Chapter 110: Extra and normal updates

Mama Tang and Li Songyun were busy in the kitchen, and Xie Ruhang was keen to impress Mama Tang by coming over to help out.

"No, Little Xie you are a guest, just sit in the living room, the kitchen is our omega's business ......" Mama Tang tries to push Xie Ruhang, who is holding an apron, out of the room.

At this moment, a white gloved hand snatched the pink apron cleanly.

Mama Tang: "?"

Xie Ruhang: "?"

Jiao Jian put on her apron, "Let me help."

Li Songyun rolled up his sleeves and said, slightly surprised, "You've learnt to cook?"

He remembers that Jiao Jian was a quick learner in everything but cooking, and even though he taught him how to cook, Jiao Jian was still a terrible cook.

"A bachelor definitely needs to learn more." Jiao Jian said, taking off his gloves and standing at the sink to wash his hands carefully.

In the old days, Li Songyun would not have hesitated to call on Jiao Jian, only now they haven't seen each other for years and Jiao Jian is still helping out in the Tang Family kitchen ......

"Jane, you and Little Xie should go out." Li Songyun's tone was gentle, "You're guests, there's no reason to keep them busy."

The water was still washing over the calloused hands, "I want to do something for my brother now that he has taken care of me so much."

Jiao Jian hung his head down, his tall back showing a bit of despondency for no reason. "Cooking is not my strong point, but I can definitely contribute to your move, brother."

"Brother, can I come and help you when you move?"

Li Songyun somehow felt like a bit of a bully if he didn't say yes, "If it's not too much trouble for you, of course it is."

Jiao Jian's lips curled slightly as he turned around, his smile had the bearing of a mature man with a hint of irreverence mixed in, "I promise to finish the move!"

Mama Tang looked thoughtfully at the interaction between Jiao Jian and Li Songyun, and when he and Li Songyun were left alone in the kitchen, Mama Tang whispered, "Did you and this Ensign Jiao know each other in the past?"

"My family has sponsored his schooling before, and I've taken care of him as a brother for two or three years before." Li Songyun asks, "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Do you know who the NPC he plays in the game is?" Mama Tang lowered her voice: " Lu En, an NPC who has been unrequitedly in love with an omega for years."

"I've heard that the experiences of game NPCs are basically adapted from reality."

"Do you think it's you, the omega he's had a crush on for so many years?"

Li Songyun laughed a little, "What are you thinking? I'm seven years older than him."

"What's wrong with being seven years older, o big three, hug a gold brick, you can hug two and a half gold bricks!" Mama Tang wanted to poke fun at Li Songyun some more, but seeing the way Li Songyun was making the cake with all seriousness, it seemed like she really didn't care.

*

The group ate at the round table and Li Songyun made some delicious desserts, which Tang Bai happily ate.

" Songyun, didn't you say you were considering becoming a teacher? I contacted the Director of the School of Etiquette, Huang, for you and he said he would welcome you to be a teacher of etiquette at the school." Mama Tang said.

Li Songyun shook her head at this, "I don't want to be a teacher at the Etiquette Academy, I was involved in the construction of that Hope Primary School in the slums some time ago, that school has been built and I want to be a teacher there."

"It's a slum, would it be unsafe for you to go there every day as an omega?" Mama Tang said with concern.

"I can take care of the transportation." Jiao Jian suddenly spoke up.

The eyes of the crowd fell on Jiao Jian and everyone looked different, especially Mama Tang, whose gossip spirit was burning.

Li Songyun politely declined, "No, it's too much trouble."

"No trouble. The security in the slums needs to be fixed by the military, the First Star Regiment will send someone to maintain order in the slums after a while, and I was about to make a report to the organisation to request a posting transfer." Jiao Jian said without blinking an eye.

Grandpa Tang takes a sip of his hot tea without moving.

The idea of sending someone from the Ministry to the slums to maintain order was something he had just mentioned to the Ministry after hearing some of Xie Ruhang's suggestions, and Jiao Jian, who was there at the time, did not show any inclination to be transferred to the slums.

"Even so, it's not convenient for you to pick me up and drop me off every day." Li Songyun shook his head trying to refuse again.

"Brother, don't you want to buy a new house?" Jiao Jian said, "I've been stationed at the border before and haven't bought a house here, why don't I buy a house in the same neighbourhood as you, so that it's convenient to look after each other, I haven't had your cooking for a long time, brother."

Li Songyun hesitated, "This ......" In any case, Jiao Jian is an alpha, and if he is picked up and dropped off by Jiao Jian every day after his divorce, the whispers of the outside world will not be good for either of them.

"If Mr Li wants to teach at Hope Primary School, the school will arrange a school bus to pick him up." Bai Zhi relieved Li Songyun.

"That's wonderful." Li Songyun smiled.

Jiao Jian: "......" Can't stop laughing.

"I was going to recommend you to live-stream, like I do when I start a live-streaming studio, you're such a good cook, and you're particularly good at body management and etiquette, there's a lot you could live-stream." Tang Bai took another bite of cake, like a contented hamster. He had only said it casually, but to his surprise Li Songyun suddenly fell into a deep thought.

"Live at ......" Li Songyun would never have considered a career like anchoring. The idea that omega is not suitable for this kind of head-turning work has been a constant throughout the first half of his life.

But this perception changed when he saw Tang Bai's live streams, which he enjoyed and from which he drew strength and warmth at his most troubled and wavering moments.

So can he pass on such positive energy in this way too?

Tang Bai slows down his chewing as he looks round at Li Songyun, and they look at each other, each reading the other's meaning.

"If you want to broadcast live, I'm good at it!" Tang Bai slapped her chest proudly, "I'll lead you to fly!"

*

"Uncle Li, you have 10,000 followers on your Starnet account." Tang Bai looked at Li Songyun's Starnet account and found that Li Songyun had previously posted a video of a glandular makeup relay, and the vast majority of the account's followers were following Li Songyun because of his identity as Mrs. Gu.

Fans have also written to Li Songyun asking what criteria he has for his daughter-in-law and how to get married into the Gu Family.

"People are quite interested in things like marrying a rich family, so if you come up with a headline like Marrying a Rich Family Tips, you can definitely fool a wave of people into coming in." Tang Bai selflessly passes on his experience of being a headline party.

Li Songyun says with some hesitation, "After my divorce from Gu Mian, I have nothing to do with the Gu Family anymore, and it's not a good idea to use the Gu Family as a gimmick."

"Uncle Leigh ...... Don't you think you're losing out like this? You were planning to net out for custody and now you'd rather let go of the huge traffic for the sake of the Gu Family's reputation." Tang Bai's heart aches for Li Songyun when he thinks about it. He doesn't know Gu Mian, but he must be about as naive as Gu Tunan before him.

After twenty-six years with such a simpleton, having four children, he finally chose to net himself out for custody.

Doesn't that sound atmospheric?

But that's just what it sounds like, it's not actually half as good as it sounds.

If Li Songyun were to go live, he would face all sorts of gossip, and there would certainly be people saying that Li Songyun was an abandoned husband or something like that, putting the blame on Li Songyun for the divorce.

The only good thing about these rumours is the attention they bring, and if it was Tang Bai's word, he'd be calling himself a ninny if he didn't milk the ninny for all it's worth.

But he is him, and Li Songyun is Li Songyun, and they are different after all.

Life has turned Li Songyun into a clay Bodhisattva with a heart of compassion even when he is in trouble.

"Dingdong~" the message alert of the light brain rang, Tang Bai looked at it, it was a video communication from Gu Peifeng.

Gu Peifeng first called out to Brother Tang Bai, then cautiously asked, "Little Dad, are you coming home today?"

Li Songyun said softly, "Did you eat your dinner when your little father didn't come home today? Did you finish your homework carefully?"

"I ate but father didn't, Auntie Wang said that father was waiting for Little Papa to come home for dinner." Gu Peifeng said blearily, "Little Papa, I'm very good now, I've done all my homework, can you come home early, Little Papa, and we'll have dinner together."

The smile on Li Songyun's face faded when he heard Gu Mian and went home, " Little Feng is a good boy, I am divorcing your father, from now on he and I will not be a family, so naturally we will not sit together for dinner."

Gu Peifeng didn't know how he was going to cry, but when he heard his little dad say that, his tears came out in a flash and he blurted out, "Don't get a divorce! Little Dad, don't get a divorce, okay?"

Li Songyun knew that someone other than Li's mother must have told Gu Peifeng something else, otherwise the boy would not have been so frightened.

" Little Feng, I won't not want you, after the divorce, Gu Mian and I are not a family, but you are still Gu Mian's child ......" Li Songyun was patient and comforting, yet Gu Peifeng on the light screen cried until he hiccupped and sobbed, "I don't want to spend time with just Little Dad."

Li Songyun froze for a moment, " Little Feng, you don't want to live with me?"

"I want to live with you, if you want to get a divorce, Little Papa, then I will live with my father." Gu Peifeng said this and regretted it when he saw the look in his little father's eyes, he didn't know what to do, he could only continue to cry, "Little father, you don't want a divorce ......"

Tang Bai held her breath as she watched Li Songyun's pale, calm face at the moment, the bawling on the other side of the communication was noisy and capricious, but Li Songyun's eyes looked like they were crying silently.

" Gu Peifeng, you are in primary school now, aren't you?" Tang Bai said to the crying child on the other side of the light screen, "You are not a child who doesn't understand anything anymore, so my brother wants to say a few words to you, and I think you should understand."

Gu Peifeng looks at Tang Bai with tears in his eyes.

"My brother knows you are afraid of losing this beautiful family you have now, but you have to be clear that when there is no more affection between your little father and your father, then the family will just be an empty shell."

"You want to pursue a successful home, your little dad wants a better life too, he cries too, he's not indestructible, your words can easily hurt him because he loves you and your words turn that love he has for you in his heart into a knife edge."

"Would you really like to see your little dad at home in tears and depression every day for you?"

Gu Peifeng shook his head desperately as he wept and wept, "No."

"Your little father and father divorce even if they divorce, they will still love you and you don't have to be afraid that you will be abandoned because they will continue to be there for you as you grow up." Tang Bai whispered, "Is there a tissue? Wipe your own tears and nose, will you?"

Gu Peifeng obediently wipes his own tears and blows his nose.

Tang Bai continued, "Now say to your little dad, little dad, I love you."

Gu Peifeng said with a heavy nasal voice, "Little Dad, I love you."

Li Songyun looked at Gu Peifeng and a thousand thoughts came to his mind at that moment, when he had never considered that Gu Peifeng would refuse to live with him.

Because he brought up this child in a widowed marriage, he had given birth to the child and was concerned about the child's food, clothing, housing, education and health.

But when you think about it, it was actually his own decision to make it for this child.

If this child decides to live with Gu Mian, he is okay with that.

"I love you too." Li Songyun whispered, "Go and get some sleep, you have classes tomorrow."

After the video communication, Li Songyun said to Tang Bai: "Tang Tang, thank you."

Tang Bai reached out and hugged Li Songyun so hard that after a long time his shoulders were wet with tears.

*

Li Songyun was staying at Tang Family tonight and after he finished washing up, a series of message beeps came through, it was a message from Li's mother: " Songyun, it's late now, you shouldn't stay at mum's place anymore tonight, go back to Gu Family early, Gu Mian is still waiting for you to cook for him. "

"Little Feng cries all the time for his little dad, divorce can be very traumatic for a child, Little Feng is only six years old, you can't ruin his life."

"What is it that you can't put up with? You and Gu Mian just had a little friction and you are throwing such a tantrum, if other alpha would have left you long ago, Gu Mian is so good, I went to ask him, Gu Mian said as long as you come back, he can pretend that none of this has happened ......"

Li Songyun ignored all the previous messages from Li's mother and when he saw the latest one, he suspected that he had been blinded.

Gu Mian is going to pretend that none of this ever happened?

Li Songyun asked Li's mother, "Did he say this himself?"

Seeing that Li Songyun had finally answered her, Li's mother rushed to type a series of words: "It's true! Not only did Gu Mian say that, but Grandpa Gu also said the same thing! Songyun, the Gu Family has already given us a step down, so you should hurry up and go down, if you don't keep it up, you won't even get a step down. ......"

Li Songyun didn't read the message from Li's mother, he clicked on the chat with Gu Mian, the last time they chatted was two days ago.

At that time he was standing in the examination room and asked Gu Mian nervously if Xiao Nan would be all right.

Gu Mian replied to him, "You've asked this question three times already.

Li Songyun lowered her eyes and sent a message asking, "Have you signed the divorce papers?"

After a while, Gu Mian replied, "I didn't agree to our divorce."

Li Songyun did not know why Gu Mian did not agree, probably because the divorce was initiated by him and it offended Gu Mian's alpha dignity, but he was tired and he did not have much energy left to defend Gu Mian's dignity.

It had taken all his strength to defend what was left of his decency now.

Li Songyun: " Gu Mian, I am not asking for your permission, I am informing you that I am divorcing you."

Li Songyun: "I don't want to make a scene with you. If you don't agree to the divorce, I will go to court and I may be able to get custody of Little Feng without having to net the family."

After another long time, Gu Mian replied to him, "I don't agree that we should divorce."

It seems like a program with only fixed answers set up.

*

Day 2.

Li Songyun prepares the documents for the lawsuit and writes the statement of claim, and he goes to the court with his identity documents to file the lawsuit.

Gu Mian had not cheated on his wife and had no vices such as domestic violence, alcoholism or gambling, and the court would only first mediate in such cases, and only prove that their relationship was broken when they had been separated for a year and had failed to fulfil their spousal obligations to each other.

After a busy morning, Li Songyun spent lunch looking at properties with Mama Tang, who had carefully selected a two-bedroom apartment that was to Li Songyun's liking and he immediately signed a rental agreement with the landlord.

" Songyun, don't you have much money on you? I can lend you some." Mama Tang had chosen a large flat for Li Songyun, but Li Songyun turned it down as too expensive.

The 10 million star for that large flat is a lot of money for the average person, but for Gu Family it's a drop in the bucket.

Li Songyun is only able to rent a 120 sq ft two-bedroom apartment after leaving the Gu Family?

Meeting the worried eyes of her best sister, who was desperate for money, Li Songyun said reluctantly, "You know, I have some savings on me, but I can't guarantee that I'll be able to make money right away, so I have to save as much as I can on unnecessary expenses."

He looked around at his bright new home, "And it's a nice home too, it doesn't need to be big or luxurious, it's enough for me to live in. I really like it here."

In the afternoon, Li Songyun contacted the movers and Jiao Jian and left for the Gu Family.

Knowing what Li Songyun had done all morning, even the military-minded Jiao Jian was impressed by Li Songyun's thunderous behaviour.

Li Songyun, however, felt that he could have been a little faster.

Faster, faster, as fast as you can to erase all traces of his legacy at Gu Family.

Gu Family At the military compound, the soldiers standing guard were a little surprised to see Li Songyun with a moving company, but they did not ask questions and chose to let them go.

The hover car drove through the place where Li Songyun has lived for twenty-six years, where he knows every building, where he gave birth in this military hospital, where he picked up and dropped off three children at that military primary school ......

The military compound is so well set up with its infrastructure that once he thought he would stay here for the rest of his life, like a canary in a flashy cage.

But he is not a canary.

The hover car finally stops in front of a four-storey villa. At this time of the day, the Gu Family is empty, Gu Mian and Admiral Gu are both in the military, the four children are either at work or at school, and even Wang's wife has gone out to buy food.

Li Songyun opened the door to the room and showed the workers the list of things that should be moved.

Many of the items in the Gu Family were purchased by him and some of them are only used by him. They will only be left unused in the Gu Family and may even be an eyesore for Gu Mian, so it would be better for him to remove them all.

After explaining the general procedure to the workers, Li Songyun entered the bedroom, where his clothes in the wardrobe definitely had to be removed, and together with the clothes and accessories in the cloakroom, there was enough to fill a hover car.

Li Songyun is not a strong shopper**, but being the wife of a Gu Family requires him to be present at various social occasions and he cannot afford to dress too plainly, let alone wear the same outfit many times, so he has bought a lot of clothes over the years.

Li Songyun was only going to take some of the clothes with him, but he was going to sell some of the other clothes, and he didn't take any accessories that were too expensive, so he was going to leave them with the Gu Family.

"Did Gu Mian buy all this for you?" As Jiao Jian looked at the gorgeous jewellery, he thought about his savings and worried about whether he could give Li Songyun the privileged life he had at the Gu Family.

"Sort of." Li Songyun said as he tidied up.

"Sort of?" Jiao Jian wondered.

"He pays, I pick my own." Li Songyun replied.

Of all the clothes and accessories, none of them were given to him by Gu Mian.

Gu Mian would never give him anything physical, only money, a cold string of numbers with little realism.

Perhaps in the eyes of the efficiency conscious Gu Mian, it takes time to select a gift and the ease and speed of giving money is more in line with Gu Mian's guidelines.

Li Songyun was halfway through his work when he suddenly came across his and Gu Mian's wedding photo, which had accumulated a light layer of dust.

Their wedding photo was not hung in the bedroom because Gu Mian felt it did not fit in with the bedroom's décor.

The photograph shows a young alpha with grey-blue eyes in military uniform, his profile deep, his features handsome, his eyes with a bit of arrogance that the world does not take into account, seeming to look idly out of the frame.

In the wedding photo, he is holding a pure white bouquet next to Gu Mian, his red eyes bright and warm, his smile radiant.

So he was laughing so hard when he married Gu Mian?

Li Songyun can't even remember how he felt at the time.

Is it anticipation, nervousness, or shy joy ......

Perhaps the twenty-six years of ice had been so cold that he had forgotten that he too had once held a sweet passion for Gu Mian.

Li Songyun removes the photo from the frame and he takes the scissors and cuts the wedding photo in half.

So when Gu Mian returned home, he saw a suddenly empty house and a wedding photo of him alone.