Chapter Five

It was quite late when Wen Yixing and Fang Jingyao got home. Wen Yixing learned from Aunt Li that the old lady hadn't come over that evening. Instead, Fang Shiyu had brought her classmate home, and after discovering that Wen Yixing wasn't home, she threw a huge tantrum.

Fang Jingyao, who was eavesdropping, simply snorted. He knew Fang Shiyu would come, so he deliberately made a scene during dinner to get his mother to turn off her phone. Sure enough, turning off the phone worked!

When Wen Yixing got home, she realized she had forgotten to turn on her phone. When she did, she found twelve missed calls, ten of which were from Fang Shiyu and the other two from Fang Shiyan.

Fang Shiyan rarely calls her first, so he probably called her tonight because Fang Shiyu annoyed him.

In the past, Wen Yixing would have worried that he would be unhappy, and she would have gone to his study to explain after seeing his phone call. But now, Wen Yixing had no interest in talking to Fang Shiyan at all. She was very tired and just wanted to sleep.

Fang Jingyao has had his own bedroom since he was four years old, but today he is particularly clingy and really doesn't want to sleep alone.

As her biological mother, Wen Yixing had a vague feeling that something was wrong with Fang Jingyao, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Coupled with the dream she had before, Wen Yixing was even more worried. All she could do now was stay with her son to feel at ease.

Wen Yixing planned to stay with Fang Jingyao tonight. She went back to her bedroom to change into her pajamas, but she didn't expect that when she opened the door, she would see someone sitting on her bed.

She was startled and blurted out in a low voice, "What are you doing here?"

Standing in her bedroom was Fang Shiyan. He had changed into a silk nightgown; his skin was pale, and the black silk accentuated his striking features. Perhaps he had just taken a shower, for his hair was still wet and hadn't been dried.

Her tone was so surprised that Fang Shiyan was a little displeased. He frowned slightly and asked, "Where did you go?"

Wen Yixing didn't look at him much, and went to the wardrobe to find the clothes she wanted to wear. "I took Yao Yao out for hot pot and then watched a movie."

Although they were husband and wife, Fang Shiyan rarely came to her bedroom unless there was a specific reason, and the bedroom was mostly filled with her own things.

After tidying up, Wen Yixing looked up at Fang Shiyan and found that he had no intention of leaving. After a moment of silence, Wen Yixing slowly said, "Yaoyao is not feeling well today, so I'll go and sleep with him."

Without waiting for Fang Shiyan to speak, Wen Yixing left the bedroom with her belongings.

The bedroom fell silent again, and Fang Shiyan stared at her retreating figure, lost in thought.

Was she just telling him to get out?

Fang Shiyan felt something was amiss.

His hair wasn't dry yet. In the past, she would have told him to dry his hair before going to sleep, or she would have dried his hair for him.

But tonight, she didn't say a word.

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Wen Yixing woke up at six o'clock in the morning, which was her biological clock. In the past, she would get up at six o'clock every morning to make breakfast for Fang Shiyan.

Fang Shiyan has a bad stomach and is picky about food. Wen Yixing would go to great lengths to make him something delicious every morning so he could eat well, but she didn't want to make anything today.

She had been married to Fang Shiyan for seven years and had made him breakfast for seven years. Now she didn't want to do it anymore, but she felt somewhat idle.

The child beside her was sleeping soundly. Wen Yixing carefully got out of bed and went to the bathroom to change the dressing on her arm. After a night, the abrasion on her arm had scabbed over and was not very painful anymore.

After changing the dressing, Wen Yixing returned to the bedside. On the bedside table was a photo of the three of them.

Wen Yixing stiffly took the photo. It was taken two years ago when her Yaoyao was only two years old. She was delicate and cute, being held in her father's arms like an adorable little dumpling.

That was the first time the family of three went out to play. They went to the West Lake. The photo was taken by a stranger. Wen Yixing remembers it so clearly because it was the first photo of the three of them together.

Wen Yixing's gaze unconsciously fell on the man in the photo.

Fang Shiyan doesn't like taking pictures, and she never smiles when she does. In the photos, she and her son are smiling happily, but Fang Shiyan still has a blank face, looking distant and not at all like a family.

That day, Fang Shiyan was in a bad mood. He only spent half a day with them before leaving, making an excuse that he had to leave the company.

Fang Shiyan didn't say anything, but Wen Yixing knew in her heart that it was the day Jiang Ruyue got engaged abroad.

Wen Yixing looked at herself in the photo one last time.

At that time, she had just recovered from her illness, and her figure had become even more out of shape. In order to hide her imperfect figure, she wore a loose gray top, but the clothes did not suit her and made her look even fatter, making her look somewhat sloppy.

The woman in the photo is plain and unadorned. She looks up at the man beside her with a cautious yet adoring gaze.

It's clear that she feels somewhat inferior and insecure.

Wen Yixing stared at herself in the photo for a long, long time.

Now that she knows her fate, she seems to have been enlightened and suddenly realizes the truth.

She was a top student who graduated from a prestigious university, and she could have had a good job before.

She clearly has a great figure, and she's not bad-looking either.

But when exactly did she start to become so insecure, stop caring about her appearance, and become a full-time housewife with almost no social life?

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Fang Shiyan came down from the second floor at eight o'clock. Perhaps because he hadn't dried his hair before going to bed last night, he felt dizzy and uncomfortable when he woke up this morning.

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