Wilona saw my red eyes and she leaned over to hug me, staring at me.

“What’s wrong with you? You look like you’ve been crying. What happened?”

I hid the sadness in my eyes and shook my head.

“No, I just received a message from the company’s technical department saying that our car intelligent system has been developed. I’m happy.”

“Really? You’re awesome!”

Wilona was very excited and kissed me on the cheek.

“You’ve worked day and night for five years to develop this system and finally succeeded. Husband, thank you for your hard work. It’s a pity that I’m not in good health, otherwise tonight… Wait until I’m better. I’ll reward you again, okay?”

Such a reward was better off not having it.

At the beginning, she said that she was sexually apathetic and not very keen on those things.

I respected her wishes and suppressed the desire in my heart.

So every time she took the initiative to ask for a married life, I would be excited all day long.

Until now, I realized that it was just her charity for my years of loyalty.

Ironically, her indifference was only to me.

In order to safely conceive a child for Arnold, she secretly sterilized me with drugs, so that I would be completely childless.

Her best friend, Chelsea, glanced at me when she left and the sympathy and reluctance in her eyes flashed by.

If I hadn’t known their conversation in advance, I might not understand the emotions in her eyes at all.

At night, I took a shower and read a book in bed. Wilona came into the bedroom with a glass of milk in sexy pajamas.

She sat down gently and brought the milk to me.

“You are tired after reading all night. Drink some milk and take a rest.”

Looking at the light foam on the milk, I lowered my eyes and said nothing. My heart was broken.

In the past, she would make a glass of milk every night when I was reading. At that time, I thought it was her love for me and boasted to her friends about her thoughtfulness for me.

Now I realized that it was just to cover up her vicious behavior.

My hesitation made her frown.

“What’s the matter? Milk needs to be drunk while it’s hot. Have you forgotten the doctor’s advice? You have a bad stomach, so you need to drink more milk. Be good, drink it obediently.”

The cup of water pressed against my lower lip. As long as I refused, I believed that she would ruthlessly pour it down.

I looked at her eager eyes and took the milk and drank it all up like resigned to my fate.

This milk that looked sweet in the past was now just a poison that made me sad and desperate. When I thought of this, my stomach turned upside down and I couldn’t help but rush to the toilet to vomit.

Wilona followed and patted my back with great distress.

“How could this happen? Why did you vomit?”

When I looked back at her, she avoided my gaze guiltily.

Maybe she thought that my vomiting was due to the stress reaction of the hormone drugs in the milk.

I didn’t know if it was because of my mental trauma or the effect of the drugs, I had a high fever of 41° that night and I was in a daze.

Wilona was busy trying to reduce my fever, but it didn’t go down. She had no choice but to take me to the hospital herself.

But halfway through, her cell phone suddenly rang.

Seeing that familiar phone number, she slammed on the brakes without caring if I would hit my head.

“What! Arnold… He got drunk and got into a fight with someone?”

When she realized that she had let the cat out of the bag, she looked at me and saw that I had my eyes closed. She thought I was asleep and breathed a sigh of relief.

“I’ll be there right away!”

After hanging up the phone, she shook me awake.

“Honey, there’s something urgent going on at the company. I have to go back quickly. You get off the car and take a taxi.”

Before I could react, she got off the car, walked around to the passenger seat, unbuckled my seat belt and helped me out.

It was more like forcing me out than helping.

Watching her get into the car resolutely, the bright red taillights completely disappeared into the night and my whole body was cold.

I made a call abroad. “Mom, Dad’s will mentioned the marriage with the daughter of the Turner family. I agreed. Please cancel my domestic identity for me. I’ll go there in three days.”

I walked more than ten kilometers with a high fever and finally fainted on the ground because of exhaustion.

When I woke up, I found that I was sent to the hospital. It was already the next day.

I was thirsty and wanted to drink water. There was no one by the bed. The nurse happened to pass by and poured me a cup of hot water.

“What’s wrong with you? You ran around with a high fever. Fortunately, a passing driver found you and sent you to the hospital. The person marked as your wife on your phone kept hanging up and then simply turned off her phone. Isn’t your wife worried about you?”

I responded to her with a bitter smile, picked up my phone and took a look and happened to see a red dot in the WhatsApp status.

I clicked it and saw that Arnold had updated his status last night.

The caption was: [Live up to the encounter. No regrets in this life.]

The live pictures in the nine-square grid were all Wilona’s smiles and frowns.

She seemed to be scolding, but her eyes were full of pampering.

The shining ring on her ring finger stung my eyes.

The comment area was even more lively.

[Arnold, aren’t you afraid that your wife will know and divorce you?”

[What nonsense are you talking about? Wilona and Arnold are true lovers.”

Arnold replied: [I have blocked her. Everyone, remember to keep my secret.]

He blocked his current wife, my ex-fiancée, Ellen, but only let me see it.

Just when I was about to quit the social software, I found that Arnold sent me a link.

I accidentally clicked in and found that it was filled with declarations of love, where the two of them expressed their feelings to each other and even said some explicit flirting.

Thousands of pictures, all of which were photos of the two of them and the photos could even be traced back to ten years ago.

They hugged and kissed and I could feel the true love between them through the screen.

I flipped through my mobile phone album and the photos of Wilona and I in the past five years could be counted on one hand.

I wanted to take a photo with her more than a hundred times, but every time the two of us appeared in the camera, she angrily slapped it away, saying that she didn’t like taking photos.

It turned out that she didn’t dislike taking photos, but that small space couldn’t accommodate three people.

I was just the poor guy who was excluded from her world.

I saved all these photos and also took screenshots of the ones Arnold posted on WhatsApp status.

Before leaving the hospital, I took a blood test to check the hormone concentration in my blood.

When I got home from the hospital, I found that Wilona had not returned. I checked the surveillance and found that she had not returned all night.

I looked at the crystal wedding photo hanging on the wall. I didn’t know when the crystal on the surface cracked, just across me and Wilona.

I took down the wedding photo and my phone rang.

“Boss, don’t forget, today is our company’s new product launch. You can’t be here without us. After all, you are the architect of the entire system.”

“Got it, I’ll come after I change my clothes.”

When I arrived at the press conference, I just heard the host inviting the person in charge to speak on stage.

I adjusted my suit and just took a few steps when I was stopped by a figure.

“Garrick, you should take a good rest. After all, you had a high fever last night. I have asked Arnold to speak on stage for you.”

I looked at Wilona in confusion and noticed the faint kiss mark on her half-covered neck and my heart was filled with pain.

She subconsciously pulled up her collar and said with a guilty look, “You also know that Arnold has only been in the company for a short time and the people below are not convinced by him. He needs more opportunities to show his abilities. You are an old man in the company and everyone respects you very much. I guess you don’t care about these vanities, right?”

When Arnold passed by me, he looked at me provocatively and said to me in a voice so soft that only two people could hear, “You are such a poor guy. I robbed your fiancée and even your current wife doesn’t love you. Let me tell you, Wilona only has me in her heart. If you don’t believe me, just wait and see.”

I was silent, but the old employees in the audience couldn’t sit still and kept whispering in indignation.

Arnold glanced at me proudly from the stage and began to speak passionately and the audience applauded.

Seeing his high-spirited appearance, Wilona’s eyes flashed with admiration.

But my heart was extremely cold because the content of Arnold’s speech at this moment sounded very familiar to me.

It was exactly the same as the speech I prepared for a month. The speech was locked in the drawer of my office. No one except Wilona could open it.

But the result of my hard work was used by her to please other men.

When Arnold came down from the stage, a reporter was busy interviewing.

“Mr. Rowse, I heard that the success of your company’s automotive intelligent system this time is inseparable from the contribution of architect Garrick. What do you think about this?”

Arnold looked disapproving.

“This is wrong. After all, one person’s power is limited. The intelligent system can be built and all the team members have contributed.”

He wiped out all my hard work for five years in a few words.

During those years, I worked without sleep and even slept in the company. The longest overtime was up to 20 hours.

I worked hard on every design and every version of the plan.

But what made me feel sad was that Wilona on the side was clapping desperately.

“Arnold said it very well. He is not arrogant or impatient. He gives all the credit to his subordinates. It’s amazing…”

Seeing my eyes, her voice stopped abruptly.

“Garrick, I don’t mean that. Of course, I know that you are the biggest contributor here.”

I looked at her coldly.

“You don’t know what this system means to me. I have been looking forward to this day for five years.”

Seeing Arnold coming, Wilona had no intention of listening to me.

“I will definitely compensate you for this matter in the future. If you have anything to say, let’s talk about it when we go home tonight, okay?”

After that, she led Arnold to his seat and sat next to him.

In the future?

Did we have a future?

After Arnold returned to his seat, an employee who stood up for me was sarcastic to him.

“It’s outrageous. What kind of person is he, so shameless!”

“That’s right, that was the result of Garrick’s hard work, but he took it for himself after just a few days!”

“I really feel sorry for Garrick, everyone can see how hard he worked.”

Hearing this sarcasm, Arnold said to Wilona with red eyes.