On our thirtieth wedding anniversary, I received a cancer diagnosis on the very day we were meant to have our make-up wedding, while my supposedly “working overtime” husband, my child, and my older brothers celebrated the fake daughter’s birthday.

The fake daughter wore the diamond ring I waited thirty years to receive, and her so-called simple birthday party was celebrated more lavishly than my wedding.

Everyone gathered around her, like stars revolving around the moon.

After she blew out the candles, she smiled and said, “Ezekiel, isn’t today the day you and Heather get married? You brought your brothers and Jaxon here to celebrate my birthday. If Heather knew, she would probably die from anger.”

My husband mockingly laughed. “She’s already at her age, yet Heather Windsleigh is still fantasizing like a child. It’s truly absurd. From the beginning, I never agreed to redo the wedding; it was nothing more than her delusion.”

My son looked even more upset. “My mom should look at all the wrinkles on her face; it’s just awful. If Aunt Gwynne were my mom, that would be great.”

My two older brothers kept nodding.

Looking at the ridiculous scene in front of me, I gripped the cancer report tightly.

So this marriage had already become a joke thirty years ago.

I grabbed my phone and called the people at Vellaro.

“Withdraw all of Vellaro’s investment from the Beaumont Corporation, and make sure it’s done within a week.”

This was the first gift I gave Ezekiel Beaumont and the rest.

As for the second present, I glanced at the cancer results I was holding and smiled coldly. My self-righteous husband still didn’t realize that he was the one who had cancer.

1

“Is this the real estate agency? I’m selling the villa on Mountainside Road, but I want you to get a buyer in one week.”

The person on the phone accepted immediately.

This house was the place Ezekiel and I had lived in for thirty years, and I was the one who paid for it completely.

At that time, the Beaumont Corporation was facing a crisis. After marrying Ezekiel, I used Vellaro’s funds to help the Beaumont family and also purchased this house, claiming it was my dowry from the Windsleigh family.

In fact, when I married Ezekiel, the Windsleigh family gave me nothing at all.

After all, in their eyes, it was because I came back that they had to send away the fake daughter, Gwynne.

Inside, the birthday party kept going.

Tears covered Gwynne’s eyes as she lightly placed her hand on the hands of Ezekiel and his son.

“All these years, if it weren’t for you, your son, and my older brothers looking after me, I really don’t know what would have happened to me. At that time, I also couldn’t follow the marriage deal……”

Ezekiel lightly brushed away the tears on her face, his gaze filled with obvious love.

“Don’t say that. If Heather hadn’t forced you to leave, you would have definitely stayed and shared hardships with me. I never blamed you.”

When I heard this, my eyes went wide.

Back then, it was clearly Gwynne who hadn’t wanted to marry into the bankrupt Beaumont family, and she had run away from the Windsleigh family in the middle of the night!

I had thought that when they found me and brought me home, it would be the start of a happy life.

But in the end, I was tossed into the Beaumont family like useless debris to cover the marriage agreement Gwynne rejected.

And now, they placed every blame on me!

My son rushed to say, “Aunt Gwynne, you are the only mother in my heart. Today is your birthday, don’t pay attention to that old woman.”

My son’s words left me cold and shaken.

Ever since he was young, my son had leaned on me, yet as he got older, he had become more and more irritated by me.

He would even shout things out whenever I tried to correct him.

But it never crossed my mind that the mother he held in his heart was actually Gwynne.

In that moment, the world spun, and I nearly collapsed right there.

Seeing the warm and happy scene in front of me, I pressed my nails into my palm to stay calm and turned to go.

“Older sister? Why are you here? Were you following Ezekiel?”

At that moment, Gwynne’s voice suddenly sounded behind me.

I hadn’t even spoken when Gwynne grabbed my arm, her look carrying a quiet insult even as she kept a soft smile and said, “Heather, since you’re already here, come in and sit for a while. Ezekiel and the others didn’t intentionally skip the wedding; listen to their explanation.”

I shook as I raised my head, staring at Gwynne with a drained face.

“Not intentional? After thirty years of marriage, all I wanted was one wedding. My husband chose to help you celebrate your birthday instead. What explanation is left?”

My voice sounded painful. A brief amused spark showed in Gwynne’s eyes, and her nails pressed deep into my arm as she murmured, “See the dislike on their faces when they see you, don’t you realize that no one here welcomes you? You should have left long ago!”

I suddenly pushed her aside, anger burning in my eyes.

But Gwynne followed the strength of my push and fell down. Seeing this, Ezekiel quickly moved forward to hold her, yelling at me angrily.

“Heather! What do you even want? It’s only a wedding. Before, you were the one who said it didn’t matter if we didn’t have one, and now you’re causing trouble about having another. Look at yourself, you’re already old and worn out. I didn’t skip it on purpose!”

“If you want to let out your anger, let it out at me. Don’t touch Gwynne!”

My older brother, Kian Windsleigh, ran over, roughly pushing me aside, and said angrily, “It’s exactly because we knew you would surely make a big scene that we didn’t tell you. And yet you still followed us all the way here.”

My second brother, Milo Windsleigh’s face was filled with hatred.

“Heather, ever since you were found and brought back, you’ve been going after Gwynne, even making her leave the family. And now you showed up at her birthday party to cause problems. Ezekiel, can you watch her? Don’t let her come out and behave like this!”

Everyone there started yelling at me.

Not one person felt sorry for lying to me or for leaving me alone at the wedding place.

All they had for me was disgust and blame for pushing Gwynne.

I was shoved to the ground, stunned, with helplessness washing over me.

These were the family members I had spent thirty years with, yet not one of them stood by me.

I suddenly remembered something and lifted my head to look at my son.

“Jaxon, Mom only wanted a wedding. And just now, she whispered mean things in my ear…”

Before I could finish, my son cut me off with an unpleasant look.

“That’s enough! Aunt Gwynne would never do something like that. Mom, you’re already older. Is that wedding really worth all this?”

“Why did you have to make a scene on such an important day? I really regret being your son, you’ve made me feel ashamed for so long!”

When I heard this, my chest throbbed with pain.

I stared at my son, unable to believe it, my lips shaking a lot.

But he still felt that wasn’t enough; he held my arm and tried to yank me toward the door.

As he pulled me out, he said in complete disgust, “Go home now. I don’t want to look at you anymore!”

I fought with all my strength, trying to stand on my own.

I wanted to tell them I could leave, and I could even end the marriage.

What I hoped for wasn’t just a made-up wedding; I wanted the dignity I had missed for thirty years!

But my son was far stronger than I. No matter how I struggled, he still pulled me toward the door like a dead dog.

Right then, the cancer test paper in my pocket fell to the ground.

The black letters on the white sheet, reading “Cancer Confirmed,” immediately drew everyone’s eyes.

I stopped for a second, just about to explain who the cancer report belonged to.

From behind Ezekiel, Gwynne suddenly rushed forward and ripped the paper into pieces.

“Older sister, I know you want to win back Ezekiel and Jaxon’s hearts, but making a fake cancer report is really going too far,”

Gwynne said with a troubled look.

Ezekiel, who had still been stunned, immediately looked disgusted when he heard what Gwynne said.

“Heather, do you believe having cancer will make anything different? I’m telling you now, after seeing how jealous and mean you’ve been for so many years, my son and I will never forgive you!”

He stared down at me as if he were above me. “Ever since I found out you pushed Gwynne out, there was nothing left between us. The only reason I didn’t get a divorce all this time was that I needed you to stay and care for my son.”

“So many years have gone by, and you still go after Gwynne because you’re jealous. And now you even have cancer, an illness like this can’t be healed, you know that. To avoid pulling our son down with you, leave with nothing.”

Ezekiel gently pushed all the blame onto me.

By the end, his true nature showed completely, and only then did I finally see what kind of man the person beside me for thirty years really was.

All of his reasons were only because he knew I had cancer and thought I was no longer useful, so he wanted to push me away!

I let out a lonely, broken laugh.

Next to me, Kian looked at me with even greater dislike.

“Heather, cancer can’t be cured. If you honestly care about Jaxon, then separate from Ezekiel. Don’t pull the entire family down with you.”

Milo laughed mockingly. “I saw from her younger days that Heather was never someone who followed the rules, or she wouldn’t have taken Gwynne’s marriage to begin with. Now she’s sick, and she must be planning to make Jaxon pay for everything. She doesn’t care about her own family at all; she’s completely selfish!”

When I saw the disgust in their eyes, my blood seemed to rush backward. My mouth moved, but no words were able to come out.

I understood that my older brothers looked down on me because of Gwynne.

But I always thought that after thirty years of treating them with everything I had, I should have gotten at least a little honesty from them.

Ezekiel and my son were still my husband and my nearest family.

When I noticed my son hadn’t spoken yet, I couldn’t stop myself from looking at him with hope.

My son looked away from me and murmured, “Mom, you should have divorced Dad years ago. Dad always loved Aunt Gwynne. If you hadn’t taken her marriage back then, I would have been Aunt Gwynne’s kid.”

As he talked, he even shot me an angry look, “And your illness can’t be cured anyway. You may as well walk away with nothing and help Dad and Aunt Gwynne be happy!”

Gwynne dropped her head in a shy way, as though she was already seeing her wedding with Ezekiel.

I looked at everything without feeling, my heart aching until it couldn’t feel anything anymore.

A single cancer report showed me who they truly were.

Maybe none of them had ever loved me at all, from the very beginning.

Having fully lost hope, I looked at them calmly.

“Alright, I agree to divorce.”

Ezekiel ignored everything else I said. As soon as he heard my agreement, he excitedly pulled out a divorce contract he had already made beforehand.

This slightly yellow divorce paper was something Ezekiel always kept with him.

He had wanted to end our marriage for a long time.

Seeing that I still wasn’t signing, Ezekiel urged me with worry.

“Heather, you’re not planning to take back your words, right?”

I curled my lips slightly and signed my name without stopping.

“I won’t go back on it. As long as none of you regret it.”

After all, the name written on that cancer report wasn’t mine.

Ezekiel snorted, and after seeing my signature, he carefully tucked the divorce papers away.

My son, noticing this, grabbed my arm with force and pushed me outward.

“Since you’ve already signed everything, Mom, hurry up and leave. No one here wants you. We still need to celebrate Aunt Gwynne’s birthday. You can go home and clean up or do something like that.”

Looking at his expression, acting as if I would still give everything just like before, I turned my head aside.

The door closed hard behind me.

Laughter sounded from inside, and my brothers said happily, “Since Ezekiel and Heather are divorced now, we can really set up a real wedding for Gwynne. I know everyone has been waiting for so long. We need to celebrate it properly!”

“But let’s still hold on until the divorce paper comes through. I don’t think Heather will drop this so easily. I know her better than anyone; she sticks like thick glue. The fact that she signed today is already unbelievable. Once she reaches home, she will surely keep holding on.”

Ezekiel said arrogantly, “After all, we lived as a married couple for so many years. I won’t be too ruthless. She really is good at looking after others. Just let her stay at home as a house servant. I’ll give her a little money every month, consider it paying for her pain medicine.”

Hearing these words, Gwynne began softly praising him.

I felt nothing but strong disgust. I didn’t listen any longer and walked back toward the villa.