My daughter suffered from severe heat sensitivity, where even slightly high temperatures caused her entire body to swell, and in extreme cases, lead to suffocation. So, I had always meticulously kept our home’s AC strictly controlled at 78 degrees Fahrenheit. But on my daughter’s birthday, my husband Liam’s female secretary, Chloe, used the excuse of feeling cold to blast the AC up to 86 degrees Fahrenheit while I was out. My daughter’s entire body quickly turned red and swollen. Ultimately, her throat swelled shut, and she suffocated to death. I gathered the evidence, intending to call the police, but Liam locked me in the walk-in freezer instead. He wrapped his arm around Chloe, then spoke to me with a solemn, lecturing tone: “Chloe just turned up the AC a little. You don’t need to ruin her life over it.” “What happened to Sarah was just an accident. Just pretend it never happened. If you’re willing to drop the charges, I’ll let you out.” Chloe, putting on an act, feigned distress and whined, “Sister-in-law, I was only trying to help you! Giving birth to that… freak was only dragging Liam down.” I froze. It seemed that in the years Liam had been living off my family, he had completely forgotten who he was. I let out a cold laugh, then directly sent a message to my dad: [Dad, please come pick me up in Silverwood. I’m going to make Liam vanish forever!]
After sending the text, I looked at Liam and said, “Liam, I advise you to let me out now, or you’ll regret it.” I glanced at the freezer’s temperature. Liam had cranked it down to minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit. I was shivering uncontrollably in my thin clothes. My skin was already turning purple. If this continued, I would freeze to death. Hearing my words, Chloe covered her mouth, a cruel giggle escaping. “Sister-in-law, at a time like this, are you still trying to threaten Liam?” She poked Liam’s chest with her finger, feigning concern for him: “Liam, I really feel sorry for you. She’s just a house-wife who relies on you. What right does she have to threaten you?” A flicker of guilt flashed in Liam’s eyes, but when he saw me glaring at him, he scoffed coldly. “Alice, hand over the evidence, and I’ll let you out immediately.” My eyes widened, and I slammed my fist against the freezer door. “Evidence? Why should I hand over the evidence? She knew Sarah had severe heat sensitivity! She killed our daughter! Sarah suffocated to death, choked by her own body!” “As Sarah’s father, are you actually protecting a murderer?!” Liam’s eyes darted away, but he still spoke with cold indifference, “Don’t bring Sarah’s illness into this. If it weren’t for your faulty genes, would Sarah have turned into such a freak?” My eyes burned with fury as I stared at him, unable to believe that our daughter, whom I’d loved for years, was now called a freak by her own father! “Besides, you lost your daughter, but if you accuse Chloe, her mother will lose her too.” “Pah!” I spat, cutting Liam off before he could finish. “Stop feeding me this garbage! There’s nothing wrong with my genes! She murdered my daughter, and she will pay for it with her life!” Liam looked at me with a face full of disappointment. “Alice, when did you become so selfish and terrifying?” He shook his head, then picked up a covered box next to him and unveiled it. “If you continue to be so stubborn, don’t blame me if I toss our daughter’s ashes. And I had someone look into it, they said it’s bad luck for a child to die at home. Her ashes are supposed to be disposed of.” As he finished speaking, I finally realized the box he was holding was Sarah’s urn! I stared at him in shock, as if this husband I had lived with for eight years was a complete stranger: “For this woman, you’re threatening me with our daughter’s ashes?!” As I looked at Liam, my eyes were already filled with nothing but disappointment. He had been a penniless guy back then. To be with him, I defied my father’s wishes and resolutely followed him to Silverwood to build our lives together. I leveraged every connection and resource I had to elevate his company to where it was today. After our lives stabilized, we decided to have a child. To have Sarah, I endured countless hardships, forcing down bitter medicines without a second thought. After Sarah was born, and we learned about her heat sensitivity, Liam had tenderly held me and Sarah, promising: He would protect me and our daughter forever. Yet, those vows gradually crumbled after Chloe joined the company. Liam, who used to come home after work every day to be with me and Sarah, started having more ‘business engagements’ and often didn’t come home at night. One time, I was running a scorching fever and wanted him to come home to take care of me and Sarah. But Chloe called him, saying she couldn’t get a cab, and he immediately left to take her home. And now, he knew Chloe was the one who killed our daughter, yet he still chose to protect her!
“Liam, if you don’t let me out now, we’re getting a divorce!” Hearing the word “divorce,” a triumphant glint sparked in Chloe’s eyes. She snatched the urn from Liam’s hands and looked at me with malicious intent. “Sister-in-law, stop threatening Liam with such words. Besides, I already had someone check. Sarah’s condition is a genetic issue. You say your genes are fine, and Liam’s genes are fine, so…” She covered her mouth, feigning discovery of a shocking secret: “Could Sarah be the child of you and some other man?” “Bullshit!” I shouted back, instinctively glancing at Liam. To my horror, I saw a flicker of doubt rise in Liam’s eyes after hearing Chloe’s words. My heart plummeted, and I demanded loudly, “Liam, we’ve been married for eight years! Do you still not trust me?!” Liam looked at me, a flicker of suspicion in his eyes. Before he could speak, Chloe burst into loud tears. “Forget it! Liam, it’s all my fault! I killed Sarah, so just let Sister-in-law take me away!” “I worked so hard to get into university, and I never expected my future to be ruined by something like this. This must be my fate.” Her face was streaked with tears, evoking Liam’s overwhelming pity. He quickly pulled her into a hug, comforting her softly, “Nonsense! This is clearly not your fault. Don’t worry, I won’t let you go to jail!” He turned his head to me. “Chloe’s right. Neither of our genes has problems, so Sarah can’t be my daughter! Alice, you really don’t need to quarrel with me over a bastard. Hand over the evidence now, or I’ll feed Sarah’s ashes to the dogs!” By this point, I had been in the freezer for an hour. My hands and feet were so stiff they felt immovable. Hearing Liam’s words, I found some unknown strength and slammed against the icy wall, screaming, “You wouldn’t dare! If you lay a hand on Sarah’s ashes, I’ll make sure you both have nothing left, not even a grave!” My words made Liam’s eyes show a hint of retreat, but Chloe seized the opportunity. She deliberately smashed our daughter’s urn to the ground, then said with an apologetic look: “Oh dear, Sister-in-law, my hand slipped.” Just as Sarah’s ashes spilled out, a large black dog rushed in from outside. Without a moment’s hesitation, it began greedily devouring Sarah’s ashes. “No! Don’t!” I screamed, my eyes bloodshot, but I couldn’t stop any of it. I could only watch helplessly as all of Sarah’s ashes were swallowed by the black dog. My vision went black. Before completely losing consciousness, I gritted my teeth and glared at the two of them. “Liam, you’ll never get the evidence from me. I will never rest until you both pay!”
When I woke up, I found myself in a hospital bed. The pain in my body confirmed that everything that had just happened was real. The thought of everything my daughter had endured made my eyes burn, hot with tears. But I knew I couldn’t collapse. I had to get justice for my daughter! I struggled to climb out of bed, clutching the evidence in my hand, ready to call the police. But before I could even leave the room, Chloe blocked the doorway with several men. “Sister-in-law, where are you going? You’re not still trying to report me, are you?” Seeing Chloe’s nose in the air, I said coldly, “Get out of my way!” Chloe scoffed. The bodyguards behind her immediately grabbed me and threw me back onto the bed. I couldn’t fight them off and could only scream, “Let me go! Let me go!” “Sister-in-law, how about I show you something?” Chloe pulled out a tablet. On the screen was the surveillance footage from my house. My daughter’s room, her sanctuary, had been turned into the black dog’s new kennel. All of Sarah’s belongings were piled in the yard and set ablaze. Watching my daughter’s last remaining possessions in the world being destroyed, I ignored my injuries and struggled wildly on the bed: “Bitch! Who allowed you to do this?!” Chloe pouted, her face a picture of innocence. “Why, Liam, of course! This little black dog is a stray I just found today, but seeing as it ate that bastard’s ashes, Liam agreed to let it use Sarah’s room as its kennel.” She leaned close to my ear and whispered, “Sister-in-law, you’re very angry, aren’t you? You’re right, I intentionally caused Sarah’s death, but so what? Your daughter is dead, but your husband only protects me.” She stood up and looked down at me. “You’re nothing but an aging woman clinging to Liam, losing your looks. Liam even said the pleasure I give him in bed is far more intense than anything you ever could.” I stared in shock, never imagining they had been secretly having an affair behind my back for so long. I shouted, “Everything Liam has today, I gave him. What do you think he’d be without me?! I’m warning you, let me go right now!” Chloe sneered. “You still think you can threaten me now? I’ve already dealt with your daughter. Once I deal with you, I’ll be Mrs. Gu Corporation.” Her face twisted in malice. “Tell me, what do you think Liam will say if he sees you being intimate with a group of strangers?” Hearing Chloe’s words, my face twisted in horror: “What exactly do you want to do?!”
A grotesque grin stretched across Chloe’s face. She clapped her hands, and seven or eight ragged, foul-smelling vagrants rushed into the hospital room from outside. The stench made me gag repeatedly. “Liam said, since you’re so fond of ‘cheating,’ then you should ‘enjoy’ this.” She had a bodyguard set up a camera, then said with a laugh, “Film this carefully. I want to make sure she can never show her face in public again!” A flicker of madness flashed in Chloe’s eyes. Hearing her, the vagrants all lunged at me. I recoiled in terror. “Get away! All of you, get away!” The vagrants’ hands touched my body, and the pain and revulsion made me tremble uncontrollably. Just as a vagrant pulled down my pants, Liam appeared at the doorway. Like I was seeing my savior, I stretched out my hand to him: “Liam, save me! I truly haven’t cheated! Sarah really is your daughter!” I had thought that after eight years of marriage, Liam, no matter what, wouldn’t stand by and watch me be humiliated by these vagrants. But he merely glanced at me, then looked away in disgust. He wrapped his arm around Chloe and said softly, “How can I let you do these disgusting things yourself?” “Don’t look, it’s sickening.” I froze in shock, momentarily forgetting to struggle. Eight years of marriage! He was the one who, back then, held me and personally promised to love me forever, to cherish me for a lifetime! Now, in his eyes, I was something dirty! A surge of pure hatred ignited every fiber of my being. I grabbed a fruit knife from the bedside table and screamed, “Don’t come any closer! If you do, I’ll kill you!” The vagrants exchanged nervous glances. Seeing my desperate, reckless demeanor, they actually didn’t dare to move forward. A flicker of malice crossed Chloe’s eyes. She huddled against Liam’s chest, feigning fear. “Liam, I’m so scared! Is Sister-in-law challenging your authority like this? Never mind, don’t let me cause trouble between you two. Liam, as long as you’re happy, just send me to jail.” Her words, feigning noble self-sacrifice, moved Liam deeply. The next second, he actually grabbed a nearby stool and brutally swung it at me. I was hit in the head, and the knife immediately dropped to the floor. “What are you waiting for? She might be a bit old, but I guarantee you’ve never tasted a woman like her in your life! What are you waiting for, go!” Hearing him, the vagrants swarmed me. My hands and feet were grabbed and held down. Wearing light summer clothes, it took less than a minute for my clothes and pants to be ripped off. I was left in just my underwear, exposed in a humiliating position before everyone. The vagrants’ thick lips roamed over my body, and their foul stench filled my nostrils. I screamed, “Liam, if you dare do this to me, my dad will never let you get away with it!” Liam scoffed coldly. “Your dad? Didn’t your dad die years ago?” He sighed, feigning generosity. “Alice, I told you before. If you just hand over the evidence now and kneel and kowtow 99 times to Chloe, how about I let you go? You don’t want your compromising photos all over Silverwood tomorrow, do you?” My skin was torn by the vagrants’ teeth. I endured the excruciating pain and screamed, “You wish! I’ll never let you get away with this! Never!” Liam, enraged, bellowed, “Are you just going to stand there talking?! Each of you, get on with it! I’d like to see who will protect an orphan like you besides me!” A bolder vagrant immediately dropped his pants and climbed onto me. Just as he was about to make his move, a gunshot echoed, and the vagrant’s skull shattered, sending him tumbling off the bed. Everyone was startled by the sudden turn of events. The next moment, the thunderous roar of helicopters filled the air outside the window. Liam looked over in fear, only to see dozens of sleek, all-black helicopters hovering just outside the hospital room. Then, a squad of highly-trained bodyguards stormed into the room. “I’d like to see who dares lay a hand on my daughter!” A furious roar erupted from outside. Hearing that familiar voice, tears welled up in my eyes. Seeing my dad rush in, I cried, “Dad!” My dad saw my miserable state and instantly rushed over in anguish, but Chloe immediately stepped in front of him:
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