In order to buy rare cuff links for my husband as a birthday gift, I took my daughter to a foreign country to attend a black market auction.

Before the auction started, I received a call from the company and was asked to hold a video conference.

I specifically told my daughter to buy a gift for her father, even if she had to light a sky lantern.

But when I returned to the venue, my daughter had been made into a human statue and placed on the exhibition stand.

Her whole body was covered with plaster and her eyes were full of fear when she looked at me. I screamed and wanted to rush over, but was slapped to the ground.

“How dare a little bastard snatching things from me?! You are really looking for death! Don’t you like lighting sky lanterns so much? Then I will let you light them enough!”

She asked someone to bring a stone hammer and hit my daughter once for every bid on the spot. The plaster peeled off with the skin and my daughter screamed and fainted.

I wanted to call the police with trembling hands, but someone hit me on the shoulder with a hammer.

“You want to call the police? Even if God comes today, he can’t save you! This is the territory of Richards Group and my husband, Damon, is the one in charge here!”

I sneered while holding back the severe pain. Damon changed his surname on the first day of marrying into my family to show his loyalty.

But now he was so ignorant that he dared to keep a woman behind my back. She was right. Richards Group had absolute control over this place. But what she didn’t know was that I was the one in charge here!

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Amidst the laughter, the woman named Jessica took out a card and smashed it in my face.

“You blind bastard, you dare to snatch things from me without even looking at your own identity! This is an unlimited black gold card and the money in it is enough to save your daughter’s life!”

As soon as she finished speaking, she sneered and made a gesture.

“Hit her until she dies! Keep an eye on her. When this little bastard dies, throw her directly into the sea to feed the fish!”

I screamed and tried to pounce, but Jessica stepped on my face. The sharp heel pierced my flesh and I trembled with pain.

I lay on the ground in a mess, watching those people pick up stone hammers and hit my daughter hard.

With every hit, the plaster on her body would peel off, tearing off a large piece of flesh and blood. They hit her more than ten times until there was no intact flesh on my daughter.

Looking at my daughter, who looked like a human lying in a pool of blood and twitching constantly, I was so heartbroken that my body was trembling hard.

“Please, save my daughter. She is still a child!”

I begged desperately with trembling lips, but they laughed as if they had heard some big joke.

“Save her? Who dares to save her? She dares to offend Mr. Richards’s wife. She deserves such a miserable end!”

Even though my daughter had fainted from the pain, they still refused to let her go. Someone brought a basin of salt water with a flattering look and poured it over my daughter’s head.

The shrill screams made my heart tremble. I couldn’t help crying. My daughter rolled on the ground in pain, but still looked at me.

“Mom, don’t cry. I’m fine, really... It doesn’t hurt!”

How could it not hurt? This was a torture of skinning! I gritted my teeth and tried to touch her head with trembling hands.

But before I could touch her, she was kicked away. Jessica squatted beside my daughter with a grim smile and poked her rotten flesh with her fingertips.

Looking at my daughter curled up in pain, she couldn’t help laughing.

“This little bitch is quite patient. She still won’t die even after all this! Everyone present today will be rewarded with 600,000 dollars by the one who tortures her the most!”

Her words were like a dose of stimulant, instantly igniting the whole place. They found all kinds of tools and were excited to beat my daughter.

I covered my broken arm and crawled in front of them desperately, shouting in a hoarse voice, “No, don’t touch her! I have money, I have a lot of money, as long as you are willing to save her, I will give you 1 million dollars each!”

But they sneered and kicked me away.

“It’s not a matter of money. Your daughter offended Mr. Richards’s wife! To tell you the truth, your daughter’s life is worthless. We are doing this just to please Mr. Richards!”

But Mr. Richards, who they said was all-powerful, was obviously my husband, who had been married to me for many years!

For his loyalty, after giving birth to my daughter, I handed over the entire Richards Group to him. Even the black card in Jessica’s hand was the supplementary card I gave him last week!

I didn’t expect it to become my daughter’s death warrant now. How could I not hate it? What was even more ridiculous was, just before the auction started, Damon sent more than a dozen messages in succession to express his longing for me and my daughter.

I suppressed my hatred, took out my mobile phone with a cold face and threw it in front of them.

“Open your damn eyes and see clearly. I am Damon’s original wife. You are just trying to please a mistress! The chairman of Richards Group is not Damon, but me! If you help save my daughter now, I can still spare your damn lives; otherwise, all of you, don’t think about walking out alive!”

Jessica just raised her eyes and someone picked up the phone and handed it to her with a flattering face. But she only took a look and laughed mockingly.

“Bitch, how dare you pretend to be my husband’s original wife? You don’t really think you can get away with it by just finding a random number and making a note, right?”

After she finished speaking, the group of people immediately surrounded her and looked at my phone. After seeing Damon’s number clearly, they couldn’t help but sneer.

“Stupid woman, you don’t even know Mr. Richards’s number and you dare to say you are the original wife!”

“You acted so real that even I was almost fooled. Fortunately, Mr. Richards’s real wife was here today, otherwise I would have been fooled by her!”

“Tsk tsk tsk, the little bitch didn’t know her place and snatched things from Mrs. Richards and the bitch’s mother dared to pretend to be Mrs. Richards. Now they will be punished!”

I thought they would be afraid of revealing my identity. But I didn’t expect them to mock me even more. I was stunned for a long time before I reacted.

When Damon usually contacted me, he used a private number. Most of the people present today didn’t even have the qualifications to meet him. Naturally, they didn’t recognize this number.

Someone threw the phone at my face, hitting my brow bone. Half of my face was numb from the pain and my eyes were swollen. Seeing the group of people rushing towards my daughter again, I screamed like crazy.

“What I said is true. If you don’t believe it, call Damon and let him tell you who I am in person!”

Jessica looked at me with a gloomy face and a hint of sarcasm appeared on her lips.

“Bitch, you still don’t give up, eh?”

“Then, as you wish, let my husband expose you in person! But people who lie will end up miserably!”

She took out her phone with an arrogant face and made a video call to Damon in front of me. The moment the call was connected, she immediately changed to an extremely aggrieved look.

“Husband, there is a bitch who insists that she is your original wife and she also said that I am just a shameless mistress! Now everyone is waiting to see the truth. I have no face to live!”

She cried with tears in her eyes, but I couldn’t help sneering. When Damon knew that his precious daughter had been harmed in such a tragic way, she really couldn’t live!

“Baby, don’t cry, let me see who is so bold to pretend to be my wife!”

His gentle voice came from the receiver. The next second, the phone was pressed against my face. My strong emotions completely collapsed and I cried desperately.

“Damon, you get over here now! My daughter has been skinned by them and she is about to die!”

Afraid that he would not believe it, I grabbed the phone and pointed the camera at my daughter. But what I didn’t expect was that he didn’t recognize his daughter or me.

Damon, on the screen, smiled very coldly. “Bitch, who gave you the courage to pretend to be Mrs. Richards? I only have one wife, Jessica. People like you are not even worthy of carrying my shoes! Be good, Jessica. Your husband will help you vent your anger. Drag this bitch and her bastard out to feed the dogs, okay?”

The last sentence was like a heavy hammer, which made my heart sink to the bottom. In the past few years, I had retreated behind the scenes and left everything outside to him.

I thought he was still a loyal dog like before. But I didn’t expect that his methods would be so cruel now. It seemed that he had had enough of the good life and didn’t even know who he was.

Before I could speak again, the phone was hung up mercilessly. Jessica raised her hand to grab the phone and slapped me hard in the face.

“Did you hear it clearly? My husband said to drag you out to feed the dogs!” She sneered and pulled my hair, dragging my daughter out of the door.

My heart was cold. Damon said that the security here was not good and he was afraid that my daughter and I would be in danger, so he specially asked people to airlift more than a dozen Tibetan mastiffs from Gaulsea.

I didn’t expect that the vicious dogs that were originally responsible for protecting my daughter and me would now be used to bite us.

Tibetan mastiffs were ferocious and they would definitely become crazier after seeing blood. With my daughter’s current injuries, there was no possibility of survival.

When I thought of the scene where my daughter might die tragically, I struggled harder. But it was always useless.

When I was dragged to the door, I subconsciously reached out to grab the door frame and begged without dignity.

“Please, don’t touch my daughter. If you want to feed them, use me to feed them! Whether you want money or life, I can give it to you, just let my daughter go!”

But in return, my daughter got a more ruthless beating and even her fingers were broken one by one. In despair and helplessness, a roar suddenly came from the crowd.

“Stop! How dare you do this to her! She is the real head of the Richards Group. You beat her like this. Do you wish to die?”

For a moment, everyone froze in place. I was so happy that I almost cried.

But when I saw the person who stood up for me, my heart sank again. Although the man’s face was full of anger, he was wearing the clothes of a waiter.