The Wife's Lie

o cell phones, and one of them contained

their prey to be slaughtered. They had set a trap for me, wa

gs for you, who knew who might en

I impatiently held my baby in my arms, who was not

old, and this was my third year as a full-t

of a Romance Scam" in our group chat and tagged me, urging me to read it carefully. She s

n click on it to read it, and the art

e years, although we never held a wedding ceremony. But including our dating period, w

evelopment was mainly handled by Larry began to get on the right track. At present,

am, where someone was deceived into a fake romant

ive drama; there weren'

happened a month later

ered that Larry had t

is friends for a late-night snac

a peek at his phone. I believed that trust and space were very important for a relationshi

s account, as all the memberships were under his name. That day, the membership

gerprint and the passwo

nt to apply a facial mask. Less than thirty minutes later, Larry hurried back in a rush. He didn

y. He said he was treating his friends tonight and couldn't pay witho

pp login page. "Honey, why couldn't I unlock

lled his phone from his right pocket. "Let

sensor. "See, it opens, right? Did yo

y, but inside, my

phone in his left pocket, yet

n Larry had

ecrets I was not a

ticle one of my bes

s between myself and the fem

iness together, with the female providing the fundi

s were the male's friends,

olvement of the female partner, or it seemed that sh

y was always ope

nce, Larry had a pho

hin that mobile phone which I

more coldly of late, my intuition indicate

on the camisole

rly passionate. But this time, even when I snuggled up to him, he did

n and pain. I never thought that my marriage, which had on

irst find out that a

rted paying attention to details, eve

red for him, ate the breakfast I made, and as he picked up

ut he couldn't refu

employees gave me strange looks, so

s had become an open secret. She was likely in the company;

king, I began observin

including the cleaning lady, a

ed out the unkemp

s. Whenever there was no one at the entrance, she would chat on Whatsapp, occas

to the accoun

accountant was tou

e well. She used to be quite plain, never wearing makeup, always with a bare fac

almost three years old, right? In the office, all the men were marri

ess was indeed Joanna, I would undoubte

er and looked at the baby in my a

and supple, just like the stu

"What do you t

steady, hardworking, willing to endure hardships. She mentioned how he had been runn

that started this company, but when it c

refer to, h

arly saw that her expression was somewhat em

d looked down at my baby and said, "Joanna, if anyone cau

I turned and left,

nnoyed. Before taking a seat, he interrogated me as

, "If you haven't done anything

Larry, if you didn't cheat on

what other phone?" Then he tried to brush it off,

didn't sleep with me. We did everything except

keeping himself pur

and Larry, sending me detailed itineraries every n

whole month, I found that apart from overlapping at the company, Larry and Joann

detective sent me Joanna's

ing Joanna, with his hands either on h

ved photos of them ente

eone else's mistress, but the man wa

igation into Joanna a

m too. It was around this time that a ne

named Cleo. She ran an online store and was also a live-streaming host for her fashion channel, usual

ular, reportedly earning over t

ch her streams. After all, a beautiful

e glanced at it and then turned away, saying

, but I felt a bit pleased. No wo

could there be a man who di

f Larry's shirt, I found a w

nt shopping with Larry and ran into Yolanda, who was out walking Cleo, across the s

ng much enthusiasm towards me. So why was it so affec

eyes, Larry wasn't

put on a lace nightgown an

a while since we slept tog

ld me and said

he really tired, or had I

gh various relationship articles

confession ab

. It was planned. I hate my current life which was stagnant and l

I felt a chill f

ed of our life and deci

ont him hysterica

ncrete evidence befo

rbell at our front door. From that day on, every morning wh

him again. I heard Larry laughing and talking, and Yolanda

up a chance for L