Gone With the Quiet Wind

Signing the Papers

I went to Jolene's company. It was lively with a crowd of people fawning over Leon.

She brought me into her office and was displeased when she saw the divorce papers in my hand. "There's really no need for this. The scandal will blow over soon enough."

She could now openly show affection for Leon in public.

They held hands like a deeply in-love couple. I even heard they had gone back to his hometown to meet his family. Their relationship had gotten the green light from the public.

I had to bite my tongue to stop myself from growling at her. She had not once visited Bruce at the hospital. I felt sorry for him as he had always treated her like his own granddaughter.

Heck, he would always take her side when we got into a spat.

He would say stuff like, "Jordan, I know you're strong-willed and pragmatic, but girls don't like that in relationships."

Bruce was very entrenched in his traditional values, so he preferred to sweep things under the rug to maintain family harmony. They didn't realize that a relationship couldn't be maintained when one party had stopped putting in an effort.

Judging by her lifestyle choices, our relationship had long since expired in her eyes. So what was the point of me holding on to such tatters?

Still, I placed the pen in front of her. "Do you really think the netizens are that stupid? A real divorce will shut them up. I don't want Grandpa getting stressed again when he wakes up."

Leon chimed in as well, "Jordan has a point."

Jolene's expression softened slightly. "We can remarry once this blows over. I told you that you will always be my husband."

I twitched my lips into a facsimile of a smile but said nothing else.

Frankly, I didn't care. I hadn't brought up divorce in the past because our families' companies were deeply intertwined.

However, I had quietly shifted my company's focus on hers bit by bit over the years. Our companies barely had any collaboration with each other at this point in time.

This was all thanks to Jolene herself.

She once ruined a newly established subsidiary of mine just to avenge Leon, and it happened just because I had simply frozen one of my own bank cards.

Leon couldn't use it in the mall and got ridiculed because of it. So, she ruthlessly exposed my company's core intel.

She lay back on her lounge chair and said casually, "Jordan, you're the one who embarrassed Leon with your dirty little tricks. Besides, it's our shared property. I can do whatever I want with it."

My company collapsed because of her pettiness. A year of hard work all gone just like that. My employees sat in the office, their heads lowered as the knowledge that all their effort had gone to waste rammed into their heads.

I slammed my fist into the wall in rage. "I didn't do anything of the sort. Do you even understand what this means? What am I supposed to tell my staff? Do you even know how much time and research have gone into R&D?"

She didn't listen. She only had eyes for the teary-eyed Leon. She even put the cash flow issue on Bruce's company just to make me apologize to Leon. I was worried that it would affect the old man, so I swallowed my anger and reluctantly went to apologize to him.

It was only later that Jolene realized she had been mistaken.

It turned out that she had taken my card and given it to Leon herself. All I had done was freeze my own account.

She came to me to apologize and even suggested we spend our anniversary together. "I didn't realize I took the wrong card. I'll make it up to you and give you another company, but you don't need to explain everything to me."

I nearly laughed out of sheer incandescent rage.

She hadn't listened to a single word I said and had already decided that I was at fault. She was the one who had refused to listen to me, even after I tried to defend myself.

Still, it didn't matter. We never did celebrate that anniversary because Leon had a headache. That was the day I started to separate all my assets from Jolene.