Chapter 1189: It Wasn’t Expulsion Back Then

Gu Ming’s heart skipped a beat: Yes, Hai Xue is so beautiful, even though she’s forty-five or forty-six, she looks no older than thirty.

Moreover, although she was adopted by the Hai Family parents since the age of five, she doesn’t resemble an ordinary country person at all; she has always carried an intellectual and elegant air of a lady from a prominent family.

How could a woman like her lack admirers? Just a mere gesture from her, and countless men would come flocking, wouldn’t they?

A surge of pain rose in Gu Ming’s heart: To have such a woman by his side was a blessing earned over eight lifetimes. But he lost her due to someone’s manipulation.

At work, he was an excellent commander, but when it came to feelings, he was naive. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been outwitted by Yang Meiyin, forced to divorce his beloved wife, and marry her.

In an instant, the self-assured Gu Ming, who thought he could marry Hai Xue after his divorce, felt filled with regret, resentment, frustration, and various negative emotions, causing him to momentarily feel abandoned.

However, Gu Ming, being a leader, quickly brushed aside those negative emotions and adjusted his stance.

He looked at Hai Xue seriously: "Xuexue, I’m here this time to take you and Minxing home."

"Home?" Gu Minxing looked at Gu Ming: "Which home? The one you built with Yang Meiyin isn’t ours."

Gu Ming turned to Gu Minxing: "Minxing, as I just said, I’ve divorced Yang Meiyin. All traces of her in that home have been cleared; it’s just me there now, without Yang Meiyin."

Gu Minxing sneered: "Haha, you abandoned my mom back then because of her overseas connections, divorcing her to marry Yang Meiyin, who had the backing of a brother;

Now that you found out my mom is the legitimate daughter of the Xiangjiang Family, you divorced Yang Meiyin and came back to ask my mom to return? What do you take my mom for, someone who comes and goes at your beck and call?"

"Minxing!" Hai Xue scolded Minxing, then turned to Gu Ming: "You should go back, I’ve gotten used to being on my own and don’t want to return to that home of yours."

Gu Ming panicked: "Xuexue, back then—"

"Don’t talk about the past, it’s over."

"No, I must talk about it; without the past, there wouldn’t be the present. So I have to say it." His eyes were fixed on Hai Xue: "Back then, you were accused of concealing overseas connections and were cleared out from the Cultural Troupe and retired."

Hai Xue’s eyes widened: "Wasn’t I expelled?"

Gu Ming’s brow furrowed into a semblance of the character "川": "It was clearly a retirement at the time, who told you it was expulsion?"

Hai Xue only felt a tingling spread across her scalp, then something inverted from the top of her head, a wave of tingling instantly penetrated her entire body, rendering her momentarily immobile: She wasn’t expelled back then, but retired?

She opened her mouth but couldn’t utter a sound: The person who told her she was expelled was her best friend, Gui Xiaofeng!

Why did she lie, saying it was due to overseas relations that she was expelled?

At that time, Hai Xue listened to her best friend’s notice of expulsion, and miserable, returned to the Gu Family, only to be forced out by Gu Family Elders to leave the Gu Family and Gu Ming so as not to affect Gu Ming’s future.

Heartbroken, she trusted Gui Xiaofeng’s arrangements and took the ticket bought by Gui Xiaofeng to return alone to Hai Village.