"I am sure you recognised your ex-wife's voice clearly, right?" her voice held malice .
She looked at his dazed expressions and allowed herself a triumphant smile . She had found the perfect shoulder to hoist her arrow . Jia Li's days as everyone's centre of attention were over now .
He sat down on the chair with a thump . All this while, he had consoled himself with the thought that if Jia Li didn't belong to him, she wouldn't be with anyone else either . Never in his worst nightmares, had he imagined that his nemesis would come back to haunt him .
He HATED Tang, hated him with every fibre of his being . In the initial days of his friendship with Jia Li, he would see her eyes light up the minute she would talk about Tang . He always dreamt about her reacting the same way, one day towards him . Unfortunately that never happened, but at least he managed to get one up on Tang by marrying her .
Since childhood, Fu had been a loner . He came in his parents' life in their near old age, an accidental child . By the time, he was in middle school, his father had already retired from his job . He couldn't find much in common with them . At school, he was extremely popular amongst the girls, which made the other boys envious of him . As a result, he found himself at the receiving end of various pranks pulled by those jealous bullies . Irrespective of how much that upset him, he never let it show on his face . He always thought that he was much superior to them, both in looks and brains but he kept a subservient attitude publicly .
The need to elevate himself from his parents' middle class background had him work real hard both, at school and then at work . Till Jia Li came into his life, he had not managed to form any meaningful connect with anyone .
But she was different, right from the start . The warmth and genuineness which she exuded had made him possess her . He remembered the acute disappointment in the first meeting itself when she had informed him that she had a childhood sweetheart firmly placed in her heart . Under normal circumstances, he would have withdrawn his attention immediately .
All through the years, it had been the women chasing him . He wasn't the kind to run after someone who wasn't interested . But he couldn't bear to let Jia Li walk out of his life . He felt happy around her . So he became her friend, her confidant . He worked really hard to win her trust . It seemed that the Universe had come together to help him in the endeavour .
Tang screwed up big time after his father's fiasco . And suddenly Jia Li's emotional dependence upon him increased multi-fold . Fu had convinced himself that once they got married, he would make sure that Jia Li forgets everything about Tang, including his name . But within the first few weeks, he realised the futility of his ambition .
The woman whom he had married was like an empty shell, a polite artificial look-alike of the woman that he had fallen in love with . No matter how he behaved, she didn't give a reaction . It was as if he wasn't important enough for her to bother about . Even in bed, she waited politely for him to reach his satisfaction . There was nothing that she felt for him, physically or emotionally . And that frustrated him beyond measure .
The first time he went out and slept with someone else, he made sure to leave enough hints about it at home . He did it all to make her jealous . All she did was display disappointment in her eyes . So he did it more, anything to extract a reaction out of her . Unfortunately, that method led to their divorce .
Throughout those five years, he had been careful to not let his obsessive side be exposed in front of her . Filming Jia Li when she wasn't even aware, was the one pleasure which he allowed himself through those years of living with her . No matter how much they fought or argued, he kept a tight leash on his real emotions and the reasons for his behaviour . His real traits surfaced in front of the worthless women who were there as Jia Li's poor substitutes, required to take care of his basic needs . He was sure that Jia Li would end up spending her life as a single woman once the news of Tang's wedding reached them . Post that, he was more than happy to play the understanding ex-husband cum friend but she kept him at a polite distance .
Chapter end
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