Dating After Divorce

Ning Rou raised her head slightly, her hands dangling by her side and trembling slightly uncomfortably.

In a noisy environment, it was always difficult for her to distinguish the various voices that were intertwined in her ears, and sometimes she even misheard the requests of the guests.

At this moment, she could only barely guess what Luo Zhen was talking about based on the mouth shape of Luo Zhen's speech.

It seems that they are still struggling with the separation of the two.

Why did you divorce?

This question should have been clarified five years ago.

However, some secrets are destined to remain unspoken.

Ning Rou pursed her lips, and a faint struggle and pain flashed in her eyes. After a long time, she spit out a sentence, her tone full of pleading.

"Don't ask, it's been a long time, hasn't it?"

The expected answer.

Luo Zhen had long guessed that Ning Rou wouldn't say it, and even if she did, there was a high probability that she was here to deceive her.

She knew Ning Rou too well, just like Ning Rou knew her.

If Ning Rou really gave a reasonable reason for divorce five years ago, according to her personality, it would be impossible to sign the divorce agreement and let Ning Rou leave.

But it was precisely because she didn't even have a perfunctory excuse that she would be conceited and arrogant to take the divorce as Ning Rou's petty temperament when she was awkward.

The atmosphere was depressing and tense, and the dim light around it was extremely cold.

Luo Zhen closed his eyes, his lips pursed tightly, and the expression on his face gradually solidified.

No matter how she thought about it, she couldn't think of any reason for Ning Rou to give up her status as the young lady of the Luo's Group and come to Yuan Township, a small and remote place, to live a hard life of working two jobs a day.

There must be something happening here that she doesn't know about.

The person most dissatisfied with their marriage is Luo Zhenting.

Although same-sex unions have been recognized by law, it is difficult for most ideological and traditional people to accept them. Luo Zhenting is one of them.

What's more, he wanted to hold his grandson for a long time, and Ning Rou could not give birth to a son and a half daughter for their Luo family.

After three years of marriage, Luo Zhen was asked by him to divorce Ning Rou more than once.

Perhaps it was him who caused Ning Rou to leave.

Luo Zhen took a deep breath, his expression relaxed, and his voice became much softer.

"Did Luo Zhenting pressure you in private to let you leave me and Tianhai City?"

"Don't be afraid of him, the Luo family has long been in charge of me. Now, I control him, not him. Tell me, did he force you to leave?"

It is undeniable that she subconsciously hopes that the difference between the two is caused by external forces, rather than problems in the relationship between them.

If it was the former, she would definitely have the confidence to chase Ning Rou back; but if it was the latter, it meant that her past five years of thinking and searching were actually meaningless.

The inquiries in his ears were still intermittent.

Ning Rou opened her lips, but no sound came out of her throat.

I don't know how long it took, and the music that had been in the hall for a long time was changed, so she didn't avoid the look of anticipation at the beginning, she mustered up the courage to answer in a low voice.

"It's none of Mr. Luo's business. He didn't find me, let alone force me. It's me who wants a divorce."

"Ms. Luo, we are not from the same world at first. The reason for getting married is only out of an exchange of interests. The three-year contract was made by Miss Luo herself."

"I have fulfilled my promise back then, why doesn't Miss Luo let go?"

The tone was calm and firm, without the slightest wavering.

Luo Zhen's pupils shrank suddenly, and there seemed to be a huge boulder bursting in his ears. The bang kept ringing, and the chill of the bones poured into the limbs from the heart, just like falling into the ice cellar, and the body began to tremble uncontrollably.

The exchange of interests, the three-year appointment—she never imagined that this was the reason why Ning Rou left her.

Eight years ago, because she did not want to marry Cheng An, she deliberately left the Luo family on the day of the university graduation ceremony.

She still remembered that it was a sultry rainy night in summer. On her way out of Tianhai City, she rescued a woman who was covered in injuries and had nowhere to go.

She wanted to send the woman to the hospital, but was rejected by the woman crying. She had no choice but to take the woman away with her.

When the two came to the country, she bought medicine for the woman and took good care of the woman for five days.

In order to escape the marriage between the Cheng and Luo families, she took the initiative to ask the woman to marry—

"I'll provide you with a place to live and everything you want, so that you don't have to worry about money for the rest of your life. How about you marry me? Don't worry, it's just a nominal wife, I won't really do anything to you. What, this marriage is just an exchange of interests that is good for you and me."

"Three years, no more than three years at most."

Who would refuse such a good offer?

The woman certainly agreed.

Luo Zhen wanted to take someone to get the certificate immediately, but found that the woman was illiterate and could not even write "one, two, three, four".

She spent the next few days teaching women to write their names.

Ning Rou, such a simple word, but a woman can't learn it, even her hand trembled slightly when she was holding a pen.

This woman is really stupid, pitiful and lovely.

This was Luo Zhen's first impression of Ning Rou.

A name, taught and forgotten, forgot to teach, repeated practice for ten days, and finally can almost write it down silently.

Being able to write your own name is enough.

Luo Zhen really took Ning Rou to the Civil Affairs Bureau.

On the marriage registration form, Ning Rou's signature was written crookedly. It was obviously ugly, but every stroke fell into her heart accurately.

Two people get married like this, there is no wedding, no banquet, and no witnesses.

The day after getting the marriage certificate, Luo Zhenting just brought someone over.

And she also successfully escaped the fate of being forced to marry into a family.

In the first two years of marriage, she was always very busy. The company's affairs could never be finished, and the mess left by Luo Zhenting could not be handled well. Sometimes a month passed, and the two of them couldn't even see each other once.

But no matter how late she came home, Ning Rou would always leave a lamp and a table of hot meals for her.

When she left for work in the morning, Ning Rou would personally take her out.

Compared with other normal couples in this way of getting along, the only difference may be that the two of them have never had a relationship.

Luo Zhen couldn't tell when he was moved.

All she knew was that she wanted a home, a home that belonged only to her, a home that had nothing to do with Luo Shi, and Ning Rou did just that.

In getting along day and night, she sees Ning Rou becoming more and more pleasing to the eye and liking her more and more.

From alienating each other in the past, to making ambiguous and teasing Ning Rou who always changed the law in the back.

She likes the way Ning Rou sits on the sofa obediently waiting for her when she comes home in the middle of the night. She also likes to see Ning Rou hide in a corner and get sullen when she is bullied so badly. look.

In short, they are less and less like a pair of false lovers, but a pair of lovers in an ambiguous period.

Is three years enough? Three years is not enough.

Luo Zhen became greedy, so greedy that he wanted to occupy every three years of Ning Rou's life.

After the third year of marriage, the two finally had a relationship.

Obviously, Luo Zhen took the initiative, but Ning Rou did not refuse.

In front of Luo Zhen, she has always been well-behaved and docile. As long as it is what Luo Zhen wants, she will never say a 'no'.

Everything is so natural.

In the process of getting along with the two, Luo Zhen's dominant position is reflected in all aspects.

She stayed in Ning Rou's room, and she began to take Ning Rou back to Luo's house, officially introducing Ning Rou to the Luo family for the first time.

She did not allow Luo Fanxing to call her sister, but she did not stop Luo Fanxing from calling Ning Rou's sister-in-law.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that she fell in love with Ning Rou.

For all this, Ning Rou did not show any disgust or resistance.

She is always willing to obey Luo Zhen's every arrangement, with a smile, so well behaved.

So much so that Luo Zhen completely forgot the original three-year appointment in those warm and pure smiles.

She never thought that Ning Rou didn't love herself, and she never thought of Ning Rou's obedience to her—

In fact, it is just fulfilling the so-called promise, just thanking myself for the life-saving grace that year, and thanking myself for the carefree and good life that I have provided over the years.

The surrounding voices were still noisy, but Luo Zhen couldn't hear anything.

She loosened her lips, her palms were cold, and her body was still shaking.

She saw Ning Rou bent down, picked up the mop from under her feet, and turned to leave.

A neat and tidy action without any hesitation.

She tried to stop, but was speechless.

It wasn't until Ning Rou stretched out her hand and pushed the door open that she finally called out with a trembling voice—

"Softly."

Ning Rou obviously heard it.

Even his back trembled.

She turned her head, still with the dull, docile expression on her face.

Luo Zhen's heart throbbed instantly, and his eyes turned red uncontrollably.

Ning Rou is so close to her, yet so far away.

She moved her lips, her throat was extremely sore, and after several minutes passed, she asked the question that she did not dare to ask but had to ask—

"Have you ever liked me?"

She used to be so sure that Ning Rou loved herself and couldn't live without her, but now, she doesn't even have the courage to talk about 'love' with Ning Rou.

Even asking the word 'like' was useless.

In the dark box, the turbulent emotional tide circulated vaguely in the air.

So obvious, but Ning Rou didn't seem to notice anything.

Luo Zhen stood in the shadows, only to see Ning Rou shaking her head at herself, and then in her favorite obedient tone, she calmly read out the answer that she didn't even have the courage to think about.

"Just a deal, Miss Lo-"

"Let's go back-"

Almost instantly, tears rolled down his eyes.

In the past five years, no matter how frustrating and painful the process of finding Ning Rou was, she never shed a single tear.

But now, Ning Rou only used four words to make her proud heart completely collapse—

It's just a transaction, how cruel is it to say such a thing?

It was as if all their three years of happiness were fake.

Luo Zhen blinked, and Ning Rou's face immediately became blurred.

She didn't see the deep guilt and pain hidden under Ning Rou's calm expression.

So much so, that even the fingertips pinch the flesh of the palm without feeling it.