"What a poor girl. She got stood up for celebrating her husband's birthday, even though she is so beautiful..." Several waiters who had cleaned up the table couldn't help but say as they saw the young lady leaving.
That lady was Ding Yu, known as Mrs. Lu. She had been waiting for seven hours, but no one came over. Only the waiter came back and asked if she wanted to order something several times. Finally, after the bell rang at two o'clock past midnight, the waiter had to remind her, "Mrs. Lu, I'm really sorry. We are closing soon."
Seeing the back of this lonely lady, another waiteress can't help but teeling the cruel truth, "What do you know? How sincere can a marriage of convenience be? Such marriage is only useful as an explanation to the elders, even if you are a beauty. A man that great like Mr. Lu can have any kind of woman he wants. How can he be restrained by her?"
"What's more, Mr. Lu brought a very elegant young lady to dinner the day before yesterday. I think Mrs. Lu's status is at stake now."
"It seems that the marriage certificate is just another paper if it is an insincere marriage."
"That's true..."
The discussion behind Ding Yu was not loud, but she could hear it all. It would be a lie to say that she was unbothered. It turned out that the terrible marriage between her and Lu Chengyan was very well known in City B now.
Ding Yu got out of the restaurant. She seemed to still hear those sympathetic and sarcastic voices even after she got in the car and went off quite a distance.
It was like a thorn that it stabbed into her heart.
The word "marriage of convenience" had determined from the very beginning that her marriage with Lu Chengyan could only be a deal. Even if she fell in love, it would only be a lie in Lu Chengyan's eyes.
Just like that day, she had planned for a month to celebrate his birthday, but he was so dismissive that he didn't even want to show up.
It was inevitable for such a marriage to be regarded as a joke by others.
"Miss, we're here."
The driver, Mr. Li, interrupted her thoughts. She opened her eyes, and she looked at the villa in front of her. She frowned. This was her and Lu Chengyan's home. She had tried her best to clean it up when she first got married. However, now, she felt most reluctant to come back here.
She sat in the car for a moment before she got out of the car with her bag to open the door.
However, the moment her hand touched the door handle, the door opened from the inside. A strange woman maintained her action of opening the door. The woman paused for a moment when she saw Ding Yu. She then frowned, and she asked Ding Yu, "Who are you?"
Ding Yu looked at that face, which she had seen many times on Lu Chengyan's phone. Suddenly, Ding Yu sneered, and she said, "I am the owner of this house."
Ding Yu walked past the woman without taking note of her reaction, and she headed into the house.
The woman didn't expect her to react like that. She was stunned for a moment, and she then came back to her senses. She frowned, and she said, "Hey! you..."
Ding Yu ignored her, and she went straight into the room. Then, she saw Lu Chengyan in a loose robe as he sat lazily. He had a document in his hand which seemed like a magazine.
He raised his dark eyebrows, and he narrowed his dark eyes slightly when he saw Ding Yu. He said in a low voice, "You came back a little late today. Where have you been?"
Ding Yu choked, and she looked at him. His robe's collar was slightly open, which revealed his clean and slender neck, and there was an ambiguous tint of redness on it...
Like any woman, she could only imagine those vile scenes of a man and a woman being alone in the middle of the night. She felt wronged, unwilling, and tired. All of those emotions made her very confused.
After a while, she took a deep breath, and she tried to appear calm. She said lightly, "Lu Chengyan, let's get a divorce."