Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Gu Yuan: “…What exactly happened?”
For a moment, she wondered if Lu Zhiqian’s popularity had declined recently, and she was being dragged down with him? Or had Lu Zhiqian done something to her?
Feng Yiyue took another deep breath, calming himself down slightly, before saying, “Things have come to this point, and I’m not afraid of losing face or being laughed at. When Lu Zhiqian and I got together, Zhiqian had a great opportunity. He couldn’t date or have any scandals, so our relationship was never publicly acknowledged. After we got married, I became pregnant, but he said I couldn’t keep it, fearing it would have a bad impact if it got out. I have had to have two abortions, and the last one, due to improper procedures, left me permanently infertile.”
When she said this, Feng Yiyue’s voice trembled slightly.
Gu Yuan hadn’t thought of that at all. She thus looked at Feng Yiyue with some sympathy: “Then, did you look into it later? Actually, you could do more research, or maybe try an incubator?”
Feng Yiyue bit her lip and gently shook her head: “Impossible is impossible.”
This was truly a sad thing.
Women in this world, you could choose to have children, or you could choose to remain childless and stay childless for life— it was all your own choice. But if you could not conceive due to physical reasons, there would always be some regrets, after all, you had lost the right to choose.
And it was even more tragic when this shortcoming was of one’s own making.
Feng Yiyue suddenly let out a weak and weary laugh: “I lost my fertility, but Lu Zhiqian said he still loves me and will still be with me. I was very touched. At the time, I was also in poor health, so I retired from acting and went behind the scenes to take care of him, serving him hand and foot. My whole life was bet on him. Now he has transferred his assets. I don’t know where all the money he earned over the years has gone. We are about to get a divorce, and I have nothing left.”
Looking at Feng Yiyue’s desolate smile, Gu Yuan felt a sense of suffocation.
She didn’t need to listen to what followed; she roughly knew what would happen next.
A man has a woman in his life who helped him, had an abortion for him, sacrificed a lot for him, and even lost her fertility because of him. This man feels guilty towards her. But can he still love her?
He must feel more guilty towards this woman.
A man with a conscience might take responsibility for this woman for life because of this sense of guilt, but a man with a slightly lacking conscience might avoid or become weary of her because of this sense of guilt.
After all, that’s a lifetime, not just a day or two.
She tentatively asked, “So what are you planning to do next?”
And what did she come to see me for?
Feng Yiyue shook her head with a wry smile: “I don’t know. I guess I deserve what I’ve gotten myself into. Actually, I don’t know why I’m talking to you about this, but talking about it with you makes me feel a little better.”
Gu Yuan frowned, looking at Feng Yiyue’s haggard appearance: “You just said you didn’t lose anything, but what about his assets? You should be able to get some in the divorce, right?”
Feng Yiyue shook her head weakly: “No, I don’t know how much money he has. He says he doesn’t have much money left at home, and that he can only give me a few hundred thousand.”
Upon hearing this, Gu Yuan and Camille exchanged bewildered glances.
What can a few hundred thousand yuan do for a 45-year-old woman who has almost lost everything?
Gu Yuan thought for a moment, then suddenly had an idea: “There are many things I can’t help you with, but you just mentioned money. Perhaps we can try to get you as much money as possible.”
Feng Yiyue listened, then shook her head, saying blankly, “Impossible. Over the years, I trusted him too much. I never guarded against him. He transferred his assets long ago. I don’t have a single clue. How could I possibly get the money back? I’ve given up now. I’m divorced and will live my own life.”
Gu Yuan recalled Lu Zhiqian’s smug look, hesitated for a moment, and then said, “No, we can think of a way to let you get a share of his property.”
Feng Yiyue: “What can we do? I have no idea about his assets, I don’t even know when they were transferred.”
Gu Yuan, however, rested her chin on her hand and said, “There is a way we can try…”
….
When she first saw Lu Zhiqian after waking up from her slumber of twenty-five years, she was indeed filled with resentment. However, she gradually realized that the world was no longer the same as it was twenty-five years ago. She found her place in this ever-changing world, and everything from the past vanished from her heart.
Even looking at Feng Yiyue, who had been kissing Lu Zhiqian back then, didn’t stir any emotion in her heart.
Watching the once proud Feng Yiyue cry in front of her, saying she was wrong, that she regretted it, that she shouldn’t have been someone’s mistress back then, and that she was now getting her comeuppance, Gu Yuan didn’t feel any schadenfreude or revenge. Instead, she felt a little sorry for her.
While Feng Yiyue was wrong to steal her boyfriend and be a mistress, there’s no smoke without fire[1]. If Lu Zhiqian didn’t have those intentions, Feng Yiyue’s antics would be futile. Therefore, the fault lied with both of them.
As for Lu Zhiqian being such a scumb*g after getting together with Feng Yiyue, that was a huge mistake, so wrong that it made her want to slap him.
Now Feng Yiyue was paying the price for her choice back then. Although Lu Zhiqian’s reputation was ruined and his future was gone, he had made a lot of money over the years. If he were to just kick Feng Yiyue to the curb and find a young girl to start a life of wealth and leisure again, that would be truly disgusting.
With this in mind, Gu Yuan decided to make things difficult for Lu Zhiqian and came up with a plan with Camille.
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[1] Gossip or suspicious signs (the smoke) imply that a real issue or wrongdoing (the fire) exists somewhere underneath.
