Reborn in the 80s: Divorced and Spoiled by the Military Man

Chapter 155: We’ll Go File for Divorce Next Month

Xie Yunshu thought very carefully over what Captain Shen had said yesterday, then admitted her mistake with the proper attitude. “Captain Shen, yesterday I promised there wouldn’t be any problems, but I failed to keep that promise. What happened today is my fault.”

“Did you ask them to come make trouble?” Shen Subai’s voice betrayed no emotion, but his gaze never left her for even an instant.

Xie Yunshu hurriedly denied it. “Absolutely not! Captain Shen, it’s not like I’m insane. Why would I possibly ask them to come make trouble?”

After saying that, Xie Yunshu finally lifted her head and looked straight at Shen Subai. “Captain Shen, please believe me.”

Of course she felt wronged, but no one else had any reason to pay the price for her grievances. And just because the relatives in her family were a rotten mess didn’t mean she was somehow especially innocent or pitiful. She truly hadn’t expected today’s incident. She hadn’t expected news of her contracting the canteen to reach Li Shenggen’s ears.

Besides… Xie Yunshu thought of what Captain Shen had said just now outside the Construction Site: Xie Yunshu doesn’t have that much pull with me!

Perhaps he would also think she was some lunatic who would even hit her elders…

The office fell silent. A clean white handkerchief was placed in front of her. “Wipe your tears first.”

Xie Yunshu bit her lip and silently took the handkerchief. She wiped at her face haphazardly, feeling rather embarrassed.

It wasn’t as if she hadn’t thought before about pretending to shed a few tears to look pitiful, but her acting skills weren’t exactly good, and she really wasn’t suited to playing the frail Little White Flower.

But she never would have imagined that her tears would sprout legs and run out on their own. She had never known her tears could be so obedient…

Captain Shen was always talking about handling official matters impartially. He was sure to think she was pretending to be pitiful and selling misery. Crying during a business discussion would only add fuel to the fire and make Captain Shen even angrier.

Thinking of that, Xie Yunshu quickly forced her tears back and stood up properly. “I wasn’t crying. A bug flew in.”

Shen Subai raised a hand. Xie Yunshu instinctively tensed. Was he really going to hit her over two measly tears? Even if she couldn’t beat him, she would definitely fight back…

But the next second, that large hand gently landed on the top of her head and gave it a rub. She heard Shen Subai speak in a gentle voice she had never heard from him before. “All right. You weren’t crying. I saw wrong.”

Xie Yunshu’s heart skipped a beat. She stared at him blankly. “Captain Shen, you’re not angry?”

Shen Subai withdrew his hand. “Why would I be angry?”

Originally, he really had been angry.

Not because of Ji Siyuan, but because yesterday, he had emphasized more than once that if any problem arose, she should come to him immediately. Yet that thought had never even crossed her mind. If he hadn’t overheard someone saying that the canteen owner’s family had come to cause trouble on his way back to the office after his meeting, he might still have no idea what she had been going through.

That anger had reached its peak when he saw Ji Siyuan gripping her arm and shielding her behind him. But now, she had merely shed two silent tears, and all that anger had been completely extinguished…

Pulling over a chair and sitting down, Shen Subai tapped the desk. “Why didn’t you come to me first to solve the problem?”

Right now, Xie Yunshu only felt that crying in front of Captain Shen had been far too humiliating. Her toes couldn’t help curling in embarrassment. Head lowered, she said, “Weren’t you very busy today? Besides, I didn’t want to trouble you with something like this.”

“So you went and troubled Ji Siyuan and Li Shengli instead?” Shen Subai gave a cold snort, clearly dissatisfied with her answer. “Did they solve the problem for you? Throwing people over there and scaring them counts as solving the problem?”

Xie Yunshu pressed her lips together. “At the very least, I got to vent.”

She didn’t care whether they were elders or not. If they dared to raise a hand against her, then she wasn’t afraid of people cursing her. Besides, under those circumstances, Li Shengli stuffing them into cement bags and throwing them into the Dark Room was already the best solution.

Shen Subai lifted his thin eyelids, his long, narrow eyes carrying a chill. “Once those three enter the Police Station, they won’t even think about getting out for ten days to half a month, and they won’t dare come here to cause trouble again in the future. But whether they’ll go make trouble at your house later is hard to say. Are they your family?”

Xie Yunshu pressed her lips together. “They are indeed my maternal grandparents. They came to make trouble because they want us to pay for their grandson to attend high school. But everything they said was true. You know about my divorce from Lu Zhixing. Before, because of Zhou Xinyue, he had me locked up in the Psychiatry Department for several days. I didn’t expect them to come to the Construction Site today. Captain Shen, I’m sorry…”

There was no need for her to hide it from Shen Subai, either. Anyone could find out the truth of these things with the slightest bit of asking around.

“You’re the victim. Victims don’t need to apologize.” Shen Subai lifted his hand, his fingers brushing past her cheek before he quickly withdrew them. “What happened today won’t affect the canteen contract, so don’t overthink it. Just go to night school and earn your money in peace. You’re relying on your own ability. I haven’t helped you much, so don’t feel burdened.”

Xie Yunshu looked up in astonishment. “Captain Shen…”

Shen Subai gave a low scoff. “What were you going to say? Sorry, or thank you?”

It was always the same with her. She dared to grin and joke around with Ji Siyuan, but in front of him she became so timid and cautious. Had he hit her? Had he scolded her?

Xie Yunshu fell silent. She felt that Captain Shen was acting a little strange, but she couldn’t put her finger on what was strange about him. How should she describe this feeling?

All of a sudden, she remembered a little white dog she had raised when she was young. Just because she had fed a chicken bone to a stray dog outside, it had spent several days turning its butt toward her. It clearly wanted her to pet it, yet insisted on awkwardly pretending to be aloof.

At that thought, Xie Yunshu hurriedly pinched herself in secret.

How bold of her! How could she dare compare Captain Shen, who had done her such a great kindness, to a dog? Had Li Shenggen angered her so much that her brain had stopped working?!

Her expression turned odd, and Shen Subai couldn’t help finding it amusing. “What are you planning to do?”

Xie Yunshu knew he was talking about Li Shenggen, and her stomach was full of anger too. “They had no idea before that I contracted the canteen at the Construction Site, yet they just had to choose today to make a scene. I don’t know if someone put them up to it on purpose. I’ll definitely get to the bottom of this. In any case, I can guarantee they won’t come to the Construction Site to cause trouble again.”

As for whether they would come to her home, she wasn’t afraid.

Before leaving the office, Shen Subai considered his words for a moment, then added, “Ji Siyuan isn’t a bad person. He’s fine as an ordinary friend.”

As for anything beyond that, she shouldn’t even think about it.

Xie Yunshu only saw Ji Siyuan as a friend. In her eyes, Ji Siyuan was more or less like a child-he felt even less mature than Mingcheng.

After coming downstairs, she subconsciously touched her hair. Had Captain Shen been comforting her just now? She had thought Captain Shen was going to lose his temper and give her a harsh scolding. So those two tears of hers had actually been useful?

Could it be that Captain Shen, toward her…

The strange thoughts she had once pushed down surged back into her heart, but no matter how she looked at it, she and Captain Shen were people from two different worlds. She didn’t think she was all that outstanding either.

Besides, whenever there was even the slightest hint of ambiguity between them, Captain Shen would always say something telling her to watch herself, or else what would happen if people misunderstood?

In her eyes, his image was so upright and straight that he was straighter than the utility poles outside…

Ji Siyuan, who had been waiting downstairs, saw her come down and quickly jogged over. His gaze swept over her still slightly red eyes, and his expression darkened. “What did he do to you?”

Xie Yunshu blushed and glared at him. “Captain Shen is such a good person. What could he possibly do to me? Stop spouting nonsense!”

Ji Siyuan narrowed his eyes, then suddenly drawled, “That’s true. Captain Shen has always put work first, and what he hates most is mixing personal feelings into work. I heard from my brother that in the past, because some woman had feelings for him, Captain Shen directly transferred her away…”

Xie Yunshu immediately drove all the messy thoughts in her heart away. She took a deep breath. “Captain Shen only called me in because of what happened just now. There was nothing else.”

Only then was Ji Siyuan satisfied. “Oh, right. Remember to stew chicken tomorrow at noon. None of that braised fish nonsense.”

He absolutely would not remind this block of wood that Shen Subai’s feelings toward her were anything but pure!

Haicheng Hospital Family Compound.

Lu Zhixing placed the documents on the table, his gaze indifferent. “Your work there is stable enough. I’ve found a place for you to live, and here is five hundred yuan. Take it and live properly from now on. I’ll keep Xiaowei with me for the time being. He won’t become a burden to you in the future, either. Next month, we’ll go and handle the divorce procedures.”

Zhou Xinyue’s expression was meek. She nodded, then gave a bleak smile. “Brother Zhixing, I know Xiaowei will only suffer if he stays with me, but he is my biological son, after all. I did many wrong things in the past, but in the future, this child won’t be calling me Mom anymore. So before the divorce, could you let him stay with me for a few days?”