One weekend, Pei Donglai was resting and Zhang Yutong was at work. Pei Donglai picked up the phone and scrolled to "The Most Familiar Stranger". After hesitating for a while, he dialed.
"Dong Lai, you finally took the initiative to call me." Lin Xiaojie was a little excited.
"Are you free today? Let's meet."
"Have you come to Jiangcheng?"
"Well, how about a small town story at 7pm?"
"Okay, I'll be there on time."
Pei Donglai arrived at Xiaocheng Story at 6:50. It was still the same place. Pei Donglai originally thought he would not come here again, but it backfired.
He sat down at a booth in the corner of the bar. Unlike before, Pei Donglai did not order wine, but instead ordered drinks and some snacks.
At 7 o'clock, Lin Xiaojie arrived on time. After not seeing her for a long time, Lin Xiaojie was thinner than before and looked a little haggard.
"When did you come back? Come from the east."
"Been here for a while."
"Oh." Lin Xiaojie's original excitement turned into disappointment. She thought Pei Donglai would contact her just after he arrived, but she didn't expect that Pei Donglai had been here for a while.
"Xiaojie, I asked you out today because I wanted to talk about our divorce. In fact, there is nothing to talk about. We have made it clear before. The 200,000 yuan you gave my mother will be returned to you as soon as possible. You When do you have time? Let’s go get the divorce certificate.”
Lin Xiaojie was a little sad when she heard Pei Dong say that she was the first to accept the call. Although she was mentally prepared before coming, she still felt a little sad.
After a moment of silence, Lin Xiaojie said, "Donglai, can you please wait a little longer?"
"Didn't we agree at the beginning? We are just a formality, and we will divorce after a while. What? You want to regret it," Pei Donglai said angrily.
Lin Xiaojie lowered her head and remained silent, wiping her eyes with a tissue?
Pei Donglai was most afraid of women crying in front of him. He originally wanted to question her, but in the end he remained silent.
After a long time, Lin Xiaojie said: "My mother is sick, and the doctor said she doesn't have much time left, so...".
Pei Donglai didn't have a good impression of his ex-mother-in-law. He remembered that when the two were not divorced, Lin's mother had shown all kinds of contempt and made things difficult for her.
But thinking that Lin Xiaojie was so good to his mother, Pei Donglai couldn't bring up the divorce anymore.
"What's wrong with aunt? Which hospital is she in? I'll go check it out tomorrow."
"Let's go when it's not busy, it's like that anyway."
The two were silent for a while, and Lin Xiaojie broke the silence, "Dong Lai, can you have a drink with me?"
Seeing Lin Xiaojie's sad look, Pei Donglai couldn't refuse.
Lin Xiaojie ordered a beer, and the two started drinking it, but Pei Donglai only took a small sip, while Lin Xiaojie took a sip.
"Xiaojie, drink less. Don't you have to take care of Auntie?"
"We hired a nurse, but she didn't want me to go. She was afraid that I would be sad."
After a while, Lin Xiaojie said to herself: "My father passed away early, and now my mother has done the same. You have to divorce me. From now on, I will have no relatives in this world."
Lin Xiaojie cried while talking, the more she cried, the harder she cried, and finally she lay down on the table.
Pei Donglai had no choice but to send her home.
Coming here again, Pei Donglai felt unfamiliar. Although it was basically the same as before, at most it was missing something of his own.
Pei Donglai helped Lin Xiaojie to the bed, put some water on the bedside table, and turned to leave.
"Wow..." Lin Xiaojie vomited.
Pei Donglai had no choice but to help Lin Xiaojie to the bathroom. After she finished vomiting and cleaned up, she was ready to leave.
Lin Xiaojie suddenly hugged Pei Donglai tightly, "Donglai, don't leave...".
"Xiaojie, let go."
But no matter what Pei Donglai said, Lin Xiaojie just wouldn't let go.
Pei Donglai had no choice but to pretend to coax Lin Xiaojie to sleep, and could only wait until she fell asleep before leaving.
After the two of them lay on the bed, Lin Xiaojie threw herself into Pei Donglai's arms, crying and making people uncomfortable.
After crying, Lin Xiaojie's hands kept moving around Pei Donglai's body, and several buttons were unbuttoned.
"Xiaojie, if you do this again, I'll leave," Pei Donglai said while buttoning up.
"Can't I do this? You are still my husband, and we are not divorced yet." Lin Xiaojie took advantage of her drunkenness to cheat.
Pei Donglai didn't want to reason with a drunk person, and it would be a waste of time to talk, so he pushed Lin Xiaojie away, got up and left.
No matter how much Lin Xiaojie screamed, Pei Donglai never looked back.
It's not that he is like this now that he and Zhang Yutong are together. This is just one of the reasons. From the day of the divorce, Pei Donglai made up his mind to leave Lin Xiaojie and forget about this marriage.
When he got home, it was already one o'clock in the morning. Pei Donglai turned on the light in the living room and was shocked to see Zhang Yutong sitting on the sofa.
"Yutong, why haven't you slept yet?"
Zhang Yutong said expressionlessly, "Where have you been?"
"Drinking with colleagues, I'm late." Pei Donglai didn't want to deceive Zhang Yutong. He felt there was no need to cause misunderstanding. Anyway, he didn't do anything bad. It was a white lie.
"Go to sleep," Zhang Yutong said as he walked to the bedroom.
Pei Donglai followed him excitedly, and when he reached the door, he was blocked by Zhang Yutong, "I want to sleep alone tonight."
"What's wrong? Yutong."
"Donglai, do you want my help with your matter?"
"I...what's wrong with me?"
Zhang Yutong said expressionlessly, "Since you don't want it, you should handle it as soon as possible. I believe you and I hope you will also consider my feelings."
"Bang", the door closed.
Pei Donglai thought, did Zhang Yutong know that he went to see Lin Xiaojie? impossible? But what did Zhang Yutong mean by those words?
In fact, when he was in Tibet, Pei Donglai also wanted to confess to Zhang Yutong about himself and Lin Xiaojie, but he didn't have the courage to speak several times. Firstly, he was afraid that Zhang Yutong would be sad, and secondly, it was unnecessary. His remarriage to Lin Xiaojie was just a formality. He didn't do anything that should be done in marriage.
Lin Xiaojie was drunk tonight, and Lin's mother was ill, so Lin Xiaojie behaved like this.
Pei Donglai lay on the sofa, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.
Pei Donglai thought that he might as well find time to confess to Zhang Yutong. Now that Lin Xiaojie was unwilling to divorce and Lin's mother was sick, Pei Donglai couldn't push too much.
The next day, it was already 10 o'clock when I woke up, and I didn't fall asleep until 4 o'clock in the morning last night.
Pei Donglai picked up his cell phone and saw a WeChat message from Zhang Yutong: "I've made breakfast in the kitchen. Remember to eat it. I'm going to work. Pick me up from get off work in the afternoon. Bye."
Pei Donglai: Thank you, wife. I will pick you up for dinner in the afternoon.
After Pei Donglai had breakfast, he decided to go to the hospital to see Mother Lin. No matter how reluctant he was, from an ethical point of view, he should go. After all, from a legal perspective, Mother Lin was still his mother-in-law.
When he arrived at the hospital, Pei Donglai met Lin Xiaojie in the corridor.
"Donglai, I'm sorry for last night."
"Can I come in?"
Lin Xiaojie: "Dong Lai, can you promise me something?"
"Say it".
"I told my mother about our remarriage, please don't tell her the real reason, okay?"
Pei Donglai nodded in agreement, thus repaying Lin Xiaojie's favor.
