"So, you just let that scoundrel off so easily?"
Next door to the law office, Su Nanxing was curled up on the sofa in the café.
The woman sitting opposite her had big wavy hair, wore professional attire, and had fiery red lips.
It was her best friend, Tang Ruoqing.
Su Nanxing's eyes were dull, her gaze unfocused. "Otherwise, what? Harass him incessantly?"
"For his sake, you didn't go to the hospital to work, you stayed at home as a devoted wife and mother, submissive and lowly, for three whole years, you've humbled yourself into the dust, and in the end... Hey! Xingxing!"
The coffee in Su Nanxing's hand suddenly slipped, spilling a good amount.
Tang Ruoqing got up anxiously, grabbing some tissues to wipe it: "What's wrong with you? Is it worth it for a scoundrel?"
Su Nanxing struggled to prop herself up. "I, I feel a bit dizzy..."
"Let's go, to the hospital!"
As soon as they left the café, the scorching sun of July was fierce, and Su Nanxing felt the world spinning, and the next second, she knew nothing at all.
When she came to, she was met with the almost distorted face of Tang Ruoqing.
"I'm okay." Su Nanxing saw she was in the hospital and hurriedly took her hand. "Don't worry."
"Su Nanxing, you're so dumb!" Tang Ruoqing's voice was laced with a cry: "You're pregnant, do you know that?"
Bolt from the blue!
Su Nanxing's eyes widened in disbelief. "I, I'm pregnant?"
"Six weeks." Tang Ruoqing handed her the ultrasound report.
Su Nanxing looked at the diagnosis, not uttering a word.
Tang Ruoqing let out a sigh and asked, "What are your plans now?"
But Su Nanxing suddenly turned to her: "Tangtang, can you take me home, please?"
Tangtang was Tang Ruoqing's nickname.
Unable to refuse her and having confirmed she was okay, Tang Ruoqing had no choice but to drive Su Nanxing back to the apartment she used to live in on her own.
Back at the apartment, after finally managing to send Tang Ruoqing away, Su Nanxing ate something, changed her clothes, and took a taxi to the Hongliang Building.
In the city center, in the best business district, an entire building belonged to the Lu Family.
Before marriage, she and Lu Beiyuan had little contact, and after marriage, she was even less inclined to visit his company.
No one here recognized her, and upon learning she wanted to see Lu Beiyuan without an appointment, they simply brushed her off with polite excuses.
Su Nanxing explained: "His phone is off, that's why I can't reach him. I have something very important to tell him, please..."
"Su Nanxing?"
Su Nanxing turned around sharply.
A few meters behind her stood a woman.
Her black hair was smooth, her features delicate, dressed in the latest designer fashion, with a small yet exquisite bag in hand.
Meng Qingxue.
Su Nanxing felt her breath catch, and with it, a dull ache in her lower abdomen.
"It really is you." Meng Qingxue took a couple of steps closer, her chin slightly raised as she spoke: "Why are you still here? Looking for Brother Beiyuan?"
A pang shot through Su Nanxing's heart, yet she stood up straight: "Who I'm here to see is none of your business, is it?"
"I was thinking of helping you but forget it, if that's how you feel," Meng Qingxue said, turning to look at the receptionist.
The employee immediately spoke respectfully: "Miss Qingxue, Assistant Zhou has instructed us that when you arrive, you can take the CEO's private elevator directly upstairs. This way, please!"
Someone came over to accompany Meng Qingxue towards the elevator.
Meng Qingxue took a few steps then turned back to look at Su Nanxing, "Although I don't know what you're doing here, I remind you that some things that aren't yours, after you've had them for three years, be content. Clinging and entangling yourself shamelessly will look very ugly in the end."
Even though Su Nanxing already had an answer in her heart, she couldn't help but ask, "You know everything?"
"Brother Beiyuan called me right away," Meng Qingxue said with a perfect smile on the corner of her lips. "Su Nanxing, he finally got rid of you. If you have any self-respect, from now on, don't appear in front of him and annoy him, okay?"
After she finished speaking, she turned and walked away.
In the July weather, which should have been unbearably hot, Su Nanxing felt an overwhelming chill instead.
It was as if there was a big hole in her chest, and she didn't know where the cold air was coming from, flowing through the hole and spreading throughout her body.
It made her teeth unconsciously chatter.
A staff member beside her asked, "Miss, do you still want to make an appointment?"
Su Nanxing took a deep breath, clenched her teeth, and after a few seconds, finally spoke, "No need, thank you."
The staff member watched as she turned away and left, and for some reason, felt that her departing figure was suffused with a breath-taking decisiveness.
Su Nanxing walked out of the Hongliang Building, and it seemed like someone called out to her, but she acted as if she had not heard.
Watching her hail a cab and leave, someone dialed the phone to Lu Beiyuan's office upstairs, "I just saw your delicate wife just now, right outside your company... hello?"
At that moment, in the president's office on the top floor, Meng Qingxue, who had just come in and hadn't had a chance to sit down, saw Lu Beiyuan receive a call and get ready to leave.
"Brother Beiyuan!"
Lu Beiyuan paused and turned back to look at her, "Wait a moment."
After he spoke, he hurried downstairs but by the time he got there, there was no sign of Su Nanxing.
On the taxi, Su Nanxing called Tang Ruoqing, "You said before that you wanted me to accompany you to your work at the Second Hospital, does that still stand?"
The father of Tang Ruoqing was the dean of the Second Hospital.
Tang Ruoqing was a neurosurgeon.
And Su Nanxing had been learning traditional Chinese medicine from her grandfather since she was young.
Tang Ruoqing was surprised to hear that, "Are you coming to work? But I thought you were..."
"I'm going to work," Su Nanxing raised her hand, gently stroked her belly, "Tangtang, I'm going to start a new life."
Tang Ruoqing had always felt that Lu Beiyuan was not a good match for Su Nanxing.
That man was so arrogantly aloof, how could he possibly be worthy of the soft, cute, and beautiful Xingxing?
Now that Su Nanxing had finally come to her senses, Tang Ruoqing felt a mix of emotions, "Alright, I'll make arrangements."
Back at the Hongliang Building, Lu Beiyuan went upstairs and returned to the president's office.
Meng Qingxue stood up, "Brother Beiyuan, is the divorce true?"
An hour ago, Lu Beiyuan suddenly called her and said that he and Su Nanxing were divorced, asking her to come over.
On the way there, Meng Qingxue could hardly contain her ecstatic glee.
She had finally waited for this day!
If it hadn't been for Su Nanxing, she would have been the one to marry Lu Beiyuan!
Thankfully, they were finally divorced.
Having seen Su Nanxing at the bottom of the building just now, losing her soul, Meng Qingxue only felt extremely delighted.
Just divorced, and Lu Beiyuan called her over; does this mean...
The smile on the corner of Meng Qingxue's lips deepened.
Lu Beiyuan's face showed no particular expression, "Yeah, divorced. Qingxue, she was with me for three years, after all, she did nothing wrong. After divorcing me, I'm afraid people will gossip. If someone... bullies her, and I'm not around, help her out."
Meng Qingxue lowered her head slightly and spoke softly, "I will, Brother Beiyuan."
There was a slight grievance in her voice, and Lu Beiyuan's own voice unconsciously softened, "You've been wronged for my sake. In the future, I will make it up to you."