The Heartless, Cheating Scum Woman in a Female-Led World (Twelve)

It's been seven days, wife. Do you really not want me anymore...

At the bar, Rong Chao sat alone in a booth, drunkenly thinking. Sorrow welled up in his heart, and he couldn't help downing another drink.

Not far away, three burly women, just as drunk as he was, had gathered together. One of them, a bottle in her hand, staggered toward Rong Chao.

"H-hey, little beauty, how about letting big sis buy you a drink?"

She hadn't expected to be so lucky today, running into such a gorgeous thing all alone.

Rong Chao opened his bleary, drunken eyes and gave the woman a cold look. "Get lost."

Oh? He was the feisty type. She liked him even more.

The drunken woman pressed closer, a nauseating smile on her face. When she opened her mouth, the stench was enough to make anyone throw up. "Little beauty, it's fate that we met. Let's have some fun~ Big sis is very skilled. I guarantee you'll be satisfied."

The woman was still congratulating herself and fantasizing about what position she would use later when, suddenly, smack!

Rong Chao couldn't be bothered to waste words and slapped her across the face. What kind of thing was she, daring to come hit on him?

"Fuck!"

The woman glared viciously at Rong Chao, who had already gotten to his feet, a flash of lust passing through her eyes.

She got up and followed the man as he headed out, planning to find a chance to abduct him.

Outside a private room on the third floor.

"President Xu, you're truly young and accomplished. It's been a pleasure doing business with you."

"The pleasure is mine." Xu Zhu wore a warm, gracious smile. Her black haute couture suit fit her particularly well, giving her a sharp, elegant appearance that drew repeated glances from many men passing by.

After seeing her business partners off, Xu Zhu instructed the assistants behind her, "Organize the remaining documents, then go straight to the parking lot and wait for me."

With that, Xu Zhu headed toward the restroom.

But as soon as she reached the entrance, she sensed something was wrong. It was clearly the women's restroom, yet a man's cries for help came from inside, followed by a woman's crude curses.

For some reason, hearing the man's voice filled Xu Zhu with panic.

"Help! Mmph!" Rong Chao's cries grew louder and louder.

"Little slut!" Seeing him keep resisting and remembering the slap from earlier, the woman flew into a rage. She struck his beautiful face hard. "That's what you get for disobeying!"

She had only meant to teach him a lesson, but she hadn't expected the slap to send his head snapping to one side, straight into the wall, knocking him unconscious.

"Y-you'd better not be playing dead!" The woman shook Rong Chao's body vigorously, but he remained unresponsive.

At last she panicked, most of her drunkenness vanishing.

In her panic, she tossed Rong Chao onto the floor and rushed out, bumping into Xu Zhu on the way.

Xu Zhu frowned at her, then walked toward the restroom stall she had come out of.

When she saw Rong Chao lying unconscious on the floor, the woman's pupils contracted sharply, her eyes full of disbelief.

It's him!

Xu Zhu quickly scooped Rong Chao up from the floor and drove him to the hospital herself.

At the hospital.

The Rong Family had rushed over as soon as they received the news and were all waiting by the hospital bed.

Rong Chao's forehead was wrapped in gauze, his face was haggard, and his lips were pale. He was still lying in bed, unconscious.

"Miss Xu, thank you so much for today." Rong Chao's father, his eyes red from crying, forced a smile at Xu Zhu as he thanked her. "If it weren't for you, there's no telling what might have happened to Xiao Chao today."

"It's all right, Uncle. Xiao Chao and I were classmates. But why did Xiao Chao suddenly go to a bar alone? Did something happen?"

Xu Zhu looked worriedly at the man in the hospital bed, hating herself for not having gone there sooner.

"Well, it's a long story." Rong Chao's father had no intention of telling anyone else about his family's troubles, so he glossed over it. "He had a disagreement with his wife and was in a bad mood, so he went to a bar to drink."

A disagreement with his wife? Xu Zhu's eyes flickered, and she asked without betraying her thoughts, "Has his wife still not come?"

"Don't mention her! She's been playing dead for a whole week. I've never seen a woman so unwilling to take responsibility!" The mention of Jiang Xuefu made Rong Chao's father angry. At first, he had thought that as long as Jiang Xuefu came to admit her mistake and apologize, life would have to go on as usual. Now that things had come to this, he wished she wouldn't come at all and that they would just get divorced.

"All right, keep your voice down," Rong Chao's mother reminded him from beside him. "The doctor said Xiao Chao needs peace and quiet. Don't wake him."

Just as she finished speaking, the person in the bed moved his fingers. Then, under everyone's excited gazes, Rong Chao slowly opened his eyes.

"Xiao Chao! You scared Daddy to death! You're not allowed to go to a bar alone again!" Rong Chao's father wept, gripping his son's hand tightly and refusing to let go.

To everyone's surprise, however, Rong Chao merely looked at his father in confusion. "Who are you?"

His father froze, his heart suddenly plunging to rock bottom.

"I'm your dad, and this is your mom! And this is your older brother. Don't you remember any of us, Xiao Chao?"

Rong Chao shook his head, still wearing the same bewildered look that left them in despair.

He had lost his memory.

The doctor diagnosed it as stress-induced amnesia caused by the impact. Whether he would recover remained unknown.

In the hospital corridor, Rong Chao's mother held her husband, who was beside himself with grief. After a long silence, she suddenly said, "Xiao Chao losing his memory this time might actually be a good thing."

"Hasn't he always refused to divorce Jiang Xuefu? Let's use this opportunity to bring up divorce with her. If she agrees, Xiao Chao can escape his sea of suffering. If she refuses, that means she still has feelings for Xiao Chao. What happens afterward will depend on their fate."

Rong Chao's father nodded, but he couldn't help worrying. "But what if they get divorced and Xiao Chao regains his memory..."

"Then it's fate. It can only mean that he and Jiang Xuefu were destined to meet but not to be together in this life."

"President Jiang, you have a delivery."

Jiang Xuefu nodded, signaling her assistant to put it aside. After finishing her work for the morning, she finally opened the thin package.

Inside was a document with the words "Divorce agreement" written in black and white, and it had even been signed by Rong Chao.

Jiang Xuefu frowned throughout as she read it, not understanding what Rong Chao was up to this time.

She didn't believe he could bear to get divorced, so was he using this tactic to get her attention?

[Jiang Xuefu: You want a divorce?]

[Rong Chao: Yes. Sign it soon. Let's part on good terms. I only want the share of the property I'm entitled to.]

The man's tone was cold, utterly unlike the long, long messages he had sent before, begging and apologizing.

[Jiang Xuefu: Are you sure?]

[Rong Chao: Yes.]

He seemed dead set on getting a divorce, treating his words like gold and unwilling to say a single one more than necessary.

[Jiang Xuefu: All right.]