Xie Zhi’s slightly trembling shoulders stiffened. Due to his shaking, the falling teardrop landed on his face, leaving a not-so-aesthetic tear streak. After a moment of silence, Xie Zhi, with reddened eyes, slightly gritted his teeth. “Fang Xianxing, do you not have any sympathy at all?”

Fang Xianxing did have sympathy. As soon as Xie Zhi started crying, her heart softened. But the more he spoke, the more she felt something was off.

She didn’t know if what Xie Zhi said was sincere, but his crying… it was very much like a beauty trap.

“My sympathy is only for sincere words. Xie Zhi, are you being sincere? Do you really care about those things?” Fang Xianxing believed in her experience in identifying beauty traps. Xie Zhi was just putting on an act.

Xie Zhi looked Fang Xianxing up and down, then turned his head away, pulling out a tissue and wiping the tear stains from his face with a very cold expression. “Since we’re not registering the marriage, Ms. Fang, please take me back to the research institute.”

His voice still had the hoarseness of crying, but he had already returned to his cold and distant state. Fang Xianxing clicked her tongue inwardly. If Xie Zhi were to debut in place of Song Longsha, how could he still be just a seventeenth-tier celebrity?

“No, I’m curious now. Xie Zhi, why do you want to get married through a blind date?” Fang Xianxing asked seriously. “You don’t seem to care about who you marry or how you get married. Instead, you care more about the divorce. If that’s the case, why get married at all? Could it be that you’re being forced into marriage by your family? But as far as I know, you’re the only child in your family. Your mother works in the education bureau, and your father is a middle school teacher. They don’t seem like unreasonable people. How could they force you to the point of putting on an act with me for the sake of getting married?”

“If it’s because you’re interested in me, my identity, or my money, then there’s no need to mention it. You don’t seem to think highly of me at all.” Fang Xianxing added with a numb expression.

“What good would it do if I told you?” Xie Zhi said coldly, starting to find Fang Xianxing difficult to deal with.

Indeed, he shouldn’t have chosen randomly.

When he had revealed his intention to settle down and get married to his father, his father had sent him many photos. Pressed for time, he had been too lazy to look closely and had just randomly picked one, thinking that by pretending to be well-behaved, he could surely fool a fool.

Who knew he would pick such a difficult and shrewd person!

Fang Xianxing tilted her head and thought for a moment. “I won’t sign the divorce agreement.”

“Then there’s nothing more to say.” Xie Zhi’s voice was cold as he placed his hand on the car door, ready to get out directly.

“Wait,” Fang Xianxing spoke to stop him. “The reason you’re in a hurry to get married is that you’ve encountered a problem you can’t solve on your own, right? To satisfy my curiosity, I can help you solve it.”

Xie Zhi let go of his hand and turned to look at Fang Xianxing, seemingly weighing whether her words were trustworthy.

His eyes were still slightly red. Fang Xianxing glanced at them and then looked away.

Even when Xie Zhi was acting, his eyes remained clear. This made people who knew he was acting still can’t help but feel pity for him.

His appearance was a bit unfair.

After a long time, Xie Zhi spoke. “I need a wife-master to sign a family consent form for me.”

“What family consent form? Can’t your mom and dad sign it?” Fang Xianxing asked, puzzled.

Xie Zhi wasn’t very good at opening up to people. He gave Fang Xianxing another deep look and finally decided to lay everything out. “The family consent form for participating in the underwater archeological exploration of the Taibei Sha No. 1 in the Nanlin Ocean’s rift sea.”

“A month ago, the Taibei Sha No. 1 from Xiya Country had an accident in the rift sea and requested assistance from our country. During the salvage operation, workers discovered an old stele from the Yuan Shun dynasty on the seabed. Experts estimated that there were likely more ancient ruins or shipwrecks from the same period in the nearby waters. Due to the large scale of the project and the shortage of underwater archeological team members, they recruited underwater archeologists nationwide.”

“I studied underwater archeology.”

Fang Xianxing responded with an “Oh.” “You want to go, but your mom and dad don’t agree?”

Xie Zhi nodded.

“It’s because of the danger, right?” Fang Xianxing continued. “I remember there are accidents involving free diving every year.”

Space and the deep sea were both areas that humans had pursued for a long time but with little success. The difficulty of underwater archeology, especially deep-sea archeology, was evident.

Xie Zhi’s expression turned unpleasant for a moment.