Zhan Bei Jue naturally did not believe their words.
He had known Jiang Nan Fang since he was a teenager, and the scar on her face had always been her trademark. How could it appear and disappear at will?
Returning, the department head approved their project, but at the same time, Zhan Bei Jue was completely entangled by the young lady.
Every few days, she found excuses to ask Zhan Bei Jue to accompany her. Zhan Bei Jue had hinted many times that he did not like her type, but she paid no attention.
Meanwhile, Jiang Nan Fang's career continued to flourish.
Not only did she repay Zhan Bei Jue the two hundred thousand yuan, but she also bought herself a Cadillac worth two hundred and fifty thousand yuan.
Zhan Bei Jue couldn't help but be curious about what she was doing now to achieve such success in her entrepreneurial venture in such a short period.
Ah Zhong investigated several times and discovered that the accusations made against Jiang Nan Fang by those people were not baseless.
This woman possessed superb makeup skills. After leaving the Zhan family, she would wear exquisitely beautiful clothes and apply exquisite makeup to work as a print model!
Ah Zhong discovered that she had recently accepted a lingerie shoot for a niche domestic brand.
Upon hearing this, Zhan Bei Jue became restless again.
How much money did this woman want before she would be content?
She didn't want it when it was offered freely, yet she chose a risky path. What if she were discovered? What would happen to the Zhan family's reputation?
Zhan Bei Jue immediately wanted to settle accounts with her.
However, before they could settle the accounts, Jiang Nan Fang got into trouble.
Ah Zhong bailed her out from the police station. Afterward, he learned that the company where she took the job was not legitimate.
The photographer, who was supposed to be taking non-revealing photos, actually kept many candid shots of her in awkward poses.
He sold these pictures to foreign websites at exorbitant prices, thus making substantial profits.
Jiang Nan Fang stumbled upon this, and just as he was making an indecent advance, she managed to fight back, escape, and report him to the authorities.
Ah Zhong showed Zhan Bei Jue the pictures intercepted by the police.
This was the first time he had seen such a bold side of Jiang Nan Fang, and it was from someone else. He became even more furious with Jiang Nan Fang.
Ah Zhong hired a hacker to have all images of that nature destroyed online.
When he returned home that evening, Zhan Bei Jue demanded an explanation from Jiang Nan Fang.
Realizing her mistake, Jiang Nan Fang adopted a very good attitude that day, saying she would never take such jobs again.
Zhan Bei Jue warned her, "It's not that you're not allowed to take this type of job, but you're not allowed to work in this industry at all anymore!"
"You're too daring. Do you know that we share the same face? What if something happens to you..."
Jiang Nan Fang said she understood and would no longer work in this industry.
"Then what do you plan to do? As long as you study well, you can do anything else, right?"
"I plan to do an internship. I won't do anything else and will just go to the company to work diligently."
It turned out she was nearing graduation.
Zhan Bei Jue finally relented.
For a while afterward, perhaps feeling that he had been too harsh, Jiang Nan Fang returned home punctually every day. Sometimes she even initiated conversations with him, seeming to want to make up for her mistakes.
However, whenever he thought of her dressed beautifully, smiling charmingly at others, yet acting stiff and well-behaved with him, Zhan Bei Jue became annoyed.
After more than two years of marriage, was he still not as good as those sleazy outsiders?
Jiang Nan Fang's warm advances were met with his cold indifference.
As the department head's daughter pursued him more intensely, Zhan Bei Jue decided to clarify things with her. On her birthday, he personally went to her internship company to pick her up.
To avoid the evening rush hour, Zhan Bei Jue left work early and waited outside her company.
Just a few minutes before closing time, Jiang Nan Fang emerged from the company early with a group of men.
They were all laughing and talking, surrounding her.
Even though the scar on her face was so obvious, none of them seemed to mind.
Everyone escorted her to the parking lot, and someone even opened the car door for her, inviting her inside.
Although Zhan Bei Jue had never participated in her birthday celebrations before, today...
It seemed that she always had company on her birthday. She wasn't as lonely as he had imagined.
Zhan Bei Jue didn't call out to her and went to meet the department head's daughter alone.
They had a reservation at a high-end French restaurant for Western food, complete with romantic candlelight and elegant piano accompaniment.
However, Zhan Bei Jue still said no to the department head's daughter.
"I'm sorry, but I already have someone I like. It's the person I went to Paris with last time."
"We've known each other for many years. Although she doesn't like me yet, I believe she will one day."
"I'm very sorry for not telling you earlier due to my personal feelings. You can scold me, or even hit me, but it's best if we don't see each other again."
The department head's daughter was very hurt. She called Zhan Bei Jue a scumbag and fled the scene in a hurry.
Unexpectedly, a chance encounter at a dinner between the two was leaked online the next day by busybodies.
He didn't know if Jiang Nan Fang had seen it, but she didn't come to question him.
Perhaps she had seen it but didn't care and thought it wasn't worth mentioning.
Both of them remained silent about the birthday and the rumored affair.
However, in the days that followed, Jiang Nan Fang became less enthusiastic towards him.
The project she was involved in research won a university student invention award, and she was going to accept the award and prepare for her next greater creation.
She posted a rare update on her social media.
In the photo, she was smiling so happily.
Standing on the award stage with a group of promising male university students, they were all giving a thumbs-up. Afterward, they all celebrated with beer bottles...
Zhan Bei Jue suddenly felt like a clown. Continuing this marriage was meaningless.
She had never considered the Zhan family as her home, nor him as her man.
She didn't think of sharing anything that happened at school with him, nor anything that happened during her internship or her entrepreneurial ventures.
She was merely a pawn sold to the Zhan family by her father for money. Perhaps she had never intended to cultivate this relationship from the beginning.
She had someone she liked, someone who was a good match for her, and she had never considered Zhan Bei Jue.
Zhan Bei Jue repeatedly looked at the photos on her social media.
The more he looked, the more lost, angry, and disheartened he became.
Unable to sleep alone, in a moment of emotional breakdown, he called the company's legal department.
"Draft a divorce agreement for me. I need it by tomorrow morning."
He held onto the agreement for over a month but never presented it because Jiang Nan Fang, after receiving the award, was simply too happy.
She was in high spirits every day when she went out, and he couldn't bring himself to be the villain who disrupted this harmony.
It wasn't until later, when he discovered that Jiang Nan Fang's happiness wasn't due to winning the award, but because of something else, that he completely lost hope.
He went to Dubai to oversee the completion of a project, staying away from home for two consecutive months.
Two months later, it was their third wedding anniversary, and it was time to bring this relationship to a clear conclusion.
Only then did he step through the door of his home.
That night, he truly saw his wife of three years for who she truly was.
She had deceived him for over a decade.
She had deceived everyone for over a decade.
She was not disfigured, nor was she insecure.
All she possessed was the resilience and endurance of bearing hardships.
She had used his reluctance, tricked him into drinking, and used a method that made him feel extremely ashamed to break through their physical relationship.
The first time it was delivered was too unconventional, causing him to feel nauseous at the sight of women from then on.