To seduce her

Shen Yaochu sensed Gao Yuchuan's depressed mood, and she hugged him with her arms without hesitation.

She wrapped her arms around his waist tightly, with such force that she seemed to embed herself into his muscles. Her head rested on his chest, and her body temperature was transmitted to him through the thin clothes, warm and real, preventing him from falling into that lonely and painful emotion.

The heartbeats of the two gradually slowed down, like whales in the ocean, using their unique frequencies to comfort and accompany each other.

Gao Yuchuan also gently placed his hands on Shen Yaochu's back. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Are you feeling better?" Shen Yaochu asked.

"Yeah." His answer was still so brief.

Shen Yaochu thought for a moment and said, "He has paid the price now. He has lost his equity, and all the glory of the Gao family that he had gained with the help of my mother is gone. Only my grandmother, as a mother, took him in. This end can be considered a comfort to my mother's spirit in heaven."

Shen Yaochu's voice was low and gentle, and there was a hint of comfort and relief in her words.

Gao Yuchuan's eyes moved slightly, he lowered his head and looked at Shen Yaochu, with confusion and uncertainty flashing in his eyes.

"Did I do the right thing?"

Shen Yaochu raised her head and looked into Gao Yuchuan's eyes. Her eyes were full of determination and trust.

"Of course, you did the right thing. I am a mother, and I am sure that it would be a happy thing if my son always remembered me. But I absolutely do not want my son to live in hatred forever." Shen Yaochu said firmly: "Gao Yuchuan, Mom will definitely meet a man who really loves her in her next life, and she will spend her life with someone who loves her like us."

With just a few words, the heavy and blocked feelings in Gao Yuchuan's heart instantly dissipated.

He seemed to finally be able to catch his breath.

At this moment, in the old house they were in, a few yellowed books and some simple handicrafts were randomly piled on the old wooden shelves. Although covered with a thin layer of dust, a few pots of tenacious wild flowers and grasses stubbornly poked their heads out of the earthen jars. Although the leaves were covered with mud, they were still green, adding a bit of vitality and vigor to this slightly dim space.

In this silence, they seemed to be able to hear the sound of flesh and blood growing wildly in their hearts, which was the relief from past pains and the reverie for the future.

They finally got redemption at this moment...

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In a corner of this old rural house, the bright light from Gao Yuchuan's mobile phone screen illuminates his focused face. Work emails come one after another, and his fingertips slide quickly across the screen, as if he is dealing with urgent and important matters.

Shen Yaochu sat aside, holding a yellowed old book in his hand, occasionally looking up, with a bit of helplessness and ridicule in his eyes.

"Yuchuan, are you going to move the entire company into this old house? We finally have this free time, can't we enjoy it?"

Her voice was gentle but with a hint of reproach, and a bit of helpless coquettishness.

Hearing this, Gao Yuchuan suddenly looked up and turned his gaze from the mobile phone screen to Shen Yaochu. Only then did he realize that he had ignored his wife for a long time.

"I was negligent. I will come and accompany my dear wife."

As he spoke, he put his phone down, walked to the bed, gently picked up Shen Yaochu, and they both fell on the bed.

When Shen Yaochu saw the affectionate look in his eyes as if he was looking at a trash can, she knew what he was thinking and quickly pushed him away.

"You really don't waste a second. I want you to accompany me, not to stop working and enjoy yourself."

Gao Yuchuan said seriously: "You mean, you don't enjoy it?"

Shen Yaochu's face immediately turned red, and she spat, "Go away."

Gao Yuchuan didn't force it and lay down next to Shen Yaochu.

The two looked through the skylight at the night that was about to fall. The stars began to twinkle in the sky, like countless diamonds inlaid in the night sky, flashing charming light, as if telling their stories.

"Yuchuan, look at these stars, they are so beautiful! It's a pity that it's hard to see such a starry sky in the city." There was a hint of nostalgia in her voice, as if she was recalling those innocent years that were blocked by high-rise buildings.

"The stars are always there, it's you who are confused by the city lights."

"Maybe." Shen Yaochu said, "It's always difficult for people to see everything clearly at a glance."

She was silent for a moment and then said, "Actually, my mother asked me to come back suddenly this time to see my father."

"She now knows that her father is not a murderer. She hated the wrong person and it's hard for her to face herself." There was a hint of complexity in her voice, which showed both her understanding of her mother and her relief from the past.

"I guessed it." Gao Yuchuan thought of his weird mother-in-law and felt that it was something she could do.

Shen Yaochu stared at the starry sky outside the skylight, his thoughts drifting to memories from long ago, memories of his father.

"When I was a kid, although our family was ordinary, it was really good. Dad would send most of his salary to Mom every month, leaving only a little for living expenses. He was so poor that he even quit smoking, and used his own money to buy me all kinds of gadgets, such as hairpins, books, and stickers, which made me very popular among my classmates. Sometimes when he had time, he would pick me up from school in advance and treat my good friends to ice cream. My dad is really a good person, and it's a pity that my mom hated him for so long."

Shen Yaochu's words were full of nostalgia and admiration for his father.

But Gao Yuchuan completely opposed it.

"Your father is very prejudiced against me. Every time he sees me, he acts as if he has seen some kind of monster. He always drives me away and asks me why I don't go to eat and why I don't concentrate on my studies. Is there no one taking care of the family?"

Shen Yaochu frowned when she heard that and retorted, "You must have misunderstood. My father is a very gentle person and very friendly to everyone around him. Everyone knows that." She thought about it seriously and said, "He asked you that because he probably cares about you and wants to know about your situation. He definitely doesn't hate you."

Gao Yuchuan looked at his wife and said meaningfully: "When I think back to his 'hostility' towards me, I still feel a little scared."

"impossible."

"Why not?" Gao Yuchuan's mouth curled up into a sly smile. He deliberately slowed down his movements, gently placed a finger on the bridge of his nose, and acted as if he was thinking deeply, as if he had mastered some incredible secret.

"Now that I have a daughter, I completely understand my father-in-law's feelings."

"why?"

Gao Yuchuan raised his eyebrows slightly, with a bit of teasing and pride, he slowly approached Shen Yaochu, his eyes full of teasing.

"Of course I would be angry if my daughter, who is in junior high school and has grown up to be as beautiful as a flower and has just begun to fall in love, was targeted by a yellow-haired man."