In the evening, Fu Yi pushed open the door and happened to see the sunset outside the floor-to-ceiling window facing the door. His wife sat on the bay window, with her back against the wall, and a laptop on her knees. The corners of her snow-white skirt hang down along the ridges, and her body and the wall showed a beautiful curve. The warm yellow light outside the window was cage on her silhouette, and a hazy halo was emitting all over her body, as beautiful as a mural.

Hearing the sound of closing the door, Shu Qing tied her long hair that had fallen down to her ears, looked at Fu Yi and asked with a smile: "Where is Yin Yin? Haven't you been picking her up?"

Fu Yi took off his coat and hung it on the hanger, and walked towards her with a packaging bag. Because his leg injury had not been completely healed, his pace was more steady and slower than before.

"I ask my colleague to take Yin Yin away to take care of her. There are only two of us tonight."

As he said that, Fu Yi walked to the bay window and sat down beside her. The smile on her face was gentler than the sunset outside the window.

Shu Qing put the laptop aside, raised her arm to hook her neck, raised her face, and smiled cutely: "Why?"

Fu Yi smiled, said nothing, then lifted the packaging bag placed on the floor and handed it to her: "Gift."

"Why did you give me a gift suddenly?"

Shu Qing was very surprised and took it with both hands and said thank you: "Thank you."

Their marriage is as unpredictable as water, and the way they get along is also respectful to each other. Even though Shu Qing is his wife whom he married, Fu also always retains a little respect and polite distancing to her. Fortunately, Shu Qing did not think there was anything wrong with the way they got along. She was born in a scholarly family and received the education of women as subtlety since childhood. She was elegant and noble by nature, and she managed a good relationship and married life was like serving flowers and grass, full of the charm of famous ladies who seemed to be separated and stopped.

She is not enthusiastic, she is noble and cold, and some people are willing to give her enthusiasm, but it does not include Fu Yi.

"Polaroid camera? How do you know I want this?"

Shu Qing said in surprise.

Fu Yi took off his glasses, pinched his eyebrows and put them back, and said, "I remember when I was watching a movie last time, you said that you liked the heroine's attitude towards life, and you also wanted to travel around with your camera on your back."

"Just talk, I forgot."

Shu Qing happily lowered her head and fiddled with the camera, and suddenly saw a small box in the packaging bag: "Is this for me too?"

While she was speaking, she had already opened the lid of the box, but the charming look in her eyes instantly faded when she saw the things in the box. She seemed to be frightened, and the smile on her face gradually solidified and stiffened.

Fu Yi seemed to have never seen her reaction, so he took her notebook and placed it in front of him, holding the frame with one hand and sliding the webpage with the other.

Just before he came back, Shu Qing was browsing the internal website of a fashion design college in California.

“Have you decided which school to apply to?”

Fu Yi was still so gentle and lingering as if she had known she had been preparing to go abroad to complete her graduate studies that she had not completed four years ago. She asked her with a smile.

He didn't hear the answer for a long time, so Fu Yi closed the computer and looked up at Shu Qing. Seeing her stunned face and her eyes were flustered, her hands holding the Bulgari men's ring were trembling.

Seeing her appearance, Fu Yi felt pity in his heart and sighed, "Did you scare you? Sorry, I have been thinking about how to talk to you about this, and I am also waiting for you to talk to me on your own initiative. But now you are about to leave and I have no time, so I am a good idea and decided to talk to you tonight."

Shu Qing panicked for a moment, avoided Fu Yi's gaze and looked around blankly, trying to escape from the predicament at this moment, but found that she could not escape.

Since you can't escape, then just face it.

"sorry."

She flashed her eyes full of tears, lowered her head like a little girl who did something wrong, held Fu Yi's hand, apologized to him, and cried and asked for his forgiveness.

To be honest, Fu Yi still doesn't feel that she needs to apologize, but instead feels a little guilty because she scares her.

"This is not your problem, it is mine."

Fu Yi covered her hand on the back of her trembling hands and said warmly: "I know very well that I don't give you a sense of belonging or security, so I forgive you for your actions, and you don't need to apologize to me."

Shu Qing lowered her head, and the brokenness overflowed from her breath and swallowed even more: "You knew it a long time ago, right?"

Fu Yi gently lifted her long scattered hair to her shoulders: "Yes, I noticed it. If you don't want to continue this topic, I won't force you. I just want to discuss with you how to solve this matter."

Shu Qing suddenly raised her head, the delicate light makeup on her face had dizzy from her tears. She held Fu Yi's hand and said in tears: "You won't forgive me, do you want to divorce me, do you?"

Fu Yi said, "I will not propose to divorce you. You married me for four years and gave birth to a daughter for us. As long as our marriage is what you want, I will never take it away from you. I can continue to live with you, maintain our family, and guard you and Yinyin. The question is, can I give you the life, do you really want it?"

Shu Qing was stunned and stopped asking.

Fu Yi looked at her and continued, "If you want our family, how could you go to study in the United States without hiding it?"

Suddenly, his face was empty, but a smile full of remembrances appeared: "Actually, I can understand you. You married me at the age of 22. In order to marry me and have children, you gave up your graduate studies. Now Yin Yin has grown up and we have spent four years of marriage. Maybe I was your choice at the beginning, but now, your choice is obviously not me."

Shu Qing had to admit that he was right.

At the beginning, she chose to give up her studies and marry Fu Yi and chose to build a family with him. It was just because she loved him that she wanted this man to become her husband. As long as she could marry Fu Yi, she was willing to pay any price. This was the choice she made when she was young and followed her heart. Until now, she had never regretted it. However, after four years of ordinary marriage life, she remembered the choice that was abandoned by her at the intersection of life. She couldn't help but begin to imagine whether she would have lived a different life than she is now if she was not in a hurry to marry Fu Yi.

She is free and free by nature. When she resolutely married Fu Yi, she was dissuaded by her family, but she only listened to her. After graduating from fashion design, she gave up her professional job because of her interests and hobbies. She opened a pastry shop, and only listened to her. Now, she wants to pick up the possibility of abandoning her, and she just wants to obey herself.

At this moment, she understood that Fu Yi was asking her for another choice. No matter what her choice was, whether to continue to maintain the status quo of marriage, or change the status quo and find a life she yearned for more, Fu Yi would respect her decision and cooperate with her.

But she also knew her selfishness and greed. She neither wanted to lose her husband Fu Yi nor her dreams, freedom, and distant places.

"Will you blame me?"

She asked.

Fu Yi sighed a long time, and a tired and helpless smile overflowed from the corner of his lips: "How could I blame you? You have paid enough for me. Maybe it's only now that you understand that the original choice was a mistake, and I will not deprive you of the opportunity to correct the mistake. You are still so young and so beautiful, and have time to do it again. I will only bless you, and thank you for your youth for me, and for your four years of company."

She curled up next to him like a kitten, laying on his legs, still holding his hands tightly in his palm, putting them in his heart, closed her eyes and shed tears and said, "If I leave, will you divorce me?"

Fu Yi gently stroked her long hair and said, "I have no choice in the past four years with you. It should be said that I have never had the chance to choose the life I want. When you leave, I hope to have the chance to start over."

"...what Yinyin? What should Yinyin do?"

"Even if we divorce, we are still her parents. Children should not be a barrier to each other. At her age when she is still unknown, she should not passively bear the choices made by adults for her. When she grows up, I will explain to her and ask her for forgiveness. I think she will forgive us."

Shu Qing put his hand on his lips, and tears flowed even more: "I want to tell you something."

Fu Yi lowered his eyes, and a gentle tide surged in his eyes: "What's the matter?"

"I sent the photos your parents received back then."

Before she finished speaking, she was crying.

The tide in Fu Yi's eyes gradually faded, and his eyes were dazed for a moment, and he actually smiled. But the smile became more bitter and helpless.

That summer, he was preparing courseware at school and was suddenly called home by his parents by phone. The two old men asked him angry and sadly with the photos of him holding hands and hugging each other, and he would never forget the scene of his parents' sorrow and anger. In the face of his parents' sorrow and anger, he only felt panic and guilt. That unsuccessful experience of coming out became a mark of shame in his life, and he was kicked out of the house by his parents like a betrayal dog.

At that time, he had only despair and shame, and even thought of dying.

But Shu Qing appeared, she proposed to him, giving him hope of survival. He married her as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw.

Shu Qing cried and said, "I love you so much. I want to marry you, I want to be your wife, I want to have children for you, and I want you to be my husband. I really love you! I know that you don't love me, you only have responsibility to me. I agree to divorce you. I apologize to you, please don't - don't hate me."

Fu Yi was ecstatic for a while until the sky outside the window was dull and the room was covered with darkness. Shu Qing lay beside him sobbed gently like a gentle little animal.

"I--"

After saying a word, Fu Yi couldn't continue. He found that his voice was hoarse, as if he had been thirsty for a long time and his speech became extremely laborious.

He took off his glasses, pinched the wet corners of his eyes, supported his forehead for a while before whispering: "I don't hate you."

As if comforting herself, as if comforting her, Fu Yi gently stroked her shoulders as if she was coaxing her child to sleep, and said over and over again: "It's all over, it's over."

Yes, it's all over-

Shu Qing was very quiet, so quiet that she seemed to be really coaxed to sleep by him, so she curled up next to him and spent the night.

The next day was a good day, and the wind was very cool in the early autumn morning.

They walked into the Civil Affairs Bureau in the breeze and ended their four-year marriage.

The second time he walked out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Fu Yi looked at his photo on the red ID and felt dazed, but this time the smile printed on the photo was no longer difficult and no longer false. Although he only had a very faint smile, he felt relaxed and happy from the bottom of his heart.

Shu Qing spent a day saying goodbye to her daughter, and the next day she brought her luggage and the camera that Fu Yi gave her to her and arrived at the airport.

Fu Yi stood at the boarding gate with her daughter in her arms, watching her cry while disappearing at the boarding gate with a smile.

The last promise he gave her was: No matter where you live in the future, at home or abroad, you will always be Yinyin's mother, and I will not let her forget you.

After Shu Qing left, his life became busier. He had to transfer his daughter to the kindergarten where his sister taught and move to a place closer to the kindergarten. He constantly compressed his working time so that he could make more time to spend with his daughter and be a qualified single father.

After everything was arranged, he returned to work at the municipal bureau and found out that Yang Kaitai had not come to work for several days. And Chu Xingyun knew about it, and he agreed to Yang Kaitai's long vacation and gave him time to adjust his mentality.

Fu Yi was very busy. The cake shop run by Shu Qing had no one to run since she left, but the lease period of the shop was still many years, so he had been looking for a suitable person to put the shop out. He received dozens of calls within four days and took more than a dozen different people to visit the shop.

Finally, on Saturday, a young couple wanted to take over the store for catering, and the price was fair and reasonable, and they could pay the full amount within one month. On Saturday, Fu Yi signed a contract with them in the store and then sent them out of the store.

He stood at the door of the cake shop in the downtown pedestrian street, shook hands and said goodbye to the young couple, but when he turned around, he saw Yang Kaitai standing in a bustling place and looking at him.

Yang Kaitai was indeed adjusting his mentality, but he did not make it successful. He did not realize that he had found the wrong way until he walked out of the house and walked on the street.

Walking in the crowd, look at a few more strange smiling faces, the joys, sorrows and sorrows around him instantly submerge him. Those sad and bad emotions do not need to be forgotten with great effort, and gradually disappear.

After walking aimlessly on a street, he turned into a cold drink shop and bought an ice cream. He walked out of the cold drink shop and looked around, only to realize how honest his legs were.

He arrived near Shu Qing's cake room.

Fu Yi divorced, and the news of his wife going abroad spread wildly in the city bureau. Even Qiao Shishi called him to tell him that he should not know now.

He knew the reason for Fu Yi's divorce. After receiving the news, he wanted to call Fu Yi, but he didn't know what to say, and he didn't dare to disturb him, let alone visit him. He called out several times and hung up before he was connected.

He thought about walking along the way, but he actually arrived near the cake shop. Perhaps he was lucky enough to walk along the pedestrian street, but he didn't expect to see Fu Yi.

Fu Yi was wearing a loose light brown sweater and black casual pants, standing upright at the door of the store, shaking hands with a man and talking to him for a moment. After a while, he heard Fu Yi laugh and say, "Okay, see you again."

Caught out of control, Fu Yi turned around in the direction he was in, and met his eyes at first sight, making him unable to avoid it and felt embarrassed as if he was caught. He stood among the crowd and blushed before he could even talk to him.

Fu Yi stood in front of the store, holding the mirror frame, smiling slightly, and looking at him without saying a word.

He threw the remaining ice cream into the trash can, lowered his head and walked towards him, stopped in front of him, and whispered: "Captain Fu."

Fu Yi looked at him, and there was no movement for a moment.
To be continued...