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.

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

would never

in question was none other 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

convince herself as she sniffed hard. Then, she

text message was short

“Lingye, it’s Rui.”

she did

the dying embers in her

him without a reason, he would always come to find her until he

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

with the other, she

it was only nine in the morning in North City, Lingye must

the screen of her phone for

to her student days in high school. Different kinds of emotion went through her as if she was checking

her messages, and he

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

time, when she was waiting… Her breathing inadvertently

afraid that Lingye would reject her

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

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

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

could no longer care about losing faces. She just did not want… to lose

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 us. They would even get rid of

“I…”

never imagined that Lingye would fire back

at all to say 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 mind when considering

the Fu family and the company, and he thought about Siqi as well. He even thought about himself… but

abandoned by him, even though she was reluctant to acknowledge this

began to trickle down her cheeks

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