Unveiling My Husband's Conspiracy

After a two-hour trip by train, I returned to my old residential building at dusk.

When I opened the door, I saw my mother sitting at dining room, secretly wiping away tears. Meanwhile my seven-year-old little sister was crying uncontrollably and her eyes were swollen.

I was surprised and asked, "What are you guys doing?"

My mother was also surprised by my arrival. She hurriedly picked up her apron, covered the pile of advertising papers on the table and forced a smile on her face. "Zendaya, how did you get back home?"

I did not respond my mother's question and asked her back, "Mom, what are you hiding?"

My mother lifted her sleeves and secretly wiped away her tears. "Nothing. It's just some people with no sense of public morality who threw flyers around."

I asked again, "Where's Dad?"

My mother answered a bit haltingly, "Your dad was working in construction site a few days ago, then he accidentally fell and got injured quite badly. Now, he is resting in the room."

I pushed open the door to my parents' room and saw my father, with bandages all over his body and a bruised face, reading a newspaper on the bed.

The injuries on his body were clearly from being beaten!

I realized something was wrong, so I grabbed my little sister and asked, "Tell me, what happened?"

My sister burst into tears. "Zendaya, someone threw flyers insulting you on the street. Dad went to argue with them and got beaten up by them."

"There's nothing we can do. They threw the flyers everywhere, then Mom and I picked the flyers up a quite far away behind them."

"It took a whole day and night to pick up all the flyers."

Hearing my sister's whole story, I hurried back to the dining table and flipped through the messy flyers.

There were slogans such as 'Bitch', 'Seducing another girl's boyfriend' written on it. Below the slogan, there were various disgusting photos of me that had been photoshopped.

My tears welled up in an instant. "Mom and Dad, I won't let those bastards bully us for nothing!"

"I'll go find them!"

I ignored my family's objections and bought the fastest train ticket back to the campus.

When I rushed into Sarah's dormitory, she was sitting on a chair, looking at me with an evil smile. "Oh, Zendaya, how does it feel to be home?"

I said angrily, “You spread rumors and stir up trouble and even hire thugs to beat people!”

"I'm going to sue you and make you go to jail and pay the price!"

Sarah responded arrogantly, "Which step doesn't cost money, from investigating to hiring a lawyer to going to court?"

"I can hire the best lawyer in the country. But what about you? You can only seek legal aid."

"If you lose the lawsuit, I'm afraid even if you sell your house or land, you still won't be able to compensate me for my mental damages."

I stood in place for a while, speechless.

I could fight to the death with Sarah, but what about my parents and little sister?

For the sake of my family, I immediately gave up the idea of revenge. I said desperately, "Sarah, you can humiliate me, but don't harass my parents."

Sarah crossed her legs and said with a sinister smile, "You want to beg for mercy? That's easy."

"At the graduation ceremony seven days from now, I will hold an engagement ceremony with Killian in front of all my classmates."

"When the time comes, I hope you can wear a bridesmaid dress and go on stage with me."

I said numbly, "As long as you can let my parents go, anything is fine."

She threw a piece of clothing on the ground and said, "Go back and try it on to see if it fits."

What was thrown on the ground was not clothes at all, but a chain and a revealing cosplay costume with a dog tail.

I was stunned and asked, "What do you mean?"

Sarah smiled and said, "A female dog in heat like you, seducing my man, of course you have to wear dog clothes."