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.

when the teacher regretfully informed everyone that

that loss and anger, there was the complex feeling that

complex disappointment, every time he

thought that Sophia must have changed

she kept it all

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

who’s this? on the phone just

“Hello, who’s this? She genuinely didn’t know who

at the turn of the stairwell

cars parked in front of the building, and she couldn’t spot

seated in the driver’s seat, remained still, just

she turned to head in a different

and saw Brandon inside the car. She walked

now.” Sophia apologized with a warm voice as she got into the

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

the first time, Brandon realized that he actually

he

couldn’t help but glance

by his