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He pinched my nose lovingly as usual, then took off his coat and
put it on my shoulders.
“You are always so careless. You don’t like to put on an extra
layer of clothes every time you go out, like you are not afraid of
catching a cold.”
I smiled playfully.
“Because I know you can take off your coat and give it to me
every time I do that, so I’m not afraid.”
That was all we said to each other.
On the way back, we both tacitly agreed not to say much.
I didn’t mention why I was in the cemetery.”
He didn’t explain himself as well.
After we returned to my mother’s residential area and he parked
the car, I said, “Let’s get a divorce.”
In the car, Ryan lowered his head and asked calmly, “Who will
Jasper live with?”
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At that moment, my heart felt like it had just been gutted.
“Of course, he’ll live with me. He is so little. He needs his mother
more.
“Besides, you are always so busy and you don’t have time to
take care of him.”
Ryan just nodded, not even trying to convince me to stay.
He just said “See you tomorrow” and drove away.
I gazed at the red taillights of the car disappearing around the
corner of the area, and I could no longer hold back the tears in
my eyes.
When I turned around, I found Nathan standing in the corridor.
He pursed his lips and looked at me anxiously.
In the end, I was the first to speak.
“Ryan and I will also be divorced. Just the way you want it.”
I said this with a self–deprecating smile.
“Getting a divorce this time makes me feel like an old woman,
and one who had been divorced twice.”
A glimmer of hope suddenly appeared in Nathan’s eyes, and he
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couldn’t wait to speak.
“Emma, you are not old. If you get divorced, we can start over. I
will marry you!”
I looked at him calmly and suddenly smiled.
“Don’t joke about that. When you chose not to believe me five
years ago, it became impossible for us to be together again.
“From today on, I will no longer believe in love. Nathan, let’s not
meet again in the future if possible.”
I turned around and went home.
That night, Nathan stood outside all night long.
The next day, I divorced Ryan smoothly.
Not long after the divorce, I heard from an old friend that
something had happened in the Duncan family.
Nathan seemed to have gone crazy, getting in the way of the Duncan family’s projects one after another.
It was at this time that all the Duncan family’s businesses were
put under investigation by the authorities.
Ryan and Nathan seemed to have been in league with each
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other and had planned it out in advance.
The Duncan family had been on the decline in recent years and
finally went bankrupt.
I heard from a friend that the ones in the Duncan family who
committed the most serious crimes were the ones who
persecuted me back then.
Two years later, Jasper started first grade.
He acted up at school, and his teacher called me in.
I immediately took leave from work and headed over. When I
got there, Ryan had already talked to the teacher and was
waiting outside with Jasper.
He stood in the sunlight, holding Jasper’s hand, smiling brightly.
“You’re here.
“Emma, can you give me a chance?”
I found out later that Ryan and Nathan had already reached an agreement behind the scenes,
He didn’t dare to tell me the truth about everything in person, so
he used Nathan to reveal everything to me.
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Nathan was willing to serve as the executioner for the possibility
of starting over with me.
The outcome of the Duncan family was also part of their
agreement.
When Jasper turned 18, he asked Ryan with a smile, “Dad, why
aren’t you confessing your love to Mom? Are you going to wait
until you’re too old to walk anymore?”
That night, Ryan received a text message.
“I didn’t lose to you. I lost just because I don’t have a child with
her!”
