The doctor's words were very tactful and I naturally understood the meaning behind them.

I nodded calmly without saying a word.

"Do I need to tell Ms. Steinfeld about this?"

It was a private hospital under the Steinfeld Family. Although I was not on good terms with the Steinfeld Family and Nicole, it had not yet spread to outsiders.

Everyone only knew that I was not a favored husband and son-in-law of Nicole and the Steinfeld Family, but I was still respected.

I gave a bitter smile.

"No need to tell her."

As soon as the words fell, Nicole called.

Her voice was still lazy, yet mixed with a strong sense of malice.

"Are you dead? If you're not, come over to the villa. The condoms that Derrick and I usually use are gone and I'm not used to other ones. Do you know which brand I usually use? Send it to me and I'll send you the location via WhatsApp."

The phone hung up before I could reply.

The next moment, the address of the villa was sent to my phone.

If it were in the past, I would endure all the sadness, grief, or humiliation out of self-blame and atonement and humbly responded to everything Nicole asked me to do.

Just to make her hate me less, even less.

But now, I felt numb and I calmly clicked into Amazon to have an order.

My friend put down the porridge and choked up, tucking in the corner of my blanket.

"Ethan, do you have to be with Nicole? This is the seventh time you've been in shock and the third time you've seen your child die with your own eyes! What else does she want? What else does she want before she's willing to let you go? Does she have to torture you to death?"

I raised my hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of my eyes and gave him a soothing smile. He had been speaking up for me since he stepped into my ward.

"Don't worry, she can't do anything to me anymore."

Nicole was angry because I did not go to the villa in person to deliver the condoms.

She suspended my card and asked the doctor to kick me out of the hospital.

I packed my things and left the hospital, then went back to the Steinfeld Family's manor.

Since taking complete power, Nicole had destroyed the former Cruise Family's manor.

My parents were also unhappy about this. During the argument with her, she asked her bodyguards to hold me down and humiliate me, which made my parents so angry that they had a heart attack and died ....

The servants of the Steinfeld Family looked at me with contempt.

"Look, the jinx is back. He doesn't have the little bastard around him ... he won't be ... it's really hilarious."

"That's right, how many times has this happened? He can't even raise him and he still has the nerve to run here. If it were me, I would find a place to hide and never come out to see anyone again."

"We are just servants, but we are not as shameless as him, are we? So how can a shameless person like him become the son-in-law of a wealthy family?"

I calmly walked over the living room. Now, I could be indifferent to these words.

I came at a very unfortunate time, as Nicole and Derrick happened to be here to meet Rosie Steinfeld, my mother-in-law.

As soon as I stepped into the living room, Rosie slammed down the teacup in her hand, her voice sharp and harsh.

"Ethan, come here and kneel down in front of grandma's memorial tablet!"

My footsteps up the stairs paused. I always felt guilty towards grandmother.

I turned around and walked towards Harrieth's memorial photo.

Rosie got angry and did not even give me a mat. My knees ached as I knelt on the cold, hard floor.

I had not fully recovered yet and when the ruler hit my back, my heart began to hurt as well.

"Humph, tell me how many times this has happened! I only have a male dog, but I can raise several litters a year, right? And you? You're not even as good as an animal!"

"You should have prevented Nicole from getting pregnant, at least she would have been pure."

"Look at yourself, are you worthy of grandma's love for you? If she was still alive, seeing that you couldn't even raise a child in five years, she would have asked you to divorce Nicole a long time ago! But you are thick-skinned and you still have the nerve to stay in the Steinfelds and occupy a position as Nicole's husband!"

All the humiliating, abusive and scolding words were reminding me to have some self-awareness and get out of the Steinfeld Family as soon as possible.

I looked up to see the culprit who caused me to lose my children repeatedly.

Nicole got pregnant for the first time, one month after getting married. She had her bodyguards beat me for a whole month, causing serious internal injuries to my body and forcing me to stay in the hospital for observation.

When she found out she was pregnant, I was very happy, thinking that the arrival of this child would ease the relationship between me and her to a certain extent.

But I thought wrong, Nicole just laughed at me and her laughter was creepy.

She spoke up,

"You want me to give birth to your seed? Sure, as long as you can serve your new partner well, I will give birth to him."

Nicole forced the bitter aphrodisiac into my mouth. It took effect quickly and I lost consciousness in less than half an hour. Although it did not reach that stage, I also suffered inhuman torture.

Nicole was pregnant for the second time when she had just hooked up with Derrick. Derrick said he wanted to see me drink, so Nicole ordered ten bottles of Spade A Platinum in the private room.

I refused to drink, then Nicole asked the bodyguard to hold me down and force me to drink herself.

I drank two bottles of wine and blood appeared.

Fortunately, she gave birth to our second child, twin sons.

The third time she got pregnant, it was her and Derrick's child.

Rosie punished me and the twins, kneeling at the door for a day and a night, because I failed to deliver the aphrodisiac items to Nicole and Derrick in time.

That night, in order to seek excitement, Nicole asked Derrick to hold her and have sex with her in front of me and our children.

I knelt for a whole day, feeling deeply traumatized and heartbroken. My elder and younger brothers also left me out of fear and great trauma.

In just half a year, the twin sons passed away and they did not even have the chance to feel their mother's love and care.

My heart stopped beating because I was too sad. I was sent to the emergency room and survived.

Until in the equestrian field, Ezra was the longest child I had raised and also the oldest child of Nicole and me.

I thought I could raise Ezra well, after all, he was already five years old.

It was a pity, he was also ....

Nicole just sat there, acting as if she had nothing to do with our three children.

The young man next to her looked down at me, his eyes full of pride and mockery.

Rosie got tired of scolding, so she threw away the ruler, leaned back on the sofa with a headache and sighed.

"I shouldn't have agreed to your marriage under grandma's pressure! Now what should I do if my daughter marry a debt collector and jinx?"

I gave a bitter smile and prayed in front of Harrieth's memorial photo.

The five years of my life in the Steinfeld family, I had been heartbroken too many times; Harrieth's death, Nicole's infidelity, my parents' death and I lost three children ....

"If that's the case, then it's up to you, Ms. Steinfeld. I will divorce Nicole, so that your family can completely get rid of me."

Nicole froze and unconsciously looked at me.

After a while, a sound of laughter was heard.

"Haha ...."

"Are you worth to file for divorce?"

I froze and found myself being pressed by the bodyguard in front of the Harrieth's memorial photo, holding my neck.

He met Nicole's gaze with immense strength, as if he was determined to kill me.

"You haven't even redeemed yourself for your sins yet and you want to leave? You killed someone and you just want to ran away? Ethan, there is no such easy thing in this world!

The bodyguard threw me away and caused me to crash into the flower bed behind me.

I just felt a pain at the back of my head and then some warm liquid flowed into my clothes.

I fainted.

As soon as I woke up, I found myself lying in the villa where I was newlyweds.

Not long after, Nicole brought me a cup of hot water with a cold face.

I drank it and laid down again in a daze.

Half asleep and half awake, I smelled alcohol and felt a restless hand tugging at my pants.

I stopped Nicole, who was drunk and she got angry.

"What? You don't want to? Don't you really enjoy raising children? Don't you really want to raise our children? I'm satisfying you now, but you're not happy about it? Why are you pretending?"

I was so angry that I trembled all over and slapped her.

"Nicole! I just recovered from the shock! Our son is dead, we have no children!"

She finally stopped, her dark eyes fixed on me, as if trying to see through my disguise.

I sighed.

"The doctor told me to rest more and not to have sexual intercourse or do strenuous exercise until I am fully recovered. I am tired, so I am going to sleep first."

"Okay, you are really good at pretending! That's right, otherwise how could you have tricked me into falling in love with you five years ago! It's all because of you that grandma died!"

My heart sank and ached.

She moved her body away and regained her nonchalant demeanor.

"Rest? You haven't been in shock before, so why should you rest? Mom hasn't been feeling well these past two days, so you should move over and take care of her starting tomorrow."

Rosie liked to torture and humiliate me with trivial matters and Nicole knew it.

The next day, before the bodyguards took me to meet Rosie, Derrick came to me.

He stroked the child beside him with a gentle look on his face, which reminded me of myself before I lost my children.

He was very satisfied to see my disappointment.

"I hope what you said about divorce yesterday is true. I warn you not to play hard to get! Ms. Steinfeld won't fall for it! You can't hold on to the position of Steinfelds' son-in-law! You'd better give up as soon as possible. Now, I am the most suitable candidate for the Steinfelds' son-in-law! After all, my child with Nicole will be two years old next year."

I had a pale face, nodded indifferently and followed the bodyguard away.

I was surprised to see Rosie.

In the past, when I wanted to see her for something, I had to wait for two or three hours in the scorching sun or in the wind and rain.

Now it was surprisingly unobstructed.

She was drinking tea with two copies of the divorce agreement in front of her.

But it was clear from her expression that she did not believe I would leave. She was waiting for me to kneel down and beg for forgiveness.

"You won’t regret it, will you?"

I carefully read the divorce agreement she prepared. Perhaps, she did not believe that I would get divorced, so she prepared the agreement very sloppily.

I took out the divorce agreement my friend, Brian Portman, had prepared for me in advance from my pocket and handed it over.

"I won't regret it."

She looked at the divorce agreement in disbelief.

"Have you been ready to divorce Nicole?"

I did not respond.

Rosie took a sip of tea and calmed down.

"Does she know about this?"

I shook my head after thinking about it.

"She doesn't need to know, I just need her signature on this divorce agreement."

Since I wanted to get a divorce as soon as possible, I chose to leave the house with nothing.

Rosie was surprised, but she had never liked me. Seeing me so straightforward and not asking any more questions, she nodded and promised to let her daughter sign the divorce agreement.

From now on, I, Nicole and the Steinfeld Family would have nothing to do with each other.

I nodded and turned to leave.

Rosie stopped me from leaving.

"Wait, there's still an account that we haven't settled yet."

She looked at me with shrewdness in her eyes.

"Grandma's death."