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Gu Xiaoxi sat on the sofa at home, watching the news. After a moment, she closed her laptop and checked the time.

She estimated that Quan Shaoqing should be returning.

Indeed, a short while later, she heard the sound of a car engine outside the door.

She got up from the sofa with a smile and ran towards the door.

There she saw Quan Shaoqing, dressed in dark green military uniform, getting out of the car.

His tall figure and steely gaze only seemed more handsome in her eyes.

Even the moment he looked up, his ice-like eyes exuded an indescribable charm.

Quan Shaoqing, seeing her, casually took off his military cap and, from a distance, flashed her a faint smile.

That smile was shallow, not radiant, yet it outshone all the flowers in the garden.

Gu Xiaoxi beamed, hands crossed over her chest as she watched him, her heartbeat quietly changing its rhythm.

His towering figure approached, moving against the evening breeze.

She sized him up.

He was doing the same to her.

Their eyes met in the air, creating an unspeakable sense of flirtation!

A kind of affection known only to each other began to float between them.

Unspoken, yet already understood through the exchange of looks.

Quan Shaoqing stepped forward and gently pinched her cheek.

Gu Xiaoxi cheekily rested her head on his shoulder and chuckled, "Dad said for us to come home for dinner tomorrow. Also, Uncle Jing invited us to his place to hang out!"

"Oh! Now whenever Dad has something to say, he tells you directly. He just skips me, his son!" Quan Shaoqing pretended to be jealous.

Gu Xiaoxi let out a hum of laughter, "I am his daughter, too!"

"That’s not quite right!" Quan Shaoqing tilted his head and with a wicked smile said, "You are the daughter-in-law!"

"Not at all! At least, I’m not the daughter-in-law right now!" Gu Xiaoxi snorted. She certainly hadn’t forgotten the divorce certificate Quan Shaoqing had given her before.

Quan Shaoqing stopped her by the shoulders and whispered into her ear, "Have you forgotten? Our marriage certificate was burned! And the 999 billion in breach of divorce penalty!"

"What?" Gu Xiaoxi was puzzled, "Isn’t the 999 billion breach of contract fee fake?"

"Who told you it was fake?" Quan Shaoqing said earnestly.

Gu Xiaoxi shook her head decisively, "I don’t believe it, I have a divorce certificate here."

With that, she quickly ran back to her room and found the divorce certificate hidden in a book.

She flipped through it and finally discovered bright bold letters on the back of the blue booklet.

"Internet fabrication, false certification, for entertainment only, no legal responsibility."

Gu Xiaoxi took a deep breath of cold air, and the corner of her eye twitched a few times.

Damn! A fake, and it had caused her so much heartache for so long.

So they never got a divorce from beginning to end!

Gu Xiaoxi gripped the divorce certificate in her hand and, fuming with rage, stormed from the bedroom to the living room.

Quan Shaoqing sat on the sofa drinking tea and, seeing her angrily puffed cheeks, immediately put down the teacup and hastily offered an apologetic smile, "Wife, let me explain. I only feared for your safety, which is why I wanted you to stay away from me a while. Once I dealt with the biggest latent danger, Nascent Soul, I planned to bring you back. Who knew that Madam’s charm was so immense, no matter how hard I tried to control it, I couldn’t bear to be away from you.

Don’t... Ah! Don’t... Wife... I was wrong! "

In the living room, Quan Shaoqing’s utterly cringe-worthy pleas aroused the servants’ curiosity.

It was hard to imagine that such a cold man could act so humbled in front of his wife, a truly eye-opening sight.

Thus, Uncle Zhou took the lead and stealthily peered down from the top of the staircase.

On the carpet below, Gu Xiaoxi pushed Quan Shaoqing to the ground, her hands wrapped around his neck as she gritted her teeth and said, "Quan Shaoqing, if you dare bring up divorce with me again in this lifetime, I’ll strangle you and send you to Hell in your next life. I’ll still be your wife."

Her voice was imperious, even more so than Quan Shaoqing’s aura. Perhaps it was because she had bottled up her feelings for so long that when they finally erupted, it felt like a volcanic explosion.

Before, she thought she was just shamefully having his child without any legitimate status! Even though she felt this action was disgraceful, she still went through with it, fearing she might have regrets!

She was like a mistress being kept by him. Indeed, she felt a bit wronged inside, but never voiced it, trying hard not to mind.

But one day, the truth came out, and she had always been his wife.

He and she stood on equal footing; her bearing his child was her duty!

And it was only right for him to dote on her.

It turned out all the bitterness and heartache in her heart never really existed.

Right now, in addition to excitement and anger, she was more moved than anything else.

Turns out, he had never given up on her.

Even when she fed him Oblivion Grass and he forgot her, he had never given up on her.

Quan Shaoqing just lay there on the ground, his hair in disarray, seemingly prepared for her to throw a fit.

However, when he suddenly saw Gu Xiaoxi motionless, her eyes misty, and then large tears began to fall.

Frightened, he hurriedly explained, "I know I was wrong. I’m sorry!

For making you suffer like this. But you proposed divorce too, right?

Let’s just call it even this time. Also, I’ll tell you, the 99.

9 billion divorce penalty was real. I spent 9.

99 billion to buy our marriage insurance.

If we get divorced, we’d owe a hundred times the penalty, that is 999 billion.

I think we could never earn that much money in our lifetimes. So, divorce is impossible."

Gu Xiaoxi bit her lip; her eyes sore, and tears blurred her vision as she glared at Quan Shaoqing.

It took her a long time to let go of his neck and grab his collar, angrily saying, "You profligate, giving 9.99 billion to the insurance company. Why couldn’t you give it to me? Do you have so little faith in me?"

Quan Shaoqing hurriedly held her small hand, his gaze deepening with affection, "No! It’s not that I don’t have faith in you.

I don’t trust myself. I’m afraid that one day something similar to forgetting you will happen again.

With this insurance, even if I forget you, we’ll still be together.

Given your excellence, even if I forget you a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand times, I will still fall in love with you again. "

For a moment, Gu Xiaoxi didn’t know what to say. She just felt his hands were so warm and gave her a sense of security.

Marrying him was the happiest thing in her life.

Even if they had gone through so many trials, heartaches, and separations together.

With this moment, his words, his explanation, his affection.

What more could she ask for!

Quan Shaoqing reached out to hold her in his arms, hugging her tightly as if to declare, "As long as I’m alive, you will always be Young Master Quan’s Wife."

"More than the status of Young Master Quan’s Wife, I wish for you to truly live well," Gu Xiaoxi said, her voice choking.

Quan Shaoqing lay on the ground with her resting on his chest.

He stroked her head, wishing time could stand still, so that they could always embrace happily like this.