From the Start: My Wedding Ring Lets Me Enter the Siheyuan!

“Li Tian, let’s get a divorce! I already pawned the wedding ring you gave me. It’s been three years, and you’ve accomplished nothing. Before we got married, you’d scrape together every last cent to surprise me on every holiday, birthday, and anniversary. But what about now? In three years of marriage, you haven’t given me a single present. You even pinch pennies when we go out for a meal at Tian Shang Lao. And what was that 1,888 yuan you gave my brother for his wedding? My old classmate gave him 20,000 yuan in my name. Otherwise, how could I show my face as his sister? Oh, and I’ve already signed the divorce papers. Let’s part on good terms. You can keep the savings, and the house is in my name, so it’s mine. I already sold it to the bank to pay the down payment for my brother’s place anyway. See you at the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow morning!” Hearing the call disconnect, Li Tian was stunned. It seemed he’d been cheated on and taken for a ride. But then he thought about how, for the past three years, he’d gone to work in the morning and delivered takeout at night, only to come home exhausted to no hot meal. She had fulfilled her duties as his wife only on their wedding night, and never again after that. Li Tian had put up with it all these years, partly because his parents back home were getting old, and a divorce might upset them. But today, Li Tian felt as if he’d finally been set free. What his ex-wife had just said made him furious, but as long as he could get divorced, it was worth it! At least he’d still have a little savings, along with the wedding ring he’d picked up for 500 yuan in a place like that. Not a bad deal! What Li Tian didn’t know was that the wedding ring he’d bought for 500 yuan would bring him…