"I really should thank you then, for portraying me so highly on television, so well, a perfect husband, a perfect man." Shang Jingchen’s tone couldn’t help but turn sarcastic. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"In my eyes, you’ve always been that kind of man."

"And what about you? Are you also like the woman you portray on television, so perfect?"

Yuan Jiayin was taken aback. What did he mean by those words? Had he started to doubt her? Totally doubtful of her?

"I don’t understand what you’re on about?"

Shang Jingchen suddenly and furiously smashed the cup on the table, the shattering sound was deafening, and Yuan Jiayin was scared pale.

"You watch the TV yourself, please explain to me, what does this mean?" Shang Jingchen, unable to contain his rage, turned the TV on.

The news interview on TV showed a reporter asking whether the rumor about their marriage crisis due to the shares issue was true and whether she and Shang Jingchen would divorce.

And on TV, Yuan Jiayin replied with a joyful yet self-assured look, "Are you jesting? We’ve had eight years of love. I even carried our child once, although we didn’t manage to keep it. But our love will not change.

Those women with ulterior motives who try to force our divorce by using despicable means will only bring us closer. Jingchen and I will never divorce. He said he would love me forever, he will never go back on his word, we will face adversities together and defeat the schemers."

Yuan Jiayin’s face slightly changed, "I don’t understand what you mean, did I wrong by saying that?"

"Did you do nothing wrong?" Shang Jingchen grabbed her chin, his eyes flaming with anger, "I told you in private that we were going to divorce. You knew it all, yet you still claimed in front of the media that we would never divorce. You mentioned losing our child and even brought up our vow of love. Yuan Jiayin, what are you plotting?"

He felt so angry he was about to explode. This feeling of being plotted against not only filled him with fury but also made him deeply scared.

He didn’t anticipate at all that she, who always seemed so understanding and always willing to compromise, would stab him in the back so suddenly.

He absolutely did not expect that now she still had that innocent and pitiful look on her face.

"You are deliberately saying these things now, placing yourself as the victim, shaping yourself as a virtuous wife and good mother willing to sacrifice everything for love. But if we divorce in the future, the media will condemn me as a heartless man. You have given up so much, yet I will still abandon you.

I’ll instantly become a scum in the public’s eyes, a degenerate who abandons his wife, and utterly ruin my reputation. You tell me, aren’t all these things you’ve done these days aimed at me paying the price, having me ruined if we divorce?" He said more and more angrily, and shoved her away with hatred.

Yuan Jiayin fell onto the couch, her hair a tangled mess. She slowly lifted her head and brushed aside the hair stuck on her face.

Revealing that beautiful face, all pitiful innocence seemingly gone.

In its place, was a twisted, sinister smile.

"You’re going to abandon me. Why should I give in? What did I gain? It’s you who first betrayed me, so don’t blame me for being harsh. If I’m to be abandoned, I absolutely won’t make it easy for you."

Shang Jingchen looked at her distorted face in disbelief, as if it was the first time he had truly seen her.

What happened to the Yuan Jiayin he used to know? How did she become like this?

How did that pure and kind girl become this deeply calculating and overly-acting woman behind such a deceptive mask?