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.

were to sign the agreement now and fax it back to her father, she knew that this would set her fate in stone. Even if she did not go back to North City, she knew full well that Lingye could make this divorce official with the power and connection he held in

never make

than Lingye. She decided to turn a blind eye to her sensibility and call him again. She tried to tell herself that the first rejection must be just a mistake, perhaps Lingye had slipped his fingers and accidentally rejected the

sniffed hard. Then, she sent a text

text message was short and

“Lingye, it’s Rui.”

few moments after the message was sent, she did

the dying embers in her

him without a reason, he would always come to

up on her long ago. Even if he knew where she was right now, he would not even

was madly in love with the other, she

to believe that since it was only nine in the morning in North City,

stare at the screen of her phone for another ten

of emotion went through her as if she was checking the final result of her exam. She was agitated, disappointed, and

and he did not

not care about her dignity anymore. She picked up her phone and made

she was waiting… Her breathing inadvertently slowed down as

was afraid that Lingye would reject her call

connected, “Lingye, you’re finally picking up my call! I have waited for so long here, I… I am in Florence, and I want to say sorry… because I did not tell you about this before I was

“You don’t need to tell me that. Now that you’re gone, it’s a good thing for me

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 just wary of Xian spreading this matter, that’s why I came

losing faces. She just did not want… to lose

if we don’t get a divorce, Xian would disclose our relationship which would turn the world against us. They would even get rid of Siqi. An unprecedented danger would befall the Fu family and the company. Do you really wish to see things

“I…”

paralyzed. She never imagined that Lingye would fire back at her with

those things. In fact, he was far from it. Despite that, he still made it clear that their marriage was the last thing on his

the company, and he thought about Siqi as

by him, even though she

began to trickle down

Even if it’s the end of the world, you will bring me to a