Chapter 2
After dinner, I drove to my own bath center.
Karen had always despised me for being a masseuse.
In my family, boys were favored over girls. Since I was ten years old, I had been kicked out of the house. With only an elementary school education, I couldn't survive in society.
A massage sister felt sorry for me and took me in.
Ironically, I met Ben at the massage center. He was attracted to me and then pursued me aggressively.
He was a deputy principal of a middle school, and I knew that I was not worthy of him. So I worked hard to make money and opened a massage center before marriage, and later developed it into a bath center.
I earned ten times more money than Ben every month, but he still looked down on my background.
Every day when I came home, he demanded me to give him a massage.
I used to think this was a lovely game between us, so I complied with him. But now I realized that he was clearly humiliating me.
In the previous life, even though he was the one who cheated, he hypocritically said that the reason for the divorce was because we had no common topics and that the smell of money on me made him feel disgusted.
Under the guidance of him, Karen scolded me every day for being a slut.
But I still couldn't rest assured about my daughter. In order to fight for custody, I handed over the bath center to Ben.
As a result, Karen resented me. She thought I was sabotaging her and preventing her from living a prosperous life with her father.
I thought I could educate the child well since she was young, but I didn't expect to end up causing my own death.
In this life, I would make all those who harm me pay the price.
First, I need to find the person Ben had an affair with.
I remembered that the mistress was named Irene.
I went to the store and found the assistant manager to ask if she knew her.
In our industry, we had a wide social network. Almost everyone in the small county knew each other.
The assistant manager said there was a girl named Irene in the store before. She brought me a photo for identification.
I took a look and it turned out to be the same person.
Seeing my confusion, the assistant manager said, "Boss, you forgot her? This little girl is the one you brought back. She's a stray orphan. When she came, she was thin and couldn't eat enough. You felt sorry for her and brought her back for me to arrange work for her. In less than a month, she started eating well and became chubby. She's grown up and lovely now."
"Ben also took good care of her, came to see her every day after work. I heard that she had a boyfriend a while ago, and she was pregnant. Last month, she had quit her job. I heard that Ben had found her a new place to live."
With those words, I started to remember.
So Irene was actually an ungrateful person. She had Ben's child now!
This scumbag not only cheated on me with my money, but also kept a mistress.
I hired a private detective to investigate her. Unexpectedly, this couple got together at night.
I saved the photos sent by the detective and slept well. The next day, after lunch, I leisurely returned to that cold home.
Chapter 3
They kept saying that I was a useless waste, but I hadn't been home for only three days and the house was in chaos.
Karen liked her dad because her dad never paid attention to her. When he was in a good mood, he played with her, but when he was in a bad mood, she couldn't even see him.
No one picked up Karen after school, and no one cooked for her, so she had to call her grandparents.
But the old couple was used to their leisurely life at home and couldn't stand her mischief every day.
Ben, who was still lying on his lover's belly, was called back with a phone call, and his face turned so dark.
As soon as I opened the door, everyone's accumulated grievances found a vent.
Karen's grandparents scolded, "Do you even know how to come back alive? Is there any mother like you who leaves her child at home and goes out to have fun?"
Karen ran over and pushed me to the ground, "You shameless woman, how dare you not answer my call? Did you go out with a lover?"
Ben came forward and slapped me: "Is what Karen said true? You shameless woman, how dare you cheat on me?!"
This slap was quite strong, and my face instantly swelled up, completely shattering the last trace of illusion I had about this family.
I looked at my family coldly. Their expressions were fierce, their words were vulgar, and they all looked down on me as if I were a heinous criminal, a rat that everyone shouted to beat on the street.
This family, from beginning to end, was rotten to the core.
I stood up and walked towards the kitchen.
Karen looked disdainful, "Now you want to please me? It's too late! The food you dirty person made is all dirty, it's disgusting even to smell it!"
Disgusting?
I held a kitchen knife, took big steps towards Karen, pressed the back of the knife against her neck, grabbed her hair with one hand, and banged her head against the wall after each sentence.
"I get up at five every day to make breakfast for you. How come you don't find it disgusting when you eat it?"
"When you go out and spend my money on eating, drinking, and having fun, how come you don't find it disgusting, huh?"
"When I have to clean up the mess you caused outside, how come you don't find it disgusting, huh?"
Karen was so scared that she wet her pants, even though her forehead was bleeding from being banged against the wall, she didn't dare to resist.
"Let go! You crazy woman!"
Ben came up to pull me, I swiped the kitchen knife backhandedly, and instantly a bloodstain appeared on his arm.
"And you, you keep a mistress outside and got her pregnant. Do you have the nerve to accuse me of having an affair?"
After saying that, I slammed the detective's photos on his face, silencing him.
Ben's parents pointed at me and cursed, "My son is so outstanding, there are plenty of women chasing after him. Must he hang himself on your crooked tree?"
"A massage girl can marry a deputy principal of a middle school. You should feel honored!"
Hearing this, I was so angry that I threw the kitchen knife. It landed right on the table in front of them, scaring the two old people pale.
"Since I gave birth to our daughter, you have never liked me. But all the money for your trips and hiring a nanny comes from me. Can your son's monthly salary of 2,000 dollars support you two useless old people? The fish rots from the head down, and that's saying about you!"
Ben shouted, "Enough, Ann! You're crazy! We must divorce, we have to!"
"Yes, I am crazy, driven crazy by all of you!"
I took out the divorce agreement that I had prepared long ago from my bag.
"Meet at the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. You must leave with nothing!"
Chapter 4
Ben said, "Well, it seems like you've gone crazy. I know you came here today to cause trouble and try to get custody of Karen."
"Here's the deal, you give me the bath center and one million dollars, and Karen is yours."
Karen became anxious: "Dad, I don't want to be with this stinky woman, I want to be with you!"
Ben smirked, looking at me with a determined expression.
"You see, Karen likes me so much. If we really go to court, you have no chance of winning. If you agree to my conditions now, I can help persuade her."
Looking at my daughter's hateful eyes, I sneered.
"Forget it, the child is already grown up. I respect her choice. I don't want this child anymore!"
"You better sign it, otherwise, I don't mind showing the scandalous photos of you and your lover to the whole school."
Ben's face changed drastically, and he came up to hit me.
I took a step back and opened the door.
I called the police before entering the door. At this time, two police officers happened to arrive at the door and quickly came forward to subdue Ben.
Karen's grandparents said, "Officers, this is all a misunderstanding! It was this crazy woman who came to our house causing trouble, and even took a kitchen knife to try to cut us. Look, my son's arm is bleeding. My son was just acting in self-defense!"
I calmly took out the certificate of depression from my bag and said innocently.
"Officers, I was called back by them. As soon as I entered the house, they started hitting me. My mind was in a mess at that time, and I didn't even know what I did."
Ben scolded, "You're lying! When did you get depression? How come I don't know about it!?"
I said, "When you and your family drove me crazy, you were still in bed with your lover! What could you possibly know?"
The police looked at Ben with disdain in their eyes.
In the end, all of us were taken to the police station.
The next day, with the intervention of the police, the divorce procedures were successfully completed.
However, there was now a cooling-off period for the divorce, and it would take a month to obtain the divorce certificate.
Karen clapped her hand and said, "Finally! you can leave my dad now!"
Irene, with a slight bulge in her lower abdomen, hooked her arm around Ben's and taunted me.
"Sister, a woman should be gentle and tender. A strong-willed woman like you will never be able to hold onto a man's heart. Unfortunately, you will never understand this."
I ignored her and looked at my daughter.
"Do you think that now that your dad and I are divorced, he belongs to only you?"
I pointed at Irene's belly.
"Unfortunately, your dad has already fathered a little brother for you behind your back. With him around, you will never receive your dad's love."
Seeing her angry expression, I left satisfied.
Not long after, I heard screams, roars, and the crisp sound of a slap on the face from behind me.
It turned out that Karen had pushed Irene down the stairs. Irene tumbled down the stairs, clutching her stomach in pain, with blood stains flowing beneath her.
The scene became chaotic for a while.
My daughter, she truly lived up to being a heartless person.
Ben and Irene, your tough days were still ahead.
Revenge succeeded, I would enjoy my life