The Unloved Wife, The Hidden Tycoon

Olivia Smith never expected that the client she was meeting today would turn out to be her half-sister, Aurelia Smith.

She stared in shock at Aurelia, who was dressed head to toe in haute couture, disbelief flashing in her eyes.

"Aurelia?"

Aurelia sat calmly on the sofa, smiling leisurely. "Olivia, you're finally here."

Olivia's heart instantly sank, her expression complicated.

She was here representing her company to discuss a partnership, but Aurelia had gone abroad three years ago—how had she suddenly become the client they needed to work with?

"What's going on..."

Aurelia seemed to read her mind, smiling. "You want to know how I achieved all this? Of course, it's all thanks to your husband."

Jeffrey Adams gave it to her?

Olivia looked completely stunned. Jeffrey had never mentioned this to her.

Olivia and Jeffrey had been married for three years. Jeffrey was always busy—either on business trips or at various meetings and social events. The two of them rarely even had a chance to sit down and share a proper meal.

"Olivia, I actually asked to meet you today to show you something."

Aurelia deliberately changed the subject. She pulled out a thick stack of plane tickets from her documents.

They were for flights to cities all over the country.

Olivia frowned, unable to figure out what Aurelia was trying to do, but her understanding of Aurelia's personality made her immediately wary.

She had never been able to see through her sister, who was three years younger than her.

When Olivia was very young, her father, Vaughn Smith, had left her with her grandmother in the countryside. The year her grandmother died, Vaughn had a rare moment of fatherly compassion and brought her back to live with him.

Aurelia had smiled and held her hand, saying her wish to have a sister had finally come true. But the very next day at a party, Aurelia deliberately fell down the stairs. When Vaughn came over furiously to blame Olivia, Aurelia was still holding back tears to defend her.

That same night, Olivia was sent back to the countryside.

Aurelia continued with a smile. "These plane tickets—don't the destinations and dates look familiar? Every time Jeffrey went on a business trip, I was there with him."

Olivia stared blankly at the tickets, feeling like someone had suddenly hit her hard on the head. The whole world was spinning, and she couldn't hear clearly what the person in front of her was saying.

It wasn't that she'd never thought about going on business trips with Jeffrey, but every time she'd been turned down with various excuses.

Aurelia's smile grew brighter as her eyes swept over the ruby bracelet on Olivia's wrist.

"By the way, do you like that ruby bracelet? I personally picked it out for you."

Olivia's head snapped up, her eyes full of disbelief as she looked at Aurelia. "You picked it out?"

This bracelet was a gift Jeffrey had brought back for her from his last business trip. She had been so happy when she received it—after all, it was the first time Jeffrey had ever brought her a gift.

"Yes, except your bracelet was the gift. The really valuable piece is on my wrist."

Aurelia proudly waved her right hand, showing off a much more beautiful bracelet on her wrist.

Olivia's pupils contracted. At that moment, her heart felt like a huge hole had been torn open, the pain piercing through her. Cold wind howled through it, chilling her to the bone, as if her flowing blood was being frozen inch by inch.

She could barely keep herself standing. Aurelia continued smugly.

"Our taste is surprisingly similar. What I like, you like too—even the man I like, you like too!"

Olivia suddenly cut her off, staring hard at Aurelia.

"Back when the Adams family and the Smith family arranged the marriage, Jeffrey got into a car accident before the wedding and might have become a vegetable. You were afraid it would affect you, so you flew abroad overnight to get back together with your ex-boyfriend. You were the one who gave up on Jeffrey!"

Aurelia's expression changed for a moment, but quickly returned to normal.

"So what? As long as I come back, Jeffrey only has eyes for me!"

She looked at Olivia with an almost pitying, mocking gaze.

"See? When a man truly loves you, he gives you his money, his time, his power. And what has Jeffrey given you?"

Olivia was stumped by this question. Looking at the triumphant Aurelia in front of her, she felt like invisible hands were gripping her throat tightly.

Olivia practically fled.

On the way back, Aurelia's question kept spinning in her mind.

What had Jeffrey given her?

All these years, Jeffrey had never even touched her, as if their marriage was just to deal with his elders' pressure to get married, and she was just a decorative mascot.

Love, time, power—she hadn't gotten any of it.

Even her job at the Adams Group, she'd gotten in through her own abilities in the interview.

Meanwhile, Aurelia could easily become a client she needed to please, all thanks to Jeffrey.

Olivia couldn't help closing her eyes. She felt like she could line up everything Jeffrey had done for her and for Aurelia, all his attitudes, and compare them one by one.

And the gap between them was like a knife cutting into her heart.

Olivia returned home in a daze.

Jeffrey was on the sofa reading today's financial news. He wore simple black loungewear, gold-rimmed glasses on his face, and his sleeves were casually rolled up.

Seeing her return, Jeffrey only said coolly, "I have a business trip tomorrow for a project."

Olivia suppressed the twisting pain in her heart and looked up at Jeffrey seriously.

Back when the doctor had declared he might never wake up, she had stayed by Jeffrey's side day after day, reading him stories, sharing new things with him, secretly praying in her heart that he would wake up soon. And finally, a miracle happened.

She still remembered that on her most humiliating day, when Vaughn was loudly accusing her of being cruel, it was Jeffrey who gave her a handkerchief to wipe her tears.

She had carefully treasured it until now.

Olivia had always believed that as long as she worked hard, she would eventually win Jeffrey's heart.

Just like how she had already earned the approval of Jeffrey's grandfather, Sawyer Adams.

Everything seemed to be moving in a good direction—until today, when Aurelia had brutally torn open the most painful truth right in front of her.

Olivia suddenly asked, "Are you going alone on this trip, or taking someone with you? Can I come with you?"

Jeffrey's handsome brow furrowed as he said coldly, "I'm going to work, not on vacation."

The image of those painfully glaring plane tickets seemed to flash before Olivia's eyes again.

She could hear something shattering in her chest.

"Jeffrey, let's get a divorce."