novelraw Chapter 400 - 378: She Won’t Stay by My Side Just Because I Can’t Let Go
Chapter 400 - 378: She Won’t Stay by My Side Just Because I Can’t Let Go
Qiao Luchen extinguished the half-smoked cigarette in his hand, turned his head to exhale the smoke, then looked at her. He said nothing, and reached out to take the agreement from her hand, carefully reviewing the conditions she had listed.Then he said, "I’ll give this to you."
Dudu hurriedly shook her head and said, "Your family paid for this place, we don’t want it."
"You’ve always lived here and are used to it. Besides, it’s close to where you work. If I lived here, it wouldn’t be of much use to me."
"You should sell it."
Hearing this, Qiao Luchen smiled wryly. With so many memories attached to this place, she spoke of "selling" it so lightly.
Without waiting for his reply, he took the agreement to the coffee table, pulled out a blank sheet of paper and a pen from the drawer beneath, and copied her agreement, only changing the property ownership.
It was also the first time she had seen his handwriting, free and graceful, written beautifully, with his name_signed in the lower right corner.
He handed her the paper and said, "The house is yours, but don’t sell it."
Dudu looked at him puzzled, thought for a moment and agreed, then picked up the pen he’d just used and signed her name next to his...
"What are you going to do after the divorce?"
"Keep working."
"What about your feelings?"
Dudu paused for a moment and said, "Let things take their course." But she felt it was difficult for her to like someone else again. No matter how good they were, she didn’t want to put any effort into understanding them.
"What about you?" she countered.
Qiao Luchen looked deeply at her, his gaze seemingly penetrating her soul, his eyes fixed directly on hers as he replied, "Find a woman, get married, and have children."
Dudu paused for a moment, then asked curiously, "Don’t you have any love? Are you just getting married for the sake of getting married?"
Qiao Luchen raised a faint smile, took a deep breath, and said to her, "When a person loses love, they get married just for the sake of getting married."
"Has the person you love gotten married?" She remembered he had once told her that there was a girl he liked.
Seeing him shake his head, Dudu asked, "Can you let go?"
"So what? She wouldn’t stay by my side just because I can’t let go."
Dudu thought what he said made sense. In love, there are always so many one-sided wishes unfulfilled. Some people learn to let go and embrace a new life, while others stubbornly repeat old mistakes.
He was the former, she was the latter.
He took a deep breath, turned, and walked towards the door: "Bring your documents tomorrow morning, see you at the civil affairs bureau."
"Hmm."
Watching his departing figure, she always felt an indescribable loneliness. Dudu thought perhaps it was because she always saw him alone. She didn’t know his social circle or if he had many admirers, so she felt he was lonely.
Not thinking any more about it, she withdrew her gaze from the closed door and focused on the agreement on the table. The matter was settled. She couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
She didn’t know how she would walk the road ahead, but walking it alone was better than living with regret for another person.
Maybe in the not-too-distant future, Su Bao would also get married and have children. Maybe, in the end, she would marry a man she didn’t love, just for the sake of getting married. However, she had no regrets about her decision now. At this moment, she didn’t deserve a marriage.
When her mood had relaxed, she didn’t know that the person who had nonchalantly signed the divorce agreement stood by the closed door for a long time...