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.

“Since everyone dislikes me so much, I’ll leave.”

He ran out crying.

Wilona glared at me. “Did you instigate this? Discipline your subordinates well and shut up if you can’t speak!”

After saying this, she chased after him with her skirt lifted, attracting everyone’s attention.

In her heart, I was always the one who tripped Arnold up.

A month ago, Arnold suddenly parachuted into the company as the technical director. He, a person who didn’t understand technology, intervened in the design of the technical department, resulting in the failure of the system test and the delay of the construction period.

Everyone thought it was his problem, but Wilona called me to the office and scolded me.

“I can’t imagine that you are so deep-minded. Because you are dissatisfied with Arnold becoming your boss, you deliberately trip him up and let people exclude him. Because he once robbed your woman, you have been holding a grudge?”

No matter how I explained, she believed that I was behind the bad things.

A few days ago, Arnold almost crashed a car while driving her car and she also blamed me for it.

The reason was that I was the last person to drive her car last time and she thought that I deliberately concealed the hidden dangers, even though I knew there were hidden dangers.

“You just want Arnold to die to satisfy your pleasure of revenge! Why did you become like this now?”

Her heartbroken look made my heart ache.

This time, I didn’t explain to her again.

The company had been established for five years and she had never revealed our relationship to the outside world.

Every time I asked her to officially announce our relationship, she always shirked it, saying that the company did not allow office romance.

Until later, I was numb and didn’t mention it again.

After the new product launch conference, Wilona didn’t show up again, let alone call me.

Not long after, my phone vibrated and Arnold sent me a video.

The picture was in the car, Arnold pressed Wilona under him and the two of them were lingering and passionate in the small space.

“Wilona, who is better, me or your damned husband?”

Wilona was immersed in the gentleness and responded instinctively, “Of course, it’s you. I love you. Only you can make me enjoy real pleasure.”

Looking at the screen, I thought I would be very angry and furious. But I was so calm that even I found it incredible.

I downloaded all the videos from the dashcam. Halfway through, I made a phone call to ask someone to investigate Arnold.

I didn’t believe that he really loved Wilona. When I got home, I immediately printed a divorce agreement and signed my name. At the same time, there was a resignation application and a USB flash drive with videos, which were stuffed into a brown paper bag and delivered to Wilona’s company.

That night, Wilona still didn’t come back and only sent a message: [There was a problem with a customer. I will be on a business trip these two days and will not be back. Take care of yourself at home and I will buy you a gift when I come back.]

I was not surprised by this message. The next morning, I received Arnold’s video again. In the video, the floor was full of tissues, the bedding was in a mess, a white jade hand was on the quilt, the face was closed, sleeping sweetly.

“Garrick, Wilona looks so beautiful when she sleeps. We were busy all night last night and used 7 condoms. She was too tired. Wilona promised me last night that after returning this time, she would transfer all your shares to me. She also said that she would take me to the auction today and buy the most expensive item for me as a birthday present.”