UOE – Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Gu Jing stood in front of the Department of Registry building. The sunlight brought back her soul. But the bright red marriage certificate and wedding photo in her hand blinded her eyes.
Gu Jing remembered ten minutes ago she signed a form in front of a noisy crowd, five minutes ago the noisy crowd dragged her to a chair and a photographer took a photo of her and Zhen Lang.
Gu Jing looked pitifully at her other hand and her signature on a copy of hers and Zhen Lang’s marriage registration form stared back at her. After more than twenty-five years of life, she realised in the eyes of the law she had to take responsibility for her signature.
Gu Jing looked closely at the wedding photo. In the wedding photo Zhen Lang looked handsome in a tailored suit, but she sat next to Zhen Lang in baggy clothes. She thought compared to past wedding photos taken at the Department of Registry, she looked like the scruffiest bride.
Gu Jing slapped her cheek and she berated herself for not prioritising her thoughts. She shouldn’t be thinking about whether she looked beautiful and compatible with Zhen Lang in the wedding photo. It was more important for her to think of a way to annul the marriage.
‘Is there a fly on your cheek?’ Zhen Lang asked. He wrapped an arm around Gu Jing’s shoulder. ‘The car’s on the left.’
‘Um,’ Gu Jing said.
Gu Jing pretended the marriage certificate, form and photo in her hands didn’t exist and that nothing happened.
Zhen Lang laughed. ‘You forgot something.’
Gu Jing patted her baggy clothes and she felt her wallet in her pants pocket. She didn’t think she forgot anything, but the certificate, form and photo in her hands felt heavy.
‘I didn’t forget anything,’ Gu Jing said and she glared at her heavy hands.
‘Son, mummy doesn’t need you anymore,’ Zhen Lang said.
Gu Jing panicked and she looked frantically for Dou Dou. Finally she saw Dou Dou hugged Zhen Lang’s neck and Dou Dou happily pulled Zhen Lang’s shirt.
‘Give Dou Dou to me,’ Gu Jing said.
The moment Gu Jing’s hands touched Dou Dou’s arms, he pouted his lips, turned his back toward her and he clutched Zhen Lang’s neck.
Zhen Lang’s arm moved down Gu Jing’s back and he wrapped his arm around her waist. ‘Let me hold Dou Dou.’
‘That’s right, it’s rare for a playboy to willingly change. Let him take responsibility for his wife and son. Let him bond with his son,’ the woman said.
‘It’s good to see him bonding with his son. A good man is someone who is responsible. It looks like my wife and I did a good deed,’ the man said.
Gu Jing turned her head around and her face twitched. ‘You’re both still here?’
‘Looking at you two newlyweds make me happier than I was on my wedding day,’ the woman said.
Gu Jing couldn’t believe the married couple who were going to divorce stayed married and hugged each other.
‘Wife, let’s not divorce, ok?’ the man asked.
‘Then will you give me your bank card and all your assets including shares?’ the woman asked.
‘If I have anything in my bank account or any assets I’ll give it to you immediately. But at the moment I don’t have anything,’ the man said.
Gu Jing looked at the happy married couple and she cringed.
‘Wife, let’s go home,’ Zhen Lang said.
Gu Jing shivered and she felt like her body was thrown on top of a snowy mountain. She felt the heavens didn’t own eyes, because the heavens allowed her to marry the jinx.
Gu Jing grabbed Zhen Lang’s shirt collar and she held up the certificate, form and photo. ‘How do I annul a marriage?’
‘Annul?’ the man and woman asked loud enough to pierce Gu Jing’s eardrums.
‘Ok. Then Mr Vet, how do we get a divorce?’ Gu Jing said.
‘Divorce?’ the man and woman asked louder.
Zhen Lang pretended to look pitifully at Gu Jing. ‘Are you joking? Now that you’re holding my home, land, bank card and shares in your hands, you want to dump me? You’re not loyal woman.’
‘That’s right! You’re not a loyal woman!’ the man and woman cried out.
‘I… I’m not holding your bank card,’ Gu Jing said softly.
Zhen Lang took out his wallet and he tucked his money and his silver bank card into Gu Jing’s hand. ‘It’s yours.’
‘Can’t you see he’s remorseful? If you can’t forgive now, you can be angry with him for a little while. But divorce isn’t a joke,’ the woman said.
‘That’s right. You’ve only been married to him for ten minutes, you shouldn’t be thinking about divorce. You two should hurry up and hold hands then go home and be happy together,’ the man said.
Gu Jing couldn’t believe the married couple turned on her and she didn’t know where their support for her disappeared. The married couple changed to Zhen Lang’s side. She could only glare at Zhen Lang and wait for a private opportunity to give Zhen Lang a beating.
‘Wife…’ Zhen Lang called. He hugged Gu Jing. ‘Shouldn’t we find a good restaurant to celebrate our wedding day?’
Gu Jing forced herself to smile and she sat inside Zhen Lang’s car with Dou Dou. The married couple waved and