"I never imagined Yun Xiaoran knew so much about you." Sister Hua sighed in her chair, then grumbled, "Why can't I ever meet a good man like that?"
"If you want him, you can have him," Shen Jin joked with a smile. But Sister Hua took an interest. "Sure. Once you divorce in a month, I'll give it a try with him."
Huh?
She had expected Sister Hua to turn down Yun Xiaoran and then join her in complaining about a few things. Instead, Sister Hua had actually taken an interest.
"No." Shen Jin's pretty face had been all smiles, but her expression shifted repeatedly at Sister Hua's words. She instantly sat up straight, fiddling with the bank card as she firmly shook her head.
"Why?" An unusual smile appeared on Sister Hua's face, though she still made a show of asking Shen Jin in confusion.
"Because that would feel too strange." Shen Jin had never expected Sister Hua to fire back so quickly. At a loss for words, she stammered out an awkward explanation.
"That's fine. I can wait." Sister Hua lounged in her chair and answered as though joking. In truth, she only wanted to tease the National Goddess in front of her. Shen Jin's reaction had far exceeded her expectations.
"That's still not okay." Shen Jin was adamant. Realizing she seemed to have lost her composure, she settled back into her executive chair, crossed her arms, and turned her face aside. "Anyway, it would be really weird."
"Oh, then I suppose I'll forget it." Sister Hua smiled and changed the subject. "Actually, Yun Xiaoran pays quite a lot of attention to the little things. Haven't you noticed?"
"He does." Shen Jin relaxed, then smiled again. "He cooks for me every time."
"Mm, but no matter how delicious his cooking is, he can only cook for you for another twenty days." Sister Hua gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling, then picked up a divorce agreement from the table beside her.
"I've already drawn up your divorce agreement. You'll probably be able to tell him who you really are by then, too. But you'll still need to have him sign a confidentiality agreement and give him some money to keep him quiet."
"You've finished it already?" Shen Jin felt that ever since she had gotten together with Yun Xiaoran, each day had passed faster than the last. Now, in the blink of an eye, only twenty days remained.
"Of course. You were the one who asked me to draw it up. Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with this divorce agreement." Sister Hua patted the paper and handed it to Shen Jin.
Shen Jin eagerly picked it up, holding the sheet in her slender hands as she read every word, murmuring over and over, "A divorce agreement. This is my divorce agreement..."
"What? Having second thoughts?" Sister Hua was not particularly surprised by Shen Jin's reaction. In just ten days of getting along with Yun Xiaoran, even she had developed a little "camaraderie" with him.
It was only natural for Shen Jin to feel some resistance.
"I..." Shen Jin was indeed deeply reluctant to divorce Yun Xiaoran. In her plans for her life, under the family category, she had only gone so far as to put skill points into marriage.
As for having children after that, she had never considered it. She was afraid of pain.
She still wanted to reach the top as a singer and film star.
"You'd better prepare yourself mentally." After saying that, Sister Hua put the intact divorce agreement into Shen Jin's bag.
"All... right." Shen Jin bit her lip and nodded with great reluctance.
If Yun Xiaoran was willing, she could keep living like this with him forever. She could stay out of his business and let him find someone he loved.
No.
Just imagining Yun Xiaoran loving another girl seemed even more unbearable.
"Where are you now?"
Shen Jin's rule had always been not to contact him on WeChat unless necessary. Yet, for some reason, she felt terribly restless, so she sent him a message.
"I'm at Zhou Zeyu's place." Yun Xiaoran even sent a picture of himself making a peace sign with his guitar.
While practicing a song, Yun Xiaoran looked at Shen Jin's message with a mixture of delight and confusion.
He was delighted because he had never expected Shen Jin to send him a WeChat message instead of calling him directly.
But he was confused because Shen Jin was still at work. Why was she suddenly asking him to report his whereabouts?
"Are you asking me to check in with you?" After sending his location, Yun Xiaoran asked Shen Jin in confusion. He had never imagined that his ice-cold wife would one day ask him to check in.
Shen Jin had been a little happy when she saw Yun Xiaoran's first message, but his next one made her face grow warm. She lifted her pretty face, pondering over her phone, unsure what to send.
"Of course I'm just checking whether you've fed the cat properly. Why would I call you out of nowhere to ask you to check in? It's not like I'm going to interfere with your life." Shen Jin sent the message with a deliberately aloof air.
Yun Xiaoran raised an eyebrow at the message, knowing she was putting on a brave front again. If he actually took her at her word and casually found a girl to pose in a picture with him, he would probably have to spend ages coaxing her out of her sulk.
"Don't worry. Before we divorce, I won't get involved with any other girl."
Shen Jin's mind reeled when she saw that message. Yun Xiaoran had clearly said something like this before, yet she had thought nothing of it then.
This time, however, Shen Jin found those words painfully jarring.
On the one hand, Yun Xiaoran cared for her attentively in their daily lives, fulfilling his responsibilities as a husband.
On the other hand, he kept bringing up their divorce, as though telling Shen Jin that his love for her was only a temporary act of putting up with her, that it was fake.
"Then go find someone. Who's going to stop you?" The more Shen Jin thought about it, the angrier she became. After sending the message, she turned off her phone and muted Yun Xiaoran's messages.
Who cared whether he found someone?
Please. Nobody cared.
We're only husband and wife in the eyes of the law. What do I have to be jealous about? Even after thinking that, Shen Jin could not calm down. In the end, she simply shut herself in the practice room to practice singing.
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