How many men cried at the Civil Affairs Bureau when they got divorced?

My husband and I were in love for 12 years, got married this year, and divorced this year.

The reason was cheesy and ridiculous. He was with someone else and his parents knew about it. I was alone, living like a fool.

What’s even more ironic is that on the day of our divorce, he knelt down and begged me, crying, saying that I was the only one in his heart.

I looked at him and laughed, laughing at the 12 years I had wasted, and also laughing at the retribution he brought upon himself.

While we were having dinner in the evening, my husband’s cell phone rang. I just wanted to take the water cup next to his phone, but as soon as I reached out my hand, I saw his body stiffen.

Finally, seeing that I just wanted to drink water, the tension in his eyes disappeared. Perhaps he felt that his previous behavior was too obvious, so he picked up his phone and stood up, “You eat first, I’ll go to the bathroom.”

I pretended not to notice anything was wrong and nodded with a smile.

I have known Xu Yi for twelve years, and I know too well the meaning of all his actions. From what happened just now, I know there must be a secret in his phone.

We just got our marriage certificate last month and our wedding is scheduled for the end of the year. We have already notified all our relatives and friends, and I really don’t want to make a fool of myself at this critical juncture, so I decided to wait and see.

After dinner, I started making the wedding invitations. Xu Yi sat aside looking at his phone. I saw him typing quietly in the reflection of the TV screen.

I was about to ask him to come over to help, but he suddenly sat up and said, “Wife, Xiao Zhang said there was a problem with the project. I’m going to the company. You go to bed first and don’t wait for me. Be good.”

After he said that, he kissed me on the cheek and walked away without even giving me a chance to speak.

I stood by the window and watched him jog into the car. It was already nine o’clock in the evening. I thought about it and called Xiao Zhang.

Xiao Zhang on the other end of the phone was obviously a little panicked: “Uh, sister-in-law, is there a problem with the project? Ah! There is a problem with the project. I just asked Brother Xu to come over and take a look.”

If I initially still had hope for this twelve-year relationship, then after talking to Xiao Zhang, all my hopes were shattered.

What on earth could have happened that could make Xu Yi, who never likes to lie, go out even if it meant lying?

I began to secretly observe his every move.

That’s right, I found that he got off work later and later, and even when he came home, he would just say a few formulaic words to me and then go into the bedroom on the excuse of being tired. Sometimes I woke up in the middle of the night, but he was still awake and still playing with his phone.

I couldn’t do anything like making a big fuss, so I hinted to him that he should go to bed early. Unexpectedly, he took the opportunity to suggest sleeping in separate rooms, saying that he had a lot of business to deal with recently, and my sleep quality was not good, so he was afraid that it would affect my rest.

My heart was completely sank. Although there was no solid evidence, various recent signs had shown that he was most likely cheating on me. In order to get closer to the truth, I decided to keep quiet for the time being.

His team has had some projects to follow up recently, and work has become very busy, with overtime being the norm. In the past, I understood his hard work and never let him worry about anything at home, but now I know that I can no longer let him go on like this.

I started to “bother” him frequently.

For example, today, I went to a home furnishing mall to look at furniture, and I called him at noon to ask him to pick me up.

He was obviously a little late in speaking, but in the end, he spoke softly as usual, “Honey, please find a cool place to wait for me.”

This is where Xu Yi’s cleverness lies. Even though he no longer loves me, he won’t let me notice.

He came very quickly, and as soon as he opened the car door, I smelled a faint fragrance in the car. I pretended not to notice anything, and after I got in the car, I found that the passenger seat had been adjusted almost as soon as I sat down.

Looking at his focused and affectionate eyes looking at me, for a moment, I wanted to slap him hard in the face.

“My phone is out of battery. Can you lend me your phone?” I looked at him with a smile. Sure enough, the smile on his lips froze slightly, and then he handed me the phone.

I habitually enter my birthday to unlock the phone. After entering it three times, the system prompts me that the password I entered is incorrect and the phone can only be unlocked after 30 seconds.

In fact, I asked for his phone just to test him, but in the end, I was the one who was sad.

2.

Before, I always thought that the worst decision I had ever made in my life was to agree to Xu Yi’s resignation and become a full-time wife at home on the day I got my marriage certificate.

Xu Yi’s annual salary is nearly seven figures, which can indeed allow me to have a relatively affluent life, and I was overwhelmed by his sweet words. Thinking about the ten years we have been in love, I finally respected his decision.

After resigning, I had plenty of time to arrange our wedding matters, and I also felt lucky and happy that he remained the same to me even though I had no income.

And now, thanks to my full-time job, I can spend plenty of time paying attention to Xu Yi’s every move.

In the morning, I saw him kiss me on the face contentedly after breakfast, I smiled and responded to him, and when he left, I wiped my face hard. I felt sick when I thought that he might have kissed other women with this mouth or even done something more extreme.

I followed him out, walked all the way to the south of the city, and finally drove into a townhouse. Taxis couldn’t enter the high-end residential area, so I could only wait in the cafe across the street from the residential area.

In the morning he said that we couldn’t use cell phones because we had a meeting all day, but I didn’t know that their company had moved to a villa area.

Fortunately, he didn’t stay in there for too long. After about ten minutes, his car drove out again, but there was a woman in the passenger seat.

The passenger seat opened the car window and I could see who the woman was at a glance.

It was somewhat ironic that the woman turned out to be the one Xu Yi had always said he hated. The woman and Xu Yi were colleagues who joined the company at the same time. She was two years older than us and her name was Li Qing. She fell in love with Xu Yi at first sight. In countless late nights, when Xu Yi shared the affectionate essays she sent me, his eyes were full of contempt.

I followed his car.

Today is White Valentine’s Day. I saw Xu Yi accompanying Li Qing to watch movies and go shopping. During the whole time, the two of them held each other’s hands tightly. When crossing the road, he considerately let her walk on the inside, just like an ordinary couple, sweetly doing all the things that lovers do, and everything was so natural.

Through the floor-to-ceiling mirror on the side of the road, I saw that Xu Yi had a smile on his lips. This smile was obviously more heart-warming than the standard fake smile he gave me.

There were several times when I wanted to rush up to him and question him. I wanted to see what his expression would be like after I caught him cheating. Would he be panicked or feel guilty? But in the end, I still didn’t take any action. I just silently took pictures of the two of us being intimate.

Then I gave him a call.

He paused for a moment and subconsciously looked at the people around him.

Li Qing knew who was calling almost instantly. She smiled and said considerately, “You answer it first. I’ll step aside for a while.”

Xu Yi grabbed her hand, as if he was afraid that she would be angry, and the force was so strong that he almost pulled her down, “It’s okay, I won’t take it.”

The next second, he hung up the phone on me, and then I received his WeChat message.

——Honey, I’m still in a meeting. I’ll call you back when I’m done.

Then he put away his phone, put his arm around Li Qing’s shoulders again, and the two of them entered the theme hotel.

I just felt like I was slapped in the face hundreds of times in a row. I was so ashamed and embarrassed that I didn’t have the courage to go in. I was afraid of seeing an even more unbearable scene, but my mind told me that I had to go in.

The hotel was not high-end and the soundproofing was poor. I listened to the sound of my husband making love with another woman next door and my heart was twisted.

I was like a robot, numbly holding the phone to record the audio, listening to Li Qing calling Xu Yi’s name passionately, with my fists clenched tightly.

I don’t know how long it took, but the next door finally quieted down. About half an hour later, the sound of a door closing was heard over there.

I still followed them.

At noon, Xu Yi accompanied Li Qing to meet her friends, who were another couple.

I felt like an outsider, watching their joys and sorrows through the camera.

At the very end, I saw Li Qing looking towards my camera.

She didn’t seem surprised to see me, and even smiled slowly at me.

3.

I was sure that Li Qing had deliberately let me know of her presence, in order to force me to leave. I looked at the photo I had taken a few days ago, in which my husband was holding another woman’s hand tightly, and I laughed at myself.

I have thought about this before. If my marriage with Xu Yi breaks down one day, I will never take advantage of him. But if the reason for the divorce is that he cheated on me, then don’t blame me for being rude.

I looked at the glaring red invitation cards on the living room table and the two people snuggling tightly together in the photo, and I just wanted to destroy all the invitation cards.

The sudden knock on the door brought me back to my senses and I walked towards the door hesitantly. It was almost evening now and I didn’t know who would come to see me.

When I looked out through the door mirror, I felt a little dizzy for a moment.

Li Qing outside the door was smiling brightly. She was wearing a shoulder-baring top and skinny pants. Her clothes were simple and fashionable, and she looked very elegant. Looking at me, I was wearing home clothes and had no makeup on. Compared with the mistress who looked so smug, I really felt so far behind her.

I opened the door with gritted teeth and forced myself to smile.

“Hello, you must be Xu Yi’s lover Han Min, right?” Li Qing greeted me and handed me the fruit basket when she saw me open the door.

“Who are you?” I stood at the door without moving, pretending not to know her.

“I’m Xu Yi’s colleague. We’ve been in charge of a project together recently, and Xu Yi has been worried a lot about me.” She stared into my eyes as she spoke, as if she wanted to get negative emotional feedback from me in order to declare that her existence had successfully affected me and thus gain a sense of satisfaction.

I still didn’t respond.

She added, “Actually, he has been taking extra care of me since I joined the company. I happened to be free today, so I wanted to come and thank him. Is he not at home?”

Of course I couldn’t do what she wanted, and I almost broke the door handle before I could maintain my composure. I took the fruit basket and let her in.

“Now that you’ve put it into words, it makes sense. Indeed, there was a period of time when he came home and said that he couldn’t do his job. There were problems everywhere and he didn’t have any capable assistants around him. I was wondering what was going on.”

I said and smiled more sincerely.

My intuition told me that Li Qing came to my house today without telling Xu Yi, so I didn’t say hello to Xu Yi. I was even looking forward to Xu Yi’s reaction when he saw Li Qing appear in my house.

I was cooking in the kitchen, and out of the corner of my eye I saw Li Qing standing in the living room looking at our wedding photos. After a while, she came over and smiled brightly: “Let me help you, it’s too boring for me to be alone, I especially like to have someone to accompany me, please don’t treat me as an outsider, I have a close relationship with Xu Yi.”

I tried my best to resist the urge to slap her, and stuffed the muddy vegetables directly into her hands, “Sister Li, I won’t be polite then.”

She was visibly stunned.

I continued, “Xu Yi just loves making friends. My mother-in-law always said that he only has bad friends.”

Li Qing’s face froze.

I pretended not to notice and continued, “But you can tell at first glance that Sister Li is not that kind of person. You are old, you have seen a lot, and you are naturally experienced. But then again, the overall quality of everyone has improved. How many people are shameless and can’t judge the scale?”

Li Qing stopped talking and turned up the water flow. After a while, she changed the topic: “We all say Xu Yi is a family man. It turns out he has a good wife at home. If it were me, I would also go home as soon as I get off work.”

My hand holding the spatula was shaking slightly, and just as I was about to speak, I heard the sound of the door opening in the entrance hall.

Xu Yi’s voice was getting closer and closer, “Wife, I’m back. What did you cook today? Why is it so…”

The man walked to the kitchen door and stopped talking.

The room suddenly fell silent. I thought Xu Yi must be extremely panicked at this moment.

Seeing his face turn pale, I felt secretly happy and smiled to save him: “Are you surprised?”

He was struck by lightning, the panic in his eyes was obvious, and he instinctively wanted to reach out and pull me.

I pretended to avoid him and said, “Sister Li said thank you for your help. It seems that you refused to come to my house even though she invited you to dinner many times. So I had to chase him home.” I pushed him into the kitchen and said, “You’re back just in time. Chat with Sister Li. I’ll go downstairs to buy a bag of salt.”

I ignored them and went back to the bedroom. I turned on the recording function of my tablet and put it on the chair in the dining room when they weren’t paying attention.

4.

When I came back, Li Qing was already dressed and standing at the door waiting for me.

I walked up to her and she said apologetically, “I’m sorry, I wanted to try your cooking, but I had something urgent to deal with at the company. I’ll come visit you again when I have the chance.”

The joy in her eyes was so obvious that I couldn’t ignore it. Xu Yi, who was standing behind her, had now returned to his usual calm state.

I pretended to try to keep him, but finally sent him out the door.

Xu Yi smiled and waved to Li Qing, pretending nothing had happened. If I didn’t know the truth, I would have thought that these two were just ordinary friends.

In the evening, Xu Yi was unusually clingy. He even took the initiative to help me make invitations and souvenirs.

I looked at him with a smile: “You must be tired after a busy day. Go and take a rest. I can do it myself.” I really didn’t want him to dirty my things. I felt sick looking at his sanctimonious behavior. I tightly grasped the paper cutter and could hardly suppress the urge to make him disappear from the world.

Xu Yi seemed not to hear me, and was very persistent in sealing the beeswax. After a while, he suddenly hugged me in his arms, and said anxiously: “Wife, we will be happy, right?”

If I didn’t know about him and Li Qing, I would foolishly think that he loved me very much.

“Yeah.” I responded perfunctorily.

He explained again, “That was the colleague I complained to you about when I first came to the company. She has grown a lot recently. Maybe she feels that I have helped her a lot, so she feels bad.” Xu Yi seemed to be taking credit for it, “Every time she invites me to dinner, I refuse, because I have a wife, I need to know my limits.”

Now every word he said sounded like noise to me. I cut the greeting cards resentfully, and only regarded these pieces of colored paper that were cut into pieces as him.

When it was time to go to bed, Xu Yi asked to go back to the master bedroom for the first time.

“I’m feeling uncomfortable today because of my period.” I used the excuse of my period to avoid contact with him. Every time I thought of his hands touching things they shouldn’t have touched, I wished I could chop those hands off.

“I’m not doing anything, I just miss you.” Xu Yi got on the bed without saying anything, and held me in his arms after lying down.

The moment he touched me, my scalp suddenly felt numb and I froze in his arms, listening to his breathing gradually becoming calmer.

After confirming that Xu Yi was asleep, I took out my tablet and went to the bathroom.

From the recording, Xu Yi’s voice sounded angry: “What’s wrong with you? What are you trying to do? If you continue like this, we won’t contact each other anymore. You’re done.”

Li Qing: “I’m sorry Xu Yi, I was wrong a few days ago. I just love you too much. Han Min is right, I am indeed too cheap.”

Li Qing sobbed quietly. Xu Yi might have softened his heart. When he spoke again, his tone was much gentler: “Did she scold you?”

Li Qing didn’t say anything, but her sobbing became louder and louder. She answered the question irrelevantly: “Han Min is really good. It was my fault in the first place. I really didn’t want to come today, but since that day when I impulsively asked you to marry me, you have ignored me. I was really too scared.”

The next second, I heard the sound of two people kissing through the tablet, and my stomach churned.

Xu Yi’s voice was vague: “As long as you don’t leave me, I will never leave you. Our relationship goes beyond that piece of paper. Qingqing, you know I love you.”

Putting down the tablet, I walked around the kitchen, touched the sharp blade on the knife rack that was shining in the moonlight, and silently poured myself a glass of cold water, then transferred the recording to my mobile phone.

Now is not the right time, we need to be patient.

Xu Yi observed me for several days in a row, going to and from get off work on time every day, and even deliberately put his cell phone in front of me to show his loyalty. Later, when he saw that I still treated him the same as before, he stopped paying attention to me.

That day, he got off work as usual. Although I didn’t look at him while eating, I could still sense the two gazes glued to my head.

After a while, he said tentatively, “Wife, I have to go on a business trip to Linshi tomorrow for three days.”

I responded and thought of an excuse for him: “Are you going out for an inspection?”

He responded randomly, “Take good care of yourself at home. Send me a video if you miss me.”

In fact, I feel burdened now that he is at home.

During this period, I also secretly collected some information about Li Qing.

I learned that she had a boyfriend in her hometown, a lawyer named Jiang Huai, who came from a good family and had excellent personal conditions. They had already held a wedding ceremony, but had not yet obtained a marriage certificate. Coincidentally, her boyfriend happened to come to Hohhot these few days, so I decided to meet this fellow traveler.

I called Jiang Huai and briefly explained my purpose. He made an appointment with me without hesitation.

Compared to Xu Yi’s handsomeness, Jiang Huai is more of a tough guy. He doesn’t look like a lawyer, but more like a personal bodyguard.

“Hello.” He greeted me and said straight to the point, “You said Li Qing interfered with your relationship. Do you have any evidence?”

I show the videos and photos I took recently one by one.

Jiang Huai is indeed a man who has seen the world. I can’t even see a single change on his face.

After he looked at the things, he thanked me calmly and said, “Okay, I understand.”

I only exchanged these two sentences with him when I first met him. Before leaving, he left me his business card and said, “If you need anything in the future, please feel free to contact me. Your evidence is infringing and has no legal effect. I will provide evidence when the time comes.”

5.

After Xu Yi came back from his “business trip”, his condition became worse and worse. I continued to care about him as usual, and tried to make nutritious meals for him every day to replenish his functions.

“Has there been any problems at work recently?” I asked even though I knew the answer.

Xu Yi lowered his eyes to hide the blue in his eyes, and said lightly: “It’s okay, I’m just a little busy.” After that, he touched the top of my head as if to comfort me: “My dear, don’t worry about me.”

I smiled hypocritically, gave a few more instructions, and went into the kitchen under the pretext of cutting fruit.

I know Xu Yi was not on a business trip before. The day before yesterday was Li Qing’s birthday, and the two of them should have made an appointment to go out and play. Now when I think of the scene of the two of them together, my heart has calmed down a lot.

Xu Yi was still sitting in the living room with a sad face. I went into the bedroom and took out a mobile phone from the bottom of the bedside table. WeChat was still on the page where I sent the photos of Xu Yi and Li Qing’s date to Xu Yi’s leader.

I told his boss that if Li Qing was not fired, I would make a big deal out of it. I think businessmen would weigh the pros and cons, not to mention that Li Qing’s personal ability was only average.

Outside the living room, Xu Yi’s cell phone rang again, and I heard him moving towards the bathroom with deliberately light footsteps.

I followed secretly, and sure enough, Li Qing’s voice came from the other end.

“I was too careless, but I don’t regret it. I can lose anything for you. As long as it doesn’t affect you, I’m not afraid of anything.”

This was somewhat beyond my expectations. I thought Li Qing would be hysterical and angry at Xu Yi. Obviously, her skills were much higher than I thought. But it didn’t matter. The more considerate she was, the more guilty Xu Yi would feel, and the more he would torture himself. My ultimate goal was to make Xu Yi suffer every day.

Xu Yi came to the master bedroom again tonight. I pretended to wake up when I heard the noise, and when I saw him come in, I made some space next to me.

“Did I wake you up?” Although he lacked some sincerity when talking to me, his attitude was always good.

I shook my head quickly, thought for a moment, and said, “If you are free these two days, why don’t we go home? My parents told me a few days ago that they missed us. I see that you are not in a good mood recently. You should go out and relax.”

Xu Yi pursed his lips tightly, his eyes full of complexity, as if he had thousands of words to say to me, but I pretended not to see it.

Xu Yi’s parents are very good at putting on a show. Whenever they see me, they always call me their daughter, but I know that their love is all fake.

It’s not like Xu Yi and I haven’t had some disagreements before. At that time, Xu’s mother wanted to gather the whole family to blame me, saying how outstanding her son was and that it was my fault that he made mistakes. She even told Xu Yi behind his back that if he could avoid giving a bride price, he should try not to, and if he did give, he should ask my family to pay more dowry.

This is also the reason why I want to take revenge on Xu Yi. Their whole family is not good people.

Perhaps because the recent pressure was too great, Xu Yi gave me a reply as soon as he got off work the next day.

“Honey, I’ve asked for a few days off from work. Let’s go home now. Should we go to your house first or mine?”

“Your home.”

Since Li Qing can be so noble, I must be more considerate.

Our hometown is more than an hour’s drive from where we live now. We didn’t inform our family in advance, mainly because Xu Yi wanted to give his parents a surprise.

Sure enough, after seeing us, Xu’s mother held Xu Yi’s hand tightly and spoke excitedly with a stutter.

“Son, why are you so thin? Are you under a lot of pressure at work?” She looked at me again and said, “Didn’t Xiao Han take good care of you?” She started to be sarcastic at the end, “Didn’t I quit my job and let you support me? How could I take care of you like this?”

Although it was late, Xu’s mother still cooked a sumptuous dinner. I could tell Xu Yi had something to say to his parents, so he deliberately finished his meal slowly under his parents’ cold faces, then pushed the bowl and chopsticks aside and said, “I’m a little tired, I’m going to rest first.”

Of course, after entering the house, my ears were not idle. Their house has two bedrooms. After Xu Yi went to work, his room was converted into a storage room, so the family could only talk in the living room.

I was lying with my back to the door, and I noticed someone quietly pushed the door open from behind, then stood there for a while and then quietly left.

The next moment, Xu’s mother’s somewhat harsh voice came from outside: “If it weren’t for the fact that her family has some filthy money, would I let my son marry her? She is lazy and eats my son’s things all day long, and yet she still takes care of my son like this.”

Father Xu hurriedly said, “Keep your voice down so she doesn’t hear you.”

I sneered.

The next moment, Xu Yi’s deliberately low voice was heard: “Mom, I don’t want to get married anymore.”

6.

The living room was quiet for a moment. When Xu’s mother spoke again, her tone was full of suspicion: “Did she make you angry again? I said I didn’t agree with you being together at the beginning, but you insisted on having her, didn’t you?” She was obviously shocked: “Besides, I have notified everyone who should be notified, and I have accepted all the gifts. Isn’t this a joke? And her father will be promoted soon, which will be helpful to you in the future.”

Xu Yi stopped talking.

Father Xu took over the conversation: “Why don’t you want to get married? Wasn’t this the path you chose in the first place?”

At this moment, Xu Yi was like a spring being crushed under someone’s feet, causing explosive damage when he bounced back from the bottom.

“I don’t love her anymore!” He growled. It seemed that he still had a trace of rationality left. He said in a restrained tone, “I’ve fallen in love with someone else. Is that okay?”

When I heard him say with my own ears that he didn’t love me, I didn’t feel sad. Instead, I felt relieved when I thought that I would soon be free and no longer have to be an actor.

The living room was silent for a long time, and Xu’s mother repeated Xu Yi’s words: “You fell in love with someone else? That person has a better family background than Han Min?”

Xu Yi was silent.

Xu’s mother said again, “I don’t care who you fall in love with, you can’t get a divorce now. You both have registered. If you divorce now, what if she blackmails you?”

Father Xu responded, “Who you love is your business. Don’t let Xiao Han know. You can do whatever you want, but don’t let it spread. I can’t afford to lose face.”

The more I listened, the more I wanted to laugh. It’s true that people of the same family resemble each other. This family of three is more shameless than the other.

Xu Yi didn’t enter the room all night. When I got up in the morning, only Xu’s mother was hanging clothes on the balcony. When she saw me getting up, she put on a hypocritical smile. Although the dissatisfaction in her eyes was hidden deep, I still caught it.

“Daughter, are you up? Mom has already prepared the meal, go and eat.”

I responded, maintaining this false warm moment.

While I was eating, Xu Yi sent me a WeChat message.

“Wife, I’m going to have dinner with Lao Lu and the others tonight. We haven’t been together for a long time. Let’s go back to mom’s house tomorrow.”

The old donkey is called Lui Che Woo, and he is our college classmate.

My home is not far from Xu Yi’s home, so I decided to go home first.

There had been no news from him all day, and I didn’t want to focus too much attention on him.

At around nine o’clock in the evening, I was lying in bed checking my Moments. When I refreshed my screen, I saw an update that Lui Che Woo had just posted without warning.

It was a photo with a very down-to-earth feel. Six people were sitting around a table, and everyone had a happy smile on their face. Even Xu Yi, who hadn’t smiled for a long time, had a faint smile in the corners of his eyes.

I knew all six people. The only woman present, Li Qing, sat next to Xu Yi with a smile on her face. Although there was no physical contact between the two of them, Xu Yi’s body was leaning towards her. I was about to enlarge the photo to take a closer look, but was reminded that the other party had deleted the post.

Soon, Xu Yi called.

The background noise from his end was very quiet, and it didn’t look like a party at all.

“Wife, what are you doing?” he asked.

I tried to make my voice sound normal: “I’m washing up and getting ready to rest.”

Xu Yi asked again: “You didn’t play with your phone?”

“No.” I smiled and said, “Have you finished your meal?”

“Yeah.” He responded, “I just got home, took a shower and went to bed.”

After hanging up the phone, for some unknown reason, I decided to drive to the new house to take a look.

Before leaving, I sent another WeChat message to Xu Yi, telling him that I seemed to be sick, but he ignored me.

7.

I was waiting downstairs in the new house. At this moment, I still held on to a glimmer of hope in my heart. I felt that after all, we had been friends for more than ten years. No matter how excessive Xu Yi was, he would not bring his mistress to the little nest that I had built bit by bit.

As I was thinking, suddenly, a beam of car lights shone from the entrance of the community, and then slowly stopped not far in front of my car, and a man and a woman got out of the car.

The temperature in Hohhot is still relatively cool in the morning and evening, especially late at night. I saw Xu Yi take off his coat and put it on Li Qing’s shoulders after getting off the car.

I was tired of saying the word “tired”. I didn’t even have the energy to make a fuss. Although it was not very kind, I still called Jiang Huai.

Soon, another car drove in from the entrance of the community.

It’s Jianghuai.

This time he was not wearing a suit, but just a simple sweatshirt and jeans, which finally gave people a hint of youthfulness.

His figure quickly disappeared in the corridor.

I’m guarding downstairs.

Soon, I saw the lights in my wedding room suddenly light up, and then, with a deafening noise, the sound-activated lights in the corridor were turned on. I saw more and more residents turning on the lights, and there were shadowy figures in the corridor.

I took advantage of the chaos and went upstairs. I saw the door of my wedding room was wide open, and Jiang Huai was standing at the door, looking at the flustered couple in the room.

The blush on Li Qing’s face was still there, and her hair was no longer as neat as before. Looking at Xu Yi again, there were kiss marks on his neck and residual lipstick marks on his mouth.

There is no need to explain this scene in detail. We have all been through it and will understand it.

“Hey, isn’t this the eldest son of the Xu family? That woman doesn’t seem to be the daughter-in-law of the Xu family.”

Xu Yi’s face flashed with embarrassment. He tried to close the door with a cold face, but Jiang Huai blocked him and said, “The one you are living with illegally is my wife. Maybe she hasn’t told you that she and I have already had a wedding?”

Xu Yi’s face turned from pale to black. Looking at the phones held up by everyone, he still insisted, “We are just ordinary colleagues. You have no evidence.”

I never realized he was so stubborn before.

Li Qing was also a little embarrassed. She said, “It was just a wedding. I didn’t get a marriage certificate with you, and we’ve already broken up.”

Jiang Huai raised his eyebrows: “The problem now is that you have intervened in someone else’s relationship that is protected by law, so you must bear legal responsibility.”

As soon as Jiang Huai finished speaking, a girl rushed out from nowhere and slapped Li Qing in the face. Xu Yi subconsciously protected her in his arms. The crowd took pictures more enthusiastically. I also joined in the fun, freezing the moment of the two people hugging into eternity, and then left in the chaos.

I was waiting for Jiang Huai downstairs.

About ten minutes later, I saw the crowd gradually dispersed and Jiang Huai walked down the stairs slowly. He originally wanted to get in the car, but then he paused and walked towards me.

It seems that he discovered I was here when he came just now.

I’m a little embarrassed.

He walked to my car and knocked on the window. “The amount of compensation you will receive if you divorce now or after the divorce ceremony is the same.” He gave me advice from a professional perspective.

I know he meant well. After all, if we just got the marriage certificate and then divorced, it would cause less harm to me.

I shook my head: “The wedding must go on as scheduled.”

On the day of the ceremony, Xu Yi and Li Qing’s leaders and colleagues will all be there, and Xu family members will also be present. This is the only chance I have to insult Xu Yi and Li Qing in person, and I will definitely repay the harm they have brought me a thousand fold.

After saying that, I realized that Jiang Huai was also a victim. Hiring him as my lawyer would be cruel to him. I couldn’t help but look at him.

“Don’t look at me like that. I feel pretty good about myself.” Jiang Huai understood the meaning of my gaze and smiled, his facial lines softened a lot: “Speaking of which, I should thank you.” He stood up and said, “I have something to do, so I’ll leave first. If you need anything, feel free to contact me.”

After he got in the car, the little girl who had slapped Li Qing twice in the chaos came jumping out from the dark, saying, “That’s great, brother. I got rid of your anger.” Then she got into the car in a flash.

It turned out that the girl was Jiang Huai’s sister.

Our wedding house is in an old housing area, and all the people living in this area are colleagues of Xu Yi’s parents. I went to the community on purpose the next day, and I don’t know what measures they took. After everyone recognized me, no one told me that Xu Yi had cheated on me.

I was shocked. Such a family is really outrageous.

As the wedding date approaches, Xu Yi smiles less and less, and the time he spends with me is even less than his smiles. Looking at his increasingly thin face, I feel a lot better.

“I have an appointment to try on wedding dresses tomorrow, are you free?”

I called Xu Yi at noon.

Before he could speak, I heard Li Qing’s voice first.

“Xu Yi, is this Han Min?”

“Honey, the phone is on speaker.” Xu Yi hurriedly explained, “We are in a meeting. I will call you back later, okay?”

I took a few deep breaths and said with a smile, “Was that Sister Li just now? I just wanted to ask her if she would be my bridesmaid. You know, everyone around me is married, but Sister Li seems to be still single?”

There was complete silence on the other end of the phone. Perhaps even Li Qing didn’t expect me to do this.

“She doesn’t…” Xu Yi instinctively wanted to refuse.

“Okay.” Li Qing agreed.

As a result, Li Qing and I somehow became friends.

When I went to try on a wedding dress, she carefully helped me adjust the straps and whispered, “Han Min, I think our tastes are quite similar. I like everything you have.” She looked at me and said this from the bottom of her heart.

I looked at her in the mirror and said, “You have a really beautiful smile.”

She accompanied me when I went to the wedding rehearsal.

I was standing in the audience, watching her and Xu Yi standing opposite each other on the stage, looking for the right position to hand over the wedding ring.

Li Qing looked at Xu Yi with eyes full of affection, while Xu Yi avoided her gaze and wanted to look away, but in the end he was attracted to Li Qing again.

I sneered. This would be the last moment of peace for the rest of their lives.

The wedding is here in a blink of an eye.

I got up early and followed all the steps. People around me kept congratulating me, and thinking about the scene in a while, I felt happy from the bottom of my heart.

After a busy morning, I finally arrived at the wedding venue at noon.

At this time, the hall was already full of guests, and on the screen in the middle of the stage, my wedding photos with Xu Yi were playing in a loop.

I stood at the door and watched everything in the house quietly.

As the lights suddenly dimmed, the scene on the screen changed, and the wedding photos turned into photos of Xu Yi and Li Qing dating and checking into a hotel.

The scene suddenly fell into silence; even the emcee was stunned.

Mr. and Mrs. Xu went to turn off the projector like crazy.

Xu Yi stood frozen at the side of the stage, like a puppet.

After the photos were played, the camera suddenly pointed at Li Qing’s face next to me. The next second, her ecstatic screams when making love with Xu Yi came from the speakers.

Xu’s mother was so angry that she fainted on the spot.

I saw Xu Yi’s leader walk away with a gloomy face, leaving him staring at everything in front of him with empty eyes.

Amid the sudden burst of discussion, I quietly left the scene.

Our ridiculous wedding ended with the unique sound of 120 whistles.

I did not see the Xu family again, but entrusted Jiang Huai to handle the relevant matters for me. Jiang Huai did not say much about the process, I only knew that the compensation I received was almost all of the Xu family’s assets.

The next time I saw Xu Yi was on the day we went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a divorce. It had only been a month since we last met. He was untidy and had lost his elegant demeanor. When he saw me, he rushed towards me like a madman.

“Honey, please listen to my explanation.”

I avoided his touch, disgusted.

He stood there stupidly, his eyes seemed even more dull than at the wedding.

After coming out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, he still wanted to make trouble.

“Li Qing and I have broken up, honey, can you give me another chance?”

I heard that what happened on the wedding day was reported in the newspaper and gradually fermented on the Internet. Li Qing was cyberbullied and even doxed. She suffered from severe depression and is now being treated in a mental hospital.

I frowned and walked around Xu Yi to try to get a taxi.

Suddenly, a black SUV stopped in front of me.

The car window rolled down, revealing Jiang Huai’s resolute face. “Get in the car.”

I opened the car door without hesitation and left the stunned Xu Yi there.

In the rearview mirror, I saw Xu Yi’s figure getting smaller and smaller until it could no longer be seen, just like the love between him and me.

I looked away and when I looked up I unexpectedly met Jiang Huai’s slightly worried eyes.

I smiled and said, “Don’t look at me like that. I feel pretty good about myself.”

Jiang Huai was stunned at first, then burst into laughter.

I have always believed that misfortunes are temporary and that those who are treacherous never have a good ending.

Everyone in the world is like this.