The Bumpy Road of Marriage: Divorce Now, Daddy
chapter-580

Gu Juexi’s menacing expression immediately disappeared after Xixi spoke. Daughters were the best, but women were just disasters.

Gu Juexi scoffed at Ye Yuwei as he walked past her with Xixi in his arms. Ye Yuwei curled her lip and followed while holding her son’s hand.

Gu Juexi asked for Master Yao Lao’s address himself eventually, and Ye Yuwei mused that the way he asked was quite polite. More polite than the way he talked to her, at least.

Master Yao Lao stayed at the other end of the village, and a garden full of herbs was the first thing that came into their view when they reached his house.

Gu Juexi knocked the door after he and Ye Yuwei exchanged looks. It was a while before someone finally came to the door.

The wooden door cracked open, and behind the door was an old lady who shuffled out and squinted at them. “Did you come to get treated? It’s too late now, please come again tomorrow.”

“Auntie,” Ye Yuwei called out quickly.

Gu Juexi was surprised by how Ye Yuwei spoke to the old lady, but Ye Yuwei wasn’t looking at him. She pushed open the door that Gu Juexi was holding, and said hastily, “We won’t take long, auntie. We have seen so many doctors, but can we please have Master Yao Lao look at my daughter?”

As if worrying that the old lady might shut the door anytime, Ye Yuwei spoke fast.

The old lady looked at Xixi who was curled up in Gu Juexi’s arms and shook her head. “Leave now.”

“Leave?” Ye Yuwei’s mind went blank for a moment and her chest filled with unease. Leave, she said.

[The ones who left untreated were all beyond cure.]

The old lady’s words crushed Ye Yuwei’s hopes and made her lose her calm. “No, auntie. I am begging you, please! Please let Master Yao Lao have a look at my daughter.”

Gu Juexi was much calmer than Ye Yuwei was this time. He held Ye Yuwei’s arm so that she wouldn’t trip over her own feet in her agitated state.

“You could tell what was wrong with my daughter with just one look. I am sure you will be able to save my daughter, Master Yao Lao,” Gu Juexi said, trying to stay calm while Ye Yuwei turned to Gu Juexi in surprise.

What did he say? The old lady in front of her was Master Yao Lao? ¹

“You are smart, young man, but it’s too bad I can’t do anything about it. It is a miracle that she is still alive,” said Master Yao Lao with one hand on the doorframe as she looked at Ye Yuwei’s pale face. “The parents are to blame for the fetal distress and premature birth.”

Fetal distress?

Ye Yuwei could hardly hold herself together and nearly collapsed even though Gu Juexi was holding her arm. She dropped to her knees before Master Yao Lao and began to beg, “Please, Master Yao Lao. I will do anything for you to save my daughter, please save her. I have brought her to so many places and so many doctors and you are our last hope, please.”

Gu Juexi looked at Ye Yuwei kneeling on the floor, and felt pain in his chest like he had been stabbed with a knife.

All these years, she had raised two kids on her own, she worked to make a living, and she went all over the world to look for doctors. Did she have to kneel like this every time she saw hope?

And he wasn’t even there with her all these years.

Gu Juexi began to understand why Ye Xicheng hated him. He wasn’t there for her during Ye Yuwei’s hardest years, and he wasn’t there for her during her most desperate times.