After the divorce, the CEO knelt down every night begging for remarriage.

Li Tingze's heart skipped a beat.

He immediately instructed his assistant to remove the trending topic no matter the cost, to completely withdraw all promotional materials released by Li's Group, and to issue a statement declaring that Su Nianqing's new product had nothing to do with Li's Group and that Li's Group would pursue her for plagiarism.

Even so, it cannot erase the harm this incident caused Lin Zhi.

He strode up to Lin Zhi and reached out to take her hand, but she coldly avoided it.

She remained silent, her eyes red as she stared at him.

This made Li Tingze extremely uneasy.

He lowered his voice and coaxed, "Lin Zhi, I really didn't know about the work. I didn't expect Su Nianqing to plagiarize your work, I..."

“Li Tingze, there’s no need to explain anymore.” Lin Zhi slowly closed her eyes, a tear sliding down her cheek. She wiped it away, and when she opened her eyes again, a mocking sneer graced her face: “Actually, I can understand why you would go to such lengths for Su Nianqing. After all, she’s the white moonlight you loved but couldn’t have. She waited for you for five whole years without any status or recognition, suffering countless injustices for you. But, you could have spent a fortune hiring a ghostwriter to paint for her, which would have been better than stealing my work to pave the way for her, right? You can steal from me this time, but what about next time? Are you going to imprison me and threaten me into painting for you?”

"Lin Zhi, it wasn't your idea to do this. I really didn't know anything about it, I..."

Lin Zhi's expression was calm, but she was furious inside.

The way she looked at Li Tingze was filled with an unfamiliar coldness.

He could indeed easily grasp her emotions.

He knew that what she cared about most right now was her design career, and he also had the ability to easily destroy everything she had worked so hard to achieve.

She was like an ant in his eyes; if he wanted, he could crush her to death with a single kick.

Lin Zhi interrupted Li Tingze, not wanting to give him the opportunity to verbally humiliate her.

She raised her hand as if to slap him across the face, but then withdrew it.

In public, a quarrel that ends badly will only become fodder for ridicule and gossip.

Her whole body felt cold: "Li Tingze, that's enough. You don't need to say anything more. The more you say, the more foolish I seem!"

Li Tingze reached out to pull her into his arms.

Lin Zhi took a step back and reached out to block him.

"Lin Zhi, listen to me..."

"There's nothing to say between us."

“I have already had the trending topic removed, and the Li family will also hold Su Nianqing accountable. I will personally explain to the organizers of the international competition.”

Lin Zhi sneered.

As she laughed, her eyes reddened again: "Li Tingze, it's too late, it's too late. One of the rules of the international competition is that the work cannot have been published on other platforms, and it cannot be controversial."

"Can you guarantee that viewers won't take screenshots and save them?"

Can you guarantee that none of this ever happened?

These questions left Li Tingze speechless.

The moment Lin Zhi lowered her eyes, tears streamed down her face. She didn't say anything more and turned to leave.

Li Tingze watched her retreating figure and took a step to chase after her, but Shen Mubai grabbed his hand.

He frowned and looked at Shen Mubai.

Shen Mubai said indignantly, "President Li, do you know how important this international competition is to Sister Zhi'er? Ever since she injured her hand, drawing design drafts has been a self-destructive thing for her."

Li Tingze lowered his head and nodded slightly.

Shen Mubai looked puzzled: "Since you know everything, why did you still destroy her with your own hands? Keeping her by your side like an emotionless piece of wood, are you really satisfied?"

Shen Mubai's words dealt a heavy blow to Li Tingze.

He stood there, pale-faced and trembling.

……

After leaving the club, Lin Zhi took a taxi directly back to the villa.

She staggered into the study, and looking at the neatly arranged drawings on the table, the tears in her eyes could no longer be held back and burst forth.

The pain in her hands and her heart was so intense that she could hardly breathe.

She thought she would never again shed tears or feel heartache because of Li Tingze.

But unexpectedly, this pain came so suddenly.

She originally thought that if this work could shine internationally and increase her fame, she could earn more money and achieve financial freedom sooner. Only then would she be qualified to talk about personal freedom and no longer be an appendage of Li Tingze.

But fate had other plans for her.

All the beautiful things she had envisioned were destroyed overnight.

Lin Zhi slowly squatted down on the ground, hugged herself, and burst into tears.

As long as she and Li Tingze are still husband and wife, he can't possibly watch her gradually move in a better direction.

He would never give her a chance to escape his control.

This is him!

He has never changed.

Lin Zhi suddenly stood up, rushed to the desk, tore the drawings on the table into pieces, broke all the paintbrushes, and threw them into the trash can.

After doing all this, she left without looking back.

……

Li Tingze drove back to the villa.

Without waiting for the servants to say anything, she rushed straight upstairs to the second floor.

He searched the bedroom but couldn't find Lin Zhi, so he went to the study to look for her.

When he opened the door and saw the shards scattered all over the floor, he froze.

He immediately recognized that the fragments on the ground were Lin Zhixin's painstakingly drawn manuscripts.

It had already been ruthlessly torn to shreds by her.

Just like her love for him, it was completely torn apart and discarded!

The image of Lin Zhi's recent car accident, when she was extremely disappointed, flashed through Li Tingze's mind... and his heart immediately became uneasy.

"Lin Zhi! Lin Zhi!"

He shouted her name as he went downstairs.

The maid rushed to him, anxiously replying, "Sir, Madam just came back briefly, then went out again shortly after. I thought she was looking for you, so I didn't ask..."

Li Tingze's heart trembled!

He cannot let anything happen to Lin Zhi, absolutely not!

Li Tingze sent people to conduct a thorough search in northern Beijing, but they could not find any trace of Lin Zhi.

Even after thoroughly reviewing all the city's surveillance footage, the result remained the same.

Lin Zhi seemed to have vanished into thin air; she disappeared without a trace after leaving the villa.

Finally, Li Tingze lowered his head and called Shen Mubai.

Shen Mubai said that Lin Zhi hadn't contacted him since they parted ways at the club. He wanted to ask her something, but Li Tingze hung up the phone.

Li Tingze searched all night but couldn't find Lin Zhi.

He returned to the villa with his last glimmer of hope, desperately wishing that Lin Zhi would open the door for him.

However, he was greeted by a yawning servant.

Li Tingze didn't say a word to the maid and dragged his tired body upstairs.

He stood in the bedroom, looking at the empty, cold bed, and his emotions completely collapsed.

He clenched his fists and slammed them hard against the wall.

Punch after punch.

Every punch landed on the heart where it hurt the most.

Even as his joints bled, he didn't stop.

The physical pain was nothing compared to the pain in his heart.

In the past, whether he was happy or frustrated, he could always be enveloped and healed by love when he returned to this home with Lin Zhi.

But now, he has personally lost the woman who loves him deeply!