Chapter 1: “Divorce?”

Su Yiren stared at the young man across the conference table, slightly stunned.

Six months had passed since they last met, and he still had sharp cheekbones, deep eyes, and every strand of hair neatly styled.

It seemed he had always been like this.

“Sign it.” The emotionless words, spoken with his thin lips, made him seem even colder.

Su Yiren’s eyelashes trembled, and she lowered her head, her gaze falling on the three characters “Lu Yunting” in the signature column, and she was lost in thought again.

After a moment, she found her voice.

“Why?” She realized her voice couldn’t help but tremble.

Lu Yunting raised an eyebrow slightly, his eyes calmly looking at her.

After five years of marriage, it seemed like this was the first time he had ever looked at his wife so seriously.

She was beautiful, but not in a generic way.

Beauty was in the bones, not the skin. Her bone structure was beautiful, a kind of face that people wouldn’t forget.

Especially her eyes, black and bright, gentle, as if they contained a constellation of stars. When she looked at him, they always radiated a soft and joyful light.

At this moment, she looked at him like that, her eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment.

Such a helpless and pitiful look would move any man.

But he just didn’t like it.

“The five-year term is up.” His long fingers pointed at the divorce agreement, stubbornly and firmly pushing it towards her.

Five years ago, he was forced to obey his elders’ arrangements and marry into the Su family.

But they both signed an agreement, their marriage would only last five years, and tomorrow was the final deadline.

Time was up, the agreement naturally had to end, there was no question about it.

Su Yiren had a premonition of this outcome, but she hadn’t expected to hear him personally bring up “divorce.” Her chest felt heavy and she couldn’t breathe.

She took a deep breath, trying to maintain a calm appearance, but her fists clenched quietly under the table, her nails digging into her palms.

“Am I not good enough?” She raised a pair of eyes filled with mist and asked him.

Lu Yunting’s long, narrow eyes stared at her quietly, deep and unfathomable, but it seemed like he wasn’t even looking at her.

“If you have any objections to the property division, you can discuss it with the lawyer later.”

He didn’t answer her question, and it was filled with the smell of money. Su Yiren just wanted to laugh in her face after hearing that.

Five years.

She had devoted herself wholeheartedly to this man for five years, and she couldn’t even get an answer!

But she had to know an answer!

“Is it because of Ouyang Shasha?”

“Why are you mentioning her?” Lu Yunting frowned, showing displeasure.

“What does she have to do with it?”

“If it wasn’t for her, would you be divorcing me?!” Su Yiren’s eyes were swollen, and she was trying hard to hold back the sourness in her eyes.

Lu Yunting was a little impatient.

“Don’t be unreasonable. I’m divorcing you because the agreement time is up, it has nothing to do with Shasha.”

“Then how do you explain all those times you went abroad to see her over the years!”

Since they had already come clean, she didn’t bother pretending anymore. All these years, she had been pretending nothing was wrong, and she was tired of pretending.

After getting married, she learned that Lu Yunting had a white moonlight, Ouyang Shasha.

They were childhood sweethearts, classmates from kindergarten to college.

But because of the feud between their fathers, they were not allowed to marry.

After Lu Yunting married her, Ouyang Shasha was heartbroken and went abroad to study, leaving for five years.

During these five years, she had heard more than once that Lu Yunting had gone abroad to see her.

Now that the agreement had expired and Ouyang Shasha had returned, he was naturally eager to divorce and marry her.

Lu Yunting was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then his face turned cold.

“Are you following me? Or did you hire someone to investigate me?”

“Heh…” Su Yiren chuckled, “Some things don’t need investigation, the evidence will appear in front of you.”

She had never hired anyone to follow Lu Yunting，but those photos and videos were often sent to her.

She didn’t know who sent them, and she didn’t care. She just wanted to see this outcome.

Lu Yunting’s voice turned colder: “I’ll say it again, our divorce has nothing to do with Shasha, don’t slander her anymore.”

“If you’re innocent, how can you be slandered? Lu Yunting，do you really think everyone in the world is stupid, only you are brilliant?”

Lu Yunting looked at her with deep eyes, saying nothing.

They just looked at each other, neither giving in.

After a long time, he finally spoke slowly.

“Su Yiren, you’ve disappointed me.”

“It should be me who’s disappointed!” Su Yiren raised her voice, suppressing the tremor in her voice,

“I’ve been married to you for five years, I get up early and stay up late every day to take care of you, send you off in the morning, wait for you to come home, take care of you wholeheartedly, I’m also very considerate to your family, I do my best to be a good wife, I manage the whole house for you, but what about you? Do you have any feelings for me at all?”

“So… do you think that’s ‘love’? Is that the reason I should have feelings for you?” Lu Yunting’s conclusion was merciless.

“The things you’ve done, the servants at home can also do.”

Su Yiren was stunned, all her dissatisfaction, grievances, and resentment were shattered by this sentence.

No wonder he had never looked at her properly; no wonder every time she sent him hangover soup, he would impatiently say “just let the servants send it”; no wonder every time she went to the ancestral home, he would frown and ask her “what are you doing here”…

It turned out that everything she had done meant nothing in his eyes.

It turned out that her silent dedication was worthless in front of him.

In these five years, the role she played was nothing more than a servant…

“You’re right,” Su Yiren’s mind buzzed, the strong wall in her heart collapsed at this moment,

“There’s no love between us.” It was just her wishful thinking.

Lu Yunting opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

He suddenly felt uncomfortable and unhappy, and he naturally felt that he was being angered by her unreasonable appearance.

He took a deep breath and turned to look out the window. Large masses of white clouds were quietly drifting by, silent but full of suppression.

Su Yiren closed her eyes, tears rolled down her tightly closed eyelids, and the burning temperature couldn’t warm her heart.

In these five years, she had poured her heart out to him, endured all his coldness and disdain, not just for that piece of paper, but because five years ago, it was him, the Lu family, who pulled her out of the abyss and allowed her to see the light of day again.

She was grateful to them, and she wanted to repay them with her whole life.

Even though they had signed an agreement before marriage, she felt that as long as she devoted herself wholeheartedly, she would get his response.

She had already treated this place as her home and him as her family, and she wanted to live a peaceful life like this.

But in the end, she only got a sentence from him – this is not love.

Is this not love?

Su Yiren’s mind went blank.

She suddenly realized that she didn’t know if she understood love.

She was silent, and he didn’t speak either. In the quiet conference room, there was only the faint sound of breathing and the occasional impatient tapping on the table.

The phone buzzed, breaking the tense atmosphere.

“Shasha?” Lu Yunting answered the call, subconsciously glancing at Su Yiren.

“Not busy, you say.”

Su Yiren’s face was pale and stiff as she sat there, watching Lu Yunting’s expression change from cold and emotionless to gentle and warm, her heart slowly sinking into the cold pool.

Yes, this is what it should be like when facing someone you love –

Gentle, sweet, happy, tolerant.

Unlike the two of them, husband and wife for five years, strangers to each other, they hadn’t said as much as they had to the servants.

“You’ve arrived?” Lu Yunting immediately stood up and said as he walked out:

“You’re not feeling well, sit on the sofa in the lobby and wait for me, I’ll come down to get you right away.”

As he opened the door, Lu Yunting remembered that Su Yiren was still in the room, he paused, turned around and said to her:

“The lawyer will be here soon to discuss the property division with you.”

“No need, I…” Before she could finish, Lu Yunting had already strode out, his anxious look made the last bit of warmth in her heart fade away, leaving only coldness.

Su Yiren sighed softly, for no reason, she actually started to laugh, as if she was laughing at herself for being so sentimental all these years.

She had a chronic stomach problem, and every time she was hospitalized, he would ignore her; but he was afraid that Ouyang Shasha would be tired waiting for him, he couldn’t bear to let his beloved wait for even a minute.

The difference was obvious, what right did she have to hold on and fight for him?

Su Yiren laughed and laughed, and suddenly tears fell, one after another, she couldn’t wipe them away.

Was she really so annoying?

Five years of time couldn’t even win a man’s heart, was it because she was too bad, or was he simply not worth it?

Su Yiren covered her face, her shoulders trembled, and sobs came from between her fingers, helpless and sorrowful.

In the large conference room, finally only her voice remained.

It turned out that the love she had devoted herself to all these years was a complete joke.

The phone suddenly rang, Su Yiren took out her phone and looked at the caller ID, she quickly sniffed, her voice hoarse as she answered:

“Hello, is there anything wrong with the company?”

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, followed by a steady male voice, asking instead of answering.

“Are you crying?”