Chapter 115: Honesty
Fu Ying stopped what he was doing and frowned slightly. “You really went to work at that magazine agency?”
He had guessed that this would happen. Zhang Zhe was the chief editor of the magazine agency, so Mo Rao could only go there to work.
His questioning tone made Mo Rao’s heart skip a beat. She looked at Fu Ying stubbornly. “What else? Do you think my job has embarrassed you?”
“Do you think that’s what I mean?” Fu Ying wasn’t in the mood to eat. He put down his bowl and chopsticks and asked coldly.
“What else do you mean? Are you praising me?” Mo Rao had become sharp-tongued and spoke harshly.
This was all forced by Fu Ying!
Fu Ying looked at Mo Rao, who was like a little hedgehog with thorns all over her body. The unhappiness in his heart intensified. “Isn’t the living allowance I gave you enough?”
If it wasn’t enough, she should just say so. Was there a need to do such manual labor?
She would go blind from the intense work!
Mo Rao clenched the chopsticks in her hand and her tone became even more unpleasant. “Of course it’s enough, but you don’t have to give me so much. In the future, I can bear some of the family’s living expenses. I don’t have to rely on you.”
Was she trying to draw a line between them? Go dutch?
Fu Ying became angry and his expression darkened.
Mo Rao looked at him neither humbly nor arrogantly. “Fu Ying, I’m a living person, not your pet. I need to work. I need social value. I don’t want my life to be controlled by you.”
Fu Ying was stunned by her words.
“Ever since I married you, I’ve been trapped in this beautiful house. This isn’t a house. This is an expensive cage. I’ve been focused on you. I don’t have my own friends, my own connections, or my own job. Because I loved you, I was willing to be tied down by marriage. But now, I don’t want this anymore. I don’t want to become a useless person after I leave you in the future. I want to start over.” Mo Rao’s words came from the bottom of her heart.
Fu Ying said coldly, “We won’t get a divorce, so we won’t be separated. You don’t have to worry about these problems.”
“Do you think we won’t get a divorce?” Mo Rao smiled. “Do you think I’ll believe you?”
“Then what do you want me to do?” Fu Ying asked. “Haven’t I done enough?”
“Fu Ying, you think too highly of yourself. We’ve only been married for three years. You don’t like me that much. You just like to sleep with me. Now that we’re getting a divorce, you can’t even bear to part with me, let alone Qu Ru. You’ve liked her for so many years. Can you let go in a month? Not to mention a month, you won’t even let go if I give you a year!” The smile on Mo Rao’s expression was cold.
Fu Ying’s gaze turned colder. “Do you not believe me?”
“It’s not that I don’t believe you. Let me make it clear to you. You must cut off all contact with her in a month’s time and never care about her again. Can you do it?”
Mo Rao looked straight at Fu Ying. “You can’t do it, Fu Ying. So even if we don’t get a divorce, she will always be between us. She will think of ways to make you take care of her and care for her. She will become a nuisance to me. We will keep arguing and suspecting each other. In the end, even the last bit of peace will be ruined.”
Mo Rao seemed to be pronouncing a death sentence. Every word she said made Fu Ying feel terrible.
His eyes met Mo Rao’s steadily. Neither of them retreated, as if they were confronting each other.
Fu Ying didn’t speak, so Mo Rao continued, “Tell me, if we don’t get a divorce, what will you do with Qu Ru?”
“What do you think?” Fu Ying spoke.
“I think that as the illegitimate daughter of the Qu family, she doesn’t have much power or money to support the life she wants. Therefore, she can only rely on you. You will support her for the rest of her life, right?”
Mo Rao’s fair face was filled with an ironic smile. “When the time comes, she will contact you all the time. You will be like her husband, handling all kinds of things for her and taking care of her entire life. You’ll be her greatest source of income. It’s just that the two of you won’t be legally married.”
Fu Ying was annoyed when he heard this. He interrupted Mo Rao. “Are you that sure that I will handle all her matters and take care of her?”
“Isn’t that what you’re doing now?” Mo Rao pretended to be surprised. “She can summon you away with one call. Your heart aches when she cries, doesn’t it?”
“Fu Ying, I can’t accept that my husband has another woman he loves deeply, just like how you won’t accept that Shen Feng likes me,” Mo Rao added.