Chapter 13 Portraits

Chen Xiaojie doesn't remember the first few nights of her insomnia.

At three o'clock in the morning, Chen Xiaojie was still staring at the ceiling with wide eyes, looking at the ceiling in a daze, and sketching the outline of the chandelier over and over again with her gaze. The room was eerily quiet, except for the ticking of the second hand gradually sweeping, only the sound of Wang Yong's rough and even breathing could be heard. Chen Xiaojie turned her face away and looked at her sleeping husband beside her, the milky white moonlight passed through the window, and a pen was smeared on the bridge of Wang Yong's straight nose, and his long eyelashes set off his well-defined facial features.

In the three years since he got married, Wang Yong's appearance has not changed, as if time stopped in front of Wang Yong, and the magical magic lost its effect on Wang Yong. On the contrary, she has become unrecognizable under the erosion of time, and by the time she comes back to her senses, the turbulent torrent has already taken her away from the place. The loose belly and thinning hair wrapped around her like two chains, and tightened more and more, making her unable to breathe, and pulling her farther and farther away from Wang Yong's side. Then she realized in hindsight that maybe everyone was right at that time, how could a man as good as Wang Yong be willing to guard himself as an ordinary woman for the rest of his life?

When it was almost six o'clock, Chen Xiaojie quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep. Because Wang Yong would get up on time at six o'clock every day, then brush his teeth, wash his face, and prepare breakfast for Chen Xiaojie and himself. Wang Yong's breakfast is simple but thoughtful: a glass of warm pure milk and a sandwich with ham and vegetables, sometimes tomato, sometimes lettuce. He couldn't make those elaborate and time-consuming complicated breakfasts, because by half-past six, he had to go out to catch the subway to work. Before going out, he would wake Chen Xiaojie up with a shallow kiss and remind her that the milk should be finished before it cools down.

Chen Xiaojie has no job, and when Chen Xiaojie was pregnant two years ago, Wang Yong insisted that Chen Xiaojie resign and go home and wait for childbirth with peace of mind. But then Chen Xiaojie's body was in a certain condition, the child was gone, and Wang Yong never let Chen Xiaojie go out to work again. Fortunately, Wang Yong's salary is very high, and it is more than enough to support two people.

After Wang Yong went out, Chen Xiaojie usually continued to sleep until 8 o'clock and then got up. The milk was already cold by this time, and sometimes she would reheat it and drink it, but most of the time, she would use the cold glass of milk to water the plants planted on the balcony. As for sandwiches, she never eats them, and she has never told Wang Yong that she doesn't like sandwiches.

But now, Chen Xiaojie can't fall asleep anymore. She sat up, carefully twisted the hair that fell out of the bed one by one with her index finger and thumb, and counted it in her mouth: "one, two, three......" When she counted to more than two hundred, Chen Xiaojie began to fall into despair, she weakly clumped her hair into a small ball and clenched it tightly in the heart of her fist.

Chen Xiaojie also doesn't remember whether she lost her hair because of insomnia, or if she lost her hair after losing her hair. All she remembers every morning when she got up, she would carefully twist her hair and count them one by one. At first, it was relatively small, only forty or fifty, but then it fell out more and more, and at least hundreds of hairs fell out every day. One morning, Chen Xiaojie counted the hair that fell out of bed as usual, and when she counted to the one hundred and twenty-fifth, she suddenly found a hair that did not belong to her, and that hair was very long and dark brown.

The mobile phone rang suddenly, and Chen Xiaojie glanced at it, it was Nancheng calling. Also, who else but Nancheng will call him? Chen Xiaojie pressed the call button, and the voice of Nancheng talking loudly had already come: "What? You said Wang Yong cheated? When was this? ”

Not long after the phone hung up, Nancheng rushed to Chen Xiaojie's house in a hurry. Chen Xiaojie opened the door and found that Nancheng had a new look, her original chestnut hair was dyed a bright purple, and the ends of her wavy hair were also cut short and straightened, and hung down obediently to her shoulders.

Nancheng gasped in his mouth, his eyes were on fire, as if the cheating person was her husband, and as soon as he entered the door, he opened his throat and shouted: "Where is Wang Yongren?" Come out to the old lady and make it clear to me! ”

Chen Xiaojie took a lot of effort to press Nancheng on the sofa: "Wang Yong went to work, and he is not at home at this time." Chen Xiaojie's face was as usual, her tone was calm, and she couldn't see anything unusual at all. Nancheng looked at Chen Xiaojie with a somewhat surprised expression: "I said Chen Xiaojie, why are you still so calm, now that your husband is cheating, raising other women outside, why are you still like a nobody." Aren't you angry? Aren't you in a hurry? ”

It's really ridiculous, at the moment when Chen Xiaojie knew that Wang Yong was cheating, her first reaction was not angry or anxious, but relieved, as if a piece of news she had been waiting for for a long time was finally confirmed.

Chen Xiaojie also sat down and replied leisurely: "What do I have to worry about." Hearing this, Nancheng was so angry that she almost went crazy, and she roared at Chen Xiaojie's ear: "I said Chen Xiaojie, my eldest sister Lu, are you stupid or crazy?" There's nothing to worry about if your husband cheats, so what else can make you anxious? Think about it, don't you feel disgusted when the man who sleeps with you every day hugs other women outside and says the sweet words that he used to say to you? Nancheng's words were like a needle, lightly pricking Chen Xiaojie's already numb heart, Chen Xiaojie felt a faint distress after a long time, but she still didn't say a word.

Looking at Chen Xiaojie, who was speechless, Nancheng also knew that it would be useless to say anything more. Chen Xiaojie is such a character, forbearing, silent, and never fighting for herself. Nancheng asked her, "Do you know who it is?" The woman? Chen Xiaojie just shook her head and replied softly, "How would I know? Nancheng continued to ask her: "Then how did you find out that Wang Yong was cheating?" Chen Xiaojie thought about it sideways, and then replied after a while: "It should be my intuition." ”

After listening to Chen Xiaojie's answer, Nancheng was also silent. There are a lot of things in this world that are so difficult to explain, like Bermuda, like the pyramids, like women's intuition. Nancheng couldn't help but think of when she found out that her husband was cheating a year ago, when she suddenly became suspicious without warning, and then when she secretly flipped through the chat history on her husband's mobile phone, she found the woman who made her nauseous.

Nancheng tilted her head and let half of her body sink into the sofa, she couldn't believe that even a good man like Wang Yong, who was recognized by everyone, would cheat, she couldn't help but fall into memories, recalling how she witnessed the love story between Wang Yong and Chen Xiaojie when she was in college.

Wang Yong is a handsome guy, this is the first day of military training in college, the consensus reached by all the girls. Wang Yong is very tall, about 1.8 meters tall, when he first came, he combed a big back like the God of Gamblers, but because his hair was too thick, he always couldn't wear a hat for military training, so he was ordered by the instructor to cut a short inch of three millimeters.

At that time, Wang Yong was the prince charming in the minds of many girls, and every day during military training, a group of senior sisters would come to see this legendary handsome junior. Wang Yong's personality is also like his name, optimistic and outgoing. He had a good relationship with everyone around him, and rightfully so, he was the center of the class.

Correspondingly, Chen Xiaojie at that time was so ordinary that she could only be described as simple. She's not the type to be flattering, plus she doesn't know how to wear makeup and throws her into a crowd, so you won't even want to look at her more. The silent and introverted personality is also like a hard wall, isolating her from everyone, no matter how you look at it, Chen Xiaojie and Wang Yong are people of two worlds, like two parallel lines that will never intersect. But feelings are not like geometry and mathematics that can be explained by strict logic, Wang Yong, who is all pampered, is inexplicable, and fell in love with Chen Xiaojie at first sight.

When Wang Yong took Chen Xiaojie's hand and came to the classroom together, everyone was stunned, and when everyone recognized that the lucky girl who was held by Wang Yong was the ordinary Chen Xiaojie, those envious eyes turned into jealousy and incomprehension. Just like in a fairy tale, the prince must be with the princess, Wang Yong is the prince, but Chen Xiaojie is definitely not a princess.

A girl's jealousy is a hundred times more terrible than a sharp knife and poison. Everyone began to talk behind their backs, and it didn't take long for all kinds of unbearable, bizarre and absurd rumors to grow like seeds breaking through the ground in the spring.

Some people say that Chen Xiaojie looks simple on the surface, but in fact, her private life is very chaotic, and Wang Yong was taken down by her with the most shameless means; Some people also say that Wang Yong will only accept punishment because he loses a bet with others, and pursues the ordinary Chen Xiaojie, and in a few days, Wang Yong will get rid of Chen Xiaojie fiercely; Some people even said that Chen Xiaojie killed the child for Wang Yong, and said conclusively that she saw Chen Xiaojie in a hospital on a certain day in a certain month.

Chen Xiaojie is wooden and weak, in the face of this kind of rumors, she doesn't know how to explain, she can only cry with her roommate, who is also the only friend in college, Nancheng. Nancheng is a girl with a sassy personality and resoluteness, and a large part of the reason why she can become good friends with Chen Xiaojie is because of the complementary personalities of the two of them, and they see different things in each other that attract each other.

Chen Xiaojie's weakness can always stimulate Nancheng's deep desire to protect, and I don't know when, she has already become the softest and whitest moonlight in Nancheng's heart. Nancheng warns the girls who like to gossip behind their backs, and then she finds Wang Yong and tells Wang Yong that since you like Chen Xiaojie, you must protect her and not let her women be harmed. At this time, Wang Yong realized how much pressure Chen Xiaojie was under from his carelessness.

Wang Yong began to deliberately keep his distance from other girls, and only smiled at Chen Xiaojie alone, he knew that only in this way could he give Chen Xiaojie the sense of security she wanted.

Chen Xiaojie loves Wang Yong and loves him very humbly. She never said a "no" to Wang Yong, because she felt that she did not have the qualifications. So when Wang Yong asked her if she liked pure milk and sandwiches, she would squint her eyes and smile and say she liked it. The more Wang Yong treats her, the more she hates her ordinary. 、

She knew that Wang Yong was excellent, and once pretended to be half-joking and said to Wang Yong: "You are so good, why don't you find a better girl who can be worthy of you?" That was the only time Wang Yong was angry at Chen Xiaojie, and he told Chen Xiaojie that in his heart, no girl could be better than Chen Xiaojie.

Nancheng has always felt that Chen Xiaojie is too tired of love, in the world of feelings, no one will be better than others, and there should not be so many submissive accommodations. But then there were problems in her own marriage, so she began to doubt herself and wanted to find the answer from the marriage of Chen Xiaojie and Wang Yong. It's just that they didn't expect that in the end, the two of them also embarked on the old path they had taken.

Someone's cat barked, and Nancheng was pulled out of his contemplation with difficulty.

Nancheng asked Chen Xiaojie: "What are you going to do?" Pretend not to know, continue to live with Wang Yong, or just have a showdown with Wang Yong now and make everything clear to him? As soon as she finished speaking, she realized that the person she was asking now was Chen Xiaojie, who had never been assertive and would only ask what she should do in a panic. She was about to continue to speak, but Chen Xiaojie immediately said those two words: "Divorce." ”

Nancheng was shocked, she turned her head and looked at Chen Xiaojie in surprise, she didn't expect Chen Xiaojie to say so decisively.

On Sunday, the sun was very good, Wang Yong originally wanted to ask Chen Xiaojie to go out to watch a movie, but Chen Xiaojie said that she was a little unwell and just wanted to lie down at home, so she had to give up. Wang Yong is a person who can't sit still, since he has nothing to do at home, he simply picked up a mop and cleaned up at home.

As he dragged it to the balcony, he swept out a fresh cigarette butt with a clear tooth mark in the gap between the washing machine and the wall. He was a little curious, so he walked to the bedroom and asked Chen Xiaojie, "Has anyone from the family been here recently?" Chen Xiaojie was sitting on the bed, basking in the sun, while watching O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi". She glanced up at Wang Yong, shook her head, and replied to him, "No." ”

Wang Yong frowned after hearing this, and continued to ask, "What about a master who repairs a washing machine or something?" Chen Xiaojie thought for a while, and then replied to him: "No." After speaking, he added: "No electrical appliances in the house have ever been broken, except for Nancheng, no one has ever come." Wang Yong nodded after listening, paused slightly, and continued to ask, "Do you smoke in Nancheng?" Chen Xiaojie still shook her head: "No, what Nancheng hates the most is the smell of smoke." What's wrong? Why is this question asked all of a sudden? Wang Yong's eyes narrowed, and he smiled at Chen Xiaojie: "It's nothing, just ask." ”

After Wang Yong finished speaking, he exited the bedroom and came to the toilet, he threw the cigarette butt in the palm of his hand into the toilet, and then pressed the flush button fiercely. The water in the toilet bowl spun rapidly clockwise, like a deep eye, staring straight at Wang Yong.

When she heard Chen Xiaojie tell her that she was going to divorce Wang Yong, Nancheng was indeed very surprised. She knows how much Chen Xiaojie loves Wang Yong, and she also knows what she has done for Wang Yong over the years. In Nancheng's understanding, Wang Yong is the whole of Chen Xiaojie's life and the reason for her to live. So when Chen Xiaojie calmly and resolutely said the word "divorce", Nancheng understood what kind of pain she was suffering in the depths of her heart.

"Is there no way to get it back?" Nancheng asked cautiously, in fact, since the divorce for more than a year, she would feel a trace of regret from time to time, especially in the dead of night, when she was alone. No matter how strong a woman is, she will eventually become weak at some point. Later, Nancheng always couldn't help but think, if she hadn't turned to that damn short message at that time, if her husband could delete the message and not find it, could it mean that it didn't happen?

Chen Xiaojie said: "This has nothing to do with redemption, or even cheating, I just want to divorce." ”

Nancheng couldn't understand what Chen Xiaojie was saying, she thought this was Chen Xiaojie's last willfulness and stubbornness, so she said: "Okay, but if you get divorced, you must also have a divorce plan." Since it is Wang Yong's cheating, we must have evidence of Wang Yong's cheating, preferably a photo, even if it is divorced, it will be more beneficial to you. Do you have any plans? ”

Chen Xiaojie nodded and said calmly, "Yes." ”

Chen Xiaojie suspected that Wang Yong was cheating, not just because of a long hair that did not belong to her.

In the past month, Wang Yong would always sneak into the toilet alone to answer the phone quietly, and when Chen Xiaojie asked, he told Chen Xiaojie that it was just something about work. What Wang Yong didn't know was that every time he lied, he would blink a little faster than usual, Chen Xiaojie knew that Wang Yong was hiding something from herself, but she was very knowledgeable and didn't ask anything more.

At this time, Chen Xiaojie had already begun to lose her hair. She didn't tell Wang Yong, just a person who couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, sketching the outline of the chandelier on the ceiling over and over again with her eyes. It was supposed to be another ordinary and long night, until Wang Yong's phone suddenly lit up.

Originally, Chen Xiaojie would never look at Wang Yong's mobile phone, but in this long night of boredom, the insomnia Chen Xiaojie took Wang Yong's mobile phone and clicked on the unread WeChat.

It was sent by a woman named Xinyuan, and the content was only two simple words: "I know." ”

Know what? Chen Xiaojie glanced up at the chat record in front of her again, and saw that Wang Yong's words to the woman were: "Until next Saturday, you must not let my wife know." "The previous chat record has already been deleted by Wang Yong.

Chen Xiaojie suddenly felt that the blood in her body froze in an instant, and she thought in her mind, "What do you want me to know?" What do you want me to know? She wanted to type and ask, but she turned off the screen and tiptoed back to the phone.

The next day, Wang Yong came back later than usual, Chen Xiaojie pretended to ask casually, but Wang Yong just blinked his eyes and replied: "Oh, there is something I haven't done at work, so I stayed and worked overtime for a while." The corners of his mouth unconsciously revealed a heartfelt smile.

Nancheng's plan is to secretly investigate what Wang Yong has done recently, who he has met with, and she wants to find out the third party. Nancheng has a cousin who works as a private detective, and investigating these things is a piece of cake for him. Soon they found out that Wang Yong had been calling the same number frequently recently, and Nancheng searched it on WeChat, and it was the woman named Xinyuan last time. Her cousin also found out the details of the owner of this number, her name is Li Xinyue, she is Wang Yong's high school classmate, and she once passionately pursued Wang Yong when she was a student.

"It's cheap!" Nancheng couldn't help but scold.

They also found out that Wang Yong secretly spent more than 100,000 yuan a few days ago to buy a very expensive diamond ring and gave it to this Li Xinyue. Nancheng kindly reminded Chen Xiaojie: "You have to beware of Wang Yong secretly transferring property." ”

Chen Xiaojie did not answer Nancheng's words, because this was not her plan.

In the days that followed, every day was so difficult. Chen Xiaojie secretly carried out her own plan, and silently waited for the arrival of that Saturday. Finally, the day mentioned in WeChat still came, and now Chen Xiaojie doesn't care about what that matter is. She looked at Wang Yong, who was busy in the kitchen, humming happily, and suddenly said for no reason: "Wang Yong, let's get a divorce." ”

After listening to Chen Xiaojie's words, Wang Yong's body suddenly trembled, and when he turned around, the corners of his mouth were smiling, but tears were already raging on his face.

Chen Xiaojie's words did not make Wang Yong feel abrupt, because in addition to the cigarette butt last time, Chen Xiaojie also deliberately put some other men's products that did not belong to Wang Yong at home for Wang Yong to discover. But Wang Yong secretly hid things every time, or threw them away, pretending that nothing had happened.

"I'm going out to buy a pack of cigarettes." Wang Yong lowered his head and went out as he spoke, without even closing the door, but in fact, he never smoked.

Chen Xiaojie called Nancheng, but before she could speak, surging tears had already poured down.

When Nancheng came in a hurry, the door was still open, and when Chen Xiaojie saw Nancheng, she couldn't help but hug Nancheng and cry. She finally lost him, and all of this was planned by her. When did Chen Xiaojie come up with the idea of divorcing Wang Yong? It wasn't when she found out that Wang Yong was cheating, nor when she knew that Xinyue existed, but two years ago, when she had an unexpected miscarriage, and the doctor told her that she might not be able to get pregnant again in the future. At that time, she felt that she no longer had any reason to dominate Wang Yong and take away more of his happiness.

Chen Xiaojie really loves Wang Yong so much, even if it is divorce, even if it is cheating, she does not want Wang Yong to become the one who is blamed and spurned, this is all Chen Xiaojie's plan.

Chen Xiaojie cried hoarsely, heartbreaking, and the feelings that had been suppressed for too long poured out like a flood that burst the embankment at this moment. Time stood still, and in the empty room, there was only Chen Xiaojie's endless sadness and reluctance.

"Excuse me, is it Miss Chen Xiaojie's house?" A man with a bouquet of flowers in his hand stood outside the door and asked cautiously.

Nancheng replied, "yes, who are you?" ”

The man walked into the house, handed a bouquet of roses to Chen Xiaojie's hand, and said to her: "This is Mr. Wang Yong's flowers customized for you in our Xinyuan Flower Art, today is the third anniversary of your marriage with Mr. Wang Yong, Mr. Wang Yong said, falling in love with you is the happiest thing in his life, and he will go down together in the future." ”

Chen Xiaojie looked at the flower in her hand and was stunned, but Nancheng found the diamond ring hidden in the middle of the bouquet first. Chen Xiaojie took out the ring and found that there was a line of small characters written on the inside of the ring, she looked carefully, and found that the line of small characters read:

Love You Forever