Chapter 2: She Left

After taking a shower, Louis left.

Janet sat alone by the bed for a long time before slowly dragging her painful body to put on her coat and go downstairs.

A divorce agreement was placed alone on the clean coffee table.

Janet picked up the agreement as a check for five million silently fell onto the smooth surface of the table without making any sound.

She looked at it bitterly with a bitter smile.

She forced herself to read every word of the divorce agreement carefully.

The agreement required that after their divorce, Janet could not mention their past relationship to anyone else or bother Louis in any way...

She spent an hour reading through this agreement repeatedly until she thought that it was time for them to end this transactional relationship they had long ago established between them both.

Janet picked up her pen and signed next to Louis's name before pausing for several seconds. Then she lifted up her pen again and crossed out several lines regarding money compensation agreements related to property ownership from above.

Louis is generous with his money. In the four years they've been together, he's given her over four million dollars in cash and a house. It's enough.

After signing the divorce agreement, Janet put the check inside and sent one final message to Louis: "I signed the divorce agreement and left it in the living room. You can have your secretary come pick it up. Thank you for taking care of me all these years. Without you, my sister's illness would..."

She paused before deleting that last part of her message, leaving only: "Thank you for taking care of me all these years."

Louis replied quickly: "Okay, don't send any more messages from now on."

He was always decisive like that.

Janet smiled bitterly as she closed her phone and packed up her things to leave their villa.

Before she left for good, she took one last look at the living room which was now clean and empty - just like when she first arrived there years ago.

Everything had come full circle.

With a heavy heart, Janet closed the door behind her as she left.

A week later Louis's personal secretary came knocking at their villa to pick up the divorce papers from Janet but no one answered despite several minutes of knocking on their door.

Larry Law wondered why Janet wasn't answering since she didn't have work or anything else going on besides visiting her sister at hospital every day while waiting for Louis to return home after work. Even if they were getting divorced he had given this house to her so why wasn't she here?

"Back to the hospital again? Didn't her sister get discharged already?" Larry had no choice but to call Janet.

"I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is not in service." Larry was stunned and then sarcastically laughed. This woman was really heartless. As soon as they divorced, she even changed her phone number. Was she so eager to cut ties?

Unable to open the door, Larry finally called a locksmith and forcibly opened the villa gate.

The house was clean and empty, with no trace of Janet or anything related to her. It was as if that humble yet beautiful woman had never existed.

Larry scanned the room and felt even more convinced that this woman was heartless and ungrateful. After getting divorced and taking his money, she immediately disappeared without any sense of loyalty or morality.

The divorce agreement lay quietly on the coffee table.

Larry picked it up out of habit to check for signatures.

When he flipped through the last few pages, he suddenly paused at seeing an unchanged check along with some crossed-out clauses.

This woman had chosen a clean break.