I Planned a Fireworks Surprise for My Wife, Only to Hear Her Moans on the Phone! When I Asked for a Divorce, She Begged for Forgiveness!

On Mid-Autumn Festival, I set off a huge fireworks display for my wife on the mountaintop. But I waited until dawn and only saw her go public with her relationship with the male designer at her company. In the video, Logan knelt on one knee and slipped a uniquely designed pink diamond ring onto my girlfriend’s hand. And the headline said it all: Top Designer Logan Wins Love. The coworkers who knew nothing about the truth all sent their congratulations and said the office romance was so cute. I liked the post with a blank face, and then my girlfriend called. “It was just for show. Who are you being sarcastic for?” “That pink diamond was designed by you anyway, wasn’t it meant to be given to me? Who gives it to me, what difference does it make?” Before she finished speaking, I heard soft breaths from her end of the call. I felt disgust rise in my chest and quickly hung up. This five-year relationship was never worth it in the end. She simply didn’t deserve me! ...... I had not slept all night. When I dragged my exhausted body down the mountain and got home, Claire was sitting calmly at the dining table eating. When she saw me come back, her face instantly changed, and she smashed the glass in her hand hard onto the floor. “Mason, you’ve really grown bold now. You even learned to stay out all night?” “Don’t forget you’re a married man. Do you even take me seriously?” I silently changed my shoes and walked inside. On the table sat a reimbursement receipt for a hotel king room, dated yesterday. And the pink outfit Claire was wearing was the same one from last night’s official announcement video. I said nothing, gave the receipt a flat glance, then looked at Claire’s face. She seemed a little guilty and pressed her lips together before tossing me a slightly worn paper bag from beside her. “It’s from Logan.” “He heard that ring was designed by you and was afraid of stealing your credit, so he specially picked this out for you.” A small red velvet box fell out, and inside was a pinky ring. The crooked metal band had even started to fade. I was too lazy to pick it up and only gave a cold laugh. “Didn’t expect he also has a habit of picking through trash?” Claire, who had been fiddling with her hair, instantly looked ugly after hearing that. She turned her head and glared at me unhappily. “What do you mean by that? He’s apologizing to you out of kindness, and you still want to act all high and mighty?” “Do you really think you’re such a big shot? You can go to tonight’s awards ceremony and see for yourself. There are plenty of people better than you!” I didn’t say anything else. I poured myself a cup of hot water and drank it on my own. But my silence only made Claire even angrier. She grabbed the wooden comb in her hand and threw it at me. The heavy comb hit my forehead, and my body swayed. I almost couldn’t stay on my feet. With a bang, the cup in my hand shattered on the floor. Claire seemed to realize she had gone too far. She hurried over to support me. But the moment she touched my arm, she frowned again. “You have a fever? I’ll take you to the hospital.” Maybe I’d caught a chill on the mountain last night. My head felt foggy now, and I let her pull me out the door. But halfway there, Logan’s call came in. He sounded frantic, like he was about to cry. “Claire, my design sketches are gone. What do I do? The show is tonight...” Claire slammed on the brakes so hard that I felt like half my body was about to fly out of the car, and I forced my eyes open. She gripped her phone with a nervous look and turned the car around as she spoke. “Don’t panic. I’m coming right now.” She didn’t care at all that I was in the passenger seat. She drove straight to Logan’s apartment building. Before getting out, she gave me a cold look and said through tight lips: “I’m going up to help him find a sketch. I’ll be back soon. Wait for me in the car.” Without waiting for my answer, Claire turned and rushed upstairs. I slept heavily in the car. My whole body felt like it was burning, and the pressure in my chest was so bad I could barely breathe. In the end, I had to smash the window to get out. I looked up at the curtains in Logan’s apartment, pulled tightly shut. By then, I was too tired to keep wondering whether they had spent those two hours looking for design sketches or doing something else. Eight years of marriage, and in that moment, all my love turned to ash. So even true love could rot, and even if two people walked into marriage together, that didn’t mean they would love each other until the end.I took a cab to the hospital. While I was getting an IV, I received a message from Logan. In the picture, Claire was half-dressed and standing in front of a mirror to touch up her makeup. The red marks on her neck were impossible to miss. He put on a fake act and apologized to me. “Sorry, Mason. I didn’t know you were still waiting for Claire. That was my fault for not thinking it through and wasting your time.” “But my design is being shown as the finale tonight. If it gets lost, it affects the whole company, so it makes sense that Claire was anxious.” I couldn’t be bothered with that fake apology or the way he was showing off through every word. I just blocked Logan’s contact. I lowered my head and looked at the missing pinky finger on my right hand, and I knew Logan was just trying to provoke me. After all, I was no longer the once-famous, gifted designer I had been three years ago. Back then, Claire handled a company project with zero mercy and ended up provoking revenge from a rival company. I gave up the world design competition, which was only held once every ten years, and rushed over in a panic. To save Claire’s life, my pinky finger was cut off. Because of that, I was hit hard, and my mentor also cut ties with me because I missed the competition. After that, I left the design industry and stayed behind the scenes. I still remembered that six months ago, I told her I wanted to return to work, because I wanted to design a true final masterpiece. But Claire sneered coldly. “You’re already old. Do you even know what’s trendy? The stuff you design probably won’t even sell.” “The company exists to make money, not for you to have your little creative moment.” I didn’t want to make things hard for her, so I quietly drew the designs and had them made by a factory. I wanted to give Claire that pink diamond ring on our eighth wedding anniversary. But what did I get instead? She secretly took the ring, even let Logan propose to her, and let the internet believe that ring was Logan’s design. In the end, she even used a cheap, broken pinky ring to humiliate me. I thought this eight-year relationship had probably really come to an end. After I finished the IV and got home not long after, Claire came in right behind me. She threw the car key hard onto the cabinet and started scolding me the second she opened her mouth. “Didn’t I tell you to wait in the car? What were you thinking? You just left, and you even smashed my car window. If something inside had gone missing, could you have paid for it?” “You’ve got a fever and you’re still running around everywhere. Are you trying to die?” After that, she took a box of cold medicine out of her bag. “I went to the hospital looking for you for ages and never saw you. This is medicine I bought for you.” I had spent two hours getting an IV in the hospital lobby and never saw her at all. So the part about her looking for me for a long time was just something she said offhand. I said nothing and reached out to take the box of cold medicine, only then realizing it had already been opened before. I subconsciously reached in to feel the powder packets inside, but instead I found a pink heart-shaped sticky note. It said, “May our great designer Logan recover soon.” And the signature read: Your loving Claire, forever and always. I paused, and my heart had already gone numb. I just smiled faintly. “Thanks.”Claire probably had already forgotten about that sticky note and didn’t notice the thing in my hand. She went into the room to change clothes, while still ordering me around in a commanding tone. “Logan is coming to pick us up to go to the venue later. Hurry up and change. Don’t keep looking like a beggar.” “And when we get there, you go wander around on your own. Don’t follow behind me, and you’re not allowed to tell anyone about our relationship.” I nodded without changing my expression. “Got it.” When we first got married, Claire said she was at a critical stage in her career and absolutely could not make her marital status public. After she pleaded with me again and again, I agreed to keep our marriage secret. I even let her say in public that I was her obsessive pursuer. And this secret lasted a full eight years. Seeing how obedient I was, Claire gave me a strange look, but she didn’t say anything. It wasn’t until night fell that I followed Claire downstairs and realized she and Logan were wearing matching outfits. As for me, I was wearing the suit Claire had personally picked out, but it was several levels below Logan’s. Anyone could tell at a glance that I was just their assistant. Claire awkwardly coughed and turned to explain to me. “It’s just a coincidence, Mason. Don’t overthink it.” I waved my hand and sensibly left the passenger seat for her. “It’s just an act. I get it.” Claire opened her mouth, seemingly wanting to say something else, but with Logan right there, she couldn’t make a scene. After getting in the car, Logan kindly handed over two cups of milk tea. I didn’t take them. Claire turned to look at me with some displeasure and shoved the milk tea into my arms. “Logan bought those specially. Do you even know basic manners?” Logan lowered his head with an even more guilty look. “Sorry, Mason. Are you still mad at me?” “I was wrong before. I shouldn’t have used your ring to steal the spotlight, and I also shouldn’t have called Claire away this afternoon.” Claire snorted coldly. “Stop paying attention to him. He really thinks he’s somebody now.” She completely ignored the fact that I had just recovered from a fever and directly reached out to roll down the car window. Cold wind howled in and blew straight inside. I frowned in discomfort, and the hot milk tea in my hand didn’t warm my heart at all. Instead, it only made me feel even worse. Claire had forgotten that I was lactose intolerant and couldn’t drink dairy at all. And now she was even saying things like this. Soon, the car stopped outside the venue, and I watched Claire loop her arm through Logan’s as they walked inside. There were also many coworkers who didn’t know the truth praising the two of them for being a perfect match and asking if good news was coming soon. Claire smiled shyly and didn’t deny it. I had no energy to care. I only felt my cold getting worse, and now I was dizzy and weak. Frowning in discomfort, I was about to call a cab and leave when I saw the design pictures on the display board at the venue entrance. At that moment, I felt like all the blood in my body had run backward, and my limbs went ice-cold. Because those were clearly my design drafts. They were jewelry sketches from the same series as that pink diamond, except the other pieces hadn’t been made into samples yet. These drafts had been locked in the safe at my house. There was no way they could have leaked. And yet, at this very moment, Logan’s name was printed in the lower right corner of the display board. I suddenly understood. Claire hadn’t come back this afternoon to pick me up at all. She had obviously come to take my design drafts. The moment I thought about how my hard work had been handed over to Logan by her, how all the honor and all the fame had been stolen by him, my heart felt like it was being cut apart by a knife, and even my throat filled with a metallic sweetness. I stared at the two figures walking toward the venue, and my face turned completely cold.I caught up to the two people in front of me and grabbed Claire by the arm, pointing at the display board near the entrance. I didn’t even care that there were guests everywhere coming to the exhibition, and I asked her directly, “Don’t you have anything to explain?” “Why are the sketches I designed myself being displayed publicly, and why have they become Logan’s work?” During this time, Logan’s name had been getting bigger and bigger under the packaging of Claire’s company. And today’s exhibit launch had been specially arranged by the company for him. Even before this, the media had been hyping up that Logan would reveal a peerless jewelry set to everyone today. In the industry, there were very few people who could truly deserve the title of peerless design. Back then, only works made by a gifted designer like me had ever been praised by the public as peerless jewelry. Thinking of that, my eyes reddened slightly, and I stared hard at Claire’s face. But she glared at me impatiently and answered with complete confidence. “You couldn’t even keep your own design sketches safe. Why are you coming after me?” My fingers tightened around her arm little by little, and I even felt like a big hand had clamped around my throat, making it hard to breathe. Only she and I knew the password to the safe at home. If not her, then who else? Seeing the curious looks from the surrounding guests, Claire didn’t want to make a scene either. She curled her lip. “Logan’s design drafts were lost, but you know the show tonight couldn’t be delayed, so we just borrowed your designs for now. Why are you being so petty?” “Anyway, you’re already a useless cripple. Did you really think you could use those design drafts to make a comeback?” “Instead of letting them sit in your safe as decoration, it’s better to give them to someone who actually needs them!” I looked at her with her righteous tone and, after my brief shock, only found it laughable. How could she say all that so shamelessly? I didn’t see a trace of guilt on her face at all, and I took out my phone without mercy. Seeing this, Claire tried to snatch my phone. “What are you doing? Mason, I’m warning you, don’t do anything stupid!” What else could I be doing? Of course I was calling the police! From this moment on, I wasn’t going to leave Claire any face at all. Seeing the two of us struggling, Logan rushed over to help too. Just then, gasps erupted from the crowd nearby. “Watch out!” Before I could even react, I only felt a huge shadow cover the top of my head. For some reason, the sheet metal that had been supporting the display board above us came crashing down. In that split second, Claire forcefully yanked Logan’s arm. With a loud clang, I was too slow to dodge and got pinned under the metal board. The sharp pain in my back made me cry out, and a thick, bloody taste spread in my mouth. The scene descended into chaos, and someone called the police. But when the emergency medics rushed toward me, Claire stopped them. “Wait!” “Logan’s palm got scraped by that metal sheet just now. Check his wound first.” “He’s a designer. If something happens to him, you can’t afford that responsibility!” As soon as she said that, the doctor froze in place too, looking hesitantly at me, trapped under the metal board and on the verge of death. “But his condition is more serious.” Claire didn’t change expression. She only said coldly, “I’m his wife. I can sign the liability waiver. If something happens, you don’t need to be responsible for anything.” “Now just listen to me. Ignore him and check Logan’s injury first.”