Ep4

The night wind was bitterly cold. As it brushed past my neck, I couldn’t help but shiver. A sudden glint of light flashed before my eyes.

Then I remembered—the bracelet the female student was wearing. I had seen it once in a magazine.

It was said that many years ago, a duke had personally crafted this bracelet for his wife.

He went through countless hardships to find what was then the purest blue diamond in the world, and invited more than a dozen master craftsmen to design its intricate patterns.

In the end, they created this bracelet.

To commemorate the trials and tribulations he and his duchess had endured together, he named it “Love in Adversity.”

Because of its rare materials and profound meaning, the bracelet fetched an astronomical price at auction.

I loved this bracelet—not only for its beauty, but for the story behind it—and had planned to buy it at the auction.

But at the auction, it was snatched away right before my eyes by a mysterious businessman.

At the time, I even complained to Ryan about it for a long while.

I never expected that it was Ryan himself who had arranged for his secretary to take it from me.

He had given the bracelet named “Love in Adversity” to that female student.

The last fragment of my heart shattered quietly and completely.

From a distance, Ryan stood beside the intern.

She giggled from time to time, her youthful face in her early twenties radiant and full of life.

Ryan lowered his head to look at her, his eyes filled with unmistakable tenderness and resolve.

I called him, my hands icy cold.

“Ryan, do you still remember what I said to you when we got married?”

On the other end of the line, Ryan let out a laugh. “Which line?”

“I’ll always stay by your side?

Or… I love you.”

Those once weighty vows were spoken by him now with careless indifference.

I closed my eyes slowly, yet a smile curved at the corner of my lips.

When I opened my eyes, all that remained in them was a field of ice.

“Ryan, come home tomorrow. I have something to tell you.”

Without waiting for his reply, I hung up.

In fact, on our wedding day, I had said so much — that I would always stay by his side, that I would lead him toward the light.

Every word of it was sincere.

And when some classmates teased me, asking what I would do if Ryan ever changed his heart, I didn’t hesitate.

“Then I simply won’t need him anymore.”

The divorce agreement was drafted the following afternoon, yet Ryan still hadn’t returned.

The third day. The fourth day…

On the fifth evening, I called his assistant and learned that he had taken his secretary on a business trip to the Maldives.

I ended the call and sat blankly on the sofa, my mind adrift.

The man who once, because of a joke I made — “If you get fat, I won’t want you anymore” — carved out an hour every single day to go to the gym no matter how busy he was; the man who, because I whimsically wanted to see cherry blossoms at midnight, booked plane tickets on the spot, arranged everything overnight, and took me to Wuhan the next morning so that when I opened my eyes I would be greeted by a sea of blossoms — that man had completely disappeared.

The man who once treated my jokes as sacred truth now regarded my most earnest promises as a joke.

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