Chapter 125: Chapter 125: Unfaithful Once, Never Trusted Again

Beautiful Alone said self-righteously, “I’m busy because I have to work! She doesn’t have a job. She just stays home, takes care of the kids, and cooks. What’s she got to be tired about? Besides, isn’t that what every woman goes through?”

Shen Zhiyao said, “Do you remember why you got together with her in the first place?”

Beautiful Alone froze at her words. When he first met her, she was as beautiful as the moon, capturing his attention in an instant.

But now, she was old and ugly, nothing like the woman he had first fallen for.

Shen Zhiyao let out a deep sigh. “See? You yourself know that you liked her when she was slim and beautiful. So, after her mind broke and her memories became jumbled, she tried to present herself to you as she was thirteen years ago. She remembers all of it, but you’ve forgotten! You and the children are a constant reminder that she’s a housewife, so her mind fractured, and she came to believe she’d transmigrated.”

“You think she only cares about dressing up now and ignores the family. But thirteen years ago, she was a young, cute, and carefree girl, and you didn’t have a problem with it then. Why do you have a problem now? Just because she’s a mother, does she lose the right to dress up? Does she have to let her own passions waste away amid the drudgery of daily chores? You have the right to look good, and she has the right to love her own beauty!”

“But isn’t it like this for all women? What woman doesn’t have kids and do housework? Why is it suddenly not okay for her? I think she’s just…” He trailed off, stopping himself mid-sentence.

’He understood all the reasoning, but how could he have said something so heartless?’

Over the years, his wife had thrown herself into the ceaseless grind of household life, transforming from a stunning, poised career woman into a plain, haggard housewife.

As his wife changed, he found her plain and dull.

She wore the same old loungewear every day, not even willing to throw it away when it was worn out.

She would say they should save money for the kids, since they were in school and expenses were high.

She knew cosmetics could trigger their child’s illness, so she hadn’t worn perfume or makeup for years.

When it came to vacation, she’d say they should put it off because it was too expensive.

So, she would drag the family of four to free parks and then out for ten-yuan bowls of beef noodle soup.

After eleven years of marriage, he had become a mid-level manager at his company, polished and successful.

She, on the other hand, had become a nagging, out-of-shape, and haggard woman who couldn’t even bring herself to buy a single decent piece of clothing.

Slowly, his heart began to stray. He stopped paying attention to his worn-out wife, often flirting with the young women at his company. When he came home, he would only chat with pretty girls online, making dirty jokes and sending messages.

Just two months ago, his wife discovered evidence of his affair and they had a huge fight.

He flatly denied it and stormed out, slamming the door. Before he left, he threw one last sentence at her: “Look at the pathetic state you’re in! You’re ugly as sin and you stink! If I didn’t cheat, was I supposed to spend the rest of my life with a frumpy old hag like you? Why don’t you just go die! After you’re dead, I can find someone young and beautiful!”

After he calmed down, he started to regret it.

He was afraid a divorce would upset the children.

That night, he went to sleep with a sense of unease, fully expecting his wife to keep fighting with him.

But the next day, she woke up late and remembered nothing.

She only said that she had transmigrated, that she was a rich heiress from the year 2085…

She hadn’t transmigrated. It was all a figment of her imagination.

In eleven years of marriage, she wasn’t oblivious to her husband’s growing coldness. But she thought that was just how marriage was—even the most passionate love would eventually cool into the trivialities of daily life.

She was willing to change herself, willing to become ordinary.

What she hadn’t expected, however, was for her husband to be flirting with the young women at his company, surrounding himself with them every day, complimenting their perfume and their femininity.

Even worse, he was getting hotel rooms with them.

And so, he grew indifferent toward the aging woman who slept beside him, becoming so impatient that even speaking a single word to her felt like a chore.

After he left, she cried for a long time. Afraid of waking the children, she could only bury her face in the blankets and sob quietly.

In those eleven years, she had become completely disconnected from society. If she were to look for a job now, no company would hire her. So she could only depend on this man, with nowhere else to go.

She didn’t dare tell her parents about her difficulties, afraid they would worry and be unable to help.

But her husband’s words were like a sharp knife, stabbing deep into her heart, and the sight of his back as he walked away was so final…

And so, she began to fantasize. If she were a rich heiress, still twenty-five years old, would her husband spare her a second glance?

She awoke from a dream, her memories in disarray, believing she was a rich heiress from the year 2085.

Shen Zhiyao said to Beautiful Alone, “Your wife’s condition isn’t uncontrollable yet. If you get her treatment from a psychiatrist, she can recover quickly. But if you ignore it, her condition will only worsen until she becomes an emotionless madwoman…”

“Okay, I understand.”

Beautiful Alone’s heart was incredibly heavy. He sincerely thanked Shen Zhiyao, “Thank you, Host! I’ll definitely find the best hospital for her.”

With that, he sent another Douyin Number One and left the stream.

[So it was because she was so repressed that she started hallucinating after a while. I knew it! How could a plot from a novel happen in real life?]

[See! So many things in this world are unfair. Only women are expected to balance family and career; men aren’t!]

[My mom is just like that. She and my dad started a company together, but then she gave it up to be a stay-at-home mom for me. And while the internet was going crazy over that meme about ’A good wife helped me succeed, so I’ll repay her with a fortune,’ my dad got together with his assistant. They even have three kids together. I asked my mom if she regrets it, but she just smiled and said nothing.]

[AHHHH! Where’s your dad?! I’ve got my knife ready, I’m gonna go kill that scumbag!]

[Beautiful Alone is a total scumbag. Once a cheater, always a cheater. If I were Lin Wei, I’d have taken the kids and left long ago.]

[I don’t think Beautiful Alone actually cheated, did he? He just went to a hotel with a female colleague. What if they didn’t do anything?]

[WTF, where did this pick-me girl come from? Someone get her! Drag her out of here!]

[Host, can Lin Wei’s mental illness be cured?]

Shen Zhiyao said, “Beautiful Alone isn’t a bad person at heart, and he still has some feelings for his wife. That’s why he knows what she likes and is willing to spend money to get her treatment. As for whether they can get back together, that will depend on Lin Wei’s choice.”

Having completed her three readings for the day, Shen Zhiyao went offline.

「The next day」

All the top trending topics on Weibo were about Shen Zhiyao.

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Five trending topics in a row made Shen Zhiyao the most infamous celebrity of the moment.

Recordings of her previous fortune-telling streams spread rapidly on Weibo, but most people just treated them as comedy, refusing to believe her predictions could be so accurate.

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