Chapter 261: See You in the Next Life

Many marriages break down not because the couple’s feelings are not good enough, but because of many trivial matters and small contradictions in life, which wear down their feelings day by day, and finally even become negative.

Of course, there are many reasons why a couple will have contradictions because of trivial matters in life. Extramarital affairs and changes in economic status account for a large proportion.

If a man or a woman has a new love outside, when they return home, they will naturally compare their other half with their mistress. Many of the faults and shortcomings that the other party could tolerate in the past will suddenly become unbearable. This is especially obvious for women.

If a woman has an affair, her heart will basically no longer be at home and with her husband. At the beginning, she may feel guilty and become better to her husband with a compensatory mentality, but this situation will definitely not last long. Slowly, they will feel that their husband is not as good as her lover in any way. They will think about divorce.

And if a man has an affair, unless he has been on bad terms with his wife from the beginning, he rarely wants to divorce, especially after having children.

From this point of view, men’s sense of responsibility for the family is much stronger than women’s.

After many women cheat, it is equivalent to giving up their original sense of responsibility for their husband and family. But this is not necessarily the case for men.

Another very realistic problem is the economic situation.

In real life, a large part of the reason for divorce between men and women now is the change in the family’s economic situation. This of course mainly refers to the man’s side.

If a man becomes rich, he will become bad. Even if this is not 100% correct, at least 80% of it is correct.

In reality, too many men, after making a fortune, abandon the women who have shared weal and woe with them and find a young and beautiful one. Or after they have money, even if they don’t have a mistress or a fourth wife outside, they often go to clubs for big health care.

Of course, if a man becomes poor, then he can’t be arrogant. His wife, who seemed to be in love with him, is very likely to leave him.

Since ancient times, it seems to be a matter of course for men to make money and support their families, while women just stay at home to take care of the children and do housework. If it is the other way around, the man may be pointed at and scolded.

So, in terms of family, in many cases, men naturally have to pay more than women.

If a man can’t make money and support his family, it means failure and incompetence. Women will naturally despise them, and then it is a matter of course to get a divorce. Now it is even more commonplace.

This is also the main reason for most divorce cases in China now. The so-called emotional discord and personality incompatibility are undoubtedly excuses.

Chen Feng felt that his previous divorce was mainly due to this reason. His original work was smooth, his salary was nearly 10,000, and his career prospects were very good. He was very in love with Shen Lin.

But later, his work was not smooth, and his monthly salary was only three or four thousand, which was almost half of Shen Lin’s. And Shen Lin seemed to have lost confidence in his future.

Then, Shen Lin began to find fault with him everywhere in life. At the beginning, Chen Feng would of course talk back, and then the two of them would quarrel, and then the two of them would have a cold war.

Then, their feelings were slowly worn away by this kind of quarrel and cold war, and there was little left.

Until Chen Feng found out that he had a terminal illness, his conscience was not lost, and he took the initiative to propose a divorce to her. And at that time, although Shen Lin said that she could give him a chance to save their feelings again.

But at that time, not to mention that Chen Feng had a terminal illness, even if he didn’t have a terminal illness, he had long thought of divorce. Because at that time, he was very disappointed in Shen Lin, and also very disappointed in himself. He felt that he could not give her the life she wanted, and Shen Lin was no longer the pure girl he admired and loved.

To put it simply, people’s hearts have changed, and feelings have changed. If you want to save it again, how can it be so easy? It’s meaningless.

The feelings that were saved again under that circumstance, at least in Chen Feng’s opinion, were no longer perfect. They were mended, incomplete, and full of flaws.

It’s better not to have such feelings.

Returning to the present, Shen Lin wanted to start over with him, and even wanted to remarry. For Chen Feng, it was also meaningless.

He and Shen Lin were silent for a long time. Shen Lin just looked at him, and then tears slowly fell from her eyes.

Chen Feng finally avoided her gaze, turned around, and looked at the road coming from Red Villa Bay.

Not long after, he finally saw the white mini coming from not far away. It quickly arrived and specially honked twice before stopping by the side of the road in front of them.

“I’m leaving. You should go back soon too.”

Chen Feng immediately went up and pulled open the back door of the car. Before he got into the car, he finally turned his head and said this to Shen Lin.

After getting into the car, Wu Mengting just glanced at Shen Lin, who was standing foolishly on the side of the road, through the car window, and then quickly started the car and drove away.

After the car had driven for a while, Wu Mengting asked, “Brother, where is your car parked?”

Only then did Chen Feng remember this matter. He looked out the window and recognized it for a while before saying, “It’s right there at that Shizu convenience store. Just go a little further.”

“Okay.” After Wu Mengting agreed, she drove over there.

Chen Feng took out his key and handed it to Sun Xiaorui in the passenger seat, “You can help me drive it back later, right?”

Sun Xiaorui had a driver’s license, but she had never had a car, so she hadn’t driven much.

“No problem. During the New Year, I drove my dad’s broken Sartre all the time.”

“That’s fine.”

Soon, the car arrived at the convenience store. Sun Xiaorui got out of the car to drive Chen Feng’s car.

Wu Mengting started the car again and rushed back. Then she finally couldn’t help but ask, “Brother, what’s the matter? What did your ex-in-laws say?”

Chen Feng leaned his head against the back of the seat and answered weakly, “It’s settled.”

“How was it settled?” Wu Mengting asked with great curiosity.

A faint smile appeared on Chen Feng’s lips, and he continued to say weakly, “How else can it be settled? With money.”

“Money? Yes, money is indeed omnipotent. How much did you give?” Wu Mengting asked with a sarcastic tone.

“Not much, one million.”

“…It’s not much. Compared to your current net worth, it’s really nothing,” Wu Mengting said with a pretended ease. “Does it mean that after you give this money, you will have no more entanglement with them in the future? Including… your ex-wife?”

Chen Feng said with a bitter smile, “I hope so, but my ex-wife seems to regret it.”

Wu Mengting quickly said, “What was she doing before? What’s the use of regretting it now? She has hurt you. Even if the wound has healed now, it will leave a scar.”

Chen Feng smiled, “You’re right.”

“Then what do you mean now? You’re not hesitating again, are you?” Wu Mengting said as she observed Chen Feng’s face through the rearview mirror.

“What’s there to hesitate about? I’m single now, and I’m not short of women around me. Why should I crawl back into the grave of marriage?”

Hearing Chen Feng say this, Wu Mengting was greatly relieved. She said with a smile, “Marriage is not necessarily a grave. It can also be a paradise. As long as two people love each other enough.”

Chen Feng didn’t argue with her, but just smiled and said, “You have a point.”

Wu Mengting smiled and didn’t say much more. She just had to make sure that Chen Feng had no sign of getting back together with his ex-wife.

After returning home, Chen Feng first went to wash up, and then came back and lay down on the bed and fell asleep. He had drunk more than half a bottle of Maotai before, and the after-effects were still quite strong.

When he woke up the next morning, it was still dawn. Sun Xiaorui, who was lying next to him, was still asleep.

Chen Feng first went to relieve himself, and then came back to lie down on the bed.

At this time, Sun Xiaorui woke up in a daze and asked, “Brother Feng, are you getting up for morning exercise?”

“Not yet. You can continue to sleep.”

After Sun Xiaorui hummed in agreement, she fell asleep again. Chen Feng turned over, looked at his phone, and it was a little after five in the morning. The screen also showed an unread text message.

Chen Feng subconsciously clicked on it to see. It was from Shen Lin. The time was almost two o’clock in the morning.

Chen Feng had already deleted and blocked her on WeChat. This was also an attitude of Chen Feng towards her, but he had not blocked her on his phone.

“Chen Feng, I’ve thought a lot. I’ve thought about the bits and pieces of our years together. We’ve had happiness, quarrels, and pain, but I’ve never regretted meeting you and marrying you. I’ve always been grateful for the happy times you gave me in those years. I will never forget it for the rest of my life.

“I probably know the reason why you took the initiative to propose a divorce to me at that time. At that time, your work was not going well, and your heart was sensitive and fragile, and your self-esteem was very strong. And I happened to quarrel with you and then had a cold war with you when you needed my encouragement and comfort the most, which caused you secondary harm and made you very disappointed in me.

“I regret treating you like that at that time, but my original intention was not to hurt you. I just couldn’t stand to see you self-indulgent and lose your fighting spirit. I hoped to force you to pull yourself together through quarrels and cold wars at that time, but obviously my method was very stupid and directly buried our marriage.

“When you proposed a divorce to me, I was very angry at that time, but I still planned to give you two more months. Unfortunately, you didn’t accept it, and my self-esteem couldn’t let me continue to be soft on you. In the end, I made the most wrong decision. My mistake accounted for most of our failed marriage. I personally ruined my own happiness.

“I thought I would be very happy after leaving you. But for the past six months, I haven’t been happy at all. Although I thought you were a bastard at that time, I still often thought of you. Many times I wanted to make up my mind to move out of the house we rented, but in the end, I never left. Because there are too many memories there. I’m afraid that after I move out, that most beautiful memory of my life will slowly fade away from my life.

“I’m sorry, Chen Feng. I’m in a lot of pain now. I don’t know what you will think after you see this text message. Maybe you will also think I’m a bastard, right? When you needed me the most, I was cold and violent to your family, which made things worse for you. And now that you’ve made a fortune, I’m starting to regret divorcing you.

“I feel like a clown now!

“If there is a next life, I hope to meet you again. It would be best if it was still a sunny afternoon. You are in your prime, and I am in my youth. At that time, I will definitely not let you disappear from my life again. I will definitely hold on to you tightly, hold on to our feelings and marriage. I will grow old with you and be with you for the rest of my life.

“Chen Feng, I’m sorry. See you in the next life if we are destined!”

When Chen Feng first read it, his mentality was still relatively calm. But after all, she was a woman who had lived with him for five or six years and had been married. As he read, his emotions were inevitably affected. When he saw the end, even though he had long lost much feeling for Shen Lin, his mood was still fluctuating, and his eyes were hot.

Although Chen Feng guessed that Shen Lin was deliberately being sentimental, deliberately making him recall the beautiful and happy times of their past, and playing the emotional card with him, he had to admit that he was not completely immune to this move of Shen Lin.

After all, the two of them had been in love before, and it was also the most beautiful golden years of their lives.

Chen Feng sighed secretly in his heart. For a moment, he didn’t know whether he should reply to her long text message.

Then… he suddenly realized that something was wrong. The long paragraph in front was fine, but what did the last paragraph, especially the last sentence “See you in the next life if we are destined,” mean?

No! It can’t be, right?

The more Chen Feng thought about it, the more uneasy he felt, and the more flustered he became.

After struggling in bed for a few seconds, he could only curse, “Damn it!” and then immediately turned over and got out of bed.

Sun Xiaorui was awakened by the “damn it.” She opened her eyes and looked at Chen Feng, who was standing by the bed and quickly getting dressed, with confusion.

“What’s wrong? Are you going out for exercise?”

“Yes. You can continue to sleep.”

Chen Feng casually perfunctory, then put on his pants, and without even putting on his socks, he took his phone and rushed out of the room.

Sun Xiaorui looked confused. She opened her eyes and was stunned for a long while. Looking out the window, it was not yet dawn.

Chen Feng ran down from upstairs, and then while calling Shen Lin, he quickly ran to the entrance to put on his shoes.

After he opened the villa’s door and came out, the call didn’t go through and was automatically hung up.

Chen Feng called again, then quickly ran to the carport, opened the car door, and sat in the driver’s seat, while quickly starting the car.

He pressed the remote control of the villa’s main gate.

The second time he called, it still didn’t go through.

Chen Feng could only resign himself to his fate, put down his phone, and turned the steering wheel hard, driving towards the villa’s main gate.

More than ten minutes later, Chen Feng once again came to the main gate of the community where he and Shen Lin had rented for several years.

At this time, it was almost 5:30 in the morning. Many people had already gotten up, and the street was a lively scene.

But at this time, Chen Feng was in no mood to care about these things. He drove directly to the main gate of the community.

The security guard of this community was okay. There were two on shifts. The one on duty now was a middle-aged man in his forties, surnamed Liu. He was a retired soldier and had been working here for several years. Chen Feng and Shen Lin had lived here for several years before, so of course they knew him.

Chen Feng stuck his head out of the car window and shouted to him, “Brother Liu, please raise the barrier.”

As he spoke, Chen Feng had already handed over a hundred yuan. At this time, it was best to hand over a pack of cigarettes, but unfortunately Chen Feng didn’t smoke, and he didn’t have the habit of putting cigarettes in the car.

At this time in the morning, there were not many people coming in and out of the community. The security guard surnamed Liu first recognized Chen Feng, and then quickly took the big red ticket and said with a smile, “It’s you. I haven’t seen you for a while. I heard you divorced your wife. Are you trying to get back together now?”

Chen Feng had no time to explain to him and urged, “I have something urgent. Please hurry up.”

Seeing this, the security guard surnamed Liu was not angry. After all, he had received the money. On the contrary, he smiled and quickly raised the barrier.

Chen Feng stepped on the accelerator and drove into the community. He drove to the unit building where he used to live and stopped. Then he quickly got out of the car, ran to the main gate of the unit building, skillfully opened the electronic password lock, and ran upstairs quickly.

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(End of chapter)