What exactly did Zhuo Zhiyuan mean by that? She couldn't understand a word he said.

Shu Jia looked at Zhuo Zhiyuan as if he were an idiot. She was in a good mood after eating and drinking her fill, and did not pay close attention to Zhuo Zhiyuan's expression.

She continued, "What's wrong with you? You came all the way from Xingcheng to see me, only to tell me it's nothing important and you don't need to say anything? Are you kidding me? Have you been so bored lately that you're trying to find some amusement in me?"

After Shu Jia finished speaking, she added with a big smile, her heart filled with joy: "But I never expected that you would actually leave all your work at the company and come all this way to see me!"

It was precisely because I hadn't expected this that I was thinking of working overtime this morning to finish my work quickly so that I could have some free time this afternoon to play with Zhuo Zhiyuan.

Unexpectedly, she was free in the afternoon, but Zhuo Zhiyuan was nowhere to be seen.

However, both she and Zhuo Zhiyuan have time now.

So Shu Jia excitedly reached out and grabbed Zhuo Zhiyuan's arm: "Get up quickly, the nightlife here is just beginning. There's a night market nearby. Ji Chenxi said it's very unique, beautiful and interesting. Let's go check it out!"

Ji Chenxi said, Ji Chenxi said, why is everything Ji Chenxi said?

Zhuo Zhiyuan took a deep breath, trying to make his expression appear calm.

"Are you done talking? I'm going to sleep now."

Zhuo Zhiyuan interrupted Shu Jia, and his arm avoided Shu Jia's outstretched hand. He even turned half of his body to the side to avoid her.

The extent of her retreat made Shu Jia pause, puzzled, and her expression became more serious: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing. I've been out all day and I'm tired. I want to rest early."

If Shu Jia hasn't noticed Zhuo Zhiyuan's bad mood by now, then she's really wasted all this time knowing Zhuo Zhiyuan.

"What's wrong with you? You were perfectly fine when you came to see me this morning." Shu Jia was completely baffled.

"Is living under the same roof as me boring?"

Instead of answering Shu Jia, Zhuo Zhiyuan suddenly asked this question out of the blue.

"...It's alright, after all, Tuantuan and Yuanyuan are already so grown up. Didn't we agree to live together as a couple when we got married? Let's just make do like this!"

It would be nice to just keep living like this!

Shu Jia was puzzled as to why Zhuo Zhiyuan had suddenly brought this up.

"Ha—I knew it."

It's all about responsibility, without a shred of emotion.

Zhuo Zhiyuan lowered his head, his bangs obscuring his suddenly sinister gaze.

"What did you just say? I didn't hear you."

Shu Jia's questioning voice rang out.

When Zhuo Zhiyuan raised his head again, his gaze had turned cold, and his words were as if they were chilled by ice: "I just said—living together as a couple is so boring, I've had enough."

"What? What do you mean? You don't want to continue living with me?"

Shu Jia's doe-like eyes widened in astonishment.

After realizing what had happened, my first reaction was disbelief: "We've been doing just fine for the past two years, haven't we? Tuantuan and Yuanyuan are all grown up now..."

"Really? But suddenly I don't want to live like this anymore."

What kind of life are you referring to?

"A boring, tedious, and utterly disgusting life."

Zhuo Zhiyuan's voice was as calm as still water, but from his calm and composed gaze and expression, Shu Jia knew that he was speaking from the heart.

"Oh--"

Shu Jia gave a cold laugh.

Boring, tedious, and utterly disgusting?

Two years of living together day and night, these ordinary days filled with small moments of warmth, were something that Zhuo Zhiyuan found utterly repulsive.

Shu Jia smiled, but her gaze toward Zhuo Zhiyuan held a hint of heartbreak that was barely perceptible to others.

Indeed, a marriage without love as its foundation cannot last, no matter how carefully she tries to maintain it.

When I said "let's just live together" back then, I was so young. And Zhuo Zhiyuan, who agreed to that, was also so young.

Little did we know that time flies, years pass quickly, people grow up, and people's thoughts are not static.

"So, you really are with Gu Yimin?"

How long have you two been together?

Did you do it?

"You've already arranged when you want the three of us to make room for Gu Yimin, haven't you?"

Shu Jia closed her eyes, and in a deflated state, blurted out all the words that had been building up in her heart for so long.

God knows how turbulent Shu Jia's heart was when she overheard the rumors about Zhuo Zhiyuan and Gu Yimin at the last banquet; it was like a bottle of spice had been spilled, leaving her with indescribable feelings.

That night, she was indeed in a bad mood and drank a lot of alcohol, but subconsciously she was still sober.

A crazy idea popped into her head: she abandoned all shame and reserve, and, under the influence of alcohol, offered herself up to him.

Well—and the result was that Zhuo Zhiyuan acted even more like Liu Xiahui than Liu Xiahui himself.

Men and women are different. For men, the surname is a primal instinct, an instinct etched into their genes.

Shu Jia didn't believe that Zhuo Zhiyuan, such an ordinary person, could overcome the primal instincts written in his genes.

But Zhuo Zhiyuan overcame it.

Shu Jia dared not think too deeply about the reasons behind this, yet she had no choice but to ponder them.

Only true love could make Zhuo Zhiyuan do all this.

Is Zhuo Zhiyuan truly in love with Gu Yimin?

To remain chaste and pure for her sake?

Shu Jia is never one to drag things out; her style is to settle scores on the spot and never let them linger overnight.

But when she realized the answer, her heart ached as if it were being cut by a knife.

In the mundane flow of life, love arises unexpectedly, and she has long been deeply in love.

For the rest of her life, she didn't know how to face Zhuo Zhiyuan, but one thing was clear: she had to learn to live without Zhuo Zhiyuan.

Checking on the filming progress of the web series was something her assistant could have done by traveling on business, but she chose to come in person instead.

She came in person for two reasons: first, to temporarily leave Zhuo Zhiyuan and get used to life without him; and second, to carefully consider her relationship with Zhuo Zhiyuan, given their two children.

Shu Jia thought that if she and Zhuo Zhiyuan parted ways in the future, the child would definitely have to go with her.

It's true that Zhuo Zhiyuan loves children, but after he got together with his true love Gu Yimin, they were still so young, and they would definitely have their own children in the future.

Shu Jia didn't want Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan to live in the shadow of other people's happiness.

Based on this premise, Shu Jia recently even went to Ji Chenxi to inquire about the issue of child custody after the divorce.

Just as she had made all the preparations, Zhuo Zhiyuan arrived in Z City.