Freedom Met with Betrayal

“If it wasn’t because I still remembered what you once did for me, I would’ve filed for divorce while you were in prison!” Seren left me with that cold sentence.

“From now on, you’re still the head of this household, but don’t interfere with the love between me and Arden.”

After saying that, she brushed past me and walked away.

I stood there, frozen.

After all those years of love and every risk I took for her, it was all gone in an instant.

“Lucian, stop making a fuss. In this circle, many families are like this.” Seren suddenly turned back again, grabbed my hand and pulled me toward the villa.

“At least Arden and I are only at the kissing stage. I can even promise you that before I fully choose to be with him, I’ll spend some good time with you again.”

I walked forward in a numb daze. Her words completely shattered everything I believed in.

“And don’t worry. I will still be your wife and do what a wife should do. I’ll try to make time for you. I won’t spend all my time on Arden.”

Seren talked as if she were arranging a work schedule.

“There’s 150 thousand in this card. Do whatever you want,” she said. “But remember, if you want to have fun, find someone clean. Don’t come home with diseases.”

After bringing me into the study, she handed me the card.

I looked at the card, then at the woman who now felt like a stranger to me. I said nothing and took it.

“Where are you going?” She suddenly pulled me back as I turned to leave.

“Sleeping,” I replied numbly.

“No. You’re not going. Tonight, I can reward you here in the study. Didn’t you always want to try something different before? Today, I can give you everything.”

Seren was actually taking the initiative. But I felt sick, not just in my mind, but physically, like I wanted to throw up.

Still, I held it in and didn’t refuse her.

That night, I barely slept. It felt like she was trying to exhaust me to death with the way she “rewarded” me.

When morning came and she finally fell asleep on the chair, I slipped away to take a shower.

I remembered scenes from movies, where a woman who had been assaulted would keep washing herself over and over, feeling she could never get clean.

Right then… that was exactly how I felt.

I even wanted to grab sandpaper and scrub off the outer layer of my skin.

After showering, the sadness and exhaustion hit me all at once.

I fell asleep with those feelings and when I woke up again, it was already afternoon.

When I went to the living room, I saw Seren’s parents sitting on the sofa, their faces dark and serious.

“Why are you still sleeping at a time like this? Did you sleep like this when you were in prison? What bad luck. Our daughter ended up marrying someone like you.”

My mother-in-law still acted the same as before, covered in expensive jewelry from head to toe.

But back then, when Seren and I almost broke up, she cried and begged me not to leave her daughter, even threatened to kill herself if I didn’t marry her.

And now she said I was the bad luck?

“I heard you saw everything yesterday? Since you already know, there’s nothing left to hide. We came today for two things.”

“First, we’re taking the child to stay at Arden’s place. We’re all living there now. Second, we’re warning you, don’t you dare interfere with Seren and Arden’s relationship. Otherwise, we’ll send you back to prison.”

“You, a morally rotten ex-convict, don’t deserve my daughter!”

My father-in-law said this with a stiff face, then stood up to leave.

Did he forget that when he was caught hiring prostitutes, I was the one who pulled strings to get him out?