Chapter 6

That man’s name was Henry Zeller. He had attended the same high school as Scarlet, and they had been dating since then. Henry had also already been a thug since those days, and he was said to have done it all—whoring, substance abuse, and the like.

Rumors claimed that Scarlet had to get several abortions because of him, and now that I thought about it, she must have become barren since then. It was hilarious how I had always taken the blame for that on myself when our relatives asked why we did not have any children despite being married for so long, saying that I was too old and wasn’t really physically fit. To make things worse, I was moved whenever Scarlet pretended to reassure me, saying that we could take our time.

It just so happened that Henry had broken up with Scarlet in the same year I met her on our blind date. He had raked up to a hundred thousand dollars in debt and fled to the northern states, where he had hooked up with a masseuse—the reason Scarlet had agreed to the b