It's hard to imagine how maddening it would be if such love were to fall upon oneself, especially in today's world of rampant materialism, where a pure and true heart has beco rarer than gold.
The young man's gaze shifted slightly.
Lu Yu seed to sense sothing and looked at him with sharp eyes.
Seeing this, the young man imdiately put on a smile.
Lu Yu: "You talk too much."
He wasn't sure if it was his imagination, but he felt that this person was being overly diligent this ti.
Lu Yu had hired him before, but never had he investigated so thoroughly. This went beyond the paynt he had offered.
The man usually only cared about profit and would do anything for money. This kind of unprofitable work had never happened before.
Lu Yu frowned and said, "The money has been transferred to your account."
Knowing that this was Lu Yu's way of asking him to leave, the young man showed no dissatisfaction. He was about to leave, being very perceptive about taking money for a job, but just before leaving, he said one last thing: "If Mr. Lu really still cares about this wife, I personally suggest that you pay more attention to Miss Gu."
"After all, Miss Gu has once again lost the rope tied to her. This ti, it's hard to say what she will choose."
In the situation where Miss Gu had forgotten everything, she might not choose him this ti.
No, given her personality, she definitely wouldn't choose him this ti.
Lu Yu's heart suddenly tightened, but his face remained calm as he said, "No need to worry about that."
And also.
"Please call her Mrs. Gu."
The young man paused, said nothing, and left quite obediently.
Lu Yu watched his back for a while before finally looking away.
The young man had spent a whole month investigating and uncovered far too much information. Besides why Gu Wan would like him and fall in love with him, there was almost all of Gu Wan's past from her 27 years of life.
Many of these were things Gu Wan had never ntioned to him before.
In the past, Gu Wan always had a smiling face when she was with him, which led Lu Yu to subconsciously think that she had a good family environnt and that her parents loved her, hence her optimistic and cheerful personality. Moreover, Gu Wan's family was quite well-off, and now he knew that she had attended the sa international school as him back then. Lu Yu couldn't help but think this way.
However, after Lu Yu read through all the materials, he realized it wasn't like that at all.
Under what circumstances would a person never ntion their dark past?
Probably because they want to leave only beautiful impressions on the person they love.
Lu Yu previously only knew that after Gu Wan could rember things, her family's situation gradually improved. It seed that she hadn't suffered since she could rember. What Gu Wan didn't say was that after her parents started making money, they hardly ever returned ho.
It started with Gu Wan's father, then her mother. One opened a factory, had an affair, and had children outside. The other opened a beauty shop, which gradually beca successful, turned into a beauty salon, and finally a beauty hospital. Then Gu Wan's mother, like her father, began traveling around the world, indulging in pleasure and extravagance. Like all suddenly wealthy people, after getting money, they were fascinated by the outside world, seemingly forgetting the child they had given birth to during their impoverished period.
How could the daughter left at ho compare to the excitent of the outside world? So little Gu Wan repeated the cycle of hoping her parents would accompany her, her parents casually agreeing to appease her, little Gu Wan unhesitatingly choosing to believe them, and then being told at the last minute that sothing suddenly ca up and they couldn't co.
The two adults seed to have never taken their promises to her seriously.
Just like... him.
Gu Wan had always been deceived by her father, deceived by her mother, and finally deceived by him.
Reaching this point, Lu Yu's breath stopped for a mont. Suddenly, he rembered when he had asked her if she particularly disliked people who didn't keep their promises. How did she answer then?
She said she cared about it for a while, but after that special period passed, she didn't care anymore.
It was so casual, as if she wouldn't feel sad about it anymore.
Now Lu Yu understood it wasn't that she wasn't sad, but that she had gotten used to it.
Gu Wan had long been accustod to being let down, and what made Lu Yu's emotions surge the most was that among those who had let her down, he was one of them.
Lu Yu's grip on the docunts suddenly tightened.
These things were all said by the first nanny Gu Wan's parents hired for her. However, ironically, this nanny who had once promised to always be with Gu Wan also left her when Gu Wan was twelve years old, quitting her job because of her own child.
Then ca the second, third, fourth... No matter how nicely these people spoke at first, in the end, not one of them truly stayed for her.
In the eyes of adults, this might seem very normal. No matter how good and obedient Gu Wan was, she couldn't compare to their own children and families. But for a child, it was too cruel.
From a very young age, Gu Wan had beco accustod to gaining and losing. Gradually, she learned not to see herself as so important. To anyone, she wasn't that important.
Later, Gu Wan stopped getting close to others, because only in this way would she not be so hurt when others left again.
The fiery red hair in middle school seed to be Gu Wan's last effort. Like most people, her sudden rebellion was just an attempt to get her parents' attention.
However, children who are loved by their parents don't need to use such thods, and children who aren't loved by their parents wouldn't be cared about even if they played themselves to death.
After that ti, Gu Wan thoroughly understood the fact that her parents didn't love her.
At that ti, she was only fourteen years old.
After that ca Gu Wan's high school and university years, and then one day she suddenly received news of her parents' death in a car accident.
Lu Yu only knew that Gu Wan inherited a large sum of money after her parents' death. Now he learned that before inheriting the estate, she first had to deal with several illegitimate children and their mothers, and face threats from her father's brothers who wanted her life.
Although her mother hadn't had any more children, she left behind no small number of problems. The partners of the beauty hospital took advantage of the situation, and her mother's parents and brothers eyed her like greedy wolves. With her mother's parents still alive, even the law wouldn't be on her side. Lu Yu couldn't imagine how the then 20-year-old Gu Wan had endured this period, kept the beauty hospital running, and successfully obtained such a large inheritance.
At that ti, Gu Wan hadn't even t him yet, and she only had Xia Qianqian, a naive girl who was of no help at all, by her side. But it didn't matter, she still managed to do it all by herself in the end.
Such a person, who had faced mostly malice and neglect from childhood to adulthood, even the blood ties that should have been thicker than water ultimately beca knives stabbing at her. She had seen the treachery of human nature and the dangers of the world. Logically, after experiencing all this, Gu Wan shouldn't have trusted anyone anymore. But three years ago, Gu Wan gave him a full 80 million. Apart from the real estate that couldn't be liquidated imdiately, she had given out almost all of her fortune.
It wasn't that she didn't know the ugliness of human nature and how easily people change. She was just willing to offer her sincerity one more ti, to fight to the death, in exchange for his love and true heart.
Indeed, the warmth that remains after weathering a thousand storms is the most touching.
Only this last ti, it still ended in complete failure.
At this point, Gu Wan was thoroughly burnt out, leaving only a handful of ashes.
...
No, it won't be like this!
This thought flashed through his mind as Lu Yu gritted his teeth. Then, under puzzled and surprised gazes, Lu Yu drove away from here at a speed he had never reached before.
On the other side.
Gu Wan had just arrived at the floor where the orthopedics departnt was located. While sitting in the corridor waiting for the doctor, she was feeling bored when she suddenly heard a ssage notification sound.
Slowly taking out her phone to look, at first Gu Wan thought it was from Lu Yu.
Recently, for so unknown reason, the housekeeper ntioned that this person used to be incredibly busy, often not returning ho for ten to fifteen days at a ti. However, Gu Wan couldn't help but think that ever since she was discharged from the hospital, she had been seeing him almost every day. How could this person appear to be so attached to ho now?
Besides coming ho daily, Lu Yu's ssages were also exceptionally frequent, to the point where Gu Wan eventually beca too lazy to respond.
When Gu Wan finally unlocked her screen, she discovered that the ssage was from soone saved as "Zhong Yi" in her contacts.
[After much consideration, I've decided to tell you about this.]
Then Gu Wan learned that more than half a month ago, soone had been asking this woman nad Zhong Yi for information about her.
Gu Wan pondered for a while but couldn't figure out who she might have offended recently.
While Gu Wan was deep in thought, she heard that the orthopedic doctor had finally finished his work and was calling her in.
After expressing her gratitude, Gu Wan quickly put the person nad Zhong Yi out of her mind.
The injury on Gu Wan's arm wasn't severe to begin with, and after more than a month, nearly two months of recovery, it had already healed. After the cast was removed, Gu Wan moved her arm around and felt no abnormalities. She smiled, thanked the doctor, and left.
[Where are you now?]
Gu Wan was about to look down at her phone when the driver happened to pass by A City's largest amusent park. Almost instinctively, Gu Wan blurted out, "Stop!"
The driver promptly hit the brakes.
Looking up at the colorful amusent rides not far away, Gu Wan was speechless for a while. Just as the driver was beginning to feel confused, he suddenly heard her speak again: "You can drop off here."
When the driver realized that the madam wanted to go to the amusent park, he was montarily surprised. Then he hesitated, "But... your arm has just..."
Ignoring the driver's advice, Gu Wan decisively got out of the car.
Since it was a weekday, the amusent park wasn't as crowded as usual, and Gu Wan easily got to enjoy many of the popular attractions.
From the pirate ship to the roller coaster, the more Gu Wan played, the more unsatisfied she felt, increasingly sensing that this still wasn't enough.
Not enough for what...
As she was deep in thought, a flyer was unexpectedly thrust into her hand.
Gu Wan was startled, first saying thank you, and then, after the person left, she was about to throw the flyer away when she glanced down and saw the words "bungee jumping" written on it.
It turned out that the amusent park had just opened a bungee jumping attraction this month and had been promoting it recently.
Gu Wan's motion to discard the flyer halted, and that familiar, intoxicating feeling suddenly returned. When she ca to her senses, she was already standing more than a hundred ters high in the air.
Bungee jumping is typically an activity enjoyed by groups of people, as it's more exciting with a crowd. Soone like Gu Wan, coming alone, was quite rare.
Usually, people who co alone are trying to vent about sothing that happened to them.
While securing the ropes around Gu Wan, the staff mber couldn't help but advise, "Um... miss, do you want to reconsider?"
Normally, the staff would be itching to push hesitant custors off the platform, but now... Perhaps because Gu Wan's deanor was too calm, the staff mber felt uncomfortable.
"Miss, if you're really going through sothing, jumping once like this won't really help..."
Gu Wan looked at him, sowhat amused.
Seeing her eyes curve slightly, it didn't take long for the young man tying her ropes to start blushing.
"Thank you for your concern, but I still want to try and see what it feels like to jump from such a height."
Gu Wan's voice was soft, but the young man inexplicably sensed a feeling of anticipation, longing, and even urgency. Before he could think further, Gu Wan had already stepped onto the jumping platform.
Seeing this, the young man's heart inexplicably tightened.
For so reason, he suddenly wanted to persuade her again, but he couldn't find a reason. As the young man was racking his brains, he saw Gu Wan spread her arms and slowly close her eyes.
Then the young man seed to notice sothing, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Wait, your phone, soone is calling—"
Before he could finish his sentence, he saw the unbelievably beautiful woman unhesitatingly fall forward.
After leaving the company, Lu Yu had sent Gu Wan a ssage.
After waiting for a while and seeing no reply from Gu Wan, Lu Yu called the housekeeper. Hearing that Gu Wan had gone to the hospital to remove her cast today, Lu Yu paused, not bothering to wonder why Gu Wan hadn't called him about this. He promptly contacted the driver, asking where the two of them were now.
Only then did Lu Yu learn that Gu Wan had suddenly decided to go to the amusent park on her way ho.
By the ti Lu Yu arrived at the amusent park, it was already five in the afternoon. Fortunately, Gu Wan's appearance was exceptionally striking, so with a bit of asking around, Lu Yu could roughly figure out where Gu Wan had been.
From the initial pirate ship to the roller coaster later on, these all seed like normal behaviors in others' eyes, but Lu Yu's expression grew increasingly grim and somber.
No matter how focused Lu Yu had been on work before, he knew that Gu Wan wasn't particularly fond of these thrilling attractions.
For so reason, he suddenly recalled the scene from their ti on the grasslands, where Gu Wan, with her less-than-stellar riding skills, had recklessly galloped forward on horseback.
And the young man's parting words, "She has lost her rope again, who knows what she will choose this ti..."
Lu Yu pressed his lips together, standing by a lake in the amusent park, and began calling Gu Wan repeatedly.
Just as he was dialing that number for the eleventh ti, before the busy signal could even sound, he heard the exclamations of nearby tourists.
"Look, look! Soone's bungee jumping!!"
Lu Yu instinctively looked up and saw that familiar figure on the high platform.
In the next second, as the man's pupils suddenly constricted, the figure leaped down.
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