The two chatted for a while, then Gu Lili left so as not to disturb her work.
Long Fengxi sat back at her desk, and when she saw the photo frame on the desk, she reached out and picked it up; it was a picture of Long Yubei and Gu Lili together.
She had grown up with Long Yubei since childhood. As kids, it wasn’t so much him hitting her, but rather her hitting him more.
It wasn’t that Long Yubei couldn’t beat her, but he didn’t want to lay a hand on her.
Born into the same family, went to the same class, always inseparable day by day.
Strangely in sync, both had been top students from childhood, always competing in their grades - often either he was first, or she was, and sometimes they even tied for first.
It’s strange, when people are present, many things are hard to recall.
But when people are absent, all sorts of old memories bubble up.
Long Fengxi put the photo frame in the drawer and continued with her work.
As the workday was nearing its end, she stretched lazily and glanced over the news with her mouse in hand.
The finance channel unexpectedly had news of Shen Congmo’s divorce.
The headline was big: [Shen Congmo willing to pay a billion in alimony to divorce Jin Miaomiao!]
On reading further, it mainly said that Shen Congmo and Jin Miaomiao had reached a mutual agreement on the divorce; Jin Miaomiao demanded one billion from Shen Congmo, otherwise she firmly refused to divorce, and Shen Congmo agreed, and they processed the divorce at the Civil Affairs Bureau that morning.
It further said that the main reason this brief marriage ended so quickly was that Shen Congmo still couldn’t forget his old flame, Long Fengxi.
Long Fengxi didn’t read any further.
She placed both hands on the desk, pensively twirling the pen she held.
Her mobile phone’s message alert rang, and Long Fengxi put down the pen and picked up her phone to look.
[How I wish I could trade places with your brother, if I could forget you, I think I would at least be better off than now; I’ve loved you since my teens, and now I’m 27, even though we’ve both left each other scarred all over, I still love you, my heart has been emptied by you, and in this world, no one will love you more than I do.]
Long Fengxi’s eyes welled up with tears, she raised her hand to wipe them, stood up, slipped on her coat, picked up her bag and phone, and left the office.
After returning to the Long Family Mansion for dinner and talking to her family, she drove to Qin Garden.
It was already dark by then.
She parked her car in front of the villa that Shen Congmo had bought. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ noveⅼfire.net
Knowing he wasn’t here, Long Fengxi suddenly wanted to find out if this place was still the same as before.
Driven by some inexplicable urge, she got out of the car, walked to the door, and pressed the code. The password was still the same, unchanged.
It was pitch dark inside, not a light on, obviously no one was there.
There was nobody here.
Long Fengxi walked into the living room, turned on the lights, and went upstairs to the bedroom.
Everything in the room was unchanged.
Even the bed linens and covers hadn’t been touched.
Long Fengxi went downstairs, stepped out, and as she was walking in the courtyard, the gate opened.
Only the streetlights outside the gate were shining, Long Fengxi stood there, the weak light stretching her silhouette, watching as Shen Congmo entered.
His gaze fixed on her.
Long Fengxi lifted her foot and walked towards the gate.
As she reached his side, her arm was suddenly grabbed by him, then her whole body was pulled over, and the next second, she was embraced.
"Shen Congmo, must you do this?"
He held her while stepping back until he pinned her against the gate, his hands grasping the gate, his arms encircling her in front of him, "What do you want me to do then? Feng Xi, I am divorced."
"No need to tell me." She didn’t look at him, her voice cold.