Get a certificate
"Why would you pay such a high price?" Xia Zhitang looked at Father Gu on the screen, puzzled. "Zi'an can have many children in the future. There's really no need."
Father Gu sighed, and the sharp edge of a superior in his eyelids and brows retracted, and was subtly tinged with kindness.
"Tangtang, there are some paths in life that you can only understand after you've experienced them yourself." Father Gu looked at Xia Zhitang with a kind look in his eyes. "Zi'an isn't as smart as you. He can only experience the things you can understand early on step by step."
"But I envy his courage. This kind of sincerity that is unique to young people is very precious." Xia Zhitang suddenly missed Gu Zian a little.
"Let's try to get along for two years first. No one can predict what will happen in the future. If that brat has grown up in two years, don't leave."
For the sake of his son, Mr. Gu finally compromised.
"As long as the day comes when Zi'an and I can't go on together and have to separate, I can leave as the child's guardian. I'm actually willing to continue with him." Xia Zhitang lowered her eyes and gently stroked the burping little Qingmiao through her belly. "Don't blame me for being heartless. As a mother, if I follow the normal marriage process, it's unlikely I'll be able to win custody of the child."
"Tangtang, you are a mother, and I am a father." Father Gu showed a trace of fatigue in front of the camera, "Come back."
Fate quietly changed the direction of certain processes in a subtle way, and Xia Zhitang made a similar choice as Lin Jingming did.
She sat by the window, sipping hot tea, gazing out at the towering trees blurred by the moonlight. She couldn't help but wonder: perhaps Lin Jingming's original choice to marry Su Wen was motivated by genuine affection. But things had changed, and both had been lost in the whirlpool of fame and fortune. Material possessions, power, and admiration—how difficult it was to maintain one's original aspirations amidst all the allure of gold.
During these days away, Xia Zhitang thought a lot. Only by being away from the hustle and bustle of the outside world could he calm down and think.
Thinking about her relationship with Gu Zian and thinking about the future.
Leaving is the body's subconscious reaction. Before you have time to think about it, you are already abroad.
To describe the feeling, it's like a frightened hamster, jumping away subconsciously, with both the body and the mind telling the brain that this place is no longer safe.
After a hasty escape and two more bus transfers from the airport, she finally settled down in a strange city.
At this moment, she finally realized what she had done.
When Lin Jingming called, Xia Zhitang vaguely felt that something was wrong.
The moment Lin Jingming spoke after picking up the phone, the feeling that something was wrong reached its peak, and Xia Zhitang realized that Zi'an was where Lin Jingming was.
Some words she found easier to say than across thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, or through invisible and intangible cell phone signals.
Close contact between people, filled with too much body language and facial expressions, all told her what Gu Zian needed. Zian didn't want to believe that he really didn't want to get married, and he didn't want to accept this truth.
During this period, Xia Zhitang was too depressed. She tried hard to express her needs, but her expression was ignored. In other words, her expression was completely ignored. The other party might think that as long as my will is stronger than yours, as long as I insist on my own ideas, then you will compromise.
In fact, this kind of intimate relationship between people does require each other to give up a little independence and tolerate each other, otherwise the relationship will not continue.
However, Xia Zhitang couldn't deceive herself into giving in. She knew exactly what that would mean, so she refused to do so. Unable to sink into despair, she chose to give up, giving up the seemingly promising options, giving up comfort, giving up stability.
After hanging up the phone, Xia Zhitang's excitement gradually calmed down. A bank card transfer information popped up on his phone, and the remitter was Lin Jingming.
She couldn't help but feel a little touched. You don't need too many friends. One or two who can help you when you need them are enough.
Xia Zhitang felt that the future seemed to be full of courage again. After sending a message to Lin Jingming to arrange the next work, Xia Zhitang took out his computer and began to plan how to settle down in this strange city.
As an adult with quite good working ability, Xia Zhitang has confidence in himself and it is not particularly difficult for him to plan and arrange his life as carefully as he handles his work.
Xia Zhitang had expected Father Gu to contact her, but she had not expected that Father Gu would be willing to listen to her true thoughts.
Xia Zhitang looked at the screen and saw some clear lines on the corners of Gu's father's eyes despite the blurry camera, and he couldn't help but feel a little soft-hearted.
He is also a father who loves Zi'an and is willing to share his respect with her father.
Lin Jingming's message made Xia Zhitang, who was originally a little hesitant, feel that there seemed to be nothing to avoid.
At this delicate moment, Xia Zhitang felt that she was enveloped by a feeling called happiness, and she seemed to have a lot of emotional power.
She talked a lot with Gu's father, including what she saw and heard when she went to Yun Province, and the entanglement between Guan Mingyue and Cheng Shubai.
Father Gu listened silently most of the time, nodding and adding a sentence or two from time to time.
Xia Zhitang couldn't help but become more and more excited as he spoke, and tears flowed down his face inadvertently.
During this period, Zi'an and the Gu family were unwilling to honor her wishes and her words, but finally opened the door to her when she was in a foreign country.
Xia Zhitang reviewed the agreement proposed by Gu's father and couldn't help but sigh that he was really a natural businessman who could accurately capture the true demands of others.
He could see that what he was resisting was not marriage itself, but the fact that what he would lose after entering into marriage was really huge.
Whether it is an agreement to grant custody during a limited period of marriage, or a special allocation of funds for career development, these are all things that Xia Zhitang can accept and even desire.
Xia Zhitang put down the teacup, stroked his belly and whispered, "That's it, Xiao Qingmiao, let's give it a try. I'll take you back to see Daddy tomorrow."
Lin Jingming did not come on the day of signing the agreement, so Wang Jiajia, as her best friend, accompanied Xia Zhitang.
As soon as Gu Zian saw the person, he stood up from his chair and rushed towards Xia Zhitang.
"Sister." Gu Zian hugged her tightly, "I'm glad you're back, I'm glad you're back."
"I'm sorry for making you worry." Xia Zhitang reached out and hugged him.
Gu Zian had the illusion that everything had returned to the way it was before, as if this absurd thing had never happened.
There wasn't much wrangling over the drafting of the agreement, as the lawyers on both sides were hammering out the details.
But Gu Zian didn't care at all. He flipped through the tablet to show Xia Zhitang the makeup for the marriage certificate, and his heart and eyes were full of anticipation to show off his bride to the whole world.
Wang Jiajia, who was watching this absurd scene, always felt that something was wrong with this world.
The agreement was finally revised. Under the witness of a third-party notary office, Xia Zhitang and Gu Zian sat in front of the camera and went through the fair process.
Xia Zhitang looked at Gu Zian, who signed his name on the contract with a stern face, and couldn't help but ask, "Zi'an, is this worth it?"
"What else can I do? Let you give birth to the child alone in a foreign country?" Gu Zian's eyes were moist and could not be suppressed.
Xia Zhitang was silent. She didn't think this was a painful or difficult thing, but neither Gu Zian nor Gu's father thought so.
"Sister, sign." Gu Zian handed the documents and pen to Xia Zhitang, "After you sign, let's take photos and get the certificate this afternoon."
Xia Zhitang and Gu Zian looked at each other silently for a few seconds, looking at the stubbornness and desire in his eyes, and sighed silently.
At this moment, her mood was a little complicated, with hopes and worries about the future, and feelings of being moved and guilty about her compromise with Gu Zian. All of these emotions were finally frozen at the moment when the pen signed her name.
Her second marriage in this life is about to begin.
Gu Zian's heart settled down the moment he saw Xia Zhitang press his bright red fingerprint on the signature spot, and his whole body exuded a bright and peaceful feeling.
Although he was very dissatisfied with the statement in the agreement that divorce would take place after two years, he had no choice at the moment. Getting the certificate first and getting married was the most important thing.
"Sister, let's go and get married." Gu Zian smiled and took Xia Zhitang's hand.
"good."
At this moment, Xia Zhitang's wandering heart finally became at peace. Since he had chosen this path, he would walk on it well.
Wang Jiajia's eyes became moist as she watched Xia Zhitang change into a plain white dress and take photos for the marriage certificate with Gu Zian against a bright red background.
Even if the process is a bit tortuous, this moment is still touching.
When Gu Zian saw the stamp fall on the freshly-made photo with a bright red background and the pink page, he felt satisfied and excited.
At this moment, he could announce to the whole world that Xia Zhitang was his wife, his legal wife.
While Gu Zian was paralyzed by a certain wave of anger while holding Xia Zhitang in one hand and holding up a picture of their marriage certificate in the other, Lin Jingming was staying in Cheng Shubai's office drinking alone.
Cheng Shubai looked up from a pile of documents at his friend who looked lonely by the window and couldn't help shaking his head.
"Two years." Lin Jingming muttered, holding up his wine glass. "Fool."
Cheng Shubai didn't know whether the word "fool" was referring to Xia Zhitang or Lin Jingming himself.
In his eyes, whether it was Lin Jingming, Gu Zian, or Xia Zhitang, all three of them were fools.
The first meal after getting the marriage certificate was booked at a hotel. Xia Zhitang didn't recognize most of the people in the private room. Her late husband's parents sat at the bride's table as Xia Zhitang's godparents. Wang Jiajia and her parents also came to support Xia Zhitang.
After taking turns to recognize and talk to each person, Xia Zhitang sat in his seat feeling a little tired and subconsciously opened his phone and swiped the chat bar all the way to Lin Jingming's avatar.
She looked at Lin Jingming's unusually quiet profile picture and wanted to say something to him, but didn't know where to start.
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