Who was Xing Yiyue anyway? What was so special about her, compared to Feng Tianhua's other ex-lovers that Tang Moyu had heard about?
Xing Yiyue was a B-rated actress who managed to smitten Feng Tianhua after he rescued her from a sexual assault. Their first meeting was then followed by several coincidences that led to a romantic interest between Feng Tianhua and Xing Yiyue.
Tang Moyu had met the woman several times, but she treated her with indifference and kept a safe distance from her. Even though she was aware that her fiance was foolishly in love with another woman, Tang Moyu had long prepared herself for this.
She might not have experienced a romantic relationship in her life, but she could tell that the two were head over heels for each other.
"You might be his wife, but you cannot be his lover," her mother had once told her.
"Is that really alright, Mother?" Young Tang Moyu asked. She was confused as to why people marry for business or politics and not for love.
"Because successful men cheat and you have to accept it, dear." her mother tried to explain. "The reason they have affairs outside their marriage is because they think they won't get caught. They also assume that even if they do get caught, they won't get in trouble, because they have more than enough resources to cover it up."
"Moyu, do not believe in love. Do not let your heart cloud your judgement," her elder sister added.
Tang Moyu didn't understand it at first, but now, at the age of twenty-four years old, she finally understood what her mother and her sister meant all those years ago. It was because men often don't bother about the long-term effects of their actions on others, only the short-term gains.
Wealth, fame, and power are attractive to many women, who make themselves available to powerful men like Feng Tianhua. When powerful men such as businessmen are away from home for days and weeks at a time, which is often the case, loneliness and the desire for female companionship can trigger infidelity.
In other words, it's easy for these men to find willing sex partners.
Many men have positions that require a lot of responsibility and authority. They perform well under high stress, and they continually need and enjoy excitement or challenges to drive them forward. An affair gives them the same type of exhilaration in their private life, so she wasn't really surprised when she heard about Feng Tianhua seeing other women behind her back.
As long as she holds the title of 'Madam Feng', those women weren't worth her time and attention.
Tang Moyu had been working hard for the past three years as a financial planner for Feng Conglomerate and had seen the same scenario happening to other businessmen over the course of her career.
"Do not waste your time groveling about it, Moyu. You just need to be a beautiful, healthy, and capable wife. Your worth as a wife will hold you up against those women your husband would take in as his lovers. They might be able to warm his bed but at the end of the day, a man would need a capable woman by his side and not some woman who only knows how to open her legs." Her family had taught her.
This was why Tang Moyu, at her current age, didn't have any semblance of understanding of what a romantic relationship feels like. She found those sappy romance novels and TV shows exaggerated.
What was so sweet about a man giving a woman flowers? Their beauty was fleeting as well as the 'love' of a man. What was so sweet about a kiss beneath the rain? People who stayed soaking wet would surely get a bad cold and get sick later, which was ridiculous in Tang Moyu's opinion.
The only sweetness that Tang Moyu knew of in her whole life was the dessert she consumed after every single meal.
In her slumped state, Tang Moyu could hear the heavy rain pouring outside. As the sound of the rain gets louder, the colder her heart gets.
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