Early morning.

There was deathly silence in the huge villa.

On the big bed in the master bedroom, Lin Sui had a painful look on his face, tormented by a nightmare.

The man in the dream was resolute and arrogant. He pulled the corners of his mouth, knives flew out of his eyes, and his thin lips opened and closed.

"Lin Sui, I've never seen a woman more shameless than you. You'd give up anything for money. You bitch, I curse you to hell!"

In the dream, Lin Sui cried endlessly and sobbed until she couldn't speak. From the third perspective, Lin Sui was extremely anxious and she shouted at the man.

"No! No! I love you, but I have my reasons! Listen to me..."

Pop.

The light in the master bedroom was suddenly turned on. The man stood in front of the door, squinting his eyes at Lin Sui who was in pain on the bed. He took two or three steps over, grabbed Lin Sui's arm, and slapped Lin Sui's face with his big palm.

"Wake up."

Lin Sui half-closed her eyes, as if she could not adapt to the sudden brightness. She used her other hand to cover her eyes. After a while, she came out of her dream and her eyes gradually focused on the man in front of her.

"Zhou Dang, are you sick? Why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?"

Zhou Dang chuckled and played with Lin Sui's skin, which was as white as mutton-fat jade.

"You ungrateful little bastard, if I hadn't woken you up, you would have been in bed a long time ago."

Lin Sui snorted and turned over, showing no appreciation at all.

"Being sleep-deprived is better than being sleep-deprived by you."

Zhou Dang was enraged by these words. His eyes suddenly became fierce and he tore off the silk quilt from Lin Sui's body.

"Come here and fulfill your wifely duties!"

Lin Sui resisted desperately, being extremely unwilling.

"Fuck you, Zhou Dang, isn't it enough that you're out there looking for women every day? Don't come back and disgust me!"

Zhou Dang listened to Lin Sui's abuse and laughed instead. He stopped what he was doing and stared into Lin Sui's eyes.

"Why, are you jealous?"

Lin Sui raised his eyes, his gaze full of disdain.

"Are you dreaming?"

"Hold!"

Bang!

Zhou Dang slapped Lin Sui loudly.

"Don't be shameless. After five years of marriage, I think you've forgotten who you are. What's the difference between you and a prostitute? Didn't you get together with me just for money? You can even abandon your first love of seven years without hesitation. If you're not a bitch, who is?"

Lin Sui stared, stunned for a moment.

This scene was so similar to what the man said in the dream just now that Lin Sui didn't care about the pain on her face for a moment.

Lin Sui looked at the ceiling and shed tears silently.

…

Zhou Dang fell asleep next to Lin Sui. Lin Sui didn't want to sleep in the same bed with Zhou Dang, so he got up and went to the second bedroom.

After taking a thorough bath, Lin Sui was no longer sleepy.

Leaning on the bedside table, Lin Sui flipped through the WeChat address book and skillfully found the familiar avatar, but he didn't have the courage to click on it.

She waited until dawn, got up and washed her face. When she looked in the mirror, she found a thin line at the corner of her eye. She touched it and stared at herself in the mirror in a daze.

I’m only 27, how come I already have wrinkles?

She sighed, put on some light makeup, picked up her canvas bag, and when she went out, Lin Sui subconsciously glanced at the dressing mirror. She was wearing a pure white T-shirt, a washed denim skirt, and white sneakers. She seemed to be dressed no differently than when she was in college.

She walked to the basement to drive her second-hand Volkswagen. She'd gotten up too early, so it wasn't her turn to go to work yet, so the road was smooth. When she got to the office building, the familiar breakfast shop wasn't crowded. Lin Sui spent two yuan on a cup of soy milk and a vegetarian bun, her usual breakfast.

He casually opened the accounting software and wrote down the breakfast expenses. Lin Sui took a look and saw that there were still 5 days left until the end of the month. Fortunately, he did not exceed the budget.

After breakfast, Lin Sui did some stretching following the video. After tidying up his workstation, his colleagues started to come to work one after another.

Editor-in-chief Da Lao Wang walked into the department wearing high heels and twisting his hips. Everyone stood up, picked up their computers and went to the meeting room. It was another Monday and time for the regular meeting.

Lin Sui has been working at this media company since graduating from university. His primary responsibilities are interviewing and writing articles. This job is based on a base salary plus commissions. The more articles he writes and the more they are read, the more commissions he earns, and thus, the higher his salary. Lin Sui is a model worker almost every month.

Big Wang walked in with a glass of iced American coffee, swiped his computer a few times, and started assigning topics.

"Lin Sui, go follow the trending topic that just trended yesterday, #Man's Youth Was Freely Harassed for Six Years#."

Lin Sui was a bit confused. He had been in a bad mood all day yesterday, so he hadn't been online. Fortunately, his colleague Wang Jinjin was quite gossipy and picked up the topic to tell Lin Sui about it.

"A woman dumped her boyfriend of six years to be with a rich man. No matter how hard her boyfriend tried to get her to stay, it was useless. Then, out of nowhere, the man's Weibo post about trying to get her to stay went viral, and the incident became a hot topic."

Big Wang nodded and continued speaking while looking at Lin Sui.

"Go interview this woman about her mental journey."

Lin Sui twitched his lips, feeling that he was being ridiculed, but still nodded and accepted the topic.

"Hey, Big Wang, what's so good about this interview? It's nothing more than a story about a bitch who loves money! I read that woman's previous Weibo, and the man treated her so well, practically worshipping her. But in the end, she met a rich man and dumped him."

Wang Jinjin continued to express his views on the matter.

Lin Sui felt that Wang Jinjin was scolding him, and couldn't help but speak up for the person involved.

"Perhaps, the person involved has something to hide."

Wang Jinjin snorted coldly and didn't say anything else.

Big Wang continued to distribute the topics.

That day, after Lin Sui read all the hot searches about the topic and all the Weibo posts of the man and woman involved, he made an interview outline before leaving get off work and made an appointment with the person involved for an interview the next day.

It was already dark when I left the company.

The wind with a unique summer smell blew gently on Lin Sui. Lin Sui slowly walked to the parking lot and sat alone in the car. She was silent for a long time, and finally started the engine and drove home, even though she didn't want to.

Lin Sui is used to listening to music while driving, mostly songs from her era.

"Liberation" was playing in the car. It was a song that Lin Sui liked very much in the past. She had just hummed along for a few lines when her best friend Cheng Yi called.

"Hey, what are you doing? Are you looking for me for dinner?"

Cheng Yi was Lin Sui's good friend in high school, and it has been more than ten years now.

"No, well, I don't know whether I should tell you." Cheng Yi's tone was hesitant.

Lin Sui suddenly had a very bad premonition, but she still pretended to be relaxed.

"It's okay, go ahead."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time, and finally there was a voice.

"Qin Chen is getting married."

Bang!

There was a loud bang.

"Sui Sui, what's wrong with you? Sui Sui?" Cheng Yi's worried voice came over the phone line.

"It's okay... I got rear-ended."