For the first time, I felt that the compromises
I had made for Mark over the years were so
worthless.
I had really had enough.
A thought finally took shape in my mind.
Mark wouldn’t answer my calls, and I had no money in my pocket, so I could only ask the doctor to help me pay on credit first.
I rushed to the Jiang family in my thin hospital gown, already pale from the cold wind.
Just as I used my fingerprint to unlock the
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front door, a delicate voice came from the
second–floor railing:
“Susan, you hired people to hurt me and my
husband, and you dare to come back!”
Before I could react, I was drenched in cold
water.
The cold water seeped into my skin, and the
biting cold mingled with the pain from my
wounds, making me almost faint.
I looked up and saw Mark standing beside
Amy, frowning at me.
Then, afraid that she was unhappy, he turned
his head and gently coaxed her:
“I poured the foot–washing water all over her
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head, are you feeling better now?”
But Amy was still not satisfied and said in a
huff:
“Barely, who told her to freeload at our house
and always try to seduce my husband! I’m just
pouring her foot–washing water, that’s too
good for her!”
Mark helplessly stroked her head and said
with a smile, following her words:
“Yes, yes, it’s all her fault for making you.
angry, it’s her fault.”
After that, he frowned and looked at the
hospital gown on my body, and his face
darkened:
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“You haven’t caused enough trouble on the
phone, and now you want to dress up like this
and run in front of us to try and gain.
sympathy?”
“How unlucky! Hurry up and take it off!”
Looking at Mark’s cold expression.
My heart felt like it was soaking in water,
achy and swollen.
I wiped my face, didn’t say a word, and went
upstairs straight to the bedroom.
I had just taken out the money I had saved
from work over the years from the safe when
the bank card in my hand was suddenly
snatched away.
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“Susan, you’re trying to steal my husband,
hanging around my house like a leech, and
now you dare to steal money! How can you
be so shameless!”
My face turned cold, and I sneered:
“Who’s stealing who’s husband, and who’s
hanging around who’s house like a leech?”
“Mark is blind, but do you think I really don’t
know anything?”
“You called those kidnappers, didn’t you?”
Amy tried to play innocent:
“What are you talking about? I don’t
understand.”
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I interrupted her expressionlessly:
“That day when I called, you told Mark that
you heard me calling the kidnappers, but I
didn’t! My bank card also had an unexplained
expense during the time I gave it to you.”
“Who else could it be if not you?”
Amy suddenly smiled, as if tearing off the last
mask, the malice in her eyes almost
overflowing:
“You guessed it, so what?”
“Even if you say it, Mark won’t believe you.”
“The Jiang family and Mark are all mine! I’d throw this money in the trash rather than give
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As she spoke, she waved her hand, and I
watched as the savings I had carefully
preserved for many years were smashed into
the trash can.
My suppressed emotions erupted instantly,
and I raised my hand and slapped her hard.
Amy screamed and fell to the ground.
“Susan! What are you doing!”
Mark, who had rushed over, quickly picked up
Amy and glared at me.
Amy shrank weakly in Mark’s arms, crying
with grievance:
“Mark, she stole money from the house and I
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found out, so she wanted to hit me, and she
even called me a bitch for stealing her
husband!”
The veins on Mark’s forehead bulged, and he
slapped me angrily.
“Haven’t I told you many times that Amy can’t
take excitement! Why do you always have to
say those nonsense things to her!”
“Do you know that there’s still a child in her
belly! You even dared to hit her!”
“I’ve been too lenient with you all this time,
that’s why you’re so out of control!”
His slap was too heavy, and I hit the dressing table next to me, my injured finger pressing hard against the corner of the table
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The wound in my abdomen was torn open,
and blood oozed out faintly.
My whole body hurt so badly that I couldn’t
recover for a long time.
My heart was like ashes, and I raised my eyes
in pain, my voice choking:
“Mark, I regret it.‘
“If I had known this would happen, I shouldn’t
have married you in the first place, and I
shouldn’t have been soft–hearted and agreed
to let Amy move in.”
Perhaps it was because I was too
embarrassed, or because the indifference in
my eyes stung him.
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Mark’s eyes stiffened, and he subconsciously
wanted to step forward and hug me.
But before he could speak, he was
interrupted by a sharp scream.
Amy looked at Mark with shattered eyes, her
expression almost collapsing:
“Why does she call you Mark? Aren’t you my
husband, Jake!”
“Then where is my husband! Where did my
husband go?”
