If Mu Wanting's love was given to the wrong person from the very beginning, and she suffered many grievances and misunderstandings because of it...

Mu Wanting closed her eyes.

She ate her meals absentmindedly afterward.

Shen Xinglan also noticed that Mu Wanting's expression turned very ugly after hearing Shen Xingchi say those words.

He asked, "Brother, did you know Wanting before?"

Shen Xingchi glanced at Shen Xinglan with a half-smile.

“That’s right. Strictly speaking, it might be longer than the time you’ve known Mu Wanting.”

Shen Xinglan paused, her hand holding the wine glass still. Looking at Mu Wanting and Shen Xinghe's reactions, she had a bad feeling.

On the way back, he felt a little irritable and kept thinking about how to say something without hurting anyone. Finally, he took a deep breath, but before he could say anything, he heard Mu Wanting speak.

"Shen Xinglan, let's get a divorce."

Shen Xinglan was stunned for a moment, thinking he had misheard.

Mu Wanting, who loved him so much and longed to marry him, suddenly said she wanted a divorce after only a short time having slept together.

"Mu Wanting, is there something troubling you?"

Mu Wanting shook her head very calmly.

"There's no reason why, not at all. I just want a divorce."

Shen Xinglan took a deep breath: "But marriage is not a game. How can you just get a divorce like that? There has to be a reason."

Mu Wanting pursed her lips, finding it hard to speak about the mistake, but she had already witnessed Shen Xinglan's stubbornness.

He may not necessarily like me that much, but by suggesting a divorce, I must have hurt his dignity as a man, and he can't possibly agree to it hastily.

Shen Xinglan said, "Mu Wanting, you wouldn't be thinking that you won't cherish me now that you've got me, would you?"

His face grew increasingly gloomy. Mu Wanting was taken aback: "We only slept together a few times. You don't even like me, so how can you say you've won me over?"

Shen Xinglan's thin lips were pressed tightly together, and his red-rimmed eyes made him look somewhat aggrieved.

"You're right, I don't like you anyway."

Mu Wanting nodded in strong agreement. Fortunately, it wasn't too late to realize this. She didn't like Shen Xinglan, and Shen Xinglan didn't like her either. They got divorced, which was good for both of them.

She said, "In that case, it's settled then."

"Unless you give me a real reason?"

"Are you treating me as a substitute for my brother?"

Shen Xinglan was extremely intelligent and had already guessed the most likely reason.

Mu Wanting shook her head: "No, Shen Xinglan."

She took a deep breath and looked at him quietly with her clear eyes.

"I mistook you for someone else. The person who saved me on the mountain was your older brother, not you. The person I fell in love with at first sight was also your older brother. I just thought it was you."

"Then I met you and kept pursuing you. It was really because I mistook you for someone else. Now that you don't like me, I don't blame you. It's my own fault for not recognizing you properly."

Shen Xinglan's eyes reddened: "Don't you have even the slightest bit of affection for me?"

Mu Wanting said, "No, I just like your older brother. Being with you is just wearing down my feelings for him. I thought he was the one who was hot and cold towards me."

Shen Xinglan's lips trembled, unable to utter a single word; he only felt a sharp pain in his heart.

Mu Wanting apologized sincerely.

"I'm sorry. As an apology, I'll heal your leg. After that, I can grant you one more request. However, you must keep your promise to help me find my mother."

Shen Xinglan didn't say much. After returning, Mu Wanting began to arrange his surgery, and she also invited her second and third brothers to come along.

Shen Xinglan felt a pang of sorrow. Was she really so eager to get rid of him?

The surgery was a success, and Mu Wanting took meticulous care of him after the surgery, but they never shared a bed again.

Shen Xinglan felt a little sad and stared blankly at the bed curtains all day.

It's ridiculous that he didn't realize he liked Mu Wanting until she was about to leave. He had already fallen for her without even knowing it.

But after she fell in love with her, she realized that the person she liked had actually been someone else from the very beginning.

Her intense affection for him all those years was simply because of her older brother.

In the middle of the night, he would still have those dreams, all of them of her smiling face from before.

He was startled to realize how carefully he had observed her, and that he had been completely absorbed in her at that moment.

However, fate played a cruel trick on him. He also loathed scheming women, so he pushed her away time and time again, breaking her heart each time.

"How are you feeling? Is your leg any better?"

Mu Wanting lowered her eyes and looked at him tenderly.

Shen Xinglan opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

Mu Wanting said, "It's alright, I'll give you acupuncture again later."

Shen Xinglan looked at her parting lips and almost couldn't help but miss her.

He pulled her into his arms and lowered his head to kiss her lips.

Mu Wanting neither responded nor refused; she simply looked at him calmly.

The obsession of the past was gone, as if it could only appear in a dream from a past life.

He felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him.

He took a deep breath, unable to suppress the pain in his heart.

Mu Wanting said, "It's okay, I know you can't accept it right away."

Shen Xinglan felt a bitter taste in her mouth.

"If I were the one who saved you, would you still leave me?"

Mu Wanting thought for a moment and nodded.

"Yes, I wouldn't normally say no, but when I hear you mention divorce again and again, it hurts me too. I think divorce would set us both free."

Shen Xinglan felt as if she had been punched hard in the chest, and the pain made it hard for her to breathe.

"Actually, no." He was just being stubborn at the time.

He simply assumed that Mu Wanting wouldn't leave him.

Mu Wanting gently comforted him.

"Actually, whether it is true or not, it doesn't matter anymore. No matter which path we take, we are destined to separate. There is only one ending for us."

If Mu Wanting had argued with him hysterically, he would have felt that it was possible to continue, even though he was upset. But now, Mu Wanting was gently persuading him, and he felt that it was over between them.

Mu Wanting massaged him while speaking softly.

“Shen Xinglan, you don’t need to feel uncomfortable. The person you were going to marry was not me, but Murong Rong, and the person I was going to marry was not you.”

"Have you forgotten? The first thing you did when you first met me was to ask for a divorce."

Thinking of this, she chuckled softly.

"Have you forgotten? Even though you were beaten bloody and mangled, you still insisted on writing the divorce papers. The way you were made me convinced that you truly felt that your marriage with me was torture and that you just wanted to get away from me as quickly as possible."