---- Chapter 9 Soon, Alan knew the hotel where | lived. He came to me because he had received the divorce agreement. It had been a week since my birthday. He looked like he hadn't gotten much sleep. His beard was untidy, his eyes were red, and his clothes were wrinkled. He had quit smoking after getting married, but he started smoking again. He had smoked several cigarettes silently since he came in. The divorce agreement was on the table and | already signed it. He seemed to have made a huge concession. "| won't see her alone in the future, okay?" | shook my head. "That's not what | want." He looked at me in surprise, "Isn't it because of her that you are like this?" | lowered my head and rubbed my empty ring finger, which ---- was slightly pale. "Not exactly. | just don't love you anymore." He snorted, "If you don't love me anymore, you won't care about this kind of thing." His parents didn't love each other for years, and he'd seen what it was like not to love someone. "Besides, what do you have without me?" He finally showed his trump card, and | was relieved. He was still persuading me with certainty, "Not to mention that no one can accept that you and | have been together for eight years. With your family background and divorce, it will be difficult for you to live the same life as you do now in the future." | took a sip of water to calm myself down. "Your Fiona thinks the same, right?" Alan's face turned pale and stared at me with hatred. When we were in deep love, he had talked about Fiona and teased her. The fire on Fiona's twelfth birthday was caused by her burning the curtains out of anger. Her family was not rich but her parents loved her very much. ---- She was feeling resentful because her parents couldn't give her the grand birthday party she wanted. She might just want to vent her anger, but the fire at midnight had ruined everything. | stared at him, "You know why she came back suddenly, right?" Seeing that he lowered his head with a guilty conscience and didn't say anything, blue veins appeared on his tightly clenched fists, | sneered. He knew everything. To satisfy her extravagant life, she became a famous social butterfly in abroad. Her relatives felt embarrassed and cut off all her money. She had no choice but to return home. Alan was the only person she could use and he was also willing to be used by her. So how could Alan get rid of her?