On the Wedding Night, I Transmigrated to After the Divorce – Chapter 26
by Little PandaOnce Each Other’s Support
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Yu Yan really missed the Fu-jiejie from before.
These past days of poverty and loneliness, she couldn’t stop longing for her former carefree life. She missed that Fu-jiejie who agreed to everything, spoiled her rotten, stayed up all night taking care of her when she had a fever, spent lavishly to make her behave, let hercuddle1 and hug her and rest on her lap, and even agreed to give her kisses.
That was Yu Yan’s wife, the one she’d just registered and married. That was Wife, was spouse, was jiejie, was Darling, was Yu Yan’sthigh2 and sugar mommy for the rest of her life.
But noweverything had changed3. Yu Yan had probably become Fu Yunqing’s enemy. Fu Yunqing hated her, ignored her, didn’t care about her.
Last night, if she’d been a little more drunk and accidentally let that greasy rich woman coax her into a car, would Fu Yunqing have just turned a blind eye?
Yu Yan’s heart was shattered into pieces by this massive gap in circumstances, still unable to adapt.
But this kind of unfinished-romance drama was exactly what lesbians loved to watch. The comments scrolled endlessly: Go find her if you miss her.
You still love her. Go win her back.
Go find her? They made it sound so easy. Just go find her, they said — but who knew that when Yu Yan actually went, she got scolded?
Who would pity her grievances? Who would solve them for her?
Yu Yan sighed again, wanted to find a table to lean on, then remembered she was sitting on the sofa, so she awkwardly adjusted her posture and complained to the comments with grievance: “I did go look for her…”
She babbled: “She doesn’t love me anymore. She was so mean to me, you know? I’ve never seen her be that cold to me. My heart went cold right then.”
The comments asked in unison: What happened? How could that be?
“Just…”
Yu Yan hesitated.
How could it be like this?
No matter how you looked at it, it was all her mother’s fault. As a daughter, and a daughter in a business marriage meant to consolidate cooperation, when her own mother sold people out, she still had to bear some collective punishment. Getting divorced was only natural.
Yu Yan couldn’t bring herself to slander Fu Yunqing either: “It’s my fault.”
“I wronged her.” Yu Yan generously took the blame.
Comments: 【Spill the details】
Comments: 【Ears perked】
Comments: 【How did you wrong her?】
Comments: 【Tell us the details, let’s see if you still have a chance, maybe we can give you ideas】
Details… help her come up with ideas? These people definitely all thought there was some relationship problem, who cheated on who, who wronged who. But did Yu Yan and Fu Yunqing have feelings after getting married? Yu Yan couldn’t imagine. Maybe a little, after all, they had a good relationship when they got married in Ireland. Of course it was pretty fragile too, that bit of feeling definitely couldn’t compare to interests.
“Don’t want to talk about it.”
Somehow the conversation drifted off. She’d almost forgotten she was here to find a rich woman tokeep her4. Couldn’t talk too much about romantic history — it would both affect her persona and make rich women who liked her jealous.
“The past is smoke, talking about it is useless.” Yu Yan coldly doused everyone’s gossip enthusiasm with one sentence. “My current goal is to firmly put the past behind me and find a rich woman to keep me.”
She checked the time. Unknowingly, she’d been streaming for almost an hour. Her mouth was dry from talking, so she waved goodbye and went offline.
This livestream didn’t earn her much — a bit over three thousand in gifts, most of them from 【You Ruguo】. Yu Yan did a quick calculation. After splitting half with Lu Yu, if she shared a table with someone, it would probably cover her next round of drinks.
That’s how alcoholics are.
At that moment, Lu Yu was at her company, clacking away at her keyboard writing proposals. The phone on her desk lit up. She glanced at the caller ID, saw it was Yu Yan, and in the midst of her busyness, picked it up to look.
A transfer of fifteen hundred.
Lu Yu typed: 【You livestreamed again?】
Yu Yan: 【Yeah】
Lu Yu: 【How are you so well-behaved, sending me money every time you finish streaming】
Yu Yan: 【Scared you won’t want me】
Lu Yu understood her too well, didn’t indulge her acting pitiful, and typed: 【If I get off work early tonight, I’ll cook for you. What do you want? Or do you want to eat at a restaurant?】
Now that Yu Yan could earn money herself, Lu Yu didn’t stop her at all from eating and drinking luxuriously — after all, the Young Miss’s happiness was most important.
Yu Yan: 【I want soy sauce ribs】
Yu Yan: 【You have to make it taste the same as outside】
Lu Yu: 【Alright alright, I’ll try my best】
Young Miss was still Young Miss. Living under someone else’s roof and still treating the person like a chef, with such demanding requirements.
Lu Yu: 【What are you going to do after streaming? Take a nap?】
Yu Yan: 【No, I’m going to reward myself with afternoon tea.】
Lu Yu: 【Okay】
At this moment, Yu Yan was curled on the sofa, perfectly relaxed, nothing like the troubled figure in the livestream who’d been complaining about loving her ex-wife without being loved back. She was just that heartless — things came fast and went fast.
She didn’t feel sleepy for now, so she put on a movie from Lu Yu’s cloud storage and even took a photo to show Lu Yu. Lu Yu told her to watch seriously, said it was very good, had depth, but Yu Yan still couldn’t get into it.
Mainly she found it boring. Lu Yu’s movies were mostly art films, too profound, too boring. She watched and watched, then got distracted and did other things — scrolling Douyin, checking messages. She suddenly noticed that the 【@Me】 column, which had been sparse with just a scattered few, had turned into ninety-nine plus. Yu Yan wondered who was @ing her, clicked in to look, and discovered she’d been made into a video by a marketing account.
Before, she was the Lanshan Group chairman’s only daughter. Although she didn’t hold a position in the company, because she loved playing and was active in various social circles and in the public eye, many people knew her. But she hadn’t reached the level of a public figure, right? She hadn’t expected that clips from her recent livestream had been edited by a marketing account into a video, with the title “Lanshan Group Heiress Says She Wronged Her Ex-Wife.”
Yu Yan sent the video to Lu Yu, and after hearing her explanation, she learned that her divorce from Fu Yunqing had made headlines before. Opinions varied, and in most people’s mouths, Yu Yan was the sinner’s daughter, the rat driven away by the Fu family after the incident. Now that Yu Yan had fallen so far as to livestream for money and publicly apologize, it further confirmed this, attracting a lot of mockery.
Lu Yu: 【I forgot, too many people know you. If you go viral, people might use you for content. Don’t take it to heart, just pretend you didn’t see it. Marketing accounts are like that — they’ll do anything for views.】
Yu Yan didn’t really care, just felt inexplicably a bit depressed. But not long after, when she clicked in again, she found the video had been taken down, and the other scattered marketing accounts had disappeared too.
Hmm?
Lu Yu: 【Could Fu Yunqing have seen it and taken action?】
Yu Yan: 【Does Fu Yunqing even scroll Douyin?】 Fu Yunqing didn’t seem like the type to scroll Douyin at all.
Lu Yu: 【She has a whole corporation behind her】
Yu Yan: 【True】
Yu Yan: 【But why would she bother?】
Lu Yu: 【Maybe they thought bringing up old news would affect the Fu Corporation or Fu Yunqing personally?】
True.
Yu Yan thought, then I should mention her less in my livestreams from now on. They’ve been divorced over a year, can’t go bringing that attention back to her.
Yu Yan still had morals.
A little interlude like this, Yu Yan would have quickly forgotten, if she hadn’t seen those things she’d forgotten, the things missing from her memory.
That evening, Yu Yan got to eat Lu Yu’s soy sauce ribs. Though they couldn’t compare to a Michelin restaurant chef, at least they were thoroughly clean and hygienic, which put her mind at ease. Yu Yan ate with relish. After dinner, it was still early. Lu Yu suggested going to the seaside for a walk — maybe they’d catch the blue hour, and she could take some photos of Yu Yan for Douyin.
Lu Yu’s tricks to get her out of the house weren’t very appealing. Yu Yan wasn’t as dedicated as she imagined, but seeing how Master Lu had worked hard all day and still prepared dinner for her, Yu Yan readily agreed.
From where they lived to the seaside took half an hour by taxi. Because Yu Yan had high standards, the fare wasn’t cheap — it was practically catching up to some people’s daily wages, and roughly half a day’s wages for Lu Yu.
Yu Yan: “Why don’t you buy a car?”
Lu Yu: “Young Miss, buying a car is easy. Maintaining one in Yuncheng is expensive.”
Yu Yan, whodidn’t know the ways of the world5, didn’t understand these things. Before Lu Yu taught her, she didn’t even know how to use the washing machine and dryer.
But Young Miss Yu was loyal. Even without money, she talked big, patted Lu Yu’s shoulder, and made empty promises: “WhenI make my comeback6, I’ll buy you a Rolls-Royce. Parking, maintenance, gas cards, parking fees — I’ll cover everything. You just drive.”
Lu Yu laughed: “Jie, isn’t a Rolls-Royce a bit too flashy? I work at that little broken company — what if they’re too scared to hire me?”
Yu Yan was dissatisfied: “Lu Yu, your horizons are too small. You planning to stay at that little broken company your whole life?”
There weren’t many people at the beach. The sky and sea presented a Klein blue that was neither fully dark nor fully light, quite atmospheric. Lu Yu, being the literary type, loved this — if not for Yu Yan, she might have preferred to light a bonfire on the sand and read a thick book.
Lu Yu was so literary, but Yu Yan felt she was different from many “literary youths” she remembered. She didn’t perm or dye her hair into some unique style, didn’t even have pierced ears. She didn’t smoke or have tattoos, didn’t wear particularly fashionable clothes or chase brands — in Yu Yan’s eyes, she was almost plain. She never talked about literature or art, appeared easygoing and optimistic, lived very grounded, as if she simply liked “reading” as an activity.
Of course, those “plain” clothes looked very good on her. She had excellent taste, and her photography skills were top-notch too. Without a camera, just a phone with a cracked screen, she could take atmospheric photos of Yu Yan.
Back home, before bed, Yu Yan did some simple editing, found a BGM full of loneliness, copied an emotional caption, and posted the second video on her account “Don’t Get Tricked by Women Again.”
The heat came quickly. Yu Yan briefly checked the comments and messages. Quite a few people said they watched her livestream and found her interesting, wanted her to open a Weibo account to share her daily life. Yu Yan thought about it — she used to play on Weibo a lot too. She immediately went to check the apps on her phone and was surprised not to see this software. How desireless and shareless must her future self have been to not only delete all her Moments but also uninstall Weibo? Then again, when you’re poor to that point, where’s the sharefulness?
Yu Yan went to the app store and downloaded Weibo. When she clicked in, a login method popped up. She chose the simplest option — phone number login — and entered an account that felt completely foreign to her.
A cartoon avatar: two little QQ figures hugging a pitch-black QQ cat with only its eyes shining. A garbled ID called 【yyhfyqyyzyq】. The bio read: 【I have a little cat, she has two】
Yu Yan suspected she’d logged into someone else’s account. Her original Weibo account wasn’t like this at all. But when she clicked into the photo album, she froze.
Scrolling from top to bottom, this person loved sharing daily life. Before long, Yu Yan saw two familiar faces.
It was her and Fu Yunqing —
Yu Yan clicked into the photo in surprise. The background was unfamiliar to her — she didn’t know whose home it was, but it was clearly spacious and luxurious. A soft large sofa, a large coffee table with a cut cake, fresh flowers, and many unopened gift boxes. There were people intruding in the photo, all edited out with cute stickers, leaving only the two protagonists in the center.
In the photo, Yu Yan wore a little dress, her long hair braided like an elf’s, a crown on her head. She was clearly the protagonist today, but the birthday girl had cream smeared on her face, her body turned sideways as she pressed against Fu Yunqing’s chest, looking up with furrowed brows, staring straight at the older woman’s face. Needless to say, she was complaining and acting spoiled. Fu Yunqing had a faint smile on her lips, one hand cupping her face, the other holding a tissue to wipe her clean.
Her gaze was gentle and doting. Happiness, sweetness, warmth — these words seemed to bubble up from the photo and drill into Yu Yan’s mind.
Yu Yan widened her eyes, her thumb sliding right. Another photo showed the same background, except the cream on Yu Yan’s face had disappeared, replaced by two red kiss marks.
The caption for this post read: 【They all bully me, only Mommy loves me most】
Fu Yunqing… Mommy?
Yu Yan abruptly exited the Weibo interface, calmed down, then clicked back in and scrolled all the way to the bottom in one breath.
This account didn’t have many posts, but it wasn’t few either — there were dozens. The first post was dated September 3, 2022, a paragraph of text:
【Today fyq got confessed to by her student. Why do students these days all like their teachers! So outrageous. Fu Yunqing actually accepted her flowers】
That date was two months after they got married…
Yu Yan scrolled up.
September 5, 2022, 11:23: 【There are so many pretty teachers at school. I’m going to run away from home and stay in the dorms. I’m going to worry her to death】
September 5, 2022, 20:03: 【Got caught and brought home. But I absolutely won’t sleep in the same bed with her】【cold smile.jpg】
September 5, 2022, 22:50: 【I’m done for.Playing hard to get7 pissed her off. Jiejie won’t flirt with me anymore. She kissed me forcefully and asked if I actually like her, if I want to be with her. If I’m with her, I can only like her alone. She’s so good at kissing… No choice, I’ll just have to behave and settle down for jiejie】
September 6, 2022: 【We’re married, why does she still have to go to school? Why does she have to go to school? Why does she have to go to school!】
September 7, 2022: 【Being in love feels pretty good】【Photo: a large bouquet of roses and a pair of diamond earrings】
September 23, 2022, 9:30: 【First time with fyq. She’s so good at it, so comfortable… but she bullied me for not knowing anything. I definitely need to study hard and push her down!】【serious.jpg】
October 1, 2022, 7:10: 【Successfully pushed her down! I like her so much, so much. I’m done for, I’m completely mesmerized by her, bewitched by her. I’m going to love her forever. Wife is still sleeping, getting out of bed right now to make her a love breakfast!】
October 1, 2022, 8:20: 【fyq praised my noodles, even smiled and said Yanyan has grown up. Asked me what time I woke up, asked if I was tired, coaxed me to go back to sleep (she bullied me so late last night). If it were Yu Lan, she’d only complain my noodles tasted bad and then pick at my other faults and lecture me — let alone letting me sleep in! Not a shred of warmth. She’s the mother I fantasized about when I was little. I don’t want to call her jiejie anymore, I want to call her mommy】
October 23, 2022: 【Today when I was acting spoiled, I couldn’t help calling her mommy. She froze for a moment, then her whole gaze changed. She scolded me once, turned her head away and ignored me, but she held my hand so tight】
November 20, 2022: 【Celebrated Wife’s first birthday. She was happy and I was so happy, so happy. Want to be with her forever and ever~
November 25, 2022: 【The weather’s getting so cold. Every morning before we go out, she checks my clothes. So happy. I’m going to check her clothes too】
November 28, 2022: 【Don’t want to get up. Jiejie helped me put on socks. Got up, helped jiejie tie her hair~
December 5, 2022, 16:01: 【Snuck into her class to give her this】【Photo: a white rose】
December 5, 2022, 16:12: 【She noticed me. Only smiled at me】
December 20, 2022: 【Ah, why does fyq have to go out of town for a meeting. I miss her so much. 5555, I can’t live without my wife】
December 21, 2022: 【Video called her. Through the screen, I pitifully called her mommy again. She froze for a moment, then said “be good.” So flirtatious, so flirtatious. I can’t stand it, but she is mommy. I want to flirt with her too. I said, I love mommy so much】
December 22, 2022: 【Opened my eyes and saw her sitting by the bed calling me baby. Thought I was dreaming, but she kissed me for so long】
January 19, 2023: 【So happy, completely didn’t expect this birthday gift! I actually have a cat. Wuwuwu, want to cry. Not confident I can raise a cat well, but fyq said she’s here. I stopped worrying immediately. After being with her, she really took such good care of me. So grateful to her】
That was a small black cat lying in an exquisite gift box, being held up by Yu Yan. It looked only two or three months old, a long-haired cat, so well-behaved and soft, extremely beautiful. Yu Yan stared at it for a long time before scrolling up.
January 20, 2023: 【First family photo of the three of us~ Stayed up all night thinking of a name, decided to call her Honey, my dear baby】
January 22, 2023: 【First Spring Festival with fyq. Received a super big red envelope. I love my wife~
January 27, 2023: 【Kitten has to sleep with her parents. If we don’t let her on the bed, she keeps meowing. fyq said, Honey’s just as clingy as jiejie. Hmph.】
February 12, 2023: 【Accidentally called a strange beautiful woman jiejie. Fu Yunqing didn’t look very happy. I still didn’t understand the situation, asked her what was wrong. She touched my face and said, from now on don’t randomly call other people jiejie. She was a little unhappy. She wanted the title of jiejie to be exclusively hers.】
February 28, 2023: 【Went to a bar with classmates without fyq’s permission. Got hit on the palm with her belt. She was so fierce… Made me promise I can’t drink outside her line of sight. Okay, I’ll listen to mommy. Don’t know why, after she hit me, I just wanted to hug her and be comforted by her, otherwise I’d feel so wronged】
April 1, 2023: 【Starting driving lessons today. Definitely not joking. I’m going to get my license and take my wife for drives and pick her up from work!】【sunglasses smirk.jpg】
May 20, 2023: 【Got my license! Genius Yu, passed all subjects on the first try. Wife’s reward — a supercar~
July 11, 2023: 【Didn’t get hit while driving, but got hit while riding to play. Fractured my arm, fainted. When I woke up, she looked so haggard. She cried in front of me, asked if I was scared. Wuwuwu scared to death, scared I’d never see Fu-jiejie again】
July 12, 2023: 【Wanted her to go sleep, but she insisted on staying with me】
July 13, 2023: 【She’s my support. She said, I’m her support too】
July 15, 2023: 【Discharged. Going home with my wife. Wife won’t let me go out and play during this time. I’ll listen to my wife】
August 10, 2023: 【Arm’s all better. Baby wife gave me alongevity lock8, to bless me with peace and longevity. This piece of jade the size of a tiger’s mouth — Assistant Liang said it was cut from a stone worth over two hundred million, taking the most perfect part. No wonder it’s so beautiful】
October 4, 2023: 【Ever since the car accident, jiejie seems to have developed separation anxiety. Every time I go out alone, she worries about me. Sends messages every so often. A little bit of liking, but a lot lot lot of heartache】
October 4, 2023: 【Have to remember, when I get to school, I have to check in with her too】
November 20, 2023: 【Emptied my little treasury to buy my wife a birthday gift. Miss Yu has excellent taste. This watch really suits her. Want her to wear it every day】
December 24, 2023: 【Made a mistake and got spanked by fyq with a belt. Called her mommy while getting hit, and she hit even harder!】
January 1, 2024: 【New year. May Goddess Nüwa, Queen Mother, and Mazu bless yy and fyq to be together forever. Only one wish this year, not greedy at all. Before, I used to make eight wishes at once】
January 18, 2024: 【Turning 22 tomorrow, getting closer to being an adult. But I don’t feel like I’ve grown at all. My mindset is exactly the same as when I was 20 and met her. She said, if Yanyan doesn’t want to grow up, then no need to grow up. When I’m 30, 40, when I become an old lady, she’ll still be there. Hahaha, when I become an old lady, she’ll be an old lady ten years older than me. Then it’ll be my turn to take care of her. Hmm, so I think I’ll live to 90, she’ll live to 100. I’ll take care of her, then we’ll go together. That way we won’t get separated in the next life】
January 19, 2024: 【They all bully me, only Mommy loves me most】
February 7, 2024: 【Just one act of spoiled and I get everything】【Photo: a pile of luxury bags】
April 2, 2024: 【fyq’s been so busy lately. My heart only has her, but her heart also has work. Our love is so unequal! (Okay just kidding. Seeing this post, will my wife get off work early tonight? Pretty please?)】
April 5, 2024: 【Learned a new dish. Got praised by Mommy again. Tail’s up in the sky. Want to learn a hundred more!】
Time passed without her noticing. Yu Yan was so absorbed she ignored her racing heart and the gale that had started howling outside the window at some point. Her eyes wide open, caught in a kind of chaos, she couldn’t imagine that these things came from her own hand. But the people in the photos were her and Fu Yunqing, and every post’s tone, even every emoji, matched her personality so perfectly. She couldn’t find a single sign of doubt that it wasn’t hers — real and vivid.
Was this the memory Yu Yan had lost? Her blank brain was reading, hesitant and slow. She still couldn’t quickly accept it.
She looked and looked.
Except for the initial period, this account’s update frequency wasn’t high. Clearly, based on Yu Yan’s understanding of herself, she probably wanted to keep a diary at first, but starting from kindergarten, she’d never once persisted with a diary. Later, it gradually became just occasionally remembering and writing something down, updating only every few months.
Nearly two years, the memories she was missing — she and Fu Yunqing were in love? Yu Yan clicked into that avatar. Without a doubt, it was a chibi portrait of her and Fu Yunqing, very fitting. She was smiling, Fu Yunqing was smiling too. That black cat was Honey, their cat, the name Yu Yan personally chose. Was this drawing also by Yu Yan? Her major was painting, though she chose it casually, and she wasn’t dedicated at all.
“yy…h…fyq, Yu Yan… and Fu Yunqing,” she tried reading this garbled ID. “yyzyq… yongyuan, yongyuan zai yiqi.”
“Yu Yan and Fu Yunqing forever together…”
Yu Yan and Fu Yunqing forever together.
A nameless ache suddenly surged in Yu Yan’s heart, like her heart had been hollowed out, like she’d lost something too important on a long journey, didn’t know where to go back and find it, helpless and lost.
Footnotes
- 'Tiē tiē' (stick stick) is cutesy Chinese internet slang for cuddling or snuggling close.
- 'Dàtuǐ' (thigh) is Chinese slang for a powerful patron or sugar mommy — someone with resources and influence who can provide support. Yu Yan uses it here to mean Fu Yunqing was her financial and emotional support.
- 'Wù shì rén fēi' (things remain, people have changed) is a Chinese idiom describing the melancholy of returning to a familiar place only to find the people there have changed or disappeared.
- 'Bāoyǎng' (keeping/raising) literally means 'to keep and raise animals' but is used metaphorically for financial dependency in relationships, where one person provides for another in exchange for companionship or romance.
- 'Bù shí rénjiān yānhuǒ' (doesn't eat human smoke and fire) is a Chinese idiom describing someone who is otherworldly, naive about practical life matters, or disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people.
- 'Dōngshān zài qǐ' (to rise again from the eastern mountain) is a Chinese idiom meaning to make a comeback after a setback or defeat. It refers to Xie An, a Jin Dynasty official who retired to the eastern mountains but later returned to power.
- 'Yù qín gù zòng' (wanting to catch, so deliberately let go) is a Chinese idiom meaning to play hard to get — pretending disinterest to make someone more interested.
- A 'chángmìng suǒ' (longevity lock) is a traditional Chinese pendant amulet, typically made of silver or gold and given to children for protection and blessings. Here, Fu Yunqing gave Yu Yan one made from valuable jade.
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