Just Right Chapter 1

How did such a wonderful day take such a bad turn?

Xiao Li listened to the voice on the other line, feeling confused, and at a loss.

After the call interface disappeared by itself, Xiao Li sat down at his workstation, his expression was calm, but his worldview had shattered, and his heart was as flustered as a dog.

How should he convey to his boss that his wife wants to divorce him?

Waiting online, it’s quite urgent…

Xiao Li grabbed his thinning hair.

Like all his colleagues in the company, Xiao Li thought that his boss Jiang Yuanmu was a winner in life – a graduate from a prestigious university, someone young and promising, who had achieved financial freedom before the age of thirty. And the most enviable thing was that he also had a perfect family!

The couple had been married for five years. They supported and loved each other so deeply that they could be called the new socialist god and goddess…

But Xiao Li didn’t expect that the gods would fight so unreasonably.

Before he could come up with a solution, the door of the conference room opened. Colleagues filed out one after another. Xiao Li stood up tremblingly and walked into the meeting room.

“Boss…” He looked at the boss who was still sitting at the meeting table reading documents. The boss’s expression was calm and indifferent, and his movements of flipping through documents were so neat and tidy. He didn’t at all look anxious about divorcing his wife. That’s why they say he’s fit to be the boss, his psychological resilience is really impressive……

Xiao Li opened his mouth, but before he could speak, a folder was pushed directly in front of him, not even a single centimeter off: “Make three copies and prepare for the next meeting, which will start in five minutes.” Jiang Yuanmu explained without even raising his head.

“That… Boss.” Xiao Li hesitated.

Jiang Yuanmu raised his head, his eyes were sharp, his forehead was slightly wrinkled, the corners of his mouth were turned down, and his stare was deadly.

Xiao Li instantly remembered the intern assistant who had just come last month. Because he was deceived by the boss’s appearance, he acted like a spoiled child and was fired before he even sat down at his workstation.

Reports should be brief and to the point, not ambiguous or hesitant. Otherwise, HR would need to step in.[mfn]I suppose this means that the person would get fired [/mfn]

Xiao Li’s face became serious, and he was no longer anxious or embarrassed. He said, “Boss, Sister Mo Lin is here. She said she’s waiting for you in the coffee shop downstairs.”

Jiang Yuanmu’s frown loosened, and his voice was filled with surprise and confusion: “Mo Lin?”

Of course he was confused. In the past five years, their boss’s wife had never taken the initiative to come to the company except for the company’s annual meeting. She hardly ever called, which clearly showed her complete trust in the boss.

“Sister Mo Lin said…”

“The meeting will be postponed.” The boss picked up his phone, grabbed his coat, and headed out the door., “Tell everyone get ready, we’ll continue when I come back.”

In a blink of an eye, Jiang Yuanmu had already walked to the lift, pressed the down button and was waiting for the elevator while looking at his phone.

Xiao Li gazed at the boss’s figure, opened his mouth, and finally chose to remain silent.

His wife wants a divorce, such a big thing, I don’t need to remind my boss, right?

 Xiao Li thought so, and sat back at his workstation.

Jiang Yuanmu looked at the missed call from Mo Lin in the elevator. There was only one missed call from her. As long as he didn’t answer, she would never call again. Over the years, there were few surprises…

Jiang Yuanmu dialed Mo Lin’s number, put the phone to his ear, and the sound of waiting to be connected rang out. While waiting, he stepped out of the elevator and walked into the lobby on the first floor of the office building.

There weren’t many people in the lobby, and the windows were wiped clean. Jiang Yuanmu saw the coffee shop at a glance- Mo Lin sat at a table by the window.

To Jiang Yuanmu, everyone in his life could be described by a single word. In his vocabulary, his father is equal to the word “serious”, his aunt- to the word “enthusiastic”, and his assistant Xiao Li was equal to the word “useful”. And Mo Lin…she could only be called “his wife”.

He couldn’t find any other words to describe her.

Mayby at the beginning, he did have a word for her; he called her someone who had a “tacit understanding” with him. But at some point in their marriage this initial word became blurred. Or rather, he started to feel that she was someone who could not be described with just one word.

Sometimes she was quiet, sometimes she was indifferent, and sometimes she was…

“Hello?”

The call went through.

Jiang Yuanmu saw Mo Lin answer the phone, and how she subconsciously turned her head to look in the direction of his office building. She saw him at a glance.

Mo Lin was very smart and never did anything stupid or ineffective. She was just as efficient at spotting him as he was in spotting her.

“I saw you.” Mo Lin said, waving to him.

“Well, I…” Jiang Yuanmu suddenly stopped in his tracks. He didn’t know what strange wind blew across his mind, but he instantly remembered a date – 3.20, March 20th, the day he signed an important contract.

Jiang Yuanmu glanced at Mo Lin’s table, and sure enough, there was a blue folder on it.

March 20th was today, and after five years, the contract had expired.

She came to divorce him.

Jiang Yuanmu understood. He stood there.

A spring breeze blew by and the warm sun shone on him. Spring was a vibrant season, the plants in the park were sprouting and blooming, but in this time of abundant life, Jiang Yuanmu suddenly couldn’t even move his feet.

It was very strange.

Next, before Jiang Yuanmu’s brain could react, his body had already lowered his arm. He put the phone in front of him and skillfully pressed the bright red hang-up button with his thumb.

“Beep.”

He hung up the phone.

What was he doing? Why did he do this? Why didn’t he know why he did this?

Jiang Yuanmu felt that he was very strange.

But in such a strange situation, he turned around without looking at Mo Lin in the cafe, pushed open the door of the building, walked into the office building again, skillfully pressed the elevator up button, and walked directly into the elevator the moment the door opened. He pressed the button for the 17th floor, and then looked up at the floor number displayed in the elevator rise.

All actions were done in one go, without any pause.

In that quiet moment in the elevator, Jiang Yuanmu suddenly realized that his recent series of actions could only be described as: “escaping.”

He did not show any emotion on his face and put the phone away in his pocket. It started vibrating. He knew it was Mo Lin calling without having to guess.

His actions just now were really strange and a little weird.

He didn’t answer the phone, and let it vibrate in his pocket, pretending that he didn’t feel anything.

When he reached the 17th floor, he walked briskly into the office, and rushed into the conference room under Xiao Li’s astonished and puzzled eyes.

“Notify everyone that the meeting is starting. Nothing and no one is allowed to interrupt the meeting today.”

 Xiao Li stared blankly at the door of the conference room, with question marks written all over his face.

Was the divorce over?

Xiao Li scratched his head, thinking, “That’s why he’s the boss, his signing speed is really fast…”

Mo Lin looked at the screen of her mobile phone in confusion, the three words “Jiang Yuanmu” on it gradually dimmed, and finally went black.

 He came down, he called and saw her, so why did he go back just like that? Why didn’t he answer the phone when she called him afterwards? 

Did something major just happen now that Jiang Yuanmu could see, but she couldn’t?

Mo Lin was a little confused.

 This was one of the rare times when she was confused by Jiang Yuanmu’s behavior.

She always thought she understood him. In their five-year marriage, from the first day, they had been able to negotiate and discuss things, as if they were having simple business talks. She also liked this kind of “marriage life” where they didn’t cause each other trouble and could always be honest.

 But now that their marriage was over, didn’t Jiang Yuanmu want a good outcome?

 This was unlike him.

 Mo Lin felt that Jiang Yuanmu must have remembered something urgent that couldn’t be delayed, so he turned back halfway.

As for the divorce agreement…

Mo Lin’s eyes stayed on the folder for a moment, and she finally made a decision.

She might as well sign it herself and send it to the front desk of his company later.

When he was free, he could sign it.

Mo Lin took a sip of coffee, opened the folder, and took out the agreement. With a smile on her lips, she uncapped the pen and solemnly signed her name.

Perfect.

Mo Lin walked to the front desk of Jiang Yuanmu’s company. The receptionist was new and didn’t know her. She was asking her who she was looking for. Xiao Li, who had just returned from the toilet, saw Mo Lin.

“Mo… Sister Mo Lin… why are you still here…” Even Xiao Li felt that the smile on his lips was a little stiff.

“Hello, Assistant Li.” Mo Lin smiled politely. It’s not that she couldn’t see Xiao Li’s stiffness, but she didn’t understand why he was stiff. Out of politeness and courtesy, she didn’t ask, “I’m here to deliver the agreement. I happened to see Assistant Li. Please keep it for Yuan Mu first.”

 Xiao Li looked at the blue folder as if he was looking at his own death notice. He didn’t dare to move his toes.

“This… didn’t the boss go downstairs just now? Didn’t Sister Mo Lin see the boss?”

“I saw him, but he seemed to have something urgent and left. He should have come back for a meeting, right?”

“Yes… yes…”

It’s obvious that the boss doesn’t want to divorce!

Xiao Li suddenly realized what was going on with the boss’s serious expression, hurried steps, slightly pale face, and the emotional fluctuations between his eyebrows when he came back just now! It turns out that the boss didn’t know that his wife came to divorce him when he went downstairs!

He had miscalculated!

“Then, Assistant Li please pass it to Yuanmu for me.” Mo Lin pushed the folder forward again.

Whoever received it would surely die!

Xiao Li covered his stomach: “Ah… Sister Mo Lin, I seem to have a stomachache today. Leave it on the front desk first, and I will tell the boss later.” Xiao Li called the front desk, “You take it first. I will be back later.”

Mo Lin turned around and handed the folder to the girl at the front desk: “Sorry to trouble you.”

 Even if the girl at the front desk didn’t know that Mo Lin was the boss’s wife, she should know that she was an acquaintance of the boss. She took it politely: “It’s okay, it’s okay.” She put down the folder and asked casually, “What is this document? It seems to be quite thick?”

“Oh, this is the divorce agreement between Yuanmu and me.”

The light words turned into a boulder and hit the girl’s forehead.

The girl stared blankly at Mo Lin, who smiled politely.

Mo Lin waved at her: “Sorry for bothering you. I’m leaving now. I won’t disturb you from working. Goodbye.”

The girl watched Mo Lin take the elevator, watched the elevator go down, and watched Assistant Li walk back. The girl looked at him with a look of despair: “Assistant Li, you really are a dog.”

Mo Lin knew that the company’s employees might feel a little stressed when they were asked to do this. But Mo Lin knew that Jiang Yuanmu would not vent his anger on the employees because of this. It was not because she was sure that he was a noble person, but Mo Lin was sure that he wanted to sign this agreement just like her.

 Just like they had agreed on everything in the past five years.

Walking out of the office building, Mo Lin felt relaxed. From now on, she could start a new life.

Mo Lin turned around and looked at the high-rise building behind her. The mirrored exterior wall made it difficult to tell which floor was the seventeenth one.

But she still stood there, pointing with her finger, counting one floor at a time.

This matter was meaningless. Mo Lin didn’t know why she was doing it, but she still did it.

“Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen…” She looked at the seventeenth floor and looked at it quietly for a while. “Goodbye, Jiang Yuanmu.”

 She originally wanted to say this to him in person, but this could also be considered a farewell.

Mo Lin turned around and left cleanly, without any emotional attachment.

 

TL’s note: oh boy, this book is going to be really fun