Love and Freedom, I Choose Freedom

I couldn't be at odds with my children and future wife.

[Okay.]

I agreed in the end.

Saya didn't reply to the message for half an hour. I guessed she was negotiating with her parents.

At 10 p.m., Saya replied: [My mother said that we should buy gold jewelry tomorrow, and she will go too.]

I was delighted because it meant that the marriage was basically a done deal.

The gold jewelry cost 22 thousand dollars, and Saya chose them herself. I paid for it without hesitation.

These jewellery were all bought in the gold shop of my family.

But in the end, Zoe took a fancy to a gold bracelet worth over 20 thousand dollars.

"This one is a pair with the one I wear. At that moment, the gold price fluctuated greatly, so I didn't buy it."

I understood immediately and paid again.

Immediately afterwards, Zoe asked for a little golden rabbit.

I didn't want to cause any trouble, so I took them all.

But two days later, I unexpectedly discovered that the gold bracelet was on Tessa's wrist and the little golden rabbit was hanging around her son's neck.

I couldn't help but frown, but didn't say a word.

The wedding ceremony was scheduled for the 28th day of December, and it was around a month away.

I then said to Saya, "Let's get the marriage certificate before we get married. Your belly will be bigger after marriage, so it will be inconvenient to handle these things. We also need a marriage certificate for the child's household registration."

Saya hesitated. "My mother said that we should wait a little longer."

Later, I mentioned it several times, but she always made excuses to refuse me.

I was anxious. "If we don't get the certificate, it will be illegal. You can't just listen to your mother on everything."

Perhaps my pressure worked. After hesitating for a long time, Saya finally told the truth.

It turned out that Zoe had changed her mind again.

Saya said to me, "My mother said that the money, house, and car will remain unchanged. In addition, can you transfer the house to my name? It's also a guarantee for me. Otherwise, she doesn't allow us to get married. What should I do?"

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My anger almost exploded.

I wondered, "Why can't she talk about the problem all at once face to face? Why does she keep asking for more? Am I a rich and stupid guy?"

With that in mind, I did not respond in person. Out of respect for my parents' wishes, I intended to go home and ask them what they thought.

Not surprisingly, my dad refused.

He proposed the solution.

After the child was born, regardless of gender, the house would be transferred to their name.

To be fair, my father's proposal benefited both families.

That was what I thought.

Yet, Zoe refused to agree.

After I repeated questioning, Saya hesitantly gave reasons for her disagreement.

"Didn't you tell me before that your family has three houses? My mother said that you should give one more to Tessa and include it in the betrothal gift."

I didn't expect that Saya, who has always been generous and gentle, was actually a complete mama's girl.

I wondered what she took me for.

"My parents indeed have three houses. One is for my sister, one is for me, and one is for their retirement. Now that you want to give one of them to Tessa, which one do you think we should choose for her?"

"Isn't your sister married? Let her husband earn money to buy it! Why should your parents pay for it?"

"That's right. Then why don't you let Tessa's husband earn money to buy a house? How could you let my family give it to her? My family's house has nothing to do with Tessa and her husband."

The talks broke down again.

For more than a week, Saya ignored me.

At this time, I was completely disappointed, and it was time to break up with her.

But before I did that, there was one thing I needed to take care of.

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I called Saya to discuss with her the proper way to deal with the child.

No matter what adults did, children were innocent.

I tried to get her back. If it failed, then abortion would be the only option. Also, I would give Saya reasonable compensation.

As a result, I soon discovered that she didn't answer or reply to my calls and text messages.

When I went to her house, the door was closed.

On the third day, she blocked and unfollowed me on various social media.

Just when I thought Saya's family was about to disappear from my world.

On the morning of the fourth day, she suddenly added me on WhatsApp again.

Meanwhile, her attitude changed a lot.

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[Honey, I miss you.]

[You finally contacted me. Where are you?]

[I'm shopping at Avalon Mall, buying daily necessities for our child. Can you pay for me?]

Many payment links then were sent, but only more than three thousand dollars was for baby products.

Most of them were payment links for luxury brands, such as Hermès and Chanel.

There was a ZIPPO lighter, and it was a limited edition!

I wondered why she bought a lighter.

After all, she didn't smoke.

All of them cost more than 400 thousand dollars in total.

"Why did you buy a lighter? You don't smoke!"

"It's for my dad. He always wanted it."

I didn't pay in full but clicked on the payment link for the baby products.

Also, I paid for a not-so-expensive Hermès bag and a lighter.

After the payment was completed, Saya disappeared again.

It turned out that the Rice family was treating me as a cash machine!

No one could take my money so easily without paying the price.

The Rice family was no exception.

The next day, I brought 300 thousand in cash and met with Dalli, Saya's brother-in-law.

I should understand what they were planning.

Dalli had been married into the Rice family for 10 years, and his life was miserable.

After drinking two glasses of liquor, he began to complain.

At this time, although I had predicted the Rice family's intentions, what Zoe had done disgusted me even more deeply.

Dalli seemed to be almost driven crazy by the family over the years.

Two years ago, he was bewitched by Zoe and raised more than four million for her to invest in second-hand houses.

As a result, the epidemic hit. Although he acted in time, he suffered a net loss of more than one million.

By comparison, Zoe seized the chance to make a fortune.

Helplessly, Dalli and his family had to live in Zoe's house.

However, no one in the Rice family liked him, and everyone treated him like a servant.

Tessa even would call him a loser.

When Saya was about to get married, the Rice family wanted to settle the matter once and for all after initially investigating my family's situation.

Zoe planned to solve Tessa's housing problem by using Saya's betrothal gift.

But in fact, Zoe still had a few houses in her name. She couldn't sell them and wouldn't leave them for Tessa to live in.

Recently, when the epidemic lockdown was lifted, Zoe instigated Dalli to take out another loan to open a business.

Dalli was almost driven crazy.

Zoe had a good plan, but Dalli became a traitor in their family.

I seized the chance to make a suggestion to Dalli.

"We can cooperate on business matters. I can't guarantee that you will make a lot of money, but we will definitely not lose money."

The condition was that he had to further fish for information for me.

Dalli was still a little hesitant.

I immediately took out a bank card, saying, "I never treat my friends badly. Here is 300 thousand dollars. The password is 888888. You can spend it as you like."

Dalli took the money with excitement, drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and then told me a secret that shocked me.