Chapter 31: For Her Sake, Using Deception Against Her...?

In the audio, the girl’s sweet voice asked, "Hubby, tell me, do you love your sister more, or do you love me?"

After a deathly silence, Lu Tian heard, with self-torturing clarity, Fei Jing scoff and begin to speak: "Love? A high-and-mighty, arrogant socialite like Lu Tian—her being with me is nothing more than her looking for fun and a bit of excitement."

"But I truly loved her. For her, even losing my life would have been a matter of course."

"But it was always one-sided. Tiantian, I am human too. I am flesh and blood. I feel pain, I feel sorrow, I feel despair!"

Perhaps he was truly drunk. Contrary to his usual behavior, he spoke at length in front of others, venting his grievances and listing her "ten mortal sins."

"As a wife, she doesn't cook; she won't lift a finger. Ever since Nannan was born, she refused to let me touch her and was always hiding from me."

"At the company, every male employee, every male executive—Lu Tian, ask your own conscience, haven't you been overly intimate with every single one of them?"

The recording, over a dozen minutes long, reached its end. Fei Jing gave a self-deprecating laugh, sounding deeply aggrieved. "Tiantian, I deserve this. Why did I, a poor boy, have to go and fall for a wealthy heiress like you..."

—"Lu Tian, did you hear that? Even without me, do you think your marriage to Fei Jing would have been trouble-free?"

This was the first time Lu Tian didn't know how to retort to Lu Youyou. She had never imagined that Fei Jing had always believed that throughout their dozen years together, he was the only pitiful one sacrificing himself for love.

So, the man, feeling weary, justifiably went out to find a mistress and keep a lover. And in the final analysis, the culprit behind the husband’s infidelity was she, Lu Tian herself!

"Don't cook? Fei Jing, have you forgotten that when we lived under that bridge, my hands were scalded countless times just trying to learn how to start a fire?"

"Refused to let you touch me? Nannan was born prematurely, and I suffered a massive hemorrhage. The doctors said I needed two years to recover and could not be intimate."

"Intimate with male employees? Do you have any idea that the Fei Group was just emerging back then? If I had let my guard down for even a second, our top talent would have been poached by headhunters."

But through all of this, Fei Jing, you took it for granted as my sense of superiority.

Then what about your so-called love?

Do you truly love me more, or do you love yourself more?

That night, she suffered from her usual insomnia. The next morning, Fei Jing returned reeking of alcohol. The scent of another woman’s perfume on him was so pungent it was suffocating.

"Wife, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have stayed out all night. Did you miss me?"

While Lu Tian was washing up in the bathroom, the man grabbed her from behind, pulling her into a tight embrace.

She was so startled her heart hammered against her ribs. She heard Fei Jing say in a soft voice, "You’ve always missed the air traffic control tower, haven't you? As it happens, the Fei Group is donating our latest positioning radar today. Why don’t you come with me?"

"The latest positioning radar?" Lu Tian’s delicate brows furrowed. She hadn't heard a word about this beforehand.

He gently held her shoulders and turned her around. Her back was pressed against the hard vanity, and the man’s considerate hands cushioned her.

"Tiantian, let’s stop fighting. I forgive you for last night. As for the donation, I signed the contract in your name. The goal is simple: I just want to see a smile from my beautiful wife."

In ancient times, a king lit warning fires to amuse his concubine. Today, CEO Fei was willing to brave the board of directors’ criticism for wasting money just to make his wife happy.

Ten in the morning. Fei Jing held Lu Tian’s hand as they stepped out of the Rolls-Royce. At the Jinggang International Airport, the leaders of the air traffic control tower and several veteran employees were already lined up at the entrance.

Leading them was Director Liu, who had always held Lu Tian in high regard. As soon as she stepped out of the car, Director Liu walked up, gripped her hand excitedly, and laughed, "At first, when CEO Fei said you personally recommended Lu Youyou for an internship with us, I wasn't quite sure. But seeing you today, I can rest easy and issue the offer letter."

"What recommendation?" Lu Tian was bewildered.

Director Liu explained, "Lu Youyou, your sister! The girl is truly brilliant; she finished her graduate degree in aerospace engineering at seventeen. I checked with her advisor, and she is indeed exceptional—just like you!"

However, no matter how talented someone was, it wasn't easy to be fast-tracked into an internship at the Air Traffic Control Bureau. But:

"Tiantian, I had heard you were interested in returning to work, so I specifically saved a position for you. But CEO Fei came to talk to me, saying you were happy with your current life and didn't intend to work anymore. And Lu Youyou’s job at the Fei Group was a mismatch—it was a waste of her talent. So..."

So, Fei Jing had set this trap for her. On the surface, it was a donation ceremony. In reality, she had been tricked into coming here to endorse Lu Youyou, paving the way for the girl to smoothly enter the Air Traffic Control Bureau. And the position she was taking was the one that should have been hers!

Fei Jing noticed Lu Tian’s grim expression and quickly comforted her, "Wife, Lu Youyou’s father lost his life saving you. It’s just a small favor, don't overthink it."

"So you lied to me?" Lu Tian heard her own voice, hoarse and trembling. She felt as though every gaze directed at her was filled with contempt and irony. They were silently questioning her: "Lu Tian, is it really worth giving up your dreams and betraying the sky you once swore to protect, all for a man like this?"

"Tiantian..." Fei Jing tried to hug her, but his touch felt like a viper slithering across her skin, causing goosebumps of pure physiological revulsion.

"Lu Tian, you?!"

"Don't touch me! You disgust me!" She pushed him away with a slap, showing no mercy.

Director Liu, unaware of the tension, tried to smooth things over, "Tiantian, I’ve seen Lu Youyou’s thesis. Many of her design concepts are quite advanced. For instance, this one—the radar signal overlap experiment—has the exact same flair you used to have."

On the tablet, a familiar-looking draft appeared before Lu Tian’s eyes. It was a design sketch she had doodled at home when she was bored, just to pass the time...

Suddenly, Lu Tian remembered Lu Youyou’s question: "Lu Tian, don't you want to know when I started staying by Brother Fei’s side?"

Seventeen.

Seventeen!!!

"Fei Jing, are you even human? That’s a crime! Do you have any idea that that is a crime!?"

Lu Tian slapped him again and again. She suddenly lost the courage to stay a moment longer. Having danced with wolves for so many years, how clean could she possibly be?

She jumped into a passing taxi and fled. By the time she came to her senses, her screen was already flooded with missed calls and WeChat messages from Fei Jing. She didn't look at a single one and turned off her phone.

The driver rolled his eyes, exasperated. "Look, Miss, I’ve asked you a hundred times—where exactly are you going?"

"Just stop here!"

Because in the rearview mirror, she saw a nondescript Honda Accord, with a driver in a pilot’s uniform, trailing behind her...