After the divorce, he went on a motorcycle trip, and his ex-wife and daughter were filled with regre

Shen Qinghan stared blankly at the email on her phone screen that had been sealed away for two years, feeling as if her whole world had collapsed at that moment.

Overwhelming regret, like a tidal wave, instantly engulfed her completely.

What on earth did she do?!

For the sake of a hypocrite who had been scheming against her, she personally drove away a wonderful man who had silently protected her for seven years and whose true identity was a billionaire tycoon!

She mistook a pearl for a fish eye, but treated a pile of stinking dog poop as a treasure!

"ah--!"

Extreme regret and anger at being deceived intertwined, causing Shen Qinghan to completely break down.

She screamed and slammed her phone hard into Gu Ziming's face.

"Gu Ziming! You beast! You've deceived me so badly!"

The phone smashed into Gu Ziming's forehead, and blood flowed down instantly.

But Shen Qinghan couldn't care less about any of that now. She covered her face with her hands, lifted the hem of her elaborate and heavy diamond-encrusted wedding dress, and like a madwoman, recklessly pushed through the crowd and ran towards the backstage dressing room at the back of the banquet hall.

"Qinghan! Qinghan, let me explain!"

Gu Ziming, clutching his bleeding forehead, disregarded all decorum and scrambled after him.

The banquet hall was thrown into chaos.

……

Backstage, in the spacious VIP dressing room.

Shen Qinghan lay on the dressing table, crying her heart out. Her exquisite makeup was now a mess, making her look utterly disheveled.

"I'm not getting engaged! I'd rather die than get engaged to that beast!"

While crying, Shen Qinghan frantically pulled at the diamond necklace around her neck, trying to take off the dress that symbolized her shame.

"Nonsense!"

A stern rebuke rang out at the entrance to the dressing room.

Old Mrs. Shen, Zhao Yulan, walked in with a livid face, leaning on her cane and supported by Ou Yuqin.

The old lady walked up to Shen Qinghan and slammed her cane against the ground.

"You're saying you're not getting engaged now? Where were you before?!"

The old lady was so angry that she trembled all over and pointed at Shen Qinghan's nose, cursing loudly.

"Our whole family advised you against being with Gu Ziming, saying he was scheming! But you wouldn't listen! You insisted on following him no matter what!"

"I told you long ago, Ono has worked hard for our Shen family for seven years without complaint. How could he possibly do such a despicable thing as soliciting prostitutes! You just wouldn't believe me and insisted on kicking him out!"

"Now look what's happened! The invitations have been sent out, and all the important people in Hanzhou are sitting outside watching! And now you're saying you want to call off the engagement? Where do you put the reputation of the Shen family?!"

Ou Yuqin was also wiping away tears, scolding him with exasperation:

"Qinghan, are you out of your mind! Do you know how everyone outside is laughing at our Shen family? If you dare to walk out this door today and say you're not going to get engaged, our Shen family will become the biggest laughing stock in all of Hanzhou tomorrow! The company's stock will plummet to its daily limit as soon as the market opens tomorrow!"

"I don't care! I'm not getting engaged! I find him disgusting!" Shen Qinghan covered her ears and shouted in despair.

"You dare!"

At this moment, a fierce glint flashed in Shen Zhennan's eyes, and he gritted his teeth as he echoed and threatened:

"If you dare ruin this engagement banquet today, don't blame me for disregarding our father-daughter relationship! Don't bring shame to the Shen family, or I'll have your legs broken and you expelled from the Shen family!"

Upon hearing her father and grandmother's heartless words, Shen Qinghan's crying stopped abruptly.

She looked at her own grandmother and father in disbelief.

In the eyes of the Shen family, her lifelong happiness, the deception and humiliation she suffered, were not worth as much as the Shen family's reputation and the company's stock!

Just then, Gu Ziming, with a bandage on his forehead, pushed open the door and walked in.

He knelt down in front of Shen Qinghan with a thud, grabbed her leg, tears and snot streaming down his face, and began his most skilled PUA performance.

"Qinghan! I was wrong! I really know I was wrong!"

Gu Ziming tilted his head back, feigning a deeply affectionate and heartbroken expression.

"I admit it, I did it. But... but it was all because I loved you so much!"

"I'm jealous of Jiang Ye! I'm jealous that he can be by your side every day! I'm afraid of losing you, I'm afraid you'll never even glance at me again, so I acted rashly and did this!"

"Qinghan, touch your belly. We're already having a child, do you want our child to be born without a father?"

"Jiang Ye is now the CEO of Kunlun Capital. He's high and mighty. Didn't you see how he humiliated you outside? He doesn't love you at all! He was just laughing at you!"

"Right now, only I truly love you! For the sake of the child, for the sake of the Shen family's reputation, let's stay together! I swear, I will give my life to make it up to you, to love you forever!"

Listening to Gu Ziming's sophistry, which distorted the truth yet struck at the heart of the matter.

Then look at the grandmother and mother standing by, watching coldly, only caring about the interests of the family.

Shen Qinghan's heart sank little by little, eventually turning into a deathly, icy silence.

She suddenly felt so tired and desperate.

She was like a flying insect trapped in a spider web; the more she struggled, the tighter she became entangled.

She had no way out.

Jiang Ye doesn't want her anymore, the Shen family is pressuring her, and she's carrying an illegitimate child she can't get rid of.

Shen Qinghan slowly closed her eyes, and two lines of tears slid down her cheeks.

When she opened her eyes again, there was no light left in them, only a numb, lifeless gray.

"it is good."

Shen Qinghan's voice was terribly hoarse, like a soulless puppet.

I'm engaged.

……

Ten minutes later.

The music in the banquet hall started again, but this time, the atmosphere seemed particularly eerie and oppressive.

Shen Qinghan touched up her makeup and, looking like a walking corpse, took Gu Ziming's arm and returned to the front desk.

Although Gu Ziming had a bandage on his forehead, he forced a victorious smile onto his face. As long as the engagement was finalized today, the Shen family's assets would be his sooner or later.

Although the guests in the audience were secretly laughing at the situation, they still clapped sparsely out of respect for the Shen family.

Jiang Ye remained seated in that corner, coldly watching the man and woman on stage, each harboring their own ulterior motives and dreaming different dreams, a mocking sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

This farce is finally coming to an end.

Just as the emcee picked up the microphone, preparing to forcefully proceed with the engagement ceremony.

"squeak--!"

A screeching sound of brakes suddenly rang out outside the Hilton Hotel’s main entrance, even penetrating the thick glass doors and reaching the banquet hall on the third floor.

Immediately afterwards, the banquet hall doors were slowly pushed open from the outside.

The hostess at the door let out a suppressed gasp.

Everyone's attention was instantly drawn to the commotion at the gate.

A sleek black Bentley S680 was spotted parked outside the hotel.

The car door opened.

A pair of long, beautiful legs encased in ultra-thin black stockings stepped out of the car first.

Immediately afterwards, a stunningly beautiful woman, wearing ten-centimeter black heels with red soles, walked into the banquet hall with an aura of power.

She wore a tailored black haute couture business suit, paired with a burgundy silk shirt underneath, the neckline slightly open to reveal her fair and slender swan neck.

Her long, black, wavy hair was casually draped over her shoulders. Her exquisitely beautiful face was adorned with an aggressively glamorous makeup look, with fiery red lips and a cold, disdainful gaze.

She simply stood there quietly, exuding a powerful aura that made people afraid to look directly at her, like a queen surveying her territory.

It was Xia Yu!

The current president of Blue Ocean Investment, a well-known ice queen in Hanzhou's business circles, a top goddess that countless rich young men can only dream of!

Summer rain has finally arrived.