Men like to storm out slamming the door whenever they argue, and the reason leaves women silent

Chapter 01 Marital Infidelity

My name is Li Jianwei, Jianwei as in "discerning the subtle."

I am a doctor. I had been married for two years, and just after we got our marriage certificate, my husband was transferred to work abroad. He has never come back to the country. We keep in touch by video call, more like a young couple in a long-distance relationship.

I had always thought my relationship was fairly happy and harmonious.

But I never in my wildest dreams imagined that my husband, in order to force me to leave the marriage with nothing, would put another man into my bed and photograph evidence of my marital infidelity.

He stood in front of the bed.

I was covered by the blanket, the soles of my feet ice-cold, my whole body trembling.

My heart was full of fury. I confronted him for a long time, and finally could not bear it anymore, and screamed at him hysterically!

"Chen Yuan! You actually let another man sleep with your wife! You beast! Beast!"

I could hear my own voice, shrill and trembling! The pain spreading through my heart could not be suppressed, and tears rolled one by one from my eyes.

Chen Yuan, this beast in human skin, wearing his refined thin-rimmed glasses, held the passionate photos taken by the pinhole camera and waved them triumphantly in his hand, and said to me calmly, "Weiwei, we were husband and wife once. If you agree to my terms for the divorce, I will give you these things. Otherwise, your colleagues and patients at the hospital will all see these photos and videos of you."

I could not believe that my husband, holding bed photos of me and another man, would actually look pleased with himself.

As if I had never been the woman he loved, and he had never cared about me in the slightest.

My eyes stung sharply, and my chest ached again and again.

My parents died in a car accident last year. I treated him as my closest person for the rest of my life, and now he had viciously stabbed me in the heart.

The pain caught me completely off guard!

Chen Yuan ignored my miserable pain. "Li Jianwei, you are the party at fault! If you do not leave with nothing, I can sue you for adultery, and you will be ruined!"

This bastard! Did I dig up his family's ancestral grave? Why would he do this to me?

I stubbornly endured the pain and humiliation, and clenched my teeth! "I am calling the police!"

Yes! Call the police!

Even if he wanted to divorce me, why should I leave with nothing? He set me up!

The house at home was allocated from the village demolition. If I left with nothing, that would be the same as giving my parents' hard-earned money to this bastard who deserves a thousand deaths!

When Chen Yuan saw how firm I was, the refined mask disguised by those thin-rimmed glasses could no longer stay on. His eyes turned fierce as he looked at me, and his face slowly became savage. "Call the police, and I will send it everywhere with one click. At worst we both go down together! No one gets to have it easy!"

My heart was frantic and aching. Surely there is no woman who can remain indifferent to her passionate photos being sent everywhere?

Chen Yuan looked at me and smiled sinisterly. "Li Jianwei! Think carefully. The man you committed adultery with is Yan Jin, the youngest vice president of your hospital. You do not want shame, but does he? Besides, during the two years I, your husband, was not in the country, he took quite good care of you. Last night when I had people carry him away, he was sleeping very deeply and had no idea it was you. If he finds out, would he not hate you to death? His future is far brighter than yours!"

He threw the photos in his hand onto my bed!

I picked up the photos and clutched them in my hand. After I saw them clearly, I felt as if I had been struck by lightning!

The person who had been tangled with me in bed last night was actually Yan Jin!

Yan Jin took care of me not because he and I had much of a personal relationship, but because our fathers had once been neighbors in the same village and were on very good terms.

I am an only child. My parents died in a car accident last year, and Chen Yuan was not in the country, so it was Yan Jin's parents who arranged for Yan Jin to run around and help me handle everything.

The Yan family had done me a kindness.

Now that I had this mess of family troubles, how could I have the face to drag Yan Jin into it?

I had never been disgusted by anyone before, but at this moment Chen Yuan's despicable baseness made me sick to my stomach!

Although my whole body was cold and trembling, I also made a show of dressing slowly and getting out of bed.

"Divorce is fine, but you shameless fortune-seeking husband want me to leave with nothing? Do not even think about it!"

"Who are you calling a fortune-seeking husband!" Chen Yuan flew into a rage from embarrassment! He clenched his fist and rushed over as if to hit me!

Chapter 02 Wearing the Green Hat

I stepped back, lifted my chin, and looked at him contemptuously. "Did you not want me to leave with nothing? What is it? Domestic abuse leaves marks on me, and then I go to the police for an injury examination? What benefit would you get?"

His clenched fist rose halfway and then dropped again, and he was so angry his lips trembled.

Seeing his cowardly, weak look as he compromised for money, even my heartache felt somewhat healed.

He really was not worthy of me.

"Wanting to get rich off a woman's family, calling you a fortune-seeking husband is already flattering you! Is there some lowly gene in your bones? You had better make sure your line ends with you! Otherwise, if the children you have inherit your base genes, that would be too disgusting!"

I cursed Chen Yuan to have no descendants, but he did not dare lay a hand on me, and could only glare with red eyes and curse me! "Li Jianwei! You shameless bitch!"

Cursing me like this, how good an actor must he be to have endured for four years?

I had been forcing myself to stay proud, and it took a great deal of effort to leave the room without letting myself fall.

Sitting in the taxi, I thought, I cannot leave with nothing, and I certainly cannot drag Yan Jin down with me.

Maybe I should just resign?

But anyone who has studied medicine knows how difficult it is, after five years and graduation, to enter a Grade 3A hospital in a formal position.

This job was obtained back then only because my father asked Yan Jin for help.

I could not bear to give it up.

I returned to the obstetrics and gynecology office feeling empty and dispirited. Sitting in my office chair, I began sorting through this matter in my head. Should I call the police?

But what if Chen Yuan goes all out and sends the video everywhere?

"Is Dr. Li Jianwei here?"

When I heard the voice, I stood up. It was Chen Yuan's mother who had entered the office.

Mother Chen had painted on bright red lipstick, the eyeliner and eyebrows she had tattooed before had turned dark blue, and her short curly hair was dyed a tacky yellow. Her whole outfit was garish and flashy, indescribably disharmonious.

She came up to me grinning, lowered her voice, and asked, "For your divorce, when will the house be transferred to A-Yuan?"

I was shocked! Had they planned this together? "Why should I give it to him!"

She was very anxious, but her voice stayed low. "Why should you not give it to him? He was a live-in son-in-law for your Li family for several years. Is that not worth at least this house? He gave up years of his youth!"

I stared with wide eyes!

I tilted my head back and gasped for breath again and again!

Was the Chen family taking the route of "shameless and invincible"? Truly, one lowly father makes a lowly one, and one lowly mother makes a whole nest!

"My family never asked him to be a live-in son-in-law! As for the house, do not even think about it!"

After I said this, Mother Chen rolled up her sleeve, grabbed me and yanked me. "Give you face and you do not want it!" After cursing this, she casually slapped me across the face!

This slap caught me completely off guard, and I saw stars!

My colleagues were a bit stunned too!

I was dazed for a moment, and then blood rushed to my head. Why did she hit me? Just because my parents had died and no one was there to protect me?

If my parents knew that after their deaths I was bullied and humiliated like this in public, they probably would not rest in peace. I clenched my teeth and, with the back of my hand, slapped Mother Chen twice across the face!

These two slaps were fast and vicious!

The office went quiet, because everyone knew Mother Chen was my mother-in-law, and I had hit my own mother-in-law.

Mother Chen covered the place on her face where I had slapped her. After a few deep breaths, she began acting like a cornered dog, throwing a hysterical scene and cursing me!

"Li Jianwei! You slutty little wench! My son is out there making money to support the family, and you are out there cheating! Why did you not just die in some other man's bed! You made my son wear a green hat the very day he got back to the country yesterday! You spend his money to keep a wild man! May lightning strike you dead!"

Chapter 03 Ruined Reputation

The looks from my colleagues were spectacular.

I felt like my respiratory system was about to collapse and break down! I was so angry I could not catch my breath.

At this moment I truly regretted listening to my parents and learning from Yan Jin since childhood not to curse people.

Yan Jin was not merely someone who did not curse people. Apart from work communication, he hardly spoke to anyone, and he did not speak to me either.

My relatively harsh words were learned from Youyan.

At this moment I was desperate, but I could only hit back truthfully.

"All these years I have not spent a single cent of Chen Yuan's money! He was transferred to Africa as soon as we got our marriage certificate, saying that his work unit had not settled bonuses or performance pay, and that life abroad was too tight and poor. I even sent him money several times! What did he use to support the family!"

Seeing me defend myself, Mother Chen cursed me even more viciously. "Do not let this little slut fool you! She looks as harmless as a fresh jasmine flower, but none of you know how cheap she is! My son worked so hard in Africa just to earn more money to provide this slut with good food and drink! To buy her designer bags and jewelry! I never expected her to be so shameless! She is having an affair with your colleague! Do you know that?"

My heart suddenly clenched tight!

She was just short of saying Yan Jin's name!

Chen Yuan must have conspired with his mother!

Usually when Mother Yan sent soup to Yan Jin, she would send me a portion too. It was because she pitied me for losing both parents, and treated me like a daughter.

My name was even chosen by Father Yan: Li Jianwei, Jianwei as in "discerning the subtle."

I heard the Yan family already had a favored candidate for daughter-in-law. If this matter blew up and ruined the marriage, they would surely think I had repaid kindness with ingratitude.

If I ruined Yan Jin over a house, I could only kneel before Yan Jin's parents and apologize with my death.

The Yan family had never wronged me, and Yan Jin certainly could not become the sacrifice for this mess of family troubles of mine.

To hell with respecting the elderly! This old woman did not deserve it at all!

I grabbed the vase on the desk and rushed toward the old woman! I was about to smash it right into her face!

Several colleagues rushed over and together held me back! They snatched the vase from my hand and told me not to be impulsive!

I was so angry my whole body trembled! My head was about to explode! No one had ever taught me how to deal with people so devoid of shame and moral bottom line!

"You surnamed Wang! Go back and tell that filthy, low-down son of yours! I agree! I will sign the divorce right away! I agree to all the terms he wants! Now get out! Get out! Get out!"

Each time I shouted "get out," it was more hysterical than the last! The furious sound I roared out cut my throat with pain.

The pain in my throat burned all the way to my chest.

The Chen family saw that I was now an orphan with no father or mother, and took turns ganging up to bully me, bullying me because I had no one to rely on, bullying me because I had no maternal family.

I really wanted to find a scalpel and stab that old woman with it!

Mother Chen had not expected that I, usually so gentle in temperament, would be this furious. She stepped back a few paces, but still triumphantly curled the corner of her mouth. "So you know what is good for you!" She slung over her shoulder the bag she had taken from me at the beginning of the year and turned to leave!

I forced myself to keep working despite how wretched I should have looked, but I was already surrounded by negativity, and asked the department head for a resignation form.

Chen Yuan called at this moment. I wanted quiet, so I hung up directly.

He kept calling!

I turned off the ringer and ran upstairs to the less crowded restroom, and furiously answered the phone!

"Chen Yuan! Are you fucking done yet!"

Never in my life had I been so agitated and full of hatred!

Chen Yuan was even louder than me. "Li Jianwei! Get it straight! Right now it is you who should be begging me! Begging me not to ruin you two adulterers completely!"