"He got hurt in the corpus cavernosum penis?" At one o'clock in the night, I suddenly received a call from the hospital and was informed that my husband, Xin Zhiyuan, was in the emergency room for his broken corpus cavernosum penis.
At first, I thought I had misheard. "Isn't Xin Zhiyuan on a business trip in Jiangsu? Why is he in the emergency room of our local hospital?"
"Nonsenses!"
On the way to the hospital, I tried my best to find a reasonable explanation for this matter, but the truth was right there, which made all excuses pale and stupid.
I felt cold all over my body and almost failed to hold the steering wheel tight with my shaking hands.
Xin Zhiyuan was my college classmate. I fell in love with him at the age of 21 and married him when I was 26. Our love had survived for eight years, and our marriage three years. I thought we loved each other. "How could he betray me?"
What was more, I just got pregnant. Xin Zhiyuan had accompanied me to the hospital for a checkup last week.
Xin Zhiyuan was lying on the bed with a pale face. When he saw me coming in, his face became paler. I swept around the ward and found no woman apart from a doctor and a nurse.
"What's going on? Aren't you on a business trip?" I asked Xin Zhiyuan with a glimmer of hope in my heart, hoping that he could give me a reasonable explanation.
"Sign first. I'll tell you in detail later." Xin Zhiyuan didn't look me straight in the face but looked awkwardly at the nurse next to him.
The nurse handed me a notice. Xin Zhiyuan needed an operation for his broken corpus cavernosum.
When Xin Zhiyuan was in the operation room, I found out that Xin Zhiyuan had been sent here from a four-star hotel by ambulance.
Then, I called this four-star hotel to verify this matter.
The reply from the hotel destroyed my hope. Last night, Xin Zhiyuan had checked in with a woman, and it was that woman who called the ambulance for him.
There seemed to be an invisible knife daggering my internal organs. I had to keep inhaling to relieve the piercing pain.
I used all my strength to hold the phone tightly as if it was the neck of Xin Zhiyuan. I did hope that it was the neck of Xin Zhiyuan.
I asked the hotel to provide that identity information of the mistress.
The hotel worker rejected me and said that they could not reveal the information of their guests. Therefore, I could get the answer from Xin Zhiyuan only.
When Xin Zhiyuan was pushed out of the operation room, I already calmed down.
The nurse left after settling Xin Zhiyuan down. I helped Xin Zhiyuan tuck his feet into the quilt and calmly asked who the mistress was and how long they had been together.
Xin Zhiyuan didn't look me in the eye. He lowered his head and said nothing. After a long time, he squeezed out an apology.
However, what's the use of saying sorry? It can't make up for the hurt I've suffered.
"Who is she? How long have you been together?" I insisted. I wondered what kind of woman made Xin Zhiyuan betray our eight-year relationship and get hurt in his private parts.
However, Xin Zhiyuan refused to tell me who she was.
My heart ached, but I laughed. "Who said there was no fidelity in the extramarital affair? Look, isn't this true love?" Xin Zhiyuan said nothing because he wanted to protect his mistress.
"Is he afraid that I will go to beat her, scold her, and pour sulfuric acid on her face?"
Xin Zhiyuan had underestimated me.
"Let's divorce." I touched my lower abdomen and said, "Xin Zhiyuan, we'll go to the Civil Affairs Bureau after you leave the hospital."
Xin Zhiyuan cursed himself and said that he was a fool. He begged me to forgive him and said that our child couldn't live without a father. Xin Zhiyuan asked me to forgive him for the sake of our child. He said that he wanted only a little excitement occasionally and that he didn't expect to be caught by me for his first betrayal.
The grievance and anger that I had been suppressing broke out at his mention of our child.
"I'll abort! You aren't qualified to be a father! Xin Zhiyuan, I'm telling you, divorce! We must get divorced! I won't forgive you! Never!"
I roared until the nurse heard the noise and drove me out of the ward.
I drove home after sitting outside the building for a long time. I felt no pain anymore. The night wind in this cold winter took away all my body temperature and all my emotions.
At home, I began to check our property.
Although we bought the house after marriage, my parents had paid 2.8 million for the down payment while Xin Zhiyuan had provided only 200 thousand, less than one-tenth of the total amount. The house was worth more than five million now, so it was reasonable that I gave Xin Zhiyuan one-tenth of the market price for the house.
The car was my dowry, so it belonged to me.
There was less than 300,000 yuan in our bank account. Xin Zhiyuan's family was troublesome. His mother needed an operation sometimes, while his brother asked for money to start his new business now and then. I had subsidized his family a lot!
I was enlightened when all these were listed. "This marriage with Xin Zhiyuan is a big loss for me!"
When I married, my relatives joked that Xin Zhiyuan had made a big fortune. I, the only daughter of a family in a first-tier city, married him, a college student who came from a mountainous area.
It was a pity that I was blinded by love then. I only saw that Xin Zhiyuan was considerate, smart, and had a bright future. I thought that we were made for each other and that our love was more powerful than money.
Now, the reality gave me a hard slap, and I felt pain on both my face and heart.
The dawn was already here before I had some sleep. Today was the weekend, and I didn't go to work. I sat in front of a table and looked at the account books. I had a headache and couldn't think about it anymore.
The doorbell suddenly rang. "Ding-dong, ding-dong..." It sounded as if it was a call from Death.
"Who is it?" I quickly tidied up my clothes and hair, rubbed my face, and went to open the door.
When the door was opened, my smile froze.
The man standing outside the door was the little brother of Xin Zhiyuan, Xin Zhiming.
Xin Zhiming, who was in jeans, had a perm. He was handsome but dressed like a playboy.
"Hi, where's my brother?" He smiled, pushed me away, and walked into the living room. While looking around, he took a bunch of grapes from the fruit tray.
I ignored him. I felt ashamed to tell him about the scandal of Xin Zhiyuan.
Xin Zhiming did not ask any more questions. He seemed to have been starving for ten lifetimes. He sat on the sofa and ate all the fruit while trying to get close to me.
I knew at a glance that Xin Zhiming was here to borrow money again.
As expected, Xin Zhiming began to ask for money after a lot of nonsense. He asked for 50,000 yuan, saying that he wanted to take short videos about local customs while traveling around.
50,000 yuan was the starting money of his new business.
If Xin Zhiyuan didn't betray me, I would have given Xin Zhiming several thousand yuan as a symbolic gift. I wanted a quiet life and didn't expect Xin Zhiming to pay me back.
"Xin Zhiyuan cheated on me, how can you ask me for money?"
"You want to make money while traveling. What a beautiful dream!"
I looked coldly at Xin Zhiming and said, "You borrowed 4,000 yuan from me in August. Pay me back first. Moreover, you borrowed from me 300,000 yuan when opening a shop. Let's settle all our accounts today. You had better pay all back to me today."
"What's wrong with you?" Xin Zhiming finally realized that something was wrong and looked at me carefully. "Did you quarrel with my brother?"
"Your brother and I will get a divorce in a few days. In the future, we'll be strangers. The Xin family has nothing to do with me."
I had made myself clear, but Xin Zhiming mistook that I only vented my anger on him. He tried to mediate by saying that his brother was nice to me and that I was a lucky dog who got married to Xin Zhiyuan.
The more I listened, the more heartbroken I felt. I couldn't stand the chatter anymore and told Xin Zhiming the truth. I demanded Xin Zhiming leave immediately while saying that the divorce between Xin Zhiyuan and me was a sure thing.
Xin Zhiming immediately changed his expression.
"Do whatever you want! Don't think too highly of yourself. If it weren't for the fact that you were the only child in your family and had several houses, do you think my brother would marry you? Given your appearance, you should thank your parents, who are rich, for this marriage!"
I was stunned. "Xin Zhiyuan married me because he covets two houses my parents own?"
Two houses and a local household register were a shortcut for the success of Xin Zhiming.
My heart instantly froze into ice.
No wonder he was always indifferent to me. Although he was considerate, there was no enthusiasm or passion. From the very beginning, our relationship was like that of an old married couple, stable and dull.
I had thought that Xin Zhiyuan was born to be like this. But, if so, how could an impassionate man get hurt in his private part with his mistress?
He's just indifferent to me.
All of a sudden, I felt lucky that Xin Zhiyuan had cheated. If he hadn't, I would give birth to his child and raise his family with the money I earned. Even the property that cost the whole life of my parents would have been devoted to the Xin family.
I shuddered. I want a divorce. I don't want to drag on any longer.
After driving Xin Zhiming away, I immediately packed up things. I threw the stuff of Xin Zhiyuan into several boxes. When he came back, I would tell him to get out with those boxes!
Cleaning the study, I saw an old mobile phone which Xin Zhiyuan had abandoned a few months ago.
That phone had served Xin Zhiyuan only one year. When he got his new phone, I wanted to give his old phone to my mother, who had used her phone for more than two years. Xin Zhiyuan refused. He said that it was ridiculous to give an old phone to his mother-in-law and promised to buy her a new one.
I was touched and felt that he was good to my parents. Now I realized that there might be secrets in his phone and that was why he refused to give it to my mother.
I was worried that Xin Zhiyuan had changed the password of his mobile phone, but his old password still worked.
He was unscrupulous because he knew that I had never checked his computer or cell phone.
Although I was mentally prepared, the photos on the phone were a terrible blow to me!
