Outside the Apartment Complex.Chen Yihao stopped Chen Yinuo."Big sis, can you calm down and listen to me for a moment?""Yes, Mom might be harsh and thoughtless with her words, but her intentions are good!""With your conditions, even if it's a second marriage, you could find someone a thousand times, even ten thousand times better than that scumbag!""Think about all the suffering you've endured with him over the years. That kind of animal—you need to divorce him as soon as possible! What are you waiting for?"Chen Yinuo brushed back the strands of hair the wind had blown across her face.She shook her head and said, "It's not that I don't want to divorce him—he just refuses to sign the papers! He asked me to give him another month. If I still insist on divorcing him after a month, he said he'll sign.""What a joke! A month? Even if you gave him a hundred months, he'd still be the same trash he's always been! He doesn't want to sign the papers? Sis, don't worry, leave it to me. I refuse to believe I can't deal with him. I refuse to believe he won't sign!" Chen Yihao gritted his teeth.However, Chen Yinuo immediately frowned."What are you planning to do? I'm warning you, no matter how much of a jerk or beast he is, you are not to act recklessly or do anything foolish! It's just one more month. I've endured this long; one more month won't make a difference.""Sis!!!""Are you listening to me or not?"In the end, Chen Yihao reluctantly nodded. "Fine, one month. I'll give him one more month. But if he still refuses to sign by then, don't blame me for taking action!"Chen Yinuo didn't respond further.She grabbed Ye Youyou's hand and hailed a taxi.Half an hour later.Physically and emotionally drained beyond words, Chen Yinuo returned to the rented apartment with Ye Youyou.As soon as she opened the door, she instinctively thought she had entered the wrong place.In a spotless and completely transformed space, calling it "spotless" might be a bit exaggerated, but there wasn't a single trace of garbage to be seen.The cigarette butts and liquor bottles that had once been strewn across the floor were gone.The once grimy and stained tiles now gleamed brightly.Every corner was clean and orderly.The foul odors were completely gone, replaced by a faint lemon fragrance from air freshener.Was this cleaned by that scumbag?Impossible!"Mom, is this really our home? Did we go to the wrong apartment?"Ye Youyou looked up at Chen Yinuo.If not for the familiar furniture, even Chen Yinuo might have thought she'd walked into the wrong place."No, Youyou, we're home. It's late. Let's go to bed," she said, leading Ye Youyou into the bedroom.Of course, not the one where Ye Chen slept.In this small two-bedroom apartment, she and Ye Chen had been sleeping in separate rooms for a long time.She even made sure to lock her door securely every night before going to bed, because Ye Chen, drunk and stumbling home in the middle of the night, was terrifying.There had been so many nights when she'd considered ending it all just to escape him.But before she could take another step, the front door suddenly slammed open.Ye Chen walked in."Daddy!"The moment she saw Ye Chen, the little girl's sleepiness disappeared.Excitedly, she ran toward him.This time, Chen Yinuo merely frowned but didn't stop Ye Youyou.After all, no matter what, Ye Chen was still her father."Youyou, let Daddy hold you!"Ye Chen wasn't the only one who was excited.He was overjoyed.Sixty years. Sixty long years.During those sixty years, not a moment went by when he didn't think about his daughter.How many times had he woken up from dreams, curled up and crying, haunted by regret for his past mistakes?He had longed to hold Youyou again, to pinch her adorable cheeks one more time.Now, fate had given him a second chance.Holding Ye Youyou in his arms, his eyes reddened, and his vision blurred with tears.He fought hard to keep himself from crying.With a forced smile, he said, "Youyou, weren't you and Mommy visiting Grandma? Why are you back already?""Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa were mean. They scolded Mommy, and they scolded me too. Mommy even cried!"Children don't understand discretion; she spilled everything in one go.Chen Yinuo tried to stop her, but it was too late.She quickly said, "Youyou, don't talk nonsense!"It wasn't without reason that Chen Yinuo was anxious.In the past, Ye Chen had been notoriously difficult to deal with.Whenever he heard that Ye Youyou was mistreated by her grandparents, he would threaten to kill her entire family.Although those were just empty threats, someone like Ye Chen, with his impulsive and erratic behavior, was capable of anything."Did your parents give you and Youyou trouble again?" Ye Chen raised an eyebrow as he held Ye Youyou."Aside from you, who else would make our lives miserable?" Chen Yinuo sneered coldly."Don't go back to those people anymore. We have a place to live. There's no need to rely on them."Ye Chen knew all too well what kind of people his in-laws were.Even if she didn't say it, he could imagine the humiliation and hardships she and Youyou endured there."For the record, this is my apartment, not ours! But don't worry, even though it's mine, Youyou and I are only staying for the night. Tomorrow, we'll leave!" Chen Yinuo retorted with a snort.If not for the high cost of hotels and the impossibility of renting a place so late, she wouldn't have returned here at all, even if she had paid the rent herself."Youyou doesn't want to leave. Youyou wants to stay with Daddy!"Hearing her mother's words, Ye Youyou immediately protested.She then tugged at Ye Chen's prickly beard and asked in her childish voice, "Daddy, where were you tonight? Why are you home so late?""Daddy was selling flowers!"Ye Chen ignored Chen Yinuo's sarcasm. He knew that changing her opinion of him would take time—it wasn't something that could happen overnight.However, Chen Yinuo scoffed at his claim of selling flowers.No one knew Ye Chen better than she did.He was a typical idealist, always aiming high but achieving nothing.A man whose ambition far exceeded his abilities—a "dreamer" to the core.Someone like him, selling flowers? Impossible.Even though he had never had any reason to be arrogant, he still clung to an inflated sense of self-worth."Wow, Daddy, you sold flowers? Where are the flowers? Youyou loves flowers. I want some too!"The little girl's eyes sparkled with excitement as she looked at Ye Chen."There are no flowers left. Daddy sold them all," Ye Chen replied with a smile."You sold all of them? That means Daddy made a lot of money, right?" Youyou said eagerly."Yes, Daddy made 2,800 yuan—almost 3,000!" Ye Chen said, his forehead touching hers gently."Wow, 3,000 yuan! Daddy is amazing!"Although Youyou didn't fully understand the value of 3,000 yuan, she had heard adults arguing about money often enough to know it was a lot.But Chen Yinuo couldn't take it anymore."Ye Chen, isn't it enough that you lie to me? Do you have to lie to Youyou too? Are you trying to teach her to grow up and become someone like you—a person full of lies and completely oblivious to reality?"Her cold reprimand filled the room.She then turned to Ye Youyou and said firmly, "Youyou, get down. Go with Mommy to the bedroom and sleep!"