My business partner secretly sabotaged my company, pushing me to the brink of ruin. Meanwhile, my wife, who should have been my closest ally, stood by and watched coldly. I hit rock bottom, exhausted and broken. My cash flow dried up, and years of hard work were destroyed in an instant. To my shock, I saw my wife embracing my business partner intimately at the company. I begged her to help me find a way out, but she replied with annoyance: “I’m not interested in what you’re saying. Your problems are such a headache!” But what they were trampling underfoot was my last hope. In the end, that hope was crushed beyond repair. As I wept over my ruined business, I saw my partner’s latest social media update: “Enjoying a thrilling night with a married woman. So exciting!” I instantly recognized the alluring figure in the glamorous dress as my wife. That night, I called a number I hadn’t dialed in years: “Dad, I’m giving up on my entrepreneurial dream. I’ve booked a flight home in ten days to take over the family business.”
Emily stormed into our home, shouting angrily: “You’re the only one moping around here! Why do I have to come home in broad daylight to see your miserable face?” “So your business failed, is it really that bad? If you can’t handle this little setback, are you even a man?” “Mark didn’t intentionally put you in a difficult position. Do you have to cut ties with him over this small matter?” I laughed bitterly, overwhelmed with grief and anger. Since she came in, she hadn’t even glanced at me or offered a single word of comfort. Instead, she was berating me for distancing myself from Mark, as if she felt sorry for him. He had deliberately manipulated the contract, causing me to fall from the top to rock bottom. Not only that, but he had also left me with nothing. My entrepreneurial dream could never be realized now! Seeing my grim expression, she finally approached me, halfheartedly glancing at my haggard face, and softened her tone: “Honey, if the business failed, just start over. Once you recover, you can keep working hard!” “Didn’t you always want to become a business tycoon? You need to pull yourself together!” I laughed coldly inside. This was the woman I had loved and cherished for seven years, yet at this moment, she seemed like a complete stranger! I coldly observed her. Emily was wearing an elegant suit and high heels. Apart from her new smartphone, she hadn’t brought anything else. It seemed she had only come to check on me briefly, with no intention of staying to keep me company. Emily felt uncomfortable under my gaze and realized something. “Honey, you’re just facing a small problem that you can solve on your own. I have a party to attend tomorrow, so I won’t be staying here with you tonight.” A small problem? If she cared about me even a little, she would have noticed my utter despair when my career collapsed. But she didn’t. She was too busy entangling with Mark, leaving me to struggle in pain. While I was running around trying to save the company, she was putting on sexy lingerie to enjoy the thrill of an affair with Mark. My heart turned cold, and I asked disappointedly: “So, you just came to check on me? Did you want to see if I was dead yet?” Emily’s face darkened, and she snapped: “Jack, what are you talking about? What do you mean by checking if you’re dead? We’ve been married for seven years, is this how you see me?” I smirked sarcastically. “Since you’ve seen me, you can go now.” Emily didn’t leave. Instead, she raised her phone to my face. “When you offended all your business friends, Mark’s wife happened to get the news and came over. I was at the company working overtime with Mark, discussing the next project plan.” “His wife misunderstood our relationship. You need to quickly record a video to clarify things and explain to her.” She said this with a completely natural expression, as if she and Mark were truly innocent. “What do you want me to explain?” Emily looked a bit embarrassed but still had to say it. “Well, when his wife came late at night, Mark and I were working on a new idea. Anyway, just explain that it was business-related material, that’s all!” As soon as she finished speaking, I suddenly remembered Mark’s social media post mentioning his plans to spend a sweet night with a married woman. I immediately understood. They had been caught in the act of having an affair by Mark’s wife. How dare she ask me to help her clear things up! Seeing Emily’s now unfamiliar face, I could no longer contain my emotions. I let out a hysterical roar and swatted the phone out of her hand.
Even now, I couldn’t believe Emily had really cheated on me. We had been married for seven years. I was afraid she might suffer even the slightest hardship with me, so I spoiled her rotten. She used to be an ordinary employee at the company. Seeing her struggling and often being excluded by colleagues, I asked Mark to make her my assistant. At first, Mark disagreed, but when I offered to deduct her salary from my own wages, he finally agreed. I didn’t lack money; I started my business just to realize my own value. But my parents, in an attempt to force me to return home and take over the family business, cut off my financial support. Later, I gave up an arranged marriage to marry Emily, which caused another rift with my parents. I haven’t been in contact with them for three years now. To give Emily a better life, I worked day and night. When I got home, I would do the housework, truly treating her like a queen. But now, she had betrayed me. During my bankruptcy and downfall, she was having an affair with Mark in the company office, and now she wanted me to explain it away for her. Why should I? What right did she have to treat me like this? Anger rushed to my head, and at this moment, I could no longer control myself. I exposed her on the spot. “Emily, do you take me for a fool? Don’t think I don’t know about your dirty business with Mark!” Emily was stunned, then picked up her handbag and hit me hard on the head with it. “Jack, you’ve grown some nerve! How dare you point your finger at me and speak to me in such a loud voice!” I had already suffered a heavy blow in the business world during the day, and I was physically and mentally exhausted. I felt dizzy and sick. She hit my head so hard that I felt like I was about to pass out. Even though I tried to maintain my composure, the pain in my heart still came like a flood. I was in so much pain that I could barely breathe, gritting my teeth hard. “You knew about us, yet you still called that old woman over! You deliberately wanted to embarrass me, didn’t you?” “You useless piece of trash, why didn’t you just die from bankruptcy today!” “Mark is from a rich family. It’s your honor that he’s interested in your wife! Do you think he gave you so many business opportunities because of your few lousy business ideas?” “Hurry up and record that clarification video for me. If Mark isn’t happy at home, don’t think you’ll have an easy time at home either!” I was hit so hard that I felt dizzy, my heart aching as if it was about to break. Using my good hand, I grabbed Emily’s arm tightly and threw her to the side. I had never been as angry as I was at this moment, my voice almost tearing my throat: “Emily, you’re just Mark’s used-up plaything! You have a husband, and he has a wife. You two doing such shameless things, how can you face me?” “Now you want me to clarify things for him? What should I clarify? That you two are having an affair?” Emily fell to the ground, looking at me in disbelief. I had never spoken a harsh word to her before, and she didn’t expect that I actually had a temper. She became furious with embarrassment and pointed at me angrily: “Jack, you can insult me, but you have no right to insult Mark!” She waved her new smartphone and the clothes she was wearing. “If it weren’t for Mark, could I live such a good life? Your little income is barely enough to make ends meet. How could I hold my head high in front of my friends?” “When I first met you, you dressed decently and were willing to spend money on me. I thought you were quite rich, but it turns out it was all for show! Did you trick me into marrying you just to make me suffer and struggle with you?” “Jack, you deceived me first by pretending to be rich! Why should I, Emily, have to live a hard life with you? I haven’t asked for a divorce for the sake of our child, you should be grateful for that!” She stood up in front of me, looking down at me arrogantly and smugly: “But you need to understand something! From now on, when Mark and I are intimate, you stay far away. Don’t interfere with our good times!” “I really don’t want to look at you for another second now. Seeing your pathetic face makes me angry!” At this moment, Emily’s phone rang. She picked it up and looked at it, a smile involuntarily appearing on her face. When she turned to look at me again, her expression darkened: “Record the clarification video yourself and send it to me. Mark needs me for something urgent, I have to go!” With that, she slammed the door and left. I was shaking with anger, waves of pain washing over my heart. I got up, wanting to chase after Emily and argue with her, but as soon as I stood up, I fell heavily to the ground. I buried my head in my knees, letting out bursts of painful cries. Seven years of marriage, I had given her my heart and soul, but she had stabbed me in the back! She not only trampled on my true feelings but also on my dignity! In her heart, I was just a lowly, humble piece of trash, while Mark was her beloved! I laughed coldly. So every time she stayed late at the office under the pretext of discussing plans for me, she was actually having an affair with Mark in the office! No wonder she always made excuses about being tired and wouldn’t let me touch her. Even when she agreed once after my repeated begging, it was just perfunctory. But when she was having an affair with Mark, she played so uninhibitedly, so shamelessly! I punched the ground hard, gritting my teeth, tasting blood in my mouth. I really wanted to rush to the company right now and beat this pair of scoundrels to death, then jump from the top of the building! But I couldn’t. I still have an adorable son. He’s only six years old. I can’t let him become an orphan at such a young age. Thinking of the son I had raised single-handedly, tears streamed down my face. He was so sweet and sensible. I lay back on the sofa. I need to get out of this predicament quickly, then take my son away from here.
After staying at home for seven days, Emily never showed her face again. Except for urging me a few times to record a clarification video for her, she didn’t say a single word of concern for me. The last bit of hope in my heart was wiped away. I decided to pull myself together and start looking for new opportunities. In two more days, I would take my son and leave this place. When I returned home, Emily wasn’t there. My mother-in-law had been helping to look after my son these past few days. When she saw me come back, she gave me a disgusted look. “It’s just a business failure, yet you’ve been staying at home for seven days. What a pathetic man!” I ignored her. When I first got together with Emily, she was quite satisfied with me. Later, to marry Emily, I had a falling out with my family, and my parents cut off my financial support. But I had always been working hard, trying my best to give Emily the best life, and I was always respectful to my mother-in-law. I don’t know when it started, but they changed, becoming more and more disdainful of me. Thinking about it now, it probably started when Emily got involved with Mark. She suddenly started spending money lavishly. I was too trusting of her and our relationship. I should have noticed her affair earlier. But it’s too late to say anything now. Seeing me with a gloomy face, my mother-in-law snorted coldly. “Comparisons really do make people miserable!” My heart skipped a beat. Did she know about Emily’s affair? Remembering that Emily often took our son to stay at her parents’ house, I realized my mother-in-law had been covering for their affair all along! Poor son of mine, ending up with such a mother and grandmother. My son, hearing my voice, rushed out from the bedroom. Then he said disappointedly: “Oh, it’s just Dad. I thought Mom had finally come back!” “Grandma, when will Mom and Uncle Mark come back? I can’t wait to get my gifts!” I turned my head to look at my mother-in-law. Her face became unnatural, and she guiltily turned away. During these few days while I was at home, Emily had been fooling around with Mark the whole time. But I didn’t want to say these things in front of my son. Children are innocent. I picked up my son and asked softly: “What gift does my baby want? Dad will buy it for you!” But my son pouted: “I don’t want anything from you! You’re so poor, what good gifts could you buy? Uncle Mark always brings me limited edition toys from abroad!” My heart turned cold, and I gently put my son down. He ran to my mother-in-law’s side and continued to ask when Emily would come back. Then my son pointed at me, using the same disdainful tone as my mother-in-law: “Grandma, didn’t you say Uncle Mark is my real dad? Why does this dad still come back?” “What real dad?” I looked at my son in disbelief. What did he just say? The son I had raised single-handedly actually despised me and wanted to acknowledge Mark as his father? Wasn’t he closest to me? After staying with his grandmother for just a few days, he was ready to accept an impostor as his father! What did he mean by Mark being his real dad? “Uncle Mark and I both had blood tests. Grandma said the paternity test report shows Uncle Mark is my real dad.” Hearing this, I couldn’t help but laugh, and then as I laughed, tears started falling. My heart suddenly ached sharply, and I laughed at myself for being a complete fool! Looking at my son’s face that increasingly resembled Mark’s, I understood everything at once. I had been raising someone else’s son for six years! I silently went back to the bedroom, packed all my things into a suitcase, and left this home without looking back. I sent a message to my lawyer, asking him to handle the divorce case fully. Emily was the one at fault, and I would make sure she got nothing! Then I sent the evidence of her affair with Mark to Mark’s wife. On the day I called my parents, they resumed their financial support for me. I checked into a hotel and turned off my phone to get a good night’s sleep. The next day, I set off on my journey home.
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