Disorder in marriage

After Yan Zhi fainted again, she developed a high fever and was constantly waking up and falling asleep.

When she was awake, she would just keep murmuring the word "child," and before Xia Linglong could comfort her, she would drift off to sleep again.

It took Yan Zhi two whole days to finally open her eyes completely.

"Xiao Zhi!"

Xia Linglong's suppressed sobs turned into uncontrollable wailing as she knelt by the bedside, looking at Yan Zhi with heartache.

"You scared me to death! I thought I was going to lose you forever!"

Yan Zhi stared at the ceiling. She wished she would never wake up. Her child, she missed her child so much.

Tears rolled down her burning skin, and a heart-wrenching pain shot through her lower body.

She will remember it forever; it was the pain that Gu Yunmo and Yan Fei inflicted on her.

"Linglong, have you found the child?"

Xia Linglong sniffed, worried that she might be upset or that she might miss her too much.

She said cautiously, "Xiao Zhi, you need to be prepared."

"Um."

"After you fainted that day, I took you back to the hospital and went straight to the Gu family! But that bastard Gu Yunmo not only wouldn't let me in, he wouldn't even let me see the child! Later, Yan Fei's parents came and forcibly dragged me away, locking me up all night. I only found out the next day... that Yan Fei had already taken the child abroad."

What hurt Yan Zhi the most about the whole conversation was that even her blood relatives would stab her in the back at this time.

She clenched her fists, her hands tense, and the veins bulged out. Blood immediately flowed back up several centimeters down the wall of the IV tube.

"Xiao Zhi! Don't be impulsive!"

Xia Linglong was startled and quickly grabbed her hand, "Once you've recovered, we'll go find Yan Fei! Even if Gu Yunmo doesn't want this child, the two of us will raise her! Your most important thing right now is to take care of your health!"

Xia Linglong's words gradually calmed Yan Zhi's feelings of despair and indignation.

She knew that she had no way of finding out where her child was except to recover her health first.

She took a deep breath. "Linglong, has Gu Yunmo come to see me these past two days?"

Xia Linglong shook her head. "I'm the only one who's stayed at the hospital the whole time."

She was afraid that Yan Zhi would be upset if she heard those words, so she held back the even harsher ones.

Taking the child away was one thing, but Yan Zhi's childbirth was extremely dangerous, and apart from Gu Yunmo and Yan Fei, no one from the Gu or Yan families came to visit her.

It's said that you only know if the man beside you is a good person or a bad one after you give birth. Yan Zhi has been heartbroken this time, and she probably won't be love-struck again.

After hearing Xia Linglong's words, Yan Zhi was no longer agitated, as if she had suddenly come to terms with it.

"Linglong, thank you for still being there for me. I will adjust myself from now on. Regardless of whether we can find the child in the end, I will divorce Gu Yunmo."

"good!"

Xia Linglong wholeheartedly agreed with her decision and knew that she was truly determined this time.

"Once you get better, let's start a business together with Senior Ling Xiao! He's been wanting to get you on board for a long time. With your abilities, you can definitely lead us to make our law firm bigger and stronger!"

-

On the other side, torrential rain pounded on the stone steps of Guangyun Temple.

"President Gu!"

Jiang Jin, holding an umbrella, followed closely behind, frantically calling out to Gu Yunmo countless times.

Gu Yunmo seemed not to hear him, taking one step at a time, kneeling with each step, his black suit completely soaked, and his leather shoes covered in mud.

Jiang Jin glanced at the time; it had been thirty-six hours. Gu Yunmo hadn't eaten or drunk anything, and by now his steps were clearly unsteady, his once upright body swaying precariously in the wind and rain.

"President Gu!"

Jiang Jin offered him a hand, but Gu Yunmo immediately shook him off and continued up the steps.

He wanted to use this method to pray for his deceased daughter.

Finally, he reached the finish line.

The Bodhi tree was covered with swaying red ropes and tree tags. He and Yan Zhi had come here before when they were trying to conceive.

The abbot of Guangyun Temple had been waiting for a long time, looking detachedly at Gu Yunmo, whose face was full of obsession.

"Mr. Gu, please accept my condolences. Your daughter will surely have a healthy, worry-free, peaceful, and happy life in her next life."

Gu Yunmo doesn't actually believe in an afterlife; it's just something for the living to comfort themselves.

But at this moment, he had an absurd wish.

"Whether she can be happy or not depends on her own fate." He looked back at the road he had come from. "I only hope that she can be Yan Zhi's daughter again in her next life."

The abbot nodded: "Mr. Gu is sincere, it will definitely work."

"Okay, thank you."

Gu Yunmo took the red rope handed to him by the abbot and took out a safety lock that he had prepared for his daughter long ago from his pocket.

The Bodhi tree is laden with blessings and remembrance, and now it carries his as well.

He saw a tree sign when he tied the red rope and the safety lock to the tree branch.

He was all too familiar with the handwriting above—

Last year, in the same place.

"Brother Yunmo, I hope I can successfully conceive your child! I hope we can be happy together in the future!"

Yan Zhi showed him the tree sign with her wish written on it. The little girl's smile was innocent and radiant, even more beautiful than the daisies in the valley.

"What's your wish? I'll write it down for you!"

He affectionately patted her head. "My wish is that all of Xiaozhi's wishes can come true."

"Great! With Brother Yunmo's words, I'm sure my wishes will come true!"

-

As his memory began to fade, Gu Yunmo reached out his hand, wanting to take another closer look at the tree sign.

But before he could even touch her, he collapsed forward, exhausted, like a mountain suddenly collapsing at that moment.

"President Gu!"