Chapter 3

3

It was nearly four in the morning when I got home.

I turned on the living room chandelier and found Sienna curled up on the sofa.

She rubbed her eyes and looked at me, full of exhaustion.

"Are you hungry? I'll go make you some noodles."

Saying that, Sienna staggered up and walked toward the kitchen.

But I grabbed her arm.

"I already ate, you should go rest if you're tired, don't worry about me."

Sienna was slightly taken aback, then spoke in a suppressed voice.

"Seth, I've been too busy with work lately, it was just a slip of the mind that I forgot yesterday was our seventh anniversary, can I make it up to you tomorrow after the media interviews?"

"I'm sorry."

I didn't say a word and went straight to the guest room in silence.

Her sleep quality had always been poor, and even if I just turned over, it would wake her up.

Therefore, in the second year of our marriage, Sienna and I started sleeping in separate rooms.

"How about you don't sleep in the guest room tonight, it's been a long time since we..."

I looked down and cracked my knuckles.

Counting carefully, it seemed we hadn't had any intimacy for almost four years.

Sienna always used work as an excuse, saying she just didn't have the mood for it.

But I knew very well that she was just tired of me as a person.

I suddenly recalled a scene from that movie.

The two main characters lived in different cities after college.

Despite the heavy academic workload, the female lead would take a slow train for over ten hours every weekend just to see him from afar.

A few days ago, I found a tightly sealed cardboard box in our storage room.

I opened it out of curiosity and saw that it was filled with old train tickets.

At that time, I didn't know why Sienna had kept these things.

I asked casually, but she scolded me for going through her personal belongings.

If I hadn't seen the plot in the movie, I probably would never have understood what they meant.

To let the male lead go abroad for his studies with peace of mind.

The female lead stubbornly proposed a breakup, hiding the truth of her pregnancy.

She secretly went to the clinic and got rid of the problem.

Before parting, she even said a lot of harsh, hypocritical words to intentionally provoke him.

Regarding this plot, Zachary Yates also expressed his confusion to Sienna during the Q&A session.

With red eyes, he asked her if she was really pregnant with his child back then.

Sienna firmly denied it at first, but soon tears were swirling in her eyes.

"It's all in the past, whether it's true or false doesn't matter anymore."

I clenched my fists tight in the audience.

Before getting married, Sienna made it clear that she wanted to be entirely child-free.

She said she would never have any plans for kids in the future.

If we were to be together, I had to agree to her demands.

To completely reassure Sienna, I gritted my teeth and went to the hospital to get a vasectomy.

Thinking about it now, the old me was ridiculously stupid.

It wasn't that she didn't want children, she just didn't want to have them with me.

Without realizing it, it was already five in the morning.

The clock on the wall let out a few crisp ticks and quickly returned to silence.

I could even hear Sienna's violently beating heart.

"A movie is just a movie, the person I chose in reality is you, not Zachary Yates!"

"Isn't that enough for you?!"

Sienna's voice was a bit hoarse as she stepped forward and tightly grabbed my collar.

That look in her eyes was like a harsh reprimand.

As if my leaving alone in the rain and dropping the divorce bomb.

Was entirely me throwing an unreasonable tantrum.

Right at that moment, an abrupt ringtone broke the stiff atmosphere.

Sienna reflexively pressed the answer button.

A moment later, Zachary Yates's voice came from the other end.

"I thought you were already asleep, answering my call at this hour."

"Sienna, do you want to come over and grab the bra you left at my place last time, it's weird for a grown man like me to hand it back to you in person."