Chapter 15 Why Her and Not Me
After I learned they had gotten a Divorce, shock hit me first.
Then a hard-to-stop flicker of secret joy rose up.
I did not want to know why they had divorced at all.
Wen Yu was gone. I could stay by his side openly now.
We had grown up together.
Wasn't it normal to keep someone company through a low point?
Xie Yiheng's parents also hoped I would look after him more.
Their words always hinted they preferred me.
After all, we had grown up side by side.
No one could have been more suitable.
For five years, I never broke that last layer of paper between us.
I stuck to him shamelessly under the name of "family."
I thought Xie Yiheng would eventually see me again.
But his condition only got worse by the day.
It was like someone had pulled the spine out of him.
He lived like a walking corpse.
Why?
We had known each other for more than twenty years.
How long had Wen Yu even been with him?
How could Xie Yiheng love her this much?
It was not fair to me at all.
In the private room, I watched him lose his mind and throw fists at Gu Chaonan over Wen Yu.
I finally could not hold the tears back.
"Have I not done enough? Why do you keep treating me like this?"
Chen Chen held a cigarette between his teeth, scorn plain in his eyes.
"What self-moved act are you putting on?"
"If it weren't for you, would they have gotten a Divorce? Keep lying to yourself if you want. Don't treat everyone else like fools."
I was lying to myself?
Wasn't Xie Yiheng lying to himself too?
For five years, I had endured strange looks from other people and Xie Yiheng's distance.
Even my ex had mocked me.
"So you and I were never that different after all."
Why did I have to carry the blame for their failed marriage?
I had had enough.