Forsaken Wife Reclaims Power, Leaves Husband to Ruin

On the day of my daughter’s one-month naming ceremony, a photo of my husband Adrian Wilkinson kissing his mistress’s ballet shoes went viral in trending searches and was even labeled the sweetest normal couple.

Within the banquet hall, everyone expected that I, who had loved Adrian so much, would again cry, call him repeatedly, and kneel as I begged him to return to name the child.

But I just calmly announced that the child would bear my surname, Pearson, and ended the banquet.

That night, when my mother-in-law confronted me, I directly said that I wanted a divorce.

“The child stays with me. She is still your granddaughter, but she is no longer related to Adrian.”

Liliana Wilkinson could not believe that I, who had grown up together with Adrian and had been willing to give up my job to be a proper wife for him, would suddenly choose to “leave the father and keep the child.”

She did not know that the night before, as our daughter had a fever and cried in distress, Adrian, as her father, had been in the study on the phone with his mistress in an intimate way.

I stood outside the study and kept hearing the steady panting from inside, while the woman’s voice over the phone sounded sweet.

“Adrian, does she sound nicer when she calls you, or do I sound nicer?”

I heard Adrian’s voice with desire and gave a soft laugh.

“Of course it’s you, baby. She’s like a strict teacher in bed, killing the mood. You suit me better.”

At that point, my heart was entirely gone.

Since Adrian did not love me anymore, there was no point in continuing this marriage.

I chose to take my daughter with me and divorce him.

1

On my daughter’s full-month banquet day, the present my husband Adrian gave her was him trending online with another woman.

In the trending image, the usually unrestrained leader of Wilkinson Group was kneeling on one knee, devotedly kissing ballet dancer Amira Walter’s ballet shoes.

Netizens flooded the comments, saying Adrian was deeply affectionate and calling them the sweetest normal couple.

They had no idea that this affectionate man had still taken me repeatedly in bed earlier that morning.

At the banquet, the guests looked at me with pity mixed with gossip.

“Ma’am, I will have someone take down the trending search immediately……”

The housekeeper worried I would become too angry and harm my body, which had only just recovered after childbirth.

My voice remained calm like water.

“No need.”

“He dared to secretly join a normal dating show, so he should have expected to trend.”

The servant paused. “What about the naming ceremony?”

I answered right away.

“There is no need to wait for Adrian to return. The child will carry my last name, named Isabel Pearson.”

The servant was startled, hands damp. “Ma’am, this…”

The people who hoped to see me break down and act wild were also stunned; they did not think that purposely showing this trending topic to me would lead to this kind of response.

The comments suddenly spread fast.

“Is Eloise out of her mind? Her husband is matching with someone on a dating show, she does not rush to beg him to return; instead, she wants to switch the child’s last name.”

“Isn’t she known as ‘the toughest wife in the capital circle’? Every time she finds cheating, she causes trouble, always eager to keep Adrian tied to her side.”

“Earlier, when President Wilkinson held a hidden talk with a secretary in the company, and it came out, she used abortion as a threat to make the other person quit, which made President Wilkinson very upset.”

“I think she became clever, wants to use this way to make Adrian give in, acting like she is not easy to get.”

The sound of people laughing mixed with the noise of glasses hitting each other, like many tiny pins stabbing my heart.

They all believed I was using a “step back to move forward” method, waiting to see how I would finish it.

I just stared blankly at my one-month-old baby in my arms.

Bright lights kept bursting one by one in the night sky over the estate.

The glow from the bursts shone into my fully empty eyes, bright, wide, but short.

In truth, I was not acting distant; I had only been a “housekeeper” for five years, and I felt worn out from handling everything.

I did not want to handle anything anymore.

Once the guests were gone, Liliana, after learning about it, was so angry her face flushed red. She dialed Adrian and yelled.

“Adrian, come back to the old house immediately! Don’t you know what day it is today? Shooting that kind of low-class dating show, embarrassing yourself!”

On the other end, Adrian’s voice came off relaxed.

“Mom, the contract’s already been signed. If I leave now, it counts as a breach and will affect Wilkinson Group’s stock price, which has just bounced back.”

He thought briefly, then said, “Eloise is with you, right? Help me soothe her, just tell her everything in the show’s just acting. Tell her not to cry for too long or harm her body. After I finish recording this episode, I’ll buy that seaside villa she’s been wanting for a long time and give it to her.”

“How did I raise such a bastard like you?!”

Liliana was so angry that she threw the phone straight onto the carpet.

She turned around, grabbed my hand tightly, and said with pain, “Eloise, you’ve suffered. Mom will stand up for you and make him kneel and come back to apologize……”

I held her fingertips instead and gently said, “Mom, don’t be angry, I want to tell you something.”

I talked in a calm tone.

“When my parents passed away in a car crash, and our family lost everything, it was you who supported me through hard times, and didn’t let the Pearson family get taken by others. I’ve always held this kindness in my heart.”

“You said you wanted Adrian to settle down, so when he chased after me, I guided him to learn how to handle the company.”

“Afterward, I chose to be with him, also because I wanted to be part of a family with you.”

“Over these years, even though he was unfaithful often, I didn’t decide to leave, aside from still having some feelings for him, it was also because I couldn’t bring myself to leave you.”

Liliana felt as if a knife were stabbing her heart, opened her lips, but couldn’t say anything.

“Mom, I first believed that as long as I held things tightly and watched closely, Adrian would come back to me like before and still care for me like that, but I was mistaken; his feelings have already changed.”

My voice was quiet.

“My life can’t just be about pretending for a man who doesn’t come home. Mom, I want a divorce.”

Liliana’s tears poured out, her voice trembling, “Then the child? She’s still very little……”

“The child will stay with me and take my surname, Pearson. She’ll still be your granddaughter, but she won’t be Adrian’s daughter anymore.”

I softly interrupted her, “Mom, please let me leave, okay?”

The room fell into deep silence. I thought she wouldn’t agree and had already prepared to convince her.

But Liliana saw the firmness in my eyes and finally nodded weakly. “Okay…… since you call me Mom, you’re also my daughter. Mom will help you deal with it.”

She said softly, a bit lost, “Back then, Adrian liked you so much. How did things end up like this?”

My nose stung, and I held back my tears.

Yes, Adrian used to like me very much.

Adrian, the top Playboy in the capital, suddenly woke up at eighteen and fell in love with me, his childhood sweetheart.

He bought a private island worth billions for my birthday.

Bought the right to name a star for thousands of years and used my name;

And because I didn’t like roses that fade, he spent a lot of money hiring top research teams around the world just to create a flower that wouldn’t wither.

Later, I simply said I didn’t like lazy rich heirs, he held back his slack ways, and used his own skill to take the CEO seat of the Wilkinson family, using trillion-level cross-border cooperation to stay firm at the top of the business world.

On the day I said yes to his proposal, one hundred private planes flew around the city to share the good news, and rose petals were spread for three days and three nights.

We were a couple of others admired in everyone’s view.

But no one thought that after only five years, I’d choose divorce because I was tired of dealing with Adrian’s cheating everywhere.

Late at night, I had just helped my daughter fall asleep, and Adrian sent a photo.

The scene showed a messy hotel bed, with many kinds of condom brands spread across it.

Right after that, he sent fifty-two thousand to me and added a message.

[Wife, at today’s full-month banquet, you did well, didn’t behave like a loud woman causing trouble, and didn’t phone me to push me, very good, finally got more understanding.]

[Come on, help me pick out of these condom brands, which one feels better to you?]

[These got used this morning, you didn’t forget how it felt, right?]