Chapter 23 Chapter 23 The divorce agreement was rubbed...
The divorce agreement was crumpled to pieces, and the folds were carefully smoothed out bit by bit.
It seems that the onlookers can see through the thin piece of paper and see a secret of the heart that no one is paying attention to.
His hesitation and pain, his entanglement and hesitation, whether this person loved him or not, no longer mattered. The answer that he once wanted to hear with his own ears seemed to have become another kind of torture.
The silvery light swept across Lu Yanlin's tall nose, casting a deep shadow in his eye sockets. He slowly stood up, trying to calm the nagging tightness in his chest. He said, "Jin Man, you don't want a divorce. You want to sever ties with the Lu family."
Jin Man raised his eyes: "Yes, so what."
Cut it off completely, so don't want anything.
He didn't want Lu Yanlin, nor did he want Lu Zhi. Five years had passed without a care in the world. But the more decisive he was, the more he couldn't bear to let go. He had truly loved the people in this family. His care and affection had never been fake to Jin Man. His feelings weren't old clothes to be thrown away at will. To dig them out of his heart, he had to carry them with him, along with his old flesh and blood. He was not without pain.
But he believed that as long as he gave himself time, he would be able to get out of it.
Lu Yanlin was silent for a moment, then gritted his teeth as he spoke. "You are my partner, and you are also Lu Zhi's father."
Lu Yanlin didn't take the words "he didn't want anything" to heart. He knew that Jin Man actually had nowhere to go. The only relative he cared about had passed away many years ago. His home was here. It was the string that tied the kite and the shell that the hermit crab found. He couldn't go anywhere.
What happened today was an accident. He was sorry for Jin Man. He had never thought about pulling that man out of his false appearance. The truth is often cruel. Why should he lay out every detail of life's bleakness so clearly?
Just like he is not a gentle and kind person, and just like a role play, he has been a hero many times for him, and he is even praised as a "good man" by Jin Man's friends.
But what is the truth?
It is the gray embers and debris left on the ground after reality is peeled off, and it is the mansion after the corpse house of desire is whitewashed.
It is not such a good love, it is a hint of falsehood mixed in with the true heart, which will not make people happy at all, but will only feel like a thorn in the throat.
So what's the point of telling Jin Man, and what's the point of making him suffer? No matter whether Lu Yanlin loves him or not, as long as he can keep it secret, nothing will happen.
Why do we have to burst it?
Lu Yanlin never showed any emotion. Even when he sent his father to prison, he still remained polite and decent, but he had no choice but to send Jin Man away so elegantly.
But thinking of Jin Man's tears, he felt a little short of breath. He forced himself to calm down, stripping away any undue pity, and pressing forward step by step, with an almost cruel calmness in his eyes.
"Divorce is never an easy matter. We can talk it over properly. There's no need to be impulsive or draw a line between us. I can compensate you for what I owe you. It's not a big deal, Manman. Why do you have to leave yourself with nothing?"
He spoke in a cold tone, slowly, stabbing Jin Man's heart one knife at a time: "Every word you say standing here now is revenge against me. But Man Man, you know this won't be of any use, right? I can always find someone better than you, but you won't."
"I can still live well without you, and I won't be sad, but your pain will last a long time."
He firmly grasped Jin Man's hands, politely pried them apart one by one, clasped them together, and said indifferently: "Stay, I will teach you how to retaliate in a way that will hurt others. I will teach you how to make me feel uncomfortable too."
Jin Man's breathing was unstable and his chest was heaving violently. He couldn't break free from the hand, nor could he be as calm and indifferent as Lu Yanlin about what was happening.
"asshole!"
The corners of his eyes were red, like a trapped herbivore who saw the fangs under the beast's mask for the first time, so he struggled desperately, tears streaming from the corners of his eyes, wetting his pale lips: "I don't want it!"
With a cold face, he reached out to take off his ring, as if that would allow him to throw away everything he didn't want.
Lu Yanlin could stop him, but he would inevitably hurt him, so he restrained himself and let go of his hand.
The silver ring fell off Alpha's hand, and Jin Man put it on the table without even looking at it.
He seemed confused, and with sadness and anger, he stubbornly stepped back, turned his head away from him, and raised his hand to wipe his eyes helplessly.
Those who have never faced the truth are afraid to get close because of the terrible things hidden behind it.
Lu Yanlin looked at Jin Man's reaction calmly and clenched his fists little by little. He was not a gorgeous and delicate fragile object. Rather than being fragile, he yearned for control and sharpness.
But Jin Man didn't think so. He had no desire for his love, so he wouldn't be hurt by his indifference. He wasn't like the people in Lu Yanlin's world. When you strip away his simple and clumsy means, you can only see layers of pity and heartache behind them.
He would smile heartily and say, "Lu Yanlin, come up, I'll carry you for a walk."
He would hold his hand, point out the extra wildflowers in the hedge, and then gently touch his shoulder.
His ordinariness is destined to be less memorable, but that warm feeling is like water dripping through stone, leaving a faint trace in the place where there was nothing before, day after day.
Lu Yanlin didn't know what it meant to be reluctant. He had always been generous and could downplay everything and pass it by. The only time he tried to keep Jin Man was just now, but Jin Man refused. Alpha had never been so sad and heartbroken. The temperature of his palm was so cold that it was frightening.
Lu Yanlin slowly withdrew his hand, ignoring the stiffness in his palm. He was dressed in a suit and looked handsome. He still looked at him quietly and calmly, with his usual indifferent expression, and said lightly:
"You can reconsider, for your own sake."
Jin Man didn't want to talk anymore. He couldn't help but stabbed, "Lu Yanlin, I'm really curious about what you were thinking when you and I ate at the same table and slept together."
"If you face someone you don't like every day, you won't feel sad or hateful..."
Jin Man's eyes were red and he couldn't say the rest of the words.
His long eyelashes drooped down, like a withered butterfly corpse, covering his gray eyes. He took a deep breath and said, "Anyway, I don't want to see you again, and I don't want your compensation."
There was a hint of hesitation in his voice, but he still insisted: "But Xiaozhi...can I..."
"No," Lu Yanlin said slowly, and at this moment he smiled slightly: "After you leave, you will have no contact with him again."
He thought for a moment, gently pulled out a pen, signed his name on the crumpled divorce agreement, and said, "Manman, the choice is yours."
He raised his hand, and the lawyer who had just left the living room stepped forward and added with professional ethics: "Mr. Jin Man, once the agreement is notarized and takes effect, there will be no room for regret."
Jin Man looked at him blankly. Lu Yanlin said softly, "Don't be afraid. I'll give you time to think. You'll be the only one here."
He walked past Jin Man, picked up his coat, put it on and went out without looking back.
The lawyer followed closely behind, a thin layer of sweat on his forehead. The pheromone storm in the room almost made his teeth chatter. He never knew that the fragrance of flowers could be so aggressive. However, the Alpha who was in the center of the storm did not seem to react at all.
It is impossible for AOs who have marked each other to be indifferent to their partner's pheromones, but this big shot who is about to get divorced did not realize that his Alpha was not affected at all.
Either it is a marriage with no markings but in name only, or the markings have been removed through surgery.
Either way, it seems that the determination to divorce will not be easily shaken.
He glanced at his employer's tall figure blending into the night, and chose to remain politely silent, saying nothing.
The light in the house fell on the divorce agreement.
Alpha, sitting on the sofa, looked lonely and pitiful in the huge living room.
He slowly raised the pen, which felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, and rested on his rough knuckles.
[I don’t want a dad, I want a powerful dad]
Why don't you try harder?
[You have never been a qualified father]
[Lu Zhi is a child of the Lu family.]
[If you use your experience to consider his situation, it will only cause him trouble.]
Those words flashed through my mind without causing any ripples.
The person who said it may not intentionally want him to remember it, but he always remembers it.
How can life be perfect everywhere?
Regret and loss are the underlying colors of ordinary people's lives.
When he was young, he went with the flow and suffered cold stares, but when he looked up, the bright moon in the sky shone on him.
The woods in the distant mountains, the lotus pond nearby, and the breeze flowing between heaven and earth can all be seen, regardless of their appearance, beauty or ugliness, wealth or poverty.
He never talked about the past because he felt that people were like fish in a river and they had to always move forward.
Maybe every step is hard, but don't always look back.
The golden pen tip fell on the paper and wrote his name stroke by stroke, in duplicate.
He opened his cell phone, bought a ticket for himself, and easily got a window seat.
The luggage he sent back had also arrived in town, waiting for him to pick it up.
Jin Man stood up, pushed open the door of the living room, and walked briskly back to his small building where his last luggage was. He picked up his backpack, closed the door, and suddenly heard a clattering sound.
Jin Man lowered his head and saw a chubby little hen in the bushes. It stretched its neck, shook its head, and squeezed out of the bushes with one staggering step.
"I almost forgot about you."
Jin Man bent down and picked it up. After thinking for a moment, he stuffed it into his backpack, leaving its silly head exposed and pecking at the backpack strap.
"Leave."
He never said goodbye, because that farewell did not start from today.
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