You Didn't Try Harder

Throwing her hands in the air, Ying Yue stared the man she once loved in disgust before turning around to walk away.

"Ying Yue, wait!" Feng Yu grabbed onto her arm, forcing her to turn around and face him. "I didn't divorce you just because of the rumours"

Ying Yue shook his grip of her arm and crossed them over her chest, glaring at him to continue.

"On the way to a meeting one day, I saw you out shopping with another man. You were laughing happily while hugging the man, you smile and eyes shining bright like the sun..." Feng Yu clenched his fists as he remembered that scene, eyes flashing with jealousy.

However, Ying Yue didn't see it. She was too busy thinking about who he saw her with. Her brother? Her father? Cousin? Distant relative? High school friends? Exactly whom did she hug?

"I tried convincing myself that it was just a casual friend. But the rumours and the image of you embracing another man were all I could think of. Usually, when I get home you would tell me how your day went. But you didn't. I thought maybe you forgot and would tell me another day. You never did, then we ended up being distant. I couldn't stand it, I called my lawyer and signed the divorce papers".

Ying Yue remembered that week. The week when his attitude towards her changed.

"You signed the papers, but you didn't give me the papers. What made you give them to me?"

She still remembered when she was signing the papers, his section was dated three days prior.

"The day I gave the papers to you," Feng Yu swallowed audibly, "I received a mail in my office before I got home that night. They were pictures of you and that man in bed, there were also pictures of you two meeting each other. I was trying to process it in my mind. I was convincing myself that my wife couldn't do that. But..."

"But you didn't harder," Ying Yue interrupted. "Instead you chose to listen to pictures who couldn't even talk. You didn't listen to your wife who had a mouth to speak".

"I know I was fooled and stupid"

"You're not stupid. You were ... not man enough to your wife"

The truth hit Feng Yu. What was more hurtful was that it came from his own wife. He wasn't man enough to his wife.

"We are both aware that our marriage was an agreement. But Feng Yu, I am and have always been truthful to my vows". Tears flowed down Ying Yue's cheeks once again. Ying Yue's hands moved to wipe her tears but Feng Yu enclosed her hands within his own. Silent and head bowed, ashamed.

"Before you assume, try this crazy method called asking"