Tina brought Yuki back home, and as usual, I played the role of a good father and helped Yuki wash up and go to bed.

After I left Yuki's bedroom, Tina seemed to be observing me carefully.

"Honey, please massage my feet. I'm so tired."

I felt extremely unhappy, and with a cold face, I poured a basin of water for Tina.

"I'm tired too, and I'm going to sleep."

Tina was stunned and then slightly angry.

"I saw you at the kindergarten. Why didn't you come in?"

I sneered. "Why should I come in? What if other parents and teachers think I'm a mistress? It's bad."

Tina was embarrassed. "I guessed you might misunderstand. I know you're busy, but other children attended the meeting with their parents, while you were absent. Max is kind. After knowing that you didn't go to the kindergarten, and he was afraid that Yuki would be diffident, so he just acted as Yuki's dad."

"Oh..." I said expressionlessly, "Then how did Max know that I was too busy to go there?"

Tina was suddenly speechless and changed the subject. "Yuki is happy today, and Max is our friend. It doesn't matter."

"Well, as long as you are happy!" After saying that, I went to the bedroom.

That night, we slept back to back, and this was the first time since we got married.

At night, I thought a lot, including the harmony we had enjoyed over the past few years, and then I felt that I might be sensitive.

The next morning, I prepared breakfast for Tina and Yuki as usual. Tina also seemed to act as if nothing happened yesterday.

But the harmony didn't last long.

One night, Leo, my good friend and colleague, suddenly sent me a message.

[I'll send you a video. Can you confirm if the woman is Tina?]

When I saw the video, I was in a bad mood.

In the messy bar, men and women were dancing excitedly on the dancing floor. And Tina and Max were also there.

They were sweating and excited, shaking heads, twisting waists, and hugging each other.

If I hadn't been familiar with Tina, I wouldn't have believed the scene I watched.

Tina had told me that she was working overtime!

At home, I never let Tina do any housework.

However, Tina, who had never sweated at home, was now sweating profusely on the dancing floor.

I didn't realize that Tina could be passionate, who was usually gentle and quiet.

It turned out that she was only so calm in front of me but so hot in front of Max.

I hadn't seen her like this.

I angrily called Tina, but no one answered. Was it because of the noise or excitement?

I called three times in a row, but Tina still didn't answer. Then, I held my anger and sent a few messages to Tina.

[Have you finished?]

[When will you arrive home?]

[Do you need me to leave you some food? ]

Like a stone sinking into the sea, there was no answer.

Leo called me.

"Milo, I took a closer look, and it was indeed Tina! It's shocking!

"Tina is usually such a gentle and quiet woman, and I envy that you married her so much. But I didn't expect her to be so open in the bar!

"They're leaving the bar now, I'm following!"

I gritted my teeth. "Help me watch them!"

"Milo, why don't you come over?"

I looked at Yuki's room. "I can't leave Yuki home alone."

"Don't worry, Milo. I'm following them."

Afterward, Leo continued sending messages.

[Milo, they went for a walk in the park. They're holding hands.]

[They sat on the bench, hugged each other, and kissed.]

[That man put his hands into Tina's collar and skirt.]

[I'm so mad. They went to the hotel!]

[Don't worry. I took pictures of it.]

I sneered. "Leo, well done!"

...

At five o'clock in the morning of the next day, I was still sitting on the sofa and smoking.

The front was pushed open, and Tina arrived.

She looked tired, tiptoed in, took off her high heels, and put on slippers.

When Tina turned around, she saw me sitting on the sofa, which startled her. Then, she quickly covered her chest.

"You...scare me!

"It's not even bright yet. Why are you up so early?"

I clearly saw the hickey on the neckline of Tina's low-cut dress, and it was like a knife stabbing my eyes.

I grinned. "You were not at home. I was worried about you, and I couldn't sleep, so I got up."

Tina was furious when she saw the unextinguished cigarette butt in the ashtray on the table.

"You're smoking at home again, right?

"Why don't you listen to me?

"Do you care about me?

"Won't this make me smoke secondhand smoke?"

I stood up with a smile, picked up the ashtray, and went to the toilet to dump it.

After washing my face, I looked at myself in the mirror.

"Tina, aren't you afraid of secondhand smoke when you're in the smoky bar?

"You and Max were hugging each other and even had a night at hotel. Did you consider me?"

Since Max came back from abroad, Tina had been pickier about me, and she had worked overtime at night.

But how could paper cover fire? The affair cannot be hidden forever.

I didn't say anything, but I hired a private detective.

I also asked Leo, who was good at computers, to find Tina's cloud backup password through her old phone.

It turned out that Tina, who had always been traditional, was really passionate.

After Tina and Max reconnected, their mutual attraction was like fire, very hot.

After the initial short period of testing, the fire burned more and more fiercely.

In just one year, Tina and Max went through the trial stage, the rekindled love, and the passion period. Now, they had various ways to have sex.

It was hard to imagine that Tina, who usually frowned and scolded me when I proposed to change the sex style, was actually willing to help Max...

Tina and Max even took lots of sex photos and videos.

It had been so many years since they graduated from college, but they were still maintaining the good habit of reviewing.

With such hard work, they should have taken the postgraduate entrance examination a long time ago!

I remained silent about all this and pretended I knew nothing.

But I was heartbroken and knew very well that our marriage was dead in name only.

Yuki was the only bond between Tina and me.

...

Yuki was growing, and I didn't want her to have an incomplete family.

So, I'd like to be honest with Tina on our wedding anniversary.

I was still foolishly hopeful. If Tina would end her affair, I might continue enduring her like the past few years.

A marriage in name only was not scary, and what was most scary was making Yuki sad.

I received a call from the principal of the kindergarten before I got off work in the afternoon. He told me that Yuki was sick.

I was in an important meeting at the time, so I called Tina in a hurry, but she didn't answer.

I had to hand down work to Leo, and then I drove to the kindergarten to pick up my daughter and went to the hospital.

After a time, Yuki had to hang a drip. We didn't get home until the evening.

After coxing Yuki to sleep, I checked my phone.

Tina did reply to me.

[Honey, I'm not going home tonight. My best friend is having her birthday, so I'm going to sleep at her house tonight.]

My face suddenly turned dark again. "Does she forget our wedding anniversary? Best friend? It's her best male friend, Max, right?"

I suddenly realized that all my thoughts were too naive.

How could a person change his habits?

Maybe because I became more tractable, Tina seemed more unscrupulous and cared less and less about my feelings.

So, I also changed my strategy.

In the early morning, when putting on makeup, Tina asked me as if she was testing or notifying me.

"Honey, it's Eric's birthday today. Max invited our family to have dinner at his house. Do you want to go?"

"Hmm? Okay!"

Tina suddenly stopped and looked a little surprised.

"Are you sure?"

I smiled. "Yeah, I haven't hung out with Max for a long time. It's Eric's birthday, so why not go and have some fun?"

Yuki's face wrinkled. "I don't want to go!"

"Why?" I was curious.

Yuki pouted. "Eric always bullies me at school, and he also instigates other children to bully me. He often pulls my hair and rips my skirt!"

I was suddenly angry.

Tina quickly said, "Yuki, Eric is playing with you. He likes you, and you should unite."

Yuki was unhappy.

"No, Mom likes Eric instead of me. Last time you picked me up, you bought Eric a Transformer. I know it's over three thousand dollars. But you didn't even buy me a two-hundred-dollar doll!"

Tina glanced at me and quickly interrupted Yuki.

"I didn't buy the Transformer. That was... Oh, Eric's dad bought it and asked me to give it to Eric!"

Yuki was naive, and she believed it, but how could I believe it?

Tina's credit card was my secondary card. Her salary was only enough to buy clothes and cosmetics every month. I covered all the household expenses.

I checked the consumption records regularly over the past two years. One of the items was the consumption record at a toy store, and the amount was exactly three thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars.

I hugged Yuki and smiled.

"Yuki, I'll take you to the toy store later and buy you the doll you like, and then we pick out a gift for Eric, okay?"

Yuki nodded excitedly.

Max's family lived in the villa with nice surroundings.

When we got off, Max was obviously stunned when he saw Yuki and me, but he immediately smiled.

I also greeted Max with a smile.

Eric immediately became unhappy as soon as he saw Yuki.

"Dad, Ms. Green, why did you bring this little crybaby here?

"Doesn't Ms. Green come here by herself every time?"

Tina suddenly became embarrassed and unnatural.

Max quickly said, "Eric, don't talk nonsense. It's the first time that Ms. Green come here."

Eric was confused. "Didn't she come last week?"

Tina put her arm around my shoulders.

"It occurs to me that last time my colleague brought some specialties from her hometown. She happened to live in this community, so I gave some to Max when I passed by here."

Tina seemed to be trying hard to find something by my face.

"Honey, you wouldn't think too much, would you?"

I laughed and put my arm around Tina's shoulders. And in the flash of resentment from Max, I said, "How could it be? We've been friends for so many years."

The atmosphere suddenly became better.

But when I entered Max's house, I found there were two plates of steak and two red wine glasses on the dining table.

Max smiled. "I prepared this for my wife. The day when Eric was born was the day when my wife suffered. But she had to go out for something urgent, so I just left it here."

"Well, you really love each other."

As I spoke, I held Tina's hand.

I felt Tina pull out her hand but then stopped and held my hand tightly.

Max could drink a lot, and he kept urging me to drink.

The nanny took the two children to the audio-visual room on the second basement floor to watch a movie.

While I was chatting with Tina and Max, I was drinking, but I could clearly see from the reflection of the glass door of the sideboard that Max and Tina's feet were hooked together.

Max even took off his shoes and put his feet under Tina's skirt, rubbing Tina's black stockings.

I hated Tina and Max so much, and I wished I could kill them both!

Then, I got drunk. The low voices of two people came to my ears.

"He's asleep... He's snoring..."

"No... He's here...ah..."

"I've been drinking and I can't hold myself in anymore."

"No... Don't do it here..."

"It's exciting. I'll soon..."

I heard the sound of stockings being torn.