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

This is the first time I've actually been tracking someone.

When they first went to City X, Chen Junhai accompanied them.

Shen Chengyan was clearly well-prepared; his goal was quite clear: he was looking for a restaurant called Sister Li's Dumpling Restaurant.

The name is too common and ordinary in the local area.

It's not an easy task to find it.

So Shen Chengyan was very patient, taking the bus every day in that small city, searching house by house.

Chen Junhai followed him for two days, then refused to go anymore.

Not only was it tiring and hot, but it was also very bumpy.

He stayed at his relatives' house and slept until the third watch of the night every day, gaining five pounds in a month.

Chen Junhai had to put in a lot of effort to persuade his mother and Aunt Tang.

He said that traveling far away can make people feel happy, and he would take Shen Chengyan around to play, which might help him forget a lot of unhappy things.

Aunt Tang felt guilty towards her son, and she accepted anything that was good for him.

With the help of relatives to look after them, the two 14-year-old boys stayed in City X for nearly two months.

For the first month, Shen Chengyan spent most of his time looking for that restaurant, and as the saying goes, heaven rewards the diligent, and he actually found it.

Chen Junhai asked him how he could be sure it was this company.

He only said one thing: judging from the photo, this should be the place.

He didn't elaborate on what the photo was.

"At first, I didn't know he was looking for you. When I asked him who he was looking for, he said he didn't know either."

"He ate at the restaurant every day and became familiar with the owner. He asked the owner if there was a man named Jiang Guodong in the neighborhood, saying he was looking for his daughter. He also said that we were his daughter's classmates. The owner saw that we were just kids and believed him. He didn't think much of what was wrong with it. Who would ask for the name of a classmate but not the classmate's name, but the name of the classmate's parents instead?"

"Anyway, the boss casually told us that we were looking for Jiang Yu, and that she probably worked at a hair salon. He said that the girl was very sensible and that she would go to the hair salon to wash hair and work as a helper to earn money every year."

Chen Junhai looked at Jiang Yu: "He and I found that hair salon. At that time, you were as skinny as a monkey, with short hair, and you were no different from a boy. I remember that we squatted outside and looked at you in the hair salon for a long time, and said: 'Why is it a boy?'"

Jiang Yu had short hair throughout her adolescence, and only started growing it out when she entered high school.

"At that time, I didn't know you were Deng Wen's daughter. I really thought you were his classmate. Anyway, after he found you, he would go there almost every day and stay there for a whole day. He would just watch you wash people's hair in the shop from across the street."

"I went with him for two days and then I didn't want to go anymore. He was quite persistent, though, and he would go for a stroll every day. Ten days or half a month passed like this. Then he suddenly came back at noon, packed his bags and said he was going back to Jiangcheng."

"On the train, I asked him why he suddenly wanted to go back, but he wouldn't tell me."

"I thought that was the end of it, but every year after that, every summer and winter vacation, he would go to X City, staying for two months in the summer and one month in the winter."

"This behavior, which lasted for six or seven years, only ended when he was going abroad to study and you were about to go to university."

"I met you again when you graduated from college. I was still abroad at that time, while he had already graduated and returned to China to work for the Shen Group. One night, he suddenly called me. He sounded like he had been drinking. He told me on the phone that he had made up his mind to end your 'abnormal relationship,' but God brought you into his life again."

Chen Junhai gave a bitter smile: "He knew it was wrong to follow you like a pervert in the shadows, so after you went to university, he resolutely ended this morbid behavior."

"When you were dating, he suddenly started having insomnia and was extremely anxious. He even asked me to bring him some illegal drugs to relax his nerves from abroad. I was terrified of him. I thought he wanted to do drugs, you know?"

"But he only asked, and then the matter was dropped."

"But not long after, he called me again and said he broke up with you. On your birthday, he scolded you, but when he got home, he found that his hands were shaking badly, he couldn't breathe, and his emotions were very strange. He said he was afraid that he had depression and wanted to see a psychologist. Luckily, I have a cousin in China who works in this field, so I gave him her contact information..."

Chen Junhai overlooked how he drove his cousin to the brink of collapse during the consultation.

Seeing Jiang Yu's frail body sitting there motionless, head bowed and silent, Chen Junhai suddenly asked, "Did you ever love him?"

Jiang Yu stirred, looked up, and stared blankly at him: "What?"

Did you ever love Shen Chengyan?

Jiang Yu didn't understand why he would ask such a question.

"Shen Chengyan knows you've never loved him. He knows you married him only for money. Can't you love him just a little bit, for the sake of money?"

"Although I know that forced love is never sweet, and it's kind of ridiculous to make this kind of request, but... sigh, I just feel so sorry for my brother. Even though he's been following you for years, he hasn't done anything to hurt you. In fact, how should I put it, he's done a lot for you."

Chen Junhai said somewhat sarcastically, "After he found you, didn't he follow you every year? Later, I stopped going, so he lied to the Shen family, saying that he had found a summer job outside. Actually, he secretly went to see you alone. I chatted with him on QQ every day."

"At first he was quite willing to chat with me, but later he simply ignored me and treated me like a diary, writing long messages like he was writing essays."

"What do you mean it's raining? You didn't bring an umbrella and you're soaked to the bone. He bought an umbrella and had a passerby give it to you."

"What? You're in your first year of high school now? You've grown taller and grown your hair long. You finally look like a girl."

"What? You and Jiang Guodong got into another fight? You almost stabbed him with a knife?"

"When the neighborhood kids give you nicknames, you don't say anything or argue back. When no adults are around, you secretly bump into them."

"One person can carry a bag of rice upstairs."

"The restaurant where I worked had rats and cockroaches. Other girls would huddle together and scream in fear, but you could catch them with your bare hands."

"If debt collectors come looking for you, act like a coward if there are many of them, run away if you're alone, and fight if you can't outrun them."

"Also, a new beverage shop opened near your house. All the other girls have it, but you don't. He bought some and had someone deliver it to you, but you're very wary and won't accept it."

"When you went to pick up the cake for your birthday, you were clumsy and tripped and fell. You sat in the mud, staring blankly, and even tried to pick out the clean cream with your hands to eat. It was so pitiful to watch."

"He bought you another one, asked the clerk to call you back, and said it was a free gift from the store."

"You have no idea how many fascinating stories about your past I've heard from him."

Chen Junhai looked at Jiang Yu's tightly pursed lips and said, "When you two were dating, Shen Chengyan initially thought that your personality had undergone a complete change, and that you had become the kind of timid and adorably silly girl."

"He also told me that he still liked you the way you were before, but the first day after you went home, you turned around and cursed him on QQ, calling him an idiot. He was completely conflicted at that moment."

Jiang Yu, who had been listening quietly, finally showed a change in his eyes: "I insulted him on QQ?"

Chen Junhai thought for a moment and said, "Oh, so you don't know so many things. You probably don't know that he pretended to be an adult and sponsored your schooling back then."

"He told me that at first you treated him like a close older sister, like a mother you could confide in, and later you treated him like a father, and you would chat with him on QQ every day."

"Even after you reunite, during your relationship, while you're on a date, you're texting him, calling him a rich, stupid idiot."

"He's sitting right in front of you, watching his phone vibrate incessantly, watching you blink your innocent, wide eyes and gently ask him if he's tired, yet you keep sending him messages and verbally abusing him."

Jiang Yu: "..."