Boyfriend's passive-aggressive behavior, she turns the tables and makes him her backup option.

Si Nian took a step back, her eyes red, and looked up at the man blocking her way.

"Don't you recognize me? You don't even say hello when we meet?" Xie Jingyao suddenly smirked.

"Is it necessary for us to greet each other?"

Si Nian didn't understand why Xie Jingyao acted like an old acquaintance, needing to stop and catch up.

They were indeed acquaintances, but not the kind of people who could reminisce about the past.

"I heard your husband's in the emergency room again." Xie Jingyao curled his lip, his tone tinged with disdain. "Don't you think this is retribution for stealing someone else's girlfriend?"

After Zhou Huai's car accident, Lin Tinghan went abroad and brought Si Nian back with him.

Immediately afterward, Si Nian and Xie Jingyao broke up abruptly, and Xie Jingyao naturally assumed that Lin Tinghan had stolen Si Nian away.

However, Si Nian had no intention of explaining. Let Xie Jingyao misunderstand however he wanted; the more uncomfortable he felt, the more comfortable she felt.

After all, she never owed him anything.

He was just playing around from the beginning, toying with her feelings.

"Whether there will be retribution or not, I don't know. Anyway, he was saved and is now lively and energetic." Si Nian raised an eyebrow.

Xie Jingyao said indifferently, "That's a pity."

"..."

"I wonder if he'll be so lucky next time he's in the emergency room."

"..."

Si Nian was speechless at Xie Jingyao's bluntness, but she didn't want to speak up for Lin Tinghan, so she chose to remain silent.

Finally, the elevator stopped on the first floor.

Si Nian was the first to walk out.

Suddenly, Xie Jingyao stopped her: "Your piano is fixed."

Si Nian turned to look at him, "When is it convenient for you to let me pick it up?"

"Now."

"Now?"

After Xie Jingyao finished speaking, he strode past Si Nian, who followed closely behind and asked, "Where are we going to get it?"

"At home."

After Xie Jingyao led Si Nian to the parking lot, he went into the driver's seat first and asked Si Nian, who was standing outside the car, "Should I get out and fetch you?"

Si Nian paused for a moment, opened the car door, and sat in the passenger seat.

Five years later, she never expected that she could sit in the same car with Xie Jingyao with a calm and peaceful mind.

Neither Si Nian nor Xie Jingyao intended to speak to the other party.

So Si Nian took her phone and sent a WeChat message to Attorney Zhao, asking him to reprint the divorce agreement and send it to Lin Tinghan.

She also asked him to convey her message: if they could get a peaceful divorce, they should; but if Lin Tinghan disagreed, she wouldn't mind filing a lawsuit.

A short while later, Attorney Zhao suddenly sent her a voice message. Si Nian wasn't wearing headphones, and although she intended to transcribe the message into text, her hand slipped and she accidentally clicked play directly.

Ms. Si, regarding Mr. Lin's infidelity, you haven't collected any strong evidence. Sending him divorce papers now might alert him and hinder your future evidence gathering.

Si Nian quickly lowered her voice.

But the car was too quiet, with only Attorney Zhao's voice playing on its own.

Everything he said reached Xie Jingyao's ears.

Si Nian turned off the voice message. For some reason, she subconsciously didn't want Xie Jingyao to hear about Lin Tinghan's infidelity. She felt embarrassed and ashamed.

In particular, she was convinced that Xie Jingyao was behind Lin Ziheng's existence.

She didn't want Xie Jingyao to get the wrong idea that if he used some tricks to sow discord, she and Lin Tinghan would have to part ways.

Xie Jingyao naturally wouldn't pretend he hadn't heard.

He bluntly asked, "Are you really willing to divorce your lover?"

"..."

Xie Jingyao chuckled twice. "He knew you had a boyfriend back then, yet he still tried to seduce you. That shows he's a bad person, and it was only a matter of time before he cheated on you."

Hearing his gloating tone, Si Nian said coldly, "He didn't know I had a boyfriend at the time."

Xie Jingyao gripped the steering wheel tighter and retorted, "Back then, you cheated on me with him without my knowledge?"

"To clarify, it wasn't cheating; we had already broken up at that time."

"I did not agree to break up."

"Breaking up isn't like getting married; it doesn't require both people's consent, does it?"

Xie Jingyao gritted his teeth and said, "Si Nian, you're really something."

"Thanks."

"You deserve to have your husband cheat on you."

……

Lin Tinghan never expected that Si Nian would actually have a lawyer deliver the divorce papers to him.

Lin Tinghan didn't even glance at the detailed terms before tearing the agreement to shreds and throwing it on the ground.

Although he knew she was throwing a tantrum, she was treating divorce like a game, forcing him to back down. He really wondered if he had spoiled Si Nian too much!

Lin Tinghan's face was stern, as if he could freeze the surrounding air.

Chen Bitong stepped forward to comfort her, "Tinghan, don't be angry. If Niannian doesn't want to apologize to us, mother and son, then so be it. We won't force her. I just hope she won't target Hengheng anymore."

Lin Tinghan looked at Chen Bitong, whose forehead was bandaged with gauze.

He clenched his fist: "Over the years, I've really spoiled her rotten."

"Tinghan, Niannian is still young, don't take it to heart. For so many years, she and her mother in prison have relied on the Lin family to have this kind of life. How could she really want a divorce?"

She observed Lin Tinghan's expression and continued, "Why don't you take the initiative to lower your head and coax her?"

Lin Tinghan clenched his fists until they turned white, his expression dark and unreadable. "If she were truly willing to divorce me, I'd actually think more highly of her. But trying to force me to back down by making a scene about divorce? I won't fall for that!"

Si Nian learned from Attorney Zhao that Lin Tinghan had not signed the agreement, which did not surprise her.

As Zhao Yulan said, her marriage with Lin Tinghan was announced to the world in a grand manner not long ago, but it ended in a breakup. Not only did the Lin family lose face, but Lin Tinghan's reputation was also affected.

So Si Nian knew from the beginning that the divorce wouldn't happen so quickly.

However, she needs to make a statement as soon as possible and not get too involved with Lin Tinghan anymore.

Xie Jingyao drove Si Nian and finally stopped in a villa area.

The two took the elevator from the garage and went straight to the first floor. Si Nian stood obediently at the door, waiting for Xie Jingyao to come and get the piano.

Xie Jingyao glanced at her. "Change your shoes."

Si Nian wanted to say that she wouldn't go in, and that she would just stand at the door and wait for him to bring out the violin.

As a result, Xie Jingyao walked very fast and went straight to the second-floor staircase.

Si Nian had no choice but to take off her shoes and close the door.

Through the glass cabinet door, she saw a pair of light pink women's slippers, which seemed to be a matching pair with the ones Xie Jingyao was wearing.

She didn't think Xie Jingyao's family would have shoes prepared for her, so she didn't take out the shoes to change into.

Instead, he stood barefoot on the ground.

She waited for about five or six minutes, but Xie Jingyao still hadn't brought the violin down. Just as she was wondering whether she should go up and check, the doorbell suddenly rang.

The face that suddenly appeared on the monitor screen surprised Si Nian.

Why is Lin Tinghan here?

As the doorbell rang repeatedly, Si Nian instinctively lifted her foot and hurriedly ran upstairs.

"What's wrong? Are you being chased by a ghost?" Xie Jingyao changed his clothes and came out of a room.

Si Nian didn't have time to question Xie Jingyao about why he had changed into pajamas when he was supposed to be going to get the piano.

She said in a tight voice, "Lin Tinghan suddenly came over."

Xie Jingyao wasn't surprised. "So what if he comes? We're not having an affair. Are you afraid he'll catch us cheating?"