The 99th Divorce

Yu Lili kept her tone neutral and looked down at his hand. Trying hard to sound as normal as she could, she said, “Since we already broke up, I have no intention of getting myself entangled with you any longer. If not for the police who insisted that I take you with me, I wouldn’t have bothered to trouble myself with you at all. Please let go, Mr. Ou.”

Ou Ming didn’t say a word. He silently tightened his hold on her sweater.

Yu Lili pursed her lips. In a hoarse voice, she lightly said, “I guess you’re really going to force me to walk out naked.” As she spoke, she took off her sweater.

Ou Ming did not expect Yu Lili to take things that far and yelled out, “Yu, what are you doing?”

Yu Lili ignored him. She unbuttoned her sweater and removed it quickly. The cold air suddenly hit her skin. She sucked her breath in from the chill. With only her undergarment on, she marched loudly to the entrance.

Ou Ming could not take it. With the sweater still tightly in his hand, he yelled, “Hold on!”

Yu Lili stopped in her tracks and turned to face him.

With only an undergarment covering her upper body, and a thin, black pencil pants covering her bottom, she wasn’t far from actually walking in the nude.

Ou Ming clenched his jaw and threw the sweater over to her, saying, “Leave, then.” As if he had recalled something, he unzipped his jacket. “And, this as well, take it back.”

He took off the jacket and flung it in her general direction. He immediately turned around and carefully felt his way over to the bed.

Observing Ou Ming in this state made Yu Lili take a deep breath. She watched his back as he carefully felt his way. She picked up her sweater and put it on together with her jacket before heading out.

The door closed with a click. Ou Ming sat on the bed with reddened eyes.

As Yu Lili walked out, she scrolled through her contact list. When she found Jiao Ziqing’s number, she pressed the call button, but the call wouldn’t get through.

It was as she had expected. Since Ou Ming had already blacklisted her number from his phone, it went without saying that Jiao Ziqing did, too. The intensity that Jiao Ziqing hated her with exceeded Yu Lili expectations.

Yu Lili smiled bitterly and went out in search of a public payphone to call Jiao Ziqing.

It was past midnight. When the connected, the other party still wasn’t asleep.

Jiao Ziqing sounded very conscious, albeit exhausted, “Hello?”

“Hello, Mrs. Ou,” Yu Lili said.

Jiao Ziqing was shocked when she heard the voice on the phone.

“I am Yu Lili.” Yu Lili knew she had recognized her voice and cut to the chase. “I am now in XX City in Fujian Province. Your son snuck her today and was brought to the police station. I took him out of there, and he is now in a hotel.”

She gave her the name and details of the hotel and didn’t bother with any additional pleasantries. “You don’t have to thank me. Hurry and take him away. Please keep an eye on your son in future. Don’t let him come and harass me.”

Jiao Ziqing clenched the phone tightly in her hand. Tears fell from her face in agitation as she yelled, “What do you mean by that? My son was happily at home. Why would he suddenly go to Fujian? You must have brought him there, isn’t that so?”

When Yu Lili heard that, her lips twisted in exasperation. “You are indeed one family and equally unreasonable.”