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He got up and was the first to leave, while Mina and I sat in the room for a long time without saying a word.
Later, Zhuo Feng also left, and Mina went out to see him off, leaving me alone in the room.
My mind was a mess; one moment I was thinking of what Su Qian had said, and the next moment I was picturing Xiao Minxing's face. I couldn't imagine how he would react if he found out that this child belonged to Su Qian.
The necklace that Su Qian gave me was just something I had never opened, yet it made him furious. Now that the child belonged to someone else, would he lose his temper again and fall ill?
As if responding to my own emotional turmoil, my mobile phone rang at that moment.
I picked it up and saw Xiao Minxing's name on the screen, followed by a familiar string of his numbers.
He had refused to meet me before and hadn't called either. I knew he was aware that I was at Mina's house. If he wanted to find me, he should have come by now. By waiting until this moment, he must have had some thoughts in mind.
A wave of sadness washed over me inexplicably.
Was it the statement made at the hospital about the child not being his that made him decide to divorce me? If that were the case, he wouldn't even need to be with Su Qian. As long as we got divorced, I could leave Haicheng for a place where he couldn't find me and live out the rest of my life in peace.
The call connected, but Xiao Minxing remained silent for a long time on the other end.
At first, I said "hello" a few times, but when there was no response, I stopped talking and we both stayed quietly on our respective ends of the mobile phone.
After a long while, he finally asked softly, "Are you okay?"
The tone was still cold, but upon hearing those words, tears fell from my eyes.
I desperately covered my mouth to stifle my cries, unsure of how to respond to him.
He remained silent, and time seemed to stand still, leaving no trace of movement between us. However, Mina returned.
She saw me on the phone, her expression turned wary, and then she mouthed to me, "Xiao Zong?"
I initially wanted to nod, but she handed me two tissues and softly said, "It's okay, hang up. Calm down and call back later."
I hesitated for a long time without hanging up the phone. Instead, I wiped my tears and said to the other end, "Let's get a divorce."
I couldn't see Xiao Minxing's expression or know what he looked like at that moment, but just thinking about his past actions and expressions made me shudder. To clarify things, I took a deep breath.
"Our marriage is a mess, and now I have someone else's child... I'm sorry..."
I couldn't say another word. I pressed the mobile phone down and collapsed onto Mina's shoulder, crying loudly.
All the sorrow seemed to be released at that moment. The past repression—the sadness I couldn't express or didn't want to express—flooded my eyes. It felt like crying was the only way to feel better.
Mina gently patted my shoulder, offering no advice or further words.
It wasn't until I cried myself out that she helped me back onto the sofa and handed me a cup of hot water, saying, "Crying is good; as long as you don't stay sad. You're not alone anymore. Some things can't just be resolved by others' advice. But if you have grievances, it's better to express them than to keep them bottled up inside."
Mina is truly the best gift that heaven has given me. She always stands by my side when I feel hopeless and provides me with the strongest support. I can't even imagine what I would do without her.
I would definitely be back with Xiao Minxing, continuing those dark days that would also lead to his demise.
Thinking about this, I feel that it’s a bit excessive to keep hiding things from Mina, and I really don’t want to follow Su Qian's method. Now, I can only discuss it with her.
“Mina, do you know that Xiao Minxing is sick?” After stabilizing my emotions, I asked her.
She frowned at me and asked, “What kind of sickness?”
I shook my head. “He won’t tell me, and I’ve never seen his medical records. His family keeps it a secret too, but I heard it’s a mental illness, and he can’t get angry or anxious.”
“He can’t get angry? He seems to be angry every day; isn’t that going to make it worse?” Mina asked.
I answered honestly, “Yes, and I’ve observed that he only gets angry when he interacts with me. When he’s at work or out, no matter what happens or who he meets, he seems very calm and doesn’t seem to care about those people or things at all. I once visited his company and saw him working; just looking at it gave me a headache, but he sat there calmly handling everything one by one.”
Mina seemed to have guessed the general idea and directly asked me, “Is this why you insist on divorcing him?”
I didn’t want to find excuses to deceive her anymore, so I nodded and said, “Yes, and Xiao Minxing himself said that this illness arose because of me.”
Mina looked a bit skeptical and asked me, “Did he really say that?”
He didn’t say it outright, but when I asked him this way, he gave an affirmative answer, which was already quite clear.
"But Mina kept mumbling, 'But if this illness is really because of you, it doesn't make sense for him not to get a divorce. Does he really want to be sick? You are the cause of the illness; if you leave, then it's as if nothing happened. And to be honest, no one outside knows about this.'
'Yes, he hides it well. I've been with him every day and didn't know anything. Plus, when he took leave to see a doctor, no one suspected anything.'
Even though I said that, I still had some doubts in my heart. At least during our last visit to the Xiao Family Ancestral Home, Xiao Minhui had mentioned it.
He might have been sick as a child, and perhaps his family knew about it. But so many years have passed without any recurrence. That time was very sudden; even though I called the old house when he fell ill, none of them came to see Xiao Minxing in the end.
Moreover, he also secretly sought treatment afterward. So how did they find out?
However, Mina seemed to be focused on something else. She looked at me seriously and said, 'So Anan, it's not that you don't love him anymore; rather, it's precisely because you love him that you want to leave, right?'
I looked at her helplessly. Although it was true, I didn't know how to admit it.
'Actually, ever since he returned from his last treatment, I've been thinking about this matter. But there hasn't been a good opportunity, and I didn't know how to persuade him to get a divorce. Even this child was an accident. After that incident last time, I never thought about having another child so soon; I just didn't expect it to happen at this critical moment.'
Mina sighed and said, 'Things have already developed to this point. It's too late to pursue what could have been done in the past. Let's think about what we should do in the future instead.'
I couldn't come up with anything and could only look at her.
After a moment of silence, she asked me, 'If Su Qian's idea had made me a bit tempted before, now it really won't work at all. Even though he said it was a fake marriage, the way he looks at you is not right.'"
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