Chapter 03
Yun Shu pursed her lips, her eyes red as she looked at him. “Since you’re back, we aren’t getting a divorce.”
Bo Zhan’s face grew cold at a speed visible to the naked eye. “Do you think marriage is a child’s game? You divorce when you want to, and call it off when you don’t? Or do you think I’m someone you can easily play for a fool?”
One had to know that the military was currently at the most critical stage of training, and not a single moment could be spared. Yet this woman had used death to force him to come back. Bo Zhan had endured to his absolute limit, his fists clenching hard.
Yun Shu could tell he was truly enraged, but she remained completely unfazed. She straight up used the child to threaten him. “If you really can bring yourself to abandon the child, then go ahead and divorce me. When the time comes, I’ll just take the child and marry someone else. I’ll make the child take another man’s surname and call another man father.”
I don’t believe I can’t keep you in check.
“You dare.” Bo Zhan’s expression was terrifyingly dark.
Yet Yun Shu met his gaze without a single shred of fear. “See if I dare. If you dare, I dare.”
“…” Bo Zhan’s face turned black with rage. “If you dare make the child call someone else father, I will…”
“You will what?” Yun Shu tilted her face up, a stubborn light gleaming in her eyes.
Bo Zhan clenched his fists tighter and tighter. “I will snatch the child back and make sure you never get to see him for the rest of your life.”
The male lead was truly capable of doing such a thing.
What Yun Shu wanted was definitely not to thoroughly infuriate the male lead; there would be absolutely no benefit in doing that. Changing her tone immediately, she also spoke forcefully, “If you dare to divorce me, I’ll make sure you never see the child for the rest of your life, hmph!”
The two of them locked eyes, the atmosphere completely frozen in a stalemate. One was a red-blooded, hardened soldier, while the other was a delicate, pregnant woman.
In the end, it was Bo Zhan who backed down. For the sake of the child, he could yield one more step. But asking him to believe that Yun Shu hadn’t staged this entire incident just to throw a tantrum over a divorce was impossible. He knew this woman’s mercurial temperament all too well.
Therefore, he needed to confirm one thing.
Suppressing his burning anger, he asked word by word, “I am asking you one last time. Are we divorcing or not? You had better think it through clearly.”
Yun Shu looked at Bo Zhan and said decisively, “I never said I truly wanted to divorce you.”
Bo Zhan stated, “So by that, you mean no divorce.”
“No divorce. Whoever brings up divorce is a coward.”
“Good, very good. Since you have thought it through, then I will put my ugly words upfront. From now on, if you want a divorce, it will only happen over my dead body.”
“Furthermore, if you ever dare to use the child to cause trouble again, I will tie you up.”
Every single word was resonant and powerful, slamming heavily against Yun Shu’s heart and causing her to feel a strange, fleeting sense of panic.
The male lead in the novel was a man of his word; he always meant exactly what he said. And while such a man was an indestructible warrior who defended the country on the outside, he was incredibly gentle toward the female leadâeven going so far as to heavily consider her feelings during their intimate moments in bed, pampering her to the heavens.
His marriage to the original owner was merely because the male lead’s grandfather had saved the original owner’s grandfather’s family in the past. To repay the male lead’s grandfather, this marriage alliance had been settled. The original owner, who had always idolized intellectuals, naturally looked down on the male lead with his poor peasant background, so her disdain was inevitable.
However, now that Yun Shu had transmigrated in, she had no intention of handing this golden thigh over to the female lead.
For now, Yun Shu could be considered to have won this round, and the divorce was temporarily off the table, but that didn’t mean Bo Zhan truly believed what she said. That man looked big and rough, but he didn’t seem like someone who could be easily fooled.
By the time Yan Meili and Yun Guoliang returned from buying groceries, Bo Zhan had already left.
“He had matters to attend to.”
When Yun Guoliang asked about it, Yun Shu replied truthfully. Bo Zhan had indeed mentioned he had things to take care of, though he didn’t tell her what exactly. The original owner had never questioned the male lead’s affairs, so Yun Shu didn’t pry either. As long as this divorce didn’t happen, everything else would be easy to handle.
As for that fair-faced director Duan Jianguo, Yun Shu had her own plans.
Yun Guoliang had already learned from Yan Meili that Yun Shu had come to her senses, but he still harbored some worries in his heart. “Are you truly planning to live a good life with Bo Zhan now?”
“I feel that compared to Duan Jianguo, Bo Zhan is much more reliable,” Yun Shu said with a look of sudden realization. “To be honest, I merely appreciated Duan Jianguo’s opera performances, that’s all.”
“It’s for the best that you can see things clearly. You mustn’t throw tantrums like that ever again,” Yun Guoliang admonished with a stern face.
Naturally, Yun Shu couldn’t just throw tantrums carelessly anymore; she couldn’t wait to hug this golden thigh tightly!
However, based on her understanding of the male lead, she guessed that right now, Bo Zhan hadn’t fully believed she had genuinely changed her mind.
In reality, Bo Zhan hadn’t believed a single word Yun Shu said. After leaving the Yun residence, he went to a guesthouse to change his clothes, then headed straight to the grand theater where Duan Jianguo worked.
The cultural troupe’s performances were divided into different sessions; sometimes there were two shows a day, and sometimes just one. Today’s show happened to be at three in the afternoon, and the troupe had just finished.
Using a pack of cigarettes, Bo Zhan managed to pry quite a few pieces of personal information about Duan Jianguo out of the elderly gatekeeper, and even heard about the rumors surrounding Duan Jianguo and Yun Shu.
“That eldest miss of the Yun family truly likes Director Duan. She didn’t hesitate to spend heavy sums to book out the entire venue. Tsk tsk, it can really be called true love!”
“The two of them are constantly getting cozy together. Think about it, when the entire theater is booked out, what could the two of them be doing inside? Sigh, if you ask me, that Yun family miss’s husband is truly pitiful. He probably doesn’t even know his wife is stepping out on him, and the child in her belly might not even be his.”
Bo Zhan just stood there listening, his face completely expressionless, though he smoked through half a pack of cigarettes.
Within his line of sight, Duan Jianguo was currently pushing a bicycle, chatting and laughing with two female comrades as they walked toward the main gate.
“Director Duan, how come we didn’t see Miss Yun coming to watch your opera today?”
“Didn’t she use to attend every single show without miss? How come she didn’t show up to support you today?”
“Could it be that she had a change of heart?”
“Could it be that her husband came back, discovered his wife was having an affair, and is making a scene at home?”
At the mention of Yun Shu, a look of absolute smugness appeared on Duan Jianguo’s face. “Perhaps she was held up by something.”
He knew Yun Shu was currently causing a scene for a divorce! He wondered how the progress was going? If it went smoothly, he would marry Yun Shu right away. When that time came, why would he even bother performing operas anymore? The immense wealth accumulated by the Yun family would be more than enough for him to live comfortably for several lifetimes without any worries.
Right now, he didn’t need to do anything; he just had to wait for Yun Shu to bring him the good news and let everything proceed according to the plot. Even if banging her head against the wall failed to secure the divorce, he still had a backup plan.
Yes, he was a transmigrator. This period novel was actually written by his girlfriend; writing spicy web novels to earn living expenses was truly lucrative. For a working-class guy who had to labor desperately for an entire lifetime in a first-tier city just to afford a bathroom, nothing felt better than enjoying the fruits of someone else’s labor. Although Yun Shu was just a piece of cannon fodder ex-wife in the book, one couldn’t deny that the Yun family was filthy rich!
Bo Zhan snuffed out the cigarette in his hand, took a step forward to intercept him, and spoke with an unfriendly tone, “You are Duan Jianguo.”
“…” Duan Jianguo fixed his eyes on Bo Zhan. Feeling the incredibly intimidating aura radiating from the man, his heart suddenly trembled. “I am. May I ask who you are…”
Bo Zhan wasn’t one to waste time. “A word in private.”
Duan Jianguo was startled for a moment, but he quickly assumed the other party was one of his fans. After all, he could be considered a celebrity right now with fans by the handful, and people frequently blocked him at the entrance to ask for his autograph.
Without thinking further, Duan Jianguo greeted his colleagues and followed Bo Zhan out.
A few minutes later, Duan Jianguo realized that he had followed Bo Zhan into a secluded alleyway, and a sense of vigilance suddenly arose in his heart.
“Comrade, if you want an autograph, I can sign it for you right now. Let’s not walk any further inside; it’s quite chaotic in there.”
That place was a gathering spot for thugs and hoodlums, and those people were not to be trifled with.
