"Have both of you confirmed the terms of the procedures?" The staff in front smiled gently.
But undeniably, on this white paper, marriage became equivalent to a transaction.
Whether they loved each other or not, the property division at separation was cold and ruthless. Qi Sui signed her name without hesitation, scrolling on her phone with a calm face, waiting for Qian Jin to finish his pointless reading session.
The staff was used to it.
After Qian Jin signed his name, he still maintained a polite smile as the staff took away the two thin sheets.
In less than ten minutes, their marital status would be completely changed to divorced.
Visible assets in the bank account were of course split fifty-fifty. As for the part Qi Sui had already notarized, it had little to do with Qian Jin and wasn't even classified as joint property.
After signing that thin sheet, Qian Jin's face visibly turned ashen.
Since the procedures were done, there was no reason for Qi Sui to stay. She even tapped the table in front of Qian Jin with a smile, reminding him, "You need to pawn off the car as soon as possible, or it'll be time for maintenance, and pawning will be more troublesome then."
Of course, the car was also joint property.
Just as she stepped out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, her phone rang.
Seeing "Mother-in-law" on the screen, Qi Sui answered. A nearly hysterical scolding came from the other end: "Qi Sui! Do you have any conscience? You divorce A Jin at such a critical time, and you're spreading rumors about him in the company? Do you hate him that much?"
"You ungrateful—"
With a "beep," Qi Sui hung up expressionlessly, smoothly added that number to her blacklist, and then carefully added everyone related to Qian Jin to her blacklist.
The sun was dazzling. The air was filled with the stuffy, earthy smell of scorched ground. Her figure grew smaller and smaller until it disappeared from Qian Jin's sight.
He had thought she would question him—
What about those chat records on his phone? Was there really some subtle relationship between him and Xiang Yu? Or, like before, would she cry easily and scream hysterically?
But no.
None of that happened.
She truly didn't care anymore.
Qi Sui truly didn't care.
She had done what she needed to do.
As for who Qian Jin was cheating with?
She guessed it was someone passionate and sweet, a young person who was better at pleasing people than Qi Sui, more understanding, possessing what Qi Sui lacked.
The key point was—he was a man.
Qi Sui hadn't lost to anyone.
Of course, she didn't need to compare herself with anyone.
She had only done what she should in a doomed marriage.
The result wasn't ideal, so she should just walk away.
Just like Xiang Yu.
Thinking of this, she chuckled softly.
Just like Xiang Yu?
She wasn't a fool.
Her mood brightened.
She opened the chat with the umbrella kitten, which was filled with a series of sticker attacks. Where had he stolen these cute cat stickers from—
A string of them.
"I'm watching you."
A pale, shady kitten hid behind a wall, staring coldly this way, as if ready to unleash a ruthless cat punch at the slightest displeasure.
One every hour.
Was he impatient?
Qi Sui slowly walked into a convenience store, picked out a bottle of soda from the freezer, stood at the counter to pay, and typed a reply while fending off the clerk's "membership card attack."
Her eyes glanced down. Five bucks.
Then to the left, a row of colorful little boxes lined up.
Qi Sui thought for a moment, pulled one out, and paid for it along with the soda.
She replied, "Are you in a hurry?"
The response came instantly.
LEO: "Did you finish the procedures?"
"All done."
Poor Director Xiang was working overtime on a Saturday afternoon.
Xiang Yu had strongly insisted on coming with Qi Sui, but unfortunately, an urgent document required him to go to the company temporarily. So he could only become a shady cat on the other end of the phone, anxiously waiting.
So anxious that he simply called.
"Do you need me to pick you up?" His voice was distorted by the receiver, but his tone sounded very calm, nothing like that shady cat.
"Now?" Qi Sui thought about it. "I think I'll just go home."
"..."
Silence on the other end, as if he had something hard to say.
"What? Do you have something urgent?"
"No," he paused. "Not really."
Indeed.
Compared to others, Qi Sui was indeed too calm.
Having finally escaped a terrible marriage, what she wanted most was just to go home and sleep.
But she asked, "Then do you want to come to my place?"
"To do what?"
As Xiang Yu asked, he realized his heartbeat was far too loud, and the documents at hand became hard to understand.
He began to feel grateful that he had finished his work before making this call; otherwise, who knew how much time he would have wasted.
But what seemed worth focusing on now wasn't that, but the woman breathing lightly on the other end of the line.
Qi Sui said sincerely, "I'm hungry. I want to eat the food you cook."
She rarely had such moments—ordering others to serve her tea and water, because that was usually her role in the marriage.
Xiang Yu stood up, gathered the documents on his desk, and double-checked that there were no urgent programs on his computer. He picked up his car keys, straightened the creases in his tie caused by the knot in the reflective glass of the storage cabinet, and after doing all that, he said "Mm."
Very calm, but in his misty eyes hid a small flame.
He thought, he wanted to be by her side as soon as possible.
To pursue one of the few desires in his life.
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Author's Note: Hiahiahia, give me two more hours, I should be able to grind out another three thousand words. Consider it an extra update for reaching a thousand collections.
As for the scumbag's cheating partner, it actually appeared before in the text. I don't want to dwell on these irrelevant characters; I'll just skim over their endings later.