While I was waiting for my bestie's reply, my heart was as nervous as the beat of a drum.
In my five years of marriage with Ethan, I have never doubted his love for me.
Although he is busy with work and cannot be with me on our anniversary every year, he always compensates me with expensive gifts and takes extra care of me in the days that follow.
I never questioned the authenticity of those gifts because he was Ethan, my husband, and I loved him unconditionally.
Carrying the gifts he gave me, I ran from dawn to dusk, and carefully inquired in every store until the last bit of my sincerity disappeared.
When the clerk burned the fake gold to ashes and showed it to me, the sword above my head finally fell. I forced myself to stand up and asked why the fake gold was accompanied by their store receipt.
After checking the purchase record, the clerk replied, "Ma'am, your receipt is genuine, but the jewelry you brought is not from our store."
This means that Ethan did purchase these sets of jewelry, but the ones I received were fakes.
I looked at the equally fake property certificate in my hand and called the Housing Authority.
"I want to check the name of the owner of Binjiang No. 101."
The response came from the other end of the phone: "Okay, please wait."
At this time, the sentence of the best friend came like a death sentence: "Grace, your marriage certificate is fake!"
" But I checked Ethan 's name and found that he has a subsisting marriage under his name. The woman's name is Vivian ."
On the phone, the staff also responded: "Madam, the owner of the property you just mentioned is Ms. Vivian."
Ten years ago, in order to marry him, I ignored my parents' opposition, took all my savings and moved from the south to the north.
At that time, Ethan was just starting his career and often had social events until late at night. In order to make him feel more comfortable when drunk, I cooked sobering soup every day and waited for him to come back.
For ten years, I have never slacked off.
I understood that it was not easy for him to earn money, so I took care of all the housework and never let him step into the kitchen.
His career was booming, but I had become the yellow-faced woman he hated in the day-to-day mundane life.
Years of hard work have caused me to suffer from back pain, and it is difficult to stand up straight after bending for a long time.
He said he didn't mind, but every time our eyes met, I could always catch his evasive look.
I never cared about it. I always felt that as long as the two of us were together, we would be happy.
But who would have known that my husband, whom I thought loved me deeply, had been having a sweet relationship with someone else for ten years.
Vivian, Ethan’s sweetheart in his youth, is now a popular internet celebrity.
She initially became famous through live streaming, but now she has put forward the idea that "being single for women is the most noble".
She claims online that she is a noble single girl who does not want to get married and wants to live and enjoy life to old age. She has a group of fanatical fans.
A few days ago, she became a hot topic because of her advanced lifestyle of not getting married.
