Mr. Shen, your love-struck wife doesn't want you anymore!

After leaving Jiang Guodong, Fu Ying never changed her phone number.

For the first few years, Jiang Guodong called her every day, but Fu Ying basically didn't answer.

However, her phone was mostly switched off later on, but she never gave up on the number.

Jiang Yu always remembered her number, almost to the point of knowing it by heart, and every year on her birthday, she would call her or send her a text message.

Although she never answers or replies to messages.

When she was eleven or twelve years old, she had her first period. No one taught her what it was, and in those days, schools in small towns hardly had any proper hygiene classes.

That night, she was awakened by a sharp abdominal pain and was shocked to find a bloodstain on the sheets, a damp and sticky feeling under her buttocks, and bloodstains all over her pants. After a brief moment of confusion, she was overwhelmed by a huge panic.

She was in the bathroom, wiping her bleeding lower body with tissues, when she finally broke down.

She dialed the number she knew by heart using a landline.

The phone wasn't turned off; it kept beeping throughout the night.

She dialed it again and again.

There was no answer from the other end.

She thought she wouldn't be able to get through, just like before.

Just as she was about to give up, tears streaming down her face, the call went through.

All her grievances and fears seemed to find an outlet. She called out "Mom" in a trembling voice into the phone, saying that she was about to die, that she was so scared, and that she missed her so much. She wanted her to come back, to see her...

She said a lot, but the other side didn't say a word.

Finally, he hung up coldly and indifferently.

From that point on, Jiang Yu gave up trying to contact Fu Ying again.

She considered her biological mother dead long ago.

But now a woman who could very well be her biological mother has suddenly appeared.

In the dream, Fu Ying's blurry face gradually overlapped with Deng Wen's face.

"Bang bang bang".

Jiang Yu was awakened by several muffled thuds.

She woke up to find it was completely dark, the room was pitch black, and she was covered in sweat, with a damp and uncomfortable feeling on her neck.

"Knock knock knock".

The muffled sound rang out again, gradually bringing Jiang Yu's dazed thoughts back to reality.

She frowned and listened carefully; it sounded like knocking on the door.

When Jiang Yu was a child, what she feared most was the sudden knocking on the door in the middle of the night. The debt collectors would always come to intimidate her in the dead of night. Whenever Jiang Guodong owed money, they would bang on the door, splash dog blood on it, and hang dead rats on the doorknob...

Sometimes they even forcibly unlock the door, break in, and smash things.

So much so that every night before going to sleep, Jiang Yu would put a pair of scissors under her pillow.

She maintained this habit for many years, and even after marrying Shen Chengyan, she never changed it.

When Shen Chengyan first discovered that she had this bad habit, he didn't say anything.

He simply put the sharp objects away silently.

She puts it out once, and he takes it back once.

He eventually corrected this habit.

Jiang Yu heard a dull thud outside the door, picked up her phone just in case, and then found many missed calls.

Xu Xing and Shen Zhaolin both called her.

The two sent her many messages: "Sister-in-law, why aren't you answering the phone? Did something happen? You didn't even tell me you got off the plane. My brother can't reach you either. He said he's coming to find you. Please call him back when you see this message."

It seems that it was Shen Chengyan who knocked on the door.

Jiang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but was also a little annoyed.

She ran out barefoot and looked out through the peephole.

Not only did I see Shen Chengyan, but I also saw other people, who seemed to be locksmiths.

Jiang Yu immediately opened the door: "What are you two doing?"

The two people outside the door: "..."

Shen Chengyan's tense expression relaxed slightly, but his tone was still unpleasant: "Didn't you hear me knocking for ages?"

Jiang Yu: "I'm sleeping."

"Don't you need to pay attention when you're sleeping? You don't answer my calls, you don't reply to my messages, and no one answers when I knock on the door. Have you ever thought about how I feel?"

Jiang Yu slammed the door shut.

Neuropathy.

I didn't even blame you for waking me up, and you're blaming me for not paying attention to your emotions?

Go as far away as you can.

Shen Chengyan outside the door: "..."

Locksmith: "Brother, are you going to open this lock or not?"

Shen Chengyan said there was no need to open the door, so that his master wouldn't have made a wasted trip, and the money was transferred anyway.

After the locksmith left, Shen Chengyan knocked on the door again.

After knocking for a full five minutes, Jiang Yu showed no sign of opening the door.

Shen Chengyan turned and left.

He took two steps, gritted his teeth, and came back.

Jiang Yu poured water and came out of the kitchen, but the knocking on the door continued.

She slowly finished her glass of water before leisurely going to open the door.

Shen Chengyan leaned against the door with one hand and put the other on his hip.

His expression was quite unpleasant, and he was thinking that he might as well call the locksmith back and break the lock when the door opened.

Inside the room, Jiang Yu was barefoot, holding a water glass, looking at him expressionlessly.

Shen Chengyan paused for a moment before saying, "No one could contact you. I thought something had happened to you while you were home alone. I'm not blaming you."

Jiang Yu's gaze fell on his hands: "Did you buy this for me?"

"Hungry?" Shen Chengyan raised an eyebrow.

"What did you buy?"

"crayfish."

Jiang Yu's eyes lit up: "Spicy or garlic?"

"Spicy".

"Why not buy some minced garlic?"

Shen Chengyan's disgust was written all over his face: "It smells awful."

If Jiang Yu didn't like eating these things, he would never have bought them in his life.

Okay, okay, spicy food is delicious too.

Jiang Yu reached out and took the bag from his hand: "Give it to me."

Shen Chengyan went inside and closed the door behind him. When he was about to change his shoes, he saw the pair of men's slippers and children's slippers that were an eyesore.

He looked away to avoid seeing the slippers he had brought with him last time.

I searched everywhere but couldn't find it.

He frowned and asked, "Where are my slippers?"

Jiang Yu's voice came from the living room: "Throw it away."

Who would want him to come every few days?

Shen Chengyan leaned against the wall and chuckled, "You're so thoughtful. I also think changing shoes is quite a hassle."

Jiang Yu said in a sinister tone, "If you dare to come in without putting on your shoes, then you'll have to lick the floor clean."

"..."

Shen Chengyan put on shoe covers and came in. Jiang Yu was already eating in the restaurant, wearing disposable gloves and watching a cheerful variety show on her phone. She looked very satisfied and happy while eating.

Shen Chengyan stared at her intently for a long time: "In all the years we've been married, have you ever eaten like this so brazenly in front of me?"

Jiang Yu looked at him with a half-smile: "Do you think I'm well-behaved when you're away on business?"

Shen Chengyan: "..."

Jiang Yu was actually quite curious: "You always seem to make things difficult for yourself whenever you come here, so why do you keep coming?"

"I don't know, maybe I'm a masochist." His gaze fell on his feet, and his brows furrowed. "Isn't the ground cold? Go put on your shoes."

Jiang Yu was a little impatient: "Eat first, then you can get dressed. Don't worry about me."

"It won't take you two minutes."

"Don't you find yourself annoying?"

Shen Chengyan didn't say anything, and went to the shoe cabinet to look around, but there wasn't a single pair of slippers.

After thinking for a moment, he closed the cabinet door and went into her bedroom. A short while later, he came out carrying a pair of slippers.