Lin Yuxi cooked a dinner. Based on the failure experience last time, at least this time it was not so hectic, and the finished product was quite decent.
After getting everything ready, she sat at the dining table and looked at the time.
An hour and a half has passed since that phone call, and Zhou Yanjing should be back soon.
At this moment, Lin Yuxi felt much calmer than she had imagined.
I can now look away from things that I was obsessed with before, and I no longer care about things that were difficult to let go of.
Of course, the process was very painful, but if she had not experienced this, she might not have been able to separate Zhou Yanjing from her heart so easily.
She loved Zhou Yanjing and hated Zhou Yanjing, but at the end of the day, she was finally able to let go of it calmly.
Although there were some deviations in this marriage, and she took a long detour and was briefly lost, it eventually came to its intended ending.
Lin Yuxi sat in the restaurant waiting for Zhou Yanjing to return.
But until it got dark, there was no sound of cars outside the door.
The bright and gorgeous crystal lamp above the dining table illuminated a table of dishes, which were already completely cold.
Lin Yuxi waited for almost three hours, but no one was there.
Zhou Yanjing treated her like a scumbag, but he was not a man of bad faith. She didn't know what was going on, and she called him several times but no one answered.
When the last call was about to hang up automatically, it was suddenly picked up.
Lin Yuxi asked: "Are you back?"
"Hello? Yuxi?" It was Jiang Nan's voice that came from the other end of the phone.
Lin Yuxi's remaining words were stuck in her throat.
I see.
No wonder Zhou Yanjing hasn't come home yet.
She just didn't expect that even if he agreed to come back to discuss divorce today, such an important matter would be so casually thrown aside by him, and he wouldn't say a word if he didn't come back.
She may have accumulated enough disappointment, but at that moment, she didn't have too many surprises and injustices.
"Where is Zhou Yanjing?" Lin Yuxi asked.
"I have a temporary situation here. Yan Jing can't leave now." Jiang Nan said, "Are you waiting for him to come home? You may have to wait a little longer."
"Okay, got it."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Yuxi looked at the table full of cold food and suddenly thought about it.
She originally felt that in the end, the two people should sit down face to face, just like at the beginning, and there should be a decent and formal ceremony at the end.
Now think about it, now that the deadline has expired, the end is a matter of course. Divorce is also a consensus reached by the two of them long ago. There is no issue of property division between her and Zhou Yanjing.
In this case, there seems to be no need to say anything in person.
The luggage had been packed in the afternoon. Lin Yuxi called a car, and the driver helped her put the suitcase into the trunk.
Lin Yuxi got into the car, and the driver started the car. All the scenery was receding in the rearview mirror.
Wedding Room No. 9 in Songyun Bay.
The past three years.
And her everlasting love.
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In the emergency department of the hospital, Jiang Nan was holding her mobile phone and was about to delete the call history when she caught a glimpse of a figure coming in from the door of the ward and stopped in a hurry.
"The brain CT results came out and there are no problems." Zhou Yanjing walked in with the examination sheet. "You need to rest for your knee injury. Please rest during this time."
Jiang Nan handed him the phone with an upright expression: "Xiao Fan just sent your phone over, and Yuxi called you a few times. I saw that she was in a hurry to find you, so I picked it up for you and told her Said something."
Zhou Yanjing took the phone over and looked down at it. Lin Yuxi had called him several times.
Jiang Nan's right leg was flat on the bed, and there was a hideous wound on the white knee that required three stitches.
She suddenly hissed and said with a pale face: "Yan Jing, I'm in a little pain..."
Zhou Yanjing was calling back, holding the phone to his ear, so distracted that he didn't seem to hear it.
No one answered Lin Yuxi's call, and Zhou Yanjing called twice but the same thing happened.
Jiang Nan pursed her lips: "If you are in a hurry, just go back first. It doesn't matter to me."
She retreated in order to advance. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yanjing picked up his coat and really wanted to leave.
"I've already paid the medical bills. Aunt Jiang is on her way and will be there in a minute. I'll leave Xiao Fan with you. Just call him if you need anything."
Xiao Fan, wearing a black suit, stood aside, looking nervous.
Jiang Nan smiled palely and joked: "Xiao Fan, I'm a little afraid of him now."
Xiao Fan apologized again with a grimace: "I'm really sorry, Miss Jiang, you came over suddenly, I really didn't see you..."
Zhou Yanjing strode out of the ward. As soon as he walked out, the expression on Jiang Nan's face darkened.
"You mean I cheated on purpose?"
Xiao Fan was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly: "That's not what I meant!"
He just joined the job not long ago, and his driving skills are very good, but he is not very stable at a young age. Old Liu has been resting for the past few days. It was the first time for him to drive for the second young master. He was so nervous that he didn't pay attention when he drove out of Boyu's basement. Jiang Nan saw Zhou Yanjing's car on the roadside and wanted to come over to say hello, but accidentally bumped into her.
Fortunately, the speed was not too fast at the time, otherwise, the consequences would have been disastrous.
Zhou Yanjing immediately put the person in the car and took him to the hospital. He did a full body check. Nothing else, except that Jiang Nan's knee wound needed stitches.
The matter is neither big nor small. She is the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, so no matter how small an injury is, it is a big deal!
Xiao Fan was on tenterhooks all night, feeling that he would definitely not be able to keep his job.
Zhou Yanjing put on his coat and strode out while dialing Lin Yuxi's phone.
It was obvious that she and Jiang Nan had just talked on the phone less than ten minutes ago, but now they couldn't get in touch.
Zhou Yanjing's pace became faster and faster, and he ran to the parking lot, opened the car door, started the engine, put it into gear, and stepped on the accelerator. The needles on the dashboard flew rapidly.
The neon lights at night flew past the window, reflecting Zhou Yanjing's face as sinking as water.
It's also an inch, and every intersection has a red light.
No one answered the call to Lin Yuxi. Zhou Yanjing's eyebrows knitted deeper and deeper as he hurried back to Songyun Bay as fast as he could.
After getting out of the car, he slammed the car door, took three steps at a time, climbed the steps, and pushed open the door.
It was pitch dark in the villa, not a single light was turned on.
The human body sensor lights from the entrance to the entire living room lit up one after another, making the house bright but silent.
The food was still on the dining table, and Zhou Yanjing's heart dropped.
He didn't know what he was afraid of, but he was relieved when he saw those meals.
He had seen this kind of desertedness last time, but it turned out to be a false alarm. He thought that at such a late hour, Lin Yuxi couldn't wait to go to bed first.
She likes to turn on DND when sleeping, so she can't receive calls. Everything makes sense.
But there was an invisible string hanging in his mind. Zhou Yanjing went up to the second floor. The master bedroom was completely dark, and even the floor lamp was not turned on.
He turned on the door switch, and the quilt on the bed was spread evenly without any wrinkles.
Lin Yuxi is not at home.
Zhou Yanjing opened the door of the cloakroom and checked. It was still very full, almost the same as last time.
The clothes are still there, she must not have left.
The room just seemed a bit emptier for some reason.
He walked around, always feeling that something was missing, but he couldn't see what was missing.
This feeling made him feel inexplicably anxious, so he went back to the first floor to open the cat door.
Lin Yuxi was more interested in those little furry things than he was. She would definitely not leave the cats she gave birth to alone.
As long as the cat is here...
Zhou Yanjing opened the door and found that the room was empty. All the cat supplies in the room: climbing frame, cat litter, automatic feeder, toys... were all gone.
Not to mention the lively cat, not even a trace of dust is left at this moment.
The empty silence of the night surged up silently like a tide, a panic-stricken silence.
He said those cats were not good things and would steal homes.
Zhou Yanjing took his mobile phone and called Lin Yuxi for an unknown number of times.
The mechanized beep in the receiver is long and unpleasant, but I still don’t answer it.
"How about revenge on me? You didn't answer the phone on purpose."
She said she wanted to have a good talk with him, but she hadn't even talked yet, so she wouldn't just run away like this.
Did you go out to drink in a sulky mood again?
Now that she was led astray by that idiot Yu Jiaxiao, she became wild-minded and ran to the bar every few days.
Zhou Yanjing searched for Yu Jiaxiao's phone number in the communication. He couldn't remember whether he had saved it or not. He swiped the screen with one hand, pulled off his tie with the other and threw it on the sofa.
His hand unexpectedly lost its aim, and the tie deviated from the target position and fell to the ground.
He stopped flipping through the phone at the same time and fixed his eyes on the dining table.
The food and the two sets of tableware were untouched. Zhou Yanjing's eyes were fixed on the seat where Lin Yuxi usually sat.
A platinum ring lies quietly on the solid wood table.
