Weren't You Supposed to Torture Your Wife? Why Are You Panicking Now That She's Gone?

Zhou Yushu is a renowned figure in the capital, ruthless and decisive, and famously uninterested in women.

Rumor has it he's impotent, and few know he's married.

One day, he appears at a banquet with a delicate woman by his side, implicitly declaring who she is.

Gu Zhiyuan, his wife, witnesses the scene.

They've been married for a year, and at long last, they're expecting a child together. She thinks things are finally looking up.

Zhou Yushu says coldly, “You don't deserve to give birth to my child.”

Then he turns and shows concern for the other woman.

Gu Zhiyuan asks for a divorce, but he refuses. To protect her child, she can only fake her death and disappear.

Three years later, Zhou Yushu sees Gu Zhiyuan again. A miniature version of him stands at her side.

His breathing turns ragged. In his haste to bring her home and make amends for his past mistakes, he tries to whisk her away.

“Mr. Zhou, we're strangers.”

“Strangers? We already have a child. There's a three-child policy now, so we should keep up.”

“...”

Gu Zhiyuan doesn't get out of bed for a whole week. She can barely tell day from night.

Gu Zhiyuan doesn't know that after she faked her death, Zhou Yushu prayed and abstained from meat for her sake.

All he asked was for her to find peace and happiness in her next life.