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.

fate in stone. Even if she did not go back to North City, she knew full well that Lingye could make this

sensitive person. She would never

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

to convince herself as she sniffed hard. Then, she

message was short

“Lingye, it’s Rui.”

moments after the message was sent, she did not receive any call at all from

the dying embers in her heart that

past, whenever she left him without a reason, he

seemed to give up on her long ago. Even if he knew where she was right now,

other, she would not be able to think with a

in the morning in North City,

at the screen of

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 reassuring

reply to her messages, and he did not return

about her dignity anymore. She picked up her phone and made a call to him

she was waiting… Her breathing inadvertently slowed

was afraid that Lingye would reject her call

to lose all hope after the ringing persisted for a long time, the call finally connected, “Lingye, you’re finally picking up my call! I have waited for so long here, I… I am in Florence, and

his cold voice cut her off, “You don’t need to tell me that. Now that you’re gone, it’s a

you still angry at me? Even though we are related by blood, I never want to leave you… I promise you, Dad’s

she could no longer care about losing faces. She just did not want… to lose Lingye, who was

not swayed by her sobbing. He cut her off curtly, “But if we don’t get a divorce, Xian would disclose our relationship which would turn the world against

“I…”

that Lingye would fire back at her

fact, he was far from it. Despite that, he still made it clear that their marriage was the last thing on his mind when considering every facet

company, and he thought about Siqi as well. He even thought about

him,

trickle down her

phone until her knuckles turned white, “But you said… Even if it’s the