Chapter 54: Chapter 54: Little Lamb

Teacher Sherry, who had been constantly refreshing the comment section for *After the Main Husband Runaway*, suddenly received an update notification. Overjoyed, she rushed to read the latest Chapter.

In the latest Chapter—

「Morian packing his bags to leave home and move into a rental apartment was something Belle found out about beforehand.

Morian’s rental agreement had fallen out, and Belle, who had just returned home, saw it.

Belle stared at Morian in disbelief, questioning him, “How long are you going to keep this up? What’s this about renting a place? Are you trying to separate from me? Do you think this will make me regret my actions and feel guilty? Don’t be so naive. Morian, I’m grateful that you saved me back then. In return, I gave you the position of main husband. That debt has been repaid. You can’t be too greedy.”

Morian looked at Belle, who had just come home reeking of alcohol. He knew she must have been out carousing with her friends, but things like this no longer stirred any emotion in him. “I’ve already submitted the divorce application,” he said. “You don’t need to trouble yourself with it. Once the process is complete on my end, all you’ll have to do is sign. From now on, you won’t have to look at this face you find so detestable. I wish you happiness.”

Snatching the agreement from Belle’s hand, Morian folded it and put it in his pocket. He picked up his luggage, turned, and left without a backward glance.」

The Chapter ended there, with Morian leaving and a helpless-looking Belle left standing alone.

Seeing this, Teacher Sherry said in surprise, “No way. Morian really just left like that? Does he actually want a divorce? When the rental agreement fell, I thought he was just playing hard to get. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that it dropped right where Belle would see it?”

“I told you he really wants a divorce. Now I’m actually more interested in seeing Belle’s reaction,” Teacher Ai Li said, her tone dripping with schadenfreude. She had gone from initially seeing things from a female’s perspective to now seeing them from a male’s.

There were quite a few people like Teacher Ai Li in the comment section—

「I’m a female, but it’s strange. Why do I feel a little happy watching Belle walk further and further down the path of self-destruction?」

「Me too, me too! OP, you are definitely not alone!」

「Belle still hasn’t realized how serious this is. Morian doesn’t want her anymore. I really want to see her face when she finds out Morian is a male from the Valenda Family. I’m dying to see her eat her words.」

「Just wanted to say something to all you females who love watching the drama unfold: have any of you acted like Belle at home? Has your male ever thrown a fit that you dismissed as him being unreasonable, when in reality, that’s truly how he felt?」

「I don’t know why, but that last comment is making me a little nervous!」

「Took an arrow to the knee!」

…

Lu Xiao watched the sudden shift in the tone of the comments and felt a sense of gratification. ’It seems my novel is having an impact after all.’

But the real show was just getting started. The developments to come would be even more exciting.

As she thought this, Lu Xiao wished she could just pour out all the ideas in her head in one go and feed them directly to her readers. It was a shame she didn’t have eight arms.

Updating 3,000 words a day was already her limit.

But clearly, her story’s potential was far from its limit.

After posting this Chapter, Lu Xiao noticed an increase in demands for more updates in her author dashboard. Many people were even sending her private messages, offering to pay for advance Chapters or asking for spoilers.

To be honest, Lu Xiao was quite tempted to take their money. Unfortunately, the rest of the story was still just in her head, not yet put into words. QAQ.

Unaware of Lu Xiao’s internal struggle, Teacher Sherry pulled her into a discussion. “Morian isn’t really going to accept the divorce penalty, is he?”

“If Morian really wants a divorce, he’ll have to accept the penalty. Otherwise, he won’t be able to get one. Doesn’t that just go to show how determined he is to leave Belle?”

After hearing Lu Xiao’s explanation, Teacher Sherry sighed. “I don’t know… I’m starting to think Belle isn’t so great after all. Morian was so good to her, but she didn’t return his feelings, and now he’s the one who ends up being punished.”

Seeing that even Teacher Sherry, who had been such a staunch supporter of Belle, was starting to waver, Lu Xiao felt genuinely happy.

She couldn’t help but open her terminal. She had the sudden urge to post on her social feed to express her current mood.

But when she opened the app, she saw a comment under the last post she’d made at the movie theater. Someone had left a message: 「My dearest Xiao, you haven’t contacted me in so long. Have you forgotten about me? Your lonely little lamb, Charles, waiting for you to call. Mwah~」

Lu Xiao was dumbfounded by the reply.

’What the hell? Who in the world is ’lonely little lamb, Charles’?’

She racked her brain and finally dredged up a memory from the body’s original owner: a male with fiery red lipstick, striking seductive poses in a room.

Lu Xiao pressed a hand to her head. ’Stop, brain, don’t think about it anymore! I’m going to be sick!’

’The original owner had such questionable taste?’

The comment had been on her post for a while, but she was only seeing it now. She hoped no one else had seen it.

Panicked, Lu Xiao quickly checked her privacy settings. Thankfully, replies were not visible to people who weren’t mutual friends.

Even so, Lu Xiao hurriedly deleted the comment and blocked the user. To be on the safe side, she also changed her settings to disable all replies on her posts.

With that, she lost all desire to post about her mood. She’d never been very keen on social media to begin with, and now she had even less interest.

’Just how many landmines did the original owner plant for me?’ Lu Xiao fumed internally. ’They keep going off when I least expect it. I’m really getting sick of this.’

However, the incident served as a wake-up call. Opening her friends list, Lu Xiao deleted everyone she didn’t know or had never contacted in one fell swoop. She kept only her family and friends. The rest were almost all part of the original owner’s social network, and she was better off without them.

’The original owner didn’t seem to have any decent people in her life, anyway.’

After the purge, Lu Xiao finally felt a little more secure.

“Is Healer Lu in?” Just as Lu Xiao was breathing a sigh of relief after her contact-list purge, a voice came from outside her door.

Lu Xiao turned to look and saw a military escort officer leading someone over.

The people who had requested an afternoon appointment were no strangers. It was Kels and Kenwayt—both familiar faces.

Seeing the two of them, Lu Xiao smiled naturally. “It’s been a while. How have you two been?”

Lu Xiao greeted them as she led them toward the consultation room.

“I—we’re doing well. Very well, and it’s all thanks to you,” Kels replied, his voice full of gratitude and his gaze filled with respect for Lu Xiao.

Kenwayt, standing beside him, seemed even more tense. “Miss Lu Xiao, I must apologize for my rudeness last time. I was so thoughtless. Please, punish me!”

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