Contract Marriage: Billionaire and His Deaf Wife

Aunt Qiu hustled back, pushing open the Gu Family's gate, still panting from her rush. Between breaths, she said, "Last night, your husband suddenly called me and advised me not to hurry with selling the house."

Gu's mother hadn't recovered from her confusion. Considering Gu's father didn't say a word after dropping people off last night.

Aunt Qiu didn't care what Gu's mother was thinking and was the first to enter the Gu Family's door.

Gu's mother grabbed the hem of her clothes to stop her, "Who are you looking for?"

Seeing Aunt Qiu's aggressive demeanor as if she wanted to settle accounts with someone, Gu's mother became more vigilant.

Aunt Qiu wasn't there to settle scores. Seeing the questioning look on Gu's mother's face, she burst into laughter, "Sister-in-law, you've misunderstood."

"What have I misunderstood? You're clearly here because of that apartment of yours—" Despite seeming clueless about financial matters, she could see through people, hitting the nail on the head.

Aunt Qiu appeared to have no intention of hiding anything. Since everything was out in the open after last night's conversation, she confessed, "Your husband advised me not to rush the sale. He couldn't give a valid explanation, he just implied that I should be more cautious. So, I told the other party this morning I needed to consult with my family again. They asked if the price was too low and were willing to add a few more tens of thousands."

Add a few more tens of thousands? According to her daughter last night, just adding a few tens of thousands meant the house would still be sold too cheaply, at a loss. Thinking this, Gu's mother didn't say a word.

Seeing her silence, Aunt Qiu figured it out and asked, "Gu Nuan told you, right?"

"What?" Gu's mother let something slip before she could react.

"There's no need to lie to me. Your husband has told me everything. Because I kept asking him how he knew the other party would definitely raise their offer, he couldn't explain and said it was Gu Nuan who had said it."

Gu's mother curled her lip, then looked towards the door—no sign of her husband. Gu's father really knew how to act, thinking he had done a good deed, he left the mess for others and skedaddled.

"Aren't we all relatives?" Aunt Qiu began to complain to Gu's mother, "If we weren't relatives, I wouldn't have come to ask."

Great. Now we're relatives. What about before? When there was no benefit, you were afraid to lend you money, so of course, we weren't relatives then.

Only Gu's father still valued this kind of relative. Gu's mother was secretly angry with Gu's father, but since he had already spilled the beans, the whole affair couldn't be concealed any longer.

"Gu Nuan doesn't know anything. She was just talking nonsense. How would she know that she'd hit the mark," Gu's mother covered for her daughter.

"All right then!" Aunt Qiu glared at her and then, her face breaking into a smile, said, "I'll ask Gu Nuan to be my adviser. Once the house is sold, I'll give Gu Nuan a consultancy fee. That's generous of me, right? Normally, relatives wouldn't need to go to such lengths."

Between relatives, help is usually expected for free. The problem is, when you needed help in the past, didn't you avoid us? Afraid that we would ask you for money. Now you're generously offering money because there's profit to be had. Can that even be called being relatives? It's absurd that you can say such a thing.

The more Gu's mother thought about it, the angrier she became, just about to shake off Aunt Qiu's hand.

Just then, Gu Nuan, seeing that her mother had gone to open the door and not come in, walked to the entrance.

"Gu Nuan," Aunt Qiu called out to her with a tone and expression of warmth.

Gu Nuan replied indifferently, with a slight smile at the corner of her mouth, "Aunt Qiu, why are you here? Looking for my father?"

"Your father told me to find you."

Gu's mother turned to make a phone call, intending to give Gu's father an earful.

Fearing Gu Nuan wouldn't hear her, Aunt Qiu took out a notebook and pen she had prepared and began writing in it to show Gu Nuan.

"Aunt Qiu wants to sell the house?" Gu Nuan asked calmly upon reading what she wrote.