Xu Yanshu arrived home at 8:30 p.m. After a busy day at work, he immediately began preparing a late-night snack for Xie Huanyu.

She then turned and went into the bathroom, where she had prepared the bathwater in advance and arranged aromatherapy and desserts on the side.

At 9:30, Xu Yanshu laid out Xie Huanyu's slippers in the entryway.

Knowing Xie Huanyu wouldn't be home for a while, Xu Yanshu went into the walk-in closet to organize Xie Huanyu's seasonal clothes. Most unexpectedly, he found an abortion surgery form in the closet—

So why is that?

Completely baffled, Xu Yanshu helplessly buried his head in his hands.

He had expressed his desire to have a child with Xie Huanyu more than once, but she still secretly aborted the child without saying a word...

Or is this child not even their own?

Xu Yanshu frowned painfully. Whether it was true or not, he couldn't accept such a concealment.

If I hadn't thought of helping Xie Huanyu tidy her clothes today, I might have remained completely in the dark.

Looking back on everything since getting married, Xu Yanshu suddenly felt extremely exhausted, perhaps it should have ended long ago.

Xie Huanyu was a pampered young lady who grew up in the Xie family, while her father was just an ordinary driver for the Xie family. Their backgrounds were worlds apart.

When Xie Huanyu's father died trying to save her, he felt guilty and proposed that Xie Huanyu marry him.

Xu Yanshu initially refused, partly because he didn't want to exchange his father's life-saving act for personal gain, and partly because he knew that Xie Huanyu had no feelings for him at all.

When Xu Yanshu wanted to go find Xie Junshan to clear things up, Xie Huanyu found him first.

Xie Huanyu gently took his hand and spoke sincerely.

"Yan Shu, I know you are a very good person. We can develop our feelings for each other slowly after we get married."

As expected, Xu Yanshu wavered. He never expected Xie Huanyu to take the initiative to approach him, and some feelings that he had hidden deep in his heart resurfaced.

Xu Yanshu finally agreed to marry him.

After the marriage, he focused all his attention on Xie Huanyu.

Because she said that managing a company alone would be too stressful, he rejected the offer he had already received and went to Xie's company to help her manage the business.

He also did his best to take care of her in her daily life, and he would do anything for her by himself. He also knew all her preferences by heart.

However, Xie Huanyu's attitude towards him remained lukewarm, and she would occasionally show a look of disdain and disgust.

Ding-dong...

The sudden ringing of the doorbell brought Xu Yanshu back to his senses. He got up from the sofa and opened the door to find his assistant, Xiao Yang, supporting the drunken Xie Huanyu.

"Um... Manager Xu, Mr. Xie had a few too many drinks because he was meeting with our business partners!"

Is that so?

Knowing full well it was just an excuse, Xu Yanshu saw through it but didn't say anything, and nodded in agreement, "Okay, thank you!"

As he spoke, he helped Xie Huanyu from Xiao Yang's arms. The strong smell of alcohol on the woman made her unconsciously frown.

After helping her to sit down on the sofa, Xu Yanshu noticed tears glistening in Xie Huanyu's eyes, and his gaze suddenly darkened.

It's probably because of Lu Huai again!

Lu Huai was Xie Huanyu's first love and unattainable ideal. The reason she took the initiative to find him was because Lu Huai had seamlessly transitioned to other women, something he only learned later.

Xie Huanyu and Lu Huai had been in contact intermittently, and Xu Yanshu had long suspected it, but for some inexplicable reason, he didn't point it out.

Since Lu Huai returned from abroad a year ago, his relationship with Xie Huanyu has deteriorated to the extreme.

At first, the two of them would hide their meetings, but now Xie Huanyu would answer Lu Huai's calls in front of him, and even kick him out of the house in order to get Lu Huai to come over.

Human patience has its limits, and Xu Yanshu finally couldn't hold back any longer and let his long-suppressed emotions erupt. Xie Huanyu scoffed at this.

"Xu Yanshu, you can't have it all. You've already gotten what you wanted by becoming the Xie family's son-in-law, so what's there to be dissatisfied about?"

"If it weren't for the misunderstanding between Ah Huai and me, why would I have taken the initiative to ask you to marry me?"

Moreover, Xie Huanyu always believed that she was deliberately using her father's life-saving grace to morally blackmail the Xie family and force her into marriage.

Xu Yanshu never expected that Xie Huanyu would misunderstand him to this extent, and only then did he realize that she had never truly had the thought of divorce for the first time.

In that case, there's no need for them to be painfully bound together.

Suddenly feeling his hand being grasped, Xu Yanshu snapped back to reality.

Xie Huanyu clutched Xu Yanshu's hand, her voice trembling with tears, and murmured...

"Ah Huai, please don't go!" Xie Huanyu murmured, her voice trembling with tears.

The pang of heartache vanished instantly. Xu Yanshu withdrew his hand expressionlessly, coldly watching Xie Huanyu, who was already crying her eyes out, her gaze filled with indescribable complexity.

There's always a reason why someone is pitiful.

Lu Huai went abroad to marry someone else, and even after his divorce and return to China, he didn't stop having affairs, with one woman after another around him.

Xie Huanyu ignored all of this and continued to single-mindedly pursue Lu Huai.

Xu Yanshu simply couldn't understand why Xie Huanyu, a proud daughter of heaven, would be so fixated on Lu Huai, an incompetent and good-for-nothing second-generation rich kid.

Or perhaps matters of the heart are inherently inexplicable, just as he himself didn't understand why he was willing to waste so much time in this doomed relationship with Xie Huanyu.

However, he decided to cut his losses in time!

Xu Yanshu turned and went into the study, turned on the computer, and began to research matters related to divorce.