Mr. Shen, your love-struck wife doesn't want you anymore!

Jiang Yu looked down at the shoe, wondering if this counted as her winning once?

After all, in the past, Hu Youyue was always the one who would run away in defeat.

"Look up at me," Shen Chengyan said softly.

Jiang Yu ignored him and looked down at her phone, scrolling through her notes.

Shen Chengyan reached out to lift her chin, but Jiang Yu slapped him across the face.

His hand immediately turned red.

Shen Chengyan frowned, but didn't let go. Instead, he reached out with both hands, cupped her face, met her fiery eyes, and said seriously, word by word, "I didn't go to a hotel with her, and it's impossible for me to do so. Your accusation is absurd nonsense."

Jiang Yu's face was squeezed, her mouth pouting like a goldfish. Unable to push him away, she kicked him hard.

So Shen Chengyan let go.

He took two steps back, his facial muscles twitched, and there was a hint of annoyance in his eyes.

Jiang Yu glared back, "So what!"

Shen Chengyan slowly turned off the engine and then turned his face away sharply.

Jiang Yu snorted.

The two men stood outside the women's restroom. Both were tall and had long legs, with striking appearances and an aura that made them look like they were posing for a poster.

The crowds coming and going inevitably glance at them.

After the pain subsided, Shen Chengyan slowly spoke: "You've never told me the truth."

"It wasn't there when we were dating, and it's still not there after we got married."

"I had a high fever for three days, and they told me it was just a common cold."

"I hate my mother to death in my heart, but I say it's okay, every family has conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law."

"You took the initiative to befriend Hu Youyue, but your relationship later deteriorated. You secretly competed with each other, but maintained a facade of peace."

Jiang Yu exploded upon hearing this: "Isn't a high fever caused by a common cold? How was I supposed to know I'd end up in the hospital? You were on a business trip, and if I told you I was dying, would you, you workaholic, have come back?! When we were dating, you always put work first, and even after we got married, you're still incredibly busy, flying to Germany one day, to America the next. I'm not a child; do you think I'd be so capricious as to make you drop everything and fly back to take care of me?! I'm sick, seeing my rival's provocative posts on social media, my husband isn't around, and I'm all alone in the hospital—can't I feel a little wronged?!"

"You're so biased towards your mother, even if I hate her to death, would I tell you that outright!"

"The reason I took the initiative to become friends with Hu Youyue is because your whole family likes her! This is the only stupid way I could think of to please her and get your mother to treat me better. Am I wrong for doing that?"

Jiang Yu grew angrier as she spoke, "And what gives you the right to accuse me of not telling you the truth? Have you ever told me the truth?!"

Shen Chengyan stared at her beautiful and radiant face, and suddenly laughed: "You're right, I haven't told you the truth either."

"I'm a liar, and so are you. Two liars got married, a match made in heaven."

Jiang Yu was furious: "Get lost! Who said you and I are a match made in heaven?!"

She turned and left.

He pulled her back: "I haven't finished speaking."

"Are you sick in the head?"

"Why do you think we went to a hotel? What did she send you?"

"Go ask her, ask your childhood sweetheart."

Knowing his wife had a stubborn personality, he sometimes had to deliberately provoke her to get her to tell him the truth. So Shen Chengyan said, "Did you see us lying in the same bed?"

Jiang Yu gave a disgusted look: "She posted a picture of you standing in front of a hotel window looking at the night view, with a red heart and a shy emoji. Only someone in a close relationship would take a picture of your back at night."

Shen Chengyan frowned: "I don't know why she has this photo. I will find out and give you an explanation."

Looking at his solemn expression, Jiang Yu was unsure whether to believe him or not.

Shen Chengyan continued, "What's this about a spring outing?"

"Didn't you take her and Shen Mo on a spring outing? In the photos, that chubby boy Shen Mo is smiling so much his eyes are practically closed. You two look like a family of three."

Shen Chengyan did not defend himself. "This spring, Shen Mo insisted on going out to play. You didn't want to go, and if I didn't go either, he would still feel bad even if he didn't say it. So I took him. Hu Youyue was there too. There was only one time for the spring outing, and it definitely didn't happen while you had a fever."

Jiang Yu remembered that time.

She had been scolded by Tang Yun the day before and didn't want to see her again, so she didn't go out with them that time.

Shen Chengyan went through her points one by one: "Also, every time I go back to the Shen family with you, I spend most of the time with you, so why are you always sticking to her and having so much to talk about?"

Jiang Yu was silent for a few seconds: "Anyway, in my eyes, you two just have endless things to talk about."

Shen Chengyan understood: "Anyway, you don't like her, and you don't like me either, so it's wrong for us to breathe the same air."

Jiang Yu glared at him.

Shen Chengyan couldn't help but chuckle: "If you don't like me talking to her, why don't you just say so?"

Jiang Yu sneered: "If I don't let you talk to her, your mother will tear me to pieces."

Shen Chengyan hummed in agreement: "My mom does like her more."

Jiang Yu scoffed, "Yes, she's the perfect daughter-in-law in your mother's eyes. You should go and marry her."

Shen Chengyan ignored her last sentence and slowly said, "As long as she's not the wife I've always wanted."

Jiang Yu: "..."

Shen Chengyan paused for a moment: "I told you before, my mother and Hu's mother were best friends. They were friends before they got married. My mother watched Hu Youyue grow up. After Hu's mother passed away, she was sad for a long time, so she always favored Hu Youyue."

Jiang Yu's expression was indifferent: "Is it so great to not have a mother? I don't have a mother either."

Shen Chengyan turned his head to the side, a barely perceptible emotion flashing in his eyes.

He watched the dwindling crowd at the station, trying to banish certain thoughts from his mind and concentrate. "I know what you're talking about, about me and her hugging."

Jiang Yu looked at him with a "Let's see how you try to argue back" expression.

She saw it with her own eyes; it couldn't be fake.

"That was the anniversary of her family's death. She suddenly broke down and reached out to hug me."

Shen Chengyan recalled his state at the time, "It was about two or three seconds. I pushed her away and handed her a tissue."

Jiang Yu: "You two really did hug each other!"

Shen Chengyan had no excuse: "There was a reason for it."

"She dared to hug you because you gave her the idea that she could take advantage of you."

"That guy surnamed Shen dared to hug you, wasn't it because you gave him the opportunity?!"

"Yes, he's widowed, and I'm about to get divorced. We're a perfect match."

Shen Chengyan's temples throbbed; he felt that one day he would be driven to his death by her mouth.

Jiang Yu shook off his hand and strode forward.

Shen Chengyan picked up her bag.

He was tall and had long legs, so he caught up in almost two steps and grabbed her hand again.

Jiang Yu was extremely annoyed: "Aren't you annoying...?"

Shen Chengyan suddenly spoke up: "I know you've suffered a lot of grievances when you're with my mother. My siding with her has made you feel heartbroken time and time again. I always think that you're still young, I'm young, while she's already old."

These words undoubtedly reignited Jiang Yu's anger: "Just because she's old doesn't mean she's right! Just because I'm young doesn't mean I have to give in to her!"

"It's not that you have to," Shen Chengyan shook his head, "it's that I have to."

Jiang Yu understood what he meant.

Whether in the past or the future, he will unconditionally choose to stand on his mother's side.

If a husband can unconditionally stand by his wife, there will be no conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

That's why her problems with Tang Yun were so deep.

What's there to say?

She was just the one who wasn't chosen.

Slowly pulling her hand away from his grasp, Jiang Yu said, "I used to be able to tolerate it, and I was willing to tolerate it, so even though your mother treated me badly, I endured it helplessly. Now I'm not willing to tolerate it anymore. If the balance is broken, it's over between us, do you understand?"

Just as she was about to pull her hand away, Shen Chengyan grabbed it tightly again.

This time he gripped it exceptionally tightly, so tightly that Jiang Yu's fingers ached a little.

She looked at him and said, "Let go."

Shen Chengyan said, "Can you endure this for a few more years?"

Jiang Yu chuckled and said, "Let go."

Shen Chengyan didn't let go. He said with some difficulty, "My mother... she won't live for many more years."