She had been married to him for three years, always living in the shadow of his first love. He gave all his tenderness to another woman, leaving her only coldness and exploitation. When she caught him intimate with his first love in their marital home, and he publicly humiliated her for that woman's sake, her heart finally died. She signed the divorce papers and vanished. At first he didn't care—until the empty house revealed that her care, late-night waits, and the love he had ignored were all real. He searched frantically and begged her to come back, but she had moved on. She no longer wanted his belated devotion.
