Chapter 153 Sang Ning, listen to me carefully: if you dare to divorce me, you'll have to leave with nothing.
night.
Sang Ning returned from school at 9:30.
As soon as she entered the house, she saw Jing Muchi sitting on the sofa, with a half-empty bottle of foreign liquor on the low table in front of him.
Hearing the door open, he looked up and gazed deeply at her. Perhaps because he had been drinking, the emotions in his eyes appeared extremely intense under the light.
Sang Ning rarely saw him like this. "You...why did you drink so much?"
"Come here." Jing Muchi's voice was slightly low and hoarse. "I have something to ask you."
Sang Ning walked over and sat on the other end of the sofa.
"What?"
Jing Muchi downed his glass of wine in one gulp before looking at her again. "What did you do with the allowance I gave you and all the jewelry I gave you?"
When he returned home on the third day of the Lunar New Year, he saw that everything belonging to her in the room, from jewelry to her clothes in the wardrobe, had been taken away, leaving only his belongings in the room.
Upon hearing his words, Sang Ning's heart skipped a beat.
But then he thought that they were getting their divorce certificate next week, so it was normal for him to settle their assets now.
So she sat up straighter and answered seriously:
"The three bank cards you gave me before, as well as the jewelry and other gifts you gave me every time you came back, I returned them all to your mother when I left the Jing family on New Year's Eve."
Jing Muchi's hand holding the wine glass trembled slightly as he stared in astonishment and confusion at the woman whose mouth kept opening and closing as she spoke.
"And the money you deposited into my account every quarter, apart from your family members' birthdays, gifts, or other necessary expenses, I haven't touched it. I transferred the rest of the money back to your mother's account. Oh, and all the interest was returned. If you don't believe me, I can show you the transaction records to reconcile the accounts."
“When I left your house, I didn’t take a single penny from the Jing family. I only took the bracelet that my grandfather gave me when I got married,” Sang Ning explained in detail.
She paused, then added, "When I left that day, I was wearing the clothes I brought with me when I married you."
She didn't take any of the haute couture clothes, shoes, bags, and other items he had arranged for her every quarter.
Her words were like knives, stabbing into Jing Muchi's heart again and again. Just imagining how pitiful she looked when she left home made his heart ache terribly.
Why do this?
Jing Muchi found that his throat was choked when he spoke.
Sang Ning didn't quite understand what he meant, "...What?"
Why didn't you take anything with you?
Jing Muchi looked at her, feeling as if something was blocking his chest, and his words trembled as he spoke.
"Also, why has Mom never told me about this? Did you ask her to keep it a secret? Why?"
She asked her to keep it a secret?
Upon hearing this, Sang Ning couldn't help but twitch her lips with a bitter and helpless expression.
“I didn’t. I don’t know why your mother didn’t tell you, but it wasn’t my idea for her to hide it. You should ask her about this.”
"As for why I didn't take anything with me."
Sang Ning paused for a moment, staring intently at him. "You said I should leave with nothing. Haven't I been strictly following your instructions?"
Of course, she never wanted anything from the Jing family.
Even if her mother hadn't forcefully demanded and supervised her to return everything, she wouldn't have taken anything with her.
Upon hearing her words, Jing Muchi's head buzzed, and his thoughts drifted back to before the New Year—
He returned to China two days before Lunar New Year's Eve.
For the past two years, he has been flying back and forth between China and other countries day and night, working himself to the bone, all in order to shift the company's focus back to China as soon as possible so that he can return to her side soon.
In the nights before returning to China, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep, constantly dreaming of a happy life where he would never have to be separated from her again.
As a result, on the very night he returned, Sang Ning dealt him a severe blow.
She actually asked him for a divorce.
Jing Muchi was completely bewildered at the time and asked her why.
She said she wanted a divorce because he came back.
What kind of fucking ridiculous reasons are these?
So it turns out he was the only one who wished to come back and be with her every day, while she didn't want him to come back at all.
He was so angry that he went berserk on the spot.
The next day, she kept calling him, but he wouldn't answer.
That evening, he was drinking at the club, and when he was quite tipsy, his mother called.
After several attempts, he finally answered the phone.
His mother asked him if the divorce was true.
He didn't know that Sang Ning had actually taken the matter to her parents. When he heard that Sang Ning was also on his mother's side and that they were on speakerphone, Jing Muchi was so angry that the smell of alcohol rushed to his head. He loudly questioned Sang Ning whether she really wanted a divorce.
A woman's cool and resolute voice came from the other end of the phone, "Yes."
"Good, very good!"
Enraged, he tilted his head back and gulped down a glass of wine, angrily saying, "Sang Ning, listen to me carefully. If you dare to divorce me, you will have to leave with nothing. You won't be able to take a single penny of the Jing family's property with you. If you regret it, I won't listen to you even if you beg me."
After saying that, he angrily hung up the phone.
Then, they drank one glass after another.
In fact, the next day, he had completely forgotten that he had received a phone call the night before.
The very next morning, before he had even sobered up, his mother called, urging him to go home and get a divorce from Sang Ning. Only then did he vaguely remember that his mother had called him the night before and that she knew about Sang Ning's divorce proceedings.
When he got home, he saw his mother and Sang Ning waiting for him in the living room.
"Achi, why are you only coming back now? Xiaoning has been waiting for you for ages."
Jing Muchi ignored his mother and looked at Sang Ning instead.
Sang Ning looked him straight in the eye. "Let's go to the Civil Affairs Bureau now. It's New Year's Eve, so they'll probably close early this afternoon."
Jing Muchi, with a sullen face, didn't say a word. He stepped forward, grabbed her, and walked out. After shoving her into his sports car, he sped off to the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau.
Then he turned to look at her with a gloomy expression, "Sang Ning, if you dare to leave, get out of the car right now."
Under his gaze, Sang Ning slowly unbuckled her seatbelt and got out of the car.
After waiting a while and seeing that he hadn't come down, she went around to the driver's side and said to him, "You should come down too."
Jing Muchi's blood pressure soared with anger.
He just wanted to scare her, he didn't really want a divorce.
But I never expected that this woman, who is usually as docile as a lamb, would be so stubborn and infuriating today.
He refused to get out of the car.
"I didn't bring my ID, so I can't process your application today..."
Before he could finish speaking, he saw the woman take out a stack of documents from the particularly wide pocket of her coat.
"I have brought all the necessary documents."
"..."
Does she really want to leave him?
Jing Muchi didn't know if he was just trying to save face or if he was really so angry that he lost his temper, but he actually got out of the car in a huff and went in with her to register for a divorce.
The two came out of the Civil Affairs Bureau again. His face was still dark and he didn't say a word. After getting into the car, he slammed the door shut. After waiting for a while, the woman still hadn't gotten in. He looked at the people standing outside the car and said, "Aren't you getting in?"
Sang Ning simply shook her head at him, "No need, let's go our separate ways."
Before Jing Muchi could speak, she added, "We're coming back to get our divorce certificates in a month, and then I..."
She wanted to say something more, but none of it was something Jing Muchi wanted to hear. He simply stepped on the gas and drove off, not wanting to listen to her.
He returned to the Jing family home on the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, only to find that Sang Ning had already left, and everything in the room related to her was gone.
I went to the Sang family's house to look for her, but I didn't see her.
He searched the entire city of Beijing but couldn't find him, and that's when he started to panic.
Later, he found out that she had actually run away to Jiangcheng, so he couldn't wait to catch up with her.
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