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 everyone

anger, there was the complex feeling that

disappointment, every time he

thought that Sophia must have changed her

she

knew her number like the back of his hand, but as for his own number which hadn’t changed in eight years, Sophia didn’t

her polite “Hello, who’s this? on the

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

of the stairwell in the

a few cars parked in front of the building, and

seat, remained still, just

and as she turned to head in a different

sound and saw Brandon inside the car.

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

like this. During their school days, upon their reunion, and even during the two years they were married, she never seemed overly affectionate or clingy. It was as if she was always polite

that he actually didn’t like this

he even despised

but

by his stare,