Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Tang Bai did not expect that things would develop to this point. He held the base made of yam mud with a confused look on his face and watched Gu Mian and Li Songyun argue.
The unfamiliar alpha’s pheromones made Tang Bai feel uncomfortable. His skin ached, and the glands bitten by Xie Ruheng instantly swelled.
Gu Mian was a very high level alpha. Even though Tang Bai was more than ten meters away from Gu Mian, the terrifying pressure still made his scalp numb. Tang Bai couldn’t imagine what it would be like to face Gu Mian at close range like Li Songyun was doing.
Then he saw Li Songyun calmly push Gu Mian away, turn around and walk towards him as if nothing was wrong.
Tang Bai: “!!!”
Tang Bai was surprised and happy. He was about to say a few words when he suddenly realized something was wrong: “Uncle Li, your hand is bleeding!”
Li Songyun calmly found the medicine box he had just bought for his new home and gave it to him. After wrapping the bandage on himself, he said to Tang Bai: “It doesn’t matter, let’s continue making peony fish fillets. Fortunately, we only need to fry the fish fillets and put them on the plate.”
Tang Bai: “?!”
[Teacher Li, stop it! Let’s chat!]
[Teacher Li, your live broadcast room exploded!]
[The number on hot searches is 19]
[Holy shit, the number on hot searches is 13!]
Tang Bai felt his head hurt. He logged into the Star Network and took a look. It was the eighth most popular search topic, and public opinion had exploded.
Gu Mian was once the male god of the Federation, the dream lover of countless omegas, Li Songyun marrying Gu Mian was like a dreamy fairy tale, like Cinderella marrying the prince, after which they lived happily together.
But the reason why fairy tales were fairy tales was because they did not show the struggles behind the glamorous married life.
A model couple that everyone envied got divorced, and they still staged a divorce drama in a very popular live broadcast room. Naturally, the public was curious about the reason.
Some people figured out that Jiao Jian was Lu En in the game, some people guessed that Jiao Jian had a crush on Li Songyun, and some people said that Li Songyun had just moved out from the Gu family with a moving company today…
Not only was everyone hotly discussing Gu Mian and Li Songyun, Tang Bai was also curious about whether the divorce was due to Jiao Jian’s intervention and thus Li Songyun was not affected by Gu Mian’s pheromones, but the focus now was for Li Songyun to clarify.
Tang Bai was as anxious as an octopus ball on a hot pot. He was helpless about the situation at this moment. They originally planned to do a live food broadcast, but now the rhythm was completely disrupted. What was worse was that Jiao Jian also appeared in the live broadcast. Society was originally against Omegas divorcing and Omegas who derailed in marriage were treated even more harshly. After seeing Jiao Jian, rumors about Li Songyun’s cheating were flying all over the place.
Jiao Jian couldn’t sit still at all and wanted to argue with the barrage that slandered Li Songyun. But the calmest person in the room was Li Songyun.
He was concentrating on making the peony fillet.
First, he poured an appropriate amount of oil into the pot, then Li Songyun used the chopsticks to hold the flour-coated fish fillets, fry the fish fillets one by one into the oil pan, fix the fish fillets with chopsticks, and bend the fish fillets into the shape of petals. Then he removed the fish fillets when they were medium cooked.
The boiling foam in the oil pan made a popping sound, and sharp questions were asked one after another in the live broadcast room.
——”Did you cheat during marriage?”
——”Why did you divorce Gu Mian? Did Gu Mian do something to make you sorry?”
——”Normal people can’t file for divorce, find a new house and move in one day. You must have planned this for a long time, right?”
——”You and Major General Gu’s youngest child is only six years old, didn’t you consider the feelings of your children when you divorced?”
He grilled the fish fillets in hot oil and fried the snow-white fish fillets to golden, the questions were like a series of bombs that didn’t give Li Songyun any time to breathe. They bombarded each other in turn, frantically swiping the screen.
——”Why don’t you answer the question? Are you feeling guilty?!”
——”Major General Gu fought hard on the battlefield and shed his blood. If you, an omega who enjoyed his happiness at home, dared to do something that is unworthy of Major General Gu, we will spit on you every time until we drown you!”
Li Songyun took a deep breath. He was using such repetitive movements to calm his body controlled by pheromones. Only in this way would he not rush out and surrender to the alpha outside.
Thanks to Gu Mian for asking him to be “independent and self-reliant” for so many years, allowing him to go against his instinct and leave Gu Mian at the critical moment.
“I got divorced because of twenty-six years of cold violence and widowed parenting.” Li Songyun raised his eyes, his voice was calm, like a cold scalpel, bloodily cutting open his own scars.
“Cold violence does not mean being beaten, but cold treatment, belittling, and negation. Whether it is my taste, my words and deeds, or anything else, the Gu family will find fault with it. This made me doubt my own value for a long time. I know that I am a househusband, although there has never been any profession called a househusband.”
“If you do well in any profession, you will receive praise from your boss and colleagues, but you will not when it comes to housework.”
“Mrs. Gu will not.”
“My self-confidence was destroyed again and again, and ‘Li Songyun’ was also reshaped through repeated blows. Until he finally became the perfect Mrs. Gu.” Li Songyun showed a standard smile, even the corners of her mouth were curved to an angle fixed after rigorous calculations.
He smiled and said: “Until he was finally praised for being independent, self-reliant, diligent, elegant, tolerant, considerate…”
Tang Bai felt a chill inexplicably. He looked at Li Songyun blankly, unable to imagine what must have happened to this seemingly perfect and elegant omega?
“He needs to bear four children, endure the absence of his husband during pregnancy, endure the absence of his husband during the child-rearing stage, and endure the absence of his husband at all stages of the children’s growth.”
“His husband is a busy military officer, requiring him to be independent and self-reliant, respect his elders, educate the children while also needing to overcome the influence of high-matching pheromones so as to leave his husband with enough personal space.
“He seems to be wearing one mask after another, and there are too many masks, which makes him feel suffocated.”
“To Gu Mian, to the Li family, the entire outside world told him to be tolerant, to be grateful, to be strong… They put on new layers of masks for him.”
“He gradually became wrong. The beneficiary had expectations. When he was about to give up resistance and communication, he received the first support in his life.”
Li Songyun’s eyes softened, “His child said that he hoped that he could survive and live the life he wants.”
The life he wanted, what kind of life had he wanted to live?
Staying as a cooking teacher at the Etiquette College, teaching students how to make delicious desserts.
Li Songyun lowered his eyes and looked at the unfinished peony fish fillets. The carrots were cut into thin strips as stamens, and the golden fish fillets were inserted into the base made of pureed yam.
If you want to arrange the fish fillets into the shape of peony flowers, it will test your aesthetic ability and patience. You need to insert the fish fillets one by one around the carrots, and the position and angle of each fish fillet must be carefully adjusted.
He enjoyed these time-consuming and labor-intensive food-making processes. He had never pursued material things and did not want to be an aristocratic lady. However, his mother said that his younger brother had great ambitions and said that his father’s business could get bigger and bigger if he had connections, saying that he had a good destiny that his pheromones could be highly matched with Gu Mian, that he was the lucky star of the Li family, and that the future of the Li family depended on him.
“After being Mrs. Gu for so long, he had forgotten what he wanted. It was at this time that he saw Tang Bai’s live broadcast.”
Tang Bai looked at Li Songyun blankly.
“The child, who radiates heat and light like a little sun, illuminated me like this.”
Li Songyun laughed, and gently touched Tang Bai’s head with his bandaged palm, “I finally understood that waiting for others is too difficult to understand. If you want to get out of the current situation, you can only rely on yourself. Only by educating your children well can your children learn to respect and care for omegas. Only by taking control of your own power and career can your voice be heard by more people.
“My current dream is to hope that all omegas can live the lives they want.”
“So I started this live broadcast. If no one stands up and makes changes, then most of the world will be affected. The fate of other omegas will be the same as mine, and even worse than mine. I hope that all omegas will not be tied down by marriage and family. You must know that our value is much more than that.”
….
Li Songyun had set up a new home. When he opened the door to welcome Jiang Youwen, he was a little surprised to find Gu Mian still standing at the door of his house.
Gu Mian’s expression did not change. He took out a black velvet box from his pocket and said, “This is the diamond ring you didn’t take away.”
“Gu Mian, I told you, I will not take away any valuable jewelry, they belonged to Mrs. Gu——” Li Songyun was interrupted by Gu Mian just in the middle of his sentence.
“You take it away, and I will sign the divorce agreement.” Gu Mian opened the box, and the gorgeous diamond ring shone faintly in the dark night.
The first time Li Songyun saw this ring was at the engagement party between him and Gu Mian. Gu Mian held his hand, put the ring on him seriously, and said to him, Li Songyun, please marry me.
“Are you serious?” Li Songyun couldn’t believe it.
Gu Mian nodded.
Li Songyun immediately took the box from Gu Mian’s hand. Gu Mian held the small box tightly and he couldn’t take it away for a while. When Li Songyun thought that Gu Mian was about to go back on his words, Gu Mian said, “You were a good wife, good father and a good daughter-in-law, thank you for your dedication to the Gu family for so many years.”
“I’m sorry,” he said, “I’m sorry for letting you be Mrs. Gu for so many years.”
Gu Mian let go of his clasped hands. The box lost its balance, and the bright diamond ring rolled out of the box and fell to the ground before Li Songyun could react.
Li Songyun bent down to pick up the diamond ring.
The night wind was a bit cold, so Gu Mian turned around and walked out in silence. He saw Father Tang and Mother Tang rushing to Li Songyun’s new home, and Gu Tunan, Gu Peifeng, and many other omegas he was unfamiliar with were also there.
Those people surrounded Li Songyun, as they walked in a lively manner into the warm and bright new home. Some said they would go shopping with Li Songyun tomorrow, and some asked Li Songyun if he wanted to go on a trip. Their voices became farther and farther away, and finally they were completely blocked by the door.
Gu Mian stood in the darkness, and Li Songyun never looked back at him from beginning to end.
This was the last time Li Songyun met him as Mrs. Gu, his legal wife.
When Gu Mian returned to his empty and deserted home, he opened the wardrobe and found that Li Songyun didn’t even leave him a piece of clothing that could be used to build a nest.
After sitting alone on the cold chair for a long time, Gu Mian took out the divorce agreement and signed his name on it.
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