Chapter 2

Since my father was hospitalized, Mia had arranged countless people to secretly guard outside the ward, ready to capture my whereabouts at any moment.

However, as several days passed, apart from my tearful mother, there was no sign of anyone else.

She lost all patience and stormed into my father's hospital room, accidentally encountering the doctor who was doing a follow-up check on my father.

She wouldn't remember him, but the doctor found her very familiar. He couldn't help but take an extra look before hurriedly leaving, leaving only my parents to bear Mia's provocation and mockery:

"Jack really has some nerve. Even with his father injured so severely, he still manages to resist coming."

"It seems that just breaking one leg isn't enough to threaten him. I guess I'll have to add his mother to the mix as well."

My mother had long known about Mia's actions from my father's words, but she still couldn't believe that the once innocent girl would do such things.

She reached out her hand, trembling as she took two steps forward to try and pull Mia, but was instead slapped to the ground:

"Stay away from me! Who do you think you are to dare touch me?!"

My mother, already elderly, sat on the ground for a long time unable to get up after being hit like this, causing my father to cry in distress.

As a result, due to being too agitated, he also fell straight off the bed. The wounds on his legs, not yet healed, burst open again, a truly heart-wrenching sight.

Not only did Mia not react, but she raised her voice and laughed mockingly:

"Oh, how touching. If I don't do something to her, wouldn't it be a disservice to you two showing such devotion in adversity?"

"Mia! How could you become like this... You used to be such a good and filial child!"

"Shut up! You all conspired with Jack to deceive me for so many years, and you still have the nerve to bring up the past?!"

My mother's words clearly reminded Mia of the truth about how I had deceived her years ago.

Burning with rage, she took out her phone and in a few words pushed our whole family into an even darker abyss:

"I heard you're working as a cleaner now. I don't think anyone would want someone with sticky fingers in their home."

Before my mother could understand what she meant, Mia had already made a call to my mother's company.

Using her money and influence, she embellished the story and falsely accused my mother of stealing valuable items from her employers while working, claiming she had major character issues.

She even demanded that the entire industry blacklist my mother and never hire her again.

I trembled with anger. She knew my father's legs were broken and only my mother was left to shoulder all the burdens of the family. This was cutting off the lifeline of our entire family!

Almost at the same time, my mother received her dismissal notice.

She was in complete shock, crawling on her knees to Mia's feet, begging her to give back her job:

"Mia, please, I can't lose this job!"

"His father's legs haven't recovered yet, and I still have a daughter to raise. Please, have mercy, Mom is begging you!"

My mother wept bitterly, no longer caring about dignity or face, prostrating herself at Mia's feet and kowtowing desperately.

Not to mention my father, even I felt my heart being cut to pieces on the side, only regretting that I couldn't help at all now, not even able to pull her up!

I thought my mother's humble attitude would at least make Mia show a little bit of emotion.

But she didn't. Instead, her smile became even more smug and arrogant than before:

"Jack should really see how miserable you all look now, to know this is the price of deceiving me!"

"However... if you want me to let you off, it's not impossible."

"Have Jack come before me in person to kowtow and admit his guilt, acknowledge his mistakes from back then, and agree to donate his heart to Ethan. Everything else is non-negotiable!"

Mia's resolute words made my mother's face instantly turn ashen. Her lips were pale, and tears flowed uncontrollably.

She struggled to tell the truth about what happened years ago, but Mia didn't give her the chance. That trembling voice was drowned out by the sound of the door slamming shut.

She didn't hear those words: Jack was already dead, dead for six years.

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