"How can you be late even when picking up a marriage certificate?"
Emily remembered that four years ago, when they went to get the marriage certificates, Simon muttered unhappily as he saw her. So, four years later, when they were going to divorce, she set an alarm clock to wake her up and waited at the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau early in the morning. At this time, none of the workers had come yet.
In fact, she woke up before the alarm went off. All night, she barely slept.
Four years ago, she was disappointed in love. Now, she would lose her marriage soon.
Emily shook her head and could not help laughing at herself. Taking the glass door as a mirror, she pressed the dark circles under her eyelids.
At precisely 8 a.m., the gate of the Civil Affairs Bureau was opened. One after another, the staff came to work. Then, there appeared Simon's black Cayenne, rushing over in the morning light. With a sharp braking sound, it stopped, leaving a long skid mark on the ground.
The door on the driver's side was opened, and Simon with upright posture jumped out of it.
Perhaps because he did not have a good rest last night either, his peach blossom eyes were bloodshot. He strode up the cement steps and his lips curled up when he saw her. "Oh, good of you to arrive on time!" He said, with heavy sarcasm.
Emily responded with a slight shrug.
"Have you brought the marriage certificate?" Simon, narrowing her eyes, asked her.
Emily nodded and said, "Well, I've taken all the necessary documents!"
But then, Simon stood still and gazed at her in silence like a dummy. After waiting for a long time, Emily could not help frowning and saying, "Simon, aren't we going in?"
"Sure!" Simon answered, clenching his teeth.
He went inside abruptly. The wind from his quick motion blew her hair end up. From behind, Emily looked at him, pouting her mouth, and then hurriedly followed him in.
The staff took their documents and divorce agreements. After checking them one by one, he looked up at them, followed the procedure, and asked, "Mr. Chin and Miss Sam, have you decided to divorce?"
Emily looked at Simon, who remained silent, and had to say, "Yes..."
"Clang!" "Clang!"
In the next second, there came two stamping sounds.
After putting a seal on each of the divorce certificates, the staff gave them the two certificates which were darker than the marriage certificates. Since many couples would come here to divorce every day, the staff had become desensitized to divorce. So, he just said in an emotionless voice, "All the formalities are completed. Your marriage is dissolved!"
Like the day she got married, Emily fell into a trance as if in a dream.
"Sizzle!" Simon pushed his chair back. As it rubbed against the ground, the chair let out a piercing sound. With sudden resolution, he took one of the divorced certificates and left with sudden resolution.
Seeing this, Emily quickly picked the other certificate up and went out of the office after him.
In the lively light of the morning sun, she looked down at the divorce certificate. It took them less than 10 minutes to divorce. She did not expect it to be so easy to divorce.
When she came out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Simon, who strode in front of her, had already gone down the last cement step. His tall and straight figure turned back. The rays of sunlight lit up half of his handsome face and left the other half in shadow.
From now on, they would go their separate ways.
After getting divorced, those women in the TV series might cry. Unlike them, she just raised the divorce certificate in her hand and said, "Now the staff in the bureau is getting more and more efficient. It's much faster to get a divorce than to get a marriage registration!"
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