Mother Huo was a woman who had a flair for the dramatics. Sometimes, Hou Zhixing and his dad would band together to tease and make her angry, only to coax her back.
So Huo Zhixing decided to tease her today.
“Cheating…” Huo Zhixing pretended to look reluctant to talk about it.
A moment later, Mother Huo cried.
“Tell me, how could you do this? One is a teacher and the other is a police man,” She grabbed the front of her son’s clothes and cried, “During the day you dress properly and respectably but at night you run wildly? What is this nonsense?”
Seeing her like this, Huo Zhixing couldn’t refrain from laughing and grabbed a tissue paper to wipe her tears: “Oh, don’t cry. Why did you start crying before I could even finish speaking?”
“My tears will wash dry at this rate,” Mother Huo felt wronged. “Since the time of our ancestors, the members of the Huo family has always been respectable. If you really did such a shameful thing, I won’t recognize you as a son anymore.”
Huo Zhixing deliberately sought trouble: “What if it was Tong Qiu?”
At this moment, Tong Qiu, who has no idea he had been pushed to carry the black pot, wandered anxiously outside the kitchen. The people inside were speaking in hushed tones that even when he pressed his ears on the door, he could only hear faint cries.
It was really embarrassing. If he had known earlier this would happen, even if he had to ask for leave, they should’ve gotten the marriage certificate immediately.
Procrastination truly can kill people.
“What?” Mother Huo stopped crying and looked surprised, “You said Xiao-Qui did?”
“… Mom, just what do you think of your own son? When it comes to who would cheat, you think of me first, and wouldn’t even think twice of Tong Qiu.” Huo Zhixing laughed helplessly, “I say, I’m not really your son, am I?”
“That’s not what I meant,” Mother Huo sighed, “How could Xiao-Qui do this?”
“How do you plan on reprimanding him?”
“How could I? He’s someone else’s child. No matter how close he is to me, you two aren’t married anymore. Who am I to meddle with him?” Mother Huo sighed, “I just feel bad! Looking at it, how could such a good kid do it?”
Huo Zhixing stared at his mother’s face full of regret.
“Yes, every night he dreamt about his students and when I knew about it, he refused to admit it. What could I say against it? Why didn’t he dream about me?” Huo Zhixing also sighed, “Does he still have me in his heart?”
“Exactly… wait no, what did you just say?” Mother Huo noticed something was wrong, “Who did you say he dreamed of?”
“His students.” Huo Zhixing repeated, “He though about his students everyday. I got jealous and asked for a divorce.”
“What’s wrong with you?”
Mother Huo shouted out loud, startling Tong Qiu outside. He hurriedly ran towards the bathroom door and braced himself, as if he was getting ready to fight against terrorism.
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“What joke? I was so angry that I almost fainted, you know?”
Huo Zhixing hurried over and hugged his mother to apologize and coax her, “Okay, okay, can you stop now? I said I was wrong.”
“You naughty boy, scaring me with such a thing knowing I can’t do anything or retaliate.”
Huo Zhixing nodded sensibly, “Uh huh, I’m a naughty child.”
He’s already in his thirties and yet still likes to make fun of his mother like a child.
Huo Zhixing felt himself childish.
“So what’s the matter with you two? Is there really something wrong? ” Mother Huo was still worried.
“How to say this?” Huo Zhixing let go of her and walked towards the boiling pot, opened the lid and noticed the fish was almost cooked. “We just had a little misunderstanding, although we already managed to solve it that’s why we were planning on getting our certificate back quickly.”
Mother Huo stared at him.
“Yesterday morning we planned on going but you arrived so we postponed it.”
Mother Huo sneered: “Oh, so you meant to say I derailed your plans?”
“How can I?” Huo Zhixing smiled, “I didn’t mean that. I’m just telling you that there’s nothing wrong with us anymore and we actually got closer.”
“Don’t tell me those useless things.” Mother Huo managed to calm down and regained her momentum as a mother. She opened the pot lid and asked Huo Zhixing to plate the fish and prepare three bowls of rice, before she opened the kitchen door and called, “Xiao-Qui!”
Tong Qiu had ran back to the kitchen door and was about to try to eavesdrop again. As a result, he got caught.
“Hey, mom.” Tong Qiu’s face flushed in shock.
“Come in for dinner.” Mother Huo stared at him and got angry again. “Let’s talk while eating.”
Tong Qiu glanced at Huo Zhixing and thought silently, this wasn’t eating and talking – more like, eating and interrogating.
At the dinner table, Tong Qiu and Huo Zhixing sat on one side, while Mother Huo sat on the opposite side.
Huo Zhixing began to talk as he happily fawned over his mother’s cooking skills while next to him, Tong Qiu was too embarrassed to lift his face, wishing nothing more than to choke the person beside him.
Sitting opposite of them, Mother Huo looked at them both with a straight face.
“Eat, we’ll talk about it afterwards.” Mother Huo glared at her son, feeling that this kid was really getting more and more arrogant.
“Xiao-Qiu, you eat first.” Mother Huo remained as easy-going as she always was to Tong Qiu, “My stew fish is a must try.”
Tong Qiu smiled: “Mm-hmm. Mom, you eat too.”
When Tong Qiu suddenly called him “Mom”, Mother Huo was caught off guard and suddenly felt her eyes redden.
“Mom, don’t do this,” Tong Qiu hurriedly handed her a tissue, “Don’t cry.”
Huo Zhixing was about to pick up a piece of vegetable but paused when he saw that. He smiled helplessly as he put down his chopsticks and said, “Madam, how about we eat after talking, or else we wouldn’t be able to enjoy the fish fully.”
Mother Huo didn’t speak, she just sat there and sighed in despair.
She really felt angry, sad, and ashamed. She wasn’t even aware of what had happened to her son. If she hadn’t decided to visit them, she didn’t know until when they would have kept this to themselves.
In their generation, family values are particularly important. In their eyes, divorce is not just as simple as two people living separately, it was like half the sky has collapsed.
And she has always liked Tong Qiu. He was sensible, mature and steady. Her heart felt at ease when He and Huo Zhixing got together.
After the divorce, it would be hard to find another one like him – and even if they did, they might not be as good as Tong Qiu.
Mother Huo felt regretful in her heart. They were such a good match. Why did they decide to separate?
“Mom, Xiao-Qiu and I really separated. I’m not joking.”
Surprised, Tong Qiu turned to look at Huo Zhixing.
Huo Zhixing patted the back of his hand to appease him.
Although at that moment, the one who really needed to be comforted was Mother Huo. When she heard her son say this, the cried due to being heartbroken.
“When we got married we had an agreement, that if after a year we feel like our marriage won’t work, we’ll divorce unconditionally.” Huo Zhixng said, “After all, we met only through a blind date and when things went all wrong, we didn’t know how to handle it since we didn’t know each other very well. So six months ago, we decided to get a divorce.”
“How troublesome…” Mother Huo continued to wipe her tears.
“It was a mess, but we don’t regret that decision at all.” Huo Zhixing continued, “In fact, the year which we were married could be considered as a great time. We treated each other with respect and courtesy. For a year, we haven’t even had any kinds of disputes.”
“Isn’t that good? Or did you prefer if you fought every time you arrived home? That’s what you want?”
Tong Qiu lowered his head and laughed.
Huo Zhixing also laughed and explained: “It’s not that. It meant that we lacked communication. The longer we stayed married, the less we understood each other. We thought that if this continued, we would be having more problems in the future.”
Huo Zhixing held Tong Qiu’s hand and said, “So after a year, I filed for divorce.”
Tong Qiu opened his mouth to say something, but Huo Zhixing stoped him with a look.
In front of Mother Huo, Huo Zhixing took the initiative and carried the black pot. He said, “But I also thought about it at that time. I liked Xiao-qiu a lot, so after the divorce, I chased him back. ”
He took Tong Qiu’s hand and showed his mother their wedding rings: “This little half a year after the divorce was more meaningful than the whole year we spent together in the past. We became more honest with each other and experienced a lot of things together too. Now we are seriously in love. If you hadn’t arrived yesterday, we would’ve been married again today.”
After he finished saying this, Mother Huo began to cry again: “After all, you still blame me!”
Huo Zhixing knew that his mother’s ability to grasp key points was always so extraordinary.
“Then to make it up to us, stop crying.” Huo Zhixing placed a piece of fish in his mother’s bowl. “Have a rest? Why don’t we have a good meal? Later, the fish would get cold and I would have to trouble you to heat it again. ”
“You’re really…” Mother Huo exclaimed angrily. “You’re already so old, so why are you still annoying?”
Huo Zhixing looked at her and smiled without refuting.
Mother Huo couldn’t trust her son, so she turned and asked Tong Qiu, “Xiao-Qiu, is what he said true?”
Tong Qiu nodded repeatedly: “Yes, really, Mom. This was actually my fault. We should have communicated well in the beginning, so that all this mess could have been avoided. We even made you worry.”
With his words, Mother Huo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She wiped her tears and picked up her chopsticks. After crying until she got tired, she was ready to eat.
“You young people, when will you make your elders worry less?” Mother Huo asked, “Tong Qiu, do your parents know about it?”
“I didn’t tell them. We kept it from our parents for fear that you would suffer.”
Mother Huo nodded, “Okay, don’t let them know about this. I will suffer this crime by myself. Let’s eat.”
Tong Qiu whispered an apology to her, and then heard her say, “So when are you two going to change your certificate? The divorce certificate looks too disturbing. Who designed it? It looks too green, really ominous.”
Nell’s Corner:
Next chapter is the last one. After that we get eight more extra chapters, and the first one is Tong Qiu’s and Huo Zhixing’s blind date ehehehe.
Tysm for the chapter ❤. I just want to see their marriage now!
Thank you very much for the latest chapter. I don’t know how many times i came to checked. 💐💐💐💐.. xoxo
aaaaH thank you!!! 💖💖💖💖💖
God i will miss this novel but it was a fun ride 💞 can’t wait for the extras 🌙💜
Thank you so much! I don’t want this story to end!
It’s good that they’ve explained this situation to Mother Huo. Now boys, enough procrastinating, get re-married!
Thank you for the chapter!!!
I can’t believe we are almost at the end of the main story. But I’m glad everything worked out well.
Almost the end.. thanks for the chapter~!
she’s just like me fr
Thanks to the divorce certificate, green is now a ominous color 😂😂😂
I am still annoyed that the mother just dropped in unannounced, no matter how adorable she seems. Married people need a lot of privacy, and this is just so intrusive. Like what if the two were having seggs when she dropped by? But the author must have run out of things to write, so she had to extend it this way.
Thank You for the chapter (ฅ’ω’ฅ)♥