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“Lily, I go away on a business trip and you tell everyone I’m dead?”
A spirited old man walked over leaning on a cane. Lily was so scared she collapsed to the ground, shaking all over.
“Husband… I was wrong. Someone spread false rumors and I believed them.”
“Oh, rumors? Looks like you couldn’t wait for me to die so you could remarry! If I hadn’t come back to the country, I wouldn’t have known you were giving me such big green hat!”
The old man berated her while viciously beating her with his cane.
Lily curled up crying in pain, her makeup completely ruined.
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“Husband, I really know I was wrong. I just came as a bridesmaid, husband…”
Accompanied by her repeated cries of “husband“, Frank’s face grew darker and darker.
The pointing and whispering of the many guests also made his parents hang their heads in shame.
Lily crawled on her knees towards them begging for help, but was pushed away.
Frank’s face was especially gloomy:
“Lily, didn’t you say your husband died and you had nowhere to go? You really took me for a fool to pick up after you! You despicable woman!”
Lily looked at Frank in disbelief. He had always granted her every request, but now he was yelling at her.
She also became dissatisfied and furious:
“You have the nerve to say that about me? I just hinted a little that my son looked like you, and you drove your own wife away to let me move in. You’re even more despicable and shameless than me!”
Watching these two bite each other like dogs, I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Seeing this, Frank hurriedly knelt down to apologize to me.
“Honey, I was wrong. I was deceived by this vile woman. Please forgive me this once, okay?”
I immediately threw the signed divorce agreement in his face and sneered:
“Look carefully at the signature. Who’s your wife now? We’re already divorced!”
Hearing this, Frank was shocked.
“Impossible, I never signed any divorce agreement!”
But when he flipped through the agreement carefully, he finally realized and grabbed Lily’s hair in fury:
“It was you! That day at the hospital, you said my mom needed surgery and had me sign papers! You stupid woman, you’ve really ruined me. I won’t let you off!”
Seeing him raise his hand to hit Lily’s face, I stopped him and said coldly:
“You think you can blame everything on the woman and get away with it? If you didn’t have thoughts of cheating yourself, how could she have gotten to you? What a coward who dares to do things but not take responsibility!”
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The farce finally came to an end amid my ex–mother–in–law’s dramatic fake moaning.
10
A few days later, the mansion I had listed for sale was sold through an agent.
The lawyer helping with my divorce case also replied that Frank’s complete asset forfeiture for infidelity during marriage was set in stone.
After the divorce, my usually silent daughter spoke up for the first time:
“Mom, I want to go out and play.”
Hearing my daughter’s voice again, I was moved to tears.
Indeed, once you leave behind toxic people, everything slowly gets better.
But when we went out, a homeless man who had been lingering near my house rushed up.
Looking closely, it was actually Frank.
In just a few short days, he was already in rags, disheveled and filthy.
He reached out his dirty hand to grab my arm. Seeing this, I stepped back in disgust.
A glint flashed in his eyes, full of unwillingness.
“Amber, you can’t do this to me. We still have a daughter. A child can’t be without a father!”
Apart from disgust, I remained very indifferent.
“Look at yourself now. You’re worse than a beggar. You still think you can live in a mansion and drive luxury cars and be my precious daughter’s father? What makes you think I would take back a cheating piece of trash like you?”
“I’m guessing you were fired by my dad, your mom’s old illness flared up and she’s in the hospital, and now you can’t even afford a penny, so you came to beg me to remarry you and continue serving your whole family?”
“You and your mom are both ugly on the outside and delusional on the inside. A toad dreaming of eating swan meat!”
Hearing this, Frank became enraged and pulled out a small knife, lunging at me.
“Amber, you forced me to do this. If you die, our daughter will definitely come with me. Then I’ll have money!”
My heart instantly jumped into my throat.
Fortunately, the bodyguards who had arrived kicked him away and pinned him to the ground.
A really didn’t expect this man to be rotten to the core.
After handing everything over to the police, I tightly held my daughter’s hand and turned to leave.
Although she didn’t cry or make a fuss, the terror in her eyes was undeniable.
With a father like that, I’m afraid he would become her nightmare.
Soon, Frank was sentenced to life in prison.
Thankfully, that nightmare will never haunt us mother and daughter again in this lifetime.
Afterwards, I took my daughter to live in another city.
Seeing her slowly start to speak again, I felt even more gratified.
Occasionally my girlfriends would still gossip to me that Lily had also gotten divorced.
Apparently she shamelessly used her child to exchange for a million dollars and went to Korea for plastic surgery.
After returning, she latched onto another rich man as a mistress, but ended up being beaten half–paralyzed by the man’s wife.
She became roommates in the hospital with Frank’s mother, who was paralyzed there.
The two of them cursed at each other in the hospital every day, each more vulgar than the other.
Hearing this news, I enjoyed the drama immensely.
After all, what goes around comes around!
