Have differences? He had long been accustomed to a life without maternal love.” He extinguished another cigarette. “Moreover, I doubt her capacity to love. Her world is only of good and bad people. Anyone who has caused her pain is a bad person. I caused her pain, made her suffer the pain of childbirth, so I am a bad person. And Xue Qian made her suffer for two days and a night, so he is also a bad person. Since that’s the case, let bad people stay away from her world.”
After a long silence, Bai Jian finally spoke softly:
“I hope you will explain things to her properly, not send a lawyer to Taichung to have her sign and stamp documents.”
“I will. I don’t love her, but at least we had marital affection.”
How laughable, the woman who once made him love to the point of madness, now discovered to be merely an infatuation, and ruthlessly ending all relationships.
Yes, he was selfish. But because he was tired.
He wanted to return to his own life, to find the feeling of “home” again. He wanted a normal life.
He wanted a woman who would love him and return his love.
The sunlight was intensely penetrating through the gauze curtain, casting its all-encompassing passionate light into the dark bedroom. So bright it was hard to keep one’s eyes open.
A slender white hand timidly tried to pull the thick curtain by the window, attempting to completely block out the sunlight. But the moment her fingers touched the curtain, the daylight illuminated her pale, delicate skin, and she quickly withdrew her hand. Only after a long while did she tentatively reach toward the sunlight, trembling slightly.
She feared the fierce sunlight and the gloomy darkness; feared the unknown and the inevitable paths; feared strangers and disliked people getting close. Yet helplessly, she had to accept others’ meticulous care, otherwise she could not survive in her ivory tower.
