"It's good. You haven't let me down. These past few years... you've done a great job."
"Don't be angry. What do you want from me?"
"Not really, just keep the status quo and don't default on your living expenses."
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"You..." These words deeply hurt him, "Am I only an ATM in your heart?"
Lin Yuyao smiled, and that smile made him seem to see her when she was young.
"Yuyao, that's not what I meant..."
"You don't have to explain, that's what I mean."
Lu Jiangting: “…”
"You should be thankful that you're still somewhat useful. Quietly being an ATM is good for both you and me."
Lu Jiangting wiped his face in despair, "How did we get to this point?"
Lin Yuyao chuckled, as if asking him, but also as if asking herself.
"Yeah, I also want to ask, how did it come to this?"
He felt sad when he saw her painful expression.
Lu Jiangting took a deep breath and whispered, "Since neither you nor I are happy, and since you still can't get over it after all these years, why don't I grant your wish? Don't you want a divorce? I...I agree to a divorce."
"What? Huh? Are you dreaming?" Lin Yuyao was amused by his words.
"Sixteen years ago I asked for a divorce, but you disagreed."
"Fourteen years ago, I filed for divorce again, but you still didn't agree."
"Twelve years ago, I had enough of Fang Qing and her son's provocations, so I went to your company and caused a scene. Under duress from your superiors, you wrote me a letter of guarantee, promising that even if you would help Fang Qing and her son, you would do so within your means. You would first ensure your own family's well-being, and only then would you contribute to charity when you had the means. But you only lasted half a year, and then you were back to your old ways."
Lu Jiangting: "That's because..."
"Okay, I don't want to hear your excuses. You have too many excuses. You have an excuse for everything you do, as if you are never wrong."
Lu Jiangting was speechless.
Lin Yuyao took a deep breath and continued, "Ten years ago, I couldn't stand it anymore and made your and Fang Qing's scandal public. As a result, everyone scolded me for making a big deal out of nothing and called me a shrew. Well, I'm narrow-minded and a shrew, so how about a divorce? You still don't agree, you all don't agree.
Because you want to save face, you're afraid I'll actually get divorced, so you'll confirm your affair with Fang Qing. You want to save face, but you're still holding me back. Why? On what basis?"
Lu Jiangting was shocked and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? Fang Qing and I are innocent. Lao Xu didn't agree to our divorce because he felt there were just some misunderstandings between us. After you left, he talked to me for a long time. He asked me to be good to you, to care about you more, and to say good things about you in everything. You made such an ugly scene, slandering the innocence of the martyr's widow in front of so many people, but he just scolded you. But after you left, he not only scolded me, but also kicked me several times..."
Speaking of this matter, Lu Jiangting still felt wronged.
"What daughter-in-law would be so shameless as to make such a scene? Do you know how serious a crime it would be if Old Xu hadn't suppressed the matter and slandered someone's innocence in public?"
Lin Yuyao smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, yes, you have special identities. I can't do anything to you. I deserve to be bullied by you. Is that okay?"
"I... Yuyao, you know very well that's not what I meant." Lu Jiangting gritted his teeth and said, "I'm sorry, but I'm setting you free now. I've made some money over the past few years, and I'll give it all... to you."
"Bah." Lin Yuyao spat in his face. "You wish."
Lu Jiangting: “…”
"When I was young, when your parents needed to be waited on, when your child needed someone to take care of him..." Lin Yuyao said angrily, "You refused to divorce me then, no matter what. Now look what's happened, your parents are gone, your child is grown up, and you want a divorce. Lu Jiangting, how can you be so shameless? You want to take all the good things for yourself, how can you be so naive? I'm telling you, Lu Jiangting, no way, I don't agree to a divorce."
Lu Jiangting was surprised, "You think so."
Lin Yuyao: "You did it this way."
She didn't want to waste time talking to him and said bluntly, "Money, send it to me every month. If you dare to owe me money, I will go to your company and make trouble again. I want to ask your boss, when you threw a lot of burdens on me earlier, you refused to divorce me. Now that your parents have passed away and your children have been raised, you are talking about divorce. What exactly does it mean?"
Lu Jiangting didn't dare to mention divorce anymore, but he felt that he was wronged and that was not his intention at all.
After not seeing her for five years, he saw that she looked so haggard and unhappy.
He felt very sorry for her for having tied her up for so many years, so he wanted to let her go with great pain.
At the same time, he was also willing to take the salary of the past few years as compensation.
But in her eyes, I am just being abandoned?
Why...why do they always misunderstand!
…
"Ah..." Lu Jiangting woke up suddenly, stood up abruptly, bumped into the roof of the car, and was forced to sit back down.
Fu Huaiyi, the co-pilot, was awakened.
Yi Yunshuo glanced at him and hurriedly drove the car to the side of the road and stopped.
"Lu Jiangting, why are you so startled? Your yelling scared me."
Lu Jiangting's thoughts seemed to have not fully returned to their senses. He didn't hear his words, but looked around in confusion.
Yi Yunshuo cursed, opened the car door and got out, then opened the back door and stuck half of his body in.
"What are you doing? I'm telling you, if you're sick, take some medicine. It's dangerous if you go crazy while driving."
Lu Jiangting's thoughts slowly returned to his senses. He looked at Yi Yunshuo, then at Fu Huaiyi in front of him.
"I...I'm fine."
"Are you okay? Do you look okay? Eat, give it to me quickly."
Yi Yunshuo just touched him all over, took out a medicine bottle, poured out half a bottle of medicine and stuffed it into his mouth.
Lu Jiangting took the medicine, took only three pills, and put the rest back.
Yi Yunshuo was still complaining, saying that if he was sick, he should just stay out.
Fu Huaiyi simply said, "Alright, stop nagging me. Let's drive to the service area ahead."
"Okay."
"Tsk, what bad luck."
He kept complaining as the car drove to the service area, even complaining to Fu Huaiyi next to him when he went to the toilet.
Fu Huaiyi was annoyed to death by what he heard.
"Now, either you go back, or you take him back. Or you go with him and I'll go back."
Yi Yunshuo: "No, Brother Yi, look at him, he looks like he's possessed by a ghost, aren't you scared? I get chills down my spine when he sits behind me, I'm afraid he'll suddenly bite me in the neck."
"If you're even afraid of this, are you still worthy of being the successor of socialism?"
Yi Yunshuo: “…”
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