Thinking back to the past, my life was only
about Dubois. I was centered around him,
spinning around him.
I was constantly draining myself for him,
making myself anxious and insecure. It was
ridiculous.
I was never like this before I was with him.
Relationships are just the icing on the cake in
life.
Instead of dragging yourself into the abyss
and suffering.
If it’s not a good thing, then throw it away.
Besides this life, what is there that you can’t
live without after you give it up?
Love is something that you can throw away,
and you can still live.
Looking at the three million dollars that
Dubois had transferred to my account as a
divorce settlement.
That’s a whooping number!
In the eyes of this young master, three million
is just a small amount.
But these three million just happened to be
the peak that I could justifiably and
reasonably reach.
I was very satisfied.
I spent three months happily without Dubois.
I went to work on time and never worked
overtime.
On my days off, I went out with friends.
It’s no exaggeration to say that not only my friends, but even I could feel myself glowing.
Then one night, my friend and I were about to
go to the badminton hall to play, but before
we got there, my friend got a call to go on a
business trip, leaving me to go back early and
explain to her husband.
I was walking aimlessly in the park alone.
A man’s voice stopped me.
“Yates!”
I turned around and saw that it was Dubois.
He looked at me with a haggard face, and
there was grievance in his eyes.
“Why didn’t you send me a phone call or a
message?!”
Unlike his usual questioning, this time his
voice was choked with sobs and grievance.
I was a little confused. After thinking about it,
I was still working at Dubois Corporation after
the divorce.
After the divorce, I hadn’t paid attention to
anything about Dubois.
Seeing that I didn’t speak, Dubois came
forward to grab my hand, but I quickly
dodged it. His hand stopped in mid-air,
looking at me in disbelief.
I was full of doubts, and the street lights
shone on us.
My condition was more than one star and a
half better than Dubois’s.
If this were a passerby’s perspective, he
would probably look like a wronged man, and
I would be the scumbag.
I kindly reminded him, my tone cold and
distant.
“Dubois, we’ve been divorced for three
months!”
“So what?”
My mother tongue was speechless at this
moment.
Dubois really burned my CPU dry.
We’ve been divorced, and other than the
superior-subordinate relationship during work
hours, there is no personal relationship at all.
After all, we don’t have any children.
Obviously, it’s the employees’ personal time
at this moment.
“We’ve been divorced for three months. What
messages or phone calls should I send to
Dubois? Strictly speaking, you’re not my
direct boss!”
Hearing me say this, Dubois’s eyes suddenly
dimmed, and emotions that I couldn’t
understand flowed in his eyes.
“I’ve been waiting for you to contact me!
Even though I’ve been on a business trip, I’ve
been waiting for your call, waiting for your
message!”
“I’ve been having a hard time these three
months since you left. I’ve been thinking
about a lot of things.”
“I ignored your feelings all these years, and I
let you down. Because you were by my side, I
thought you would never leave me.”
“I’m sorry… we shouldn’t be like this…”
He had lost a lot of weight in the past three
months, and his face was haggard.
I didn’t speak, and he tried to grab me in a
hurry, looking very nervous.
I was so scared that I took three steps back.
Perhaps my reaction of avoiding him like a
snake startled him.
Suddenly, his cell phone rang, and I knew it
was Seraphina without looking. This was his
exclusive ringtone.
He hesitated for two seconds and hung up
Seraphina’s call directly.
I stared at this scene with wide eyes, and
Dubois looked happy: “Yates…”
“Seraphina called, right.”
“Yes… but I…
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“Then why don’t you hurry up and answer the
phone and ask what happened? Don’t get hurt
like last time. The wounds at the hospital
were almost healed, and the doctor had to
use a microscope to find the wound!”
“Yates, are you still jealous, right?”
Me: ???
I was just an old man on the subway, and I
quickly waved my hand.
“I’m not, I didn’t, don’t slander me!”
I hurried back to both sides, turned around
and ran.
It was too scary. I had never seen Dubois like
this before, and I even suspected that I was
possessed.
After returning home, I thought more and
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more about it, and sent a resignation letter to
my boss overnight.
Later, I moved and went to live in another
city.
I can finally not hear or see any news about
him, until now.
The sound of the boss putting down his cup
brought my thoughts back.
“The work content will be reallocated like this,
everyone go.”
Our project with Dubois went very smoothly.
At the celebration party three months later,
Dubois waved his hand and directly chartered
the venue and arranged for all of us to hold
the celebration party at a hot spring hotel.
In the evening, Dubois knocked on my door.
He stood at the door of my room wearing a
bathrobe and said softly, “What? Aren’t you
going to invite me in? If someone sees me,
who knows what they’ll say?”
I didn’t give in, and looked at him with
amusement at the door.
“It’s late at night and Dubois is knocking on
my door dressed like this. Even if you don’t
come in, people will see you and spread
rumors. Is there any difference? Don’t come
in.”
The next second, Dubois bent down and
rushed in directly, catching me off guard.
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He sat directly on my bed, crossed his legs,
and smiled at me like a winner: “Should I
close the door? Or do you want others to see
me?”
I closed the door and sat down on the chair
by the window, looking at him with my arms
around my chest as if I was facing a
formidable enemy.
Dubois’s face flashed with displeasure when I
closed the door.
“Dubois, you’re the client, and I’m just a small
employee of Party B. If you want to talk about
the contract, you should go to my boss. Now,
it’s my off-duty time.”
The light in his eyes seemed to go out all of a
sudden, and he hesitated several times.
After a long time, he finally opened his mouth
and changed the topic to something
unrelated.
“I heard that the news about us is all over
your company?”
I put on a professional fake smile and blew
out a smoke ring.
“Don’t blame me, Dubois. I didn’t spread the
news. It’s just gossip after work. I’ll tell my
colleagues about the situation.”
“If you come here less and ask me to be
responsible for this matter, the rumors will be
dispelled.”
He stared at me, his tone extremely serious.
“Why is it a rumor?”
I was speechless for a while, and he stepped forward and put his hands on my shoulders.
His tone was extremely serious: “What I mean
is, it’s actually the truth.”
His words plus this action directly scared me
into a cold sweat.
He reached out and stroked my cheek,
making me look at him.
“Yates, do you know? I’ve been really
uncomfortable since you left. I’ve been
thinking about you all the time these past two
years.”
“You left like you were running away that day,
and I realized at that moment that I really
can’t live without you. I’ve been contacting
you, but you never answered me and
blacklisted me.”
“I know you hate me, and I can understand.
It’s my fault, and I let you down. Can you give
me another chance and let me make it up to
you?”
He looked at me carefully, his eyes full of
expectation.
Seeing my body and indifferent eyes that did
not react at all.
His eyes gradually rose to a hazy fog,
gradually condensed into tears, and slipped
onto my neckline.
Seeing that I didn’t speak, he became a little emotional.
“Yates, I really didn’t expect things to turn out like this. Do you really not have any feelings for me?”
“You said you would never leave me!”
His tears had burst their banks, and it was
the first time I had seen Dubois so pitiful.
The way men cry always makes people want
to stroke them, but at this time I really don’t
feel anything.
“Let go.”
“Don’t!”
Dubois suddenly roared, grabbing my hand
very excitedly and sticking it to his chest.
“You said it, have you forgotten?”
The next second, I grabbed his arm and
pulled him off me.
“Get out by yourself, don’t force me to throw
you out.”
I thought that after saying this, Dubois would
at least leave on his own out of consideration
for face.
But he didn’t, he just grabbed me tightly,
unwilling to leave.
“Yates, don’t you really love me anymore?”
I just felt annoyed and dragged him directly,
opened the door, and prepared to push him
out.
However, I didn’t expect that the people who
were going to go to the hot springs, and the
boss, were right at the door.
Suddenly, there was silence, and only Dubois,
who was grabbing my arm tightly, was crying.
Everyone looked at each other, and the boss
widened his eyes, hardening his head and
laughing.
The boss’s forehead was visibly covered with
a dense layer of sweat. He had never taken
the initiative to ask about my relationship with
Dubois.
However, anyone with eyes could see that
Dubois was too special to me. The boss just
thought that he had taken a fancy to me, and
had told me a few times that I was not too
young, and there was no harm in considering
“Cough, cough, Yates, give me some face,
talk to Dubois properly.”
I didn’t want to vent my anger on irrelevant
people, but I really couldn’t hold back any
good tone.
“Boss, I have nothing to talk about with
Dubois!”
“Why not?”
Dubois screamed, “After you left, I never
contacted Seraphina again. I blacklisted and
deleted all the ways! Let’s get back together,
give me a chance, okay!”
His body was tottering and hanging on me
like an octopus.
He had no image, crying and making noise.
The boss’s pupils shook. He didn’t expect that
I had such a past with Dubois, and he opened
his mouth several times, but couldn’t say a
word.
I finally pulled Dubois’s hand away and said to
him word by word.
“This position, the hotel’s camera can
completely capture it. If I call the police and
say you sexually harassed me, the police
won’t determine that this is a family matter,
because we’ve been divorced for more than
two years! Dubois!”
“Don’t come and disgust me again, I really
hate you.”
After saying that, I closed the door directly,
and Dubois’s crying lasted a long time outside
my door before stopping.
The next morning, I packed my things and left
the hot spring hotel.
In the corner of my eye, I saw Dubois crying
and shouting, chasing my car for a long time
before falling to the ground.
“Yates, how can I live without you!”
This time, he completely disappeared from my
life.
And I walked towards a bright life.
