharp glare at Jiang Yue, as piercing as an arrow. “Jiang Yue!”

Jiang Yue’s heart jolted at the sound of his shout. His gaze was terrifying. She hurriedly looked away, pretending to hold her head in pain, acting frail. “Why are you shouting so loudly? I’m not deaf! Ah, my head hurts from your shouting!”

Gu Ye kept his eyes fixed on Jiang Yue, his gaze filled with a bloodshot fury. His fists clenched and unclenched, again and again. A man who had fought on the battlefield had a particularly strong and violent nature. Even though Jiang Yue knew that Gu Ye never hit women, despite the Original Owner’s provocations, Gu Ye had never laid a hand on her, she was still genuinely scared by the intensity in his gaze.

So, Jiang Yue promptly fainted.