Leon just simply said yes without even raising his head.
He must have been busy going through the emails so he didn’t seem to hear what I said. This person had been so careless about me in this way.
Standing by his side and looking at him, I felt so complicated inside.
I still didn’t know what do do about this man.
After a while he raised his head and said, “Why are you still standing there? Take a seat!”
“I said I wanted to divorce you.”
“It’s just a certificate, why are you so fussy about it? Just ignore its existence. How come you are so stubborn?”
“Is it how you think of marriage? Is marriage so worthless and too common to mention in your eyes?” I asked in a cold voice.
“What else do you want? Attaching enough importance to it can mean being eternally together? The reason why we have certificates is that I took your family register to do it, which means you didn’t approve of our marriage from the start. Now that we are a couple and our marriage can benefit you a lot, why do you want to give it up now? Are you out of your mind?”
What he said seemed to make sense but not that reasonable enough to convince me.
“So you are saying, I can get those benefits from you in exchange for your so-called freedom, but since you tell everyone that I am your wife at the same time you have been messing with other women, don’t you think it’s a great humiliation to me? Don’t you get it?”
Leon suddenly laughed and looked disdainful, “You are jealous, after all. If you truly don’t mind, you wouldn’t care about what I do.”
“I don’t want to talk about this right now, I am divorcing you.”
“I am obliged to remind you that once we’re divorced, you may lose everything you have now. Oh don’t tell me you have illusions about my property, I can leave the villa to you but you won’t get a penny from any other thing, most importantly, Alex stays with me.”
“I must say I can give up everything else but I must get the custody of Alex, the custody you cheated out of me.”
“Let’s say you were right about me cheating the custody out of you, but please think about it, why do I even give it back since I tried so hard to get it? Besides, Alex can get a better education if he stays with me, don’t you get it? Would you choose to give up your son’s future for your pathetic selfishness?”
“Something can’t be measured with money.”
Leon laughed coldly, “Silly thing, do you have any idea how important money is in this world? Truly money can’t buy everything but money can definitely settle most of the problems, don’t you agree?”
“I don’t want my son to have a stepmother.”
“I don’t want my son to have a step father either, even if he had already had one stepfather, though, in no way will I let it happen again.” He said.
“Where on earth have you been in the past three years? You knew he’s your son but what took you so long to finally come to see him?”
“I didn’t know I had a son, also I went to jail. Are you satisfied with my answer?” Leon sounded really unpleasant.
“Then how did you learn that he’s your son?” Something I had always wanted to know but Leon had been refusing to tell.
“We are talking about the divorce, you are off the track.” Said Leon.
“I just can’t figure it out why you always try to avoid this topic.”
“Because bygones are bygones, and it’s no point in bringing it up again, does it make sense?”
“Not at all.” I said angrily.
“Then there’s nothing I can do, I shall go take a shower now. If you want to get a divorce, I shall go get a divorce as you wish, a piece of paper means nothing to me after all.”
He stood up and walked to the bathroom, soon I heard the bath water running.
I was so angry, yet I couldn’t do anything to him. Suddenly this man came out of the bathroom with a naked body, “You’ve got any good shampoo?”
I ignored him directly, went into the bedroom and closed the door.
I didn’t sleep well for the night and had many strange dreams.
Something surprising was that Leon got blind in the dream and I read braille together with him, then suddenly his eyes turned well… all kinds of strange stuff I myself couldn’t even figure out.
The next morning when I woke up, I saw Leon sleeping so soundly on the sofa that he didn’t even feel that his one leg was on the floor.
I started to clean up and prepared fried eggs and noodles for breakfast.
While I was busy with the kitchen stuff, I heard Alex giggling outside-Leon had waken Alex up.
Everything was ready as well as Lucia with Leon’s help. Looking at the noodles, Leon asked, “Where’s mine?”
I replied lightly, “I forget to cook yours, I thought you didn’t want it. There are noodles but you’ll have to cook them by yourself.”
But who could have expected that he took mine without me noticing, “You go cook yours, I don’t know how to cook.” He quickly took a bite, “I have touched the noodles and you wouldn’t eat the noddles I have tasted, will you?”
I called him a rogue and I had to cook my noddles again.
After breakfast, we dropped Alex at school and then we went to the company together.
We didn’t communicate with each other at all, no one was talking. I got mad whenever I saw him being so careless and inconsiderate.
I had a meeting in the morning and the meeting finished at ten.
At this moment Mengjie Zeng came in and said Leon asked for me.
Standing outside his office, I knocked first, I didn’t go inside until he said ‘come in’.
Leon’s face was ice cold and it was scary. “Nala Yao, do you get any pleasure by doing so?”
I had no idea what he was talking about but asked him, “What did I do?”
“Stop playing nice!” He grabbed the newspaper on the table and threw it at me angrily.
We were already in the information age and newspapers were already out of date, I was surprised Leon had been reading newspapers.
It was the Hai City Evening News and the headline of the entertainment column was about Leon, According to the wife of the Forth Brother, the Forth Brother had been messing around and keeping a secret lover and the wife wanted to sue get a divorce.
It was such a long headline that I knew exactly what it was about without even continuing to read.
In the picture attached, was Leon with a woman.
Leon’s side face was clearly shown but the woman was blocked by Leon’s tall and strong body and only a little was shown, but I could tell that it was Nan Lin.
“You want a divorce then I’ll get a divorce, but why did you still expose things to the media? Do you think you can get my property by ruining my reputation? What a good plan!”
“If I told you that I didn’t do it, would you believe me?” I replied coldly too.
“Who else could it be? You really think you are powerful enough to go against me in court for my property and Alex’s custody, with the help of the media?”
“If you think it’s me, then there’s no point in explaining any more, you might as well go ahead and think I had done it, the things on the newspaper might be true anyway, that you have a secret lover.” I talked back coldly and firmly.