Chapter 482 - Im Not as Stupid as You Think (1/2)

January was coming to an end. Since it was located in the south, the weather in Lin City was still a bit chilly.

Despite the heater in her office being on, Li Qianxue’s voice sounded cold.

“Sign the divorce paper. Didn’t you say yourself that you’ll sign it when you see me? You are seeing me now, so you can sign it.”

Su Chenghui looked at Li Qianxue. He hadn’t seen her in over a week.

He had never thought that one day, he would dearly miss someone who almost became his ex-wife.

“I don’t want to sign it, Qianxue.”

Li Qianxue clenched her teeth. Despite being close to losing her temper, she managed to maintain her composure.

“Su Chenghui, I always considered you to be a decent man. But now, I have realized that you are nothing but a jerk. You’re getting better and better at going back on your word, aren’t you?”

“I’m not going back on my word.”

He just didn’t want to cut off all contact with her. If he got a divorce with her, he might never have a chance to see her again.

“I just don’t want to have to part with you forever.”

Upon hearing that, Li Qianxue sarcastically smiled as if she had heard the most hilarious joke in the world.

“Do you not want to part with me, or do you not want to part with my family’s wealth?”

Li Qianxue didn’t give Su Chenghui a chance to argue before she said, “Su Chenghui. If you have even a little bit of shame, you would know that you shouldn’t make me do something awful to get you to sign this paper. I know that you’ve been dedicating yourself to Li Group all this time. I’ve given you what you deserve. I want you to know that being greedy isn’t a good thing; it might end up costing you everything you have. You need to be careful.”

“Qianxue…” Su Chenghui understood that Li Quianxue no longer trusted him after being ignored and given the cold shoulder by him for more than twenty years, along with learning about what happened to Su Qingsang.

Even if she no longer trusted him, he still had so much left that he intended to tell her. “I can return all the money to you,” he said, “I can give you back the stocks and funds, even all the properties under my name. I can return all of it to you as long as you want me to. I just don’t want a divorce.”

Li Qianxue had run out of patience. They’d had conversations like this numerous times already. He might have not been tired of saying those words, but she was already tired of hearing them.

“Yeah. As long as we stayed married, you’ll still be my husband and a member of my family. You’ll still be able to do whatever you want. Su Chenghui, do you think that I’m still that silly little girl you met twenty years ago who would do whatever you said because she loved you?”

“That’s not what I think about you at all,” he said. If he could turn back time knowing that he would fall in love with Li Qianxue one day, he would’ve treated her well from the beginning.

He would never have gotten himself stuck in this hopeless situation.

“Alright, I’m done talking to you now. Just sign your name on this.” Li Qianxue pushed the divorce paper toward him.

He sat on the other side of the table. To make him sign the paper, Li Qianxue had called him a few times ever since her return to Lin City. However, Su Chenghui refused to sign it. He would only do so when he saw her in person.

She didn’t want to see him, but he went to the company to see her.

Li Qianxue felt so annoyed and disgusted. She hated her younger self for being so blind. How on earth did she fall in love with such a shameless man who didn’t even have a bottom line?

She couldn’t bear having her name bound together with his name. Not even for another hour.

“Qianxue…” Su Chenghui looked at the divorce paper, feeling his eyes growing misty. “Will you please give me another chance?”

She used to love him deeply enough to do anything she could to satisfy him. As time pa.s.sed, however, their roles had switched.

“You want another chance? To do what? Hurt me? Lie to me? Thank you, but I don’t want that. Su Chenghui, I’m not as stupid as you think.”

She had done whatever she could for him. She tore apart a lovely young couple and earned herself a foul reputation for his sake. She did several things that someone like her would normally never do.

He had taken advantage of her love and used it to keep hurting her.

Li Qianxue blinked her eyes, trying to get rid of all of her negative feelings.

“I made a mistake, and I don’t intend to repeat it. Su Chenghui, I spent the past twenty years putting myself in a pathetically low position for you. Isn’t that already enough?”

“Qianxue, I didn’t…” Her words made Su Chenghui feel sad. He wanted to explain himself, but she didn’t give him the chance to do so.

“Because of Xiang Caiping, you’ve been giving me the cold shoulder for over twenty years. You even made me raise her daughter. To be honest, I do feel that I owed it to you. I was stupid enough to have blindly fallen for you and made you marry me. After all this time, haven’t I already paid back my debt to you?”

The more she talked, the worse Su Chenghui felt. “Qianxue, I’m begging you… please stop.”

He knew more about his actions than she did. With his heart consumed by guilt, he deeply regretted everything he had done.

“Alright, let’s get back to business. I’ve already gotten bored of arguing with you, and I don’t want to keep doing it.”

Li Qianxue didn’t want to discuss the past either. She remembered how naive she was back when she married him, believing that she could make Su Chenghui love her.

She stubbornly believed that one day, her efforts would ultimately make Su Chenghui fall for her.

Only now had she realized how naive and shameless she was back then.

Now she only wanted to be herself; she wanted to be the vice-president of Li Group and the daughter of the Li Family.