[One Woman, Two Men | Beautiful, Gentle Dancer × Two-Faced, Unhinged Ex-Husband × Chaste, Dependable Second Male Lead | Ex's Long Road to Redemption | No Getting Back Together | Love Grows Over Time]
On our wedding night, Lu Yanzhou came out of the shower and helped remove the jeweled pins from my hair as he said:
“I love you very much. But I can't promise I'll spend my whole life with only you. After we get married, we can each do as we please.”
I looked at him for ten seconds, then said, “All right.”
He smiled and put the hairpins back in their box one by one, thinking that settled it.
I thought I'd be able to put up with it, too. After all, he'd pursued me for three years, and his hands had trembled when he lifted my veil at the wedding. Until three months later, when I heard him with my own ears in the hallway of a charity gala, telling his mistress, “My wife's greatest virtue is that she knows how to behave.”
That night, when I got home, I dug out the private investigator's report. His mistress's husband was a man named Shen Yanting, an architect. I studied his photograph for a long time, then made an appointment at his architecture firm.
I used a dance studio as a pretext and spent four months getting close to him. No flirtation, no crossing the line. Every meeting had a legitimate reason.
Eventually, Lu Yanzhou found out. He trashed the entire house, stood in the pouring rain all night, and held me as he said he'd given up.
I only replied, “You made the rules. I was just following them.”
By the time he knelt, I was already out of that cage.
