Chapter 2

I took the drink and dropped it, pretending it was in a bout of carelessness. For a split second, I saw my husband’s face darken but he quickly covered it up.

We both had a bad time watching the movie. Although he had been smiling, I think he hated me for dropping the cola.

I think I’m going to start investigating.

I won’t let him kill me.

I told him that I had a signing event outside the city and that I had to leave in the afternoon. I also told him that it might take me about a week or so until I return. He grunted an “En” before proceeding to pick up some dishes with his chopsticks. He didn’t say anything else, but I knew that he was quite happy. From the way the corners of his lips unconsciously raised, the way his eyebrows seemed to go up, it all hinted of his joy.

He was hoping for me to leave, I thought. He must have been waiting for this moment, must have been waiting for someone.

When I was packing my luggage, I installed this pinhole camera that I had bought a while ago into the bedroom closet.

Afternoon came. He gave me a hug and kissed me goodbye on the forehead.

I dragged the heavy suitcase away. The door behind me closed with a ‘bang’.

I went to a hotel to check in a room, put my luggage there, grabbed my bag and went on my way back to my rich neighborhood. The residents think that the security of the neighborhood is tight but from my years of writing from home, I knew that the southern lot of the neighborhood was connected to the construction site outside.

I bypassed the security guard and went in.

No one noticed me.

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At 10:00 pm, a man entered the villa. I turned on the monitor on my laptop and zoomed in on the man’s face. This man had a seductive appearance. He had an androgynous air to him. He looked like a flirtatious slut.

He and my husband hugged at the bedroom door. They kissed, then rolled in the bed. They were clearly really excited as evident from the way the bed board shook.

I suddenly felt a little sick.

I remembered my husband and I had never had such intense sex. Our sex was plain and simple, just like our life.

Now a spark has been lit in this gas filled life.

I felt sick at the thought of them, kissing and rolling around in that bed.

I felt so nauseated that I wanted to vomit out of my throat. Continuously making me feel like I want to choke. To scream hysterically. To charge in and question my husband.

But I knew I needed to calm down.

I magnified the face on the screen. I think I may know who he is. He is my husband’s playmate. They had grown up together. My husband didn’t introduce him to me that intently.

I first learned his name during the time when I suddenly wanted to pick my husband up from the airport. He came with the large group of my husband’s friends. Among them, I felt a pair of heated eyes and piercing gaze boring into me from this man.

My husband then had told me he was only a friend.

Apparently, now it seems that he was my husband’s childhood sweetheart [1] .

I don’t know much about my husband’s social circle. On one hand, I am an author. I do not need to go out and socialize with others. On the other hand, I have previously went with my husband to various dinner parties and banquets. Although the people there are full of smiles, I, however, can sense the malice hidden beyond those smiles. Over time, I didn’t want to go to those parties.

I think my husband has been cheating on me for a long time now. It can be seen from his sudden bursts of happiness, from him coming home early in twilight smelling of wine, and the times when he would propose to go on trips without any reason.

I thought I could use love to cover it up and delude myself like before, but now, I can’t.

Because my husband was going to kill me.

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T/N: Now we get the reason why that scum gong wants to kill MC. What will MC do now?…stay tuned to find out.

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[1] 青梅竹马 [qīng méi zhú mǎ] Lit. green plums and hobby horse.