After saying all that, she added, "If you still have any self-respect, don't come looking for me again. Even if we meet in the future, let's act as if we don't know each other, strangers from now on. Long Yubei, I've loved you, and you've loved me. We've both tried our best, and this marriage wasn't meaningless, that's enough."
She took her cross-stitch embroidery into the living room, sitting there she finished the nearly completed embroidery, and then she went up to the rooftop.
The last glimpse of his car settled in her eyes.
Gu Lili stood with her hands in the high-waisted pant pockets, facing the wind, her eyes misted over.
She had said such heavy words on his birthday, no doubt he would never come again.
The break was clean, the past carried away by the wind.
Goodbye, Long Yubei.
***
The marriages of the wealthy often include an engagement ceremony.
But Shen Congmo skipped the engagement and had a flash marriage with the only daughter of the Jin Group, Jin Miaomiao.