Chapter 23.2

Yu Haiqiao’s voice rang from the front, “Have you been living by yourself as of late?”

I replied, “Yeah.” After a while, Yu Haiqiao coldly chuckled, “I’m not even at home. What are you living there for?”

Naturally because the name written on the deed of the single apartment was mine. Yu Haiqiao’s question sure was funny.

At the end of the journey, I found myself at the entrance of my apartment. The two of us hadn’t exchanged a single word at all. Having rarely encountered an awkward situation with Yu Haiqiao, I sat in the backseat feeling a little restless. When the car came to a stop, I opened the door and immediately jumped out, my hand still holding the remains of the tangerine skin. I prepared to look for a trash to can to throw the remains in and was quickly pacing towards one when Yu Haiqiao called out from within the car, “Shi Ran.”

I turned my head back and replied with “Ah?”

The lights in this area were dim so I couldn’t see Yu Haiqiao’s expression from where I stood. I could only see his silhouette faintly leaning on top of the car window and I heard him calmly say, “I’ll pick you up tomorrow at 8.”

I usually headed to work at 9 and the place I lived at the moment was closer to work. When I was in good spirits, it would only take 20 minutes to reach by foot. I was a little confused, asking, “What are you picking me up for?”

Yu Haiqiao replied, “Didn’t you say you wanted a divorce? The bureau will be open on Monday.”

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Yu Haiqiao threw the divorce contract from the front to me, “Take a look at it yourself.”

I was too lazy to take a look and was confident that there were no problems about dividing joint assets nor children’s custody to settle so I didn’t even spare the contract a glance and immediately took out a pen from my bag to sign my name, even asking in passing, “Did you bring all the other documents?”

“I did.” Yu Haiqiao responded.

The car only took 10 minutes to reach the nearest Bureau of Civil Affairs and because we arrived early, we didn’t need to wait in line. After handing in all of the required documents, we silently filled out the required forms.

The time we spent there wasn’t very long. By the time we came out, I estimated that if I could hail a cab to work, I could have enough time to buy a rice ball at the convenience store near the company building and heat it up to eat.

Yu Haiqiao was silent all throughout the whole process of handling our divorce. Upon leaving the building, he stood in front of his car, insisting on sending me to work. When we were married, I didn’t ask him to send me to work so now that we were divorced, there was even less of a reason why he should do so. I rejected his offer and said that I was going to take a taxi. I even kindheartedly asked him to hurry off since he could be late for work.

Yu Haiqiao heard this and stared at me for a long while. He then suddenly gave me a fierce glare as he stood in front of his car.

Feeling confused as to why he would suddenly glare at me, I couldn’t help but feel provoked, “Glare at me one more time and I’ll gouge your eyes out!”

Yu Haiqiao ignored my threat and said in annoyance, “The divorce papers are printed. Are you satisfied?”

I immediately expressed, “Very much so.”

Yu Haiqiao shifted his gaze away and cast it onto the oncoming cars. After a while, he spat out in a low voice, “You always have to win every little thing against me. Fine, now you’ve won. Are you satisfied?”

Now that the situation has developed up to this point and Yu Haiqiao still wanted to put the blame on me, it really made me speechless. He was the one who proposed for us to get married; he was also the one who made an angry fuss about getting divorced. I was completely innocent, simply holding a script to follow in my hands. He wanted to get married, so I did. He wanted to get divorced, so I did. Now that we’re here today, he still wanted to pin the blame on me, even saying that I was the source of the start of this pain-in-the-ass relationship.

Yu Haiqiao was really hopeless. I began to evaluate how blind I must’ve been, having been played by this b!tch Yu Haiqiao for more than 20 years and upon thinking until here, I rolled my eyes and gathered my scarf, preparing to head to work.

Yu Haiqiao suddenly spoke up again, “I have a question that I wanted to ask you.”

I felt that my relationship with Yu Haiqiao was like a beautiful moonlit night, able to leave any time I wanted. I had already begun to feel detached from my relationship with him and calmly responded, “Alright, speak.”

Yu Haiqiao said, “Aside from wearing the ring I proposed to you with in a simple ceremony we conducted, where did you throw it?”

Oh, when Yu Haiqiao gave me a ring, I wore it. When we exchanged rings during the ceremony, I also had to put it on. The rest of the time, I didn’t. The main reason was because it wasn’t convenient to wear a ring so I placed it inside the dressing table. I didn’t understand the meaning behind his question and I also remembered later that he clearly also never wore his wedding ring.

At first, I inquired, “Propose?” If throwing me the ring box could be considered proposing, then… “I think it’s inside the drawer of the dressing table.” I responded

After I finished, Yu Haiqiao glared at me for no reason again and asked me in a foul mood, “Have you had breakfast?”

“….” I couldn’t help feeling a little irritated at his behavior, “I did I did. You’re so annoying. I’m going back to work otherwise my perfect attendance bonus is going to disappear.”

Yu Haiqiao’s face stiffened hearing my words and he took out his phone and pressed on the screen a few times. The phone in my pocket then vibrated and I slowly took it out for a look. Yu Haiqiao said, “I transferred 1000 yuan to you. That should be worth your one month’s perfect attendance bonus. Though I don’t know how much salary you earn in a month, it’s ridiculous seeing you put on an appearance as if you love working.”

I stared at the WeChat money transfer notice from Yu Haiqiao and felt that the idiot must’ve finally lost his head but on second thought, it would still be a waste to reject the money. After wasting my precious time getting married and divorcing him, I accepted the transferred money, treating it as a compensation fee for the damage he had dealt to me.

Yu Haiqiao opened the car and got in. He then opened the passenger’s seat from the inside and turned to me, calling out in annoyance, “Get in quick. This daddy woke up before 7 just to drive to your place and waited downstairs. After dilly-dallying around, it’s already going to be 9am. Quickly accompany me for a meal, I’m starving to death.”

“…..”

My god. Yu Haiqiao may have really lost his mind.

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