I Caught My Comatose Husband Cheating

After caring for my husband in a vegetative state for three years, I sold my properties to hire experts from Country D for his treatment, when I saw the floating text:

[This is the final test. If the female lead spends all her money to bring in Country D experts, the male lead will believe she's not with him just for money and will immediately wake up to take her back to inherit his billion-dollar fortune.] [Stop dreaming! If she brings the experts, how can our soft female lead continue with the male lead pretending to be in a coma?] [Exactly! I'm still waiting to see the male lead secretly kiss the sweet female lead in the middle of the night!]

I couldn't believe it. I looked toward Fu Hanyu, lying quietly. He—was faking it?

No, impossible. I went back to the attending doctor to have Fu Hanyu's body checked. The answer the doctor gave me was the same as before. "Miss Jiang, Mr. Fu still shows no signs of waking up." I breathed a sigh of relief. I knew Fu Hanyu couldn't deceive me. But the next moment, the floating text appeared again. [Just now I wondered for a moment if the female lead had discovered something. But thankfully, the doctor didn't reveal anything.] [My heart was in my throat too. I almost thought the male lead's pretense of being in a coma was about to be discovered!] [Don't worry~ Don't forget that Fu Hanyu is the young master of the Beijing circle. The hospital has long been arranged. Without his permission, no one would dare reveal he's faking. The female lead will never discover he's pretending.]

Seeing these words, my heart grew cold. My gaze fell on the examining doctor, who avoided my eyes, comforting me: "Miss Jiang, for three years, you've taken good care of your husband. As long as you persist, I believe he will wake up soon." How soon is soon? I didn't answer the doctor, but called Fu Hanyu's name. Once, twice—just like when we were dating. I cried, telling stories of our time dating, begging him to wake up and look at me, but he showed no reaction. I cried for a long time. After releasing my emotions, my mind cleared considerably. Though I didn't know what these floating words were, what they said hadn't been proven. I didn't believe Fu Hanyu, who had supported me through everything, would deceive me.

I had already sold my properties and bought tickets for this afternoon. I dried my tears and stood up to pack.

In the past two years of caring for Fu Hanyu, I had moved many things to the hospital room. After selling the properties, I moved the few remaining things here. This trip to Country D would be a long journey. As I packed, I spoke to Fu Hanyu.

"The first time you celebrated my birthday with me, my wish was to visit Country D. You said you would go with me then, but I never imagined I would go there to find someone to save you. If I had known going to Country D was to find someone to save you, I wouldn't have made that wish back then." "Hanyu, I'll be gone at least a week. For this week, I've hired an auntie to care for you. When I return, you'll surely wake up!"

But the floating text appeared again: [The female lead is leaving for a whole week? That means the male lead and our soft female lead can be together for a week, unlocking so many new places!] [Exactly, with the female lead gone for a week, the male lead and female lead can kiss until they melt in the hospital room. Maybe they can even unlock navel oranges. I love watching that!] [You two upstairs, stop dreaming! The female lead won't make it a week because she'll get into a car accident on the way to the airport, miss her flight, and completely lose the chance to hire the experts. That's how she'll fail Fu Hanyu's test. Fu Hanyu will then lose faith in love and only enjoy desire with our soft female lead, becoming a proper couple.]

My hands packing luggage paused. I would get into a car accident? Though what the floating text said hadn't been proven, they spoke with such certainty. Would everything really happen as the floating text predicted? I still couldn't believe that Fu Hanyu, with whom I had been in love for years, would be a deceiver just because of these suddenly appearing words. So, I was willing to verify what the floating text said. With my luggage, I got into a taxi for the airport. After getting in, my first words to the driver were to drive carefully. But the car still had an accident. At the corner, a car with failed brakes crashed into several vehicles, including our taxi, causing serious damage. Though the driver and I weren't severely injured, traffic was blocked on the elevated highway. I was trapped waiting for rescue and missed my flight to Country D.

When my heart felt like death, the floating text appeared again: [Damn! As expected of the male and female leads from a pure yandere novel. This is crazy. They're doing it on the rooftop? The male lead's body is amazing!] [Role play, little nurse and patient. Though taboo, it's truly sweet to watch!] [To be honest, though this secret relationship feels exciting, I still hope the female lead exits soon so the male and female leads can make love every day for me to watch.] [Upstairs, don't worry. The female lead already had her car accident. She can't bring the experts. She's already out. In a few days, she'll be kicked out! We need to be patient!]

The content on the floating text was shocking. Ignoring my injuries, I hurried back to the hospital.

Fu Hanyu and I were in a relationship of free love. I first met him during a work-study job. He seemed to have broken something and didn't know how to handle it. Seeing his troubled expression, I kindly helped him clean up the broken item and found his boss to discuss compensation. Fortunately, the item wasn't valuable, and the boss didn't ask for much compensation. After paying, he returned to school with me. Only then did I learn he was from the same school as me and, like me, was working part-time to save for tuition because his family had financial difficulties. Having lost my parents young, I had relied on my grandparents and my own hands to get to school. I felt extra goodwill toward those in similar situations. Plus, he was truly talkative, so we exchanged contact information and shared many part-time job opportunities. And so, back and forth, we entered a relationship.

Our relationship was plain, simple, and fulfilling. There were no grand passions or bloody storms, no bumpy obstacles. This was exactly as I had imagined a relationship would be, and I was very satisfied. In the third year of our relationship, he proposed to me. He said his family was ordinary, without much assets—only a decent-looking face. He hoped to marry me and live an ordinary, peaceful life together. I didn't care about his family background or his looks. I loved him because his personality perfectly matched mine. I accepted his proposal, but in the second month of our marriage, he got into a car accident. The doctor said he unfortunately became vegetative and might spend the rest of his life in bed, but because he was young, if I persisted with treatment and worked hard on his recovery, there was a high probability he could wake up. So for three years, I worked hard to care for him, turning down opportunities to join large companies and selling all the properties my grandparents left me to fund his treatment.

But now, the floating text told me. All my sacrifices and efforts were merely a test he set for me. And I was just the malicious NPC in his story who couldn't win his love, would turn from love to hate, and ultimately become blackened and die.

It was evening when I reached the hospital. Just as the floating text said, Fu Hanyu wasn't in the hospital room. The nurse on duty saw my injuries and came to support me in surprise. My heart had completely chilled. Leaning against the wall, I turned back to ask the nurse: "Where is my husband?" The nurse looked at the room, puzzled: "That's right. Where is your husband? He was there when Sister Li did her rounds. The auntie you hired went home long ago. Where did your husband go?" I remained leaning against the wall, unmoving. The nurse, seeing my truly wretched state, softly comforted me: "It's alright. Everyone in the hospital knows your husband. Plus, with his condition, no one could take him out. He can't go anywhere else. They'll find him soon. Why don't you tend to your injuries first?"

I waved her away, saying word by word: "I want to know where he is now!" Seeing my state, the nurse, though worried, went to call for help. I leaned against the wall, exhausted. But at that moment, the floating text appeared again: [Damn, so exciting! The female lead is in the hallway while the male lead and female lead are next door, kissing passionately.] [Fu Hanyu's lips are bleeding. I didn't know our soft female lead was such a little lioness!] [You upstairs must be new, right? Our female lead not only bit through Fu Hanyu's mouth but also left marks in other places.] [The CP I ship is fragrant! The soft, sweet female lead pinning Fu Hanyu to the table to kiss him—this contrast is so satisfying.] A "bang" came from the next room, as if something had fallen. My body stiffened. The floating text continued: [Our female lead saw the returned female lead yet dared to make such a loud noise. She's so daring, but so brave!] [I think she's brave too, but with them being so intense, will the female lead discover them? I'm so worried!] [Don't worry, she won't discover them. They locked the door when they went in. The female lead can't open this door!] [I mean, when the female lead discovers the male lead is missing, will she discover he's deceiving her? I don't want the male lead wrongly accused as a scumbag!] [Are you talking about that? She won't discover it! The hospital has doctors specifically cooperating with the male lead. When they're done, a doctor will push the male lead back in a wheelchair, saying they took him for muscle relaxation and rehabilitation. With doctors cooperating, the stupid female lead will surely believe it.] [The male lead is really this well-prepared?] [Of course! If he weren't thoroughly prepared, how could he deceive the female lead for so long?] [The male lead is really amazing!]

Just as the floating text predicted, Fu Hanyu was pushed back in a wheelchair by a doctor. I asked the doctor, and he gave the same answer as the floating text. Holding back tears in my eyes, I thanked the doctor, placed Fu Hanyu on the hospital bed, then fetched water to wipe his body. At the same time, I examined his body. His lips were broken, with obvious kiss marks on his neck. Apparently, the so-called soft, sweet female lead from the floating text had truly been angry, leaving marks not just one, but several on Fu Hanyu's chest. Everything matched up. I had been trying to convince myself that everything was coincidence, that Fu Hanyu couldn't deceive me, but now all coincidences had been confirmed one by one. At this moment, what was there to struggle about? My so-called vegetative husband, for his so-called test, had been pretending to be in a coma for two years, deceiving me. He watched me struggle desperately for his non-existent condition, resigning from my job and selling my family properties to make ends meet, and during this time, he was having an affair with his mistress.

I should have noticed the clues long ago—for example, why someone who had been bedridden for two years still maintained such a robust and perfect physique. Or why his handsome face hadn't grown thin. Or why I could always catch a faint fragrance in the hospital room. Or those red marks that would mysteriously appear on his body... Everything left traces; I was just too focused on the car accident, too focused on when he would wake up, so I ignored these details. Ridiculously, I gave everything for him while he lay in bed, watching me struggle bitterly for him in the shadows, exhausted and running around, finally labeling this torment as a test for me.

A test? I laughed, then as I laughed, I cried—crying at my own stupidity and hating Fu Hanyu's coldness. Some floating text said I was actually pitiful, getting into a car accident without even having time to treat my wounds before rushing back to Fu Hanyu. They said I sold all my properties to save Fu Hanyu, proving I truly loved him. [Are some people so used to kneeling they can't stand up? What kind of simp talk? So the female lead does this little for Fu Hanyu and it proves true love? Can the simps please fuck off?] [Exactly! The male lead is worth billions. What's the female lead's little sacrifice? If she had completed the test, the billions would have been hers. It's her own fault for not being good enough!] [Can't you see the false affection? If you don't need your eyes, you can donate them. She only looks good now. When she discovers the truth and turns from love to hate to harm the female lead, you'll know how vicious she is!]

Seeing this, I cried as I laughed. I sold my grandparents' lifelong savings for him, resigned my job for him, stayed with him for three years. I had thought we were both ordinary people doing our best for life, who knew I was merely a joke. But some floating text told me that though I was deceived, I shouldn't have my own feelings? Some people on the floating text raised the same questions as me, but they were refuted.

[Ridiculous? It's because the female lead failed to do her duty. Life itself is a gamble. She gambled wrong and couldn't accept losing, so she blames the female lead in the end. If she's not vicious, who is?] [It's just because Fu Hanyu likes the female lead that she drove a car into her. Did our female lead do anything to her?] [What else could it be? She can't hurt the male lead, still loves him, so she blames the female lead!] [I understand now. Typical vicious female lead from early novels who can't accomplish anything so she blames the female lead—disgusting female competition!]

Female competition? Disgusting? Can't blame the female lead? I forced myself to calm down. Indeed, I didn't know the so-called female lead, nor did I understand what was really between her and Fu Hanyu. Fu Hanyu had deceived me for so long; he could deceive others too. What I needed to do now was figure out the female lead's identity, and also whether this so-called female lead from the floating text knew Fu Hanyu was a deceiver, knew he already had a wife. I didn't make a scene. After dressing Fu Hanyu, I packed my things to clean my wounds. My injuries weren't serious, just some scrapes that looked frightening. Simple cleaning would suffice. The nurse treating my wounds knew me. Seeing my injuries, she opened her mouth several times, but in the end only advised me: "Miss Jiang, your own health is most important. You must protect your body well." I froze, looking up at her, but she had already turned away. Perhaps because I now knew Fu Hanyu was pretending, even hearing the nurse's words felt like a hint to me. Putting aside these distracting thoughts, I leaned against the wall and walked out of the emergency room. Unexpectedly, I met a junior from my school in the elevator lobby. She was surprised to see me. "Senior Jiang, didn't you go to Country D to hire a doctor for Senior Fu? Why are you here?" I was quite surprised too. This junior was named Shi Jiaren, someone I had met only near graduation. She was lively and enthusiastic, with an outgoing personality. When she learned Fu Hanyu and I were getting married, she was very happy and gave us wedding money. I also invited her to our wedding. At our wedding, she gave me a huge cake, saying she wanted to become best friends with me. Having grown up in the countryside with my grandparents, I didn't have many friends. When she said she wanted to be my best friend, I didn't refuse. After our marriage, when Fu Hanyu had his car accident, she often came to the hospital to visit me, bringing things along. I remembered her kindness and always treated her sincerely. I just never expected to see her at this time. "It's so late. Why are you still at the hospital? Are you sick?" I didn't answer but asked instead. She paused, then laughed awkwardly: "I twisted my ankle going down stairs today, so I came to get it checked. By the way, Senior Jiang, you told me you were going abroad today. Why are you still at the hospital? And, what's this..." She looked me up and down. Just then, the elevator doors opened, and I saw my reflection. Pale and sallow-faced, with scrapes on my face and messy hair, I looked exhausted—not like someone in their mid-twenties, but rather in my forties or fifties. Unexpectedly, in just three years, I had become like this. Putting away this grief, I turned back to Shi Jiaren: "I had a car accident on the way to the airport and missed my flight. Can't go now." "How could that happen? Can you reschedule?" Reschedule? Everything the floating text said had been proven true. Rescheduling was meaningless, and I had no desire to gamble further. I didn't answer Shi Jiaren, but she enthusiastically escorted me to Fu Hanyu's hospital room. And at that moment, I saw the floating text again. [Damn, the female lead had just separated from Fu Hanyu and came downstairs only to run into the female lead, who even brought her up. What kind of perfect battlefield scene is this?] [Playing with heartbeats. These two just kissed passionately behind the female lead's back, and now they meet again. So exciting!]

So the so-called female lead was Shi Jiaren?

My blood rushed to my head. I couldn't believe the conclusion I had reached. But when Shi Jiaren helped me move a chair, her neck was exposed. Intimate marks extended to where I couldn't see. She familiarly found from the cabinet the cushion I always used on the chair and the cup in my bag to pour me a glass of water. All my anger strangely calmed at this moment. Seeing this, what else didn't I understand? The so-called female lead from the floating text was Shi Jiaren. This person, who knew from the beginning that Fu Hanyu and I were married yet still got involved with him, was the "female lead baby." Perhaps my gaze was too cold and resentful, for Shi Jiaren's face showed a troubled expression. "Senior, what's wrong?" [Quick look, the female lead's gaze is terrifying. Has she discovered something?] [So what if she discovered? Everyone has seen how well Shi Jiaren has treated the female lead these three years. If you want to blame someone, blame the male lead for not controlling his lower body.] [Exactly, what's wrong with Shi Jiaren being brave for love?]

I couldn't help but laugh coldly. I really wanted to know what kind of novel world I was in. They actually called someone who knowingly became a mistress an innocent woman who didn't harm me? Called intruding on someone else's family being brave for love? Even said that when I discovered the truth and took revenge on Shi Jiaren, it was so-called disgusting female competition? Putting aside these thoughts, I didn't take the water glass Shi Jiaren offered but looked at it with a cold smile. "It's nothing. It's late. You should head back to school." Shi Jiaren's smile froze, but seeing my truly awful complexion, she put down the water glass and left. I looked at Fu Hanyu lying in bed and said aloud: "Fu Hanyu, I know everything. Stop pretending. Get up!" Fu Hanyu was addicted to pretending and showed no reaction. I scoffed but didn't force him to get up. My parents died early in a factory accident. My grandparents, who raised me, only taught me how to survive with my own two hands, but didn't teach me how to distinguish goodwill from malice. My few friends in the past said I was always slower to react than others—to put it nicely, I was too dull; to put it bluntly, I was stupid. I never took it seriously, but now I have to admit, they were right. If I weren't stupid, I wouldn't have discovered only now that Fu Hanyu and Shi Jiaren were conspiring to deceive me, nor would I have given the houses and factory my grandparents left me, plus the compensation for my parents' death, all for Fu Hanyu's medical treatment.

But though I was stupid, my grandmother taught me that when you're wrong, you admit it, and when something is rotten, you throw it away. Since Fu Hanyu was a bitter fruit from the start, once I'd had enough bitterness, it was time to throw it away.

Early the next morning, I went to Fu Hanyu's attending doctor to arrange his discharge and demanded the hospital refund all the hospitalization fees I had advanced for Fu Hanyu. The doctor was shocked when he heard my request, just like Shi Jiaren was when she saw me last night. "Weren't you going to Country D to find a doctor for Mr. Fu? Why are you arranging discharge now?" I looked coldly at this doctor I had known for three years. Initially, he said he could definitely cure Fu Hanyu, which was why I stayed at this hospital for three years. These three years, he had been actively examining Fu Hanyu. I had previously thought he was a responsible doctor, but now I see it was merely his means of helping Fu Hanyu keep me. "Doctor Jia, you know better than I do whether Fu Hanyu is actually sick or not." He remained silent. Perhaps because I had accumulated too much disappointment, I could actually laugh at this moment. Without waiting for his answer, I returned to the room, packed my things and left, but didn't take Fu Hanyu. I also charged the phone I had bought for Fu Hanyu long ago and placed it by the window. The house my grandparents left me sold for 1.3 million, plus the 100,000 the hospital refunded me, I now had a total of 1.4 million. With current housing prices, I could still buy a small apartment with money left over, but I had no mood for that now. I only wanted to get completely away from Fu Hanyu. I found a suitably priced hotel and checked in. I took out Fu Hanyu's and my marriage certificate and his ID card, put them in a bag, and had a runner deliver them to Fu Hanyu's hospital room.

Fu Hanyu realized he might have gone too far. When the doctor told him Jiang Tian had arranged his discharge, he thought it was a joke. But immediately, a runner delivered a bag to him. Inside were his and Jiang Tian's marriage certificate and his ID card, plus a note. [Fu Hanyu, we'll handle the divorce tomorrow at 10 AM. I'll wait for you.] This time he couldn't keep pretending. He sat up from the bed. Shi Jiaren, not understanding, retreated from his arms. "Senior Fu, what's wrong?" Fu Hanyu released Shi Jiaren and repeatedly confirmed the handwriting. "Jiang Tian wants to divorce me?" Shi Jiaren wasn't surprised and linked her arm through Fu Hanyu's: "It's perfect that she's divorcing you. She's orphaned with low social status—she's not worthy of you. You deserve better." Fu Hanyu violently shook off Shi Jiaren. He said coldly: "Who's better? You?" He pinched Shi Jiaren's chin: "I told you from the beginning, it was just playing with you. Don't think too much. I love Jiang Tian. I could never divorce her." Love? Seeing this, I laughed out loud. This disgusting love. Fu Hanyu really dared to say it. I cut off the video call with Fu Hanyu's phone, sent the recording to him, and called. The phone rang unanswered. I kept calling. Finally, Shi Jiaren answered. "Senior Jiang, I just came to the hospital to see you and Senior Fu. Seeing you weren't here and Senior Fu's phone kept ringing, are you in some kind of trouble?" It was the same rhetoric. I remembered encountering Shi Jiaren in the hospital room before, and she had used these words to persuade me, making me not suspicious. But now... I scoffed. "Should I call you the innocent third who knowingly became a mistress, or Miss Shi Jiaren who was brave for love?" "No, Senior Jiang, you misunderstand, I..." "What do I misunderstand? That you knew Fu Hanyu and I were married yet still got involved with him? Or that you conspired with him to deceive me? Or that you saw me but deliberately made noise in the room?" The other side was silent. But I was tired of waiting for her to find excuses to deceive me. "Give the phone to Fu Hanyu. After he sees the message, he'll understand everything." With that, I hung up.

Actually, I hadn't expected that just trying to see if Fu Hanyu would get out of bed would work. The phone I placed by the window managed to capture his passionate scenes with Shi Jiaren. This was ironclad evidence against him. As long as he cared about his reputation, he wouldn't want to continue our marriage. Three minutes later, I received Fu Hanyu's call. "Tiantian, I was wrong! I'm sorry. Listen to my explanation." "Explain what? Where should you start? From hiding your identity to approach me at the beginning, or from pretending to be in a coma to deceive me?" He was speechless. Thinking about these things, I felt quite tired. "Fu Hanyu, stop being disgusting. After the divorce, you be your rich young master, I'll walk my own path. Let's pretend nothing ever happened between us." "No, Jiang Tian, I love you!" "Heh~ Your love is quite tormenting." I sighed, my tone growing firmer: "Go torment someone else! I can't serve you." Finally, I reminded him not to forget to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau for divorce tomorrow. He didn't respond, and I didn't ask further.

At night, the room door was knocked. I opened it to see Fu Hanyu standing outside. I wasn't surprised. Actually, I had no desire to become some powerful female lead. My original wish was just to find someone worth relying on to live an ordinary, peaceful life with. During our relationship, I treated him with true sincerity and accommodated him in every way. During the three years he pretended to be in a coma, I also did my utmost for him. His heart wasn't made of stone. He should give me an explanation. But I also knew he was actually soft-hearted and easily moved. He said he loved me, and that was true, but his disgust was also true. Seeing my silence, he said cautiously: "Jiang Tian, I'm sorry. Deceiving you was Shi Jiaren's idea. I didn't want to treat you this way. Betraying you wasn't my intention." "Then what was?" "What?" I asked: "If betraying me wasn't your intention, then what was?" Fu Hanyu couldn't explain. I answered for him: "It's your nature! Fu Hanyu, Shi Jiaren is disgusting and hateful for knowingly becoming a mistress, and so are you. Using this comatose pretense to deceive me, calling it a test for me. When exposed, you shift the blame to others. It's merely because you can't accept that your nature is fickle, irresponsible, and without commitment. You can't accept your own betrayal." "So you think you still deeply love me, while also being disgusting." "You want to establish your deep-feeling persona. You can deceive yourself, but you can't deceive me." "We are definitely getting divorced, whether you agree or not."

His expression was downcast. I studied this face carefully—I don't know when I had forgotten what Fu Hanyu looked like with his eyes open. His current appearance was very unfamiliar to me. After a long while, he asked me calmly: "Did they tell you everything?" Actually, everyone around him was quite loyal to him. I wanted to say no one, but the words changed as they reached my lips. "It seems I was the only one by your side who didn't know your identity yet occupied your wife's position. Many people must covet this position, right?" His expression darkened as he asked again: "Jiang Tian, you really won't regret missing out on me? After all, you once loved money so much." I scoffed and directly closed the room door. I did love money, but not this kind of money. He really thought I approached him for money. If I had, I would have accepted it gladly, but I didn't. This sincere heart cannot be trampled.

The divorce proceeded smoothly. Fu Hanyu didn't create trouble and handled it efficiently. Before parting at the entrance, he called me and handed me a document. "Jiang Tian, thank you for your companionship these years. This is my compensation for you. Just sign, and this villa will be yours." I didn't take the document he offered. "If you truly want to compensate, then sell it and transfer the money to me. My account number hasn't changed." His face darkened as he took back the document, turned, and got in the car. I too couldn't be bothered to linger. After walking a few steps, I remembered the fictitious medical expenses I had covered for him over the years and decided to have him transfer them to me as well. But as I turned, I saw the floating text again. [The male and female leads are finally together. Next will be pure sweet scenes from their erotic novel.] [I really hope they make love for several dozen more chapters to let me see what new tricks they can unlock.] [Our female lead has endured for three years. It hasn't been easy.] Fu Hanyu's car began to shake slightly. I stopped in my tracks. So the floating text was for reading erotic novels with those three views. Then never mind. But if Fu Hanyu and Shi Jiaren were a proper couple, they could post whatever they wanted. But they absolutely shouldn't post it to my viewing. Fu Hanyu's power was overwhelming. I couldn't do anything to him for now. But Shi Jiaren wasn't. She was nearing graduation, with graduate school recommendations and awards at critical moments. Since she could do such things, I imagined she wouldn't care about these.

I took out the computer I had bought years ago. It still had Fu Hanyu's logged-in accounts for the school forum and group chats from our university days. Using Fu Hanyu's name, I reported Shi Jiaren for knowingly becoming a mistress, and also went to the groups Fu Hanyu had joined to describe Shi Jiaren's actions in writing. It caused an uproar. That evening, Shi Jiaren found me directly through the group messages. She recognized Fu Hanyu's account at a glance, but she knew the person sending those messages wasn't Fu Hanyu. Shi Jiaren: [Jiang Tian, is this interesting? Fu Hanyu won't return to your side!] My intention wasn't to have Fu Hanyu return to my side. So I calmly replied to her. Me: [I never wanted Fu Hanyu to return to my side. He's just a rotten cucumber. I wouldn't take him even if given to me.] Shi Jiaren: [Do you know how important those things are to me? If it's not for Fu Hanyu, then why are you doing this?] Me: [Can't you tell? To take revenge on you.] Shi Jiaren: [This is how you treat me? Fu Hanyu won't let you off.] I wasn't clear what Fu Hanyu truly felt about Shi Jiaren, but I knew he loved me. Perhaps he never thought of separating from me, only thought of pulling away when he tired of playing, as if nothing had happened. I understood his psychology. That's why I hinted to her that Shi Jiaren had told me everything. Would Fu Hanyu let me off? I didn't know, but I knew Fu Hanyu wouldn't let her off. And as expected, I guessed correctly. After divorcing me, Fu Hanyu quickly returned to his family, gradually taking over his family's business. The scenario Shi Jiaren expected—Fu Hanyu flying into a rage for her, proving her innocence—never came. Instead, she faced amplification of her actions in intruding on someone else's family, and her situation even made trending topics. In my spare time between finding work and housing, I saw the trending topics and then received Shi Jiaren's call. "Jiang Tian, was it you? Are you the one harming me?" I was baffled but also gleeful: "Not everyone has so much leisure to care about the love-hate drama between a mistress and a scumbag. Instead of questioning me, why not think about how sincere your canary's owner is toward you?" I hung up and blocked her number. 1.4 million wasn't much, but it wasn't little either. I found a tiny one-room apartment to live in, then investigated Fu Hanyu's family. It turned out his family had more than one child. His father was just like him—promiscuous, with three exposed sons, one of whom was Fu Hanyu—a illegitimate child whose mother had used dirty means to gain position. His identity gave him no advantage in the already fierce inheritance battle. If there were more scandals, he would lose his chance at inheritor status and might even be pushed from the family's center. While plotting how to smoothly deliver evidence of his affair to his arch-enemy, Shi Jiaren made her move. Perhaps my words made her realize Fu Hanyu had never loved her. Seeing her mired in scandal, he even added fuel to the fire. She too released evidence of Fu Hanyu's infidelity, fraudulent marriage, and cheating during marriage. Her evidence was far more than mine, and the dirty laundry she exposed about Fu Hanyu was far more explosive than mine—including how he posed as a family heir while harming the group's interests.

This time I really joined in, clumsily spending considerable effort to increase the visibility of what Shi Jiaren posted, then delivered the evidence in my hands to Fu Hanyu's brothers and his rivals. With his rivals and enemies taking action, Fu Hanyu dominated the trending topics. Meanwhile, his family's stock plummeted, losing over ten billion in market value in two days. Finally, his father issued a statement saying it was his personal behavior and wouldn't be linked to the group. This was undoubtedly announcing publicly that he wouldn't participate in internal family matters—the heir identity would no longer fall to him. Unable to contribute to the group and holding few shares to begin with, under various pressures, he likely decided to just break the pot. He began openly confessing his various romantic affairs with Shi Jiaren and how she had advised him to test me. Netizens said they were disgusting to the extreme, cursing that they should be locked up together. Fu Hanyu didn't refute, saying he loved me while cursing Shi Jiaren. Shi Jiaren, having already lost her graduate school recommendation and award opportunities due to my report, had her reputation completely destroyed amid Fu Hanyu's various romantic descriptions. Near graduation, the school expelled her. After spending three years of her youth, she ended with a notorious reputation. Probably also deciding to break the pot, she began calling out Fu Hanyu's false deep affection and bizarre statements. Back and forth, they argued uncontrollably. Watching them tear each other apart daily, like dogs fighting dogs, I was quite satisfied. Unexpectedly, at this time, I still received money from Fu Hanyu. 270w—this number seemed strange. I remembered the villa he wanted to give me when we divorced. Could this be half its selling price? That villa had looked quite luxurious. Was this all it was worth? As it turned out, I guessed correctly. Fu Hanyu sent me a message. Fu Hanyu: [I'm sorry, Jiang Tian. The harm I caused you is irreparable. This is half the money from selling the villa I originally intended to give you. But I'm short on cash right now, so I can only give you half.] Seeing this, I laughed. But I still accepted the money, then used it to open an account and buy government bonds. I also gave Fu Hanyu an invoice. This was all the money I had spent during the three years Fu Hanyu pretended to be in a coma. Total: 2.34 million. Even though Fu Hanyu gave me 2.7 million, what I owed him wasn't much. He gave it, I took it. I had given him my true heart and energy in exchange for 360,000—he wasn't at a loss. Besides, a scumbag's money—take it while you can. Unless I squeezed every last penny from him and watched him and Shi Jiaren rot together, I wouldn't be satisfied. Ten slaps for those who interfere in others' relationships. For scumbags, eighteen dragon-subduing palms. I didn't intend to contact Fu Hanyu again. I chose a city suitable for retirement, used the remaining money to buy a small house, and settled in the Southern City. In my leisure time, I began contacting old friends. Learning of my situation, some sympathized, while others said I was stupid. I smiled without refuting. Anyone would say I was stupid for giving up the chance at billions in wealth, but I didn't think so. Fu Hanyu had never treated me as his wife but as a pet to play with. I couldn't accept it—call me squeamish or stupid, but so be it. What one seeks in life is merely comfort and happiness. He couldn't give me that. Why should I force it? They advised me to find a more outstanding man to anger Fu Hanyu and move on emotionally. I just smiled. One man brought me suffering; why would I need another man to save me? Moreover, using an innocent man to move on emotionally? I, Jiang Tian, just fell down—I'm not unable to stand up. Forgetting Fu Hanyu—I can do it myself.

(The End)