After five years of a cold marriage, I can no longer hide the child I secretly gave birth to.

At that time, she was still living in the Xu family's house. He saw her a few times by chance, and she was always depressed because she had failed the exam.

Later, she found an internship at a pet care center, and her mood gradually improved.

Therefore, when the Pet Home was facing bankruptcy, he invested five million to save it, just so that she wouldn't lose the job she loved.

However, Xu Guodong clearly stated that she failed the exam on her own.

The truth was that she had been impersonated.

Xu Jiaojiao took her place.

He knew nothing about any of these things.

Neither Mu En nor Fang Qing had been able to find it.

It was at this moment that he realized how negligent he had been as her husband.

He even said that he had secretly liked her for so many years, yet he didn't even know that she had suffered such a great injustice.

Looking at the woman's extremely pale and fragile face, he seemed to understand why she hated the Xu family so much.

How many other unfair things did they do to her that he didn't know about?

He reached out and gently pulled the woman into his arms, his fingers softly stroking the top of her head.

The words of comfort reached my lips, but I felt that whatever I said at that moment would seem pale and powerless.

All I could do was hold her quietly, protecting her in my arms.

Xu Daikui was forced to nestle against his warm chest, and she was momentarily dazed.

She believed that the man's heartbeat was truly for her.

She longed to stay by his side forever, letting all her bitterness and tears flow freely.

But she knew she couldn't.

Her relationship with Zhou Yanci ended long ago.

Tears streamed down her cheeks, tasting salty as they dripped into her mouth. She pursed her lips, pushed Zhou Yanci away, and wiped away her tears.

"Now you know why I'm entangled with Wang Guang, right? Wang Guang has evidence of the Xu family's crimes. He's the only person who can bring me back to the light. He holds the key to getting justice for me. I'm grateful to him and consider him my benefactor. Zhou Yanci, please don't hurt him."

Zhou Yanci could now personally experience how much persecution Xu Daikui had suffered from the Xu family over the years.

She lost her job twice because of Xu Jiaojiao.

She was unloved by her father and mother, and Wang Guang, out of pity for her helplessness, wanted to repay her kindness by asking to marry her.

The answers to questions that he couldn't understand before are now clearly written on the paper.

All he felt was heartache.

To Xu Daikui.

He took her hand again, his long fingers stroking her damp face. "Wang Guang won't be coming tonight, and I won't hurt him. If you consider him your benefactor, I will naturally respect him from now on. But the condition is that you tell me everything, okay?"

Besides this, what else is she hiding from him?

He pulled her down onto the stool and scrutinized her with his gaze.

Xu Daikui originally didn't want to get entangled with him anymore, but if she didn't speak up now, the matter of impersonation would have to be left unresolved.

She has nowhere to seek justice, while Xu Guodong and his family will forever remain at large.

The police refused to give her justice, and it seemed that only Zhou Yanci could clear her name.

She pursed her lips and told him the whole story from back then, without missing a single detail.

This includes the fact that she is not her biological child, her birth mother is unknown, she lived with her grandmother from a young age, and was taken back by Xu Guodong after she grew up, until her job was taken over.

Furthermore, her most intense argument with the Xu family was because she accidentally slept with Zhou Yanci, and they blamed her for stealing Xu Jiaojiao's marriage.

The insults intensified, and she was forced to return Zhou Yanci to Xu Jiaojiao. It was from that day that she moved out of the Xu family home.

She told Zhou Yanci all of this.

She didn't want his sympathy or pity; she just wanted to tell him that their marriage wasn't something she had schemed for, yet the Xu family blamed everything on her.

She just wanted Zhou Yanci to expose the impersonation, and for Li Xuelan to be brought to justice and imprisoned.

Zhou Yanci listened calmly to her story.

He felt like an outsider, yet also like a character in a play.

What Xu Daikui said was quite different from what he had seen before.

Especially on their wedding night, he heard Xu Daikui say those words with his own ears…

He looked at her and said, "I will give you justice, and I will investigate the Xu family."

"I just want to ask you, did you ever consider using me to deal with the Xu family?"

Xu Daikui remained silent for a moment when asked about this.

She considered it, but ultimately she didn't do it.

When she married him, she only had a passionate and heartfelt liking for him.

Their love had nothing to do with the Xu family.

She hesitated, "If I had thought about it, would you have blamed me?"

Zhou Yanci stared at her pure and clear eyes, her thick eyelashes still glistening with tears, her expression very pitiful.

He smiled. "I've already blamed you."

Xu Daikui shook her head. "But I have never taken advantage of you."

"So you're saying I misunderstood you?"

Whether or not it was useful, Zhou Yanci didn't really care anymore.

Whether it's exploitation or love, he just wants to be with her.

Xu Daikui didn't understand. "Is this why you've been blaming me?"

"Zhou Yanci, you're lying to me when you say you don't love Xu Jiaojiao, right? You used to like her, didn't you? It's just that five years ago, after you chased her abroad, you realized you didn't love her that much. So, now you want to come back to love me, is that it?"

Her questions, like her personality, are straightforward and potentially damaging.

"I've said it before, loving you isn't a choice."

"There has never been a third party in our marriage and our love. From the day I met you, Zhou Yanci, on July 19, 2016, at Xu Jiaojiao's birthday party, I have been thinking about you. There is only you, no one else."

"Do you know why my bank card PIN is 0719? That's the date I first met you."

"That night, under a sky full of stars, you were dazzling and unique, and you entered my heart at first sight."

"You may stop liking me, but don't doubt my heart."

"The only person it ever wants to be near is you."

0719?

Was it the day they met?

But why does she have no recollection of it at all?

Xu Daikui was stunned once again.

That day was clearly Xu Jiaojiao's birthday.

"No…"

She shook her head.

She didn't believe he had fallen in love with her back then. She was the one who fell in love first, so how could he have fallen for her earlier?

If you truly loved her, why did you leave her in the first place?

She firmly denied it, "Zhou Yanci, anything you say now could be a lie you're making up to get me back. After all, your past behavior makes it impossible for me to believe that you liked me back then."

Let's end this topic here.

As she spoke, she stood up, took a few steps back from the man, and picked up the share transfer document she had placed on the table.

"I'm going home. Tomorrow, remember to send someone to the police station to check the information I reported. For the sake of our past as classmates, I hope you can give me justice and bring the criminals to justice."

She didn't mention the fact that they were husband and wife, because they had never truly been husband and wife for even a single day.

There was absolutely no sentimentality involved.