Chapter 3

After hanging up, my phone lit up with several notifications. I dealt with some work messages and exited the app, when suddenly I noticed a red dot on a muted conversation.

For some reason, I tapped on it. The contact had no name, just the character "Yi" as the username and a faded mountain-top photo as the profile picture.

If I remembered correctly, this was Lucas, Adrian's current best friend.

I heard they met at a cocktail party and somehow became as close as brothers. Compared to Adrian's business background, Lucas's background was heavily guarded, layers upon layers of protection. Even Adrian only knew the general outline.

Yet this man had sent me a selfie. Black bangs partially covered his deep-set eyes, a child's fever patch stuck to his forehead. His thin jacket was unzipped halfway, revealing hints of abs. He looked damp all over.

The message below read: [Sis-in-law, I think I have a fever. I feel awful /(ㄒoㄒ)/~~]

I zoomed in on his abs, then scrolled through his previous messages.

Although I had never replied, he seemed to have made it a daily routine to send one message and one photo every day. If it wasn't his long, slender fingers, it was his well-defined abs.

It was as if he was persistently and shamelessly trying to steal me away from my husband.

Coincidentally, the first time he sent me these messages was the day Adrian was caught cheating with his secretary.

I returned to the chat and casually typed a reply.

[Nice abs.]

As if holding my breath, I sent it without a second glance and immediately exited the app.

Early the next morning, Adrian's mother was sitting on the downstairs sofa, her expression unreadable.

Seeing me come down, she asked coldly, "Where's Adrian? Gone to that hussy again?"

I nodded calmly, taking breakfast out of the fridge. I even politely offered, "Mom, would you like some?"

She looked startled, seemingly surprised by my attitude.

After all, in the past, I had desperately tried to please her for Adrian's sake. When she said she didn't like Walkers' daughters-in-law to be in the public eye, that marrying Adrian meant being a proper housewife, I even gave up my beloved dance career.

"Are you useless?" Her face darkened with anger. "Five years and you can't even keep a man's heart. If Adrian wants to divorce you someday, don't expect me to help you!"

I suddenly put down my fork and looked at her with a mirthless smile. "You couldn't keep Mr. Walker's heart for thirty years either, could you? If there's anyone to blame, it's the Walker family's inferior cheating genes, passed down from generation to generation."

The elegant lady stood up like a fury: "You! You've gone too far! I'll tell Adrian to throw you out! I want you two divorced!"

I looked at her and quickly said, "I'm sorry."

I had lost my temper for a moment. No matter what, I shouldn't have provoked her with this.

Years ago, when she was pregnant with their second child, Mr. Walker was caught in bed cheating. The other woman was Amber's mother.

Adrian's mother and Amber's mother had been best friends. After Amber's father died, she took pity on the mother and daughter, even buying them a house in the same neighborhood.

Who would have thought that Amber's mother and Mr. Walker would have an affair behind her back, sneaking around for five years?

When she found out, the shock and anger caused her to miscarry.

The scandal blew up, and Amber's mother was sent to the countryside by Mr. Walker, but the car overturned on the way.

At the time, Adrian and Amber were already an acknowledged couple, but Adrian's mother could never accept the daughter of her husband's mistress as a daughter-in-law. So Amber was forcibly sent abroad.

This incident was the greatest pain of her life. I really shouldn't have used it to attack her.

Hearing my apology, she sat back down. After a while, she got up to leave.

Before going, she threw out one last sentence: "Your father is still in the hospital. You should know what to do!"

My father?

She didn't know that the doctor had already called me, saying my father only had a few days left.