Beyond the Divorce

Chapter 1 Breadcrumbs of Clues

As night fell, I could finally relax after putting my daughter to bed. I grabbed my phone and mindlessly scrolled through TikTok when a street fashion live broadcast caught my eye.

I straightened up and focused on the screen, but the host had already switched the camera angle. My heart pounded, and my hands started to feel clammy as I held my phone. I checked the time and confirmed it was a live broadcast happening in the same city.

Then I hurriedly exited TikTok and video-called my husband, Matthew Murphy.

He was supposed to be on a three-day business trip in Canta, yet I just saw him on the live broadcast with another woman in his arms. The phone rang for a long while before he finally answered the call.

Matthew’s camera shook slightly, and his handsome face appeared on my phone’s screen. He greeted me warmly, “Hey, honey!”

“Where are you?” I asked urgently as my eyes scanned the footage from his end. He looked like he was in a corridor of a restaurant, and he was wearing a white shirt and tie. However, the figure I saw in the live broadcast wore a gray windbreaker.

with a client. I came out to answer your call. What’s

I sidestepped

He looked at

then asked, “When

miss me?” Matthew smiled affectionately at me, full of love. “I’ll try to come

to me and then

being suspicious. Matthew was an extraordinary,

was from an ordinary family with a sickly younger sister from the city, I chose him among my

with him and stayed by his side. Matthew was responsible for sourcing while I tirelessly dealt with clients to the

decided to stop and entrusted the company to my husband while I focused on raising our child

daughter, had turned four. We led a comfortable and well-off life as a

felt so guilty that we didn’t have a wedding ceremony that he promised to provide for me

such a husband

lips and smiled, realizing I had watched too many TV shows that evoked such ridiculous thoughts. When I laid back in bed, I still thought about the fleeting figure on the TikTok

the windbreaker looked familiar as it was the one I had ironed for him before his business trip. That meant the man in the live stream wore the same one, which confused me.