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.

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

sensitive person. She would never make a second call if

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 must be just a mistake, perhaps Lingye had slipped his fingers and accidentally rejected the call, or perhaps he was wary

continued to convince herself as she sniffed hard. Then, she sent

was short

“Lingye, it’s Rui.”

was sent, she did

embers in her

without a reason, he would always

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

the other, she would not be able to think

only nine in the morning in North City, Lingye must be still asleep. He must not have seen her message

at the screen of her phone for another ten

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

did not reply to her messages, and he did not

dignity anymore. She picked up

time, when she was waiting… Her breathing inadvertently slowed down

afraid that Lingye would

the call finally connected, “Lingye, you’re finally picking up my call! I have waited

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

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 just wary of Xian spreading this matter,

no longer care about losing faces. She just

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

“I…”

that Lingye would fire back at

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

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

really abandoned by him, even though she was reluctant to

to trickle down

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