Not daring to even turn on the flashlight, Su Jin unlocked her phone and used the faint light from the screen to illuminate a very small area.

She searched for a long time, constantly marveling at how tidy the room was.

After all that, I still didn't see the bank card.

"Where did I put this?" Su Jin wondered to herself.

She remained bent over, her eyes scanning the ground.

Zheng Lin rarely brings anything when he goes on business trips, so he doesn't have a suitcase and his belongings are very limited.

In a room like this, she couldn't imagine where he would hide things.

Su Jin glanced at the sleeping man on the bed, her gaze settling on the pillow beneath his head.

She gripped the edge of the bed with her hands, rested her chin between them, and squinted her eyes, peering through the gap in the pillow.

I can't see anything.

You have to reach in and touch it to find out.

Su Jin looked up at Zheng Lin's face again. Good, he didn't seem like he would wake up.

So, she became bolder and reached under the pillow.

I touched it from the left and right, but still found nothing.

The moment my finger was pulled out, it was suddenly grabbed.

Su Jin subconsciously looked at Zheng Lin's face and couldn't help but swallow.

He was looking at her with his eyes open.

Su Jin: "..." My sleep quality isn't very good either.

She was trying to think of something to say to ease the awkwardness.

Zheng Lin turned on the bedside lamp and pointed to the bedside table.

Su Jin belatedly glanced at the bedside table and saw her bank card!

“Actually, you don’t need to come to my room in the middle of the night. I’ll give you a room key, and you can come and find whatever you want at any time…” Zheng Lin looked at Su Jin’s hand reaching towards the bedside table and continued, “Anything.”

Su Jin hesitated for a moment, but finally picked up her bank card decisively, as if someone would snatch it away if she hesitated for even a second.

The feeling of finally getting her things back made her incredibly happy.

Her face was filled with uncontrollable ecstasy.

Seeing how happy she was, Zheng Lin also curled up the corners of his mouth, and then a slightly mischievous thought came to mind, "I see you're happy so soon. What will you do if it's a blank card?"

Su Jin: "I knew you weren't that kind."

"You'll know the result when you check tomorrow."

Goodbye then.

"You're leaving so soon? Why don't you stay a little longer?" Zheng Lin deliberately tried to scare her. "It's so late now. What if you run into bad people when you go back? Why don't you just sleep here? We're husband and wife after all, it's normal for us to share a bed."

Su Jin discovered that Zheng Lin was becoming increasingly shameless.

He wasn't like this before.

"Okay, just don't regret it." Su Jin took off her coat, lay down in bed, and ordered Zheng Lin, "Turn off the light, I'm going to sleep."

Zheng Lin leaned closer to her ear and asked, "Are you able to sleep?"

His voice was naturally deep and pleasant to hear.

Su Jin felt a tingling sensation behind her ear, which then spread to her back.

She turned her body to the side, her back to him, and forced herself to close her eyes: "If you can sleep, just mind your own business."

"But I can't sleep, I want to talk to you for a while."

"I don't want to talk. If you have something on your mind, go talk to Assistant Gao." Su Jin maintained her aloof and unapproachable attitude.

She acted this way, but deep down she was experiencing wave after wave of turmoil.

All her composure was just an act.

"He can't untangle my troubles, only you can."

The man's seductive voice continued to come from behind my ear.

Su Jin couldn't quite control her emotions, so she pursed her lips and took a breath through her nose.

She buried her head under the covers, silencing herself, and said, "I don't want to hear it."

"Please listen to this; it's very important to me."

Su Jin suddenly threw off the covers, sat up, and looked at him with a very cold expression: "Fine, after you've finished speaking, can I go to sleep?"

Zheng Lin: "Yes."

"Then tell me, hurry up."

Zheng Lin took a deep breath, his eyelashes trembling with nervousness. "Whether I have children or not is not important to me. Don't distance yourself from me because of the issue of children."

"I don't."

“I know everything that happened back then. Losing the child must have been a huge blow to you, but we’ve already missed out on so many things, and I don’t want to miss out on anything else.”

Su Jin never expected that Zheng Lin would know about what happened two years ago; she thought these past events would remain buried in the past.

After losing her child, Su Jin became extremely sensitive to anything related to her child.

At this moment, she couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat.

"Can we... stay together?" Zheng Lin asked earnestly.

He has had a very difficult time these past two years.

Not a day goes by that I don't miss Su Jin.

He verbally expressed his hatred, but whenever someone asked about or talked about Su Jin, he forbade anyone to mention her.

He loved her deeply and longed to hear news about Su Jin.

Even a false rumor could make his long-dormant heart beat again.

His engagement to He Ru was merely a ploy to provoke Su Jin, to see if he still held any place in her heart. He knew his actions were childish, but he couldn't resist the urge to try, wanting only a result.

He did all this just to get a result.

Whether it was the breakup twelve years ago or the elopement two years ago, he wanted the same result.

The result was obvious, yet they still wanted to test it again and again.

Zheng Lin's eyes reddened slightly, and his heart ached as he watched Su Jin remain silent.

Su Jin silently clenched her hands under the blanket, as if she had made a great decision.

After a long silence, she finally spoke slowly: "Let's find some time to get the divorce certificate."

"After saying all that, you said you were going to get a divorce certificate." Zheng Lin suddenly gave a self-deprecating laugh. "I thought we could get back together today. I didn't expect that I still couldn't bring you back to my side."

With tears in her eyes, Su Jin said, "Our child is gone. It's like God is telling us that we weren't meant to be."

“A hint from heaven.” Zheng Lin pondered these four words for a moment, nodded to himself, and chuckled again.

What a perfect reason to refuse someone.

This prevented him from even asking Heaven whether it had given any hints.

There is simply no way to obtain evidence.

Zheng Lin picked up the cigarette case, took out a cigarette and held it between his fingers, while reaching for a lighter with his other hand.

Then, he suddenly remembered something, glanced back at Su Jin who had already lain down again, and put all the cigarettes away.

"Go to sleep," he said.

With the bedside lamp turned off, both of them were preoccupied with their own thoughts and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

Back when she was in school, Su Jin was stopped by a group of thugs. One of them was smoking and deliberately blew smoke into her face, making her cough.

Zheng Lin arrived later and chased away the thugs, only to find that Su Jin kept coughing until her face turned red, her neck became thick, and she couldn't breathe.

So, from then on, Zheng Lin couldn't stand strong, pungent smells, and he kept that in mind.

Over the years, he would never smoke in the presence of Su Jin.