Chapter 9: Divorce & Booking a Ticket, I’m Going to Jincheng

Li Su immediately recognized the one taped together as the one he had thrown away.

He remembered that when he came out after getting the marriage certificate, he was so angry that he tore up the marriage certificate and threw it in the trash can before leaving.

Remembering this, Li Su looked up at Su Qingtan, but Su Qingtan didn’t look at him at all. She took the divorce application form and was lowering her head to fill it out seriously.

Li Su thought for a moment, but he couldn’t help but say, “You picked it up?”

“I also taped it.” Su Qingtan said without raising her head, then urged, “Hurry up and fill out the form.”

“Sorry, I was in a fit of anger at the time.” Li Su thought for a moment and still apologized.

Picking up the marriage certificate, taping the marriage certificate, including all the emotions of using every trick in the book to marry Li Su, had all become a thing of the past for Su Qingtan.

In her previous life, when she was mercilessly sent to prison, she was filled with resentment towards Li Su, Ye Xi, her parents, and the world.

But as she grew and reflected later, she realized that she had walked her own path, and she couldn’t really blame anyone.

The pain and struggle she had experienced, in the end, was because she was always at odds with herself.

She was vying for her parents’ love, Li Su’s heart, the more she couldn’t get it, the more she wanted it, but she never thought that in this world, except for her own heart, other people’s hearts were uncontrollable.

What doesn’t belong to you, truly doesn’t belong to you.

She figured these things out in prison, and she had no expectations for Li Su or her parents at that time.

Therefore, she has been very calm towards them now. No emotions, no expectations of affection, and likewise, she won’t reciprocate any affection.

So Su Qingtan didn’t pay any more attention to Li Su. She lowered her head and filled out the form carefully. When the lawyer arrived, they smoothly got divorced.

They each received a divorce certificate.

Su Qingtan put her divorce certificate in her bag, raised her head, and said to Li Su, “I’ll move out of the house I’m living in this week. You can go there and talk to the landlord yourself then.”

Li Su: “You don’t have to be in such a hurry, you can stay there.”

Su Qingtan didn’t respond to him, she continued, “I’ll also call your parents within a week and explain everything to them.”

“You don’t have to—”

“That’s it, goodbye, Li Su.”

Su Qingtan spoke quickly, but the last four words were spoken slowly, one by one, but they were light and airy, without any emotion.

After she finished speaking, she put her backpack on her back and strode out.

Li Su shouted, “I’ll take you back—”

Su Qingtan didn’t turn her head.

After leaving the Civil Affairs Bureau, Su Qingtan called the real estate agency and made an appointment. She was about to take a taxi back to her rented house to rest for a while. As she was waiting for a car on the side of the road, her eyes swept across the street and she saw the middle-aged man not far away!

Yu Yang!

How could he be here?

Because he wasn’t very close, Su Qingtan thought she had seen wrong. She wanted to take a closer look, but the middle-aged man had already turned around and walked away.

Su Qingtan didn’t dwell on it, she continued to wait for a car there.

The middle-aged man who was following her, Yu Yang, was wiping his sweat and making a phone call, “Assistant Li, you can find someone else to do this job. This girl is very sharp, she saw me.”

“Next time we meet, she’ll definitely recognize me.”

Assistant Li, Li You, on the other end of the phone, was a little surprised when he heard Yu Yang’s words, but he still said, “Okay, I’ll arrange it. You come back first.”

While Su Qingtan was busy buying a house and moving her household registration, Yu Yang had already returned to Jiangcheng. He handed the information he had investigated about Su Qingtan to Li You. Li You organized it and handed it to Duan Jinhuai the next morning when he reported his work.

“Young Master, this is the information about Su Qingtan that Yu Yang investigated. He followed her for two days. This Ms. Su is busy getting a divorce from her husband—”

Before Li You finished speaking, Duan Jinhuai snatched the documents from his hand.

The speed was so fast that Li You was shocked.

The calm and composed Young Master, when did he ever use this speed to take documents?!

Li You was only shocked for a short time, then he continued to report diligently, “I asked Yu Yang to be ready to notify Lawyer Zhu from the HSBC Law Firm to be Ms. Su’s divorce lawyer, but it wasn’t necessary.”

“According to the information Yu Yang brought back, it was Ms. Su who initiated the divorce, and she’s protecting the child quite well…”

Li You paused, then looked at Duan Jinhuai, who was burying his head in the documents, and continued, “Also, Young Master, she’s very sharp, she discovered Yu Yang in just two days. I’m going to send someone else to—”

“No need to send anyone else.” Duan Jinhuai interrupted Li You. Before Li You could respond, he said again, “Book a flight, I’m going to Jincheng.”

Ah?!

Li You was shocked again, but his years of professional training prevented him from shouting. He calmed down and said, “Young Master, the flight to the south is tonight, there are still things there that need your attention—”

“Let Yu Yang and Gao Yuan go first.” Duan Jinhuai said, already standing up and walking upstairs, “Book the earliest flight.”

This Su Qingtan’s resume doesn’t have anything outstanding, and this girl’s behavior isn’t very good. At such a young age, she used such methods to force someone to marry her.

She’s quite scheming, and her attitude towards divorce is also quite strong.

These aren’t considered advantages, why is the Young Master so interested in her?

Li You muttered to himself, but he still quickly arranged the things Duan Jinhuai had instructed.

Su Qingtan originally thought that she would be poor after buying a house, but she didn’t expect to be so poor. She only had five hundred and sixty yuan left.

This was just after she got the property certificate, her own household registration hadn’t been moved out yet, and her house hadn’t been moved.

Early in the morning, Su Qingtan looked at the several large boxes that had been packed in her room and was stunned.

She didn’t like staying at home, and when she married Li Su, she brought all her belongings here.

If she moved, she wouldn’t be able to move it herself, and if she hired a moving company, it would cost money.

She also had to tidy up the new house a little, and there were prenatal checkups, living expenses…

You can’t be without money.

Su Qingtan’s contemplation and daze were interrupted by pregnancy vomiting again. After vomiting, she sorted out some of her valuable gold jewelry.

Two bracelets, three rings, and two necklaces.

These were all bought when she was still a Tai Chi athlete, she hadn’t worn them much, and she had kept the receipts.

She packed them up and prepared to take them to a second-hand shop to sell.

At least she had to get through this period, she was pregnant now, and it wasn’t so convenient to find a job.

Su Qingtan calculated the current expenses she needed and also started thinking about what kind of job would be suitable for her.

With these thoughts in mind, she only looked at the road when she walked, not at people.

Duan Jinhuai, however, looked at her for a while from his car.

He had come over right after getting off the plane in the morning, he rented a car and parked it outside Su Qingtan’s community.

Su Qingtan was walking in the direction of where he parked his car. He watched her walk towards him step by step, and he was just thinking about what excuse to use to talk to her when he saw two children running towards her, bumping into her recklessly.

Su Qingtan seemed not to notice at all, she didn’t dodge or avoid, she just kept walking forward.

Duan Jinhuai watched for a while, and when he saw the two children were about to bump into Su Qingtan, he decisively got out of the car, strode over, and pulled Su Qingtan away.

The soy milk Su Qingtan was holding spilled all over him.

The two children ran off happily, and only then did Su Qingtan realize what had happened. She immediately said to Duan Jinhuai, “Thank you—”

As she raised her head, she saw Duan Jinhuai, and her thank you got stuck in her throat. Then she blurted out, “Old—”