Chapter 2 Breakup
After sending Zhao Tingyu back to his home, Xu Mo turned on the air conditioner and humidifier for him, and made him a cup of honey water and placed it on the bedside.
He seemed to be really drunk, lying on the bed with his eyes closed, motionless.
Xu Mo looked at him for a while, then turned around and prepared to leave.
She rushed over to pick him up after receiving the call, without even eating anything, and now she felt a dull pain in her stomach.
I don’t know if it was because he was hungry or because I felt uncomfortable when I heard him say “I don’t like it that much”.
Actually, he is not wrong.
She and Zhao Tingyu have been together for eight years.
He is her elder brother Bai Yueguang, and also the handsome and good-looking brother of her neighbor.
Since high school, she has been chasing after him.
Later, when they were together, she was the one who gave up first every time they had a fight.
When he reached the age when everyone in his family was urging him to get married, he seemed to be playing dumb every Chinese New Year, deliberately ignoring the hints from relatives and friends, while she would smile and smooth things over, saying that we were still young and there was no need to rush into marriage.
No matter how you look at it, she loves more.
Xu Mo took a deep breath, closed her eyes for a moment, and walked out.
But he suddenly grabbed my wrist.
His slightly cool fingertips left fingerprints on the skin of her wrist.
Xu Mo turned her head and found that Zhao Tingyu had opened his eyes at some point. He lay on the bed with his eyes half closed, looking at her with a cold look in his eyes.
"Xu Mo."
Zhao Tingyu sat up from the bed, holding her hand, and had no intention of letting her go.
Xu Mo pursed her lips.
"Dudu is waiting for me at home," Xu Mo said. "The cat feeder won't be here tomorrow."
"Do you have to leave tonight?" the man said in a low voice.
"I……"
Before she could finish her words, Zhao Tingyu suddenly stood up and held her chin, followed by a barrage of kisses.
Zhao Tingyu had an extremely cold smell on him, like the long white light tubes at the top of the hospital corridor.
In fact, when he was in high school, he didn’t smell like this. He wasn’t so cold back then, and even gave people a gentle feeling.
But perhaps it was because of something that happened in his family during his senior year of high school. In recent years, as he grew older, his facial features and temperament became increasingly cold.
He also seemed to be moving further and further away from her.
Every time she went on a business trip, he would be inexplicably cold to her, and even when Xu Mo wanted to call him, he would not answer.
This quarrel also started because she was on a business trip and he was inexplicably cold.
But he was so cold towards her, yet seemed obsessed with her body.
Xu Mo was held in his arms. She could feel Zhao Tingyu sucking her lips very hard and nibbling every inch of her chin, neck, and chest.
She was carried to the bed, Zhao Tingyu took off her clothes and covered her with his whole body.
The arrow was on the string, Xu Mo was kissed on the lips, and she said vaguely: "Wear a condom..."
Zhao Tingyu's eyes darkened, and he whispered in her ear, "What are you afraid of?"
"I'm afraid of getting pregnant..."
"No, I'll do it outside."
He had said this every time before, regardless of her fear and opposition. She was afraid that her refusal would make him angry, so she compromised.
But this time it's different.
Xu Mo suddenly opened her eyes and said firmly, "I don't want to get pregnant. Wear a condom, or I won't do it."
She is now in the rising stage of her career. She has worked in the office for four years and will be promoted to manager in another year. Getting pregnant at this time will undoubtedly ruin her future.
Zhao Tingyu looked at her deeply for a few seconds and took out a condom from the drawer.
Xu Mo felt relieved only after seeing him put it on.
Afterwards, Xu Mo went to take a shower. Zhao Tingyu had already finished smoking and was lying on the bed. When he saw her come out, he patted the spot beside him and said, "Come and sleep."
Xu Mo went to bed holding the bath towel on her body.
Zhao Tingyu held her in his arms and closed his eyes.
Moonlight filtered through the gauze curtains from outside the window, and Xu Mo depicted Zhao Tingyu's three-dimensional facial features.
This is the person she has liked for ten years, the person she has drawn again and again on draft paper, the person she has chased after desperately, and the person she has to taste even though she knows that a forced melon is not sweet.
She thought that as long as she loved him enough and treated him well enough, he would be able to feel it one day.
But not being loved is the original sin.
Zhao Tingyu has always been cold to her, not because he has a cold personality.
It's just that he didn't like her that much.
Xu Mo recalled the words she heard in the bar:
——"Just go, I don't like it that much anyway."
"Zhao Tingyu." Xu Mo called his name.
"What?"
After hesitating for a while, Xu Mo said:
"Let's break up."
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Xu Mo's breakup was sudden, and Zhao Tingyu simply asked her, "Are you serious?" before letting her go.
Xu Mo contacted the moving company quickly.
At eight o'clock the next morning, all the things she left at Zhao Tingyu's house were moved back to her own apartment.
Xu Mo held the kitten Dudu in her arms for a while, then deeply sniffed the warm milky scent of cat litter and cat feces on its body, feeling that her soul was healed.
Toot meowed.
Xu Mo rubbed his head: "Fortunately, I still have you!"
Dudu's round eyes suddenly closed and then opened again. Xu Mo knew that it was expressing its love to her.
Xu Mo kissed it again.
After cleaning out the shit, adding water and food, Xu Mo made a lunch appointment with her best friend Xu Shiying.
After adding the soup base, turn the heat to the highest level. The heat will soon reach the point where the red and oily soup base will bubble up.
"Divide! Good divide! It should have been divided long ago!"
After hearing the news that Xu Mo announced her breakup with Zhao Tingyu, Xu Shiying laughed out loud.
As Xu Mo's college roommate, Xu Shiying felt sad and annoyed by the long and boring love story between Xu Mo and Zhao Tingyu, which was like a TV series.
The family at the next table couldn't help but cast strange glances at the beautiful woman who had delicate makeup but laughed without caring about her image at all.
Xu Shiying didn't care at all. She clapped her hands and said, "Xu Mo, congratulations! You've finally escaped bad people and bad things and been reborn!"
Xu Mo fished out the beef she had put in, pursed her lips and looked at her, correcting her words: "Shiying, it's actually not that bad. Nothing serious happened. We broke up peacefully."
"A peaceful breakup?" Xu Shiying raised her eyebrows. "Is it really peaceful or just a fake one? You've been able to tolerate his attitude towards you for eight years. It's incredible."
Xu Shiying poured the beef balls into the pot and said as she poured, "You said you were on a business trip. It's fine that he didn't come to see you, but he didn't even answer the phone. I think there might be something fishy going on. Xu Mo, have you checked his phone? Is he seeing another woman outside?"
Xu Mo was silent for a while. She had thought about what Xu Shiying said.
After all, ever since she started working in the consulting industry, she has been on business trips frequently, so she hasn't been able to see Zhao Tingyu all the time. But with Zhao Tingyu's attractive face, many girls would probably throw themselves at him.
However, these ideas remained only speculation. She had not looked at Zhao Tingyu's mobile phone for fear of making him angry.
Xu Mo shook her head: "Forget it! Never mind. We've already broken up, so I won't think about those things anymore."
"Okay, no matter how you divide it, it's fine as long as you divide it," said Xu Shiying.
Xu Mo comforted herself, "Actually, Zhao Tingyu is pretty good to me. When I was moving today, I cleared out the three bags, five necklaces, and two watches he gave me. They were all quite expensive, but he didn't want them back. He told me to take them with me and throw them away if I didn't like them."
She thought at the time that she would not throw away these things, which were worth nearly a million yuan.
Xu Shiying raised an eyebrow and commented, "Actually, Zhao Tingyu is well-off. His family owns a company, so he's well-off. He's a good student and has a decent IQ. You and I are from the same place, so we know each other well."
"Um?"
"He's good in every way, but he just doesn't love you enough."
"......" Xu Mo covered her chest, "It hurts my heart, sister."
"It's okay. People always have to go through some things before they know what is good." Xu Shiying picked up a beef ball and handed it to her. "Bao'er, there are many beautiful women in the world. We don't need his money. Let's eat something good next time."
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