Married Old Virgin Boss
65. The Human Mind vs the Reality of Life

Not willing to waste too much time just to turn off the motorbike, Ben immediately approached the door of the luxury house he visited. His taping was so rushed, it was in line with the expression he was showing now. Contrasted upside down with the bewildered face displayed by the woman who opened the door for him.

“Eh, Ben? Why come here? Your temen new ... just go home.”

“He why come here, Ma'am?” ask Ben, sue. “He is not my temen.” Ben almost continued to say that he had a bad relationship with his brother-in-law.

“You directly came here after I secretly photographed your friend, Ben?” ask the woman doubtfully. “Surely important, yes? Why emang? Where do you know I made a mistake.”

“No one, Ma'am. That's my brother-in-law,” replied Ben half honestly. The woman immediately turned lazy after knowing it.

“You are afraid that I will tell you about your true condition to him?” ask the woman. He didn't get any response from Ben, but already knew the answer. “He knows, Ben. He said he recorded what it was, through your phone. That's why he even knows the address of this house.”

Ben immediately stiffened perfectly after hearing this statement of the woman in front of him. Seems not enough, the pregnant woman also added another sentence.

“You should be open, Ben. Have a brother-in-law as good as him, I am really confused as the reason you do not want to be honest to your wife's family about your illness.”

Ben gulped down the saliva roughly, with a blank look forward.

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Once upon a time, when Ben had just taken his first breath in the world, he lost his struggling mother giving birth to himself into the world. Ben felt that he owed his life at that time, even though the birth and the gamble of life was indeed the will of the mother.

However, seeing how the father continues to fall into loneliness after the death of his wife, Ben feels very guilty. Moreover, the fact that life is lacking in their family causes her to have trouble getting a new stepmother who is as good as Ben's birth mother.

Once planning to improve life, and have beautiful dreams about the future, career, and family, the fantasy was thrown down when Ben was in the last bench of High School. Another reason why he left his girlfriend at that time, because for the sake of accompanying and supporting him, his lover had to sacrifice many things: study time, pleasure, and almost his ideals.

So Ben chose to stay away.

He is forced to face the bitter reality of life with his father: the senior of a difficult life. He was taught that the human mind can only be designed to dream. But basically, the mind is only inside the head. Let alone helping humans out of the snare of poverty and hardship, the mind in the brain cannot even rid itself of bone confinement and skin entanglement.

Especially the man himself.

Ben almost felt desperate at the time, but his father kept encouraging him.

“You fought not only for your life, but also your mother's life. So, try your hardest so that you die just because you are tired of living in the world, not because of the bondage of disease or pressure of others.”

Only that sentence made Ben continue to stand on his own fragile feet.

But in the end, the father could not even realize what he himself had said: to die from the boredom of living in the world. The twilight man closed his age to pursue his rupiah coffer when directing a luxury car for parking. Human arrogance manages to blind the heart, and it doesn't matter at all if Ben's father is a lifeless creature of the human kind. Not yet an expert driving a sports car, but stubbornly showing off the vehicle. Until Ben's father crashes while a short two-door car continues to retreat uncontrollably.

Ben immediately fell for two things at that time: his family died, and the reason for his death was to raise money for his treatment.

He built an invisible wall between himself and others. Prohibit forming relationships of any kind, to prevent anyone from becoming like Ben's mother, Ben's father, or even just like Ben's ex-lover.

The man had tried very well, until finally .. the boss of his place of work offered a marriage agreement for one year. Thinking that nothing would happen in those 365 days, so he accepted the offer easily. Hoping, that during that time, he could give a little help to others before getting bored of his life.

However, the existence of an adult woman with the attitude of a teenage girl makes Ben feel a rollercoaster ride during his dealings with his wife. Jealousy that is not controlled Ben just because he knows Dea is in an apartment with his ex-lover, the excessive attitude of his sister-in-law, even up to the criteria of the dream man wife—Ben feel responsible for all that.

So that he had forgotten his original purpose, and accidentally set up a fragile hope in him.

Forgetting, that he should not have built a relationship so far— until it formed a special feeling in him for his wife. Because his separation will be much more difficult than the original plan.

But Ben has already entered. And as much as possible, to get out before the time comes.

Either the time of divorce, or the time of getting bored with life.

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Dea's furious. Ben knew very well, because after he returned to the restaurant, the woman was already standing at the door with her hands folded in front of her chest.

“You think this is your ancestral restaurant that can make you free to take hours of work or rest as good as jidat?” asked Dea with her chin raised defiantly.

“Sorry, Mom, there's a super impromptu important thing. I'm ready, accept any punishment from Bu Dea,” Ben replied with a big smile.

However, Dea did not care. He showed his anger in the form of leaving without a word. His pace was so slow when he entered the restaurant, waiting for one hope to happen.

That Ben would call her, and be honest about whatever it was. Even if he wants to explain about the affair—Dea is ready to hear it. He will also ask about the advantages of the woman than himself, so that Dea bis adjust according to the criteria of Ben's favorite woman.

However, there is no. Let alone sound. Ben didn't even step in at all from where he was standing at the door of the restaurant. Just looked at Dea's back in silence, with her eyes twitching a few times.

Ben was busy considering his every move forward. Between letting his mind take over him, or staying resigned to the reality of life as before.

Ben took the first step, entering the restaurant area. Following a faster next move, Ben gets closer to the back of the woman clad in a cream blazer.

However, without a greeting, a greeting, or anything else—Ben suddenly turned towards the kitchen.

Know that his wife angrily—Ben strengthened his aura of invisibility and chose to be busy with work in the kitchen as a waitress.

It should be like this.

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