Chapter 101: Chapter 101 Go to My Place
“I…I’m not in a hurry.”
Even though she tried to hide it, Shen Mochen still spotted her slip-up.
“Do you have something on your mind?”
Gu Qiangwei suddenly looked up, “No, not at all.”
“Did you have an unpleasant encounter with that man?”
Gu Qiangwei was startled, then smiled, “How is that possible? I’m only in a pretend marriage with him. We don’t interfere in each other’s lives, so there’s nothing to be unhappy about.”
“Then let me take you back,” he said, reaching out to take her hand, eager to see exactly where she lived and whether she was living well or not.
“Ah…no need, no need!” Gu Qiangwei tried to pull her hand away, but he gripped it tightly, “Mochen, really, there’s no need. I drove here myself.”
“Then let me see where you live exactly.”
Leaving several hundred-yuan bills behind, he pulled her towards the door of the café.
When they reached the entrance, she finally pulled her hand free from his tight grasp.
Shen Mochen was taken aback and turned to stare at her, “Can’t go back?”
Gu Qiangwei was stunned, realizing she had inadvertently spoken more than she intended.
“I might stay at a hotel tonight.”
Shen Mochen frowned, “Why?”
She pursed her lips, feeling no upset from being driven out by Nangong Feifei.
Instead, she appeared indifferent, “The legitimate wife has returned, so this counterfeit has to hide away!”
Upon hearing this, Shen Mochen’s eyebrows knitted tightly together, “Legitimate? You mean, not only are you in a pretend marriage with him, but he also has a wife?”
Listening to his clearly astonished tone, Gu Qiangwei thought for a few seconds, then said, “Well, not exactly a wife, but it seems they’re about to get engaged.”
Shen Mochen stared at her for a long while before speaking again, “Qiangwei, tell me, for what reason are you in a pretend marriage with him?”
She looked up at him.
Qin Sijue’s reason was that he needed a pretend wife, but it seemed that it was also because he saw her being bullied by her father and Chen Peifang, so he pretended to marry and register with her to get even on her behalf.
“He did it to help me.”
She nodded, “Yes, I left home. My father, for the sake of the company’s interests, handed me over to a man named Lan Song. I was even… assaulted by my half-brother and he—my father—only believed his son, not me.”
“So, I left home, and Qin Sijue pretended to marry me to help me.”
Hearing her words, Shen Mochen was shocked!
All this had happened to her in the recent days, and yet he was completely unaware.
He had always known that her biological mother vanished into thin air twelve years ago, and after that Gu Zhendong married the woman he had an affair with, who always treated Qiangwei as a thorn in her side.
So after graduating, Qiangwei had worked hard at her job, hoping that one day she could move out on her own.
But she had barely started working when she was forced out.
“Don’t stay with him any longer. I have an apartment in the Western Suburbs. If you don’t mind, move there.”
Gu Qiangwei looked up, surprised by his offer.
After considering for a moment, she declined his kindness.
“Forget it, I’m doing quite well now. Once I find a stable job, I’ll move away from there.”
“Doing well? The moment the legitimate wife comes back, you have to stay in a hotel, and you call that doing well?”
His words left Gu Qiangwei speechless, her heart suddenly aching a little.
What was this feeling?
“Come on, let’s go to my place!”