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.

her father, she knew that this would set her fate in stone. Even if she did not go back

She would never make a second call if

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 call, or perhaps he was wary of picking up a call

she sniffed hard. Then, she sent

was short and

“Lingye, it’s Rui.”

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

the dying embers in her heart that were

the past, whenever she left him without a reason, he would always come to find her until he finally saw

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

other, she would not be able to

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

screen of her

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

did not reply to her messages, and he did not return the call

She picked up her phone and made a call

when she was waiting… Her breathing inadvertently

Lingye would reject her call

was going 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 I want to say sorry… because I

need to tell me that. Now that you’re

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

longer care about losing faces. She just did not want… to lose Lingye, who was precious to

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 go into

“I…”

imagined that Lingye would fire back at her with those sensible

from it. Despite that, he still made it clear that their marriage

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

really abandoned by him, even though she was reluctant

to trickle

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