My Wife’s Childhood Friend Killed My Parents in a Drunk Driving Accident I wanted to report it to the police, but my wife blindfolded me and took me to a basement prison. For three years, I endured various tortures without seeing daylight. After each round of torture, I would hear an icy cold female voice: “Lucas, do you still hate him?” Until that day, when I was crawling on the cold floor, begging on the other end of the phone. “I don’t hate him anymore, I really don’t!” On the phone was my wife’s cheerful laughter. The day they let me out, I avoided my wife’s embrace. She stood there stunned for a long time. When I numbly asked her for a divorce, she went crazy. … In the damp and dark basement prison, I sat in the corner with a crippled leg. The wet wall soaked through my shirt. The light from the opening door made me shield my eyes uncomfortably. Hearing footsteps, I instinctively shrank back further. “Sir, Ms. Hannah sent me to pick you up.” I looked up at the man walking towards me. It was Hannah’s long-time bodyguard. I lowered my eyes and responded. “Okay” I struggled to stand up, limping a few steps. The bodyguard’s face was full of shock. “Sir, your foot?” My hand gripped my pants tightly, my head hanging low. “It was crushed by a cabinet earlier, probably a fracture.” The bodyguard looked at me in surprise, eyes wide. “Why didn’t you tell Ms. Hannah?” I gave a bitter smile, not answering him. What could I say? Even if I told her, would Hannah let me out to see a doctor? Or would she call a doctor for me? “Let me help you walk.” The bodyguard supported me with a complicated expression. Shortly after leaving the basement, I saw Hannah and Leo getting out of a car. “Hannah, I told you he would definitely pretend to be pitiful to make you feel sorry for him. Look, he even needs someone to support him for such a short distance.” Hannah looked in my direction when she heard this. She didn’t say anything, but her eyes were full of smugness. She walked quickly towards me. When she was closest to me, Suddenly, she opened her arms. But I violently flinched. Hastily avoiding her embrace. I curled up, seemingly unaware of the pain in my leg. “Don’t hit me, please stop… I was wrong, I really was!” Hannah’s arms were still outstretched. Her face full of disbelief. Hannah slowly lowered her arms, standing in front of me. “What’s going on?” She questioned the bodyguard beside me. The bodyguard seemed shocked by my reactive response too. Hearing Hannah’s question, he finally came to his senses. “Sir, he—” “Hannah!” Leo suddenly called out, and Hannah instinctively turned her head in his direction. The bodyguard’s words got stuck in his throat, forcibly swallowed back. “Lucas, you’re not holding a grudge against Hannah for keeping you here to reflect, and putting on this act to make her feel guilty, are you?” “Alright, stop pretending. Since you’ve admitted your mistake, Hannah and I won’t pursue the matter of you wrongly accusing me anymore.” He emphasized the words “that matter” heavily. The next second, I stopped trembling in a daze. Leo let out a light laugh. “See, what did I tell you, Hannah?” I didn’t get up, still crouching in place. Hannah’s voice suddenly turned cold. Speaking flatly from above my head. “Lucas, three years, isn’t that enough time for you to reflect!”
“Alright Hannah, don’t be angry. We have an appointment with Director Chen soon, let’s go.” Seeing that I was still crouching, Hannah gripped her Hermes bag tightly, scolding me in exasperation: “Lucas, you really are useless! Look at Leo, and then look at yourself!” “These three years, it’s been Leo by my side helping me. Without him, I would have collapsed long ago! Lucas, look at the state you’re in now! Do you think you’re still worthy of me?” After saying this, she took Leo’s arm and turned to leave. Leo gave me a mocking smile. Silently mouthing the word “loser!” I watched them leave together, trembling all over. “Sir! What happened to your little finger!” I slowly lowered my head. Looking down at my right pinky finger. After three years apart, Hannah only glanced at me briefly before leaving. She didn’t even notice the abnormality in my leg. Let alone my right pinky finger twisted strangely. I smiled self-mockingly. “It’s nothing, just a badly healed fracture.” “…I should still take you to the hospital.” The bodyguard supported me as I stood up. My body felt drained of all strength, all my weight leaning on him. Leo had only come into Hannah’s life three years ago. I always knew Hannah had a childhood friend, a boy she grew up with. Later that boy’s family ran into some trouble, so they sent him abroad. In all the years after, Hannah never dated anyone, nor had any ambiguous relationships with other men. I knew she was waiting for him. And I was waiting for her too. In those years, my family introduced many girls to me, but I politely declined them all. I kept myself so pure that my parents almost thought I liked men. Until that day, when Hannah ran to find me in the pouring rain. “Lucas, I’m done waiting. Do you have someone you want to marry?” “If not, how about me?” I was so excited I couldn’t contain myself, hugging the woman in front of me tightly. Hannah had no idea. How much I loved her at that time. I devoted everything I had, pampering, tolerating, and loving her infinitely after marriage. As time passed, all I gave finally received positive feedback. But all of this changed when Leo reappeared. I had found an eyewitness. Proving that it was Leo who drove into my parents! Moreover, he was drunk driving and fled the scene, afraid of being framed for killing someone. So he repeatedly ran over my parents! But Hannah just wouldn’t believe it. She came forward to vouch for him, saying Leo was with her the entire night. In the end, even the witness changed their testimony. I was isolated and helpless, treated like a madman jealous for love! I’ll never forget. The two already unrecognizable, cold and stiff bodies I saw when I rushed to the hospital that day. And I’ll never forget! How Hannah deceived me, taking me to that basement prison. How cruelly she imprisoned me! “Lucas, you’re too agitated, you need to calm down.” … “How did you get injured like this?” The doctor frowned instinctively, glancing at the bodyguard beside me. “Are you the patient’s family?” The bodyguard nodded reluctantly. “Why did you wait so long to seek treatment for an injury this old? Even if we realign this pinky finger, it won’t fully recover.” “And your leg, how did you injure it?” I slowly raised my head, looking at the bodyguard beside me. I knew he was under Hannah’s orders. I couldn’t say a word about the basement prison. Otherwise, Hannah would never tell me. Where she buried my parents.
The bodyguard dropped me off at the villa and left on his own. Before opening the door. I clearly saw the password he entered. It wasn’t the original password for this house. But Leo’s birthday. I limped in, looking at everything inside. It was the same as three years ago, yet somehow different. The pair of slippers at the entrance – one female, one male. The female ones were Hannah’s, the male Leo’s. In Hannah’s bedroom, there were two pillows. In the closet, her clothes on the left, Leo’s on the right. In the bathroom, two toothbrushes and cups. Men’s products, bottles and jars of all sizes. Everything was telling me. Hannah and Leo had long been sleeping together. When I heard the door close, I walked out of this room that no longer belonged to me. Two intertwined figures. Kissing passionately in the dark moonlight. “Click!” I turned on the living room light. Hannah’s flushed face was full of shock. She instinctively pushed Leo away. “When did you get back?” Hannah rubbed her forehead. “I drank too much. If Leo hadn’t sent me home, I don’t know how I would have escaped those old drunks.” Then, her face changed to an accusing expression. “Lucas, these things should have been done by you. If you hadn’t gone crazy back then, why would I have had such a hard time all these years.” I stood motionless. Listening to the endless complaints from her mouth. Until Leo brought out a cup of hot water from the kitchen. “Drink some hot water to soothe your throat.” Leo’s gentleness, compared to my current wretched state. Made him seem more like a caring husband. Hannah rolled her eyes at me again, letting out a heavy sigh. She drank down the water Leo handed her in one gulp. “Leo’s been looking for a place to live recently. Until he finds one, he’ll be staying at our house.” Just when Hannah thought I still wouldn’t respond, I spoke softly. “I know, your bedroom is full of his things.” Hannah’s expression froze, the glass in her hand accidentally shattering on the floor. “You went into my bedroom?” Her suddenly serious and low voice, along with the sound of breaking glass. Seemed to instantly pull me back to that dark, moldy basement prison. My mind went blank. Making me instinctively want to apologize when I heard her words. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Hannah stood stunned for a few seconds, then frowned as she slowly walked forward. “Lucas, what’s wrong? I was just asking casually.” I didn’t speak. And answering her was Leo’s light sigh. “Sigh, Lucas, you really don’t need to be like this.” “I didn’t realize you hated me this much. Even after three years, you’re still like this. You didn’t lie to Hannah just to get out, did you?” Hannah seemed to suddenly be enlightened by his words. “Is that so, Lucas?” “I’ve told you countless times, I was at a business dinner that day, Leo was with me. Why won’t you believe it? Do you know you almost got Leo killed! His promising career was ruined because of your one accusation of ‘murderer’. He can’t even go out without being pointed at and whispered about. Do you understand how much you owe him! How can you be so hateful!” “You… you have no idea, because of you, Leo almost jumped off a building to kill himself!”
My silence finally angered Hannah. She picked up a glass from the table. And threw it at me. The glass shattered with a crash. And my forehead slowly began to bleed. She looked up at me in shock. “Why… why didn’t you dodge?” Dodge? How could I dodge? Wasn’t it her order? I couldn’t dodge. If I dodged, She would feed my parents’ bones to the dogs. Hannah always did what she said, didn’t she? She once yelled at me. “Lucas, if you dare spread lies about Leo, I’ll make sure you die a miserable death.” And in that basement. Just because Leo lost a few hairs over that incident, She had people beat me several times. When Leo couldn’t eat, I wasn’t allowed to eat either. Not only could I not eat, but I had to control my water intake too. When Leo almost jumped off a building, She had people break my leg and hand bones. The blood kept flowing. I blinked dizzily. Hannah quickly walked to my side. “Leo, hurry and bring some iodine and gauze!” Leo stood still. “Hannah, this is the effect Lucas wants. Standing there motionless to be hit by you, just to successfully make you feel guilty.” Hannah froze in place. The hand holding my arm suddenly let go. After a long while, her voice lowered. “Lucas, how childish are you? Do you think you can manipulate me like this?” “You’ve been out for so long, have you apologized? As long as you sincerely apologize to Leo now, for your past rudeness and rash behavior, I won’t pursue your mistakes anymore and I’ll forgive you.” Leo sneered. “Hannah, is a light apology really enough?” Hannah gave me a complicated look. Then nodded firmly. “Lucas, kneel down and apologize!” Blood from my forehead suddenly dripped onto Hannah’s hand. Like scalding hot water. She instinctively pulled away. Leo walked in front of me, pulling Hannah to his side. He took out a tissue to carefully wipe her hand. “Lucas, what are you waiting for?” Hannah’s face looked very unpleasant. I numbly raised my head. After a while, I took a deep breath. “I can apologize, I can even kneel down, but I want to know, where are my parents buried?” Hannah was caught off guard by the question. While Leo’s eyes seemed to dodge. After a long time, Hannah frowned and looked at Leo. “Leo, I remember you arranged this matter back then. Where were they buried?” Leo’s evasive eyes made me sense something was wrong. I stepped forward and tightly grabbed his hand. “Where did you bury my parents!” “Let go of me first!” I gripped even tighter. “Tell me, where did you bury my parents!” Leo’s dark face suddenly twisted into a strange smile. “Lucas, why do I feel like you hate me even more than before? You’re not planning to pretend to please Hannah, then turn around and find a random car to run me over too, are you?” Hannah, standing to the side, suddenly widened her eyes. “Lucas, let go!” I remained motionless. Hannah shouted. “I said, let go!” “Lucas, do you want to go back for more reflection!” Go back? I don’t want to go back! I suddenly let go of my tight grip. Tiredly looking at the woman standing opposite. “Hannah, let’s get divorced.” The room suddenly fell silent. Hannah looked at me in disbelief. The expression on her face gradually cracking. “Divorce? Are you joking?” “I just told you to let go, and you want to divorce me? Didn’t you see you hurt Leo? Lucas, what exactly are you trying to do?” I pressed my lips together, staring unblinkingly at the woman I once loved deeply. Every day in that basement, I lived worse than death. I really couldn’t believe Hannah would go this far for Leo. Even more unbelievable was that she would have people torture me, just to vent Leo’s anger. I spoke numbly. “Since you two love each other so much, why don’t I just let you be together? Isn’t that good?” Hannah’s face looked like her secret had been exposed. Her eyes wandered to the side. “What nonsense are you talking about, Lucas? Be good, stop making trouble. I never thought about divorcing you. Leo and I—” “But I want to divorce you.” I interrupted her. Hannah’s face turned ugly. Leo laughed mockingly. “Lucas, where can you go if you leave here? The company belongs to Hannah now. You’re crippled and your hand is disabled. Are you planning to become homeless?” His words hit me like a boulder. But when Hannah heard this, she looked at me in surprise. “What? You’re crippled? What happened? And your hand?” I followed her gaze downward. Sneering, I raised my hand. “Didn’t you know about all this already? Why are you so surprised?”
When Hannah saw my strangely twisted pinky finger, she immediately walked over with a serious expression. “I didn’t know!” She didn’t know? How is that possible? That voice after each brutal beating was definitely Hannah’s voice. “What exactly happened?” She quickly grabbed my hand as it was about to fall. I didn’t miss the disbelief in her eyes. But I still chose to push her hand away. I pressed my lips together, giving Hannah a deep look. “Whether or not it has anything to do with you doesn’t matter anymore.” “Hannah, I’m already disabled.” No matter what the truth is. Whether or not Hannah ordered people to beat me. It’s no longer that important. Because the person who tricked me into that basement in the first place was her! If it wasn’t for her so-called “wife’s duty” to “punish” me for my stubborn views about Leo, I wouldn’t have ended up like this. “I don’t want anything. The company is yours. I’ll leave with nothing. Just tell me where my parents are buried. I’ll have someone draw up the contract tomorrow.” My face was pale, and my stomach was aching subtly. This was an old problem I developed during my three years in the basement. Eating half-cooked rice and cold rotten vegetable leaves every day. A bowl of porridge so thick it was hard to swallow. Hannah’s face showed panic I hadn’t seen in a long time. “Lucas, I really didn’t know. Are you saying you don’t believe me?” “Hannah, do you think Lucas would really be willing to divorce you? He’s just saying this on purpose. Don’t take it seriously. Have you forgotten how he took all the blame when your project went wrong, resigning rather than exposing you?” “Lucas only has you now!” Leo was right. Back then, after my parents passed away, I really only had Hannah left. Later, Hannah made a serious mistake at work. She didn’t want to be fired. Her dream was to become a powerful businesswoman. She didn’t want to be looked down upon by those she once despised. The day she found me, she was crying her eyes out. “Lucas, please help me. I’m pregnant, we’re going to have a new life in our family. You’ve given so much to the company, even if you made this mistake, the worst that could happen is being scolded by the board. If you resign voluntarily and I take over, the company will still be ours.” “You’ve worked so hard for so many years, let me help you, let me take over. You can stay home and take care of our baby, okay?” I sacrificed for her and the child. But in the end, we lost that unborn child. The day Leo returned to the country. Hannah went to pick him up at the airport but got into a car accident. When I arrived, I saw her lying in a pool of blood. Hannah suddenly realized, then her face filled with disgust. “Lucas, how childish are you, using this tactic on me? If you really had the guts to divorce me, I might actually respect you a little!” “Alright, if there’s nothing else, just go rest. Leo and I have work to do, unlike you who just freeloads.” Hannah led Leo back to the study. Leo closed the door tightly. As for what they were doing inside, whether working or something else. I no longer cared. I took out my old hiking backpack from the side room and packed some of my things. When I left, the two of them still hadn’t come out. Only faint sounds could be heard through the door crack.
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