prologue (2/2)
She raised her eyebrows and pursed her lips, shrugging it off with her shoulders.
“Can’t help it, women get old really fast.”
Qu Wei Ran lowers his head as he asks, “Xia Mu is twenty-three this year right?”
He spreads out his hands as he measured her out with them.
“Still not tired of looking at your old lady face?”
“Hey, how can you say that?!” Yu Chen shouts out, glaring at Wei Ran with his narrowed eyebrows. Yaw.a.n.g inhale a deep breath, she don’t want to deal with him. She turns her body to leave, but Wei Ran quickly grab her by the arm.
“You’re mad? You’re mad at me after I said a few things to you? Haha.” He chuckled, irritated from her response.
“Qu Wei Ran.” She calls his name. “I’m not the one who’s mad, you are.”
“Haha, yes, I’m the one who’s mad. It’s always been me.” He reply back with a glare, his smile disappeared as his eyes turn dark from the anger of betrayal.
“Who’s the one that caused this? Who’s the one that ran off with a man who’s barely eighteen years old? Right now I want to know, did my curse work five years ago? You and him, you’re not happy right?”
Yaw.a.n.g sighs as she looks back at him.
“Mr. Qu, our marriage is a joke. Whoever I’m with, I don’t need your blessings.” She turns her body away from him and nods towards Yu Chen.
“I’m leaving first.” She stretches her arm out to hail a taxi and tells the driver her address once she close the door. She didn’t turn her head back to look at him, but she knows he is looking at her with his sharp eyes, gazing over her.
Yaw.a.n.g leans her head against the car window, feeling exhausted. She can never think that she will meet him again in T City. She suddenly thinks that everything that had happened in past, had happened in her past life.
“Miss, we’re here.” She pays him, take her receipt, grabs her bag, and opens the door to leave.
She walks up to the second floor and opens the door, turning the living room light on along the way. She drops her bag onto the sofa and collapse on top of it. She closes her eyes as her body aches from this busy night. She is so tired that she don’t want to move.Someone opens the door, but her eyes remain close, because she knows who open it.
“It’s this late already?”
“Mmm.”
“Don’t sleep in the living room, you can catch a cold.”
“Mmm.”
“Don’t just mmm me, move it.”
“Mmm.”
Yuan Zhu walks toward the sofa and pulls Yaw.a.n.g up.
“You always leave me with no choice!” Yaw.a.n.g opens her eyes as she laugh softly, seeing her roommate in her cotton pajamas, unruly long hair, and a pair of gla.s.ses that hide her beautiful eyes.
“Why are you looking at me like that? Hurry and go take a shower!” She gives Yaw.a.n.g a slight push. Yaw.a.n.g sits on the sofa, not moving an inch. Then she calls out her name,
“Zhu Zai.”
“Hmm?”
“I met my ex-husband today.”
“Huh, and then?” Yuan Zhu sits beside her excitedly with a nosy expression.
“Don’t you always wanted to know why I got divorced?”
“Uh huh.”
“It’s because&h.e.l.lip;there is a person&h.e.l.lip;” She stops as she thinks for the appropriate wording for it.
“There is a special person in my heart, someone I can never forget.”
Tonight, she wants to tell a story; a story she can never forget, a story she can never make clear of.
Original work 夏有乔木，雅望天堂 written by 籽月
Trans: yifanqini
I originally translated this with footnotes, but it didn’t allow me to post them so if you guys are confused with anything, just inbox me~
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