No.2 Lid
She tapped her index finger lightly on the round bump on the lid of the glass teapot, without rhythm, but without stopping. She couldn't stand the flaws in the crystal texture, even a small bubble naturally generated in industrial operation was enough to ruin the crystal crystal itself. Damn, I wish I could knock it outβshe thought so, and the beating began to have a sense of mission and strengthen.
She was waiting for a man she had never met, who was said to be a detective. As soon as she thought of this, she felt that her mouth was dry, and her fingertips trembled slightly and poured herself a cup of rose pu'er, drank it, and repeated her entire set of combat plans for the seventh time in her heart, paying attention to details and logic, after all, the other party was a policeman.
There was the sound of steady footsteps on the wooden staircase, and she didn't look back, her instinct was that he had arrived.
A hoarse male voice sounded: "Waiter, I'm looking for a Miss Li, she is on the second floor, she should have arrived." β
"Yes, sir, please come with me." A handsome young man brought him to her side, the most hidden corner of the second floor. She was about to get up when the man stopped her with a gesture and sat down across from her.
He looked younger than her husband, but he had the same tired look, she thought to herself.
Get straight to the point: "Miss Li, I want to know how you got my contact information?" β
"It took a lot of work, but it's not convenient for me to say, that's not the point."
"Okay, so ...... you look for me?"
"Exchange some intelligence. I would like to ask you to help me too. β
"Oh?" The man's left eyebrow twitched, tugging at her chilling nerves.
"I heard that you are going through the divorce process, and you may find it offensive for me to say this, but I think it is necessary for us to understand each other's situation because I know that your wife will be with my husband after the divorce."
The "............" man subconsciously took out half a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, but was stopped by the handsome young man in time.
"Who is your husband?" He slapped his cigarette on the table irritably.
"He and Cheng Qing are colleagues, and they have been good for almost two years. I found out little by little, and I followed them a few times, but now that there is no way to avoid it, he decided to leave the house for his love. β
"You're not happy with the result?"
"I can't let him go yet!"
"Oh?" The man's eyebrows twitched again, and she felt the urge to knock the brow bone off along with the little bubble just now.
"My son can't afford it! He brought the overreaction to school, and the teacher came to me again and again! Now I can only put this broken home back together, I have to save my son first! β
The man gave her a deep look, waiting for her to regain her composure.
"Cheng Qing and I have been separated for a long time, and there are many reasons for this...... We did talk about divorce, but it wasn't on the agenda. She often swayed, sometimes she wanted to work hard for her children, and sometimes she wanted to fight for her freedom. Frankly speaking, before today, I felt that there was an irreconcilable contradiction between the two of us, and I never thought that she had someone else. β
"So now that you know, will it hasten your divorce?"
"I'll sit down and start discussing this in earnest, but not necessarily very quickly, after all, the reason is different from the previous one, and I'm afraid that the items that need to be negotiated will become complicated." The man poured himself a cup of tea: "What, you want us to divorce as soon as possible?" Aren't you afraid of Cheng Qing, and she won't let go? β
"I'm afraid it's useful? I would like to know what she is afraid of. β
"Do you think I'll tell you?"
"I think there's at least one thing you agree with meβ"
Damn raising her eyebrows, she couldn't control it, so she had to reach for the round lump on the lid of the pot again.
"You and I don't want them to be happy together, because they were immoral in the first place." Her weakened nerves ordered her to close her eyes temporarily, and she had to let Cheng Qing take the initiative to let go before her husband forced her to sign, so she could endure the feeling of flaws, disgusting, even if it was humiliated. As a mother, she can bear it, she is not in a hurry to knock out the bubble of failure in her life, she believes that her sensitive constitution will never let it go, and one day she will be able to completely remove it with some pleasure, but not now.
"Miss Li, I think I understand your feelings, what do you need me to do for you?"
"It's very simple, let her hate me, and then hate my husband." She hated the calmness in his eyes, which made her feel that she had been thrown to the bottom of the ecological chain of four people: "You just need to explain to her truthfully, it was I who found out the fact that you betrayed her marriage with you, I showed you the chat records between the two of them, the shopping list he gave her, and I was going to coerce you that if you don't care about her, you will go to her unit, and everyone will know about it." β
In a trance, she saw a trace of real appreciation in his eyes, which made her plan seem to be blessed by the police: "Finally, please tell her that your contact information was provided by my husband." That's it! β
"Ruthless enough." Sounds like a compliment.
"I need her to understand that she is in love with a selfish and cowardly person, and this kind of person cannot be trusted."
"Is he really that kind of person?"
"Yes. I know better than anyone how unreliable he is, but my son still needs to rely on him, and I have to endure the process. She filled his empty teacup with tea: "That's all I ask you to help with, and I don't want to speculate on whether or not you plan to end the marriage." Our cooperation to break them up is not only beneficial to me, you can see that my husband's current behavior is irresponsible to his own flesh and blood, if Cheng Qing follows him with his children after the divorce, he will not be responsible for your children. β
"She's not qualified to have children with me."
"Of course, but she is the mother of the child after all. The children are so old that their impression of the family structure has been formed, and no matter how they are disrupted and restarted, it will be a big shock for them. β
"I'll need time to think about that." She saw that he frowned, and she was even a little happy that he had finally fallen into the anxiety of divorce.
"But I can promise you that I will put pressure on her according to what you said, and this operation will have no effect on me."
"Then I solemnly thank you."
She exhaled a sigh of relief as the crystal glass teacups collided crisply in the afternoon sun, and for the first time in two months after the showdown, she felt relaxed from the inside out.
The man received a call from work and hurriedly said goodbye. She curled up on the couch, a pulsing light in her eyes. She pretended to be casual and turned to look for the handsome young man, who was ordering food for a table on the stairs.
There was no need to panic, the index and middle fingers of his right hand clamped the lid of the pimple pot, and before he had time to wipe the water vapor inside, he threw it directly into his handbag, slipped to the first floor to pay the bill, and quickly left La Pie. Catching up with the waiter on the way out, she glanced at the tray, much like the kind of bean stew she had eaten in the south of France, and she regretted a little that she didn't celebrate herself before leaving, after all, this city rarely comes across this French country dish, but unfortunately she can't allow herself to set foot in this restaurant again.