The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 40

“Yeah, I’m heading back now, Sophia whispered, “Gotta hang up.”

And then she hung up the phone.

Brandon slowly put down his phone only when the busy signal “beep beep” hit his ears, glancing at the screen.

The phone had already gone back to the lock screen.

He unlocked it and, on the call log page, that dialed number was still just a string of digits.

That string of digits had been saved in Brandon’s contacts for eight years.

A number he jotted down in his youth, during the time he reconnected with Sophia, he almost never dialed it, even though he knew it by heart without having to save it

Brandon couldn’t tell why he never called in those years. He often thought of Sophia, remembered how she stood. quietly at the podium, introducing herself with her unique soft voice, “Hi everyone, I’m Sophia.” Every time he thought of her, he couldn’t help but fish out the number, but he never actually dialed it.

the call button, memories of the graduation party when the teacher regretfully informed everyone that Sophia couldn’t

other hand, after that loss and anger, there was

disappointment, every time he faced the

thought that Sophia must have changed her number

out she

his own number which hadn’t changed

to her polite “Hello, who’s this? on the phone just now, Brandon’s eyes dimmed

she had responded with “Hello, who’s this? She genuinely didn’t know who was on the other end

turn of the stairwell in the teaching building, quietly

in front of the building, and she couldn’t

in the driver’s seat, remained still,

around but didn’t notice Brandon’s car, and as she turned to head in a different direction, Brandon

and saw Brandon inside the car.

now.” Sophia apologized with a warm voice as

their reunion, and even during the two years they were married, she never seemed

that he actually didn’t like this kind

fact, he

but

his stare, asked,