Chapter 3

Five years.

She had thought that even if five years of marriage couldn't earn his love, it could at least earn his respect.

But she had overestimated herself.

Olivia wanted to ask him.

Ask how he could say such cruel words.

Ask what she had done wrong to deserve such torment from him.

Olivia opened her mouth, but her throat felt stuck.

She lowered her eyes, her voice hoarse.

"I'll have the divorce papers drawn up."

Ethan walked past her towards the kitchen.

"I'm very tired today. I don't want to argue with you."

Watching Ethan roll up his sleeves in the kitchen, Olivia turned and went back to the bedroom.

Listening to the sounds from the kitchen,

Olivia felt a pang in her heart.

Ethan had germaphobia and never cooked.

Only now did she realize that germaphobia could be selective too.

Olivia wiped away the tears in the corner of her eyes. She didn't have time to be sad now.

Besides divorce, there were many other things she needed to do this month.

Olivia took out paper and pen, thinking about what she needed to accomplish.

After finishing these tasks...

She wanted to see the ocean.

The winter beaches of Florida must be very warm.

Embracing the sunshine as she left this world would surely be painless.

Thinking this, Olivia smiled for once.

As Olivia closed her notebook, she heard Ethan's voice.

"I won't be coming home tonight."

Only then did Olivia remember her test results were still outside.

She hurriedly ran out, bumping right into Ethan.

Ethan scrutinized her face.

"What are you in such a rush for?"

Olivia tried to appear calm as she grabbed her bag.

"Nothing, just getting my bag."

Ethan pressed further: "Really nothing?"

He felt Olivia was acting very strangely today.

Olivia glanced at him: "Aren't you going to deliver porridge to your mistress?"

Taken aback, Ethan turned to grab his coat by the door.

"I've told you, there's nothing between Sophia and me."

After he left, Olivia finally let out a sigh of relief.

Ethan cared a lot about his image.

If he knew she was sick, he would definitely refuse to divorce her just to save face.

She and Ethan lived next to the downtown hospital.

But she hadn't gone there for her checkup.

Because Ethan was a surgeon at the downtown hospital.

And Sophia had started working in pediatrics there this past year on his recommendation.

Ethan didn't like her going to the downtown hospital to find him.

To avoid causing Ethan trouble, she had chosen to go to the district hospital 10 miles away.

But thinking about it now,

Even if she had gotten checked at the downtown hospital,

Ethan probably wouldn't have noticed.

Few people at the hospital knew about their relationship.

Olivia carefully hid away the test results.

She couldn't let anything get in the way of the divorce.

It was very late now. Olivia curled up in bed, exhausted.

Tomorrow she still had to go back to her family home.

The Hayes mansion wasn't far.

Only an hour's drive from where she lived with Ethan.

After getting married, she rarely went home except for holidays.

Olivia looked at the neatly trimmed garden in front of her and rang the doorbell.

She had come today to retrieve her grandmother's jade pendant.