Chapter 158 Parting on Unhappily
Jiang Ruan was furious: "Can you please stop being so shameless?"
"This is simply my legal right," Huo Zhizhou said calmly, his gaze deep. "Where does this shamelessness come from?"
Jiang Ruan opened her mouth.
The words that were on the tip of my tongue remained unspoken.
No matter what she says, he can always find a way to refute her and leave her speechless.
“I hope we can resolve this properly. If not…” Huo Zhizhou paused here, “you might encounter the shamelessness you’re talking about.”
He would use any means necessary to keep her by his side.
Even if it makes her hate herself.
“You’ve never liked your parents, but don’t you think what you’re doing now is very similar to them?” Jiang Ruan changed tactics, trying to persuade him, “The same ruthless methods to achieve your goals.”
Huo Zhizhou's hands, hanging at his sides, paused for a moment.
After a while.
He then replied, "Perhaps."
"I'm just divorcing you, I won't let you lose sight of Sui Sui," Jiang Ruan said again. She knew very well that she couldn't win against him with force, so she could only persuade him with words. "I also won't speak ill of you in front of him."
“The reason we didn’t get a divorce was never because of him,” Huo Zhizhou said.
Jiang Ruan frowned slightly.
Huo Zhizhou's gaze fell on her, carefully tracing every inch of her skin. He saw various emotions on her face, such as incomprehension, alienation, and disgust, but the love he once had was gone.
The more this happened, the more he wanted to keep her here.
"It's all because of you." He repeated the sentence he had said before.
Jiang Ruan's red lips moved slightly.
Countless emotions swept through the depths of my heart.
There was complexity, the warmth of being chosen firmly time and time again, but more than anything, there was the fear of not being able to escape this marriage.
If it weren't for Su Anran, and if he hadn't said those hurtful things to her, if he had said those words during their argument, she could have forgiven everything, hugged him, and told him to stop arguing and that she forgave him.
But now...
“But I’m tired.” Her emotions gradually calmed down. “I can’t ignore what happened before, and I can’t accept that you have to take care of Su Anran for the rest of your life.”
Huo Zhizhou felt a sudden pang in his heart, and a look of desolation appeared in his dark eyes.
"I won't change my decision to divorce. If you really don't want to go with me to get the marriage certificate, I'll have to tell you my determination in other ways." Jiang Ruan was also feeling bad.
Huo Zhizhou looked at her silently, his eyes filled with too many emotions.
"It's getting late, I'm going back to sleep now." After saying this, Jiang Ruan changed back into her own clothes and left the room, leaving Huo Zhizhou alone there.
Jiang Ruan walked slowly down the empty corridor.
Her condition was no better than Huo Zhizhou's; she felt a soreness and discomfort in her chest, and her mind was filled with a complex mix of emotions.
"Bang!"
She bumped into the wall.
Looking up, I realized that I had somehow ended up at the end of the corridor.
She seemed dazed for a moment, then turned and walked toward her and Xue Qian's room, looking very depressed.
"Jiang Ruan?" The other person was quite surprised to see her return. "Didn't Xue Qian say your friend came looking for you, and you weren't coming back?"
"Something happened, so I'm back," Jiang Ruan said softly.
colleague:"?"
Her colleague noticed that she was in a bad mood and asked, "Did you have a fight with your friend?"
Jiang Ruan paused, realizing that she had returned to her residence.
"We didn't argue." She lay on the sofa, her mind inexplicably replaying the times Huo Zhizhou had made her happy in the past. She tried to replace those with things that had happened recently, but her alcohol-controlled brain wouldn't listen to her.
"Why do you look so down?" My colleague asked, whether out of genuine concern or just gossip.
Jiang Ruan looked into the void for a moment, then blurted out without thinking, "He has a terminal illness and is dying."
Xue Qian: "..."
Huo Zhizhou, who was not present: "..."
Her colleague exclaimed "Oh!" and pressed her for details about what terminal illness she had. Jiang Ruan didn't answer and used being very tired as an excuse to go back to her room to sleep.
Unsurprisingly, she suffered from insomnia.
All night long, her mind was filled with happy memories of her and Huo Zhizhou. She tried to distract herself by thinking about other things, but as before, it didn't work.
She began to suspect that the liquor had been bribed by Huo Zhizhou.
She gradually drifted off to sleep as dawn approached and the effects of the alcohol wore off.
"Jiang Ruan, we should go to the Huo Group now," Xue Qian kept calling to her. "Get up quickly."
Jiang Ruan opened her eyes groggily. Having barely slept all night, she felt a splitting headache and general discomfort, but she still forced herself to get up and wash.
Half an hour later.
She and Xue Qian took a taxi to Huo's Group.
Another person, fearing that waiting for Jiang Ruan would make them late, took a taxi and left early.
"Thank you for last night." Jiang Ruan said to Xue Qian. She hadn't completely blacked out last night and still remembered those things. "When we get back to Jingzhou, I'll treat you to dinner."
Xue Qian didn't stand on ceremony with her: "I want to eat meat."
Jiang Ruan: "Enough is enough."
After a brief exchange, the two fell silent.
Seeing that Xue Qian was the same as before, Jiang Ruan pursed her lips and tentatively asked, "You don't blame me for hiding my identity and deceiving you all this time?"
“What’s so strange about that? Everyone has things they don’t want outsiders to know. Besides, your identity is your privacy, and it’s your freedom to tell others or not.” Xue Qian has very sound values when it comes to these things.
Jiang Ruan felt a little relieved.
Xue Qian added, "You don't want to say, probably because you don't want people to think that you got this job because of someone else."
"Yes." Jiang Ruan did not hide anything.
"Actually, I also have something I'm hiding from you." Not wanting to burden her, Xue Qian simply told her one of her secrets: "Xue Yan is my half-sister."
Jiang Ruan: "???"
Jiang Ruan was somewhat surprised.
Xue Qian joked, "Didn't you expect that someone as ordinary as me could actually be connected to the Xue family?"
“You are anything but ordinary.” Jiang Ruan praised her earnestly, admiring her from the bottom of her heart. “There are few people in the world as bold and outspoken as you, who dare to speak up for justice.”
"If you praise me like that, I'll get carried away." Xue Qian raised an eyebrow slightly.
Jiang Ruan: "I'm serious."
Xue Qian smiled.
After a while.
She then said with a somewhat serious tone, "Don't worry, I will keep your affair a secret and won't mention a word about it no matter who asks."
"Thank you." Jiang Ruan was never worried that she would tell everyone.
About twenty minutes later, the two arrived at the Huo Group branch in Haicheng.
When they arrived at the floor where the game division was located, there were still ten minutes before their shift started. They looked around and found that only about half of the staff had arrived; the experts who taught them the technology had not yet come.
Just as I was thinking this, I suddenly heard footsteps behind me.
Jiang Ruan turned around and saw Huo Zhizhou walking towards her with an indifferent expression.
Before she could speak, he had already walked up to her and handed her what he was holding in front of everyone in Yuan Yi's group: "Your keys, I left them with you last night."
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