Chapter 8: Divorce Agreement

After scolding Ye Xi, Ye Xiaoyun softened her tone and said, “Xiaoxi, Mom has been there. Listen to Mom, when choosing a man, you must choose someone who only has eyes for you and is infinitely tolerant of you.”

“Li Su is like that to you. Besides, his family background isn’t bad either. You’ll be happy for the rest of your life if you marry him.”

“I’m still young.” Ye Xi couldn’t listen to Ye Xiaoyun’s persuasion at all, her eyes became even more defiant, “I want to try and fight for it, what if I have a better choice?”

Ye Xiaoyun wanted to scold her again, but looking at her beautiful and outstanding daughter, she couldn’t bear to. She still patiently said, “Li Su is no less handsome than Xiao Yang, and his education isn’t much different either, it’s just that his family background is a little worse.”

“But Li’s family background is more than enough for you.”

“Oh, Mom, stop saying these things.” Ye Xi was a little impatient, “I’ll handle my own love affairs.”

“Fine, you handle it.” Ye Xiaoyun lost her patience, she said with a sullen face, “But Mom is telling you this beforehand, if Li Su finds out that you’re two-timing him, he definitely won’t want you anymore. Don’t blame Mom for not reminding you then!”

Ye Xi threw the pillow, rushed back to her room, and slammed the door shut.

Ye Xiaoyun was startled by the sound of the door closing, she patted her chest and lightly scolded Ye Xi’s room, “This troublesome child!”

Su Qingtan’s attitude and current situation made Li Su hesitate and unable to make a decision, but because of Ye Xi’s words, “I think I wouldn’t have been willing to miss you,” he immediately made up his mind and called Su Qingtan, “Su Qingtan, I agree to the divorce.”

Su Qingtan knew too well how much Li Su cared about Ye Xi, so she wasn’t surprised at all that he came to his senses so quickly. She directly agreed, “Okay, then see you at the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow morning.”

After two conversations, Li Su had already adapted to Su Qingtan’s current crispness. He was about to speak when Su Qingtan hung up the phone, continuing her crisp style.

Li Su was helpless, he could only call back, “I still have something to say.”

“Go ahead.”

“I want to bring a lawyer to your place tomorrow morning, finalize the divorce agreement, and then I’ll take you to the Civil Affairs Bureau. (The story is set before the divorce cooling-off period was introduced.)”

“Okay.” Su Qingtan said, “But I hope we can finalize the divorce tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

After hanging up the phone, Li Su made an appointment with a lawyer he trusted, finalized the divorce agreement with him, and the next morning, he took the lawyer to Su Qingtan’s place.

Li Su considered that Su Qingtan was pregnant after all, so he wrote in the divorce agreement that as divorce compensation, he would give Su Qingtan five million yuan and a house, and also stated that if Su Qingtan encountered any financial difficulties in the future, she could contact Li Su at any time.

Su Qingtan was very moved when she saw these conditions.

She didn’t spend money lavishly, but she also didn’t have a strong sense of saving.

Because she was tired of her family’s bias, she rarely asked them for money, and Tai Chi was not a mainstream sport, so her competition prize money wasn’t much.

She calculated that after buying a house, she would have no more than two thousand yuan in disposable funds.

So she really wanted to agree to the conditions Li Su gave, but—

“Change it.” Su Qingtan handed the printed divorce agreement to the lawyer and turned to Li Su, “I don’t want the money or the house, I only want the child, and for the rest of your life, you and your family cannot find any reason to disturb me and the child.”

“It’s best not to let your family know about the child’s existence, and I won’t let the child know about your existence.”

“Everything about you, everything about your family, has nothing to do with my child.”

These resolute words of severing ties made Li Su frown. Li Su was about to speak when Su Qingtan said again, “Li Su, let’s be quick and clean.”

Li Su stared at Su Qingtan, various emotions surged in his heart, strangeness, anger, helplessness, and a bit of reluctance for the child.

But Su Qingtan’s eyes were filled with nothing but calmness and seriousness.

“Su Qingtan, the conditions I gave were just to make your life easier with the child, do you have to be so resolute?” Li Su couldn’t help but say.

You’re so slow.

Su Qingtan didn’t bother to pay attention to him, but she wanted to get a divorce quickly, so she patiently replied, “Li Su, maybe we haven’t been married for long, you don’t know me very well. Let me tell you, my style is to do whatever I want, others can give suggestions, but I will never listen.”

Li Su rubbed his temples, his tone helpless, “With your personality, you’ll spoil the child too.”

“That’s none of your business.” Su Qingtan said, took a sip of water, and smiled lightly at him, “If you want to live a good life with Ye Xi in the future, stop nagging me.”

This sentence successfully shut Li Su up.

It’s just that he was still angry. Su Qingtan didn’t care about him, she turned to the lawyer and said, “Just like I said, you can redraft the divorce agreement.”

The lawyer looked at Li Su, Li Su frowned, but ultimately nodded.

After the lawyer redrafted the agreement, he turned the computer to Su Qingtan and Li Su to look at. Both of them nodded (mainly Su Qingtan nodded) and then the three of them went to the Civil Affairs Bureau.

When they got to the Civil Affairs Bureau, the lawyer found a printing shop to print the divorce agreement. Su Qingtan and Li Su went inside to wait for him.

Not far away, the middle-aged man who had been following Su Qingtan on the subway glanced at the Civil Affairs Bureau from afar, then looked at the printing shop the lawyer had entered, and he followed him into the printing shop.

The printing shop was very busy, with many people coming in and out, but there were only three staff members, one guarding the printer and two sitting at the computers.

When the lawyer asked the staff to print the documents, he stood behind and watched. When he caught a glimpse of Su Qingtan and Li Su’s names on the divorce agreement, he turned around and asked the staff how to make an advertising board.

He chatted with the staff for a couple of sentences, and as soon as the lawyer left, he immediately put on a smile and whispered to the staff member who had just printed the divorce agreement, “Beauty, I just saw you printing what looks like a divorce agreement. I happen to need it, can you just print that one you just printed for me as a template?”

As he spoke, he had already taken out two hundred-yuan bills and stuffed them into her hand.

The staff member looked at the two hundred yuan, a little hesitant. The middle-aged man said again, “Don’t worry, I’m not doing anything bad, I just don’t want to spend money on a lawyer.”

“If you hire a lawyer, two hundred yuan isn’t enough.”

“If you’re not sure, just delete all the names and ID numbers on it. I just want to see the content.”

The middle-aged man kept talking, and he got the content of Su Qingtan and Li Su’s divorce as he wished.

Su Qingtan and Li Su arrived at the divorce registration office. Li Su saw the notice posted on the wall that said they needed to bring their marriage certificate for divorce. He thought for a moment, turned to Su Qingtan and said, “I need to go print a copy of the marriage certificate first, I lost my marriage certificate—”

Before he finished speaking, he saw Su Qingtan take out two marriage certificates from her bag.

One was intact, and the other was taped together in a mess.