My wife was holding our daughter, threatening to jump off the building. She listed evidence of my alleged affair, demanding I leave with nothing. In reality, I hadn’t cheated – this was all part of my plan… On the rooftop, my wife Lily was holding our three-year-old daughter Emma, standing on the edge. She was threatening to jump. Down below, my in-laws were cursing me as a beast, telling the neighbors that I had a mistress and was unfaithful to their daughter. My brother-in-law Jack was hurling abuse at me. He even grabbed a kitchen knife and tried to attack me, but luckily several security guards held him back. I was the target of everyone’s anger. “Don’t you just want a divorce?” Lily shouted. “Fine, I’ll give you one!” I gritted my teeth, looking at our crying daughter. Lily’s face contorted with rage. She said I not only had to leave with nothing, but also give her all the shares of the company I had secretly started. I pretended to be panicked, but inside I was breathing a sigh of relief. She had finally taken the bait. The whole affair about me having a mistress was actually her scheme. She had hired a woman to seduce me. And I had played along with her plan. This whole drama started three months ago…
I discovered that my wife Lily was cheating on me. She didn’t know that the things she bought showed up in my Amazon recommendations. It was a pair of Stephen & Co. leather shoes worth over $500. At the time, I thought she had bought them for me and felt touched. I thanked heaven for giving me such a caring wife who loved me so much. I also had a little secret I hadn’t told her yet, originally planning to surprise her. When I got home, I pretended not to know anything. But no matter how long I waited, Lily never gave me the shoes. Instead, she started talking about how her brother Jack needed money to get married. The wedding would cost $200,000, and she wanted me to pay for it. I scraped together $100,000 with great difficulty. When I handed her the money, I thought she would be grateful and give me the shoes. But she didn’t even smile, just took the money and hurried off. That’s when I realized, no matter how good I was to her, she would never give me those shoes. She had given them to someone else. Not her brother Jack. Although my wife treated Jack better than me, Jack was young and didn’t like leather shoes. He always wore sneakers. There was a 100% chance Lily was cheating on me! I pretended everything was normal, but my heart was pierced with thorns. These thorns made me bleed. Behind my wife’s back, I secretly checked her bank statements. Sure enough, I found a problem. She had booked a hotel room! A $380 couples hotel, including a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. The evidence was right in front of me. I was so angry I could hear my teeth grinding. We had been married for five years. I had given Lily my heart and soul, just wanting to live a good life with her. My parents even sold their house for tens of thousands of dollars to pay for our wedding. But she was using my money to book hotel rooms with another man. I couldn’t take it anymore! When a man is betrayed by the woman he loves, the potential that erupts is infinite. My mind had never been so sharp and meticulous. Those expensive shoes, being an imported style that had been out of stock for half a year, only came in sizes up to 7.5. This was one characteristic of the adulterer. He also liked to smoke, and preferred Marlboro. I thought carefully about who fit these conditions, and there were a few possibilities. One was the delivery guy who often came to our neighborhood. I waited for him at the package pickup point every day. When he arrived on his electric tricycle, the first thing I looked at was his feet. Although he wasn’t tall, the delivery guy had big feet, definitely not size 7.5. It wasn’t him… Another suspect was the manager at my wife’s company. But when I asked around, I found out my wife’s boss had gone abroad on a business trip a month ago. It wasn’t him either… I was completely baffled. When I got back to the neighborhood, several security guards were laughing and talking loudly about how Old Smith had only worn his new leather shoes for one day before stopping. I was particularly sensitive to anything related to shoes now, and immediately took notice. Afraid of alerting anyone, I waited a couple days before finding Old Huang, one of the security guards. I gave him a few cigarettes to get friendly and chat. I deliberately steered the conversation to shoes, and Old Huang immediately said someone had given Old Smith a pair of shoes. He said they were some brand called Stephen, worth four or five thousand dollars, really fancy. My heart exploded! “Stephen & Co. deerskin? I wanted to buy them too, but they’ve been out of stock for a long time, only size 7.5 left.” I threw out one last question. Old Huang laughed and said Old Smith’s feet were exactly size 7.5. I clenched my fists tightly, my heart erupting like a volcano. Old Huang didn’t notice anything unusual about me and started telling me more about Old Smith. Apparently Old Smith used to be rich, but lost everything due to his gambling addiction. Old Smith was actually very clever and smart, most people couldn’t outsmart him. Old Huang admired him, saying he was a tiger fallen on hard times. I didn’t act rashly. I couldn’t wrongly accuse an innocent person. I found Old Smith to chat and offered him a Marlboro, then said this cigarette wasn’t good and gave him a more expensive brand. Old Smith smiled and waved it off, saying he preferred Marlboro. I understood everything. It was him! I loved Lily so much, how could I possibly be inferior to Old Smith? How could she choose a poor, ugly, old security guard? If Lily had found someone handsome, or a rich and powerful man, I could have accepted it a little more and just gotten divorced. But… In Lily’s heart, I wasn’t even as good as a short, poor, ugly security guard? My heart was in knots, with only two words pounding in my mind. Revenge! I would make Lily and Old Smith pay the most painful price! They would live the rest of their lives in nightmares!
The reason I endured this silently and secretly investigated the adulterer was because I also had a secret. A few years ago, my childhood friend Mike wanted to start a business in Shenzhen and borrowed $50,000 from me. His luck wasn’t good, and after struggling for several years he still hadn’t succeeded. Lily scolded me for being blind. She kept urging me to get the money back so her brother could use it for business. Sometimes, getting rich happens in an instant, unpredictably. In the past two or three months, Bitcoin had been wildly hyped, and countless mining farms had sprung up. Graphics cards were being frantically bought up. Mike had stockpiled a large batch of old graphics cards that no one wanted before, but now he had struck it rich. He called me with the good news, saying I owned half the shares in his company. And he had transferred half the company shares to my name through a lawyer. Mike said graphics cards would keep going up, and we could earn even more if we waited. When I heard that astronomical figure, I wasn’t too excited. I was happier that Mike remembered my kindness and still thought of me. But for Lily to go find another man at this critical moment, if I had a big fight and divorced her, wouldn’t she take advantage and get a huge chunk of my assets? I couldn’t let this woman who betrayed me walk away with a large sum of money. The plan for revenge slowly took shape in my mind. I knew my opponent wasn’t stupid. Old Smith was an extremely clever guy. Otherwise Old Huang wouldn’t have said he was an old tiger…
Old Smith was clever, but he also had a fatal weakness. He was too greedy and loved to gamble. Otherwise he wouldn’t have fallen from being a rich man to a neighborhood security guard. And now, he was in desperate need of money. Money to make a comeback. I installed cameras and listening devices in our home to collect evidence of Old Smith’s improper relationship with my wife. Then I went to find Old Huang the security guard to chat. For a man his age with no woman and no money, I casually told him some hearsay stories about the entertainment industry, which quickly got Old Huang all fired up. He hesitantly asked if I knew any websites. I gave him one, and said you could make money by uploading videos and photos to this site. He was stunned and asked if that was really true. I just smiled without saying anything. Old Huang and that damned Old Smith were good friends. When they chatted, Old Huang would definitely pass this information on to Old Smith. The penniless Old Smith would naturally find a way to take videos and photos to exchange for a good amount of cash. Sure enough, within three days, I saw a video on the website. It was my wife… Although she covered her face, the small red birthmark by her navel gave her away. My hand instantly started trembling. I felt like I had fallen into an ice pit. Lily, the woman I had cherished in the palm of my hand… Yet she was so degraded in front of another man, filming this kind of video! I felt very cold. My heart was also ice cold. Taking a deep breath, I closed the video. This video had a very provocative title. A beautiful young wife’s passionate night… The title attracted many viewers. Lots of people were liking and requesting the next episode, and asking for the female lead to show her face. Old Smith was very happy, constantly replying in the comments, asking viewers to like and tip more. He promised to film a video of Lily showing her face. He wanted to earn more money. Let him make a little money first. Later, he would regret it immensely. His crime would be very serious!
Old Smith’s cleverness wasn’t just reflected in his ability to create catchy titles and attract eyeballs. Before I could fully launch my plan, he made the first move. That night, I was working overtime and came home late. A heavy rain started falling. I was standing at the bus stop holding an umbrella when a woman with a great figure and very sexy appearance suddenly ducked under my umbrella. “I’m so sorry, sir…” she said apologetically, raising her pretty face to me. I was startled, feeling like she looked very familiar. A face from my buried memories slowly became clear, and I unconsciously said, “Is it you?” The woman didn’t recognize me anymore, after all it had been almost 20 years of changes. “You are…” She looked at me for a long time before suddenly remembering who I was. Her name was Lisa. She was my childhood neighbor. Back then when we played house, she always wanted to play the role of my wife, following me around all day. From 3-4 years old until 13-14, we were always together. Feelings of puppy love also sprouted at that time. If it wasn’t for me moving away when she was 14, I might have stayed with her. I was afraid of hurting her, so I didn’t even tell her I was moving. Later I heard from other kids that the day after I moved, it was also raining heavily like this. She stood in the pouring rain, her face indistinguishable between tears and raindrops. I never imagined I would see her again on a rainy night like this. Just like that night when I left without saying goodbye. Tears suddenly welled up in Lisa’s eyes. As if afraid I would notice, she ran out into the pouring rain, heedless of getting drenched. I chased after her and grabbed her hand. The heavy rain soaked us both. I no longer cared about anything else. She cried and threw herself into my arms, telling me how heartless I had been back then. I smiled bitterly. I thought it was just puppy love, but I didn’t realize she had taken it so seriously.
As Lisa told her story, I learned everything. Her later experiences were very unfortunate. Her parents died in a car accident, leaving her alone in the world. Later, she didn’t meet any good men. She struggled to raise her 5-year-old daughter alone, and the young child was chronically ill. The burdens of life almost crushed this poor woman. I walked her home, and she said she wanted to take a shower first. When the water started falling, her graceful figure appeared on the translucent glass. I quickly averted my eyes. She suddenly called me, saying she was out of body wash. I brought it to her, but she pulled me inside. She pressed against me, writhing like a snake. She said when she was little, she had wanted to be my wife, and cursed fate for being cruel. I strongly resisted the fire churning in my heart. I backed out of the bathroom. I said I would take her to see her sick daughter tomorrow. I didn’t have much ability now, but I would give her some money to ease her burden. I had already let her down once before, I didn’t want to let her down again. Hearing these words, she stared at me blankly, then suddenly burst into tears. “I’m so sorry…” “Someone asked me to get close to you…”
Yesterday, a woman had found her and offered her $100,000. The price for getting the $100,000 was to use her body as bait, seduce me, and let me fall for it. Take videos and photos of me being intimate with her, and the task would be complete. She desperately needed money for her daughter’s treatment. But she never imagined the man she was supposed to seduce would turn out to be me. Me, her childhood sweetheart… Lisa finally couldn’t get past her conscience and told me everything. I felt a chill run through me. The coldness in my body was not even a fraction of the chill in my heart. That woman was naturally my wife, Lily! Lily’s purpose was too obvious. She wanted to manufacture evidence of me being with other women, to put me at a disadvantage in the divorce battle. She knew I had two weaknesses. One was my reputation, the other was my daughter. If I wronged her, the court would definitely give her custody of our daughter. Then she could use our daughter to force me to give in, to bow my head. But… From what I knew of Lily, she was an extremely simple-minded woman. She wasn’t this clever. She couldn’t have come up with this scheme. Everything must have been taught to her by Old Smith. That vicious and cunning old fox. Old Smith. Too sly, too crafty. An opponent like this wasn’t an ordinary person to be trifled with. I needed to be on full alert. Sitting by the window as the heavy rain fell, I kept thinking. Wait, something wasn’t right! Since Old Smith had Lisa come seduce me to manufacture evidence of my infidelity. Why would he let me discover his affair with my wife Lily? Someone as meticulous and cunning as him, how could he leave such a big loophole? Thinking back… A trap! This was a trap he had deliberately set! If it wasn’t for that intimate video posted online, all my evidence couldn’t directly prove Old Smith’s affair with my wife. He deliberately let me discover clues, then when the divorce battle came I would angrily throw out the evidence… Like those size 7.5 expensive leather shoes… Did that definitely mean Old Smith wore them? Lily would refute each piece of evidence one by one, making all my proof fall apart. She would come out looking pure as a white lotus, untainted. She would make everyone believe I was the one who wronged her. I felt my scalp tingling. I didn’t think my deductions were wrong. Old Smith’s intentions were so vicious! But I couldn’t mention the video on the website. That was the final card to make them despair and regret. I started recalling my previous conversations with Old Smith, not overlooking any detail. What did I have that was worth him putting in so much effort? I was just an ordinary person, earning a few thousand dollars a month from my job, with only a car and a house to my name. My only wife had also become his plaything. What else was he unsatisfied with, what else did he want to get? Suddenly, I remembered the good news I had been keeping from my wife. Half a year ago, when I was on the phone with Mike talking about those old graphics cards that could make us rich, Old Smith seemed to be not far from me. He had overheard! What he really wanted to obtain… Was my increasingly valuable graphics cards! Old Smith didn’t hesitate to go into debt for $100,000 to hire Lisa. He had her seduce me, then make me leave with nothing in the divorce. The shares in the company I started with Mike would naturally be seized too. Then, graphics cards worth over $5 million would be enough for Old Smith to make a comeback! So that was it…
Lisa looked at me, silently crying. I was very grateful to her. She had a complex expression and said goodbye to me, turning to close the door. But the next moment, I grabbed her cold hand. She didn’t understand. I looked at her somewhat seriously, and somewhat pleadingly: “Help me…”
I repeatedly mulled over the plan in my mind, striving to make it foolproof. In fact, I had even prepared two plans. Old Smith was too difficult to deal with. To outsmart him, I had to consider everything thoroughly. There was no way I would leave with nothing. On the contrary, I would make Old Smith pay an unimaginable price! I needed her help. A counterattack from a desperate position! I went to a hotel with Lisa and left our ID information. We also left some evidence. I imagined Old Smith and Lily would be overjoyed and impatient. I… Was waiting for them!
That evening, Lily carried our daughter to me with an icy expression. “Have you been unfaithful to me?” she demanded bluntly. My face changed and I firmly denied it: “Honey, what’s wrong? I would never be unfaithful to you.” Lily glared at me and cursed: “You went to a hotel with another woman, are you still trying to lie to me?” Like any man caught cheating, I refused to admit it no matter what. She slapped the evidence on the table – a stack of photos of me hugging Lisa and entering a hotel. The evidence was irrefutable. I could only lower my head. “Honey, I’m sorry, I… I was confused, I was momentarily bewitched.” I pretended to be terrified and begged pitifully, which was exactly what Lily wanted. She burst into loud sobs, carrying our 3-year-old daughter and running up to the roof. Below was a drop of several dozen meters. With tears streaming down her face, she accused me of betraying this family. The neighbors were all alarmed and came to watch. Lily’s parents and her good-for-nothing brother happened to appear at this exact moment. The timing was so perfect, not a second off. They seemed to suddenly understand everything. Her parents grabbed the neighbors and told them how heartless I was, how I had wronged Lily, that I was a ungrateful scumbag who forgot his wife as soon as he saw another woman. Her brother Jack was even more enraged. He grabbed a kitchen knife and tried to rush at me. I was the target of everyone’s anger, my reputation ruined. Reputation, I didn’t care about. All I cared about was my daughter… And the assets I had worked so hard to accumulate. I couldn’t let them go to outsiders!
A cheating man can’t just keep begging for forgiveness, he also needs to counterattack to some extent. It takes two to tango. I also had to say bad things about her, point out her faults. Only then could this divorce drama seem like it was really happening. In front of everyone, I angrily took out the evidence of her betraying me. “You have the nerve to accuse me?” “You bought someone else $500 shoes, you also went to hotels with someone else, he even bought a pack of cigarettes!” “We’re both playing around, neither of us wronged the other.” I shouted loudly. All the neighbors were shocked. More and more people came to watch the drama unfold. Old Smith was hidden in the crowd, a contemptuous smile on his face. I knew all this evidence was arranged by him. He was just waiting for me to throw out the evidence. My counterattack was exactly as he had predicted. He was very pleased with himself for seeing through me. “You heartless bastard!” Lily cried, holding our daughter. She said those leather shoes were bought at her father’s request, as a gift for someone else. Her father immediately chimed in to corroborate Lily’s story. Then she said that hotel visit was because her brother Jack had asked for her help with something, and the cigarettes were bought by him too. Jack also loudly said that was indeed the case, and we could check the hotel’s security cameras if we didn’t believe him. I pretended to be ashamed and speechless, just trembling slightly. Everyone looked at me with disgust. Old Smith and Lily stared at me coldly.
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