Back in the humble rental house where she lived temporarily, Xu Xiaoai changed out of her clothes and pants that were already soaked but almost dried by her body temperature.

After washing her hair and taking a shower, she rubbed her hair half-dry, and went to cook a bowl of instant noodles with eggs to eat.

After eating and drinking, Xu Xiaoai lay on the bed in a daze.

At only twenty-two years old, she is already a woman who has been married for three years and divorced.

What is left of her now?

Xu Xiaoai raised her arm and looked at her arm that was swollen and fat like a steamed bun.

She grinded her back molars in hatred.

Liu Qin's misdiagnosis made Xu Xiaoai take endless anti-inflammatory drugs in the past three years. The side effects of the drug have turned her originally healthy and slender body into the current bloated and obese appearance......

When she divorced Lu Zhijun by agreement, she also signed a divorce agreement to get out.

Now she has nothing to do but this fat body.

Fortunately, the lawyer said that she and Lu Zhijun divorced less than a month ago, and it was still possible to get the property back.

The phone suddenly tinked.

Her younger brother Xu Xiaohui sent her a text message, saying that he would come back for dinner in the evening this weekend.

Xu Xiaoai finally had some motivation again.

She got out of bed and went to the market to buy groceries.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Xiaohui arrived.

Looking at his sister's busy figure in the simple kitchen, Xu Xiaohui hesitated again and again and said, "...... Sister, I thought about it, so what...... I didn't go to college. I have a classmate whose family has a large orchard in the countryside...... A few of us said that we would go to his house to open an online store to buy souvenirs...... In fact, you don't have to go to college to start a business...... E-commerce is also very promising. ”

Xu Xiaoai, who was chopping vegetables, froze.

"You can't pass the three books?" She asked rhetorically.

Xu Xiaohui's face flushed, "It's not!" ”

"It's not that you can't get a bad grade, why don't you study?"

Listening to his sister's words, the young man's hands clenched into fists, and his face was flushed.

After a while, he finally mustered up the courage and said, "Sister...... But the economic conditions of our family ...... Now you're divorced from your brother-in-law again......"

"Did I tell you about the tuition? All you have to worry about is what you should be worried about! Xu Xiaoai's tone was a little rushed.

Xu Xiaohui turned and left the kitchen.

Dinner was simple.

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes, scrambled eggs with green peppers, scrambled eggs with mustard, plus seaweed egg drop soup.

The siblings finished their dinner in silence.

Xu Xiaoai's rental house is a single room, and there is no place for Xu Xiaohui to spend the night.

So after eating, Xu Xiaohui said that he wanted to go back to school.

Xu Xiaoai took out all the money in his pocket and handed it to Xu Xiaohui.

"Hold on a little longer...... she whispered, "hold on a little longer, and you'll be fine soon." ”

I don't know if she said it to her brother or to herself.

Xu Xiaohui let out an "um", clutched the hundred and ten yuan tightly in his hand, and fled away.

After her brother left, Xu Xiaoai washed the dishes and chopsticks, smoked another cigarette, and then picked up her mobile phone to make a call to Lawyer Fang.

"Lawyer Fang, I'm sorry to bother you so late, can you give Lu Zhijun a call? Yes, I mean, please negotiate with Lu Zhijun first, I can accept mediation...... If he is willing to compensate me...... Right. ”

Lawyer Fang on the other end of the phone didn't know what to say.

Xu Xiaoai hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice, "...... I mean, please call him now. ”

After a few more moments, she added.

"I've been short of money lately."

Putting down the phone, Xu Xiaoai fell into a daze.

I don't know how long it took, but her phone rang with a tinkling dong.

The call came from lawyer Fang.

"Miss Xu, I have already conveyed your opinion to Mr. Lu Zhijun...... He asked me to tell you that he would not compensate you with any money...... Because he wants to renew the frontier with you. Miss Xu, can I tell Mr. Sù Luk your phone number? ”

The corners of Xu Xiaoai's mouth twitched.

"No, you can't."

After a pause, she reported a number and told Lawyer Fang to listen, and then continued, "Please continue to contact him tomorrow." ”

Putting down the phone, Xu Xiaoai took out a pack of cigarettes.

The cigarette case is soft and fluttering......

Only the last cigarette remained.

Xu Xiaoai was reluctant in the end, and put away the pack of cigarettes very preciously.

**

I have to say that Mr. Fang's work efficiency is still very high.

In the following days, Lu Zhijun proposed to Lawyer Fang several times that he wanted to interview Xu Xiaoai, but Lawyer Fang conveyed it several times, but Xu Xiaoai did not agree. Soon, lawyer Fang understood Xu Xiaoai's attitude and began to negotiate with Lu Zhijun with a tough attitude.

At the end of June, Lu Zhijun also felt that for Xu Xiaoai...... He was really irretrievable, so he happily paid Xu Xiaoai.

Xu Xiaoai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At the beginning of July, Xu Xiaohui's college entrance examination results came out - the score was not bad, I didn't get one, but I should be fine with the second one. Immediately after that, news came that Xu Xiaohui was admitted to a local engineering college.

Xu Xiaoai was completely relieved.

The money given by Lu Zhijun can be used as his younger brother's tuition and living expenses for four years of college.

But this is ......

She's a pauper again.

But it doesn't matter.

In such a metropolis, young people with hands and feet will never starve to death.

Xu Xiaoai stood at the window of the rental house, looking at the bustling street market downstairs, a little distracted.

After hesitating for a moment, she went out the door.

Ten minutes later, she returned with a plastic bag.

Xu Xiaoai put the contents of the plastic bag on the single bed in the rental house in the same way.

Cheap powders, lipsticks, nail polish, eyebrow pencils......

There was a bed spread out in a row.

Xu Xiaoai looked at these things, and her eyes were a little special.

She hesitated for a moment, then brought a plastic stool over, sat down in front of the bed, and carefully drew on the small mirror in the powder box.

After drawing a stubble, Xu Xiaoai looked at herself with heavy makeup through the small mirror, and couldn't help but smile.

She went to the bathroom to wash her makeup, then sat back down on the low stool and continued to tinker with the cheap cosmetics that gave off a rich fragrance.

At night, the lights come on.

In Xu Xiaoai's rental house, the light was dim.

She didn't turn on the light, and she didn't find a comb, so she casually tied a ponytail and went out with heavy makeup.

Stop-and-go, stop-and-go.

Xu Xiaoai stopped in front of a luxurious nightclub that was as elegant as an ancient Greek temple.

She wanted to try the taste of love.