Seeing Wu Kai in that moment, Wang Dahai felt somewhat dazed.

He didn't even know when Lin Wanqiu had gotten off the car.

"Dahai, long time no see," Wu Kai greeted him, and only then did he look over in a daze and nodded subconsciously.

"I will go with Wanqiu first, will call you for dinner if we have time later."

Standing to the side, Lin Wanqiu looked at him with complexity and said, "Dahai…"

"Sister-in-law, go ahead with the registration. I just so happen to have something to do, and I need to leave."

Wang Dahai politely interrupted; he didn't want to stay there any longer.

Driving away from the Civil Affairs Bureau, he drove aimlessly, not knowing where he wanted to go.

He stopped his car outside a convenience store, bought a dozen beers to throw into the car, planning to find a place to drink alone.

Just as he got into the car, he received a call from Wu Qiangwei.

He intended to hang up directly, but thinking that she was still sick, he answered the call.

"Are you busy?" Her voice sounded somewhat uncomfortable.

"Not busy."

"I have a bit of menstrual pain." She seemed a little embarrassed, but Wang Dahai knew that with her personality, she wouldn't call him unless the pain was unbearable.

"Got it."

After hanging up the phone, Wang Dahai sighed and turned back to the apartment complex.

Upon entering the house, he saw her lying on the sofa again, curled up, her little face somewhat pale.

Wang Dahai washed his hands, came over to sit beside her, and extended his hand under the blanket, gently massaging her lower abdomen.

After a while, the pain eased.

After massaging for half an hour, she was no longer in pain.

"I'm leaving."

Wang Dahai got up to leave.

"Where are you going?"

"To drink."

"Why are you drinking in broad daylight?"

Wu Qiangwei felt it very strange.

With her menstrual pain earlier, she hadn't the energy to think about anything else.

Only now did she notice that Wang Dahai's mood seemed a bit off.

Facing her inquiry, Wang Dahai didn't respond and pushed the door open to leave.

He had initially wanted to find a secluded place to drink alone but thought better of it and decided to drink in the car.

Entering the car, he opened a can of beer and drank silently.

His alcohol tolerance was actually not bad, and it was just beer, which didn't intoxicate much even when consumed in excess.

But the thing about beer is, it wouldn't intoxicate, yet damn it, drinking too much of it makes you need to pee.

After downing five cans, he was bursting to go.

And with no public toilets in the residential complex, he had to hold it in.

At that moment, Wu Qiangwei's call came in again on his phone.

"Menstrual pain again?" Wang Dahai asked impatiently.

"Mhm."

Casually ending the call, Wang Dahai headed towards the building, opportune for a bathroom break as well.

When he entered the house, she was still lying on the sofa.

"Wait for me a moment."

He went to the bathroom, returned after relieving himself, and resumed massaging her stomach.

After massaging for a while, she suddenly asked, "Did you drink alcohol?"

"Mm."

"Beer?"

"Mm."

"Did you have a fight with your girlfriend?"

"It's none of your business."

"Heh, just asking, it's okay if you don't want to talk about it."

After about ten minutes, Wang Dahai withdrew his hand, just as he was about to get up and leave, Wu Qiangwei said, "Don't go out, just drink at home. If my menstrual pain flares up again, you can help me with it."

Wang Dahai paused for a moment, then grunted in affirmation.

He went to the convenience store downstairs to buy more beer and carried it up.

He sat at the dining table, drinking can after can.

He didn't know what he was thinking; his mind was empty as if he thought of nothing, and yet it seemed he was constantly thinking of Lin Wanqiu.

He had turned to alcohol to drown his sorrows only twice.

The first time was during college, when Jiang Rou broke up with him.

That was his first love, and his first breakup. His heart was so shattered that his closest buddies stayed with him and drank through the night.

This was the second time.

Compared to the heartbreak in college, he was much calmer this time.

Although his heart felt uncomfortably blocked, it didn't seem to hurt as much.

Maybe it was because he had been somewhat prepared for it.

As he was lost in his scattered thoughts, his phone rang.

It was from Lin Wanqiu.

He didn't answer.

The call ended quickly but rang again soon after.

Wu Qiangwei walked over from the sofa after who knows how many calls and glanced at the caller ID, saying, "Your phone is ringing."

Wang Dahai, slightly drunk, looked up at her, grunted in acknowledgment, and continued to drink, paying no mind to the constantly ringing phone.

Wu Qiangwei frowned, vaguely guessing why Wang Dahai was in a bad mood.

It must have had something to do with Lin Wanqiu.

She grabbed the phone, about to answer it, when Wang Dahai suddenly grabbed her wrist, frowning, "What are you doing?"

"The ringing is annoying me."

Wang Dahai took the phone, switched it to silent mode, and continued to drink.

Wu Qiangwei went back to sit on the sofa and took out her phone to text Lin Wanqiu.

"Did you see Wang Dahai this morning?"

After two seconds, Lin Wanqiu replied, "Is Wang Dahai with you?"

"Yeah, drinking."

"Drinking?"

"Yes, he looks like he's been dumped or something. He won't say, just keeps drinking."

Wu Qiangwei was also curious, "What happened between you two? Another argument?"

"No."

"Then what's the matter?"

"I don't know."

Wu Qiangwei grew even more curious, "What did you two do when you met this morning?"

Lin Wanqiu then detailed the events of the morning to her.

After reading, Wu Qiangwei immediately asked, "After he saw Wu Kai, he just left?"

"Yeah."

"I understand now," Wu Qiangwei said. "He's misunderstood you."

"Misunderstood?"

"I'll ask you this, did you tell him that you were going to collect a divorce certificate with Zhang Hao?"

"No."

"That's it then. He dropped you off at the civil affairs bureau, and sees Wu Kai waiting there for you, what do you think he would think? He must have assumed you were there to collect a marriage certificate with Wu Kai."

Lin Wanqiu was stunned.

Thinking it over, that really did seem to be the case.

No wonder Wang Dahai reacted so strongly at the time, and just left.

"I'll go explain it to him right now."

"What's there to explain?" Wu Qiangwei asked. "Moreover, in what capacity are you going to explain to him? Have you made your decision yet? Are you determined to come clean about your relationship with him to the people around you?"

Her words had left Lin Wanqiu speechless.

Indeed, she wasn't ready yet.

Wu Qiangwei continued, "Don't come over for now. Let him drink alone. He has a place to sleep here if he gets drunk anyway. Also, his reaction now shows how important you are to him."

Thinking of how Wang Dahai might have misunderstood that she was collecting a certificate with Wu Kai and was now drowning his sorrows in alcohol, Lin Wanqiu felt a twinge of happiness.

After putting down her phone, Wu Qiangwei came over, sat opposite him, and started drinking a can of beer.

Wang Dahai looked at her strangely, "Don't drink if you're sick."

"None of your business."

Wang Dahai chuckled, "One can for three fifty."

Wu Qiangwei's lips twitched, "I'm not taking advantage of you!"

She took out her phone and ordered dozens of cans of beer through delivery, along with fried chicken and fries.

The delivery arrived quickly, and they ate and drank without much conversation, gradually growing tipsy.

Wu Qiangwei, resting her chin on her hand and pinching a fry, looked at him with hazy drunk eyes and suddenly called out, "Hey, Wang Dahai."

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