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Love's Farewell Dance: Walking Away with Dignity Novel Cover

Love's Farewell Dance: Walking Away with Dignity

After her mother-in-law's extreme traditional therapy leaves young Ann dead from severe heatstroke, a grieving mother demands justice. Instead of support, her husband violently defends his mother, pushing his wife to a fatal head injury on a table corner. While her husband enjoys her stolen inheritance with his mistress, she unexpectedly wakes up twenty-four hours before the tragedy. Armed with memories of their betrayal, she is determined to protect her daughter and rewrite their fates.
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Chapter 3

I took Ann to my mother's place.

After she retired, she moved back to the countryside.

In my previous life, after my mother retired and lived alone, she often missed us, but I rarely came back, because the education resources in the city were good .

This time, I completely understood that so-called education resources were not as important as life itself.

After sending Ann to live with my mother temporarily, I immediately rushed back to the city.

As soon as I entered the house, my husband Chuck started scolding me.

"Coco, my mom kindly came over to take care of Ann. Knowing that she is studying traditional Chinese medicine for health preservation, you still encouraged Ann to use the air conditioner. Are you trying to kill my mom? Then you'll be happy, right?"

If it were in my previous life, I would definitely feel wronged because of Chuck's unfounded and scathing insults.

But at this point, I immediately smiled and apologized to the two of them, "Mom, it's my fault. I have educated Ann and sent her to the countryside."

"What?" My mother-in-law exclaimed.

"Why didn't you discuss with us before sending Ann to the countryside?" My husband became anxious.

I thought that only my mother-in-law and the mistress were involved in Ann's heatstroke in my previous life, but at this time, looking at my husband's reaction, he clearly knew about it.

No wonder he didn't show any surprise or sadness when he learned about Ann's death from heatstroke.

I gnashed my teeth and desperately wanted to strangle these two monsters in front of me, but I held back.

Ann was still small, I couldn't let her lose her mother.

Even if I wanted to kill these two people, I couldn't dirty my hands.

I suppressed the anger in my heart and pretended to be aggrieved. "Honey, I know how hard you work to earn money. My mother is retired, and she lives alone. Taking care of Ann is good for both of them, so we don't have to give her living expenses anymore.

Pearl finally came to our house to stay for a while, so let's save some money and be filial to my mother-in-law."

The two people who originally wanted to confront me were at a loss for words for a moment.

For dinner, I specifically asked my mother-in-law to rest while I went to the kitchen to cook.

Seeing this, my mother-in-law was so complacent.

She even recorded a video of me cooking and posted it in one of her group chats.

"You all should learn from me. A daughter-in-law must be disciplined. I caused a scene in the afternoon, and she immediately sent the naughty brat to the countryside and rushed back to cook for me."

She thought I couldn't hear her while cooking, so she spoke directly into her phone.

I cut the cucumber in front of me fiercely with a knife.

Previously, my mother-in-law avoided me, but today, she treated me like a complete pushover.

Well, I'd like to see what she had got.

The next day, as usual, my mother-in-law went out to sunbathe at ten in the morning. Seeing this, I immediately called the person I had contacted earlier back home.

Less than twenty minutes later, all three air conditioners in the house were removed.

I didn't keep any of them. I sold them for almost ten thousand dollars and immediately booked a summer tour for my mother and Ann.

Before the afternoon, my mother-in-law called me like crazy.

I didn't answer the phone.

Not long after, my husband kept calling me like crazy.

I said I was working and would deal with it after I finished.

My husband went crazy and sent me countless messages on WhatsApp, asking me about the air conditioners.

My mother-in-law found out that the air conditioners were gone and immediately reported it to the property management. The clerks said that I brought people to dismantle them.

Seeing that they were about to be driven crazy, I replied slowly, [Mom is studying traditional Chinese medicine for health. The air conditioners are not good for her and can even harm her life. I sold them directly. I will buy some delicious food to show filial piety to her tonight.]

"Coco, are you doing this on purpose? My mom just cares about us, but you retaliate with such means?" Chuck immediately sent a voice message, followed by more vicious curses.

I left the messages unread to make them suffer in this scorching weather.

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