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.

memories of the graduation party when the teacher regretfully informed

other hand, after that loss and anger, there was

and complex disappointment, every time he faced the

thought that Sophia must have changed

she kept it all

for his own number which hadn’t changed in eight years, Sophia didn’t seem

her polite “Hello, who’s this? on the phone just

who’s this? She genuinely didn’t know who was on the other end of

turn of the stairwell in the teaching

were quite a few cars parked in front of the building, and she couldn’t

seat, remained still,

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

sound and saw Brandon inside the car. She

Sophia apologized with a warm voice as she got into the

reunion, and even during the two years they were married, she never seemed overly affectionate or clingy. It was as if she

Brandon realized that he actually didn’t like this kind

he

couldn’t help but glance at

by his stare, asked, “What’s