Part 2The Unfocused Gaze

Early the next morning, Liam returned home looking exhausted.

He had faint dark circles under his eyes, as if he really had worked overtime all night.

But when he saw me, he still forced himself to cheer up and gave me a smile.

He lifted the bag in his hand and said, "Xia, haven't you always wanted to try the crab roe soup dumplings from that shop? I lined up specially to buy them for you. Hurry and taste them while they're hot."

The bag contained soup dumplings from that internet-famous shop.

It's said that you have to queue for an hour to buy their buns.

My mood eased a bit. Maybe I really was overthinking everything.

But after opening the takeout box, I was slightly stunned again.

I remembered the shop's promotional pictures showed eight soup dumplings, but there were only six inside.

The buns were no longer hot, and there was even some solidified grease stuck to them.

They looked like leftovers.

Liam saw my confusion and explained, "The shop might have been too busy and put the wrong number. Also, I rushed back all the way, and the soup from the buns leaked a bit, so they look like this."

"Sorry, I didn't let my baby Xia eat the best-looking soup dumplings. It's my fault."

Liam used his cute act again, trying to coax me.

But after the events of last night, the radar in my heart kept beeping.

I didn't avoid Liam, directly took out my phone and checked Tara's updates.

Sure enough, fifteen minutes ago, Tara uploaded a few breakfast photos on another platform.

[The man who left his love-brained wife to sleep with me, this morning queued for an hour to buy me soup dumplings again. It's said to be the shop his wife always wanted to eat at but hasn't yet~]

Inside were the hot new product soup dumplings from that shop.

Used tissues and two pairs of chopsticks were on the table, and there were exactly six soup dumplings left in the takeout box.

For a moment, I didn't know whether to be angry or laugh bitterly.

Liam was willing to queue for an hour for Tara, but wasn't willing to buy an extra steamer of buns to fool me.

I put the phone in front of Liam to see how he would act.

Liam's face looked ugly, then he reached out frantically trying to pull me, but I dodged.

"Xia, I know what you're thinking. You suspect I have something with that kind of woman, but I really haven't had any contact with her!"

"I was really working overtime last night, until early this morning. If you don't believe me, you should believe my colleagues, right? You've met Chris, Mike before, they can testify for me!"

Saying that, Liam called Chris.

The call was connected quickly. Chris knew what happened and kept vouching for Liam.

"Sister-in-law, you have to believe brother Liam. We bunch of colleague brothers all know how much he loves you. How could he cheat?"

"We worked overtime all night yesterday. There's video evidence. If you don't believe it, I can send you the video."

Liam also looked at me sincerely, eyes wet like a puppy afraid of being abandoned.

I received the video sent by Chris.

Everything looked normal in the video; they were indeed working overtime.

But Liam, who flashed past in the video, was not wearing the clothes he wore last night.

I asked Chris: "The date this video was shot is probably not yesterday, right? Are you really going to use your own integrity to cover up this lie for Liam?"

Chris still tried to quibble, but was gagged by my sentence: "My mom just prayed to God for me yesterday. The lot said that those who lie to me will be unlucky for a year."

Chris, who came from Fujian (known for superstition), instantly lost his voice.