I spent five days in the hospital with gastroenteritis, and Xiao Wen didn't come to see me once. I knew then that we needed to get divorced. That evening, I handed her the divorce agreement I'd drafted. She looked up from her computer, her gaze seeming to see right through me. "The day before yesterday, I couldn't make it because I had to help Deng Yan revise his data. You know he's new, his fundamentals are weak, and he's my junior from the same school. I'm the only one he can turn to for help." "Yesterday, he left his tie in my car. I returned it to him, and that's why I missed our anniversary." "Today, there was a problem with his data, and..."
