A surgery took nearly three hours. What Shen Guqing didn’t expect was that Meng Yifei was still waiting outside when she came out of the operating room.
After she finished talking with the patient’s family, she strode towards the lounge.
Meng Yifei followed closely behind her, not saying a word, just following.
Shen Guqing stopped at the office door, turned to Meng Yifei and said, "Stop following me. I’ve said everything that needed saying. It’s true that I overestimated myself before and reached too high. Now I’ve realized, so please consider that I’ve never had a day of comfort with the Meng Family, and let me go."
Meng Yifei’s eyes were red: "Do you really want to separate from me this badly?"
Shen Guqing replied coldly: "Isn’t this what your family has always wished for?"
Meng Yifei shouted with reddened eyes: "I didn’t, and you know that well."
Shen Guqing mocked: "Yes, you didn’t. But your actions are no different from theirs. Now, I’ve figured it out and I’m done. I’ll return your freedom. I’m sure it won’t be long before your mother finds a perfect daughter-in-law, so you don’t have to feel caught in the middle anymore, compromising all the time."
After speaking, she turned to enter the office: "Please don’t follow me any longer, don’t make me despise you."
She had given him many chances. Even if there was a deep affection, it had already been consumed. She is human too, and can feel pain. Since nothing could satisfy them no matter what she did, then why suffer?
Actually, the moment the child was lost, their fate had ended.
In the days that followed, Meng Yifei was like a ghost, constantly appearing in Shen Guqing’s sight. But Shen Guqing no longer showed him any of her old kindness.
Today, Meng Yifei saw Shen Guqing passing by him, again acting as if he didn’t exist. There weren’t many people around, so he grabbed her: "Guqing, I have something to say to you."
Shen Guqing glanced at her watch: "I have ten minutes before I enter the operating room. You only have five minutes, and I remind you, don’t say useless things."
Meng Yifei hurriedly spoke: "Guqing, I’ve thought it over, let’s move out and live alone, we won’t divorce."
Shen Guqing looked at him with a wry smile: "You’re fooling no one but yourself with those words. Stop deceiving yourself. We can’t go back. Ever since the child was lost, we’ve been fated to end. You understand that."
Tears welled in Meng Yifei’s eyes: "Guqing, I know I was wrong before, only thinking of keeping peace. I know it was a mistake, truly, believe me, just give me one last chance, okay?"
Shen Guqing sighed gently: "It’s too late. I’ve given you too many chances, but you forget, I’m human too, I can be hurt, I can feel pain."
What she didn’t say was: I can walk ninety-nine steps towards you, but I can also take one step back and give up on you. She tried her best for this relationship, yet lost completely.
If Xinyan could hear her heart, she would surely applaud her and add: You have looks, you have a job, why hang yourself on one tree? It’s better to cut losses in time. Keep it up, senior sister.
After Shen Guqing finished speaking, she left quickly, no longer giving Meng Yifei a chance to speak.
Watching Shen Guqing’s departing figure, Meng Yifei, although a grown man, was streaming tears. People passing by pointed fingers at him.
He didn’t even know how he got home. When Mother Meng saw her dejected son, she felt somewhat regretful, but thinking it was Shen Guqing who proposed the divorce, making her son suffer and shaming the Meng Family, her heart hardened immediately: "Look at yourself, ruining yourself over a woman, what a sight!"