That morning at six o'clock, it was still dark outside.
The driver, asleep in the car, suddenly heard a loud bang and groggily opened his eyes to look outside.
The usually leisurely strolling boss suddenly...
He had never seen his boss run so urgently!
Before the doctor arrived, she had cried hysterically.
She thought she could still call her mother back!
But later she realized she couldn't, so she quieted down!
After the doctor arrived, she just tightly grasped that hand, still warm.
"Miss Zhuo, your mother has passed away!"
The doctor reminded her from the side.
Zhuo Jian didn't speak, she originally thought that by coming back to accompany her mother, her mother would feel better and a miracle might happen.
But before she could do anything, her mother had passed away!
"Miss Zhuo!"
The nurse stepped forward, wanting to help her up.
Zhuo Jian stubbornly sat there, tightly holding her mother's hand.
In the hospital room, several doctors and nurses gradually moved to one side.
She felt her shoulders being embraced, followed by his warm and deep voice, "Get up!"
Zhuo Jian still did not move, but he forcefully lifted her up.
Her mother was taken away, Zhuo Jian forcefully slapped him; she wanted to catch up with her mother, she wanted her mother to look at her one more time, to speak to her once more...
She made sure not to make a single inappropriate sound as she continuously slapped and tore at him.
Fu Yanye grasped her hands, then forcefully pulled her into his arms, "I know!"
"Ah!"
Zhuo Jian still wanted to push him away, but in the end, she just yelled out loud, then couldn't make any other movements.
Tears had already streamed down her face, blurring her vision and dulling her hearing, only the large figure holding her steady.
She lay on that chest, tightly grabbing the shirt fabric; she wanted to cry out, but as the tears soaked the shirt, she could only sob a few times when she couldn't catch her breath.
Just like that, her only remaining relative had left her!
From now on, she was truly alone!
In the past, even though she lived abroad, as long as she thought of having a relative in the world, she felt it didn't matter.
Now she suddenly regretted, how could she have been so foolish?
For a man who didn't love her, she ran abroad, letting her closest person lose her.
But what use was regret now?
Zhuo Jian tore at his shirt, and in that moment, she suddenly hated him intensely!
She had loved him since she came to her senses!
She was even foolish enough to be willing to be his pawn!
She was wrong!
The ones she should have loved the most were her parents, the ones she should have cared about the most were her parents!
The feeling of losing the entire world, the feeling of sinking into boundless darkness made her shudder all over.
It wasn't until the day her mother was buried that she was no longer so numb.
Fu Yanye had been by her side all along, the Fu family also constantly cared for her, and they helped with her mother's funeral.
After the funeral, everyone returned to the Fu family, the old lady worried about her, "You still have grandma, you still have your grandfather and grandmother, we will all be with you, Jianjian dear, please don't think of doing anything foolish!"
"Grandma, I'm fine!"
Zhuo Jian could not bear to see such an elderly lady worry about her, and thus spoke.
"Silly girl, how could grandma not know whether you're alright or not? You stay here during this time; we'll be with you," the old lady continued speaking.
"Grandma, I want to go home! To my mom's place!"
She couldn't stay here anymore.
"Go to your mom's place?"
The whole family was startled, worried she might be despairing.
"I promised my mom I would live well, and I won't do anything foolish. Plus, I'll soon start working again; I just want to go back to my mom's place, also..."
She hesitated slightly, her lip-biting expression was distressing.
"You tell me, whatever you need, grandma will agree!"
"Really? Grandma, I want to transfer my household registration back to the Zhuo family!"
She hadn't looked at Fu Yanye from the start, but things were still proceeding in the direction he wanted.
"What?"
The entire family was genuinely dumbfounded; the elderly lady exchanged glances with her daughter-in-law and then turned to look at Fu Yanye.
"But the Zhuo family has already..."
Fu Yanye's mother wanted to say something but stopped, feeling it would upset her.
"I am the only one left in the Zhuo family!"
Zhuo Jian clenched her fingers, looking pitiful.
"If you think that way, then grandma will take care of it. It's just that last time grandpa went out, he took the household register with him and hasn't brought it back yet. It'll be a few more days."
"It's okay! I can wait!"
Zhuo Jian agreed, and once the matter of the household register was settled, she stood up, "Grandma, dad, mom, I won't disturb you any longer today!"
"Jianjian, this is your home!"
The old lady felt something was wrong and sadly reminded her.
"I know! You'll always be my family!"
Zhuo Jian smiled and bowed earnestly to them.
By this moment, the entire Fu family understood what was happening and they all looked at Fu Yanye together.
Fu Yanye had been silent all along. He really hadn't expected that she would use grandma's affection for her to bring up moving her registration out of the Fu Family at such a moment.
With this, nothing was stopping them from divorcing!
"They all see it now, you want a divorce!"
Fu Yanye suddenly spoke.
Zhuo Jian looked at him in surprise; she hadn't expected him to bring it up in front of the elders.
But he was the one who had suggested divorce!
"A divorce? Ah!"
The old lady suddenly got agitated and then fainted, bracing her forehead.
"Mom!"
"Mom!"
Later, when the old lady woke up in her own bed, she said, "Fu Yanye, you little beast, you can only divorce over my dead body!"
Fu Yanye and Zhuo Jian stood outside, looking at each other; when Zhuo Jian turned to leave, he followed her.
As Zhuo Jian descended the stairs, she said to him, "Stop following me!"
"Would staying here do me any good?"
He pushed her into his car and then sat in the passenger seat.
Zhuo Jian always felt out of place every time she sat there; she always felt like she was taking a spot that didn't belong to her.
But now she didn't even have the strength to speak about it, she just looked out the window, sitting sideways.
She was very tired; she wanted to rest!
Once rested, she would start working hard again!
Her mom and dad were watching over her from heaven!
But the moment she rested, she fell asleep in his car.
When she woke up again, she found herself lying on that familiar bed and instinctively tried to get up.
"Don't move!"
The man's deep, husky voice brought her back to reality.
Seeing the man so close, Zhuo Jian suddenly felt breathless, "Why am I here?"
"You were too tired, and no one has lived at your mother-in-law's place for a long time, it wasn't cleaned!"
"..."
Zhuo Jian slowly lay back down.
Fu Yanye supported himself with his hands on either side of her shoulders, his dark eyes intently gazing at her, unable to help the stir in his heart at the sight of her weary face.
She really hadn't been doing well lately!
He couldn't help reaching out to touch her feverish cheeks, Zhuo Jian froze, immediately dodging to the side, "What, what are you doing?"
"Don't move! There's an eyelash here."
"..."
Zhuo Jian tensed up, daring not to move.
He really was a clean freak to the point that he couldn't tolerate even a short eyelash being out of place.
But feeling his thumb softly caressing under her eye, she couldn't help but look at him!
She didn't see the eyelash; instead, she only saw his deep, dark eyes intensely staring at her skin.
Her breath grew hot, and Fu Yanye felt it as his hand slightly moved down.
Zhuo Jian held her breath, feeling his hand trail from under her eye to the corner of her lips.
His thumb gently pressed against the corner of her lips.