"Will you blame me for telling you this news?" Li Man asked anxiously.
"Why would I?" Tan Xi Yuan wiped her tears and said, "I'm grateful to you. At least you let me see his true colors earlier. I don't want to be the last woman to know that her husband is cheating. It's more painful that way, because everyone knows except for you. They're all laughing at you, like you're a fool."
Hearing Tan Xi Yuan's words, Li Man's uneasy heart finally settled down.
"So what's your plan now?" Li Man asked.
"I'll just divorce him," Tan Xi Yuan said with a defiant tone while wiping her nose. "What else can I do? I can't have children, so it's not fair to Lu Feng."
"You can't say that," Li Man sighed. She didn't know how to comfort her friend, since her own husband had also cheated on her. She felt that any consolation would be futile.
After crying for a while, Tan Xi Yuan gradually calmed down and said, "Call the girls out. I'm going to get drunk tonight."
She sent a message to the group chat: "My husband cheated on me. Come out and keep me company tonight. We won't come back until we're drunk!"
The group chat exploded with messages.
Gu Ya replied first, "What the f***! Lu Feng cheated too? What's going on? Even a model husband like him is cheating. Is there still love in this world?"
Chen XiaoHui sent a sad face emoji and asked, "What's your plan now? Have you confronted him?"
Tan Xi Yuan sent a photo of the woman Li Man had shown her and asked, "Have you seen this woman before?"
Gu Ya replied, "No, do you want me to look her up?"
Chen XiaoHui said, "I haven't seen her either."
Tan Xi Yuan @ Gu Ya: "No need, thanks for your kind offer. Whoever she is, I'm giving up my place to her."
Gu Ya said, "Are you just letting her off the hook like that?"
Tan Xi Yuan @ Chen XiaoHui: "I haven't confronted him yet."
"What else can you do? They're already together. Do you want to wait for them to have a child and then have me take care of it?"
"I'm not that great," Tan Xi Yuan said.
"That's why I'm telling you, ladies, money is more important than love. Xi Yuan, don't think too much about it. Just try to make more money," Gu Ya advised.
"Don't worry, I won't shortchange myself. Let's go out and have some fun tonight. We won't come back until we're drunk!" Tan Xi Yuan said.
"Okay, I'll accompany you to the death tonight," Gu Ya said.
"See you tonight," Chen XiaoHui said.
After exiting WeChat, Tan Xi Yuan looked up at Li Man and asked, "Where did you see them?"
"At the entrance of the Vee Hotel," Li Man replied.
"The Vee Hotel," Tan Xi Yuan sneered. "So this cheating couple had their secret rendezvous during lunchtime."
She knew it! Lu Feng always went home right after work. How could he have time to cheat? It turned out that he was seeing his lover during lunch breaks.
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As night fell and the city lights began to illuminate, the vibrant nightlife of Deep City commenced.
Inside the bar, neon lights flickered incessantly, radiating a kaleidoscope of colors. The music was deafening, and the air was filled with the scent of alcohol, tobacco, and a hint of hormones. In the center of the dance floor, a group of young men and women twisted their bodies wildly, liberating themselves from the pressures of the day.
Li Man and Tan Xi Yuan sat at a corner booth.
On the table, there was a dozen of beers and several plates of snacks.