Chapter 260: The Possibility of Remarriage

“Alright. This is our last farewell dinner. Let’s all be well in the future.”

After Chen Feng finished speaking, he stood up and walked out cleanly.

Shen’s father held his daughter’s phone. He had already seen the transfer information on it, including the text message notification from the bank. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something several times, but in the end, he didn’t say anything. He could only watch as Chen Feng walked to the door, opened it, and walked out.

As for Shen’s mother, she was still comforting her daughter at this time. And Shen Lin was still crying with her head buried. She had heard Chen Feng’s words just now, but she really didn’t know how to keep him or what to say to Chen Feng. She had already said what she should have said before. And this was not her style.

She did not raise her head because of Chen Feng’s departure.

As for the matter of her father taking her phone and Chen Feng transferring money to her, she might know or might not know. Her inner feelings and self-esteem might not allow her to accept Chen Feng’s money, but reason and reality told him that the one million compensation Chen Feng gave her was not to be refused.

So, she escaped from herself.

“Alright, Xiaolin, he’s gone. What’s the use of you crying anymore?”

Shen’s father didn’t expect Chen Feng to transfer one million to his daughter so easily. This undoubtedly showed that Chen Feng was now very rich, and one million was not a lot to him.

So, he was a little regretful now. First of all, of course, he felt that asking for only one million in compensation was a little too little. Secondly, since Chen Feng was now very rich, why not support his daughter to remarry him?

If Chen Feng had been so rich from the beginning and could easily take out one million, would he and his wife have been so opposed to their marriage at that time?

Hearing her father’s words, Shen Lin still did not come out of her sad and regretful mood.

Shen’s mother asked with concern, “Did this kid really transfer the money just now?”

“See for yourself.” Shen’s father was still holding his daughter’s phone and handed it directly to Shen’s mother.

Shen’s mother took it and looked at it. Sure enough, there was a transfer record of one million and a text message notification from the bank. This could not be faked.

A happy smile appeared on her face. She smiled and nodded, “This kid still has some conscience.”

But Shen’s father was not very happy. He said with a cold face, “Didn’t you notice that he took out this one million very easily?”

“What do you mean by that?” Shen’s mother had not yet reacted.

For ordinary people, one million was undoubtedly a huge sum of money. Many people might need more than half their lives to save so much money.

And now that they had easily obtained it, of course they were very happy.

“You’re so stupid.” After scolding her, Shen’s father explained, “If he can easily take out one million, it means that he is now very rich. In my opinion, his assets are at least five or six million, and it’s even possible that he has tens of millions. Otherwise, for an ordinary person, if their entire net worth is only two or three million, can they easily take out one million for others?”

Only then did Shen’s mother realize. Her eyes widened, and she said with an annoyed look, “We asked for too little! We should have asked for more.”

“That’s enough!”

Shen Lin, who had been buried in sadness, couldn’t listen anymore. She immediately raised her head and stared at her parents with red eyes.

“What are you doing? Are you trying to sell your daughter? You wanted to sell me for a good price before, to that rich second generation. I didn’t agree, and you’ve been angry with me ever since. Now, you finally sold me as you wished, for one million. I didn’t even expect myself to be so valuable.”

“You silly girl! What nonsense are you talking about?” Shen’s mother immediately slammed the table and shouted, “What’s wrong with that rich second generation I introduced to you? His family has several factories and is a top wealthy family in our local area. If you had been with him back then, you would have been a young mistress. How could you have divorced now?”

Shen Lin sneered, “Do you think I don’t know? That rich second generation eats, drinks, whores, and gambles. Although his family is rich, he himself is just a good-for-nothing. You want me to marry a pig-like rich second generation like him, which is pushing me into a fiery pit. And I also heard not long ago that their family’s several factories can’t hold on anymore. It seems that their family is about to go bankrupt. If I had married him back then, do you think my life would be good now?”

Shen’s mother was suddenly speechless. The facts were indeed so. She had originally thought that her daughter didn’t know, but who would have thought that she knew so clearly. Her face was a little embarrassed for a moment.

Shen’s father spoke to break the siege, “We are all for your own good. Including this time asking Chen Feng for a breakup fee, do you think we want this money for ourselves? Isn’t it for you?”

“Alright then.” Shen Lin immediately followed his words and said, “You said it yourself. You don’t want a single cent of this money from me. Anyway, you both have pensions and medical insurance now, and there’s no place to spend a lot of money.”

Shen’s father and Shen’s mother were suddenly dumbfounded. Who doesn’t like money? They asked Chen Feng for compensation, and although the main reason was for their daughter, a small part of the reason was of course for themselves. This was human nature.

“You silly girl. You’re on guard against us.” Shen’s mother said with a displeased look, “Of course we don’t want your money. Besides, we only have you, this daughter, by our side now. Your older sister, that ungrateful one, married to another province and we can’t see her more than a few times a year. After we die, won’t most of our things be left to you?”

Shen’s father said, “Actually, if you can reconcile with Chen Feng, I don’t mind you returning this money to him.”

Hearing this, Shen’s mother immediately glared at her husband and scolded, “What nonsense are you talking about? He willingly compensated Xiaolin with this money. Why should we return it to him? Even if they reconcile in the future, this money cannot be returned.”

“What do you old woman know?” Shen’s father also shouted angrily, “Chen Feng is very rich now. What is this one million? A house in Xiuzhou now basically costs several million. This one million is not even enough for the down payment of some houses. You’re really short-sighted.

“Besides, didn’t you see that our daughter still has feelings for him? They were in love freely and were together for more than five years. Their emotional foundation is very good. It was only because of some misunderstandings that they divorced. As long as the misunderstandings are cleared up, isn’t it normal to remarry? New clothes are not as good as old ones, and new people are not as good as old ones. Our daughter knows Chen Feng’s background and likes him. Why not start over?”

Hearing her husband’s words, Shen’s mother finally understood what he meant. In layman’s terms, her husband wanted to cast a long line to catch a big fish. Or rather, now that he saw that his ex-son-in-law, Chen Feng, was rich, he wanted to make his ex-son-in-law his son-in-law again.

And if he wanted his daughter to regain the recognition of her ex-son-in-law, returning this one million breakup fee would undoubtedly be a big plus.

It was just that she was still reluctant to send back this one million that she had not even warmed up yet.

Shen’s mother emphasized, “I don’t object to my daughter remarrying him, but before they successfully remarry, this money definitely cannot be returned.”

Shen’s father said angrily, “If they remarry, what’s my daughter’s is his, and what’s his is my daughter’s. What’s the difference?”

Shen’s mother said worriedly, “Then if the money is returned to him, and they can’t remarry, won’t it be a double loss?”

Shen’s father looked at his silent daughter and said faintly, “This depends on Xiaolin’s own ability. If she is capable, she can remarry even if she doesn’t return the money. If she is not capable, she can’t remarry even if she returns the money.”

Shen Lin glanced at her father, reached out and snatched her phone from her mother’s hand. After looking at it, she stood up with a cold face and walked out.

Leaving Shen’s father and Shen’s mother looking at each other, not knowing what their daughter was thinking.

After Chen Feng left Fumanlou, because he had been drinking, he called Wu Mengting and asked her to bring Sun Xiaorui over to drive.

While waiting for the car on the side of the road, Chen Feng took out his phone to check the few unread messages. They were from Lin Yujiao and Guo Mengyao.

These two women who were still in Lushi basically sent him messages every day, but he didn’t necessarily reply every time.

This time, Lin Yujiao sent him today’s business report as usual. The turnover was more than 8,000. After deducting various costs, she should have made two or three thousand today. It had to be said that clothing stores, especially women’s clothing stores, were really very profitable if the business was good.

Anyway, he was idle. This time, Chen Feng sent her a message, “Not bad, keep it up.” Lin Yujiao almost replied with a silly smile emoji in seconds.

Guo Mengyao sent him two selfies in her office. They were beautified. After Chen Feng looked at them, he was too lazy to bother with them.

He didn’t have many WeChat friends, and he didn’t have the habit of looking at his Moments. This time, since he was idle, he refreshed his Moments and then saw Zhang Yuxi’s post. It was a photo of her at a commercial performance in a large shopping mall. She was dressed very stylishly, standing on the stage, holding a microphone, and looking radiant.

This was her private phone number. She just posted this picture and then explained that she was at a commercial performance in a certain place today. There were more than fifty likes and comments below. It seemed that she had quite a few good friends in real life.

Chen Feng expanded it to have a look. In addition to the uniform praise, there were also inquiries about her next itinerary.

However, it was obvious that Zhang Yuxi didn’t have time to reply to these comments.

Thinking that he hadn’t contacted her for a few days, he sent her a WeChat message, “When are you free to come to Xiuzhou?”

After waiting for a while, she didn’t reply. Chen Feng didn’t care, thinking that she was busy with something.

Just as he was about to watch short videos, a “ding dong” sound came.

“I’m going to Xiuzhou to shoot an advertisement in about a week.”

Seeing this message, Chen Feng was a little happy. It had to be said that Zhang Yuxi had a star bonus effect. She was also a top-notch beauty, with a good appearance, figure, and temperament. It was still very enjoyable to play with her.

And he didn’t have to take any responsibility. As long as he invested in filming when the time came, it would be fine to promote her by the way.

“Alright then, we’ll see each other then.”

Zhang Yuxi replied with a shy emoji.

Chen Feng smiled and didn’t chat with her much. He turned to watch short videos.

Just as he had been watching for a few minutes, a footstep sounded, and then he looked up and saw Shen Lin.

Chen Feng secretly cursed his bad luck. He had thought that he was safe standing at a crossroad some distance from the main entrance of Fumanlou, but he didn’t expect to still run into her.

Shen Lin stood in front of him, just staring at him without speaking, but her occasionally flashing eyes undoubtedly showed that her heart was not calm at this time.

Chen Feng couldn’t stand her gaze and said with a bitter smile, “Is there anything else?”

After taking a deep breath, Shen Lin said, “Thank you for the one million you gave me, but I can’t take this money.”

Hearing this, Chen Feng was not very surprised. He just said calmly, “I gave you this money willingly. I even feel that I gave you a little too little. After all, you have been with me for five or six years. I couldn’t give you a good life before. Now that I give you this money, it’s mainly a compensation for you in the past. If you don’t want it, it will make me feel uneasy.”

“You are giving me charity,” Shen Lin said with a somewhat bad tone.

“From your understanding of me, am I giving you charity?” Chen Feng asked back.

Shen Lin did not speak, but just stared at him like that.

Chen Feng had a headache. He couldn’t just walk away. He could only frown and say, “Don’t be like this. We have been divorced for more than half a year. What are you still thinking about?”

“I can’t get over it,” Shen Lin said with a grievance in her tone. “I don’t even know why you suddenly proposed to divorce me. Yes, we were in a cold war at that time, but it wasn’t just my problem. Didn’t you also have a cold war with me? At that time, I occasionally thought about divorcing you, but at least I never took the initiative to speak. I was still giving you a chance, hoping that you could pull yourself together and work hard again. Why did you take the initiative to propose a divorce to me?”

Chen Feng could be unrestrained and ruthless with other women, but he couldn’t with his ex-wife, Shen Lin. He could only deal with it with a headache, “I said I found out I had a terminal illness at that time. Do you believe me?”

“…I don’t believe it.” Shen Lin was not stupid. She asked back, “If you had a terminal illness at that time, it’s been more than half a year. How come you look fine? You’re more energetic than a normal person.”

“…I said my condition is under control now. Do you believe me?”

“…I don’t know.”

“Actually, it’s meaningless for me to say these things to you. Because after getting along for five or six years, looking back now, although we have loved each other, we both have a lot of problems. For example, you don’t like to eat green onions, but I like to eat them very much. But in order to take care of your diet, our family didn’t buy green onions for those few years. Also, my towel is never wrung very dry, but you are very disgusted and always tell me. I like to take a shower before going to bed, while you like to take a shower in the morning, and so on.

“We have a lot of disharmony in our lives, and most of the time I am accommodating you. Sometimes I feel very tired. Of course, you must also feel tired. So, we divorced, gave each other freedom, and did what we liked to do, which is also very good.”

“Is it interesting for you to talk about these trivial matters in life now? If two people love each other enough, I don’t think these small problems are problems.”

“Yes, it’s precisely because we didn’t love each other enough later that we felt that some of the other’s lifestyles were very annoying. In the first two years of our passionate love, we didn’t feel that these small problems were problems.”

Shen Lin was suddenly speechless. What Chen Feng said was a fact. In the beginning, after they fell in love, they began to live together. She could tolerate these small problems in life every time. But in the year before the divorce, his shortcomings in life that she couldn’t stand made her very annoyed. After catching them, she would inevitably scold him. But Chen Feng still didn’t change after repeated teachings, which made her even more angry.

So, it fell into a vicious circle. Because of some small things and small problems in life, the two of them were a little tired of each other.

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(End of chapter)