After Caleb said that, Jimmy suddenly chuckled and put out the cigarette.
"Ah, I never expected that I have to ask advice on this."
For the sake of Jimmy's dignity, Caleb could only pretend that he didn't hear that.
"Anyway, my wife is having a tantrum with me recently and she divorced me. I suggested getting remarried tomorrow, but she wouldn't agree."
Hearing that, Caleb was astounded. "Uh..."
There were too much information to process.
Jimmy made it seemed like marriage was a trifling matter.
It was like he could get married as he wished.
"Ahem. Why wouldn't she agree?" Nevertheless, Caleb asked.
"She said I'm forcing her."
"Did you?"
"I told her to go to the bureau tomorrow. Does that count as forcing her?"
Jeez.
Looking at Jimmy's domineering attitude, Caleb could understand why his wife wasn't too happy.
Despite that, Caleb still suggested, "Well, I think your wife must be angry at you when she made the decision to divorce you. So now, if you wanna remarry her, you gotta... soften your attitude you know. You can't be too hard on her."
"Tell me more."
Caleb didn't expect that he would be able to give advice to his superior one day, so instantly, he became spirited.
"Sure, but before I continue, are you sure that your wife is willing to get remarried to you?"
If she was unwilling, there was nothing they could do about it.
Hearing that, Jimmy snorted. "Of course! Who else could she be with?"
Silently, Caleb sneered inside his heart.
It was somehow unbelievable that his superior, who was always strict, was so domineering to his wife.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Nothing!"
"Really?"
He sounded quite fierce. Immediately, Caleb lowered his tone. "Deputy Director, this is not how you should speak to your wife." "How then?"
"First of all, you gotta show her respect. You can't just do anything according to your will."
Jimmy sneered. "If I hadn't been more assertive, she could have continued to play dumb."
Since Ariah wasn't someone who would take initiative to do things, he was certain that she would just stay neutral on this matter.
"Why don't you coax her?"
Coax Ariah? How? She never listened to him.
If she had, he wouldn't have been in a dilemma now.
Frustrated, Jimmy lit another cig and took a long drag on it before continuing, "My wife said no man would force a woman to get married and she told me to ask the married ones in our department. She promised to get remarried if someone did do it."
It turned out that this was the reason why the Deputy Director called him in.
Caleb blurted out, "Well, she's right. No man would force a woman to get married, because that would be a jerk..."
Suddenly, a cold glance was swept over and Caleb quickly realized what he had said.
"Deputy Director, I didn't mean to mock you. What I mean is that people only get married out of their free will..." Caleb quickly explained, "And your wife must have wished that you could respect her on making that decision instead of you deciding everything."
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