My Alleged Husband
Chapter 2009 - 1803: Warmth
I don’t know how many sunny days I need to trade for all the memories we had together.
"Do you think I don’t want to? I’ve been trying all these years to give up on you, forget you, not keep you in my heart anymore. But I’ve never been able to forget about you. Do you know how desperate I feel? I want to start a new life too, but your shadow and your smile linger in my mind every day. I can’t make these things disappear.
I’ve waited for you all these years, but you, you got married early and had a child. Yet I don’t mind, I just want to have you!"
"You really don’t need to keep trying so hard to find me. No matter how pretty your words, how sweet your promises, I won’t believe them. Right now, I just want to live a stable life. I don’t want the meetings between us to ruin the marriage between my husband and me. All I want is for us to live happily together. Nothing is more important to me than these things. If you love me even a little bit in your heart, if you haven’t completely forgotten, then please let me go, let me walk my own path and stop disturbing what was once my quiet life, okay?"
"Since you’re truly unwilling to give me another chance to try being with you, then spend tonight drinking with me, drink until we’re drunk. After tonight, I promise I won’t disturb you again. You walk your sunny path, and I’ll cross my narrow bridge. Afterward, we’ll go our separate ways. How do you feel about that?"
Ran Zhihan hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to stay here and drink with her classmate. However, she didn’t expect that the drinking tonight would result in suspicions of divorce.
"Please remember what you just said. If you can keep your word, then I’ll drink with you until we’re drunk!" Ran Zhihan thought her husband didn’t know, but she didn’t realize that her every move was seen by him. He was the only one kept in the dark, thinking everything would be fine as long as she destroyed all evidence. But who knew her husband had been monitoring her all along, watching her every action, never fully trusting her.
"Rest assured, as long as you spend the night drinking with me and don’t go home, stay here with me, I will keep my promise to you!"
Chen Gang watched the woman in front of him slowly begin to drink. His mood improved greatly. He just wanted to be with the woman he loved, but after waiting futilely for so many years, he didn’t even get one explanation. After all his hard work, reading and studying abroad, he came back to find that the woman he loved had long been married with children. How could he possibly accept this?
Ran Zhihan found herself being plied with drink after drink by Chen Gang. She knew her tolerance wasn’t that strong, but when she saw her classmate, she couldn’t help but continue. But who knew, in the end, when she was completely drunk, Chen Gang brought her back home.
"Zhihan, do you know how tough these years have been for me? Whenever I think about being with you, I feel a wave of relief wash over me. I want nothing more than my most beloved you to be with me. But you married early and had children. I know you are no longer a whole woman, but I still want to be with you. I want the consummation of marriage with you!
I hope you won’t blame me for deceiving you tonight. Maybe when you wake up, it will be hard to accept, but I’m really at my limit. I truly want to be with you. After waiting over ten years, only to end up with this result, can my heart be content? I’ve already investigated your marriage, which has often been filled with ups and downs, not as happy as imagined. Given this, why not seize this chance to take you back, so you can stay in my arms for the rest of your life, never falling into anyone else’s hands? All I desire is your companionship and for you to treat me gently!"
Chen Gang spoke his heartfelt thoughts to the drunken Ran Zhihan.
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Dawn slowly broke, and upon seeing the person in his arms, he felt like he was the happiest person in the world. Finally, after enduring so long, he had obtained the love he wanted most, even though the means were improper. It was a fulfillment of his inner wish.
Zhang Yichen watched as his wife was brought home by Chen Gang, spending the whole night out, yet he chose to say nothing. He went home to quietly wait for his wife to return and explain herself. He didn’t know what kind of excuse or lie she’d use this time to deceive him.
Ran Zhihan opened her eyes groggily, thinking the man beside her was her husband. But when she opened her eyes and saw clearly, she realized she had made the biggest mistake in the world.
"Chen Gang, why is it you? What did you do to me? Why am I here for the night? Didn’t you say that if I just drank with you last night, you’d never disturb my life again? You actually lied to me? How could you treat me this way? What did I ever do to hurt or wrong you? I just want to live my life—is it that difficult? Must you come into my life and turn it upside down to feel satisfied? I’ve told you we can’t be together. And now, how am I supposed to face my husband? He will easily see what I’ve been through the whole night. Why must you treat me like this?"
"That’s exactly what I want—to make you divorce your husband. Only then will I have a chance to win you back to my side. I just want you to stay with me. That may not mean much to you, but to me, it’s a vital medicine. I only want the woman I love most. I’ve been forcibly suppressing my longing for you all these years, studying hard, and striving for success, just so one day I might achieve something and bring you back to my side, to give you the happiest life possible. But returning to my country only to find out you are already married—it doesn’t matter to me whether you’ve had children or married someone else. What matters to me is whether you can be with me!"
Gradually, I discovered that we’ve always smiled so sweetly.