[Vent] Married for three years, and I suspect my husband is cheating...
Jiang Xi, a Best Actress who retired after marrying into a wealthy family, posted this thoroughly ordinary anonymous thread on a relationship forum.
Three years ago, Jiang Xi fell in love at first sight with Lan Mingzhou, a wealthy older man in a wheelchair. Defying everyone around her, she impulsively married him, and her career fans dragged her onto the trending charts, calling her a once-in-four-thousand-years hopeless romantic who had ruined her own future!
Her haters celebrated with firecrackers: "Let's start a check-in thread and guess when the Best Actress will get dumped by her rich husband."
Ah, life is hard. Jiang Jiang sighed.
Divorce? Never. She'd never get divorced in this lifetime.
But even the perfect marriage Jiang Xi had imagined began to show signs of trouble.
Three things were wrong:
First, her husband, who couldn't stand or walk, suddenly got to his feet. His back didn't ache, his legs didn't hurt, and he could climb ten flights of stairs without stopping.
Second, he often came home late at night in clothes he'd apparently bought while out, and every so often, a strange, unfamiliar fragrance clung to him.
Most importantly, third, he actually refused to share a bed with Jiang Xi!
Though she really didn't want to believe it, Jiang Xi strongly suspected her husband was cheating.
The thread was buzzing, and netizens were flooding the comments with eighteen ways to catch a cheater.
On their third wedding anniversary, her husband called to say he was too busy with work to come home.
Jiang Xi had had enough. She pulled out her phone, opened the tracking app she'd installed on her husband's phone, and headed straight for the hotel marked with a red dot on the GPS map.
The thread was being updated.
[OP: I'm going to catch him cheating.]
With swift, decisive moves, Jiang Xi managed to get a room keycard.
Taking the netizens' advice, she turned on her phone camera in advance and threw open the door, intending to capture her husband's affair on video. But what met her eyes was...
Inside, her husband lay on the bed, his disabled legs transformed into more than a dozen writhing, clawing tentacles.
He turned toward his wife in the doorway, startled, and all those terrifying tentacles shrank back at once.
"Click!"
Jiang Xi pressed the shutter with one hand and closed the door with the other.
[OP: Great news, my husband isn't cheating. He's just not human.]
[Netizen: ???]
[Netizen: Are you okay?????]
"Reading Guide"
A heroine who's an ordinary person but in a precarious mental state x a hero who's not human but perfectly sound of mind.
Theme: Building a better marriage together.
