I expected her to say, “Leave him” or “Give him back to me.” But Yu Yin surprised me. Calmly, she said, “I once read that from a medical perspective, there is no such thing as love. The so-called ‘eternal love’ is a chemical substance secreted by the human body, which only lasts for about a year.”
One year, three hundred and sixty-five days… This timeframe rippled in my coffee cup.
Yu Yin paused, took a sip of her coffee, and remarked, “One year is not long. I can wait…”
But I couldn’t wait.
I looked at her. “Bao Bing, I can give you one year’s time. I won’t disturb you, and I hope you won’t disturb me…”
She implied she would be his fiancée, and I would be his mistress, coexisting peacefully. This notion was foreign to me.
“Why don’t you leave him? You could definitely find a better man,” I urged.
Yu Yin looked at me flatly. “One day you’ll understand that sometimes women need to turn a blind eye.”
I had heard a phrase before, similar to a line from the TV drama “Pink Girls”: “To maintain love, keep your eyes wide open; to maintain marriage, turn a blind eye…”
When I came to my senses, Yu Yin had already left, leaving a document bag on her chair. My instinct told me it was important, so after hesitating, I walked over and opened it.
I wished I hadn’t opened that document bag.
A marriage certificate unfolded in my trembling hands, accompanied by visa documents, bank agreements, and mobile phone contracts, all related to “marital relationships.”
I collapsed onto the chair, overwhelmed, everything in my mind crumbling. In moments of extreme sorrow, one becomes numb—no tears, no anger.
A pair of purple high heels appeared before me, and slender legs bent down to pick up the papers and place them back in the bag.
I opened my mouth, trying to speak multiple times before finally saying, “None of this is true. I won’t believe it.”
Yu Yin replied as she picked up her things, “If it makes you feel better, you can continue believing him.” I looked up, and in my blurry vision, I saw Yu Yin.
I wasn’t sure if it was my imagination, but she seemed to be smiling pleasantly.
