Chapter 52

Chapter 52

After Huang Yuanrui finished reading the messages, her hands finally stopped shaking, but her fingertips had gone ice-cold.

She had never imagined that by pushing Zhang Qiong into a corner, she would outsmart herself and practically force Qin Song to create a white moonlight in his own heart.

Not only had Zhang Qiong refused to leave City A, she was insisting on continuing to work at Qin Song’s company!

Huang Yuanrui had thought Zhang Qiong might break things off with Qin Song decisively. Instead, Zhang Qiong had even promised she would remain “ordinary friends” with him.

More importantly, Zhang Qiong had not disappeared from Qin Song’s life at all. On the contrary, she had been upgraded from an ordinary affair partner into the ex-lover Qin Song could never quite get over.

Huang Yuanrui knew better than anyone that in a man’s heart, what he had already obtained could never compare to what he had failed to obtain. And even more powerful than either was the person he had possessed briefly, only to lose forever. Men usually called that kind of woman a “goddess.”

Originally, she and Zhang Qiong had still held roughly equal weight in Qin Song’s heart. In terms of who had come first, and in terms of age and looks, she should have had the upper hand no matter how you looked at it. But now Zhang Qiong had become the white moonlight and the red rose, while she had turned into nothing more than a grain of rice and a smear of mosquito blood.

Huang Yuanrui lowered her head and looked at the greasy apron on her body. Qin Song’s words from earlier echoed in her mind again-“like some shrew.” Suddenly, she felt there was one phrase that fit her perfectly now:

The castoff wife who had shared his hardships.

She yanked off the apron and threw it into the trash.

Qin Song came out of the bathroom, put on his coat, picked up his phone, and was about to leave.

Huang Yuanrui stood behind him with her arms crossed, watching him. “So now you aren’t even planning to coax me anymore?”

As Qin Song changed his shoes, he said, “You can tell I’m in a bad mood today. I don’t have the energy to coax anyone.”

Huang Yuanrui said, “My hand is cut open, and you don’t care about that either?”

Qin Song said, “Then put a Band-Aid on it. If there aren’t any in the room, ask the front desk.”

Huang Yuanrui gave a cold laugh. “What you’re doing right now is called emotional neglect.”

Qin Song glanced at her. He seemed about to say something, but in the end, he said nothing. He pulled the door open and walked straight out.

Huang Yuanrui stood where she was for a while, then caught a whiff of something.

She went over and opened the bathroom door. Frowning, she shut it again and turned on the exhaust fan.

She smoked, but she had never liked the smell of secondhand smoke. Qin Song had known that for a long time.

That was why, in the past, if he smoked in Huang Yuanrui’s bathroom, he would turn on the exhaust fan in advance to air it out.

Even if Huang Yuanrui caught the faintest trace of smoke on him, she would frown. And every time, he would hold her in his arms like he was coaxing a kitten and admit he was wrong.

But today, he had smoked without even turning on the fan.

Huang Yuanrui took out her phone and called Xixi.

“Do you know what happened? That bitch Zhang not only didn’t leave, she’s going to keep working at his company!”

Xixi said, “What?! Then your threat didn’t work at all? Is it because you told her the truth about those things, so now she’s not scared anymore?”

Huang Yuanrui said, “It worked a little. They broke up. But Qin Song looks like he’s been put through hell and back. At this rate, I swear they might as well not have broken up at all!”

Xixi said, “As long as they broke up, isn’t that enough? Wasn’t that the main thing you spent more than a month trying to make happen?”

Huang Yuanrui said, “But he cares about her even more than before! Now she’s the one ignoring Qin Song, while Qin Song is like a dog desperate to chase after her and sniff around!”

Xixi said, “Then what outcome do you want?”

Huang Yuanrui said, “Obviously, I want Qin Song to ignore her!”

Xixi said, “Wake up. Stop letting your emotions make decisions for you!”