Wife's Lover

Zhou Jin didn't look at me. He just hurried out.

I struggled out of bed and stumbled towards him, only to feel his back grow blurry, shrouded in a cloud of smoke.

"Please stay." My tears splattered down, and I longed for his burning kiss and his cool fingers, and his animal pleading eyes.

But... He's leaving me now.

How could I allow it?

I won't allow it.

My feet hit the table, and the pain in my toes made me fall to the floor. I was like a madman.

"Don't go." I lay on my stomach and cried, and the alcohol made me look so ashamed by showing me to him.

Suddenly, a pair of hands picked me up, and I looked up and gripped his arm.

He looked at me with patient determination in his eyes.

He didn't say anything. He just helped me up, carried me to the bed, wrapped me in a quilt, and patted my body.

I grabbed his hand and went to sleep.

A blinding ray of sunlight fell on my face, instantly jolting me awake. I reached out my hand to block the sunlight, and the one who opened the curtain by the window was Xie Zongming.

"You're back." I got up from the bed, fully aware that he was with Teng Wan last night.

Apparently, he was a bit embarrassed from not coming home all night. He turned his head and said, "Well, the company had a lot of work yesterday, so I only spent the night on the sofa." He asked in a seemingly concerned tone, "I'm sorry, I've disturbed you. You should go back to sleep for a while more."

"No need." I put on my home clothes. It seems like Zhou Jin changed my pajamas for me last night. "

"How is Teng Wan?" I walked towards Xie Zongming and picked up the shirt that he threw on the bed.

Once Xie Zongming saw me approaching, he immediately took a big step back as if he knew how to bite.

I tilted my head to look at him, and suddenly I saw that there was a Band-Aid, with strawberry patterns, on his neck.

"What's wrong with you?" I asked, pointing to his neck.

His hand couldn't help but touch the Band-Aid. He tilted his head and said, "I was bitten by bugs at the company."

"Why is this Band-Aid this color?" "Which girl in the company gave it to you?"

He said awkwardly, "I picked one up."

"Is that so?" I said, "Why did you suddenly act so pretentious? Usually, when you're bitten, you don't stick it on. Why would you need to stick a Band-Aid on a wound like this? Is there something shameful that I don't want to know about?"

"What are you talking about?" "I'm sorry," he said gruffly, a little irritated.

I took a bottle of ointment out of the drawer and said, "Let me see. I'll help you apply the ointment. If you stick it in like this, it won't heal easily."

I stepped forward and tried to remove his Band-Aid.

"No need." He evaded and pushed me. "It's almost done."

I was almost pushed to the ground by him. A light flashed in my eyes.

I threw myself at it with all my might.

He pushed me away with a hideous look on his face, and I fell heavily to the ground. My back hit the door frame, and I felt a sharp pain, but I also saw the Band-Aids kiss in that split-second.

"Heh." A cold smile appeared on my face.

He covered his neck, but then realized it was too obvious.

"Who asked you to push me?" He was like an unreasonable child.

The pain in my back was still spreading. I struggled a few times and then stood up from the ground.

I ignored him and walked out of the room.

I saw that the mess at the table last night had been cleaned up. There was seafood porridge in the casserole, and even a large box of sliced fruit in the fridge.

This was what Zhou Jin had done, it was absolutely impossible for Xie Zongming to do it to this extent.

As a family treasure, how could he enter the kitchen? That was their family's forbidden area, as if a man would turn into a woman upon entering the kitchen.

I heated up the porridge and sat down to drink it slowly.

Xie Zongming changed his clothes and left, not saying goodbye to me at all.

I texted Zhou Jin, hoping he would come here. I did not forget the look in his eyes yesterday.

He had only slept for a few times, why did it seem like he was swearing an oath to himself?

He did not reply with a text, nor did he come.

The only message I received was from Li Han. He said that he had already investigated and that the delivery man would send the information over. I only needed to send the money to the account he provided.

I was amazed at his efficiency.

However, after looking at the express delivery, I was even more surprised at Teng Wan's scheming.

I decided to go and see her.

Teng Wan was staying at the best hospital in the entire city. When I walked out of the elevator, the corridor was filled with people walking in and out.

"I want to see the diamond ring last time we were together." Before I even walked out of the sickroom, I heard Teng Wan's coquettish voice.

She lives in a single room in this hospital, with a refrigerator, a TV, a wardrobe, and a private bathroom. It's expensive, but my husband paid for it.

"Alright, alright, I'll buy them all for you." Xie Zongming's voice was especially gentle, this was how he talked to me in the beginning of their relationship.

"And now that I'm pregnant with your son, I can't rent a room anymore." Teng Wan rubbed her stomach and requested, "I want my mother to serve me, I'm not at ease with others. After all, this is your son, if there were any mishaps, I wouldn't be able to live."

Standing outside the door, I could hear Xie Zongming constantly saying yes.

I gripped the folder in my hand and suddenly felt that all of this was ridiculous.

I turned away and stepped into the elevator. There weren't many people in the elevator, so I leaned against the corner. An old man in a wheelchair stood in front of me.

When the elevator stopped on the third floor, I inadvertently looked up and saw a familiar figure. He was standing in the corridor talking to a female doctor, and I noticed that Zhou Jin's lips were slightly curved into a smile.

Was that woman doctor his girlfriend? I couldn't help but doubt it.

I sized up the female doctor. She didn't look that old, around 22 years old. She had a pretty face and a gentle temperament. She covered her mouth and smiled at Zhou Jin.

I had always felt that Zhou Jin's temperament was very clean, different from ordinary people like us. Now I saw that he was very compatible with that female doctor. They were people from a different world from me.

However, a sudden fire rose in my heart. I stared at Zhou Jin and the female doctor.

"Zhou Jin, I didn't expect to meet you here." I had a perfect smile on my face.

Zhou Jin suddenly looked back at me, surprise flashing across his eyes. The female doctor looked at me strangely.

"Is this your girlfriend?" I asked. "It's beautiful."

Hearing my words, the female doctor swept a glance at Zhou Jin, then shyly waved her hand, "I'm not a girlfriend, I'm just a friend." There was still anticipation in her voice.

Zhou Jin looked at the female doctor with an expression of love, and my heart suddenly hurt. I know I have no reason, but I always want to grab onto something.

"She is Ye Qing, a friend of mine from a young age." Zhou Jin introduced, "She is …" When he introduced me, he looked embarrassed.

"I'm a colleague." I said, "Because one of my colleagues in the company is sick, let me take a look."

Ye Qing nodded, then said, "Which sickbed is it, I can go see him later." It seemed that she was very fond of Zhou Jin, and also very pure. Not only was she good to Zhou Jin, but she was also good to Zhou Jin's friends and colleagues.

"No, thanks." "It's not serious."

"Zhou Jin, are you going to go back to the company later?" I asked him with a smile.

Zhou Jin turned his head to look at me. He had been avoiding me with his gaze just now, and he had really intended to end this matter with me.

However, I asked him so straightforwardly at this moment, causing him to hesitate.

He looked at me and finally nodded.

"Then we'll go back to the company first." I bowed slightly as I greeted Ye Qing. "Miss Ye, let's have lunch together next time when we're free."

Finally we exchanged cell phone numbers and left.

When Zhou Jin and I left, there was no one in the elevator. I stood by his side.

"Why not?" I asked him.

He looked at me in the mirror. "I don't want to be a toy for you in your spare time." He looked at me with his clear eyes, as if he were seeing me for the first time.

"You're not my toy. You're the drug of my despair." His hands were still cold, but I had never felt so relieved.

I don't want to wait for Xie Zongming to come back to visit me from time to time. I don't want to be a part of the old furniture in my family.

I took his hand in the elevator, and the doors opened to reveal a swarm of patients, family members, and doctors.

Zhou Jin didn't let go of my hand, and neither did I.

I never thought that Xie Zongming would be together with my lover in the same building when he was happy.

There were many hotels near the hospital, and I chose one that looked good and went in.

I closed the door and put Zhou Jin on the bed. I took the condoms from my handbag and gave them to him.

He looked at me, and there was a flash of mixed emotion, of resignation, of despair.

"Don't men always want a lover who isn't troublesome?" I took off his shirt and said he smelled faintly of lemon, maybe laundry liquid.

"So why do you look like that?" I ran my fingers along his cheek. "I'm not going to stop you from finding someone else."

"I just want your body," I whispered in his ear. "Please do the same.

I took off my burdensome skirt and underwear and kissed his skin.