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Published at 2nd of December 2021 10:57:10 AM


Chapter 36

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Chapter 36 – Losing The Divorce Letter

One day while Bao’er was taking an afternoon nap, Fengning went to Long San’s study to look for him.  In this small courtyard, this guy had set up a study for himself.  As Fengning stood at the door, she twitched her lips…….he made a long-term plan but she would not allow him to get his wish.

“Long San!……”  She pushed the door opened and called out his name loudly to boost her courage.

Long San was reading the scroll with his head lowered and when he heard her enter, he smiled and waved at her.

“Come in…….why didn’t you take an afternoon nap with Bao’er?”

When he smiled like this, Fengning felt her heart soften.  She quickly let out a cough, regained her momentum, and said loudly.  “I’m here to have a serious talk with you.”

The corners of Long San’s mouth were slightly curved and he stared at her intently.  “You look much better.”

Fengning blushed and quickly let out another cough again.

“Don’t interrupt, be serious!”

“Alright, come here.”  Long San waved again and Fengning shook her head.

He said again.  “Then take a seat.”  She shook her head again.  She wanted to stand farther away from him so that she would not be easily bewitched by him.

He sighed then sat upright in a serious manner.  “Alright, speak.”

She gritted her teeth and asked.  “When are you leaving?”

Long San narrowed his eyes slightly for a moment.

“You’ve figured it out so quickly?”

She nodded.  “Yes…….suffering a short-term pain is better than suffering a long-term pain.  We will still break up eventually.”

“That’s good.”  Out of her expectation, Long San nodded happily and he continued.  “You can go and pack up.  The journey can start once Bao’er wakes up.”

Fengning felt a little foolish.  “Do you want me to help you pack your luggage?  What has this to do with Bao’er?”

“Since you’re willing to go home with me, naturally, you’ll be bringing Bao’er along as well.  As she is still sleeping, don’t disturb her and wait for her to wake up before leaving.”

“When did I say I’ll go home with you?!”  Fengning was so surprised that her voice became louder.

“Didn’t you say it yourself?  You’ve figured it out……short-term pain is better than long-term pain and you even asked when I’ll be leaving.”  Long San replied confidently.

She was stunned for a moment and then came back to her senses.  She moved two steps forward and pointed at Long San with annoyance.

“You deliberately misinterpreted my words!”

Long San was also stunned.  “Misinterpretation?  Can it be that you were just making me happy and lied to me just now?”

“When did I lie to you?  It was obvious that I asked when you were leaving!”

“That’s right.  But didn’t you also say that you’ve figured it out?  Since you’ve figured it out and asked when is the time to leave, doesn’t that mean you’re leaving with me?”

Fengning stomped her foot anxiously.  “Yes, I’ve figured it out but it was not to let you do as you wish.  I can’t let myself feel reluctant to part with you since it’s only a matter of time before we separate.  The longer this drags on, the sadder it will be in the future.  This matter between us is not as simple as just having feelings for each other.  There is Bao’er, there are the mistakes I did in the past, there is my maiden family, your family, and many, many more messy issues.  So even if we are together, no matter how happy we are, it will still be useless.  I…….”

As she spoke, she became more anxious but then noticed that Long San was smiling.

“So you are reluctant to part with me?  You have feelings for me?  You and I, we are happy together?”

Long San was very good at focusing on the important points and after Fengning had said a whole bunch of words, he could still remember several points all at once.

He was talking around in circles.  It made Fengning feel a little dizzy and she was momentarily stunned.  “We are talking about this seriously, right?”

“Yes.”  Long San adjusted his expression and showed a stern face.  “I’m serious.”

Fengning stared at him and came back to her senses.

“If you’re serious, then don’t interrupt and listen to me.”

Her face had turned red and it was not known whether it was due to embarrassment or annoyance.

“I am listening to you and I’ve written it all down as well.  You’re reluctant to part with me…….you like me……and we are happy together.”  Long San emphasized again.

Narrowing her eyes, Fengning shot over to him and landed a punch on his chest.

This rascal deserves a beating!

However, Long San was prepared.  He raised his hand then grabbed her wrist, and with a pull and a flip, she was hugged into his arms.  “Careful!”

She turned her wrist, bent her elbow, and aimed it at his chest.  He flipped his left palm over to block then swung it to the right and pinned her arm to the side of her body.  Fengning stopped fighting, lightened her strength, and with her eye rims turning red, she yelled.

“You are bullying me!  All of you with the surname Long are good at bullying people and everyone bullies me!  Do you think I, Fengning is someone easy to bully?  You’re forcing me into a corner!  Will you only be satisfied if I am forced into a dead end?”

Long San was shocked and embraced her.

“What’s the matter?  Isn’t this only teasing you?  Since you have recovered, I just wanted you to feel happy and it will make you feel energetic.”

“Is this the way you tease others?  Then why don’t you let me tease you?  Why is it that only you can tease me?”

Fengning threw a tantrum and her tears flowed.

“Alright, alright, I’ll let you tease me.  Come, you can tease me and do whatever you want.”

Long San cupped her face with his hands and as he coaxed her, he helped to wipe her tears.

“I’m not interested in teasing you!”  She shouted.

“Then I am so pitiful.”  Long San smiled but did not seem to be pitiful at all.

“You should leave as soon as possible since Bao’er and I can carry on living on our own.  If you want me to repay you the money, then you must wait until I have the money.  At present, I can’t come up with the money to repay the debt so you’d better not use the trick of refusing to leave.  Anyway, you must leave otherwise if you remain here, I’ll feel sad.  If Bao’er stays together with you for too long, she will also feel sad when it’s time for you to leave.  I won’t allow anyone to hurt Bao’er anymore.”

Fengning swung away Long San’s hand and rubbed her eyes as she said everything in one breath.

Long San hugged her in his arms and asked softly.  “You are my wife and is the daughter-in-law of the Long Family.  How can a wife drive her husband away?  We are a family and we are living together happily, so how can we feel sad?”

His arms gave her a comfortable and warm feeling and his voice sounded very nice.  Fengning cuddled against his chest and had the urge to cry again.

“But I have Bao’er…….”

“I’ll be good to Bao’er.”

Fengning straightened up and looked into his eyes.  Long San did not blink and looked straight into her eyes.

“I won’t make you sad and I’ll be good to Bao’er.”

But Fengnng still shook her head.  “But no one in your family likes me…….”

“But you’re not married to them.  Moreover, I understand my family.  It’s just that they don’t understand you enough.  Later, they will naturally like you.”

Fengning was still not confident.  “But my family is very troublesome…….”

“As long as you’re with me, I can naturally solve that problem.”

“But all of you drove me away…….”

“I was wrong.  I didn’t consider this matter properly at that time.”

Long San felt very regretful about it.

Fengning bit her lip.

“It’s not possible.  Since you didn’t think it over properly at that time, therefore, I can’t believe you this time either.  Later you’ll regret it.  it’s easy for you to say this since we’re hiding here now.  If you see your family and my family again and if I can remember my past or the troubles I caused or if the troubles I caused come looking for you again…….you won’t be saying the same thing as what you are saying today.”

“Feng’er……..”

“Long San……..”  She hugged his shoulders and buried her face in his chest.

It’s a pity that this chest will never belong to her.

She blinked and fought back her tears.

“Long San, I was alone in the past and although I knew the future would be uncertain, I dared to take risks and dared to live my life with you.  After so many things had happened and now that I have Bao’er, I dared not…….I don’t dare to let her be like me.  How will you look at her?  How will your Long Family look at her?  How will my parents look at her?  And if in the future, her biological father comes forward, how will she deal with herself?”

She raised her head and looked at Long San.  “If someone really comes forward, I don’t even know how I should deal with the matter and I don’t even know if it’s true or false.  This kind of matter is too devastating for me and it’s the same for Bao’er.  I really don’t dare.”

Fengning lowered her head.  “Therefore, leaving for a place far, far away…..a place where no one knows us…….then only will we be able to live a stable and peaceful life.”

“Then what about me?”  Long San asked in a calm voice.  “Are you just going to leave me just like this?”

Fengning nodded.

“Long San, you should leave.  Now that I know you have forgiven me, I feel at ease.  Bao’er and I will be fine……. it’s the truth.  Go back and continue to live your life as Third Master Long and you’ll be fine as well.”

“If I can live well, why did I try so hard to chase after you?”  Long San still refused to give up.

Fengning glared at him.

“Don’t pretend to be pitiful.  In the first place, you were very ruthless in writing that divorce letter, so the way I’m treating you now is already considered polite.  I’m talking to you nicely, so you should be nice and leave as well.  Whatever you say is useless for I have the divorce letter as proof.  We’re not related since a long time ago, so you should leave quickly.”

Long San put on a stern face.  “I’m not afraid of you being unreasonable.  It’s not that easy to drive me away.  Let me have a look at the divorce letter.”

She jumped off his lap.  “I’m not afraid of you being roguish either.  It’s not that easy to remain here.  I have the justification and proof.  The divorce letter was written by you and it was sealed with your red fingerprint.”

Long San looked at her without a trace of panic as Fengning turned around and left.

“I’ll bring the divorce letter and if you don’t leave, I’ll report to the authorities.”

She ran back to the house.  Suddenly she remembered that the divorce letter had always been kept under her pillow and it was still in the rented courtyard.  She hurriedly ran back to the rented courtyard but when she arrived at the courtyard, she found that the place had already been cleaned up and there was nothing left on the bed.

The man who sold miscellaneous gadgets staying in the courtyard happened to be there coincidentally and when he saw her, he said.

“The house owner had rented out this house.  The things that you didn’t want and left behind after you moved out were cleared by him.”

She rushed to the courtyard situated next door to look for the house owner.  In the end, he said that he did not see any letter or paper.  He had cleaned up the pillows and bedding on the bed and brought them back to wash and the rest of the items left behind were all useless things.

When Fengning heard, she was alarmed.

Can it be he had rolled up the bed sheet, threw it into the water, and washed away her divorce letter?

She returned dejectedly to the new house.  As soon as she entered the house, she saw Bao’er had already woken up and Long San was helping to comb her hair.  Bao’er was holding the mirror and looking into it.

“Uncle, the little bunch here is higher than the other side, it’s not aligned.”

Long San frowned and was tussling with Bao’er’s soft and thin strands of hair.  After much difficulty, he had managed to align both sides and after binding them with red strings, he took a look…….why is one side lower than the other again?

He was frustrated and negotiated with Bao’er.  “Bao’er, can I just comb one little bunch?”

Bao’er shook her head.  “Mother always comb two little bunches for Bao’er.”

He let out a sigh.  “Alright, Uncle will start over again.”  He untied one side and started again.

Seeing this scene, Fengning felt her heart soften again but she reminded herself that short-term pain is better than long-term pain.

Just then, Long San turned his head and upon seeing Fengning standing at the door in a daze, he called out to her.  “You’re back!”

When Bao’er heard him, she turned to look at the door and saw Fengning.  She jumped off the chair and rushed over.

“Mother, mother, Bao’er is combing her hair.”

Fengning picked her up and gave her a hard kiss which made her giggle.  Then Bao’er returned Fengning a kiss.

After Fengning put Bao’er down, she called Xiao Zhuzi over and said to Bao’er.

“Bao’er, let Sister Xiao Zhuzi help to comb your hair.  Mother has something to discuss with Uncle.”

Bao’er obediently walked to Long San and took the comb and red thread from his hand.

“Bao’er will let Uncle comb the next time.   This time, Sister Xiao Zhuzi will comb for me.”

Long San smiled at her and nodded in response.  Bao’er turned around then place her little hand in Xiao Zhuzi’s hand and they went out together.

When Long San and Fengning were left in the room, he asked.  “What’s the matter?  Didn’t you say you were going to let me have a look at the divorce letter?”

Fengning twisted her fingers and did not say a word.  Long San looked at her and then suddenly he lifted his eyebrows and smiled.

“You can’t be so careless to have lost the divorce letter, right?”

She argued.  “I didn’t lose it.  It just occurred to me that I left the divorce letter with my mother.”

“Oh, so that’s it.”  He nodded.  “That means you don’t have the divorce letter in hand and without the divorce letter, you’re still my wife.  Since you’re my wife, even the Heavenly Emperor can’t interfere if I stay together with you, isn’t that right?”

Fengning looked at him speechlessly.  Long San stretched out his hand to her and looked at her tenderly.  As if bewitched, she walked over to him slowly and placed her hand into his hand.  He pulled her close to him and said softly.

“Feng’er, everything can be solved.  Don’t worry.”

Fengning felt sad and muttered.  “How can they be solved?”

Long San smiled gently, put one arm around her waist and one hand on the back of her head, then he lowered his head to kiss her.

Captivated by his smile, Fengning was stunned momentarily.  Her waist was held tightly by him and his handsome face was pressing over.

The next instant, her vision blurred and her lips were immediately sealed.  Long San’s soft hot lips were tightly entwined with hers and Fengning was so frightened that her heart stopped beating for a while and her mind turned into a complete mess all at once.  Their breathing became one as she looked into his eyes.  It felt like his eyes were sucking her soul away.

Subconsciously, she pushed him away and took a step back.  Just as she opened her mouth to say the word ‘You’, she was pulled back into his arms again.  This time, he used a little bit more strength to hold her tight rendering her immobile.  His fingers that were placed at the back of her head gave a squeeze and as she cried out in pain, he sucked her tongue.

Fengning never thought she would experience such a situation.  She felt the blood rush up to her face and felt deeply ashamed.  When she tried to struggle, she received a wave of stronger hugs and kisses in exchange.  Her mind was in a chaotic mess and at this time, she could not think of anything else except for Long San.  He slowly coaxed her and she slowly softened until she finally nestled in Long San’s arms like soft mud.





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