"Li Hongru, I'm giving you a chance to part ways amicably. If you don't want to, I'll go to the Public Security Bureau tomorrow to ask. I won't sign, and we'll see if you can finally adopt Zhu Yuanyuan!"
"You, you have to be so heartless?" Li Hongru couldn't believe his ears.
"From the moment I decided to divorce, I had no way out. You'd better not force me."
Under the dim light, Zhang Weifang's beautiful yet angry face was reflected. Li Hongru was in a daze for a moment. How did the two of them end up like this?
Hu Zi ran in from outside and timidly shouted:
"Mother."
"Hey, son, mom will take you away tomorrow."
Hu Zi turned to look at Li Hongru and asked softly:
"Dad, do you really not want me and mom?"
Hu Zi's words made the two adults feel heartbroken. Li Hongru suppressed the sour feeling in his nose and said:
"Huzi, Dad loves you the most, how could he not want you?"
"You're lying. I know everything. You like your sister, you quarreled with mom, and you wanted to divorce her."
"Hu Zi, no, it's not like that. Dad loves you, really." Faced with his son's accusations, Li Hongru's tears instantly came down.
Zhu Yuanyuan saw that something was wrong and quickly hugged Li Hongru, crying and saying:
"Uncle, you are my only relative left. You can't abandon me."
Zhang Weifang really couldn't stand it anymore. Even though Zhu Yuanyuan was only six years old, she had now become the person Zhang Weifang hated the most.
"Zhu Yuanyuan, you are alone, so you wanted to break up our family. Now, you have relatives, and my Hu Zi has lost his father. You are so vicious."
"Auntie, I didn't. Uncle, I'm not a bad kid." Zhu Yuanyuan felt even sadder.
Hu Zi also burst into tears and asked while crying:
"Dad, do you really only want my sister and not me?"
"Hu Zi, don't cry, Dad wants you." Li Hongru felt his heart broken into several pieces.
Hu Zi stopped crying when he heard this. He pushed Zhu Yuanyuan away with all his strength.
"Go away, don't come to my house, Daddy is mine."
Zhu Yuanyuan fell to the ground unexpectedly. Li Hongru quickly picked her up, patted the dirt off her pants, and comforted her:
"Yuanyuan, don't cry. Your brother is still young. He didn't mean it."
Li Hongru looked at Hu Zi again and asked seriously:
"Hu Zi, how could you hit a girl? Who taught you that?"
Hu Zi looked at Li Hongru blankly, unable to hide the disappointment in his eyes. He had just said that he loved his father the most, but his sister would immediately forget him if something happened.
Hu Zi didn't know what kind of feeling this was. He turned his head to look at his mother. Zhang Weifang held Hu Zi in her arms and comforted him gently.
If it weren't for the lack of a letter of introduction, Zhang Weifang really wanted to take Hu Zi away right now. Now, Hu Zi could only let him stay for another night.
"Li Hongru, take your Yuanyuan away and see you at the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow morning."
In this situation, Li Hongru knew that it was not appropriate to continue the conversation, so he tactfully took Zhu Yuanyuan back to the next room.
None of the four people in the family slept well that night.
For the first time ever, Hu Zi did not sleep in and got up with his mother at 7 o'clock.
Zhang Weifang exchanged a bag of milk and a loaf of bread in the system mall, and the two of them quickly had breakfast.
After Li Hongru got up, he washed his face with cold water to clear his mind.
He held on to his last hope and asked:
"Weifang, do you really want to get a divorce?"
"Yes, you won't have to take care of Hu Zi from now on. Don't let Hu Zi take care of you when you're old."
Hu Zi didn't say anything. He had been angry with his father since last night, so he ignored him all morning.
Li Hongru felt aggrieved and angry, but he had no one to talk to. He looked at Zhang Weifang again:
"All the money in the house belongs to you. It should be enough for Hu Zi's living expenses, right?"
"You can't say that. I've bought a lot of things in the past few years. Everything we eat, drink and use at home is bought by me." Zhang Weifang didn't want Hu Zi to trouble him when he was old, so he had to make things clear in advance.
Zhu Yuanyuan also knew that her uncle and aunt were going to divorce. She stood aside pitifully and said to Hu Zi:
"Brother, please stay here. Uncle likes you very much. We can live together in the future. I will take care of you."
Hu Zi was Zhang Weifang's Achilles' heel. When she heard Zhu Yuanyuan putting on airs again, she was so angry that she couldn't even maintain her last bit of dignity. She walked over and slapped her:
"Get away from me! You stole my man, and now you want to harm my son?"
Seeing Zhu Yuanyuan's swollen cheek, Li Hongru also slapped Zhang Weifang.
The scene suddenly stopped, and the burning pain made Zhang Weifang realize that this contest was finally coming to an end.
The pain on her face ended the last trace of emotion in her heart. It was good this way, so she could leave without any regrets.
Li Hongru regretted it immediately after hitting her. His hands kept shaking, and he moved his mouth twice before saying softly:
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
Zhang Weifang didn't say anything. She was worried about Hu Zi's reaction. Sure enough, Hu Zi's eyes turned red. He looked at Li Hongru fiercely and shouted:
"Dad, I hate you and I don't want you anymore."
"Be good, Hu Zi. Mommy's fine." Zhang Weifang quickly picked up Hu Zi. She didn't want to scare him, nor did she want to leave him with a traumatic childhood.
At this point, Li Hongru knew that this marriage could not be maintained, so he turned around and went back to find his household registration book and marriage certificate.
Soon, the two people came to the Civil Affairs Bureau with their ID cards.
In this day and age, there are very few people getting divorced, so it was done in less than ten minutes after the two of them went in.
When two people agree to divorce, there is no cooling-off period. The certificate officer will ask both parties whether they are willing to divorce. If it is confirmed that it is voluntary, they will directly issue the divorce certificate.
The two people stood at the door of the Civil Affairs Bureau, said goodbye to each other, and left, one in the east and the other in the west.
They each held a child in their hands and headed towards different futures.
"Ding ding ding," the Yue Lao system made a rare sound.
In recent years, Zhang Weifang had enough points, so she didn't use the system often. Unexpectedly, the system started ringing just after she got divorced.
"Host, what happened? Your red line just broke!" The big mouth of the Yue Lao system opened even wider, as if it wanted to eat someone.
"Qiqi, I'm divorced."
"What? Oh, okay." The Yue Lao System was surprised for a moment and then immediately regained its composure.
"Qiqi, my divorce is such a big deal, and this is your reaction?"
"Host, there are marriages and divorces, this is normal. Didi, the system has detected an update to the host's current red line, so, host, do you want to upgrade the system now?"
"The system can be upgraded? Why didn't you tell me before?" Zhang Weifang instantly felt that he had been cheated.
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