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Five years later, I met my first love again.
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When I received Zhou Mu's call, I was on Li Mu's bed. The vibration of the phone sounded, and the words "husband" on the phone were particularly prominent. I thought Li Mu would ask me something, but he didn't. He just continued his actions, only with increased force. I knew he was angry. I tried to pick up the phone, but he stopped me, saying, "Dan Dan, don't treat me like this."
I looked at the man in front of me, smiled faintly, and watched the expectation in his eyes fade away little by little. "Li Mu, I am already married." I pushed him away, picked up my phone, and hung up the call. I got up, got dressed, and never looked at the person on the bed again.
"Dan Dan, can we meet again?"
I turned to look at the man behind me, recalling the past scenes. The words were on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't say them, "Let's just pretend today's events never happened."
In fact, Li Mu and I were a well-known couple in college. Everyone thought we would get married after graduation, but I did get married, just not to him.
I rubbed my still slightly hungover head. I've really been slacking off lately.
"Get in the car."
I looked at the man next to me. I was too drunk last night to notice, but he has changed a lot from five years ago. He has shed the youthful look from his student days and become even more charming. But none of this has anything to do with me.
"Li Mu, I am already married."
"I know, you've already said that." He didn't look at me, his tone was very calm, but the grip on the steering wheel showed his inner turmoil at the moment.
"Li Mu, we ended five years ago, last night was my fault, let's not meet again in the future."
"It's over, what a perfect ending, Xue Ying, no one mentioned breaking up five years ago."
He suddenly slammed on the brakes and stopped the car on the side of the road.
"No breakup?"
I stared blankly at the man in front of me, and the old memories buried for five years resurfaced in my mind.
It was in the summer of my junior year when I received a text message, a photo of Li Mu embracing another woman.
Since I started dating Li Mu, these ambiguous photos have become a common occurrence. Every few days, I receive a few, and then a few days later, they are clarified as either staged photos or simply edited. At that time, I didn't take it seriously at all.
Our friends all say that we will never be apart because we both trust each other unconditionally.
At that time, I also thought so.
At a friend's gathering, I overheard a conversation between him and his good buddy.
"Li Ge, is your engagement to Liu Tingting real?"
Upon hearing this, I stopped in my tracks before entering the room.
Li Mu's voice rang out, "Really."
"But does sister-in-law know about this?"
"Don't tell sister-in-law for now."
His indifferent voice carried no emotion.
My mind was blank at that moment, and I didn't even dare to continue listening to what they would say. I just wanted to escape from there as soon as possible.
I couldn't believe that my boyfriend of five years actually had an engagement, and I had no idea about it at all.
I can't think of any reason to excuse him, and I can't find any reason to convince myself. The caller ID on my phone, "Mu Baobao," looks particularly glaring. The constantly ringing phone makes me feel more and more upset, so I just turned off the phone. At that time, my mind was in a mess, and I didn't know what to do.
Should I unconditionally believe in him, as if nothing had happened, or should I confront the issue directly and break up? I know I am a weak person, due to family reasons, I have been independent since I was young, but I really want to be willful like a child. Li Mu gave me this capital. Since I met Zhou Mu, I have been pampered like a princess. I know I can't leave Zhou Mu, and I don't want to leave, so I choose to act as if nothing has happened. But once the seed of doubt is planted, it will take root and sprout in the cracks.
After that day, Li Mu treated me even better. Maybe he also felt my change. I tried to forget about that thing, but how could I forget what had already happened? Besides, the matter of the engagement is not something that can be ignored. I think it's fine like this. When he gets married, I'll leave. After all, no one can be a canary for a lifetime. These five years have been very lucky for me.
But reality always falls short of our wishes, and in the end, we couldn't part ways peacefully. I looked at the photo my best friend sent to herself, and Li Mu in it was full of tenderness. The girl next to him, whom I had seen before, was the same girl from the photo I received some time ago. Yes, why didn't I notice in the past few days? This group photo, Li Mu didn't explain it to me.
Perhaps I had already noticed it, but I was just deceiving myself.
"Dan Dan, Dan Dan, did you hear what I said?" Yan Linlin looked at me with a frustrated expression as if she couldn't turn iron into steel.
"This photo has been circulated throughout the entire school. Now everyone is saying that the two of you are a perfect match, and they also say that you never dress up and look like a boy. Li Mu has suffered a lot being with you for so long."
"What nonsense!" Saying this, Yan Linlin was about to drag me to confront Li Mu, muttering, "These people are just jealous. Our Yingying has a great figure and looks. She's been pursued by many since high school. It's just that in the end, this kid Li Mu got lucky. Now he's pulling this off. I'll get him."
"Alright, Linlin, they are engaged, I am the one who is extra."
"What did you say?"
Yan Linlin suddenly stopped in her tracks and turned to look at me.
"You and Li Mu have been in a relationship for five years, how could he possibly have an engagement?"
Yan Linlin was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly clenched her fists as if she was about to fight.
"I see, this scumbag, I'll make sure to kill him!"
"Alright, Linlin, we have broken up," I looked at the familiar campus and said lightly, "Graduation is in two days, and I'm planning to go to the northern city. Don't tell him about this."
"Dan Dan, you, good, I respect your choice, but you are not allowed to cut off contact with me."
"Okay.
I stood someone up, and then I ran away without contacting anyone. I know I'm very cowardly, to the point where I don't even dare to ask for the truth."
But I never went to the northern city, I went to marry Zhou Mu.
Actually, I am not that generous. After knowing that Li Mu may have a fiancée, I regretted it the next day. I just wanted to ask Li Mu if this was true.
But a phone call changed my mind.
My family's company has encountered a problem. Someone has stolen the company's secrets, causing huge losses to the company. This has also made my dad so upset that he ended up in the hospital. My stepmother, upon seeing the company's trouble, not only couldn't get any money from my father's side, but also might have to bear a huge fine. She left with my young brother.
Actually, I don't need to care. They have never taken care of me since I was young, leaving me to fend for myself in our hometown. But the undeniable blood relationship cannot be severed.
So, both emotionally and logically, I should take care of this matter. I listened to my father and went to see Zhou Mu. He needs a nominal wife, and I need a large sum of money, so we got married.
In the past five years, although we have been living in the same house, we haven't had much communication. Our only interaction is going back to our hometown once a month to spend a day together as a loving couple.
And this encounter with Li Mu was completely accidental.
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