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.

regretfully informed everyone that

and anger, there was the complex feeling

of anger and complex disappointment, every time he faced the number, he never

must have changed her

out she kept

but as for his own number which hadn’t changed in eight years,

to her polite “Hello, who’s this? on

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

turn of the stairwell in the teaching building,

parked in front of the building, and she

the driver’s seat, remained still, just

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

the sound and saw Brandon inside the car.

a warm

During their school days, upon their reunion, and even during the two years they were married,

he actually didn’t like this kind of

fact, he even

help but glance at

perplexed by his stare, asked,