---- Chapter 8 | suppressed my disgust towards him and said, "I will draft a divorce agreement as soon as possible." He was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly his tone became cold. "You want to divorce me just because of your birthday?" | checked Fiona's posts and read them word by word. "Three days after we got married, you said Philip's father was seriously ill and needed surgery and you had to go help him. In fact, it was Fiona who said that she was afraid of thunder that day. Did you accompany her the whole night?" He said he was attending a business dinner, but in fact, he was making soup for Fiona. He called me on video when he was abroad discussing a project and said that when he was in the hotel, he was accompanying Fiona to shop in a luxury store. Every single thing that happened during our five years was a lie. Alan's breath became faster. "I'm just afraid that you would overthink, so | didn't tell you." ---- | paused, "You didn't tell me because you knew it was a betrayal." The word "betrayal" seemed to have touched his sore spot, and he hurriedly defended himself. "We have nothing. | never betray our relationship." There was a stinging pain in my palm, and when | looked down | realized that my fingertips were pinching my palm. | opened my mouth and felt a sharp pain in my throat. "So what counts as betrayal? When you leave me again and again, our feelings are fading. He kept silent for a long time and asked me tentatively, "Is it because she kissed my face? She went abroad when she was young. It's just a etiquette." | lost all my patience for his concealment. | asked him, "If | say that | mind everything and | mind her existence, can you delete all her contact information and never have any contact with her again?" There was silence on the other end of the phone. After a long time, when | thought he had hung up, Alan said with a bit of hatred, "Are you so cruel? Isn't she pathetic enough? You know she's not familiar with ---- this place, she only has me." | replied slowly, "She is pitiful, and so are you. So | let you two poor people be together." +