Remarried to a top-tier playboy, her reborn ex-husband is filled with regret.

Before he arrived, he was still figuring out how to start the conversation.

Perhaps if he mentions their childhood friendship, or perhaps he apologizes, she might help him out of consideration for their past relationship.

After all, she was so responsive to every request in her past life.

But now, he doesn't even have the courage to step forward.

She's doing so well that his so-called "regrets" seem like a joke.

The polo match on the field had ended, and Xiao Fang led his horse to the side of the stands.

Yun Shuyao laughed and jumped down, naturally taking his arm.

The two were talking in hushed tones.

Xiao Fang suddenly lowered his head and whispered something in her ear.

This made Yun Shuyao laugh so hard she couldn't stand up straight, and she gently punched the tall man.

The scene was so glaring that Gu Jinghuai almost had to close his eyes.

He turned and walked away, his steps unsteady, as if someone had removed his bones.

The laughter and chatter behind him faded into the distance, but Yun Shuyao's clear laughter seemed to be etched into his mind, echoing again and again.

After taking only a dozen or so steps, Gu Jinghuai suddenly stopped.

He was unwilling to give up and didn't want to lose this chance to try and salvage the situation.

Gu Jinghuai clenched his fist and turned around, just in time to see Xiao Fang leaving, probably to change his clothes.

Yun Shuyao turned and walked off the field, and Gu Jinghuai chased after her almost through gritted teeth.

The polo field was quiet, and Gu Jinghuai's voice carried a desperate urgency.

"Shu Yao! I have something I want to tell you."

Yun Shuyao didn't stop walking, she only glanced at him indifferently, her expression as cold as ice.

"Young Master Gu."

She finally spoke, her voice calm and even.

"We have nothing left to say to each other."

"How can you be speechless?"

Gu Jinghuai stepped forward and reached out to block her path.

"We're childhood sweethearts! Have you forgotten that when you fell into the lotus pond as a child, I jumped in to save you?"

"Have you forgotten that you said you would marry no one but me?"

Several women nearby heard the commotion and looked over curiously, their eyes filled with inquisitive gossip.

Gu Jinghuai seemed not to see it, and just kept moving forward, lowering his voice even further, but with a self-righteous sense of "tolerance".

"I know you married Xiao Fang... but I don't mind."

Come back, I'll treat you the same way I always have, and I'll never dislike you...

"Shut up!"

Yun Shuyao turned around abruptly, her eyes almost overflowing with disgust.

"Gu Jinghuai, who do you think you are?"

"Is it because my sincerity has made you lose sight of who you are?"

Her voice suddenly rose, startling the women around her, who all shrank back.

These scions of prominent families who hung out together all seemed to be trying to curry favor with Xiao Fang.

Although they were curious, no one dared to actually watch Yun Shuyao make a fool of herself.

Seeing that they clearly had something to say, they stood together at a distance.

Gu Jinghuai was taken aback by her shout, but he still wouldn't give up.

"I just wanted to say..."

"What are you trying to say?"

Yun Shuyao sneered, her gaze sweeping over the faded brocade robe he wore, and then glancing at the servant following behind him.

This was a stark contrast to Gu Jinghuai's previous extravagant travels, but that was exactly what she wanted to see.

"You want me to go back and continue to be your slave?"

Do you want me to clean up the mess in the Marquis's mansion for you?

"You want me to earn money so you and Su Yuyan can continue living happily ever after?"

Gu Jinghuai's face instantly turned red.

"That's not what I meant! I..."

"So what do you mean?"

Yun Shuyao took a step closer, her eyes sharp as knives.

"Childhood sweethearts? Fine, I acknowledge that bond."

But in your past life, you hid Su Yuyan in the manor and let her have children.

But he lied to me, saying that you were seriously injured on the battlefield, and made me live as a widow for eighteen years, shielding you from all the stigma of being "childless".

"Let me use my dowry to fill the deficit of the Marquis's mansion, so that you can live a carefree life—what is this all about?"

"You...I..."

Gu Jinghuai took a step back abruptly, his face ashen, his lips trembling, and his body shaking uncontrollably.

"Since you are the one who has returned, you should remember the promise I made to you before you passed away, right?"

"So what if I remember?"

Yun Shuyao raised an eyebrow, her tone laced with sarcasm.

"But God gave me a second chance, not to help you fulfill your promise."

Yun Shuyao suddenly found it laughable.

"I still don't understand, in this life you clearly married Su Yuyan, why do you still bother me?"

"No! Shu Yao, let me explain!"

Gu Jinghuai seemed to have grasped at the last straw and desperately tried to explain himself.

"Back then, when I was at the border, I was drugged by the enemy's aphrodisiac!"

Su Yuyan...she saved me by sacrificing her innocence! I can't abandon her!

"Oh?"

Yun Shuyao laughed even colder, as if she had heard a joke.

"If you're drugged with aphrodisiacs, do you have to rely on a woman to cure it? Don't you have hands?"

Gu Jinghuai, even now, you still lack responsibility. It's disgusting!

These words were like a slap in the face, landing hard on Gu Jinghuai's cheek.

He opened his mouth, but his throat seemed to be blocked, and he couldn't utter a single word.

Yes, how could he forget that night at the manor, when Su Yuyan drugged him, he relied on himself...

"In the end, it's nothing more than lust at first sight, just an excuse to fool people."

Yun Shuyao's voice calmed down, but it carried a chilling coldness.

"You can't stand your own bottom line, and you've never cared about me."

What you call "having no other choice" is nothing more than selfishness after weighing the pros and cons.

"I……"

"You also said you were impotent, and that if you could have children, you would definitely give me one?"

Yun Shuyao interrupted him, her eyes filled with such disdain that they seemed to pierce him.

"I should thank you for 'keeping your chastity,' otherwise I would be disgusted to death for the rest of my life if you had touched me."

Yun Shuyao took a deep breath, took half a step back, and created some distance.

"Gu Jinghuai, the suffering I endured was real, the pain I went through was real, and the fact that you deceived me for eighteen years was also real."

Now that you've married Su Yuyan as you wished, you should live a good life with her and enjoy the 'perfect life' you had in your previous life.

Don't come looking for me again.

Yun Shuyao turned around, her tone resolute.

"We've already settled everything."

Gu Jinghuai stood frozen in place, watching her leave resolutely. Sunlight fell on her back, but it couldn't penetrate the darkness that had suddenly collapsed in his heart.

He finally understood that some mistakes, once made, can never be undone.

What he lost was not just Yun Shuyao, but everything he should have had.

"Shu Yao!"

He instinctively reached out to grab it, but only grasped a handful of cold wind.

Suddenly, Xiao Fang's voice came through, carrying a gentle concern.

"Shuyao, what's wrong?"

When did Xiao Fang arrive? How much did he hear just now?

Yun Shuyao was stunned for a moment, then quickly went to meet him and took his arm.

When she spoke, there was a softness in her voice that Gu Jinghuai no longer had the right to hear.

"It's nothing, I just ran into a complete stranger."

Gu Jinghuai's hand froze in mid-air, his knuckles turning white.

It turns out that in her heart, she had already become an "unrelated person".

The pain in my chest was a thousand times more intense than when my father whipped me with a rattan cane.

The fear of completely losing Yun Shuyao overwhelmed his last shred of reason.

Gu Jinghuai suddenly rushed over, grabbed Yun Shuyao's wrist, and pleaded in his voice.

"Yaoyao, can you please stop being angry with me?"

How can we just end our relationship of so many years like this?

Yun Shuyao looked flustered, afraid that Gu Jinghuai would recklessly reveal that she had married him in her past life.

Yun Shuyao's heart was pounding, and she struggled desperately to pull her hand back.

She didn't want Xiao Fang to know that she had been Gu Jinghuai's wife for eighteen years.

Xiao Fang's voice drifted over, carrying a chilling quality.

"Let go of my wife."