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.

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

a dignified and sensitive person. She would never make a

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 of picking up a call from

she sniffed hard. Then, she sent a

message was short and

“Lingye, it’s Rui.”

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

dying embers in her heart that

whenever she left him without a reason, he would always

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

in love with the other, she would not be able

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

screen of her phone

high school. Different kinds of emotion went through her as if she was checking the final

not reply to her messages, and he

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

Her breathing inadvertently slowed down as

Lingye would

long time, the call finally connected, “Lingye, you’re finally picking up my call! I

fully apologize to him, his cold voice cut her off, “You don’t need to tell me that. Now that you’re

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

losing faces. She just did not want… to lose Lingye, who

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 Siqi. An unprecedented danger would befall the Fu family and the company.

“I…”

was paralyzed. She never imagined that Lingye would fire back at

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

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

really abandoned by him, even

to trickle down her cheeks once

said… Even if it’s the end of the world, you will bring me