After rebirth, my new love and I made it real

The ward was filled with the smell of disinfectant, and Xia Shu was sitting on the bed.

She held a bowl of porridge in her right hand and a spoon in the other, slowly putting it into her mouth.

The cell phone on the bedside table suddenly vibrated.

Xia Shu looked up at the wall clock. It was already past twelve o'clock. She didn't know whether the wedding banquet that Gu Yichen attended was over.

She put down the porridge and looked at the incoming call display on her phone. It was an unfamiliar number.

"Miss Xia."

A rough, greasy, yet familiar male voice.

In a corner of the banquet hall, Cai Guoxiong held his cell phone to his ear, looking at Gu Yichen's figure not far away, with a meaningful curve at the corner of his mouth.

"I haven't seen you for four years. Miss Xia seems to be rising to prominence like a phoenix..."

Hearing this familiar voice, Xia Shu's face suddenly froze.

She clenched her palms, trying to control the trembling of her voice, "Who are you?"

"Don't you recognize me?"

At this time, the ceremony in the wedding banquet hall had already begun, and the background music mixed with the host's voice sounded in the banquet hall, just enough to cover up Cai Guoxiong's low voice.

"Shushu, you weren't like this when you were in my bed four years ago."

With a "buzz" sound, Xia Shu felt that all the blood in her body was flowing backwards in an instant.

"Cai...Cai Guoxiong?" She called out the name tentatively.

"You remembered?" Cai Guoxiong smiled playfully, "It seems that you are not someone who doesn't miss the past, Shushu, I miss you too."

"Mad man!" Xia Shu gritted her teeth and roared, "Why did you call me?"

Cai Guoxiong frowned slightly, and his greasy face looked a little more ferocious. "As expected, your tone has changed since you hooked up with Master Gu. You didn't talk to me like this before."

Xia Shu clearly heard the voice of the host presiding over the wedding ceremony on the other end of the phone, and a bad feeling arose in her heart.

"You were at Mr. Song's wedding banquet?" she asked.

"Yes, I heard that your wedding with Mr. Gu is at the end of the month, Shushu, you will invite me to your wedding, right?"

Xia Shu's face lost all color. She was anxious and angry, and she wished she could skin Cai Guoxiong alive.

"What did you say to Gu Yichen?"

"He didn't say anything." Cai Guoxiong said lightly, "He just praised you a few times, saying that you are a responsible and good actor."

Xia Shu gritted her teeth as she listened to Cai Guoxiong's indifferent but obviously malicious attitude.

She suppressed the anger in her heart and said, "Tell me, what do you want?"

"Xia Shu, I won't waste my words with you anymore." Cai Guoxiong's face suddenly turned cold. "I've been addicted to gambling for many years and owe a lot of debt. My family assets have been almost drained out. I'm short of money, and you have to help me."

"So?" Xia Shu raised her eyebrows. "You think I should give you money if you ask me for it? Why?"

"You're going to be Mr. Gu's wife soon." Cai Guoxiong gritted his teeth, his eyes tinged with viciousness, "If you don't want any accidents to happen at your wedding with Mr. Gu, just give me the money. I have your photos here. Just think about it, what would happen if Gu Yichen saw these photos?"

Xia Shu's heart tightened. "What did you say? What photo?"

"Your nude photos."

Xia Shu: “!”

Her voice trembled as she tried her best to suppress the anger in her chest, "Asshole! You are blackmailing me, this is illegal!"

"Really?" Cai Guoxiong laughed. "Then do you dare to call the police? Go and tell the police that I secretly took a video of you when you were in bed with me, and that I was blackmailing you. But I think... before the police find me, those photos and videos will probably be all over the place."

"My dear Xia Da Ming Xing, think about it, if it weren't for me, would you be where you are today? I am your benefactor, and I asked you for money, isn't it your natural return?"

"Besides, you're about to become Madam Gu, so that little money must not be a big deal to you, right?"

"How much do you want?" Xia Shu roared hoarsely, her voice full of despair and anger.

Cai Guoxiong thought for a moment and said, "Twenty million, I will send you an account and transfer it to my account as soon as possible."

Xia Shu pursed her lips tightly.

Finally, she said in a trembling voice, "Okay."

"Buzz..."

The call was hung up.

Xia Shu slowly moved the phone away from her ear and shook it in front of her eyes.

She never imagined that Cai Guoxiong was so shameless and vulgar that he took indecent photos and videos of her without her knowledge.

How could this be?

What should she do?

If Cai Guoxiong is really addicted to gambling, then the 20 million is obviously just the beginning.

If Gu Yichen knew that she had such an affair with Cai Guoxiong four years ago...

Just thinking about it, Xia Shu felt like she was about to run out of oxygen, and her vision went dark.

-

"What did Cai Guoxiong tell you?"

Zhou Muyun sat next to Gu Yichen. Although his eyes were on the newcomer on the stage, his questions were directed to Gu Yichen.

Just now Gu Yichen said that when he came out of the bathroom, Cai Guoxiong greeted him again and said some strange things.

"He said that four years ago, Shushu acted in his crew." Gu Yichen said truthfully.

Zhou Muyun raised his eyebrows slightly, "That's it?"

"Ah."

"What does this mean?" Zhou Muyun was puzzled. "Or, what does Cai Guoxiong want to express?"

"Maybe he just knew that my fiancée is Xia Shu, so he just said it casually, and thought it was a coincidence that Shushu had acted in his crew before." Gu Yichen said.

However, Cai Guoxiong's expression and tone when he said this made him feel that there was a deeper meaning.

As if hinting at something.

What could he be hinting at?

Gu Yichen couldn't figure it out, and felt that he was overthinking. Maybe what Cai Guoxiong said didn't have any deep meaning at all.

He took a sip of red wine and looked towards the table not far away.

The table where Lin Qingran sat.

The banquet hall was magnificent and brightly lit, and Lin Qingran's skin looked particularly white when she sat there.

He looked at Lin Qingran and Lu Siheng, whose shoulders were always pressed against each other, and their ears rubbing against each other in an intimate manner while talking, and his thin lips were tightly pursed.

Did Lin Qingran really think that she was in love with Lu Siheng? What was there about that man that was worth her falling in love with?

Gu Yichen wanted to laugh, but he was angry.

In the past few years, Lin Qingran was clearly a kitten who followed him obediently, but now this cat didn't even look at him.

Do you really dislike him or are you avoiding him on purpose?

"Yi Chen."

Zhou Muyun's voice brought Gu Yichen back from his thoughts.

He put down the glass, retracted his gaze, and responded indifferently: "What's wrong?"

"I just asked Haoyu to calculate it for you."

Haoyu was sitting opposite Zhou Muyun with a stack of tarot cards in front of him. He had a great interest in tarot cards.

"What's that?" Gu Yichen raised his eyelids and asked lazily.

"Calculate your wedding with Xia Shu at the end of the month." Zhou Muyun explained, "But Haoyu said that the result is not good. He said that there may be accidents on the wedding day."

Gu Yichen disagreed, "What's wrong with that? I like Shushu, and Shushu likes me too. There won't be any surprises."

Zhou Muyun glanced at him and whispered, "Haoyu's calculations are quite accurate. I was thinking... why don't you just not do it at the end of the month? It will be the same if you do it at the beginning of next month. It's okay to postpone it for a few days. Haoyu also suggested this."

"No." Gu Yichen rejected it outright, "I don't believe in these things, and I promised Shushu, so it's not good to change the time."

After saying that, he continued to look in the direction of Lin Qingran, only to see that Lin Qingran had already stood up and left.

Gu Yichen buttoned up his suit with one hand and stood up.