After ordering the food, Ryan returned to his room next door to take a shower and change his clothes. Silvia did not want to move at all, and simply continued resting on the sofa with her eyes closed.Her cell phone, which was lying by her side, suddenly rang. It was an unfamiliar number. She answered the call and heard a woman crying on the other end of the line. It was Mariah.“Silvia, you should return Ryan to me—"“Please, please return Ryan to me, okay? You’ve already had him for five years so it’s time for you to return him to me…”It was only logical for Silvia to be angry when she heard such words, but she did not feel angry at all. Rather, she couldn’t help but feel that this situation was rather funny, so she was smiling as she talked to the person on the other end of the line.“Miss Sommers, I think you’re mistaken. I’ve already filed for divorce a long time ago. Ryan’s the one who refuses to divorce me quickly. Why don’t you persuade him to get the divorce over with as
“What did you just say to Mariah?” Silvia instantly understood that Mariah must have complained to him. He was then here to seek justice for Mariah’s grievances. She did not cover up what she did and simply leaned back against the wall. She looked up at him with her arms crossed in front of her chest as she admitted, “I scolded her. I said that she was sick and asked her to hurry up and go to the hospital for treatment instead of yelling at people as if she was a mad dog.”Since she dared to do it, she would never do nasty things such as backstabbing others. After she finished answering, Silvia felt that Ryan was so angry that he wanted to strangle her to death. His eyes were full of anger.“Why did you have to say that she was sick?!”“Did you know that she—”Ryan held back before he could finish his sentence in anger. He simply glared at her fiercely and he looked like he was very angry with her.“Oh, you’re feeling so distressed just because I scolded her?”His sweethear
“What do you mean?”She replied calmly, “I don’t want custody of our daughter anymore. Let’s go through the divorce procedures sometime soon.”When Ryan heard that she would give up custody of her daughter so that she could divorce him, he was shocked and angry.“Silvia!”Silvia naturally would not sit still and listen to him yell. She simply hung up the phone.During the few days when she spent time with her daughter in Japan alone, the little girl also asked why Ryan left. She told her daughter that it was because he was busy with work.Now that she had decided to give up custody of her daughter, Silvia chose to lie to her daughter so that her daughter could get along well with her father. But Silvia also knew that even if she returned their daughter to him, he would not take care of her too much during the week. He was busy with work and spending time with his sweetheart so it would eventually be her mother-in-law, Ophelia, who would be taking care of their daughter.This
“Ryan, I wish you happiness.”“I hope you will treat Autumn well.”She hung up the phone directly after saying that.Ryan, who was on the other end of the line, had originally wanted to use this method to force her to withdraw her request for a divorce; he knew how important their daughter was to her and that she had never left their daughter’s side for more than three years. This was why he took their daughter away and said that she would not be allowed to see Autumn.He thought that Silvia would give in, come back obediently, and not mention the divorce again if he did this.Unexpectedly…Ryan thought about what Silvia said earlier, which sounded like her last words, and the suicidal thoughts she had expressed several times when they went to Japan. He suddenly felt anxious and called her back on her cell phone immediately. Her cell phone was turned off. The little girl next to him, who had been watching cartoons for a while, then came over and asked him naively, “Daddy, did
She took a step back, a look of despair on her face, then turned around and picked up the fruit knife that he had thrown away.“What are you doing?!”Ryan roared before he stepped forward and hugged her tightly against his chest.Silvia did not struggle or speak, and she simply confronted him calmly. Her originally clear eyes were also filled with a dead stare…Ryan simply stared at her with his tightly pursed lips and tense jaw. He had a cold and sullen expression in his eyes. He finally spoke up after a while.“You don’t need to commit suicide. I agree to a divorce. See you at the Civil Affairs Department at nine o’clock in the morning tomorrow.”Ryan released her, turned around, and left without looking back after saying that.Silvia stood in place expressionlessly and watched his figure disappear behind the door.Finally. It was finally over. She could finally end this marriage that she had been struggling to maintain alone all this while.When Rosaline rushed back, she
However, after saying such words, she was still out of sorts. Rosaline raised her eyes to look at Silvia and found that she was in a daze.Rosaline couldn’t help but feel distressed when she saw Silvia like this, so she raised her hands and hugged Silvia. “Silvia, don’t hold back like this,” she said while sobbing. “You can just cry if you feel upset.”After all, even if she said that she did not care, did she really mean it? This was still the man that she had truly loved for five years. In Rosaline’s impression, Silvia was lively, bright, delicate, and beautiful. it was only natural for her to feel distressed when she looked at Silvia, who was so silent at this moment. She held Silvia in her arms, hoping to encourage and comfort her this way, just like how Silvia had comforted her when she was frustrated with her divorce back then.After a while, Rosaline felt a warmth on her shoulders and hot liquid began seeping into her clothes. Rosaline’s tears also fell uncontrollably.
Fortunately, it was not too late for them to start a new life now; they were still young and had not lost themselves because of their divorce.After ending a failed marriage, they were living more clearly now.Rosaline asked about Silvia’s plans, to which Silvia said that she planned to go to another city. She would look for a few of her university friends to have fun with, relax, heal, and see if there was a suitable job for her after completing the divorce procedures tomorrow. She did not plan to stay in Detroit.She would quit her previous job in the clothing store, saying that the job was not a long-term solution anyway.Silvia originally wanted to go to bed early at night so that she would look good the next day, but she did not feel sleepy at all after lying down.After thinking for a long time, she sat up again, took her cell phone, mustered up her courage, and sent a text to the Whatsapp group comprised of the four people from her university dormitory. “I am divorced.”
After stopping her tears with great difficulty, she sobbed and replied with a voice message. “No, you girls don’t have to come all the way to see me. I’m fine, really.”“Since I’ve made such a decision, it means that I can bear it. I’ll go and see you guys to take a break and relax after the divorce is finalized.”“Don’t worry, I’ll meet with Wendy tomorrow so she can report my situation to you guys.”Wendy was the roommate who stayed in Detroit like she did. After Silvia assured them repeatedly that she was fine and that she would meet up with Wendy, the other two canceled their decision to visit her in Detroit.After finishing the chat on Whatsapp, Silvia made a separate appointment to meet with Wendy tomorrow. Silvia had also met up with Wendy frequently in the past few years. She had a good relationship with Wendy, but the reason why she’d gone to Rosaline first instead of Wendy after she decided to get divorced was because of Ethan Goldberg. Ethan was very close friends