Chapter 71
Chapter 71
The melodious music ceased abruptly.
" Now that you have Xu back with the help of Liang Ruiqiang, this marriage is of no value to you anymore, is it?" Jiang Yu Nan shook his glass slightly and laughed.
" I don’t want any kind of divorce settlement, you can rest assured", Yan Liang deliberately answered a different question as she pushed the papers on the table toward him.
" If I sign, what then?" Jiang Yu Nan asked her "Will all the grudges between be settled? Will we continue to be in touch for the rest of our lives?"
Yes.. what then? Yan Liang also asked herself.
She had loved this man, and then hated him deeply. But the DNA report was still lying in her bag. Earlier when she had called Liang Aunt in New Zealand, she had been sobbing speechlessly. All the time she reminded herself, she had put in all her efforts, but now this was all such a big joke now.
Aunt Liang had asked her to promise that she wouldn’t reveal all this to her mother. This woman had raised her for so many years. Their relationship had been more than that between blood relatives. She couldn’t give her up,
But the man standing in front of her now..
It was time to let go, set him and herself free..
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In the silence between the two, the man suddenly stood up.
Yan Liang subconsciously took a step back, fully alert. Seeing this, Jiang Yu Nan laughed self- deprecatingly. He raised his own glass, with his other hand, he took another tulip glass, and poured champagne in both of them. Then he extended the glass towards her. " Happy anniversary!"
Yan Liang just looked at the glass, but didn’t take it.
Jiang Yu Nan didn’t force her. He tilted his glass slightly so that the champagne poured on the divorce papers lying on the table.
He had expressed his position through his actions.
Yan Liang put a business card in the table. " When you want to sign, call up my lawyer on this number", she said.
Then she was gone..
Jiang Yu Nan stood at the same position. He did not watch her leave. With his head down, he seemed to be looking at the business card on the table, but in reality his eyes were so misty he couldn’t see anything at all. His head was bowed as he heard her footsteps leave the room. Then he sat down.
The cellists on the stage weren’t sure whether to leave, they looked at the lone gentleman who was their only audience.
His body was shrouded by intense despair so that others felt guilty leaving him alone like this.
"Please play a song …" he said softly.
"……" "…"
"……" "…"
He didn’t go on. Was it his emotions that choked his throat?
But he was just as calm, sitting there with no expression on his face. What deep emotions were hidden behind that calm façade?
The cellist thought a bit and sat down again. The music started again.
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Goodbye, my almost lover Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you I’m trying to think about you
Cant you just let me be Can’t you just let me be
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Goodbye, my almost lover Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you I’m trying to think about you
Cant you just let me be Cant you just let me be
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That night, Yan Liang moved out of the Xu house.
As the car left the gates, Yan Liang looked at the house through the rearview mirror. The house that had been her cage for the last two years
…… Goodbye……
See you later……
The next day she woke up in the hotel room. She looked at the strange ceiling. Even she didn’t know if she finally attained a rebirth, or whether she had just left all her emotions and feelings in the house and had only moved out with her body.
Jiang Yu Nan did not try to find her again, it seemed that night had finally snapped all connections between them