While I was signing, Gu Jingchuan was leaning against the pillar in the Civil Affairs Bureau lobby, scrolling through his phone and laughing.
It's not a secretive smile, it's a generous one, with the corners of the mouth turned up and the eyes bright, as if he has finally gotten rid of a big trouble. He is wearing a dark blue handmade suit today. The buttons on the cuffs were given to him by me for his birthday last year. At that time, he said he would never take them off in his life.
The buttons are still there, but his eyes are looking elsewhere.
"Have you finished signing?" He put his phone into his pocket and didn't even look at me when he came over. He reached out and grabbed the divorce agreement on the table and flipped through two pages. "Well, for the division of property, I asked the lawyer to add an extra five hundred thousand to you as compensation for your hard work over the past few years."
I said nothing.
He smiled again and slapped the agreement in front of me, "Take it, no one will give you money in the future, Shen Qingyi."
When he said this, his tone was filled with pity. It was as if I was a canary that he had raised for three years. Now that the cage door was open, he gave me a handful of grain, hoping that I would starve to death outside and fly back on my own.
I held the pen, pressed all my life's calmness into my fingertips, and wrote my name one stroke at a time. Shen Qingyi, three words, it takes 12 points more effort than I did to sign the marriage certificate.
The staff stamped it and pushed the divorce certificate over.
Gu Jingchuan picked up his copy, stuffed it into the inner pocket of his suit, raised his chin at me, "Okay, let's go our separate ways from now on." After saying that, he turned around and left, his leather shoes hitting the marble floor loudly and decisively,
I waited until his back completely disappeared outside the glass door before I stood up.
