Belated Romance (Mu Tongrui)

It was two in the morning in Florence.

It was two in the morning in Florence.

Tongrui had been fidgeting with the pen for a long time. She mustered a lot of courage, yet she was unable to sign the papers.

In the divorce agreement, even the amount of alimony had been spelled out clearly. Lingye had really set his mind to divorce her. It was inevitable.

In their relationship, she was always the passive one. However, it was Lingye who had taken the initiative to divorce her. There was no way she could sit still and allow that to happen just like that.

Once this divorce was set in stone, her life would be a barren wasteland. There would be no Lingye to accompany her, and it meant that the woman who stood beside him would be a new one.

Tongrui wiped her tears away and took her phone. She decided to make that call.

It was in the death of the night in Florence, but the sun would soon rise in North City.

…

At that moment, Fu Xiao, who had taken over Lingye’s body, saw the incoming call. He saw that it was a call made from Florence. A terrible glint appeared in his eyes.

He immediately rejected the call.

…

Tongrui was trying her best to dry her tears while holding her phone. When she heard the line go dead because the other party did not want to answer, a new wave of tears came to her eyes.

Lingye had rejected her call…

Was he angry at her for disappearing into thin air without saying goodbye?

Other than this, Tongrui did not dare to bring herself to entertain other possibilities–

Was he so heartless to the point that he did not even bother to talk to her after making up his mind about the divorce?

Even if their divorce was on the horizon, she still wanted to hear his voice.

in stone. Even if she did not go back to North City, she

always a dignified and sensitive person. She would never make a second

decided to turn a blind eye to her sensibility and call him again. She tried to tell herself that the first rejection must be

to convince herself as she sniffed

was short

“Lingye, it’s Rui.”

message was sent, she did not receive

her heart that

left him without a reason, he would

if he knew where she was

the other, she would not be able to think with a

that since it was only nine in the morning in North City, Lingye must be still asleep. He

the screen of her phone for another ten

it was as if she was transported back in time to her student days in high school. Different kinds of emotion went through her as if she was checking the final result of her exam. She was agitated, disappointed, and wary, and at the same time, she kept

reply to her messages, and he did not return

dignity anymore. She picked up her

she was waiting… Her breathing

afraid that Lingye would reject her

you’re finally picking up my call! I have waited for so long here, I… I am

“You don’t need to tell me that. Now that you’re gone,

still angry at me? Even though we are related by blood, I never want to leave you… I promise you, Dad’s arrangement is for me to avoid getting tangled up in the thick of things… I am

about losing faces. She just

would disclose our relationship which would turn

“I…”

imagined that Lingye would fire back

he was far from it. Despite that, he still

and he thought about Siqi as well. He even thought about himself… but not

by him, even though she was reluctant to acknowledge this

trickle down her

“But you said… Even if it’s the