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 make it, wishing everyone fun, would flood him with a sense of loss and anger. That year, Sophia

loss and anger, there was the complex feeling that Sophia was

every time he faced the

must

out she kept

like the back of his hand, but as for his own number

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

remembered correctly, this wasn’t the first time she had responded with “Hello, who’s this? She genuinely didn’t

at the turn of the stairwell in the

were quite a few cars parked in front of

in the driver’s seat,

turned to head in a different direction, Brandon suddenly honked the

inside the car. She walked over to

just now.” Sophia apologized with a warm voice as she got into the car, her

and even during the two years they were married, she

that he actually didn’t like this kind of

he even despised

but glance

his stare, asked, “What’s