He Yanzi asked calmly,
“If Uncle Huo has something to say, please just say it.”

Huo Junfeng spoke the words he had rehearsed countless times in his mind.

“Yanyan, the divorce agreement we signed—I never submitted it to complete the divorce procedures. I never intended to divorce you. We are not divorced. You are still my wife.”

He Yanzi frowned slightly.

“Why?”

Huo Junfeng looked straight into her eyes and said in a low voice,

“Because I love you.”

He Yanzi almost laughed.

“You love me? You say you love me, and yet you cheated on me? When I found out, you didn’t show the slightest remorse for betraying me. Instead, you told me that I should ‘grow up’?”

Huo Junfeng said anxiously,

“I was wrong! I really know I was wrong now! My thinking was wrong—I’ll change. As long as you’re willing to give me one more chance, I’ll change everything. I can even sign an agreement. If I ever cheat again in the future, all of my assets will go to you. I’ll leave with nothing.”

He Yanzi shook her head and asked softly,

“But what would I want your money for? Being hurt once is enough. I’m not that foolish—I won’t give you another chance to hurt me again. Huo Junfeng, whether it’s your money or your love, I don’t want either of them.”

Huo Junfeng fell silent.

Given the He family’s status in Hong Kong, He Yanzi truly did not need his money.

And as for his love—she no longer wanted that either.

But other than money, what else could he offer her?

To his own shock, he could think of nothing.

He Yanzi waited for a moment, then reached for her bag.

“If you have nothing else to say, I’ll be leaving. Let’s set a time to go and collect the divorce certificate. There’s no cooling-off period for divorce in Hong Kong. It can be done very quickly.”

“Wait!”

She stopped.

“Is there something else?”

Her eyes were still clear and bright, but the overflowing love that once filled them was gone.

Huo Junfeng did not even dare to look into her eyes that no longer loved him.

All the carefully prepared words were suddenly impossible to say.

Seeing that she was about to leave again, he forced himself to speak.

“Yanyan… I bought you some jewelry…”

He Yanzi did not say anything. She only smiled faintly.

Huo Junfeng understood at once.

No matter how expensive the jewelry was, it was not what she wanted.

If it was not what she wanted, then it meant nothing.

And it certainly could not make her change her mind.

At last, Huo Junfeng had nothing left to say.

He sat where he was, watching her walk away step by step, toward another man.

That man looked very young—so young that he seemed unreliable.

He was still playing with a stray cat.

When he saw He Yanzi push the door open and come out, he stood there smiling, waiting for her.

He said something to her.

He Yanzi squatted down, and the tabby cat that looked difficult to approach immediately rolled over and exposed its belly to her.

She reached out and gently petted it.

The two of them stood up and walked away together.

After they had taken several steps, He Yanzi still turned her head to look back at the cat.

The young man suddenly stopped, turned back, picked the cat up in his arms, and ran back toward He Yanzi.

She smiled when she saw the man holding the cat.

The sunlight was brilliant.

He Yanzi’s smile, just like before, had not changed at all.

Huo Junfeng stood silently by the floor-to-ceiling window.

Even after the two figures had gone far away and completely disappeared from sight, he did not move.

He sat there for a long time before finally lowering his head.

At last, he understood.

No matter what he did—no matter how far he searched, no matter how desperately he tried—he would never be able to find the He Yanzi who once loved him.

His own arrogance and self-importance had made him lose her.

He would never be able to squat by the roadside and tease a stray cat like that young man.

And he would never notice that she couldn’t bear to leave the cat behind—and go back to carry it to her himself.

That was the difference between them.

The man Yanyan loved now was someone who would pick up a dirty stray cat just for her.

Huo Junfeng stopped trying to win her back.

But he did not leave Hong Kong.

He chose a date himself and went with He Yanzi to collect the divorce certificate.

He carefully put it away.

Since he had decided to let go, then from that day on, the divorce certificate would be the only connection left between him and Yanyan.

Huo Junfeng settled in Hong Kong, but he rarely met anyone and never dealt with the media, living alone in isolation.

He had all of his assets notarized and unconditionally transferred to He Yanzi.

Day after day, he lived like an ascetic, treating work as his only home.

He watched the woman he loved grow closer and closer to the man with dimples.

She even brought him home to meet her father.

It turned out that the man named Song Chengyu was also from Hong Kong.

The two families quickly held an engagement ceremony.

Two years later, they got married.

They became the sweetest newlyweds in all of Hong Kong.

Three years later, they had a child.

Huo Junfeng prepared an extremely valuable gift and went through several intermediaries to make sure that the He family would not be able to trace it back to him before sending it out.

Three years after that, their daughter was born.

He Yanzi and Song Chengyu’s relationship remained as loving as ever.

Even the Hong Kong paparazzi, who loved digging up gossip the most, stopped bothering to photograph them—because the public had already grown tired of watching them show off their affection in every possible way.

When aging and illness finally came for Huo Junfeng at the same time, he felt neither pain nor regret.

He only smiled faintly and said calmly,

“Luckily… she didn’t choose me.”

At the very end of his life, a peaceful smile still lingered on his lips.

At the moment his gaze went blank, he murmured words that no one else heard—

“If… if there is a next life, I will definitely…”

The heart monitor let out a long, flat beep.

The line went completely straight.

Huo Junfeng closed his eyes forever.

The End

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