Chapter 815 431: Secrets Deep Within the World

"Get out!"

The next day, at noon on September 30, Li Peifeng flew to Hangzhou.

In the end he still left, driven out by Zhao Qingge.

After yesterday's breastfeeding incident, their relationship had actually shown faint signs of mending, but the looming wedding date between Li Peifeng and Huang Tianxuan was always a thorn that couldn't be pulled out. Feelings are fickle—today you love someone to death, tomorrow you wish you could eat their flesh; that's all within the realm of normal.

Especially since Huang Tianxuan, who had arrived in Hangzhou earlier, saw that he was still not setting off and called him again and again on the thirtieth to urge him, and by the way discuss the details of the ceremony with him.

This finally made the listening Zhao Qingge completely explode. She cradled the baby in one arm, grabbed the phone with the other and hung up directly, then laid into Li Peifeng:

"You two say you can't in your hearts, yet you still have to call, doing it on purpose so I can hear, is that it? Get out! Get out of my house!"

"Wasn't it you who told me to turn on speaker? You wanted to hear it, and now you're mad after hearing… Wife, don't say things in anger, where am I supposed to 'get out' to?"

"Anyway, the baby and I don't want to see you. The farther you roll, the better!"

"…"

"Get out, don't you understand what 'get out' means?"

Zhao Qingge's expression was furious, her tone vicious, but Li Peifeng understood that the deeper meaning behind these words was very thought‑provoking.

"What are you two doing… Yeah, I'm on the way to the airport. Whoever has time, go home and keep an eye on that big one and that little one for me."

After leaving home, Li Peifeng was torn and even a little scared. With a kind of tacit understanding, he earnestly instructed the two women, Wu and Xu, who were at work, telling them it would be best if they could stay with Old Zhao these few days, to prevent her from doing anything irrational.

Wu Wenyue was quite surprised: "I really didn't expect she'd let you go. All right, I'll head back now… I have to ask Old Zhao what she's really thinking."

Xu Manning was even more shocked: "She… she agreed? You didn't sneak out? No, I'm going home to ask her too."

Li Peifeng was helpless: "I didn't sneak out. She was just too worked up just now, not thinking clearly when she made that decision, and she put it very tactfully… Once you get home, don't ask her about it. Her head's a bit muddled right now. Just stay with her and find something to do—chat, play games, watch movies, go shopping, anything's fine, just don't bring this up, and best not even mention me. Otherwise she'll probably regret letting me go and then chase me all the way to Hangzhou."

"Got it, we're going now."

After Li Peifeng finished his instructions, Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning immediately put down their work and drove home to check on the mother and son. When they arrived, they found Li Weiyi sleeping quietly in the crib in the study, while Zhao Qingge was bent over the desk writing in her diary.

[The reason we manage to go on living is that, when we are truly left with no choice, we will turn, we will stoop, we will lower our heads, we will pretend not to see, we will forget…]

Zhao Qingge was very focused; she didn't even pause her pen when the two girls entered, as if she wasn't afraid of being seen.

[In one's life, one always has to encounter such moments before clearly realizing that a person's greatest luxury is not having to adjust themselves for others. When you truly become aware of this, sadness descends without warning—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, these five feelings all come at you at once, tormenting you together, condensing into a flame that ignites from deep within and is enough to devour everything.]

[Pain is inevitable, but I must use every ounce of strength to pull myself out of this self‑torment. I must not think that just because my life has been overlooked by someone, it has lost its value.]

"This is not looking good!" Xu Manning's face was grave. She gestured with her hands, cocked her head and mouthed to Wu Wenyue: "Looks like she's leaving a final note and then going to burn herself?!"

This movement made Zhao Qingge close her notebook and look at the two women: "Something up?"

Wu Wenyue carefully observed her expression. Seeing a calmness tinged with indifference, she felt unsure, but maintained a smile: "Precisely because we had nothing to do we came back to take a look. Oh right, I heard a new commercial district just opened over in Jinshan District. Want to go check it out?"

Zhao Qingge fell silent, as if thinking. After a moment she said slowly, "There's nothing special to see in a mall. Let's go to a law firm… Law firm first, then the police station."

Xu Manning couldn't believe it: "What are you going to do?"

"Find a lawyer to draft a divorce petition, and then change Li Weiyi's surname to Zhao Weiyi."

Zhao Qingge's tone was extremely light, as if she were just talking about what she'd had for breakfast.

Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning were a little taken aback.

So after all that, that's it? Just go to a law firm to file for divorce, and then to the police station to change the name? Isn't she supposed to, before divorcing, inform Huang Tianxuan's parents to wreck her wedding, and while she's at it file a report to get Li Peifeng thrown in jail?

Not going to stage some mutual destruction of jade and stone, perish together with heaven and earth, have a few sets of the women's parents pin Li Peifeng to the ground and beat him up—Old Zhao, can you really vent your anger like this? Where's that burn‑the‑boats determination from your dream, that "if I can't have him, I'll destroy him" fierceness?

But thinking it through, this kind of rational, objective severing that Zhao Qingge was choosing was actually the most terrifying.

A contested divorce suit didn't require Li Peifeng's consent. She only had to tell the court the truth—that her spouse had an extramarital affair and an illegitimate child—and the court would rule for divorce; Li might even be held legally liable.

Conversely, if she didn't file a public case, then no matter how much chaos she kicked up between the Zhao family and the Li family, it would still just be a family dispute, not a clean, final cut.

Obviously, it seemed that Zhao Qingge truly wanted to withdraw from this relationship. Just like how a real farewell does not say goodbye, but is a turn made in calmness, laced with despair…

The two women, Wu and Xu, exchanged a look as thoughts surged through their minds like running water. Their connection with Li Peifeng had not been severed; it was just that Li felt he was not suitable to appear in Zhao Qingge's heart at this moment, so he wanted to use the two of them to do the comforting in his place.