Ye Wan became alert, her gaze sweeping around the room. The house wasn't large, and with the bedroom door open, she could see it was empty.
After closing the door, she walked in and bent down to pick up the little red booklet. As soon as she saw its contents, her eyes widened, her fingertips trembling, barely daring to believe what she was seeing.
A marriage certificate?
Female: Ye Wan
Male: Gu Yun Ting
What in the world?
Was someone playing a prank on her?
She immediately ripped the marriage certificate to shreds and threw it in the trash, not taking it seriously.
When Gu Yun Ting received the news, he ordered a hundred more copies to be sent to her, so she could tear them to her heart's content.
Ye Wan was making dinner when she heard a knock on the door. When she opened it, there was no one outside. Looking down, she saw a box full of marriage certificates!
She bent down and picked one up to look. It was identical to the one she had torn up earlier. Ye Wan was speechless. Who was so bored?
Her phone rang. Seeing the familiar number, she answered and directly questioned, "Is this your prank?"
She didn't believe it was real. The day she saw herself naked in the hotel room, he had already sentenced her to death. It was impossible for them to get a marriage certificate, and besides... he wouldn't want to marry her.
"The marriage certificate is real. We are now legal husband and wife!" Gu Yun Ting's voice remained devoid of warmth.
Ye Wan could hardly believe her ears, unable to speak for a moment. "What... what do you want?"
Once she realized it was true and not a prank, she broke out in a cold sweat, her hands trembling uncontrollably. She was terrified.
"If you want to leave me and be with another man, forget about it! You will die by my side this lifetime!" Gu Yun Ting's voice was filled with bone-chilling coldness.
"Gu Yun Ting!"
Gu Yun Ting hung up the phone. Ye Wan's remaining words caught in her throat. She threw down her phone and, as if driven mad, began tearing apart the marriage certificates in front of her, tearing them with all her might. She tore all one hundred certificates to shreds. Her fingers were cut, and the tips of her fingers were swollen and red, but she didn't care.
Finally, Ye Wan was so angry she cried. She took out her phone to check. The person on the phone told her that she was indeed married, and the husband's name was Gu Yun Ting.
Ye Wan fell into despair. She hugged her knees and couldn't stop crying. She had thought that Gu Yun Ting, believing she had slept with Jun Li Chen, would find her dirty and reject her. She had thought she could finally leave the Gu residence and start a new life.
But a marriage certificate had thrown her into the abyss. There was no new life; she was destined to struggle in hell for a lifetime.
Jin Lan watched Gu Yun Ting swallow a handful of pills without any attempt to stop him. He knew that if this continued, his illness wouldn't get better, and he would be poisoned to death by the medicine first.
He shook his head helplessly and decided to go talk to Ye Wan.
...
The next noon, Jin Lan invited Ye Wan to lunch. Ye Wan's expression was blank as she opened the car door and got in.
Jin Lan took her to a restaurant. After ordering their food, he looked at her and asked, "Are you angry?"
"What exactly does Gu Yun Ting want? Why did he do that?" Ye Wan looked up at the man opposite her and questioned.
"Ye Wan, that Jun Li Chen is Brother Ting's paternal half-brother. So he deliberately approached you to provoke Brother Ting. He never truly cared about you," Jin Lan explained.