Wen Nan Shu looked at Pei Yu taking out the ring, not understanding why. He had no idea what Pei Yu was up to. But when he saw Pei Yu opening the gift box, he couldn't think of anything else, because the style of the diamond ring inside was so familiar, it was exactly the same as the one Qi Ruobai showed off to him that day.

"Is this ring for me?"

"Not for you, for whom?"

Wen Nan felt as if the air around him had suddenly become heavy, making it difficult for him to speak any further. He said, "...I thought you were giving it to that boy named Qi Ruobai."

Pei Yu's face changed slightly, but quickly returned to normal. "What are you doing, bringing that kind of person here? Here, put this on," he said, handing it over.

Pei Yu took Wen Nan Shu's hand and frowned as soon as he grasped his wrist. Why did he become so thin? Without giving it much thought, he decided to put a ring on Wen Nan Shu's finger first.

"No need." However, Wen Nan shrank back his hand.

"What's wrong? Don't like it?"

Wen Nan lowered his gentle gaze, his fingernails tightly gripping the edge of his pants, slowly embedding into his palms. He couldn't understand why he had been pushed into such a predicament. He no longer wanted anything, he just wanted to leave the Pei family and start a new life. So why did Pei Yu have to use the things of his little lovers to humiliate and degrade him?

"Pei Yu, what am I in your heart?" Wen Nan Shu didn't lift her head.

"What's wrong with you? You're my wife, are you running a fever?" Pei Yu didn't understand what was wrong with Wen Nanshu today. He was saying this while wanting to take off Wen Nanshu's hat.

"Don't touch me!" Wen Nan shuddered and startled Pei Yu with her sudden outburst.

"What's wrong with you?"

Wen Nan's body was tightly stretched, like a bow pulled to its limit. The seams of his backbones were humming and vibrating.

He smiled bitterly and said, "Missus? Pei Yu, how many rings have you made in total?"

"How many?" Pei Yu was puzzled.

Wen Nan shu was indeed very exhausted. For these past few years, he had been living every day like this, in the Pei family where nobody valued him, waiting for Pei Yu to toss him the leftovers when he was in a good mood.

Is Pei Yu mocking him? He's mocking himself.

Wen Nan Shu laughed at himself and said, "Pei Yu, it's been twelve years between us. There were many times when I wanted to ask you, what am I in your heart? Am I just a dog that comes when called and leaves when dismissed?... I've accepted all of this, as long as you are willing to give me a bowl of soup, a small piece of bone, I will be so happy that I won't be able to see anything else. I will only wag my tail for you, but you can't..."

Warm Nan's eyes turned red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "But you cannot keep giving me the leftovers of other dogs' bones over and over again! I've really had enough...!"

"What on earth are you babbling about? Bones...," Pei Yu was bewildered by Wen Nan Shu's sudden outburst of anger. Who does he think he is, treating him like a dog?

But the next second, Pei Yu saw Wen Nan-shu's finger reach into his pocket and take out a silver ring, their wedding ring.

"What do you want to do?"

Pei Yu's expression immediately changed, as his amber eyes widened in surprise, mixed with a hint of doubt and disbelief. He couldn't quite believe that Wen Nan Shu would do such a thing.

In his eyes, Wen Nan Shu was someone who would rather chop off his own fingers than take off their wedding rings.

"When Grandfather Pei forced you to buy this ring for me back then, I still felt like the luckiest person in the world when I received it. I used to think that it would be the only one, but for the past five years, not a single day has proven that to be true. Now, I am returning it to you, and our relationship no longer needs a ring."

From the age of sixteen to twenty-seven, he had devoted the most precious ten years of his life to Pei Yu. He gave up countless nights of diligent study that resulted in excellent grades. He relinquished his sense of self, which he had fought so hard in the dust to obtain. He sacrificed his dignity, burying his sincere heart in the dust to love Pei Yu. With a wedding ring on his ring finger, he pretended to be deaf and dumb, sharing his husband with others.

He was really tired, he had had enough of the pain.

He couldn't love anymore.

The calmness in Wen Nanshu's voice momentarily made Pei Yu feel a little unfamiliar. There was an inexplicable restlessness in his heart. "Wen Nanshu, can you please stop fooling around? Do you know I canceled a meeting in the afternoon just to come and find you? Come home with me first, there are still many matters in my company that need to be handled."

Pei Yu didn't even bother to pick up Wen Nanshu's ring. In the midst of their struggle, the ring slipped from Wen Nanshu's hand and, with a crisp "ding-dong" sound, rolled off the edge of the street and fell into the ditch that was being excavated, disappearing beneath the muddy black pipes.

Pei Yu's face immediately turned serious. "Wen Nan Shu, pick up the ring."

Wen Nan shu was stunned. He looked down at his finger and realized that the ring was no longer there. The tiny diamond, which reflected all the brilliance of his life, had been kissed countless times, carefully cherished, and now, it had somehow rolled into the muddy ground.

"...I don't want the ring."

Wen Nan, with his hand suspended in midair, slowly retracted it.

"What did you say?! You don't want anything?!" Pei Yu grabbed Wen Nanshu's arm as he was about to turn and leave, but Wen Nanshu instinctively blocked Pei Yu's hand with the dagger aimed at protecting his ribs. With this block, the hat covering Wen Nanshu's forehead and veil were immediately knocked off by Pei Yu's hand.

"You're injured, what happened?" Pei Yu let go of his hand in an instant.

That night, when Wen Nanshu accidentally knocked his forehead, he reached out to cover the gauze on his forehead. Leaning down, he picked up his hat that had fallen on the mud and broken bricks.

Pei Yu looked at the gauze and medical adhesive tape on Wen Nan's forehead, wondering how serious it was to require bandaging.

"Which night? Why are you so not...?"

As Pei Yu was talking, he suddenly met Wen Nan Shu's calm and serene eyes. It was as if he had suddenly realized something, and any remaining blame got stuck in his throat.

Wen Nan merely brushed off the dirt from his hat, just like the day when his head was injured and bleeding after being swept out the door by Pei Yu, he gently brushed off the thin layer of snow on the suitcase.

"Pei Yu, I'm waiting for you to sign."

Wen Nan Shu turned and left. Pei Yu stood by the roadside as if he couldn't believe what he had heard. Clearly, Wen Nan Shu hadn't changed at all. His tone when he said "yes" or "no" was calm and gentle. So why did Pei Yu feel like something had changed?

When Wen Nan said, "I don't want the ring," in that pair of eyes filled with eternal affection and tenderness towards him, Pei Yu saw himself for the first time.

In the company, Pei Yu, who never expected to be humiliated by Wen Nan Shu, angrily threw the divorce agreement, which shattered into pieces with a crisp sound, as his rage soared to the sky.

"Damn it, which law firm is trying to court death, daring to draft a divorce agreement for my wife?!"

There are three secretaries standing in the office. Cheng Hao and Feng Xue both kept their heads down and dared not speak, while He Ji picked it up from the ground.

It is indeed inappropriate. With the position of the Pei family in K City, which law firm would dare not inform the Pei family before drafting a divorce agreement for Madam Pei?

He Ji picked it up and flipped through two pages, but his expression suddenly changed. He saw the name of the lawyer and the law firm behind.

"Mr. Pei, this is Pei Corporation's legal firm."

He Jisaid, "This divorce agreement was four years ago... at that time, you had the lawyers from the Pei family draft it for your wife."