Time washes away the dross

After six years of marriage, Gerald was a wellknown "wifeloving maniac" in the entertainment industry.

As the richest man in the industry, he never met actresses alone and even retreated behind the scenes for me. He spent hundreds of millions to tailor a play for me. The play became a hit as soon as it was broadcast and I became famous overnight.

Everyone in the industry kept their marriage secret, but Gerald was the first to stand up and announce to the world on the day of getting the marriage certificate. "Wife, please give me more advice for the rest of my life!"

The entire entertainment industry praised our fairy love.

But just last night, I accidentally found an ambiguous video on his computer. Gerald was naked with his upper body, showing his seductive abdominal muscles and his bony hands were ambiguously pinching the girl's neck.

The girl he pressed under him was wearing a sexy maid outfit and she moaned with a dazed look. I recognized her at a glance. That girl was a female artist newly signed by his company three months ago.

Familiar footsteps came from outside the study. I exited the video file calmly, opened the video software casually and pretended to continue watching the drama.

Gerald hugged me from behind. He had just finished taking a shower and there was still a layer of warm moisture all over his body. He kissed my neck tightly.

"Lucy, you have been watching this drama for two hours. Be careful not to hurt your eyes."

He gently massaged my temples, his eyes fell on the laptop and his whole body froze.

"...Lucy, why are you using this laptop to watch the drama?" he asked.

Gerald's eyes flashed with panic, although he quickly recovered, but I still saw it.

I retracted my gaze lightly.

I replied calmly, "I just picked one up, is there anything wrong with this laptop?"

There were three or four laptops in Gerald's study. Two of them were for his office use and the other two were bought specifically for me to watch dramas. But I didn’t watch much usually.

Today, I suddenly wanted to watch a series from a few days ago, so I opened this laptop casually. Unexpectedly, I accidentally found something I shouldn't have seen.

"My dear, of course there is no problem. It's just that this laptop had a minor problem before. I forgot to ask my secretary to fix it and I was afraid that it would affect your experience of watching TV series." Gerald took the laptop from me unintentionally. He closed it and threw it aside.

Gerald's tone was a bit tentative, "Baby, did you see anything else just now?"

His guilty conscience made my heart sink.

I looked up at him and pretended to be at a loss, "What did you see?"

Gerald breathed a sigh of relief, "Nothing, the secretary used this computer a few days ago and downloaded some messy things. I haven't had time to clean it up. What if it's a virus or something? I'm afraid it will affect your experience of watching TV series."

Gerald took the laptop to the balcony of the study room and fiddled with it for a long time before coming over to hug me.

"Lucy, your husband had just take very clean shower today. Can I go to sleep with my Lucy?" He looked up at me with a smile.

Gerald, who has always been cold and aloof, was like a wellbehaved puppy in front of me. I looked at him quietly, feeling a sour and swollen heart. Gerald and I had known each other for ten years and had been married for six years.

He always kept a distance from the opposite sex and even when working, he was determined not to be alone with actresses in a room. Faced with countless invitations from the opposite sex, he rejected them all with a cold face.

When others asked, they would say, "Sorry, my wife is very strict" or "I have an appointment with my wife."

Everyone in the entertainment industry envied our fairy love and everyone praised Gerald as a loyal and good man who was hard to come by in a century...

But that intimate video with ambiguous scene kept appearing in my mind.

I just felt a little disgusted and avoided Gerald's touch.

"I'm hungry, go get some fruit." I made up a reason.

Gerald stopped me with a smile, "I'll go help Lucy cut fruit."

Looking at him busy in the kitchen, his eyes were full of concentration and tenderness. He was usually very busy at work, but every time he helped me prepare fruit, he arranged it into a beautiful heartshaped fruit plate.

"My dear, come and eat some fruit." Gerald called.

I came back to my senses and suddenly felt a pain in my hand. I realized that the fruit knife had cut my finger and blood was coming out.

"Lucy!" Gerald immediately threw down the fruit plate, his eyes red with heartache, "How did you get cut? Don't move, my dear."

He searched the medicine box and found a bandaid and carefully helped me put it on.

"Does it still hurt?"

I looked at him with red eyes and big tears fell on the back of his hand. I couldn't figure it out. How could such a careful man who loved me so much cheat on me?

Gerald thought I was crying because of the pain. He leaned close to my finger and kissed it, gently comforting me.

"I will blow on you and it won't hurt in a while."

Gerald turned off the lights, hugged me gently from behind and his warm breath hit the back of my neck.

"Wife, I actually wanted to spend some time with you tonight. But my dear hand is injured, so I'll just hug Lucy and have a good sleep."

I didn't say anything.

After a while, I heard Gerald's even breathing behind me and he fell asleep.

I stared at Gerald's face in the dark and my tears wet the pillow.

It was said that when people were in love, they would secrete a love hormone called phenylethylamine that made people confused and happy. But its peak concentration was only up to six months to four years.

People in the entertainment industry said that people were not longlasting creatures and love that lasts until death was against nature.

But at the wedding, Gerald swore to me with a deep affection: “I will go against my instincts, go against my nature and love you forever.”

But now, he was no different from other men. I really couldn't sleep, so I got up and went to the study and opened the laptop by instinct.

Clicking on the familiar document folder where the video was saved, I found it was blank. Gerald had deleted it.

I returned to the bed and Gerald, who was sleeping soundly, noticed that I was moving and subconsciously hugged me tightly.

"Lucy! Don't leave me!" He kissed my forehead and fell asleep again.

When I mentioned this the next day, he didn't remember it.

"Lucy, come and have breakfast."

Looking at a large table of rich breakfast, I just sat down and Gerald handed me my favorite sandwich.

"Lucy, do you want to participate in the filming of "Love Ends"? If you agree, I will let the drama party leave the heroine to you." Gerald asked me with a smile.

"Love Ends" was a new drama recently planned and filmed by Gerald's company. At the beginning, because I liked the novel, Gerald waved his hand and spent a huge amount of money to buy the copyright.

At that time, he smiled and handed the copyright contract to me. "As long as my Lucy likes it, I will always support you as the heroine."

I hadn’t been to the crew for more than three months.

The year I debuted, it was Gerald who spent several hundred million to tailor a drama for me in order to promote me, which made me famous overnight. But I love acting and just want to settle down. In the past few months, I had turned down all the dramas to hone my acting skills.

Looking at Gerald's extremely expectant eyes, I took a bite of the sandwich.

"I'm very tired recently. Let's leave the opportunity to the newcomers."

Gerald seemed relieved. He chuckled and squeezed my hand. "Okay, then you have to rest at home. When you want to film, I will arrange a better one for you."

After dinner, I was reading in the study. I closed my eyes and rested when I was tired.

"Lucy?" Gerald called me tentatively. Seeing that I fell asleep, he took a nap blanket to help me cover myself.

The footsteps faded away and soon Gerald's deliberately low voice came from downstairs.

"Yes, give the female lead role to Lolly. This movie was originally made for her. Is she in a bad mood again?"

Gerald sighed helplessly, but chuckled, "Tell her to wait a little longer. I'll take time to accompany her tonight. Also"

Gerald paused, "Remember to let her wear the newly bought maid outfit."

I suddenly opened my eyes and my heart felt like it was being tightly grasped by someone and it hurt so much that it was bleeding.

At night, after Gerald finished making dinner, a phone call suddenly came.

Gerald frowned slightly and hung up.

Soon the ringing sounded again.

I said lightly, "Why don't you answer it? What if they have something important to talk to you about?"

Gerald helped me push the dining chair away and chuckled, "It's the company assistant who called. There must be a lot of things waiting for me to deal with. Next time I criticize him, he will not allow me to call and disturb me and my wife when I'm at home."

He kissed my face tenderly and then picked up the phone that kept ringing.

"Okay, I'll be there right away." Gerald hung up the phone and looked at me with an embarrassed look.

"Baby, can you eat dinner by yourself? There's an emergency at the company and I have to go deal with it."

I nodded, "It's okay, go ahead."

Gerald smiled with relief and he picked up his coat and put it on. "Lucy, just put the dishes aside after dinner and wait for me to come back to clean them up. Don't stay up late to watch TV series. If I come back late, you have go to bed early."

Gerald ran several entertainment companies under his command and has several capable people, so he was usually not very busy. But occasionally, when something needed to be decided, Gerald would be called back.

But thinking of the phone call that Gerald deliberately lowered his voice during the day, looking at his hurriedly leaving figure, my heart was blocked.

As soon as he left, I put on my coat and followed him. While he was in the garage, I took a car and parked it at the door.

The moment Gerald's car drove out, I whispered to the driver, "Sir, please follow the car in front."

Gerald's car really went around and into the company, but he just stopped and soon a girl trotted towards his car.

"My dear Gerald!" The girl smiled sweetly, wearing a tank top and a miniskirt. When the cold wind blew, she hugged her arms and shivered.

"Why don't you wear more? What if you catch a cold?"

Gerald got out of the car, took off his coat without hesitation and skillfully put it on the girl's shoulders.

Lolly looked up at him with a smile and took the initiative to tiptoe and kissed his lips.

"I was so anxious to see you that I forgot to take my coat. I knew Gerald would never let me get cold!"

As she said that, her hand was dishonest and reached into the inside of Gerald's clothes. Gerald smiled dotingly, grabbed her restless little hand and domineeringly pressed the back of her head and kissed her.

I froze in place, tears welling up in my eyes.

The driver looked back at me sympathetically and handed me some tissues, "Don't be sad, girl. It's normal for men to cheat these days. If he finds someone outside, you can just find someone else..."

I didn't say anything.

I stared at the two people kissing intimately. Gerald was always cautious and gentle to me. I had never seen him so overbearing and possessive like a beast. He kissed hard enough that the veins on his neck popped.

It seemed that he wanted to rub the girl in his arms into his body.

Lolly's legs went weak from the kiss and she couldn't help but hook her arms around his neck, "Brother, I want... you."

Gerald smiled, rubbed the girl's hair and carried her to the car by the waist. Gerald's RollsRoyce shook for half an hour before it stopped.

It seemed that they were over and Gerald's car suddenly started. I held back my sadness and took a deep breath.

"Sir, follow them." I ordered the driver.

Gerald's car stopped at a bar club.

When they got off the car, Lolly had already changed into a sexy maid outfit. Gerald hugged the girl's slender waist and walked in very casually.

After six years of marriage, Gerald never allowed me to come to such a place on the grounds of protecting me. He said that such a place was very messy and not a place where a pretty and elegance woman like me could come. It was easy to be led astray. But now, he was familiar with the place, as if he was back home.

I laughed at myself, got off the car and quietly followed them until I saw them enter a private room with my own eyes.

"Hey, Lolly is here!"

A group of people stood up to welcome them, "Mr. Johansson, if you had told me earlier that the play was prepared for my sisterinlaw, we wouldn't have spent so much effort and thought that the heroine was Lucy!"

"Gerald, Lolly is not bad. This maid outfit is so open and sexy, not like Lucy who is hypocritical..."

Hearing me, Gerald's face suddenly turned cold.

"I warned you not to make trouble to Lucy. Lucy is not hypocritical, she is my little princess and she can't be led astray by you. Also, keep this matter from me tonight. If Lucy knows, you are all finished." Gerald's cold threat came and everyone's face froze and they echoed one after another.

"Yes, Gerald, don't worry, we will never let Lucy know!"

"Come on, little Lolly, I'll toast you a glass!"

Lolly was about to drink it all, but was stopped by Gerald, "I'll feed her."

After saying that, Gerald smiled evilly, took a sip of wine and kissed Lolly.

Everyone cheered, "Gerald is still good at playing!"

"You must be so good at kissing, Lolly's legs have been kissed soft by you!"

I burst into tears and closed my eyes.

That group of people were our friends in the entertainment industry and people from Gerald's company. It turned out that except me, they all knew that Gerald had someone outside. They called her little Lolly, played with her and teased her when she and Gerald kissed.

Only I was kept in the dark, thinking that I really married for love. I was confused all the way and I didn't know how I got home.

That table of sumptuous dinner, I didn't touch a bite.

I just felt confused and the scene of Gerald kissing someone else kept replaying in my mind. My stomach was churning, I ran to the bathroom, held the toilet and vomited for a long time, but only vomited clear water.

The girl who kissed Gerald today. She was the same person in the video on the laptop.

If I remember correctly, her name is Lolly Gomez, a female artist newly signed by Gerald three months ago. Because Lolly and I look 50% alike.

Gerald decided to sign her the first time he saw her and spent a huge amount of money to promote her and even let the marketing account hype her as "Little Lolly". Everyone said that Gerald strongly promoted Lolly and he was like a friend, in order to make me successful.

But when I opened Instagram, I saw Lolly's pinned post at a glance.

It was just posted today, the final photo of shooting Love Ends Late.

The post caption read: [Thanks to my boyfriend, he loves me so much, I will treat him well tonight]

Among the many likes and comments.

I saw Gerald's reply at a glance: [Of course I love you the most.]

I suddenly remembered asking Gerald once"There are so many beautiful female artists in your company, will you fall in love with someone else one day?"

He smiled and pressed me into his arms, "Silly, what does it have to do with me if they are beautiful? I only have eyes for you."

My heart was like honey at that time. But now it was pierced by ice chips. It turned out that my good husband who had slept with me for six years had a good acting skill that I didn't even notice.

After hesitating for two hours, I decisively called my aunt who was far away abroad.

"Aunt Mary, I'm going abroad. Please help me change my identity so that no one can find me."

Aunt Mary readily agreed, but was a little surprised, "Good niece, isn't your acting career booming in America? And you're going abroad. Can your husband who loves you so much be willing to let you leave?"

I smiled. "He doesn't know."

I wouldn’t let him know anything about me again.

I checked and handled the identity cancellation procedures overnight, booked a flight to go abroad and contacted a lawyer friend to get a divorce agreement.

I was busy all night and I just closed my eyes at dawn and Gerald came back.

"Lucy?" Gerald's clothes were very neat and he sprayed freshener on his body and there was no trace of alcohol.

"My dear, are you still awake? I bought you breakfast, your favorite crab roe soup dumplings. I was busy at the company until the early morning last night. I didn't want to disturb your rest, so I stayed at the company all night..."

Seeing that I was still sleeping, he took off his clothes and shoes and lay down gently beside me.

"Little lazy cat, you haven't slept enough, so I'll continue to sleep with Lucy."

I pretended to be woken up and pushed him away in annoyance, turned over.

Gerald's low laugh came. "My Lucy, even when she is asleep and angry, she is so beautiful."

I had my back to him and had already opened my eyes and saw the fine and dense red marks on his neck. Noticing my shoulders shaking, Gerald realized that something was wrong and ran to me to find me crying.

He was scared and a trace of panic flashed across his eyes. "Lucy, why are you crying?"

"I had a nightmare."

Gerald breathed a sigh of relief and patiently helped me wipe my tears, "I was scared to death, it was just a dream."

I looked up at him, "I dreamed that you cheated and had a family with another woman, Gerald, will you lie to me?"

Gerald's face changed slightly, but he still looked pious and raised his hand to swear. "I will never lie to Lucy and I will always love Lucy, otherwise I will be struck by lightning and die a miserable death!"

I smiled, "Okay."

I lied that I was going to attend a threeday training course. Gerald insisted on sending me to the airport and I didn't refuse.

But just as he was about to get in the car, his phone suddenly rang. I glanced at it and saw a photo of a woman’s legs in black stockings, her hands tied with ropes and her movements were lustful and enchanting.

"Gerald, I changed into a new maid outfit today. Do you want to come and see it?"

Gerald's Adam's apple rolled and he looked at me with embarrassment.

"Lucy, there is something urgent at the company. Can I ask the driver to take you there? After you finish the training, I will definitely pick you up in person and take you to your favorite restaurant."

I looked up at him and a trace of panic flashed in Gerald's eyes. Then it quickly turned into a sincere look.

I smiled, "It's okay, go ahead."

Looking at his hurriedly leaving figure, I told myself in my heart: Gerald. I will never love you again.

Not long after Gerald left, Lolly sent a video.

In the video, Gerald took off his clothes impatiently and hugged her slender waist passionately.

"Lucy, did you see it clearly? This is the real Gerald Johansson. He keeps saying that he only loves you, but his body is very honest... Men are fickle. He is very fascinated by my body now. He loves to see me in a maid outfit. Every time he coaxes you, he will come to do it with me..."

I didn't finish watching it. I just sneered and forwarded all these videos to Gerald's company group and Instagram.

Then I left the signed divorce agreement and broke the SIM card.

I went to the airport without looking back with my suitcase...