Chapter 4Kicking Out the Jerk: My Life Got Better Overnight

"Wendy, I'm heading to work. You can sleep in."

In my drowsy state, I felt a warm touch on my forehead.

I slowly woke up.

"Going so early?"

Justin gave a helpless smile, ruffling my hair.

"Yeah, gotta work hard to support you, right? I promised my Wendy."

I snuggled against his hand.

"Then you have to come home for dinner with me tonight."

"I want to eat out."

Justin playfully tapped my nose. "Okay, deal."

I looked at him, clinging to him like he was my last straw.

Justin, if you just come back tonight, if you just show up, I can forgive everything you've done wrong.

After getting up, I started searching for restaurants, booked one, and shared the location and menu with Justin.

"This place looks amazing! Can we eat here tonight?"

"Remember to buy me flowers! You know Lisianthus are my favorite."

Lisianthus means sincere, unchanging love.

More importantly, every time I saw those flowers, I remembered that hot afternoon four years ago, my boy shyly telling me clumsy sweet nothings.

The message went unanswered. My heart sank with it.

It's okay, maybe he's busy, no time to check his phone.

He promised me, he'll definitely show up in the end.

I tried to comfort myself, deceiving myself.

When the agreed time arrived, I got all dressed up beautifully and headed to the restaurant.

An hour passed. No one came, no messages.

Two hours passed. The person I wanted to see still hadn't appeared.

...

I called him. No answer.

I kept calling, again and again, relentlessly.

Finally, on the twelfth call, he picked up.

It was incredibly loud on his end – music, the rattle of dice, shrieks, laughter.

"Where are you?"

"I'm so sorry, Wendy. Something urgent came up here. I can't make it to dinner."

"What kind of urgent situation?"

He hemmed and hawed for a while before finally mumbling, "You know that new assistant I hired? She just landed a huge deal, we're celebrating with her."

I listened silently, tears dripping onto the table, one by one.

"Wendy, you know, she's really capable. I want to keep her at the company—"

I cut him off.

"Have fun."

After saying that, without a shred of hesitation, I hung up.

"Waiter, bring the food."

I couldn't taste anything. My tears were flowing uncontrollably now, like a dam had broken, splashing into my bowl.

After eating, I hailed a cab to go home, but then I received a friend request notification.

I recognized the profile picture from last night. It was the assistant.

"Hi Wendy, I'm Tiffany Yan, Justin's new assistant."

Then she sent a video and a location pin.

The video background was dim, looked like a bar or a club.

But I couldn't mistake the main character: Justin.

Suddenly, the background noise became a unified chant.

"Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!"

Two figures moved closer and closer, finally pressing together.

Just then, the lights suddenly brightened, and I clearly saw the two people locked in a passionate kiss.

Who else could it be but Justin and Tiffany Yan?

I trembled, finally unable to hold back the nausea rising in my throat. I started dry-heaving.

Tears streamed down my cheeks instantly. It felt like a giant hand was squeezing my heart, making me gasp desperately for air.

The driver saw my wretched state in the rearview mirror.

"Miss, are you alright?"

I shook my head, wiping away the tears.

"Driver, turn around."