Chapter 374 I Want to Live for Myself

Mr. Zhao Er was confused. It had always been his wish to divorce Mrs. Zhao Er and marry Feng Liuer.

Now he didn't have to go through so much trouble to persuade Qin Zhen to divorce. She took the initiative to bring it up.

The sweetheart he wanted to marry was no longer with him, and the son she gave birth to was not his blood.

Everything seemed to have changed overnight.

He moved his lips, trying to say something to Qin Zhen, but his throat seemed to be blocked and he couldn't utter a word.

He could only stare at her blankly.

"My dowry is gone, there is nothing to argue about. The betrothal gifts you gave to the Qin family were carried to the Zhao family with me and stored in my private vault. Back then, you insisted on marrying Miss Feng, and finally brought a child. You told me in person that this was your only offspring in the future. After I replaced the contraceptive soup with the sterilization soup for me to take, I took the betrothal gifts out of my private vault and put them into the public treasury."

"I still have a few hundred taels of silver in my hand, which was helped by my parents. If you want, we can split it in half, or give it all to you."

Mrs. Zhao Er had a smile on her face, and her eyes were as gentle and clear as the early summer sky, without any resentment.

The vague memories in Mr. Zhao Er's mind suddenly became clear at this moment. On the day of the wedding, when she lifted the red veil, the light of the dragon and phoenix candles on the table reflected in her eyes, which was also so gentle, as if she was shining, and she was full of longing for him and the future.

It was him...he personally extinguished the light in her eyes.

Now seeing her so calm and radiant again, the look in her eyes was not for him.

Mr. Zhao Er felt like a piece was missing from his heart, and he felt so empty.

"Qin, I don't have a son, and you don't want me anymore. Is this my retribution?" Mr. Zhao Er was no longer as high-spirited as before, his eyes were vicissitudes, and he was decadent: "Can you... not divorce?"

Mrs. Zhao Er shook her head: "Zhao Zhiyuan, since you held me in your arms and chanted another woman's name in the bridal chamber, since you held another woman's child and raised him for me, since you fed me the sterilization soup, I have never regarded you as my man in my heart."

"You are still young and can have your own children." Mrs. Zhao Er was calm and unperturbed, as if she was stating something that had nothing to do with her: "And I will never have my own children in this life."

Mr. Zhao Er's expression was frozen, and he looked at Mrs. Zhao Er in a daze, as if he had never thought that the things he did to her hurt her so deeply.

I only remember that no matter what he did, she accepted it meekly and never said a word of no.

Now she said no, which was to refuse his request for peace.

"If you have any good thoughts about me, please give me a letter of divorce. I want to live for myself in the second half of my life." Madam Zhao Er smiled softly: "I gave you my best years. Now our marriage is over. I hope we can part ways in peace and live well."

Master Zhao Er came back to Beijing to find Madam Zhao Er to get comfort from her. In the past, no matter what happened, she was always there behind him. Now she doesn't want him anymore and told him to part ways in peace.

His heart was kneaded by an invisible hand, painful and uncomfortable. He subconsciously wanted to avoid it and didn't want to face it.

As long as he didn't divorce Qin Zhen, he wouldn't be so sad. As long as he didn't let go, Qin Zhen wouldn't leave him.

"I don't want to..." Master Zhao Er was about to say it, but he couldn't say it when he saw the soft light in Qin Zhen's eyes.

It seemed that the light in her eyes would shatter as soon as he said it.

Their current peace would be torn apart, revealing the most unbearable and ugly side.

"...I, I'll give it to you..." Master Zhao Er's voice tightened, and he said with difficulty: "I don't want the silver. It was given to me by your mother's family. You can take it all."