After she cooked two cups of instant noodles, she started gulping them down in large mouthfuls.
These noodles weren’t that delicious, neither were they very nutritious but she was so hungry that she finished eating all the instant noodles and even finished the soup.
Then, she lay on the bed after she finished eating.
She was truly exhausted in both her lifestyle and her marriage. She was so exhausted that she couldn’t bring herself to do anything else but sleep.
He Xiyan sighed and gripped her blankets tightly with both hands. After she lay back on the bed, she found that she couldn’t even breathe properly. She didn’t understand how their marriage had changed so much.
They were no longer able to communicate, to talk things out between them, and to live together.
Thus, she was giving him time to decide. She wouldn’t blame him even if he wanted to give up on their marriage. After all, he had truly treated her well in her past.
They had shared a beautiful past together.
However, these conflicts in their relationship had always existed and it was true that she wasn’t a compatible match for him. She would give him the freedom to choose someone else who’d be more suited to be a wife to him.
Her phone rang with message notifications and it rang twice.
She took her phone and saw that those messages were from him.
-“Where did you go?”
“Why did you leave the castle?”
She looked at the words on the screen and stared numbly at those words for a while. There was no emotion in her eyes and she chose not to respond to those messages.
She truly hoped that they would be able to use this time to clear their minds and calm down. As for the reason why she left the castle, he had already told her to get lost on multiple occasions, so no matter how shameless she was, she couldn’t find a reason to remain living at the castle. In any case, the castle did not belong to her at all.
She couldn’t give him an answer, neither could she comply with his demands, so she could only choose to leave since she didn’t know what else she could do.
She turned off her phone and slowly closed her eyes.
She was so fatigued and tired that she drifted off to sleep soundly once more.
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At the castle.
Ye Hao was so frustrated when he didn’t receive a response that he smashed his phone against the sofa. He frowned and the anxiety and irritation were so clear in his eyes that it was as if they could not be erased.
“Did you manage to find her?” he asked Housekeeper Lu.
Her car had returned, but she had not. Although he had told her to get lost, those were just words he blurted out in a fit of anger.
Housekeeper Lu shook his head and said apologetically, “Mr. Ye, we haven’t received any news at the moment. The driver who drove Mrs. Ye’s car home said that Mrs. Ye had given him money to drive the car back to the castle and that was all there was to it.”
Housekeeper Lu gave Ye Hao a brief report of his talk with the driver and something flashed quickly in his eyes before disappearing.
He paused for a moment before he said, “Sir, why don’t you give Mrs. Ye a few days to calm down? I’m sure she’s just feeling troubled and wanted to rest and relax. If you keep pressing her, she would get even more irritated. Moreover, during the time where we were away on holiday, all Mrs. Ye did at home was to sleep, so if this were to continue, her mental state will worsen.”
Ye Hao punched the sofa in a fit of frustration. His brows slammed together and he felt even more upset.
He finally understood how people felt when the person they were trying to contact did not respond to messages nor phone calls.
He stood up and under the light, his expression darkened while his eyes were filled with worry.
He didn’t know what he would do if this dragged on.
“You may go,” he said with a wave of his hand and sent Housekeeper Lu away.