When I was pregnant with my second child, my husband sent his female secretary to give me a customized mango cake.

The moment I saw the mango, I silently made an appointment for an abortion.

At the same time, I asked a lawyer to draft a divorce agreement.

When Charles George heard the news, he called to question.

I chuckled and said, "Wasn't it you who had someone send the cake? I agree, let's get a divorce."

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Charles came back from overtime work and opened the door to see the shirt he wore yesterday still piled on the sofa.

His brows knitted up imperceptibly.

Glancing at me browsing my phone, he flatly commanded,

"Remember to wash my shirt from yesterday when you're done."

In the past, I took care of all the housework for him every day without him asking.

This time, after he finished speaking, I didn't react and continued to look down at my phone.

He took something out of his trouser pocket and walked over to me.

He stretched out his hand and opened it.

A pink brand-limited lipstick lay quietly in his palm.

I picked it up and took a look at it with a calm expression.

In fact, I never wore makeup and I couldn't understand the differences between those lipstick colors.

He smiled and asked, "How is it? I thought you would like it, so I bought it for you.."

My fingers that were scrolling through videos suddenly stopped.

The advertisement on the screen happened to be the brand of lipstick he had given me.

I only understood all when I clicked on it.

The pink packaging showed that it was a complimentary gift from the brand.

I couldn't be bothered to take another look at it. It was about to end, so why make myself unhappy?

The alarm went off and I took handfuls of pills.

I turned around and said calmly, "The agreement has been written, so just sign it when you are free."

He had already sent the mango cake, and it would be very foolish for me to pretend that I didn't understand.

Charles was busy with many things every day.

I directly asked someone to draft the agreement as it was just a minor matter, and he just needed to sign it in the end.

But his face darkened after hearing that.

"You know, I didn't mean divorce, and Yolanda Lane didn't mean that either. That cake was to celebrate our second child."

"Don't give it another thought."

He sat comfortably on the sofa with his legs on the table.

I was about to remind him that the room was just cleaned.

Realizing that we were about to divorce, I stopped myself in time.

Habit was truly a terrible thing.

At first, Yolanda, his childhood sweetheart, became his secretary.

I tried to find faults every day.

But after a year, I surprisingly got used to it.

Even when Yolanda sent me the photos of them traveling abroad together, I could calmly give them "thumbs up".

Seeing me looking down at my phone, Charles spoke in dissatisfaction.

"Haven't you visited Chris recently? My elder sister is very dissatisfied with you. Stop watching those useless things and pay more attention to our family."

My finger paused on the screen.

Chris George was our son. He had been taken away by the elders of the George family since he was born.

They claimed that it was for him to receive exclusive education as their heir.

Two weeks ago, Yolanda told me that the George family had signed up a holiday military training course for Chris.

I was forbidden to visit him.

At that moment, Charles' question clearly showed his ignorance.

Now I couldn't be bothered to pursue the truth.

Anyway, the George family had more complaints about me than just those.

The only thing that made them happy after we got married was probably giving birth to the lovely Chris.

Seeing that I didn't reply, Charles frowned.

"Yolanda has visited Chris more times than you have this year. If this continues, my sister will come to invite you personally next time."

I chuckled lightly.

Every time I wanted to accompany my child as he grew up, Yolanda snatched away my chance to visit him.

No one ever cared whether I was sad not being able to see my child.

The George family thought that I was trading my son for a happy life for the rest of my life.

Maybe they would have thought it was a great thing for me if there weren't my son's noise.

After calming down and thinking carefully, I reminded Charles again.

"The divorce agreement is in your study. Remember to sign it when you are done with your busy schedule."

His brows were instantly furrowed, showing impatience.

"Haven't I told you that many times? If anything happens between Yolanda and me, we won't get married at all."

Yeah, there was nothing between them.

It was nothing more than staying in the same private room of the same hotel after they went abroad.

It was nothing more than Charles telling the deepest secret in my heart to a woman who coveted my husband.

It was nothing more than revealing something that could destroy me to his childhood sweetheart.

Looking at Charles' impatient face at this moment, I smiled and spoke.

"Don't worry, I've already aborted the baby."

"I listen to you very much and will not become an obstacle between you two."

After saying that, I directly left home without even looking at his stiff figure.

From behind I heard his heart-wrenching shouting.

"Jenny Smith, if you dare to leave today, don't even think you can come back again!"

The day I found out I was pregnant with my second child, I was just over a month pregnant.

I hadn't even had time to be happy.

Then I received a mango cake that Charles asked Yolanda to send.

Yolanda smiled sweetly, "Mr. George is too busy. This is the cake he personally ordered for your anniversary, and he asked me to help deliver it."

I stared at the pile of mangoes for a long time.

It didn't matter anymore who made the cake.

It was all the same to me.

That was a secret between me and Charles when we were young.

At that time, I was a school bully who followed those tattooed young guys on the street and regarded them as elder brothers.

And Charles was a transfer student who came into our school.

I was notorious in school.

On the first day of transferring to the school, Charles was reminded to stay away from me.

But no one knew that I hung out with those uneducated thugs just to protect myself.

One day after school, I rescued a cat from several students who had almost abused it to death.

As I raised my head with teary eyes, I met Charles' gaze.

He helped me pay for the exorbitant treatment costs at the veterinary hospital.

I was keenly aware that the way he looked at me was different from others'.

After hurriedly thanking him, I left quickly.

But from that day on, he often happened to appear around me like a ghost.

Having been beaten by reality since childhood, I was very clear about the insurmountable gap between our identities.

I just wanted to leave a not-so-bad impression on him.

But I didn't expect that he would witness me in such a disheveled appearance.

My stepfather came back home with different women, holding newly bought mangoes in his hands.

He strode up to my mother, pried open her mouth and fed her the food.

My mother was allergic to mangoes and would fall into a coma every time she ate them.

That would make it easier for my stepfather to do bad things.

It was much later that I realized her allergy was so severe to cause shock.

Looking at my mother shivering in a coma, I was ignorant and fearless as a young child.

A physical fight broke out after a heated argument with my stepfather.

He chased me into a dark alley with a kitchen knife.

Just then, I happened to run into Charles who was playing with the stray cat.

Finally, the police car and ambulance arrived at the same time.

Charles' face was covered in blood, but he still smiled at me, showing his white teeth.

Just before he passed out, he said to me, "Look, the cat is fine."

I stayed up all night with him without sleeping.

After he woke up, it was natural for us to be together.

With tears in my eyes, I gently stroked the gauze on his hand.

"If you want to separate someday, give me mangoes."

But the eighteen-year-old Charles used his only remaining healthy left hand to gently scratch the tip of my nose.

"Little glutton, you will never be able to eat it in your lifetime."

Actually, there was a secret I didn't tell him.

I was also severely allergic to mangoes.

The next day, my stepfather came to my school and threatened to expel me.

When Charles heard the news, he limped into the office regardless of the wounds on his body.

A call was made to the elders of the George family.

He traded his own future for my studies.

"If Jenny is expelled, I won't attend classes anymore."

My consciousness became blurred, and the memories of my childhood seemed to be getting farther and farther away from me.

The doctor waved his hand in front of me, and I was brought back to reality.

"Mrs. George...Miss Smith, your postpartum depression is already very serious. It seems to have affected your normal life."

I sighed and asked the doctor to increase the dosage of the medicine.

As she was a professional psychologist, I once shared my experience with her.

She expressed pity and helplessness.

But she could only follow my wishes for conservative treatment.

In order to avoid being discovered by Charles, I deliberately paid in cash.

After getting the medicine, I walked out with the bag, but ran into Charles who rushed in.

The force was so great that it knocked me to the ground.

I gasped in pain.

But he stood in front of me, holding Yolanda firmly in his arms.

The moment he saw me, his eyes were full of disgust.

"You follow me when I come to take Yolanda for a checkup? You said you won't go home, but in the end you go wherever I go!"

Yolanda surprisingly spoke for me this time.

"Jenny just came out of the hospital. She's probably not feeling well. Don't think too much about it."

She turned her head and looked at me, with a hint of provocation in her eyes.

"I'm sorry, Jenny. Don't get me wrong. I'm not used to wearing high heels so I sprained my ankle. Charles was afraid that it would affect my work, so he insisted that it was a work-related injury and brought me here for a checkup."

"He was like this when he was young, but no one knew he would even become more kind as he grew up."

I vaguely remember the day when she came to deliver the mango cake.

Yolanda walked with 12cm stiletto heels, but her steps were very light.

She was like a true winner.

I frowned and didn't want to talk to them.

But after listening to her, Charles' eyes fell on the bag in my hand.

After putting Yolanda down on the ground, he grabbed it.

After a moment, he said contemptuously, "Postpartum depression? Jenny, can you act more realistically? How long have you been giving birth? Are you depressed now? Is your brain slower than others?"

I curled my lips in annoyance.

The next second, I directly snatched the bag from his hand.

"Yes, you are right. Make time to come to the hospital for a checkup. Slow brain reactions are contagious."

After saying that, I prepared to leave regardless of his reaction.

But his voice, filled with obvious anger, sounded behind me.

"Chris won first place in the competition, and today is the family feast at the old home. As a mother, are you not going?"

I paused, then moved forward again.

As soon as Charles' angry curse came out and he was about to rush up to stop me, he was stopped by Yolanda.

"Charles, my ankle hurts so much..."

So he turned in another direction and took Yolanda back to the hospital.

After leaving the hospital I went to the mall.

I bought myself a fairly decent outfit.

Charles sent a message with a warning.

[If you don't come today, you really don't deserve to become our George family member! ]

I smiled and casually deleted the message.

As an unfaithful father, he was not qualified to judge me.

In order to appear with a new look, I spent a huge amount of money on my makeup and hair.

Looking at myself in the mirror, who seemed to be ten years younger, I felt it seemed so long ago.

It was said that if a woman marries the right person, she will become younger and younger.

Now without anyone telling me, I knew that I made the wrong choice.

It was already dark when I finished, and I finally got on the car to George's house.

The George family was large, and speeches before each family feast would take two hours.

This time I calculated the time exactly.

The banquet had just started when I arrived.

I saw Chris first when I entered the door, and he was sitting between Charles and Yolanda.

His little face was bulging with food.

My heart warmed when I saw him.

Even if my relationship with Charles failed.

He was my son, who was raised with all my heart.

Carrying the gift I had picked for him, I walked up to him quickly, smiling with loving eyes.

"My dear, I congratulate you on winning first place!"

"This is the gift I picked for you. Do you like it?"

After my words were spoken, there was a silence in the hell.

Charles' face darkened instantly.

Chris looked at the toy in my hand with disgust.

He turned around and snuggled into Yolanda's arms, being amused by Yolanda and laughing out loud.

I felt a pang of bitterness in my heart.

Charles gritted his teeth and then said, "Chris' competition has been over for a month, and today's theme is family-banquet!"

The atmosphere was freezing cold.

Noticing that, Yolanda smiled and spoke to ease the situation.

"Charles, don't be angry. I specifically asked about that condition. People with postpartum depression will have memory disorders when they are serious."

After hearing that, Charles' face darkened even more.

Several elders from the George family looked at me with dissatisfaction.

After Charles' parents had an accident, his sister Cindy George took charge of the George family.

Hearing those, she immediately spoke.

"No woman doesn't give birth to a child. Giving birth to a child in our George family saves so much trouble. It's simply a blessing from your previous life."

"Not everyone has this fate. Not just any person can become the George family member!"

Since the day I was with Charles, I had knew she hated me.

She knew that Charles disobeyed his parents for me.

She once thought that I was involved in the death of their parents.

If Charles and I hadn't been together, his parents wouldn't have been so angry that they wanted to move the company out of the country.

They wouldn't have been on the plane that crashed.

For that reason, I always tolerated her.

As long as I could be with Charles, being scolded didn't matter.

But now, I couldn't even protect my own son.

Whoever wanted to compromise could compromise.

I looked at Yolanda's fake kind and gentle expression.

I questioned sternly, "You deliberately sent me a message this afternoon saying that Chris likes this toy."

"But you and Charles had to go to work and doesn't have time to queue up to buy it, so I went to the mall and queued for three hours."

"In order to express my respect for the solemnity of the family banquet, I even went to tidy up my clothes and hair. Is this how you treat me? Is this my blessing?"

I lifted the toy in my hand high up and smashed it hard on the ground.

"Is this the toy that Chris likes?"

Charles slammed the table suddenly, causing several glasses to fall to the ground.

They were broken into scraps.

"Yolanda kindly reminded you, but do you still need others to tell you what your own son likes?"

"You don't go to work, so how busy are you every day that you don't have time to visit your son?"

"Look at yourself, how can you look like a mother?"

"I don't think you need to continue today's meal!"

I chuckled and folded my arms.

I had no intention of finishing the meal from the beginning.

It was my battlefield, and had never been my home!

The next second, I turned to leave, but I heard the sound of some object breaking through the air behind me.

A ceramic teacup flew past my face and hit the wall, shattering into pieces.

Cindy said angrily, "An uneducated guy! There are so many family elders here. This is not a place where you can come and go as you please!"

"Our George family is not a market!"

The broken pieces of the teacup just now flew onto my face.

A bloody mark was left.

Blood was running down my cheek.

Years of resentment in my heart burst out in that moment.

I slowly turned my head, facing Cindy's haughty expression.

"Upbringing? Haha, you don't seem to know what upbringing is. Do you want me to teach you?"