Gu Ming's assistant brought me the divorce agreement with his signature.

I messaged him.

【When shall we go to the Civil Affairs Bureau and get the divorce certificate?】

The other party is typing... but hasn't sent a message.

A phone call came in.

I didn't answer.

Gu Ming called again for the second time.

I answered the call, not in a good mood, and said, "Why can't we discuss it on WeChat?"

Gu Ming's voice sounded tired. "Yu Shi Shi, did you have to push me to this point?"

"Gu Ming, I didn't push you. It was your own choice."

He gritted his teeth on the other end. "Tomorrow morning, let's meet at the Civil Affairs Bureau."

The divorce between Gu Ming and me went smoothly.

He looked at the divorce certificate and asked me, "Will you come here with him?"

I knew who he was referring to, so I asked him back.

"Will you come here with her?"

"No." Gu Ming almost instantly answered, "When she was having a child with someone else overseas, I couldn't possibly marry her again."

I didn't understand. "Then why do you still care about her so much?"

Gu Ming laughed at himself.

"Maybe it's just a habit, or maybe it's unwillingness. After all, she was the first person I loved."

"And what about you? Will you marry him?"

I thought for a long time in my heart, but I couldn't find an answer because I hadn't asked him yet.

"I don't know. I have to ask him. I don't want to start another marriage of clinging and torment."

I looked up at Gu Ming. "Do you know that your brother and I were high school classmates?"

He was surprised for a moment and shook his head.

"I didn't know."

I continued, "I and Gu Yi were high school classmates. Many girls in our class liked him, and I was one of them."

"After the college entrance examination, Gu Yi had a car accident. The girls who liked him back then were all posting messages in our group expressing their longing for him. But I didn't say anything."

"On the day before the start of college, I found three love letters from Gu Yi in my pencil case. From that moment, my feelings for him completely spiraled out of control. I irreversibly fell in love with someone who would never come back."

After listening to my words, Gu Ming seemed somewhat incredulous.

He had lived abroad since childhood and wasn't close to his brother. It was only after Gu Yi's death that he was brought to his grandfather's side to manage the company. In a way, his grandfather treated him as a substitute for Gu Yi.

After locking eyes with me, he sneered.

"So, we were both just substitutes."

I patted his shoulder. "It's fair, isn't it?"

He looked at me with a look of grievance, like a little dog abandoned by its owner.

"It's not fair at all, Shi Shi. I'm moved."

I lowered my head and played with the divorce certificate, and some images flashed through my mind, including Gu Yi and Xiao Rui.

"Gu Ming, being moved is not a big deal. Human emotions are complicated. If we don't cling to their shadows, perhaps we would have let go a long time ago."

Gu Ming's gaze remained fixed on me, as if he was looking at me for the last time, and as if he was finally trying to understand what kind of person I really am.

After a long silence, he spoke, "Yu Shi Shi, fundamentally, we are the same. Our greatest love is ourselves."