Chapter 3

During dinner, Logan deliberately rubbed his hands all over Chloe in front of me to make me jealous. He even ordered me to wash their dirty underwear.

That night, to humiliate me further, Chloe sent me out to buy condoms.

Seeing me stand there, Chloe sneered. "Either give me ten million right now and take the ashes, or be our servant. You have nothing left anyway. At least I'm keeping you fed."

Staring at her smug face, I forced myself to say, "I need money to buy them."

"Unbelievable. A grown man needs his wife's money to buy condoms?"

She threw a twenty-dollar bill at me.

The moment I arrived at the pharmacy, I saw Chloe had uploaded a new TikTok video.

The caption read: [My husband wanted to sleep with me, so I told him to buy condoms. But he actually made me pay for them.]

The video showed the exact clip of her throwing the cash at me.

With the previous drama still fresh, I became public enemy number one.

Logan jumped into the comment section like a knight in shining armor. [I'm Chloe's close friend. I can testify that her husband is absolute trash. He never gave her a dime and dumped his sick mother on her for ten years.]

"Deadbeat" and "abusive son" became my permanent labels.

Chloe used my bad reputation to gain massive traffic, and her follower count skyrocketed.

When I pressed her for the divorce, she suddenly wasn't in a hurry anymore.

"Using you for drama makes me so much money. Why would I throw away this cash cow?"

"Give me ten million, or you're stuck here," she said, holding her hand out.

Of course, I didn't have that kind of money yet.

But the private investigator I hired finally came back with a breakthrough.

They found security footage from the hospital when my mother was admitted.

In the video, Chloe was shoving my frail mother to the floor.

"You old bag, why won't you just die? Do you have any idea how much your medical bills are costing me?!"

"If you want to live, call your son and beg for more money! Otherwise, I'll make sure both of you end up in a coffin!"

My mother begged her on her knees. Chloe then forced her to call me.

I remembered that call.

On the phone, my mother had told me to take care of myself. Then she said, "Chloe is working so hard to care for me. If you have extra money, send it to her so she can buy herself something nice."

At the time, I was touched, thinking my wife and mother got along so well.

I had no idea it was all Chloe's blackmail.

I saved the video. Then, I dug deeper into Logan's old social media accounts.

Finally, I hit the jackpot. I found videos of them abusing my mother—and eventually driving her to her death.

The video was uploaded on Logan's burner account.

It seemed to have been recorded accidentally during a livestream or a vlog draft.

It was filmed right before I returned.

After Chloe fired Clara, she didn't care for my mother. Instead, she treated my mother like a slave, forcing her to cook and clean for her and Logan.

My mother had to wake up before dawn every day to do chores.

It was far worse than what they were doing to me now.

They tortured me to mock me, but they tortured my mother to kill her.

My mother finally couldn't take it anymore. One day, seeing Logan kissing Chloe on the couch, my mother rushed over and slapped Chloe. "How dare you betray my son?!"