"Why? You ask why?"
Ye Wei repeated the question, lost in thought.
Xia Qiaoan was also lost in thought.
Xia Qiaoan was rubbing her temples, feeling a bit of a headache, "Logically, he should be happier after the divorce. Logically, he can find any woman he wants. Logically, I've already been so open and honest in our conversation, even if it doesn't solve the problem immediately, it shouldn't make things worse. What is the reason for Li Mochen's behavior?"
Ye Wei leaned over and hugged her best friend, face to face, "A bystander tells you, the person in the situation, that he might be in love with you. Three years isn't a short time for Li Mochen. If it was Aunt Xiao who forced him to marry you back then, he could use various methods to force you to divorce, and the fault would be on you. But he didn't; at most, he was just indifferent to you."
Xia Qiaoan seemed to have suddenly changed the channel on the television she was watching, and looked at Ye Wei with surprise.
Ye Wei was stared at with her face numb, "Oh, don't look at me like that. Sometimes, in this kind of situation, the person in the situation is confused, and the bystander can see it more clearly."
"He hasn't driven you away all this time, maybe in the daily interactions, he's gotten used to your presence, but in a certain sense, habit is also a kind of love. Some feelings can't be divided so clearly."
Seeing that Xia Qiaoan still had a look of disbelief, Ye Wei continued, "Look, at school, a lot of people chased me, and Gu Yu's conditions weren't the best. But he was always by my side, taking care of me, and he persisted for four years before I agreed. Did you say that I'm used to it? I don't know; I only know that I can't live without him now. Sometimes, I have nightmares that he ran away with another woman, and I'll wake up crying in distress. I think, this is love."
Xia Qiaoan's mind was in a mess. These words weren't something she didn't listen to at all, nor did she think there wasn't a bit of sense in them.
But Li Mochen wasn't an ordinary person; you can't use ordinary rules to speculate about him. If you speculate him clearly, it wouldn't be Li Mochen.
Xia Qiaoan thought for a moment, and still shook her head, "What you're saying is just speculation; there's a possibility, but the possibility is too small to be negligible."
"Moreover, I don't have time to consider whether I love him or not. I hope Huaiyuan is okay, and I also hope that the piece of land that President Zhan asked me to help with is okay. That's the most important thing right now."
Ye Wei comforted, "You're the calmest in a crisis, let's discuss it slowly. I told Gu Yu that I hope their company can acquire some shares. He said he'd go home and discuss it."
Xia Qiaoan was grateful, "Thank you, Weiwei. We can only do it like this for now. I also have some money, and I'll buy some too."
Ye Wei smiled, "Yes, when the soldiers come, the general will block the way."
Xia Qiaoan was worried, "Mmm, Li Mochen, this person, he'll definitely do what he says very quickly, and I don't know what he'll do next. We can only act according to the situation."
"I'll ask again, are you sure you don't want to use some professional techniques to deal with Li Mochen?" Ye Wei was still trying.
Xia Qiaoan shook her head firmly, "I think I'll never use this kind of technique on Li Mochen."
Ye Wei leaned back, slumped in the chair, "You, An'an, you're good at everything, but you have too many correct values. I'm a little ashamed."
The two of them were chatting and laughing for a while, when Xia Qiaoan's phone suddenly rang.
It was an unfamiliar call.
Xia Qiaoan thought it was another client, so she answered, "Hello."
But on the other end of the phone came Li Guiqin's sharp and harsh voice, "What's good? You're about to die! Where are you? Get out here and see me!"
Li Guiqin was just like a shrew, making Xia Qiaoan's head ache.
"I'm telling you not to hang up the phone, or else I'll spread the news of your secret marriage with Li Mochen everywhere!"
Xia Qiaoan's hand stopped. She had already made up her mind to divorce, and didn't care about these things at all. But if the secret marriage was exposed, there would definitely be people with ulterior motives who would write articles to defame Li Mochen.
Whether she was to protect Li Mochen, or whether she didn't want Li Mochen to think that she was the one who caused things to get worse, Xia Qiaoan didn't know, but she did not hang up Li Guiqin's phone.
"Hmph, you're afraid, aren't you?" Li Guiqin was smug.
Xia Qiaoan scoffed, "You seem to have forgotten the confidentiality agreement Li Mochen made you sign. How much money did you get back then? Oh, it seems like it was ten million. You've probably spent all the money, what are you going to pay him with?"
Li Guiqin thought that Xia Qiaoan didn't know!
But she didn't expect that she knew everything!
Li Guiqin's face turned the color of a pig's liver, and after a long time, she stammered, "That's none of your business! I'm your mother, who are you threatening? I'll send you an address, get out here and see me! Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
After speaking, Li Guiqin hung up the phone.
Xia Qiaoan looked at the black phone screen for a while.
Ye Wei was heartbroken, "You just think of her as a crazy person who escaped from a mental hospital, and don't take her seriously."
Xia Qiaoan smiled wryly, "You say, they're all her flesh and blood, why does she treat me like she's treating her mortal enemy?"
"It's because of what that old fortune teller said, saying that you would bring bad luck to your parents, and your sister would bring good luck to them. But they're not normal either, they actually believed those words from a con artist, and just threw their own daughter away."
Xia Qiaoan felt a pang of sadness in her heart; it seemed that she had never been properly loved.