The divorce comeback system arrived right after I was born.

Li Zhiyi was stunned for a moment.

Zhang Guifang herself was also taken aback.

Only after she said those words did she realize what she had said. But looking at the girl in front of her who had spent the whole night flying with her bastard son for three hours without shedding a single tear, Zhang Guifang couldn't let this girl be sad because of her son.

"Auntie, I'm not feeling well—"

"What's inconvenient about it?" Zhang Guifang interrupted her. "It's past four o'clock. Where are you going to find a hotel by yourself? Our house may be small, but it's enough for one night."

Chen Zhi sat in his wheelchair, his head buzzing.

He glanced at the Lin family gate next to him, then at his own mother.

"mom……"

"Shut up." Zhang Guifang glared at him irritably. "I'm talking to Zhiyi."

Li Zhiyi hesitated for a moment before saying:

"Auntie, I really can take a taxi—"

"I'm not comfortable taking a taxi to the hotel at this hour." Zhang Guifang pushed her wheelchair towards her home without turning her head. "Let's go, stop dawdling."

Li Zhiyi hesitated for a few seconds before finally following after him.

Chen Jun saw Chen Zhi in the wheelchair and Li Zhiyi standing next to him, rubbed his eyes, and made sure he wasn't dreaming.

"How did you get back?"

"It flew back."

"fly?"

"Business jet."

Upon entering, Zhang Guifang turned on the living room lights.

It has two bedrooms and a living room, and is kept very clean.

Zhang Guifang went to the bedroom and brought out a clean quilt, which she then spread on the sofa.

"Zhiyi, please make do for one night."

Li Zhiyi took the blanket.

"Thank you, Auntie."

Zhang Guifang then found a new towel and handed it to her.

"The restroom is at the end of the corridor, and the water heater switch is the red button on the left."

Li Zhiyi nodded.

After explaining these things, Zhang Guifang turned to look at Chen Zhi, who had been helped onto the bed by Chen Jun.

She stood at the door, hesitant to speak.

In the end, he only left out one sentence.

"You should go to sleep first."

The door closed.

The living room fell silent.

Li Zhiyi sat on the sofa, listening to Zhang Guifang speaking to Chen Jun in a low voice in the next bedroom. She couldn't hear clearly, but occasionally she could hear the words "bastard" and "sin".

She picked up her phone and opened the photo album.

The latest photo was taken the day before yesterday at Wanliu Academy. Chen Zhi is sitting on the sofa with his left leg on the coffee table, a chopstick in his mouth, directing her to bring over the soup.

He's still smiling in the photo.

Li Zhiyi stared at it for a while, then locked the screen and placed the phone face down on the coffee table.

She didn't cry, not at all.

It won't happen again.

Chen Zhi lay on the bed and took the small box that Lin Wanwan had given him out of his pocket.

Chen Zhi looked the box over and over, but ultimately didn't open it and put it back.

"If you open this, I really will never see you again."

The phone rang once.

It was a message sent by Dai Dama.

[Brother Zhi, did you arrive safely? There might be some supply chain issues at Meizu.]

After reading it, Chen Zhi replied.

We'll talk about it tomorrow.

Dai Da Mai replied instantly.

[Okay, Zhi-ge, you can rest now. By the way, regarding President Pei, he logged onto the company intranet once this afternoon, looked at the financial report for fifteen minutes, and then logged off.]

He withdrew his shares, emptied his office, and blocked me on WeChat, but he still secretly went online to check financial reports in the middle of the night.

【understood. 】

Then I opened the text message and scrolled to the two messages that Pei Ningxue had sent from an unknown number.

"Don't really ruin yourself; no one will collect your corpse."

Chen Zhi typed a line of text into the input box after reading the message.

I'm home. Did you look at the financial reports today?

After waiting for a long time without a reply, it seems they won't pay attention to me.

Chen Zhi placed his phone against his chest and closed his eyes.

He tossed and turned in his room for more than ten minutes, but still couldn't fall asleep, so he propped himself up on the edge of the bed.

Leaning on his cane, he tiptoed to the door and opened it a crack.

In the living room, Li Zhiyi was curled up on the sofa, the blanket covering her chin, with her back to him.

His breathing was even; he seemed to be asleep.

Just as Chen Zhi was about to close the door, Li Zhiyi suddenly turned over.

"Why are you up?"

Chen Zhi leaned against the door frame.

"I can't sleep."

Li Zhiyi sat up, the blanket slipping down to her waist.

"pain?"

"no."

"What is that?"

Chen Zhi remained silent for a while.

"Zhiyi, do you regret it?"

Li Zhiyi was stunned for a moment.

"Regret what?"

"Stay with me."

The living room lights were off, with only a little streetlight light coming in through the window.

Li Zhiyi sat in the dim light for a few seconds.

"You want to hear the truth?"

"Um."

Sometimes.

Chen Zhi's throat moved slightly.

Li Zhiyi continued speaking.

"For example, today, you asked me to wait downstairs, so you went upstairs and apologized to her."

"I actually felt quite uncomfortable standing there."

"It's not because you went to see her."

"It's because I've realized that I have to fight for even the right to be jealous."

Chen Zhi tapped his cane on the ground with a soft thud.

"But I don't regret it."

Why?

"Because it's no use regretting it now, I've already fallen for you."

Li Zhiyi spoke so calmly that Chen Zhi didn't know how to respond.

Li Zhiyi lay back down and pulled the blanket up.

"Go back to sleep, you still need to take your medicine tomorrow."

Chen Zhi stood there for a while.

"Understand."

"Um?"

"Thank you."

Li Zhiyi did not answer.

After about ten seconds, a very soft voice came from the sofa.

"If you really want to thank me, don't make me wait a year too."

Chen Zhi opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing and closed the door.

He lay back down on the bed.

The sky outside the window was turning white.

Mornings come a little earlier in Wuhan than in Beijing.

The faint sounds of breakfast stalls setting up tables and chairs could be heard downstairs.

Chen Zhi's mind was a mess.

Just as he was falling asleep, he heard a slight noise coming from the direction of the kitchen.

Someone is boiling water.

Chen Zhi opened one eye and checked the time.

5:40 a.m.

He struggled to sit up and, leaning on his cane, moved to the kitchen doorway.

Li Zhiyi, wearing Zhang Guifang's apron, was cracking eggs in front of the stove.

On the cutting board next to it, the scallions have already been chopped.

She heard the noise and turned around to look.

"Go back and lie down."

What are you doing?

"Make breakfast for Auntie." Li Zhiyi poured the egg mixture into a bowl and stirred it. "She let me stay overnight, so I can't just eat and drink for free."

Chen Zhi leaned against the door frame, watching her busy in the kitchen.

Her hair was casually tied into a ponytail, revealing a small section of the back of her neck.

"Understand."

"Um."

"Don't be so nice to me in the future."

Li Zhiyi's hands never stopped stirring the eggs.

"It's not up to you."