Chapter 68 Divorce
The weather was already humid and hot. The three people stood in the narrow door frame. Only a beam of light came in through the door, and the air seemed to have been squeezed out.
Xu Mo stood between the two men.
In the sticky air, time seemed to freeze for a moment.
Zhao Tingyu raised his eyebrows, his stern face showing no emotion, and asked nonchalantly, "Why are you here so late?"
Lin Jingchuan tightened his fingers slightly at the side of his legs, his face still calm: "I won't bother you with anything that happens between us as husband and wife."
He emphasized the pronunciation of the words "husband and wife".
Undercurrents are surging.
Xu Mo glanced at her mother's closed door and opened her mouth to end this awkward encounter. She explained to Lin Jingchuan, "He came back to see my dad."
She then said to Zhao Tingyu, "Aren't you going to the hotel? Let's go, it's already late."
Zhao Tingyu's gaze fell on her face, half hidden in the shadows: "See you tomorrow."
Xu Mo nodded.
Lin Jingchuan was the only one left outside the door.
He looked up at her, his handsome face was tense and there was a faint redness in his eye sockets.
Xu Mo took the luggage from his hand and said, "Come in quickly."
Lin Jingchuan took a shower and came to Xu Mo's room. She was sitting on the bedside, browsing her phone. Seeing him come in with wet hair, she patted the spot beside her: "Here."
Lin Jingchuan sat down on the edge of the bed. Xu Mo pointed to the hair dryer on the table and said, "The air conditioner is cold. Let's blow dry our hair first."
Lin Jingchuan blew his hair again as he was told, his mind already drifting far away.
After he finished drying his hair, Xu Mo said to him, "I'm a little sleepy. Let's go to bed first."
Lin Jingchuan looked at her sleepy face and asked slowly, "Why is he here?"
Xu Mo uttered an "oh" and then seemed to react: "Didn't I just say it at the door? My dad fell and hurt himself, so he came back to see my dad."
"Why is he in your house?"
"He has always lived in my house."
Lin Jingchuan closed his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Yes, he has always lived in your house. You have known each other for almost ten years."
Because Zhao Tingyu and she had known each other for a long time, and because of the unbreakable connection between them, as long as they didn't go to bed, whatever they did was reasonable.
It is reasonable to eat together alone, and it is reasonable to be in the same space so late.
He didn't even have the chance to feel jealous.
It's like a thorn in the throat that you can't swallow or spit out.
Xu Mo was not unaware that his mood was not right, but she also felt that he had known about the relationship between her and Zhao Tingyu for a long time. Now that she and Zhao Tingyu had completely broken up, why was he so concerned?
"Go to bed early. You must be tired after taking the high-speed train here today."
Xu Mo raised her hand and turned off the light.
After a while, Lin Jingchuan slowly lay down.
Xu Mo's voice slowly rang out: "Why are you here? Don't you have to go to work tomorrow?"
In the darkness, Lin Jingchuan looked at the ceiling above his head, with moonlight pouring through the curtains: "Yeah."
"Have you taken a long vacation?" Xu Mo asked.
Lin Jingchuan closed his eyes and did not deny it.
Xu Mo was a little sleepy, so she yawned and turned sideways to sleep with her back to him.
Lin Jingchuan opened his eyes. In the darkness, the man's facial features appeared particularly profound.
An unprecedented deep fatigue enveloped him.
The fact that Fei Yiming asked him to leave the company, the fact that Lin Hui came to find him, and the fact that she saw Zhao Tingyu at her door, were like a tangled mess, lingering in her mind.
Leaving Lan University was expected. He had already anticipated this day when Fei Yiji appeared.
He had known that this would be the case with Lin Hui's matter.
But what about Xu Mo and Zhao Tingyu?
Even when he saw Zhao Tingyu standing at her door, her reaction was so indifferent when he asked her.
As if she didn't mind at all that he had a grudge.
Why doesn't she want to have a wedding?
Even something as important as getting a marriage certificate wasn’t even posted on WeChat Moments.
It’s obvious that when she was with Zhao Tingyu, she loved posting on WeChat Moments.
Their breakup was not a happy one, so why could she still get along with him without any grudges?
There always seemed to be an atmosphere between them that outsiders could not interfere with.
It is something that only people who have been together for a long time will have.
Did he underestimate the relationship between her and Zhao Tingyu, or did he overestimate his own feelings?
Why do I feel like my heart is wrapped in a transparent cocoon at this moment?
Can't be torn apart or escaped.
Lin Jingchuan opened his eyes and called her name calmly: "Xu Mo."
"Um?"
"Don't you even ask me what happened to me today and why I came here at night?"
Xu Mo was already very sleepy, and only heard part of his words: "Huh? So what happened to you today?"
Her tone was hazy.
He opened his eyes, looked at the cold moonlight on the ceiling, and spoke slowly: "Do you love me?"
There was no echo from next door, only the sound of shallow breathing.
Lin Jingchuan curled the corners of his lips, but there was no warmth in his eyes. He closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep.
When Xu Mo woke up the next morning, she found that Lin Jingchuan was no longer around.
She walked out of the room and found him preparing breakfast with her mother.
Xu's mother had to go to work and was in a hurry to go out. She told Lin Jingchuan to turn off the fire in five minutes and then hurriedly left home.
Xu Mo leaned against the door frame and watched.
She and Lin Jingchuan were the only ones left at home. When Lin Jingchuan took the buns out of the pot, he noticed her.
He waved at her, his usual warm smile hanging on the corner of his lips: "Breakfast time."
Xu Mo walked over.
While eating breakfast, Lin Jingchuan said, "I have already bought the ingredients for cooking for uncle this morning. I will prepare it later. We can go to the hospital together around 11 o'clock."
Xu Mo was stunned for a moment: "Ah, have you bought the ingredients today?"
Lin Jingchuan looked up at her.
Xu Mo pursed her lips and said, "My dad suddenly sent me a message last night saying he wanted to eat Chen Ji's food. Zhao Tingyu has already made an order with the boss."
Lin Jingchuan's hand holding the chopsticks stiffened slightly.
Xu Mo comforted him: "It's okay, those ingredients won't be wasted. We'll make them tomorrow and bring them over."
The days in Nanshi passed quickly. Every day I went to the hospital to bring meals to Mr. Xu, chatted with him, and took walks in the small city where I grew up.
In the evening, after Xu's mother got off work, the family watched TV together in the living room.
Although Zhao Tingyu comes occasionally.
But there didn't seem to be any particularly tense atmosphere between him and Lin Jingchuan.
Lin Jingchuan is still very decent and rational in his dealings with others, and he always has a warm smile on his face.
Xu Mo gradually dispelled her doubts about Lin Jingchuan minding the relationship between her and Zhao Tingyu.
It wasn't until she returned to Guangzhou, two months after she started working at Zhao Tingyu's company.
Lin Jingchuan handed her a document.
"Divorce Agreement".
All the events of the past two months suddenly flooded into Xu Mo's mind like a tide, but she found it difficult to figure out why he wanted a divorce.
Actually, a lot happened during that time.
The first thing was that she accidentally learned the news that Lin Jingchuan had left the Lan family.
The second thing was that Lin Hui came to the community once and cried and shouted at the door, telling Lin Jingchuan that he could not ignore him, otherwise he would be forced to death.
Xu Mo once asked Lin Jingchuan what happened to Lin Hui. Did he owe debts outside and need money, so he came to him?
Lin Jingchuan just said that this had nothing to do with them. He was not a qualified father, so at this moment he could not be a qualified son.
At that moment, Xu Mo felt that he seemed to have changed, but she couldn't tell what had changed.
The divorce agreement lay quietly on the walnut desk.
Xu Mo looked at the big words on the cover of the document and hesitated to open it.
Although I had sensed something from his gradually cold attitude over the past few months, this incident was still too sudden.
There has to be a reason.
She asked Lin Jingchuan: "Why do you want a divorce?"
Lin Jingchuan's expression was calm: "Xu Mo, there is no love between us."
She was stunned for a moment, ignoring the faint cracks deep in her heart, and smiled: "There is no love between us, didn't you know it a long time ago?"
"We made it clear the day we decided to get married: you wanted me because I'm young, beautiful, and have a good family, and I wanted you to help me forget my ex-boyfriend, whom I had loved for eight years."
Lin Jingchuan's breathing stopped for a moment. Looking at her beautiful and cold face, he pursed his lips and said, "That's it."
Xu Mo was stunned for a moment, and made a final attempt to persuade him to stay: "Do you have any difficulties? What happened to your father? Did he owe a lot of money outside? Why did you leave Lan University? Do you need money? You can tell me."
"If there are any problems, we can solve them together. Don't think I'm the kind of person who will run away when disaster strikes. I'm not that kind of person."
Lin Jingchuan looked at her slightly furrowed brows and smiled: "Nothing."
"I just regretted the hasty decision I made. It's a good thing I didn't have children, otherwise I would be trapped in a loveless marriage."
"I leave the house to you as my compensation to you."
Xu Mo asked, "Are you serious?"
"yes."
Xu Mo took off the pen cap: "Okay."
She signed her name to the agreement.
After enduring the cooling-off period, about a month later, she and Lin Jingchuan got their divorce certificate.
This marriage, which started hastily and lasted less than a year, ended just as hastily.
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