Love Finds Strength in Loneliness

"Go ahead and call the police. I'd be thrilled if you did. It's only right to pay back debts. Your son probably won't let you call them because he knows he's in the wrong."

Even if the police came, at most, they'd give me a verbal warning and maybe order me to pay for the cleanup.

I got plenty of money now.

I was not afraid to pay.

"Emma, aren't you done yet?"

After all the commotion, Felix finally decided to come out.

He looked at me with such disdain, he might as well have had disgust written on his face.

"Is your family so poor you can't even afford food? Do you really need to extort 50,000‬ dollars from me? A bunch of paupers. Out of consideration for our five years together, I won't hold this against you today. Anyway, my family doesn't just have this one house now; we have plenty of places to live."

"But if you think you'll get any money from me, dream on."

Jaelyn chimed in, "My son is right. We're not in the same class as you people anymore. Just look at your shabby appearance—just looking at you makes me sick."

My parents were furious.

I sneered.

"Hmph, you're right—we're definitely not in the same class anymore. Even talking to you lowers my standards."

"A family of trash should stay in the garbage heap."

After cursing them out, I turned and pulled my parents away.

Having vented my anger, we went home, took turns washing up, and changed into fresh clothes.

Just as we were about to go out for a big meal, our family WhatsApp chat group exploded.

Beatrice, my cousin-in-law, made snide remarks in the group.

"Emma, I heard Felix broke off the engagement with you?"

"His family got 800,000 dollars and two apartments from the demolition. Why are you making a fuss with him when they're so rich?"

"I'm telling you, you really need to work on your temper. Don't act out all the time. You're not getting any younger, you're already thirty, and now that you've been dumped, who's going to want you in the future?"

"Your parents don't make much money each month. Marrying Felix would have been a blessing for your whole family, but you couldn't even hold on to that."

"Listen to your cousin-in-law. Go apologize to Felix. He's soft-hearted, maybe you can still patch things up."

Beatrice was Felix's cousin.

She was the one who set me up with Felix in the first place.

When some relatives in the group heard Felix had money, they all sided with her, trying to persuade me.

They all claimed they were saying these things for my own good.

Beatrice even posted pictures of me smashing things at Felix's house.

She twisted the story to make me look like the bad guy.

I was instantly furious, furiously typing back.

"Beatrice, do you have too much salt in your diet? Is that why you're so bored?"