My Wife Abandoned Me for Her First Love and Schemed to Take My Company

When I had my gastrectomy, my wife Zhang Ling, who had promised to stay with me the whole time, was nowhere to be seen. The attending doctor looked behind me in surprise, “Did Dr.

Zhang not come to stay with you?” I called Zhang Ling, but all I heard was her exboyfriend’s voice: “Ling, bring me my underwear.” Zhang Ling said to me in a hurry, “Xu Cheng hurt his foot, and as his doctor, I can’t just leave him alone. “Yours is only a minor surgery, there’s no danger.

Just get anyone to sign the form.” Zhang Ling was a doctor and also my wife, but she gave the care that should have been mine to her exboyfriend.

As long as Xu Cheng was around, her eyes always followed him. Until I was discharged, Zhang Ling never showed up.

I finally decided to give up on her and signed the divorce papers. ...... I lay in the hospital bed, looking at my worried cousin as he tried to comfort me. “I’m fine now.

Go do your own thing.” My cousin, still in his school uniform, kept glancing toward the door and forced a relaxed smile. “What about my cousininlaw?

She hasn’t come out after her surgery yet?” Just then, a video call came in, with the ringtone I had specially set for Zhang Ling: [Wife calling, come answer the summons.] My cousin raised his eyebrows at me and made a face. “Another helping of PDA.

I won’t bother you two then. I still have evening selfstudy.” I smiled, my face full of mockery.

On the other end of the video was Zhang Ling, with her delicate makeup, black wavy hair, and a cheongsam that made her look especially sexy and curvy.

I couldn’t help staring at her. We had been married for two years, and she had always worn Tshirts and pants.

I wanted to buy her clothes, but she would say, “I’m so tired from work I could die. I don’t have the energy to dress up.” So she just didn’t want to waste any effort on me.

Seeing me dazed, Zhang Ling casually brushed the hair in front of her chest, looking stunningly seductive. She lifted her chin smugly. “Silly, staring like that?

Was the surgery a success? I told you it was a minor procedure.

There was no need to worry.” She was extremely confident in her skills, and didn’t even ask me a single thing about how I was doing. “Xu Cheng is different from you.

He’s a workaholic with all kinds of problems. Now that his leg is hurt and he can’t move around easily, if I don’t keep an eye on him, he’ll just keep working.

How is his wound supposed to heal then?” Watching her completely lost in worrying about Xu Cheng, I cut her off bitterly. “So you just left your husband behind to keep another man company?” Zhang Ling froze, then instinctively argued, “What are you jealous about?

We’re just good friends.

He’s a patient, and as a doctor and a friend, of course I have to take care of him!” I let out a cold laugh. “A good friend who shows up all dressed up at another man’s place to help him get his underwear?” Zhang Ling, exposed by me, abruptly stood up. “Zhao Yan, can you be more generous?

I already said he hurt his leg and can’t move around, that’s why I came to help.

Besides, if there was anything between us, would there even be a place for you in this?” Looking at how flustered she was trying to explain, I couldn’t help mocking her. “Was he crippled, or turned into a human husk, that he needs you, a doctor, to take care of him personally?” Xu Cheng’s voice suddenly came through the video. “Zhao Yan, don’t misunderstand.

Ling and I are clean—” Suddenly Zhang Ling cried out, and the phone fell to the floor. Through the screen, I saw Zhang Ling spread her arms and catch Xu Cheng as he fell.

The two of them instantly ended up tightly wrapped in each other’s arms, and Xu Cheng, whether on purpose or not, kissed Zhang Ling hard.

The wet kissing sound made me dizzy with disgust. Xu Cheng looked at the phone on the floor and gave me a victorious smile.

He even deliberately reached out and shifted their position so I could see the two of them clearly. Zhang Ling’s face was red all over at that point.

She clutched Xu Cheng nervously, and they looked into each other’s eyes, full of affection, completely forgetting I was there. Her voice was soft. “Are you okay?

I told you to be careful.

What if the wound opens again?” I clenched my back teeth so hard my jaw hurt, just to keep myself from losing control and storming over to Xu Cheng’s place to beat the hell out of those two cheating bastards.

I let out a sneer. “Zhang Ling, don’t forget your job.” Zhang Ling in the frame immediately drooped her shoulders and lowered her head guiltily.

Back then, after her parents died in a car accident, her company was swallowed up by her uncles.

To stay inseparable from Xu Cheng, she even took out money of her own and funded his studies overseas.

But when Xu Cheng saw how helpless and ruined she was, he tricked her out of the property her parents had left her and abandoned her.

She didn’t even have money to bring her parents back home for burial. When she was at her weakest and most helpless, I gave up my chance to study overseas and chose to help her.

I even had a huge fight with my parents over it.

She said she wanted to keep pursuing medicine, and with the skyhigh tuition and living expenses overseas, even if I worked as a host and got a stomach disease from drinking, it would still be a drop in the bucket.

For her, I gave up my dream of becoming a painter.

I had no choice but to bow to my parents and agree to take over the family business in exchange for them funding everything she needed to study overseas.

While she was studying abroad, I worked two jobs by myself. I did everything I could to take back her company, protect her shares, and make sure she had no worries.

After we got married, I even used my family’s connections to bring clients to her company. Because I loved her, I was willing to give up everything.

She hated Xu Cheng, so I helped her slowly swallow up the company Xu Cheng had started with her money.

I couldn’t bear to let the woman I loved get even a speck of filth on her hands. Her hands were only meant to save lives. But at the final step, she changed her mind.

Because Xu Cheng went to see her and threatened to kill himself. “Ling, I’m sorry. I was bewitched back then. They tricked me and dragged me into a gambling ring.

They said if I couldn’t get the money, they’d kidnap you. “I was afraid you’d get dragged into it, so I had no choice but to take the money and hide as far away from you as possible to draw their attention.

They even cut off my toes trying to force your whereabouts out of me.

I started this company just so that one day, if I ran into you, I could return it to you.” Xu Cheng kept rambling on about their past. “I love you.

If there’s a next life, let me repay you as a cow or a horse.” Xu Cheng stabbed the knife into himself without the slightest hesitation.

Moved by those beautiful memories, Zhang Ling looked at the blood seeping from the wound, and her hatred vanished completely.

Xu Cheng looked at Zhang Ling with a smile. “I’m the one who wronged you in this life. In the next one, I hope I can still be with you.” Zhang Ling cried her heart out in emotion.

Xu Cheng’s selfstabbing had been carefully planned. It was nothing more than a flesh wound. But Zhang Ling’s attitude toward him was completely different.

Because of love, no matter how clumsy Xu Cheng’s excuse was, Zhang Ling could always make it sound reasonable in her own heart.

That night I sat alone at the dining table, staring at the birthday cake, waiting from day to night. I called her again and again, but she never answered.

We had already agreed the day before to have dinner together for my birthday. I was afraid something had happened to her, so I rushed to her hospital by car.

Halfway there, I got a call from her. Hearing her choking voice, I panicked so badly I nearly crashed into the roadside greenery. “What happened? Where are you?

I’m coming right now!” On the other end was her hurried voice, along with a man’s sigh. “Zhao Yan, I need to cover for another colleague for a few days at the last minute.

I’m staying at the hospital these next few days.” “Do you want me to bring you some clean clothes?” Zhang Ling quickly refused. “No need.

I’ll come home after I finish these few days.” In the days that followed, Zhang Ling never answered my calls again.

Only after a long time would she text me back, telling me not to worry and to take care of myself. She was my wife. How could I not worry?

I was afraid she’d get so busy with work that she forgot to eat. I spent the entire morning personally making soup and cooking her favorite dishes, wanting to give her a surprise.

But when I drove to the hospital, I saw her supporting Xu Cheng into a taxi.

I followed them and found that they had gone to another apartment I had bought for her, one that was only a tenminute walk from her hospital.

It had been meant to help her rest better, but now it had become the place where she kept her little hidden man. I felt completely defeated and threw the lunch boxes into the trash.

I kept brainwashing myself not to overthink it. They were just friends. Zhang Ling was just confused for the moment.

If I gave her a little more time, she would definitely understand who truly cared about her. But I never imagined that all my compromises would end up like this.

Looking at Zhang Ling on the other end of the phone, pretending to be wronged, I said coldly, “Zhang Ling, you’ve really disappointed me.” Zhang Ling hurriedly lifted her head. “Zhao Yan, I’ll come right away, I—” But Xu Cheng beside her suddenly let out a scream.

Zhang Ling immediately turned her attention to him. “Did the wound split open? There’s so much blood.

I need to suture it again.” I could hear her searching for the firstaid kit while running around.

Xu Cheng picked up the phone and waved at me, looking pleased with himself. “As long as I say one word, Ling will always choose me over you.

You’ll always be my loser.” I hung up expressionlessly, and the split wound seemed to hurt even more.

It wasn’t until I was discharged that Zhang Ling contacted me again. Just like before, as long as I didn’t call her first, she could act as if I didn’t exist forever.

This relationship had only ever been me trying. And she was fighting for another man, even giving up the job she loved just to take care of Xu Cheng with total devotion.

The attending doctor looked at me in surprise. “You didn’t know Dr.

Zhang’s mother was sick and that she took annual leave to go home and take care of her?” Then he shook his head and patted my shoulder. “Couples don’t stay mad forever.

As the man, you should understand her more.” I let out a selfmocking laugh. To take care of Xu Cheng, she had even used her dead mother as an excuse. What a great love story.

When we got married, I asked her to take a few days off for our honeymoon, but Zhang Ling turned me down with a righteous expression. “Zhao Yan, my patients need me.

I can’t abandon them for pleasure.” Back then, I was ashamed of my own selfish desire.

In Zhang Ling’s eyes, probably only Xu Cheng could outrank her work and become number one, while I would always just be the backup.

After I took the divorce papers home, I unexpectedly saw Zhang Ling. She rushed to the entrance with a bright smile on her face. She had an apron on, and a spatula in her hand.

Looking at Zhang Ling, who had never before lifted a finger in the kitchen for me, my oncecold heart started pounding again.

The smell of food drifting from the kitchen made me feel warm all over. She had even remembered when I was supposed to be discharged.

I tightened my grip on my luggage, and at that moment, I was only glad I hadn’t taken out the divorce papers.

Otherwise this little crybaby would have seen them and started another scene.

I was drowning in guilt and didn’t notice at all that Zhang Ling’s smile had frozen at the corners of her mouth. “Ling, I brought back the soy sauce.

It suddenly started pouring outside, and I got soaked.” A burst of thunder sounded, jolting me awake.

I turned stiffly and saw Xu Cheng wearing my clothes, looking perfectly at ease. The heart that had just warmed up instantly fell into an ice pit.

Xu Cheng froze when he saw me at the door, then quickly recovered, put on a smile, and patted my shoulder. “You’re discharged? Better early than late.

We made dinner, just in time to celebrate your discharge.” He was so calm it was as if he were the man of the house.

I turned to look at Zhang Ling, and she looked embarrassed, constantly switching the spatula between her left and right hands. “Today is Xu Cheng’s birthday, and he’s all alone right now.

Since you’re just getting discharged, it works out perfectly. Double happiness, right?” The air was thick with the smell of burning food.

Zhang Ling and Xu Cheng seemed to have a lot of unspoken understanding as they both rushed into the kitchen.

On the square dining table, two sets of bowls and chopsticks were neatly placed side by side. A strangely shaped cake stood out especially clearly.

It was made by Zhang Ling herself. We had been together for four years, and she had never put this much effort into preparing my birthday before. Two good things at once, huh.

Heh, heh, heh. I tightened my grip on my luggage and couldn’t help letting out a cold laugh. They probably wished I’d die in the hospital so I wouldn’t ruin their fun.

Xu Cheng took out another set of bowls and chopsticks and placed them directly across from us, then called out to me provocatively, “Sit down. Don’t be so stiff.

The soup’ll be ready soon.” I dropped my luggage and threw a punch straight at Xu Cheng.

When Zhang Ling heard the noise, she rushed out and immediately stood between us. “What are you doing? Xavier has mild depression.

How can you push him like that?” Looking at Zhang Ling standing against me, my heart hurt so badly it felt like it was being torn apart.

For another man, she treated me like an enemy. “This is our home. You brought another man back here to fool around, and you think you’re in the right?”

Zhang Ling shoved me angrily, and my lower back slammed into a chair, pulling on the wound in my stomach. Pain forced me to bend over and clutch my abdomen.

Zhang Ling frowned in disgust. “Zhao Yan, how old are you already? Can you stop acting pitiful?” Xu Cheng behind her sucked in a sharp breath.

Zhang Ling immediately turned around and touched his face. Then she shot me a vicious glare. “Are you crazy?

You hit him that hard like you were trying to kill him?” Then she hurriedly took out the firstaid kit and applied medicine for Xu Cheng.

I clutched my stomach and walked over to the sofa to sit down, watching blood soak through my white Tshirt, and could only grit my teeth and bear the pain.

Xu Cheng had only been slapped once, while my wound had reopened. How could the two even compare? Xu Cheng comforted Zhang Ling gently, “It’s my fault.

If I had known today was the day Zhao Yan got discharged, I would never have begged you to spend the only birthday I’ve had in five years with me.” “Ling, thank you.

I’ll go explain it to Zhao Yan.

It’s fine if he misunderstands me, but he can’t misunderstand you.” Tears welling in her eyes, Zhang Ling looked at him. “He’s always been that kind of asshole.

You’re the one who’s gentle and considerate.” Five years, and even now Zhang Ling needed me to remind her before she remembered my birthday.

I took a deep breath and didn’t want to watch them act out their tragic lovers routine anymore.

I threw the divorce papers onto the table and said without any emotion, “Zhang Ling, let’s get divorced.” Zhang Ling never imagined I would be the one to bring up divorce, and she rushed over immediately, redfaced, pointing at me as she demanded, “Zhao Yan, you want to get divorced over something this small?” I could no longer suppress my emotions. “You left me, with surgery about to start, and stayed in the same room with him, taking care of him personally.

Is that a small thing? You brought him into the home I carefully decorated for you. Is that a small thing?

I think about you everywhere, put you at the center of everything, and you still choose to degrade yourself by staying with this freeloader?” Zhang Ling swung her hand at me, and I easily caught her wrist. “Zhao Yan, don’t you dare talk about Xu Cheng like that.

He has always been the best. If you hadn’t gone after him when his company ran into trouble and driven him into a corner, would he really have ended up like this?

I knew you were jealous of Xu Cheng before, but I never thought you were so afraid of him rising again that you’d even want to force him to die.” “Force him to die?

Zhang Ling, do you even have a conscience?” I only felt pain all over. Everything I had done for her had ended up becoming the knife she used to hurt me.

Seeing this, Xu Cheng pulled my hand away and stood beside Zhang Ling. They were clearly on the same side. “Zhao Yan, don’t misunderstand.

Ling and I are just a patient and a doctor. She’s the one taking such good care of me with no regard for herself. You should be proud to have such a selfless wife.

How can you accuse her of anything?” Looking at Xu Cheng’s smug face, I was burning with rage and shoved him hard. “Get out. Get the hell out of my house.

You bastard don’t deserve to stay on my turf!” Xu Cheng fell to the floor, knocking over the vase on the table. His wrist was cut by the glass, and blood poured out.

Just as I grabbed his collar and was about to punch him again, Zhang Ling hugged me from behind and shoved me away with all her strength.

Crying, she knelt on the floor and spread her arms to shield Xu Cheng behind her. “Please, don’t hurt Xu Cheng.

I’ll sign it, as long as you don’t regret it!” For another man, she knelt before me.

I was trembling all over from the pain, unable to tell whether the tearing pain of the wound hurt more or the pain in my heart hurt more.

I staggered, picked up the divorce papers, and left.

When I reached the door, Zhang Ling’s shouting came from behind me. “Zhao Yan, once you walk out that door, even if you kneel, I will never forgive you.” Really?

That was exactly what I wanted. I forced myself to finish the divorce process, and my shirt was already soaked red.

Just as my consciousness was blurring, I got a phone call. “Zhao Yan, come to the hospital right now. Your wife was in a car accident.

She miscarried, and we need you here to sign the papers.”