We're Almost Divorced, Just Hang in There

Sunflowers fear the dark and long for sunlight. All they want is the hottest, most passionate love.

The rose says, “You can have anything you want, but you have to pull out my thorns yourself.”

1

Jiang Yuxue treated Qi Rui like a pawn. Their marriage was only to fulfill her grandmother’s wish, and she planned to leave her sooner or later.

But in the end, she couldn’t bear to let her go. All she wanted was to cherish her, hold her hand, hug her, and spoil her.

Qi Rui hated Jiang Yuxue and thought she was a cold, selfish woman. But two years later, she thought Jiang Yuxue was the best woman in the world.

2

Qi Rui needed money, and Jiang Yuxue wanted to fulfill her grandmother’s wish, so they signed a two-year marriage contract.

1. They would live separately and keep their marriage private unless absolutely necessary.

2. Their marriage would end as soon as the two years were up.

3. Neither could take another partner during the contract, to avoid unnecessary trouble.

With their two-year anniversary nearly halfway over, gossip media caught Jiang Yuxue sneaking off to a suburban villa late at night with some celebrity, spending Christmas with her secret lover.

Qi Rui, who had stayed single all this time, finally realized how badly she’d been played by sticking to that lousy contract.

Qi Rui started an online romance. Her online sweetheart was a poor woman, 178 centimeters tall, who worked hard at an internet cafe hauling computer towers.

She invented a persona for herself, too: a poor woman who cooked for her wife every day and still got complained at.

Jiang Yuxue treated her badly, while her online sweetheart treated her wonderfully.

Qi Rui: “Someone told me that Scrooge went on a business trip to Japan with another woman.”

Online sweetheart: “Get a divorce. I’ll take you to Iceland to see the northern lights.”

Qi Rui: “I had dinner with Scrooge today. She complained that my spicy chicken wasn’t good and kept giving me the cold shoulder.”

Online sweetheart: “Get a divorce. You don’t even have to make spicy chicken for me. I’d be moved to tears if you made me plain congee.”

Things were miserable with Jiang Yuxue, but everything was wonderful with her online sweetheart!

Qi Rui sighed. At last, spring was coming for her.

But little by little, her online sweetheart started sticking up for Jiang Yuxue!

“Actually, your wife treats you pretty well.”

“Maybe it’s all a misunderstanding. Why don’t you give her a chance to explain?”

“Maybe she doesn’t like spicy chicken because she can’t handle spicy food. And maybe she frowned at the milk tea you bought because it was too sweet?”

What was there to explain? Nothing! If she couldn’t eat spicy food or drink sweet things, then she deserved nothing but sour and bitter flavors!

Qi Rui decided her online sweetheart must be doing this because she didn’t want to be the other woman anymore. It was all her fault. She should have made their relationship official sooner!

But then her online sweetheart broke up with her: “This can’t go anywhere. It’s better to end it now than drag out the pain. Big Sister, you should cherish the person you have.”

Furious, Qi Rui blocked Jiang Yuxue on WeChat, then turned to her online sweetheart and said, “Baby, I’m getting divorced soon. Just hang in there a little longer.”

Meanwhile, Jiang Yuxue saw that her main account had been blocked, while her second account had received a message from the same person. Her face darkened. Divorce? Not a chance!

Reader’s guide:

1. The rumors are false. Jiang hasn’t cheated; Qi is just talking big and doesn’t have feelings for her online sweetheart.

2. A melodramatic story with no literary pretensions, and not meant to be realistic.

3. Feel free to leave whenever you like. No need to tell me.

Next book: Little Teacher

Blurb:

A proud, possessive younger woman with an intense fixation x a gentle older woman who dotes on her

Four-year age gap

At eighteen, during the year she retook her college entrance exams, Mu Jinnan moved to another city with her family and was forced to attend a cram school.

Ning Xiaoxin was assigned as her English teacher. She looked so petite that she seemed more like a student than Mu Jinnan did.

Mu Jinnan couldn’t resist giving her a nickname: Little Teacher.

She loved teasing Ning Xiaoxin and enjoyed watching her helplessly put up with it.

But when Little Teacher really cried, Mu Jinnan didn’t know what to do.

Her feelings changed without her even noticing.

“Little Teacher, did you really graduate from A University?”

“Little Teacher, you’ve never been in a relationship?”

“Little Teacher, when the exams are over, will you take me to see a movie?”

“I’m going to get into A University. You have to wait for me!”

But later, she found out that Little Teacher was a big liar.

Her degree was fake, her identity was fake, and even her promise to wait for Mu Jinnan was fake. As soon as the exams were over, Little Teacher disappeared.

In her senior year of college, Ning Xiaoxin found a job at a cram school.

The company presented her as a teacher from a prestigious university.

Anxious and uneasy, she took on her first student.

She devoted herself to teaching the girl and put up with her bad temper.

She told her that A University was a beautiful school and that she should pursue her dreams.

The girl called her Little Teacher and teased her accent.

The girl chased off thugs for her after her late-night shift. She said they would watch a movie together after the exams.

But her conscience kept gnawing at her. When the truth was about to come out, she fled that place full of lies.

Ning Xiaoxin never expected the girl to reappear seven years later.

On a rainy night, drenched from head to toe, she stared at Ning Xiaoxin with stubbornness and possessiveness in her eyes. “Little Teacher, I finally found you.”

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