Upon hearing Ni Tianzhen's words, Ni Sitian's eyes instantly reddened, and she turned her head away, unable to bear looking at her any longer.
Upon hearing this, Li Shaoan turned pale. After seven years, he understood Ni Tianzhen's personality. For her to say such resolute words meant there was no possibility of reconciliation.
With trembling fingers, he took the divorce papers from the lawyer next to him. The veins on his hand holding the pen were slightly bulging, and the pen tip kept trembling.
“Tianzhen…” He looked up at Ni Tianzhen, his eyes filled with tears, and his voice was sorrowful: “I have always loved you.”
Ni Tianzhen simply smiled faintly at those words, because she genuinely found them amusing.
For seven years, he treated her very well, but he rarely said he loved her. Unexpectedly, when they were about to get a divorce, he said he loved her. Isn't that ridiculous?
Looking at her expression, Li Shaoan closed his eyes, tears rolling down his cheeks and dripping onto the divorce agreement.
He took a deep breath, lowered his head, and signed his name on the paper with trembling hands.
When Ni Tianzhen saw him finish signing, tears streamed down her face. She reached up to pull off the ring she had worn for seven years on the ring finger of her left hand.
Perhaps because she had worn it for so long, the ring had become like a part of her body, and she couldn't pull it off even with great force; her fingers were even red from being pulled.
Ni Sitian felt pain just looking at her, and tears welled up in her eyes. She walked over to Ni Tianzhen, took out a hand cream from her bag, and handed it to her.
After lubrication, the ring was easily pulled out.
Ni Tianzhen handed the ring to Li Shaoan, then took a divorce agreement from him, choking back tears: "From now on, we are even, and we have nothing to do with each other anymore."
Tears streamed down Li Shaoan's face as he gripped the ring tightly and lowered his hand.
Ni Tianzhen turned her head away and refused to look at him again.
Ni's mother cried and hit Li Shaoan, pushing him out, "Get out! Don't bother my daughter again."
Ni's father asked Ni Sitian to keep Ni Tianzhen company while he saw the lawyer out.
Ni Sitian sat down beside Ni Tianzhen's bed, held her hand, and looked at her crying so hard that her own eyes were filled with tears.
On her left ring finger, only a faded ring mark remains, the only trace of her seven-year marriage.
Ni Sitian couldn't say anything to persuade her. For Ni Tianzhen, removing that ring would probably be like cutting off a finger. She could only stay quietly by her side.
When Xu Tingchuan returned home, the house was pitch black.
He turned on the light but didn't see Ni Sitian in the living room. He then went into the bedroom but still didn't see Ni Sitian.
I glanced at the wall clock; it was already past nine.
She hasn't gone home this late. I went to pick her up from get off work in the afternoon, but she left early again.
Was it his words this morning that scared her, so she's afraid to face him?
Xu Tingchuan leaned wearily against the sofa, pressing his temples. What was he supposed to do with her? He seemed to be pondering the problem endlessly, but without ever reaching a conclusion.
On the surface, she appears gentle and weak, while he is more assertive, but in reality, he is completely helpless against her.
Xu Tingchuan sat up, took out a cigarette case and a lighter from the drawer, took out a cigarette, stood up and walked to the balcony, put the cigarette in his mouth, and lit it with the lighter.
He took a drag of his cigarette and slowly exhaled the smoke rings, as if releasing the pent-up frustration in his chest.
Over the years, he has rarely been so troubled by anything that he needs to smoke. Ni Sitian has unknowingly taken over his heart and is constantly influencing him.
If she really doesn't like him and doesn't want him to like her, what should he do?
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