Li Tingyan was utterly helpless. Wasn’t his wife the one who wanted to leave just yesterday?

Well, this was what Li Tingyan didn’t get. Women, you know, always say the opposite of what they mean. When they’re mad, they talk without thinking. But a man has to remember this: when your woman says she wants to go, you can’t agree, you can only try to keep her.

Clearly, Li ★Steel-Straight-Guy★ Tingyan still hadn’t grasped this truth at this very moment. He just let Nianyang vent on him and said gently, "Nini, don’t overthink it. I’m sending you away only because it’s not suitable for you to stay here for now."

If he wanted to confirm whether Yin Tang was actually that Phoenix, he had to continue getting in contact with her. He definitely wouldn’t do anything that would wrong Nianyang. After all, if Yin Tang was Phoenix, she’d be old enough to be his mother. At most, they’d just talk and laugh a little. But if Nianyang were here, he wouldn’t be able to act freely at all, and he was also afraid she’d feel hurt seeing it.

Better to send Nianyang away, wait until this matter was resolved, then explain everything to her properly. Nianyang would definitely understand.

Nianyang let out a cold laugh. "Not suitable for me to stay here? What, are you afraid I’ll get in the way of you and Yin Tang whispering sweet nothings to each other?"

"Nini..." 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

"I’m telling you, Li Tingyan, if you want me to go, fine. But you have to come with me. The Escort Agency doesn’t have only one leader. No matter what your reason is, someone else can handle this job. I just don’t want you doing it. Otherwise I have every right to suspect you’re using this as an excuse to openly carry on an affair with Yin Tang behind my back!"

Li Tingyan didn’t speak, but his attitude clearly showed he didn’t agree with what Nianyang said. Nianyang’s heart went icy cold. She snorted and said, "Then I’m not leaving. I’m staying right here to see what exactly you’re going to do."

Maybe she still felt a bit unwilling, maybe she hadn’t completely given up on Li Tingyan yet. So she had to stay and see just how far he would go before she’d leave.

In this whole thing, the one in the wrong was Li Tingyan. Why should she be the one to leave? If she left, she’d basically be clearing the field so her own man could flirt with another woman. She couldn’t swallow that kind of humiliation.

Li Tingyan stood up and looked down at Nianyang from above. "Whether you leave or not is for me to decide. You can’t use your space right now, and an arm can’t twist a thigh. Tomorrow morning I’ll personally send you away."

So he meant he was going to force her to leave?

Nianyang was shaking with anger, pointing at Li Tingyan. "Good for you, Li Tingyan, you’ve really grown some guts, huh? You actually dare treat me like this now. I’m breaking up with you."

Li Tingyan said expressionlessly, "Whether we break up or not is not for you to decide. I was the one who gave you the chance to be with me back then, and you agreed yourself. You chose to be with me, so whether we break up will be decided by me. In my life, the only ending is widowhood."

"You—!"

Nianyang’s chest hurt from rage. She grabbed a pillow and hurled it at him, cursing, "Bastard, you bastard!"

"Get some rest. Breakfast is on the table, don’t forget to eat."

As Li Tingyan spoke, he gave Nianyang a deep look, then turned and left.

Nianyang watched him storm out the door, and tears welled up again.

How did it become like this? How did things between her and Li Tingyan turn into this?

He left in such a hurry; he must be going to see Yin Tang again, right?

From what Li Tingyan said, he had his own difficulties for having contact with Yin Tang. Was this about some Escort Agency project? But Nianyang really couldn’t figure it out. What kind of project could possibly force a married woman to carry on some clandestine affair with another man?