After finally checking out of the club, Lily could only think about how big of a mistake she had made.
One good thing was she hadn’t spent any money. But she hadn’t slept with a one of the club boys, but
with one of clients. But, she thought, who cares who he is, right?
Lily couldn’t stop thinking about this strange new feeling she felt. She realized that she hadn’t even felt
this way when Tim first cheated on her
As she is thinking about it, the mobile phone in the bag suddenly rings. Sure enough, it is Tim.
Lily closes her eyes gently, then quickly picks up.
“You have some nerve calling me.”
“Lily how dare you not come home. Where did you go last night?” Tim's grumpy voice rings in her ear.
Lily smiles bitterly, “Why, are you and Jade finished now? Is it my turn?”
“Stopping acting so strange. Wherever you are, I am calling you to tell you that mom will come to the
house today. You'd better come back before noon!”
Lily notices that Tim feels no guilty at all. He doesn’t even view Jade as anything but a toy.
Lily knows at that moment that she cannot take this anymore.
For a moment Lily can only admire what a jerk Tim really is. Lily quickly responds, “Why don’t you find
Jade and have her met your mother.”
“You...”
Before he finishes, Lily hangs up the phone. She was once so obsessed with his voice. She used to
watch the phone all day just so she could hear his voice. Now that sound makes her feel sick.
Thinking of the past also makes Lily makes her sick. She knows that she needs to treat herself with
respect and that before she can love again she needs to learn how to love herself.
Lily goes to the biggest shopping mall in the city and buys the best, in-season clothes that she can. As
she tries on her clothes and looks at the beautiful woman in the mirror for the first time. This is step one
Lily thought. At least I can't be laughed at by others
After coming out of the shopping mall, Lily still takes a taxi back to her villa. Not to visit her mother-in-
law, but to get everything out in the open.
After paying the taxi driver, she enters the villa. But that moment, she is unable to bear the tears in her
eyes. There are countless memories in this villa. Now, the place brings her no comfort.
The red high-heeled shoes in the porch are gone. Jade is gone.
Tim looks at Lily in her new clothes. He stands up from the sofa suddenly, his elegant face full of anger.
He says, “Where did you go?”
She hadn't been home all night and she still had her clothes from last night in one of the bags. It didn’t
look very good.
Lily doesn’t care to comfort him and takes delight in making him feel uncomfortable. She says, “Tim, I
didn’t come back to make up with you. I can’t just pretend like nothing has happened and I can’t forgive
you.”
Tim was shocked, he had always thought Lily to be such a passive person. She had never stood up to
him like this before.
“What do you mean”
“Isn’t it obvious?”
Lily sets on the sofa opposite him, and says, “Let’s get divorced. If you want to get with Jade, you have
my blessing. You guys make a cute couple.”
This result is unexpected. Last night, Tim thought he knew how this would play out. Lily would come
back to him, say sorry, explain how it was her fault and they would go on as normal. He never in a
million years thought that Lily could do this.
But soon, a nasty smile crosses his face. “Where could you go if you divorce me, Lily. You have nothing
but me. How would you live? Didn’t you use my credit card to buy those dresses?”
Lily held her hands tightly to her legs in disgust. “Tim, what am I to you? When we started dating, I
gave up my future and my career for you. I can’t tell you how much I regret that now, but how cold-
blooded are you to use that against me.”
Tim is surprised by this and Lily continues, “Can you just give me a little dignity. I thought that I should
come here and say this to your face. It may be hard to hear, but I can’t to share my love with another
woman. Can we just leave it at that?”
Lily wants those words to sting Tim. Tim tries to grab her but then, the villa door opens.
The woman who enters is old-fashioned, dressed in elegant clothes, and her neck and hands are
covered in intricate jewelry.
It's Tim's mother, and Lily's mother-in-law, Susan.
Tim pauses and slows down. “Mom, why are you here now?”
Lily stands up out of politeness and respectfully says, “Mom.”
Susan, like entering her own home, changes her shoes and puts some different medicines on the table.
Lily's sees them, and her lips opens slightly. “Mom, you don't need to do that anymore.”
Susan thinks about holding her grandson that still isn’t there. She really wants to have grandchild, and
hoped that Lily and Tim would give her some when they got married. Now she has been waiting for a
year without any news. She can’t wait anymore.
“What are you talking about Lily? I went out of my way to get this medicine for you. Don't you
appreciate it! If you could have a baby, I wouldn't have to work so hard! You young people don’t care
about the elderly.”
“It's not my problem.” Lily couldn't bear it anymore. She yells, “Tim refuses to touch me.”
Up to now, Lily could take her mother-in-law’s insults for Tim, but she had been stupid long enough.
“What... What does that mean?” Susan looks at her son. “Tim, is what she said true”
Tim doesn’t expect Lily to say that. After all, it's his mother. He sits on the sofa and says, “Yes, it’s true”
“You...” Susan is stunned.
Tim says, “I don't have any feeling towards her. I'm not interested. What can I do? I mean, if she did
more, maybe I wouldn’t be so disgusted by her.”
Susan stands on her son's side unconditionally. “Yes. Lily you need to do more. Think about this, a slap
can't make a sound.”
“He's not interested in me. He's interested in my best friend,“ Lily says looking at the bedroom on the
second floor. “Last night, they were sleeping together in my bed.”
Lily thinks that should shut Susan up. Even if she doesn’t feel guilty, what else can she say. But Lily
notices that not only does Susan not look angry, she doesn’t even look surprised. Susan’s eyes move
back and forth.
Wait a minute.
Lily looks at her carefully, and a terrible thought comes to her.
Did Susan know about it?
It is absolutely quiet in the living room. No one speaks and no one moves.
She takes two incredible steps back and finally speaks, “You, you...”
Susan coughs awkwardly, “Lily, you are a couple and all, but you even admitted that Tim doesn’t touch
you. He is a man. He always has desires. It is not good for his health, he needs it.”
“Ha” Lily laughs. What an excuse.
She stays calm for half a minute. Her eyes are blurred by tears. She suddenly feels sad that there is
nothing to say. She whispers, “Divorce, I'll let someone draw up a divorce agreement. You just need to
sign it.”
“Divorce,” Susan frowns. “Lily, you are so impulsive. How can you say that so easily Do you know what
your life will be like after your divorce? Besides, even if it's a divorce, you won’t get one cent from my
family.”
In the end, it all comes down to money.
Lily originally didn’t want to ask for money, but Susan's arrogant attitude makes her change her mind.
She picks up her bag, stands at the door, and looks at those two people. She says, “You will regret it.
You will pay for what you did.”
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