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The clear laughter of a little child rang out.
The woman gently tapped the child's bottom while complaining.
The man picked up the child and held her in his arms.
The man was handsome,the woman was beautiful,and the child was cute.
What a happy family.
It would be even better if that man wasn't my husband.
This was a commercial street in the city center,and there were many street photographers.They were taking pictures of the"family of three."Mark glanced at them indifferently but paid no attention.
I stood among the onlookers.
"What a perfect match.They were born to be a family.How handsome they are!"
"Yeah,even when we pass by,we can't help but take a second look."
The little girl found her"parents"and kicked her feet excitedly,stepping on Mark's upper clothes and getting them dirty,and even rubbing snot on his shoulder.
He didn't react at all.
But I was in tears.
The day before the biopsy results came out,Mark still hadn't come home.
The chat page between me and him stopped at the message where I asked him if he could come home for dinner.
His mother,however,kept contacting me frequently,indirectly asking me if I had made a decision.
I started packing my things.A small 16-inch suitcase could actually hold my three years of married life.
After sending a"yes"message,Mark's mother never replied to me again.
I felt a sudden lightness in my body.
Only then did I realize that the shackles were often put on by ourselves.
It turned out that not loving Mark was so relaxing.
When I first moved in here,I twirled around happily,imagining every day of my future life with Mark.
Now,when I was leaving,I was surprisingly calm.
I just left a draft of the divorce agreement on the coffee table.
Mark,from now on,we'll go our separate ways.
Laura has a stubborn personality.When she loves someone,she loves them with all her heart.Similarly,when she chooses to let go,she completely lets go.
Mark came home on the day Laura left.
Perhaps this showed some kind of destined ending.One after the other,they were destined to miss each other.
Mark didn't take that divorce agreement seriously.
It was just a new trick,he thought.
But that night,he couldn't fall asleep.
Mark had been taught since he was a child to be calm and restrained.He carried a huge family business on his shoulders,and there was no room for him to be willful.
But Laura could always make him angry.
He didn't know what else Laura wanted.
She wanted the status of Mrs.Mark,and he gave it to her.
Why did she still keep disturbing his emotions like this?
He had an important business partner to meet the next day,and his schedule was full.At 2:30 in the morning,he definitely shouldn't still be lying awake seething with anger.
So he got out of bed and picked up that piece of paper.
The words at the top stabbed his eyes.This trick made him feel it was going too far.
He reached for his phone and called Laura.He expected that the woman on the other end would answer the phone cheerfully and apologetically,and his anger would subside with her soft words.
Then everything would go back to normal.
He would fall asleep and be full of energy to talk about business the next day.
But Mark was wrong.
The number on the other end was an empty one.
When he made a WeChat call,it showed that the other party was not his friend.
He clumsily searched the Internet for what this meant and even called his assistant to ask if there was a problem with the WeChat server.
The assistant replied cautiously,"It's possible that Madam has deleted you as a friend."
Mark's face went blank for a moment.
Laura deleted him as a friend?
Don't be ridiculous.
His friends all joked that even if the world came to an end,Laura would still be chasing after him.
At that time,Mark seemed indifferent on the surface,but he also thought so in his heart.
He might doubt that the world was a false trap,but he never doubted that one day Laura would leave him.
But that was the truth.
Mark miscalculated.
His tossing and turning in the middle of the night didn't help him fall asleep quickly.Instead,he became even angrier.
What was Laura up to?
He was very busy.He had told Laura countless times to be sensible.Why did she still do such a ridiculous thing?
Mark's assistant couldn't stand seeing Mark both worried and doing nothing,as if he was still expecting Laura to appear in front of him immediately.
He mentioned the day when Laura asked him about Mark's whereabouts.
"Madam didn't seem to be in a good state at that time.She sounded very tired and weak when she spoke.I told her that you had gone on a business trip to City A."
Mark couldn't understand even more,"She already knew,so why is she still making a fuss?"
The assistant was silent for a moment and then said,"But Mr.Mark,she is your wife.It shouldn't be me who tells her these things."
Mark was speechless.
The assistant continued,"Also,the wedding anniversary after your marriage and Madam's birthday should never be the time for me or my colleagues to choose gifts and give them on your behalf."
Mark had nothing to say.
Because he seemed to realize how absurd his actions had been.
The guilty conscience made Mark's anger gradually subside.
He started looking for Laura.
He wanted to start by asking Laura's friends,but he picked up his phone and then put it down.Mark realized that he didn't even know who Laura's friends were.
Ask Laura's parents...
But he remembered that since getting married,he hadn't greeted her parents at all.
He couldn't even find their contact information.
Mark started to feel a little panicked.
He found that the connection between him and Laura was only a single thread.Usually,Laura wove this thread carefully and it was unbreakable.
But once Laura took it back,he had no way to find her.
Mark sat in front of the French window,in a daze,thinking:Where did Laura go?
Where could she have gone?
Wasn't this her home?
Mark always focused on one thing at a time.He canceled all his appointments for the day and was determined to find Laura.
As for what to do after finding her,whether to comply with Laura's request and admit that her trick was effective,or to warn her that if she did this again,they would really get a divorce,Mark hadn't thought it through yet.
At this time,he still firmly believed that Laura was playing a trick on him.
The assistant knew a lot more than Mark.He sent Mark Nicole's phone number.
When Nicole found out who was on the other end of the line,she was almost stunned."Mr.Mark,who are you looking for?Taozi?"
"What do you want with Taozi?Does Lily want to find her?"
Mark was puzzled,"What does Lily have to do with this?Laura is my legal wife."
The assistant coughed beside him to remind him,"You and Madam have a secret marriage,and Miss Nicole doesn't know about it."
The next second,Nicole let out a scream.
After a lot of nonsense,Nicole still didn't know where Laura was.She hadn't been able to contact Laura for several days.
At the same time,she almost cried out of guilt.
"I kept talking about Lily in front of her.How sad Taozi must have been."
