After the divorce, the CEO forced me to have his child.

Was Chapter 256 a mistake? Or...?

After a short rest at noon, Gu Zhiyao took her son out at about 3 o'clock and went to a nearby shopping mall.

There were also various amusement parks in the mall. Gu Zhiyao played with the little guy for a while, and then took him to browse around, preparing to buy him some other models.

Midway through, Chenchen went to the restroom.

Gu Zhiyao was waiting outside when a hurried call came from behind her, "Yuan'er!"

Her arm was grabbed.

Looking back, she saw an elderly woman in her eighties, dressed in elegant clothes, clearly from a wealthy family, but Gu Zhiyao did not recognize her.

"Did you... call me?" she asked the old lady.

A hint of regret flashed in the old lady's eyes, "So you're not Yuan'er after all..."

"Great-Grandma!" A clear voice rang out; it was Chenchen coming out after urinating.

The old lady's attention immediately turned to her, and her gloomy face lit up with surprise. "Chenchen, what are you doing here? Did you come out with your father or mother? Or with that old woman from the He family?"

“I came out with Aunt Gu.” Chenchen pointed to Gu Zhiyao next to him. “Aunt Gu took care of me for a while when I was little. She loved me very much and was like my second mother. Dad lets us meet occasionally.”

Aunt Gu?

The second mother.

After Zheng Yuanxi married into the He family, there were some things that her family couldn't easily interfere with. For example, the old lady naturally didn't know who had taken care of Chenchen when he was a child, since the people Zheng Yuanxi hired during her postpartum period were not available to her.

According to Chenchen, is the girl in front of us a nanny or a postpartum caregiver?

But the old lady felt it didn't quite seem right. After all, Gu Zhiyao was too beautiful and young, with such a good temperament. How could there be such a beautiful nanny?

Gu Zhiyao was deeply shocked by the whole process. She connected the various circumstances and roughly understood who the old lady was.

Is that Zheng Yuanxi's biological grandmother?

Gu Zhiyao naturally didn't want to run into anyone related to Zheng Yuanxi while taking Chenchen with her, even though the old lady in front of her looked very kind. So she made an excuse and left with Chenchen.

The old lady watched her go and muttered to herself, "Ah Yue, have you noticed that this girl looks a lot like Ah Xue? At first glance, I thought she was Yuan Yuan, but upon closer inspection, she looks more like Ah Xue."

Zheng Xiaoxue.

She was the old lady's youngest daughter, and the beloved eldest daughter of the Zheng family. She was beautiful, intelligent, outspoken, and passionate. Back then, she was a well-known figure in the entire Yuncheng high society. Countless young men came knocking on her door to propose marriage, but unfortunately, Miss Xiaoxue didn't like any of them. Later, she fell in love with a man from the capital.

At the time, the man was just an ordinary engineer, and naturally could not compare with the sons of wealthy families. The Zheng family did not approve of this marriage, but Miss Xiaoxue liked it. Even though the old lady tried to stop them, she could not separate them. Later, Miss Xiaoxue even eloped with the man.

In a fit of anger, the old lady forbade anyone from looking for Miss Xiaoxue. She had originally intended to toughen up Miss Xiaoxue's temper, make her suffer, and let her see the man's true colors so that she would naturally come back.

But who knew that this departure would last for two whole years, and when everyone finally received news of Miss Xiaoxue, they found her body in the snow.

The old lady was deeply affected and fell ill in bed for a whole year!

"If Ah Xue were still alive, her daughter would probably be this age by now. It's a pity she brought this trouble upon herself. She gave up everything for that man and even lost her life in the end, but he turned around and married someone else, enjoying wealth and luxury. My poor Ah Xue is all alone down there." The old lady said, tears streaming down her face.

The nanny, Mingyue, helped her up and comforted her, "Madam, please don't get agitated. Your health is the most important thing. Miss Xiaoxue would be very worried about you if she knew from beyond the grave."

"She's worried about me? She's not worried at all. If she cared about me, she shouldn't have abandoned our family to be with such a heartless bastard. Ah Xue, why were you so foolish? Why did you fall in love with such a cold-hearted man out of so many men?" The old lady's grief was overwhelming, and she couldn't stop crying.

The nanny looked dejected, completely at a loss for what to do.

Just then, Chenchen ran back.

It turned out the little guy had knocked something down, and when he turned around to look for it, he saw his great-grandmother crying and rushed over quickly.

"Great-Grandma, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Tell me quickly."

Gu Zhiyao naturally followed the little one, and was also puzzled by the old lady's sudden crying, and a strange pain welled up in her heart.

Before she could think it through, she was suddenly pulled into a thin embrace, and the old lady was sobbing in her ear, saying, "Ah Xue, I'm sorry, it's all my fault. Please forgive me, don't be angry with me anymore, okay? Come back, that man is a scoundrel, he will never love you for long."

Gu Zhiyao froze for a moment, then gradually stood up straight from the old lady's arms and said, "Grandma, you must have mistaken me for someone else. I'm not Ah Xue."

"You are Xue, you are my Xue. You must hate me for not letting you be with that bad guy, that's why you won't acknowledge me, right? But I'm doing this all for your own good!"

"Great-Grandma, Aunt Gu isn't Xue. Please let her go. You're making her very uncomfortable," Chenchen added.

The old lady looked at her great-grandson, then at Gu Zhiyao, and gradually came to her senses, apologizing to Gu Zhiyao.

Gu Zhiyao felt an inexplicable pity in her heart and said, "It's alright, let me help you to sit down."

After the old lady sat down, someone came to pick her up; it was probably her bodyguard. A few minutes later, the old lady left.

"Aunt Gu, please don't mind. Great-Grandma probably missed you so much that she held you like that." Chenchen said to Gu Zhiyao, who still seemed a little dazed.

Gu Zhiyao composed herself and then asked, "Grandma? Does Chenchen refer to the Ah Xue that Great-Grandma mentioned?"

"Yes. But my great-aunt is no longer here; she went to heaven many years ago."

Gu Zhiyao understood upon hearing this.

It seems the old lady truly misses her daughter dearly and regards her as her deceased daughter.

"Chenchen, does Great-Grandma often mistake people for others?" Gu Zhiyao asked again after a while.

"I don't know. This is the first time I've ever seen my great-grandmother like this." The little one shook his head.

Gu Zhiyao still felt strange, but looking at her son's innocent face, she didn't think too much about it and continued to play and wander around with the little guy.

At nine o'clock in the evening, it was time to say goodbye again.

Gu Zhiyao was wondering whether she should ask He Yi to let Chenchen stay with her overnight, but he seemed to have disagreed last time. What should she do to get him to agree?

However, before Gu Zhiyao could come up with a solution, the doorbell rang, and this time it was Quan Xinyu who came to answer it.

"The president has a business dinner tonight that will go on very late, so he asked me to come and take Chenchen home first."

Gu Zhiyao looked at Quan Xinyu and said, "Assistant Quan, could you let Chenchen stay here for the night? You can come pick him up tomorrow morning?"

“Ah? No, even if President He is willing, the old lady will not agree.” Quan Xinyu thought for a moment and continued, “Miss Zheng has a mental illness. Once she lost control and hurt Chenchen. That’s why the old lady took Chenchen back to the old house. She also ordered that Miss Zheng’s illness must not be cured until Chenchen is gone. So, the old lady does not allow Chenchen to stay outside overnight. She is afraid that Miss Zheng will hurt Chenchen again.”

Did Zheng Yuanxi's illness cause harm to Chenchen?

Gu Zhiyao's heart skipped a beat, and her blood seemed to stop flowing.