The CEO's wife is reborn and vows to pay for her crimes in blood.

Chapter 24 So this is where she lives.

She had finally moved out of the Chu family home, and she couldn't go back. She also couldn't let Gu Ye know about this!

At Chu Xinglan's insistence, Gu Ye had no choice but to let Xue Bai put Chu Xinglan down.

"Are you sure you want to get off here?" Gu Ye looked around. This was a highway, and it was nighttime. It was too dangerous for a girl like her to stay here alone.

Chu Xinglan looked around, feeling a little apprehensive, but still nodded vigorously.

"You guys go back." Chu Xinglan waved to Gu Ye.

"Are you hiding something from me?" Gu Ye's eyes seemed to see right through her.

"Why would I hide anything from you? Besides, what kind of relationship do we have?" Chu Xinglan muttered the last part.

"Get in the car, I'll take you home." Seeing her guilty look, Gu Ye pulled her back into the car.

Chu Xinglan panicked and pushed Gu Ye away forcefully.

"I can go back by myself, you guys should leave quickly."

Gu Ye knew that arguing with her like this would be pointless, and since she was so stubborn, he had no choice but to get into the car himself.

"Drive." Gu Ye's tone was sharp and confrontational.

Although Xue Bai was worried about Chu Xinglan, he had no choice but to start the car.

These two are not even officially a couple yet, but they've already started arguing like couples. He's definitely going to have to endure this dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection).

"I told you to drive, and you actually did?" Gu Ye kicked Xue Bai's back seat.

"Huh? No?" Xue Bai turned around in a daze, but when he saw Gu Ye's cold and terrifying gaze, he had no choice but to shut up.

Is this a case of taking out one's anger on an innocent person because one can't bear to vent it on the person they love?

Xue Bai immediately turned off the engine.

Having followed Gu Ye for so many years, she had a certain understanding of his personality.

Xue Bai consciously parked the car in a place where Chu Xinglan couldn't see her, but they could easily see her movements.

"Mommy, it's so quiet here, aren't you scared?"

The little baby leaned on Chu Xinglan's shoulder and asked nervously.

Chu Xinglan looked at the somewhat nervous little baby in front of her; it seemed the baby was scared.

"Baby, don't be afraid, Mommy isn't scared!" Chu Xinglan rallied herself, determined not to let the little one see her fear.

"Baby isn't scared, baby wants to protect Mommy." The little baby looked fearless, his fists clenched tightly as he spoke fiercely.

Chu Xinglan didn't see anything fierce, but only an adorable little dumpling.

"Yes, yes, my baby is very fierce!" Chu Xinglan smiled and patted the little baby's head.

Chu Xinglan's action seemed somewhat abnormal to Xue Bai and Gu Ye.

"Who is Miss Chu talking to?" Xue Bai looked at Gu Ye and asked with a strange expression, "Is she out of her mind?"

Who in their right mind would leave themselves alone on the street in the middle of the night?

Gu Ye gave him a cold look.

"Boss, don't be angry. I was just joking to ease the tension," Xue Bai chuckled.

"Are you nervous?" Gu Ye asked coldly.

"Two grown men following a little girl, if people saw us, they would definitely misunderstand." Xue Bai smiled awkwardly.

"I'm only worried because there's no one else around. If you feel bad, you can wait for me in the car," Gu Ye said coldly.

"I guess I'll just stick with my boss and be his protector." Xue Bai smiled, but inwardly he was lamenting: It's outrageous! The boss is chasing after a woman, and the subordinates have to suffer along with him.

After waiting for a long time, Chu Xinglan finally managed to call a car.

The driver was somewhat surprised to see Chu Xinglan standing alone by the roadside.

"Miss, why are you calling a taxi here all by yourself?"

Judging from the driver's appearance, he didn't seem like a bad person. Chu Xinglan smiled and replied, "I had a fight with my boyfriend and was abandoned halfway through the journey."

"Young people these days are outrageous. They abandon their girlfriends just because of an argument. What if they run into bad guys?" The driver got angry when he heard Chu Xinglan say that.

Upon hearing Chu Xinglan's words, Xue Bai couldn't help but glance at Gu Ye again, only to find that the boss was quite happy to take the blame.

“That’s right, so I’m planning to dump him.” Chu Xinglan said with an air of seriousness.

"Good for you to dump him. You can't have a boyfriend like that. A beautiful girl like you will definitely find a better man to love and protect you." The driver strongly agreed with her decision to dump her current boyfriend.

"Okay!" Chu Xinglan nodded vigorously and got into the car.

"Where are you going, Miss?"

Chu Xinglan gave him her address.

"Boss, can we go back now?"

Gu Ye and Xue Bai quickly got into the car, and Xue Bai, after fastening his seatbelt, turned around to ask Gu Ye for his opinion.

"Keep up!" Gu Ye simply said these two words.

I'm still not entirely at ease. Fine, what can I do? He's the boss, after all.

Xue Bai started the car and followed closely behind the taxi Chu Xinglan was in.

"Boss, this direction doesn't seem to lead to the Chu family."

Xue Bai followed Chu Xinglan for a while and noticed something was amiss.

Gu Ye had already guessed it, otherwise she wouldn't have been so secretive. If she was worried about her parents seeing him taking her home, she could have simply gotten off the bus early. But her reaction was so agitated after hearing that he was going to take her home, and she even insisted on getting off halfway. There must be a reason.

"She doesn't live at the Chu family home?" Xue Bai was a little puzzled. If Miss Chu didn't go back to the Chu family home but went to other places, it meant either she was secretly living with someone outside, or she had a falling out with her family and ran away from home. He wondered which one she was.

When Chu Xinglan returned to her apartment complex, it was already dawn. Fortunately, she didn't need to go to work that day, so she could go home and get a good night's sleep.

At this time, the elderly men and women in the community had already gotten up early. When Chu Xinglan passed by, several old men were sitting under the roots of a tree, playing chess and fighting fiercely. There were also some old women practicing Tai Chi.

One of the elderly women with curly hair saw Chu Xinglan walking in from outside and called out to her.

"Little girl, why are you only coming home now?"

A somewhat tired Chu Xinglan simply smiled and remained silent.

She really wanted to lie down on the bed and fall into a deep sleep. Even the little baby on her shoulder couldn't resist and had already fallen soundly asleep.

The old lady became somewhat displeased when she saw Chu Xinglan smiling without saying a word.

"I really don't understand young people these days. They're like night owls at night, but they sleep during the day. Their biological clocks are completely reversed."

"I heard she's a new girl who just moved here. She's a pretty young woman living in the senior citizens' area. I wonder if she's some rich guy's mistress?"

Another old lady quietly came over and spoke.

"Who cares whose mistress she is? Having a pretty young girl here adds a beautiful sight to our lives, isn't that nice?" The old man chuckled as he played chess, his hand still busy placing a piece. "Checkmate!"

And so the neighborhood gossip started again, with everyone chiming in and the stories getting more and more outrageous.

Gu Ye and Xue Bai, who had followed them, overheard everything.

"Miss Chu actually lives in a place like this?" Xue Bai said incredulously.