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THIRTY-THREE He called in the middle of the night

Ye Qing glanced at me and said, "That day, when I came to the beach to do some work, and saw you holding hands with him, I called him and asked if he was a person, but he lied to me." After saying this, the originally very refined and calm her finally could no longer control herself.

Her face was slightly flushed, and her eyes were fixed on me, as if I had stolen the man who should have been hers.

"Leave him." Ye Qing said, "It wasn't easy for him to obtain this chance."

I looked at her and shook my head slightly. "None of us can make a decision for him," I said.

I thought back to when Zhou Jin was crying bitterly in my room. It was actually because I couldn't bear to let him go.

"Why are you so selfish?" When Ye Qing heard my words, she got angry, she said, "You are obstructing his life, you are already married, your life is already over, why are you still holding onto Zhou Jin and not letting go, please let him go."

"It's not that I don't want to." I said, in fact, I was a little angry and embarrassed to hear her say it.

At this moment, the waiter brought me my coffee, Ye Qing and I tacitly remained silent.

I know that in many things I am not qualified, because I am married, so I am not qualified to find a young boy like Zhou Jin, not qualified to obstruct his path to study, not qualified to be his girlfriend.

I know all that. I could only stay at home and watch over my husband, even if he cheated again and again.

Maybe I can choose to divorce him, but I'm not willing. Why would I help him so much? He'll kick me away when I'm old, and he'll be able to find a younger and more beautiful girl in this city with the resources he took from me.

I don't want to.

I admit I'm a bad woman, and I seduced him, but so what?

I know I'm selfish, mean, vicious, holding on to Zhou Jin, but I don't want to let go.

But can I really never let go?

I took a sip of coffee, and the alcohol rushed into my stomach. I felt myself heating up, and I closed my eyes slightly, trying to make the alcohol paralyze the pain that was flooding through me.

I knew I was going through this as soon as I got here, so I chose Irish coffee.

Irish coffee is made from Irish whiskey. It's called coffee, but it's actually a cocktail.

"Zhou Jin, he … It's not the same as before. " Ye Qing remained silent for a while, as if she had realized that the words just now would hurt me, and thus she changed the topic, "You can see that he doesn't usually laugh anymore, right?"

Zhou Jin's aggrieved expression flashed before my eyes, as well as the deep pain in his eyes. I remembered the first time I met him, his eyes were still clear and clean.

I was the one who pushed him deeper into pain.

I stared at the coffee on the table and said nothing. I admit I wavered a little.

"His brother paid a lot for him." Ye Qing said, "He was the one who persuaded his parents to let Zhou Jin study the arts."

I thought of the piano in Zhou Jin's house, covered in white cloth.

"So, I ask you to leave him." Ye Qing said, "He should have a brighter future." Her expression was sincere and sincere.

A brighter future? Hearing this, I couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Yes, in the eyes of many, my life is over.

In his thirties, married, housewife, husband cheating, it was a ridiculous life.

How can I make a man who has been brought up to live in luxury understand my pain?

I took a sip of coffee and forced myself to calm down.

"I'll think about it." I said, and I didn't want to go on. I'd been hit enough at her place.

I stood up and was about to leave, but Ye Qing grabbed onto my clothes, I looked down at her, and she looked at me and said, "Don't ruin other people's lives."

People who seem simple tend to inadvertently poke into the most painful parts of others.

I smiled and nodded. I walked slowly along the seaside, and as the fishermen left their boxes of seafood on the harbor, I saw that a woman with a child in tow had bought the golden fish, and a cat had come out to the fisherman to act coquettishly and get a small fish.

It was clearly the warmest moment, but I felt very sad.

Please let him go.

Your life is over, so don't ruin it.

I sat in the harbor until the sun sank completely into the sea.

As soon as I got home, I smelled food.

"You're back." Li Jie walked out of the kitchen with a big bowl of soup and a gentle smile on her face.

"Yes." I took off my shoes and walked into the room. "Is Xie Zongming back yet?"

Li Jie shook her head, then revealed a smile on her face: "Ah Ying, I made your favorite beef stewed radish."

"Thank you." "You're the only one who remembers what I like to eat," I said, standing at the kitchen table and looking at the cilantro and onion soup.

Li Jie smiled and replied, "We have been friends for so many years."

"Today, I'll go find Zheng Xin." I looked at the dishes on the table.

Li Jie stopped cooking and looked at me, her expression a little nervous and a little sad.

"He... What did you say? " Li Jie hesitated for a moment before asking me.

"He said to let you go back." I looked at Li Jie's expression and sighed in my heart, "As long as you behave yourself in the future, he won't beat you up again, and let you continue to be Mrs. Zheng."

Li Jie's finger was placed on the table. Her fingertips were slightly white due to the exertion of her strength, and the back of her hand had veins bulging.

"Okay, thank you." Li Jie's voice was soft, she pushed the hair in front of her eyes behind her ears, then closed her eyes and revealed a smile, but that smile was extremely sad, and she said, "Eat, Xia Ying, let's eat."

"Yes." I ignored Xie Zongming who hadn't come back and said, "Let's open a bottle of wine."

"Alright." Li Jie said, "Then I will go and fry another crab, come in and help me peel a scallion."

"You bought a crab?" I asked Li Jie.

Li Jie placed her hand on her apron and said, "Mmm, I saw a discount today."

Li Jie and I fried the crabs together and opened a bottle of wine.

Although Xie Zongming saw that we looked a little strange, he did not say anything.

After dinner, we sent Li Jie home, and she stood by the door like before, watching us drive away.

Leaning on the side of the carriage, I felt dizzy and depressed, while Xie Zongming did not say anything unnecessary.

I often make Li Jie be obedient, but am I?

It doesn't matter what he does to me, whether I stay by Xie Zongming's side or not.

People like me must be disgusting.

At night, I lay in bed, unable to fall asleep. Although I drank a lot of wine, sleep seemed to have abandoned me.

Ye Qing, Li Jie, Xie Zongming and Zhou Jin's faces flashed across my mind, I recalled his repressed yet weak eyes.

I closed my eyes and tried to remember something pleasant, but Zhou Jin's eyes were still on me.

Just as I was about to fall asleep, my cell phone, which I had been keeping by my pillow, suddenly rang.

I checked the time when I got my cell phone. It was after twelve.

The name on the screen was Zhou Jin. I hesitated for a moment before picking up the phone.

"Xia Ying?" Zhou Jin's voice came from the receiver, and I suddenly felt a chill in my ears.