Chapter 11 Shao Yunchen Doesn’t Love You

• “You won’t make it, Lu Yao.” Fu Xuezi was sure about it. “The bank won’t lend it to you; you don’t have a house as collateral, and all your friends are poor. How are you supposed to get two million?”
• “Do you really think Shao Yunchen cares about you and your relationship? Hmph, if he really cares about you, he would have brought you to the company in the last three years. But he didn’t, and I think you know why.”
• Fu Xuezi smiled. “It’s funny, you see,” she continued. “Over the year or so that I’ve been in the company, nobody knows Shao Yunchen is married. Funny, don’t you say?”
• It was a simple sentence, but quite enough to destroy Lu Yao’s defenses.
• Of course it’s funny. When is it not? Everything had been a joke from the moment she was married to Shao Yunchen. They had no marriage, no ceremony, and no banquet. She was married to him just because there was a certificate and the contract he made.
• “Don’t lie to yourself, Lu Yao.” Fu Xuezi took two steps forward, and looked haughtily at Lu Yao. “Shao Yunchen doesn’t love you, and you know there’s a big gap between you and him.”
• Lu Yao looked up at Fu Xuezi. “When did you guys start living together as a couple?”
• Fu Xuezi was taken aback, not expecting Lu Yao to ask about this. But she said nothing, as if pushing all the guesswork to Lu Yao, wanting to see how Lu Yao would take this.
• Lu Yao smiled in understanding as she took the check Fu Xuezi was holding before she folded and ripped it in half.
• She ripped it three times before tossing the shredded check back at Fu Xuezi. “We’ll be getting the divorce,” she said softly, “but you can keep the check.”
• Lu Yao shoved her away with her shoulder as she strode out from the hospital.
• No matter how well-mannered Fu Xuezi was, she still flew into rage with humiliation. “You ungrateful wench!” she yelled at Lu Yao.
• Lu Yao ignored her. When she sent her mother back, her lawyer called to ask if Lu Yao managed to get the required funds for the trial that would be held two days later. Lu Yao told him she would do it as soon as possible, sighing after she hung up.
• She regretted ripping the check apart in a fit of ego. She would divorce Shao Yunchen very soon, so taking a free two million from Fu Xuezi should have been okay.
• “Lu Yao, was that the lawyer? Is he asking us to pay already?” Mrs. Lu asked carefully.
• “It’s fine. I can settle this.” Lu Yao smiled to calm her mother down. “Can you keep the clothes for me? I’ll go grocery shopping for tonight’s dinner. The chef for tonight will be me, is that okay?”
• “Don’t be too hard on yourself, Lu Yao. It’s fine if you can’t make it. The most that will happen to your father is a few years of jail time, but you’re our only daughter. I don’t want to see you suffer.”
• “Don’t worry, mom. I know what I should do.” Only when Lu Yao guaranteed that she wouldn’t do anything stupid did Mrs. Lu calm down.
• After she came out from the house, she took out a card from her pocket, calling the number printed on it. “Do you have some time, Dongnan?”
• Barely ten minutes after Lu Yao had arrived at the café, Xiang Dongnan came in.
• He was holding an adorable little girl who looked like she was four or five years old in his arms
• After Xiang Nandong had sat down, he smiled helplessly. “Sorry. Tiantian threw a tantrum in her kindergarten earlier, so I went to pick her up. There was a bit of traffic when I was coming here.”
• “It’s fine.” Lu Yao glanced at the little girl. “Your daughter’s cute.”
• Tiantian buried her head in her father’s arms, looking terrified of strangers. When Xiang Dongnan asked her to address Lu Yao, she refused and only looked at Lu Yao occasionally with her big, round eyes.
• Lu Yao was envious of Xiang Dongnan.
• When she got married to Shao Yunchen, envy would fill her eyes every time she saw someone holding their children in their arms, leading her to try everything to conceive. Lu Yao did everything from poking holes on the condoms and seducing Shao Yunchen after he was drunk, trying to get an oops baby.
• But Shao Yunchen was smarter than she had thought. No matter the schemes she had in mind, he would manage to dismantle them all. “Stop messing around,” he would always tell her. “I said I would not have any children within four years, and I mean it.”
• He meant what he said. They would be getting a divorce after four years, so of course he wouldn’t want any babies during that time.