The Billionaire's Hidden Affection-Chapter 375 Pretending to be Irresponsible1_1

She suddenly blurted out, "Xiaojue, let’s break up."

Once the words escaped her lips, she herself was stunned.

It was as if the words hadn’t come from her mouth but had instead jumped out from her brain, completely out of her control. After much internal struggle, she had said them out loud after all.

Huang Xiaojue was stunned too; he couldn’t believe it.

"Xixi!"

She fell silent.

He, too, fell silent.

Over the phone, she could hear Huang Xiaojue’s heavy breathing. A long time passed, and neither of them uttered a word. Then, she heard the busy signal. Huang Xiaojue had hung up—that was the first time he had ever hung up on her.

After that, the phone never rang again.

She kept staring at her phone until she got off work. She wasn’t truly ready to give up; in her heart, she hadn’t meant what she said about the breakup. But she also knew that once the words were spoken, she had left herself no way out.

Eight o’clock, nine o’clock, ten o’clock... She had dinner, took a bath, and sorted out some inventory data for the new store. But no matter what she did, her heart wasn’t in it. She kept glancing at her phone, but it never rang.

She stayed up until eleven o’clock, almost despairing. Lying on her bed, feigning sleep, she was about to give up hope when the phone finally rang.

She looked and was extremely disappointed. It was a message from a stranger. He had even changed his nickname to "Toe Picker."

"Hello, Miss, are you thinking of me now that you can’t sleep in the middle of the night?"

She gave a bitter smile. "I’m having a run of bad luck."

"Ha? Run into some trouble? Hurry up and tell me; I could use a good laugh."

"I lost my job, and then, I lost my love."

"HAHAHA!"

"Why are you laughing so happily when I’m in misery?"

"HAHA, Miss, you wanted to quit your job to get married, right? But after quitting, you found out that your boyfriend doesn’t want you anymore? HAHA, that’s justice right there."

She was furious. "What do you mean by that?"

"I’m just stating facts. I know plenty of idiots in real life who do the same. They run headlong toward marriage, sparing no expense. Unfortunately, once the man has tricked them into quitting their jobs, he often doesn’t love them anymore..."

"What do you know? He didn’t trick me into quitting my job. I had to leave because of the system’s restrictions; I had no choice."

"You quit, and he still doesn’t want you, right?"

"It’s not that he doesn’t want me; it’s his mother who doesn’t approve of me..."

"Is there a difference?"

She was taken aback.

"Miss, stop fooling yourself. If he treated you like a princess, would his mother dare treat you like a maid?"

Before she could answer, he continued, "It’s like that age-old question: silly women always think that if they and their boyfriend’s mother both fell into water, the man would certainly save them first. Actually, that’s not the case. The relationship between a man and his mother is lifelong and blood-related; a wife is merely an economic partner. To be blunt, you’re merely a tool—someone to take care of his mother in his stead, do housework, and bear children for him. Don’t tell me you naively believed you were an exception? Did you really think he would love you so much that he couldn’t pull himself away?"

She stared at her phone screen, suddenly finding it hard to breathe. If it had been any other time, she would have rebutted him without hesitation, but this time, she found herself with nothing to say. Perhaps Xiaojue had finally believed his mother’s words? With his mother exerting so much pressure, even an ordinary person couldn’t withstand it; how could Xiaojue be an exception?

"Miss, what’s wrong? Has the harsh truth shattered your fragile heart?"

She fumed, "So what? It’s no big deal if I don’t get married my whole life."

"Don’t forget you’re already twenty-eight years old. You can’t afford to delay."

"In this day and age, apart from the bedroom, where else do you absolutely need a man’s strength?"

This time, it was Wan Donglin’s turn to be speechless.