Chapter Seventy-Three: I Want a Divorce
Zhang Tao glanced at Huo Chiguan strangely, but still took out two cans of beer from the refrigerator before walking over to him and sitting down.
"Free today?" Zhang Tao pointed to the perpetual calendar, today is Friday, not a rest day for Huo Chiguan to have leisure.
Huo Chiguan's full of questions came to his mouth, but he suddenly didn't know where to start when he looked at Zhang Tao. Annoyance and resentment came at him together, and he couldn't help but pick up a can of beer, open it and pour it into his mouth.
"What are you hiding from me?" He took a big sip of beer, and the coldness and slight bitterness came up his throat,
Hearing this, the smile on Zhang Tao's face gradually disappeared.
"You know everything?"
Zhang Tao didn't even ask a rhetorical question, but simply admitted it with this sentence. The moment he heard this, Huo Chiguan seemed to be able to feel that the gap between him and Lin Yuxue really existed.
Zhang Tao saw Huo Chiguan slightly stunned, a trace of determination flashed in his eyes, took another can of beer, and also took a big sip.
Huo Chiguan pulled out a wry smile: "I didn't even say it, you already know what I'm talking about." ”
Zhang Tao suddenly turned his head sideways and looked at Huo Chiguan fixedly: "I only have this matter to hide from you." ”
"Why?" Huo Chiguan surged into his heart, snatched the beer can from Zhang Tao's hand, and vigorously placed it on the glass coffee table.
The sound of "bang" sounded in the small living room, which seemed a little abrupt.
Zhang Tao's face gradually sank, and the whole person no longer had the vitality and flamboyance of the last time he saw Lin Yuxue, but exuded a depressed atmosphere.
He had been hiding it for so long, waking up every time he dreamed of it in the middle of the night, but he couldn't hide the fact that he had personally pushed an innocent woman into the abyss of no return.
"At that time, Xiao Lin's condition was getting worse and worse, and she couldn't do without the medicine provided in the nursing home in the United States." Zhang Tao was silent for a long time before he suddenly spoke, his voice a little hoarse.
The Xiaolin in his mouth is his wife who has liver cancer, Lu Xiaolin.
"I met Fang Qiaoan by chance at that time, she was my friend in junior high school, and she was the mistress of Lin Wei, vice president of the Lin Group. Zhang Tao stopped at this point, picked up the beer can that had just been snatched by Huo Chiguan, and took another big sip.
This time, Huo Chiguan didn't reach out to grab it again.
"The cost of the sanatorium costs 500,000 yuan a month, and I have already spent all my savings, so when Fang Qiaoan found me, the first thing I thought about was not whether I should do this thing, but whether I could save Xiao Lin."
"So, I did." Zhang Tao's voice was not loud, but it was like a heavy hammer and smashed Huo Chiguan on the head.
Zhang Tao admitted.
"Do you know who you killed?" Huo Chiguan tried his best to control his emotions, and his voice was slightly unnatural.
Zhang Tao damaged the braking mechanism of Mei Shuangdan's car, causing Mei Shuangshan to hit the cement pillar head-on and was seriously injured. Zhang Tao killed Mei Shuangdan, and this matter can no longer be refuted.
Zhang Tao lowered his head, and his voice revealed a sense of defeat: "Mei Shuangdan, the president of the Lin Group at that time." ”
After saying this, Zhang Tao paused, and then said: "Yuxue's girl's mother." ”
Huo Chi was shocked when he was concerned, and his pupils shrank suddenly: "When did you know that Mei Shuangshan is Yuxue's mother?" ”
Zhang Tao raised his eyes to look at Huo Chiguan, his eyes were full of irrepressible pain: "I knew it the last time you invited me to the engagement banquet. ”
At the dinner when Huo Chiguan confessed to Lin Yuxue, he only invited him and Lin Yuxue's relatives and friends, naturally including Zhang Tao. But after Zhang Tao did that incident back then, he once learned about the situation of Meishuangdan's family because of guilt, and also knew that she had a daughter named Lin Yuxue, who was outstanding in appearance and temperament, and had a bit of Meishuangdan's girlhood.
After knowing that Huo Chiguan's sweetheart was actually the daughter of the person who was killed by his own hands, Zhang Tao was so shocked that he had to go out for an excuse instead of attending the engagement banquet.
After that, he expected that Huo Chiguan would soon come to visit him with Lin Yuxue, so he had been mentally preparing himself. In fact, even Lin Yuxue accidentally came across his work card that day, and he found out when he was sorting out his belongings.
It's just that Lin Yuxue didn't seem to be sensitive to Shengli Auto at that time, so she didn't find anything unusual. The only thing Zhang Tao didn't expect was that Huo Chiguan would come to him alone.
In his opinion, there was no turning back from what he did, even if Huo Chiguan and Lin Yuxue stood together, he would not have any complaints.
In this life, sometimes people take a wrong step, and millions of steps cannot make up for it.
Huo Chiguan was silent.
On the contrary, Zhang Tao opened his mouth first: "Yuxue's girl is a good girl, you have to cherish her." ”
"Teacher Zhang." Huo Chiguan was not used to calling him so seriously.
"Between you and Yuxue, I don't have a choice." Huo Chiguan stood up suddenly, and his tone was resolute: "I won't choose." ”
Zhang Tao raised his head to look at him, the pain in his eyes did not diminish at all, and he also had a puzzled look: "What do you mean by this?" ”
"I will have a good talk with Yuxue, and we will settle this matter privately." Huo Chiguan had never been so irrational, but he knew very well that he had no choice.
He didn't want to let Lin Yuxue down, but he was also unwilling to let him bear the consequences of the tragedy that he didn't intend to cause at the age when Zhang Tao was already retired.
Even if Zhang Tao made his own choice, lost his mind for the lucrative conditions offered by Fang Qiao'an, and chose to do something that threatened the life of another innocent person, he couldn't do it to watch Zhang Tao face the result that might not end well.
Huo Chiguan was already in a dead end, and he didn't know where to go.
For the first time, he felt that ruthlessness was actually an advantage.
"Impossible." Zhang Tao's eyes gradually darkened, and his back seemed to be bent, looking lifeless.
"In the final analysis, although Fang Qiaoan and I were talking about making the other party seriously injured, and I had no intention of killing anyone, the final result could not be changed."
He was Huo Chiguan's closest elder, but he killed the mother of the woman he loved the most.
This tragedy all stemmed from his thoughts.
This biggest secret was finally known by Huo Chiguan, but Zhang Tao felt a lot lighter, as if the burden he had carried for five years had suddenly been unloaded.
"You go to her, whatever you do, I'll take it. It's also time for me to pay for the mistakes I made. After Zhang Tao said this, he got up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, turned his back to Huo Chiguan, and stopped looking at him.
Huo Chiguan looked at Zhang Tao's back steadily, was silent for a long time, and finally turned around and left.
Zhang Tao stared at the scene of high-rise buildings and busy traffic outside the window, and slowly exhaled a long breath.
If there was a regret medicine in this world, perhaps this tragedy would not have happened today.
came out of Zhang Tao's house, Huo Chiguan immediately called Lin Yuxue, but she hung up several times in a row.
Just as he was about to drive back to the villa, Lin Yuxue suddenly sent a text message.
"Go home, let's talk."
Seeing this text message, Huo Chiguan did not hesitate and returned to the villa non-stop.
Lin Yuxue sat in the living room with red eyes, and Sister Li stood beside her, who also looked like she had cried.
As soon as Huo Chiguan stepped into the entrance, a not-so-good premonition arose in his heart. When he walked in front of Lin Yuxue, he saw a document on the coffee table table in front of Lin Yuxue.
On the first side, there are a few big words "divorce agreement".
Huo Chiguan suddenly froze in place like five thunderbolts.
"Yuxue, what are you going to do?" Huo Chiguan's voice became a little trembling for the first time, and his eyes were also full of disbelief, and he looked at Lin Yuxue in shock.
Lin Yuxue raised her eyes and met Huo Chiguan's gaze: "I want a divorce." ”
"I disagree!" As soon as Lin Yuxue's words fell, Huo Chiguan immediately spoke, his voice resolute.
Lin Yuxue retracted her gaze: "It's okay if you don't agree, we will separate." ”
After speaking, Lin Yuxue stood up, left a divorce agreement, and walked in the direction of the staircase. Before Huo Chiguan came back, she had already packed her luggage with Sister Li.
Lin Yuxue didn't take away all the things that Huo Chiguan sent after the relationship was confirmed, and even the wedding ring that had made her happy for several days was placed on the bedside table in the master bedroom.
Huo Chiguan also noticed that the fingers of Lin Yuxue's right hand were empty, and his heart throbbed, and he reached out and grabbed Lin Yuxue's shoulder tightly.
"Yuxue, you said it, let's talk."
Lin Yuxue broke away quietly, her tone was cold, and her expression was detached: "What you want to say, I have already finished it last night; I've just said that. ”
Lin Yuxue opened her legs and walked upstairs, Huo Chiguan wanted to stop again, Sister Li saw this and hurriedly stepped forward, blocking Huo Chiguan's way, and her eyes were also sad.
"Young master, give Miss a little space, don't force her."
Sister Li also watched Lin Yuxue come all the way, why wouldn't she feel distressed? She also took Huo Chiguan's good looks at Lin Yuxue in her eyes, thinking that they could be happy for a long time, who would have expected such a thing to happen?
In any case, she will always be on Lin Yuxue's side.
Huo Chiguan paused, didn't insist anymore, his eyes were firmly fixed on the back of Lin Yuxue who was going upstairs, and for the first time since he became an adult, he felt overwhelming helplessness coming towards him.
What should he do to keep Lin Yuxue?
Sister Li's words woke him up, Lin Yuxue was the most injured person in this matter, and he had no position or qualification to force her.
Huo Chiguan left with Sister Li by Lin Yuxue. He knew that what she needed most now was not any pale argument or explanation, but space where she could feel unsuffocated.