Although I had been heartbroken and cried my eyes out for the past few days, when I heard my mother-in-law speculate about me with the most proud words, my tears still fell uncontrollably.

I didn’t understand. How could people change so easily?

My mother-in-law treated me like her own son and so did Melinda, who had been married to me for 20 years.

When Melinda came back, she saw me sitting by the window, decadent and haggard. When she hugged me, I was still cold from outside.

She simply took off her coat and stuffed my cold hands into her sweater to keep them warm.

For a moment, I suddenly felt that we had returned to 20 years ago when we loved each other the most.

We were very miserable at that time. Melinda’s father cut off all of her livelihood just to make her realize the mistake of not having children.

Her father didn’t like me either.

We slept in the basement and ate instant noodles and steamed buns in this huge city. When we were the poorest, we couldn’t even afford a bag of rice. When it was the coldest, we huddled together in a bed, wearing all our clothes and wrapped in quilts and we were so cold that we trembled when we spoke.

I was also so decadent.

I always thought about giving up. If it continued to freeze like this, Melinda’s already poor health would get worse.

“Melinda, let’s give up the divorce. Go back and admit your mistakes. Maybe you can drink hot chicken soup when you go back now.”

Melinda hugged me, stuffed my hands into her clothes and clamped my feet, with tension and fear.

“No, I won’t divorce you. Jefferson, I won’t admit my mistakes. I’m not wrong. I’m sorry, the ligation hurts so much. I didn’t want you to suffer, but in the end, I still made you suffer.”

The tears of that year overlapped with the tears of this year and the bitter taste spread from the tip of the tongue.

“Melinda, let’s move, okay? You like children. Let’s have our own, okay? Why? Why didn’t you tell me when you wanted a child?”

The long silence was like a stick, waking me up.

I came to my senses and looked at Melinda in a daze.

Following her hesitant and complicated profile, I realized that she was not the only one who came back.

This was the first time Kevin and I met.

Just like in the video shot by Melinda’s mother, he was young and considerate and the whole person looked like a good husband and a loving father.

And I...

I looked at the mirror by the window in a daze. My eyes were red and swollen like walnuts and even the wrinkles at the corners of my eyes were crying.

It was really embarrassing.

There was an indescribable feeling in my heart.

Kevin’s eyes were fixed on the place where Melinda warmed my hands. The sadness in his eyes did not seem fake, but he still resisted and pushed the child next to him up to say hello to me.

Melinda felt sorry for him, took my hand without hesitation and walked over to hug his waist.

She didn’t say anything, but stood on tiptoe and kissed Kevin’s lips with a soothing touch.

The sourness in his eyes surged up again and the fingertips that were not completely warmed up were stained with coldness again.

Kevin touched his hair embarrassedly and seemed to raise a smug smile to me unintentionally.

“Leon, go quickly. This is Uncle Jefferson, say hello to him.”

I was stunned and asked him in disbelief.

“What’s his... name?”

“Leon, Leon. Melinda said that she hopes he will be as bright and desirable as the stars in the sky in the future.”

In just a moment, my head was buzzing.

Leon pursed his lips and said something to me, but I couldn’t hear it clearly.

I looked at Melinda in disbelief. She lowered her head and she didn’t dare to look into my eyes because she was guilty.

Leon was the name Melinda and I agreed on when we first discussed what name to give our child.

Even Melinda did not change the name at all and transferred it to Kevin and his son!

Was she going to do this to tear my heart out...

“Melinda... How can you use the name you and I gave to give to the child you and another man gave birth to?”

Melinda immediately scolded me in a low voice, “Jefferson! Don’t talk nonsense!”

I suddenly came to my senses and watched Melinda hurriedly explain to Kevin. Only then did I realize that the sentence just now made Kevin pale.

My throat tightened and I subconsciously wanted to step forward to explain a few words.

But Melinda’s vigilant and sharp eyes stopped me in my tracks.

Kevin felt uncomfortable for a long time and said a lot in a discontinuous manner, “If your child and I are used to making up for the regret that you and Jefferson have no children, then I wish I had never let you give birth to this child! Melinda, I love you. You can despise me and neglect me, but Leon is innocent. I don’t want him to be born to make up for the regret between you and others.”

He continued, “I know Jefferson can’t accept us as father and son. I thought of this seven years ago, so I have always listened to you and waited for you in another city with my child. Today, you suddenly said that you could bring me here and I thought... I could be with you forever, but looking at Jefferson’s attitude... Melinda, send Leon and me back, please. I don’t want to… I don’t want to take the child to see other people’s faces.”

Melinda was so anxious that she agreed to everything he said.

“Kevin, look at me. Leon is your and my child. He is not a regret for me or anyone else. I love you and my child! I have never and will not despise you or neglect you and your child. I will give you the best I can. Don’t care what his attitude is! This is my home, the house I bought, my Blair family! No one dares to look at you and Leon in this family! Be good, don’t think too much, the baby in my belly doesn’t want to see his father sad.”

Melinda’s words were heartbreaking to me!

Yes, every brick and tile here belonged to her, Melinda. What did it have to do with me, Jefferson?

I smiled bitterly.

After Kevin and his son left, the divorce agreement was handed over.

“Sign it.”

Melinda glanced casually, picked up the clothes and passed me by without caring.

“Jefferson, you are not young anymore. You will be forty next year. Don’t make such jokes anymore. I have been married to you for twenty years. Now I am getting divorced. How do you want those media partners outside to see me?”

I sneered.

Yes, this was the current situation between Melinda and me.

All the changes started with the success of Melinda and me starting a business.

The cooperation signed by me ten years ago directly made our small company become the leading enterprise in the city.

However, Melinda and I had a disagreement on the allocation of positions.

I wanted to be the general manager and continue to do business.

But Melinda wanted me to return to the family and be a good husband and father.

Later, she made the decision for me and recruited a new person to replace my position.

I was angry, but I chose to keep quiet under the persuasion of Melinda’s mother.

But after that, Melinda and I were no longer close.

I tried many ways to get closer to her, but there was always an invisible and unbreakable veil between us.

I tried to talk to Melinda, but she always avoided me by saying work, or she would say, “You think too much about nothing.”

Later, we became what we were now.

The relationship was broken and interests prevailed.

“Put on your clothes and go out with me. I brought Kevin and Leon back to spend time with you today.”

Seeing that I didn’t move, she frowned, pulled a coat casually, forced me to put it on and zipped it up.

She didn’t forget to remind me.

“Also, don’t talk nonsense anymore. I’ll explain the name Leon to you another day.”

After arriving at the place, Melinda pushed Leon into my arms.

“You should get familiar with Leon first.”

Then, she bent down, as gently as she treated Kevin.

“Leon will play with Uncle Jefferson today and Daddy and Mommy will buy clothes and toys for Leon, okay?”

Leon agreed happily.

I was numbly led by him to the food street at the other end.

Like all children, he also craved fried food.

I didn’t know if he could eat it, so I wanted to call Melinda to ask.

But she didn’t answer the phone. Seven-year-old Leon saw it and showed his fangs for the first time.

“My parents are busy dating. Why are you calling to disturb them? You are not my father, why do you care whether I can eat these? Mom asked you to take me out to play, you can buy me whatever I want to play and eat! You don’t have to worry about the rest, you are just an outsider!”

I choked and couldn’t say anything to refute it.

When I went back, Leon cried out that his stomach hurt and his face turned pale.

Kevin was so scared that he trembled and Melinda was also scared, stepped on the accelerator and went to the hospital.

After a check, the doctor said it was acute gastroenteritis and the situation was quite serious.

It was recommended to give an IV drip and be hospitalized for observation.

The weak Leon cried for his father and looked at me in fear.

“I told you that I have a weak stomach and can’t eat sugar-coated cakes. But Uncle Jefferson said he wanted to buy them and bought me a fist-sized one and insisted that I eat it. After eating it, I started to feel pain.”

Kevin’s eyes were red and he looked at me pleadingly.

“Jefferson, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have fallen in love with Melinda and shouldn’t have appeared in front of you. If you have anything to say, just come to me. Please don’t hurt my Leon. He was born after Melinda’s pregnancy. He is the life of Melinda and me!”

I realized something was wrong and tried to explain.

Melinda’s slap landed on my face first. She was furious and wanted to kill me.

“I told you to vent your anger on me! I didn’t expect you to hurt an innocent child!”

I argued with her with my neck stiff.

“It’s not me! He wanted to eat it himself! I wanted to call you to ask if he could eat it, but you didn’t answer!”

“Enough, shut up!”

Melinda looked at me with indifference in her eyes.

“I remember that you always loved eating sugar-coated cakes. Jefferson, you are really not suitable for having children.”

One sentence defined me and made me speechless.

She looked at me disappointedly, took out the folded divorce agreement from her pocket and signed it with the hospital pen.

“Didn’t you always want a divorce? Then divorce first. I am worried that you will live with them in an unbalanced state of mind. When you adjust yourself, we will talk about remarriage.”

I suddenly felt relieved and stopped making excuses. I calmly picked up the divorce agreement thrown on the ground and folded it up.

Before leaving, I looked at Melinda calmly.

“Melinda, I gave up eating sugar-coated cakes ten years ago because they hurt my teeth. Have you forgotten?”