Chapter 1

I returned home after studying abroad for three years, only to find that my brother’s girlfriend had brought her entire family to live in my mansion.

The moment they saw me, they pinned me against the floor.

"How dare you! Call him your sweetheart, spend his money, and now you're here to take my mansion? "

When I saw the girlfriend’s crazed antics, I was shocked. “Who did you say owns the mansion?”

“It’s my boyfriend’s, but it’ll be mine sooner or later. It has nothing to do with you.”

With her parents, she yanked off the ancient pendant on my neck and crushed my heirloom bracelet.

They even tied up my limbs, put me on the table, and positioned me in a humiliating pose to post online.

Her brother pinned my legs down and reached under my shirt…

Chapter 1

A day before I returned to the country, I watched a livestream.

Two middle-aged people stood behind the female streamer with a banner held between them. It had the words: Help! What should I do when my boyfriend cheated and his new woman comes over to boast in my face?

The streamer cried so badly that her makeup was ruined. “She keeps talking to my boyfriend and is coming to meet me tomorrow…”

The chat sent encouraging words to the streamer while insulting the other woman.

[How could she be so arrogant? Kill her!]

[Don’t be scared, girl. Give me your address. I’ll slap her for you tomorrow.]

I hated these sorts of channels. It was all scripted, and the chat was full of idiots who just went along with the flow.

But I did not scroll away today. Instead, I frowned as I stared at the streamer. She looked familiar.

I could swear she was my brother’s girlfriend, Cynthia Walton.

When Luke Thompson, my brother, got together with Cynthia, I was already in my second year studying abroad. My parents passed away years ago, so Bernard Thompson, my uncle, took us in, and I shared a good relationship with Luke.

Even though I had never met Cynthia before, Luke had shown me plenty of her photos. He always told me how gentle and kind she was.

I was satisfied with her and was coming back to watch Luke propose to Cynthia.

I took out a picture of Cynthia and made a comparison. The streamer was indeed Cynthia.

I hurriedly called Luke. “You’re cheating on Cynthia? How could you do that to her?”

Luke was baffled. “What on earth are you saying, Juliet? I’m only seeing Cynthia.”

I believed Luke. He was a romantic at heart and only confessed to Cynthia after crushing on her for five years. I refused to believe that he would cheat on her.

The so-called new woman had to be a shameless person who was throwing herself at him. Luke had also been really busy after taking over the family business, so he ended up neglecting Cynthia.

I thought of possible scenarios and could only come up with one solution: throwing money at Cynthia.

“Give Cynthia two hundred thousand, so she can buy some stuff. Make sure she’s happy,” I said.

At night, I saw Cynthia livestreaming again. She stood in front of a mansion’s gate and shouted into a megaphone, “Come to my livestream tomorrow night! Let’s punish the new woman together!”

Wasn’t that the mansion my parents left for me?

When I thought about how I would have the front row seat to a fun drama tomorrow, I was so excited that I only fell asleep at midnight and nearly missed my flight.

I was eager to go back home to help my future sister-in-law beat up that homewrecker and see just which shameless woman wanted to ruin Luke’s relationship.

When I reached Arkshire, it was already dark.

Luke was on a business trip, so I took a cab home. Since I did not want to miss out on seeing the new woman’s face, I did not even eat dinner. I went straight home.

The exterior of the mansion was the same as when I left. It had not changed. I could not hold back my excitement and rang the bell.

After waiting for a long time, the door opened. Two men and two women stood inside my mansion and glared at me.

“Look, everyone! It’s the new woman!”

Before I could register what was said, I had a phone pointed at my face. The middle-aged woman rushed over and slapped me before grabbing my hair.

My scalp hurt, and my head was dizzy and in pain.

“Look! This is the homewrecker! How dare you bully my daughter?! I’ll kill you!”

I was stunned.

I only wanted to witness a drama. How did I end up as the homerecker?

“Ma’am, aren’t you mistaken? I’m not—”

Before I could finish speaking, Cynthia spat in my face and insulted me. “Did your parents not teach you any manners since they died when you were young?! Fine! My parents, brother, and the people online will teach you!”

Cynthia’s brother and father rushed over and dragged me inside. The furniture in the mansion was the same as three years ago. Nothing had changed, but I was hit and insulted despite being the owner of the place.

“Everyone, please follow me as we punish the shameless homewrecker!”

Chapter 2

The livestreamers who had been waiting around the area rushed through the gate and pointed their phones at my face to start taking pictures.

“You’re the homewrecker? To think you’d actually come here! The audacity! We’re going to make sure you can’t leave the place!”

“We’ll teach you a lesson today!”

The next moment, their spit landed on my face. When I looked at Cynthia, she was leaning against her mother’s shoulder while crying. It did not look like she was faking it, so perhaps this was all a misunderstanding. Luke was about to propose to her, so I did not want things to end badly between us.

I wiped away the spit on my face and sucked in a deep breath. As I suppressed the anger in my chest, I said, “You’re mistaken. I’m not your boyfriend’s new woman.”

Once I said that, Cynthia started crying even harder. Her father pinched me in revenge, and a bruise formed on my arm. I yelped in pain.

“You came here to seduce my daughter’s boyfriend, and you still won’t admit it?! You had the guts to go for a taken man, but don’t have the guts to admit it? We’ll beat you until you admit it!”

I turned my face away and gritted my teeth.

“This is my home. Why can’t I come back here?”

Cynthia, who had been weeping softly all this while, suddenly screamed, as if she had heard something shocking.

“This is my boyfriend’s mansion! And what’s his is also mine! You asked my boyfriend for keys multiple times, and you think that makes this place yours?!”

I had indeed asked Luke for keys because I had left them with him for safekeeping. They were mine, so I was not in the wrong for asking him to return them to me.

Besides, the mansion had always been under my name. Luke only kept the keys safe while I was away.

I then told the people the origins of all the items in the living room.

“My grandfather hired an Italian designer to make the carpet under your feet and the couch. I bought the tea set on the table in France when I was eighteen years old.”

“She sounds confident and doesn’t look like she’s lying. Is she telling the truth?” Someone looked at Cynthia, but she just seethed.

“Stop pretending. You did your research on my boyfriend’s mansion, so what? You must be seducing him for his money! Stop pretending that you own the mansion! I’m telling you now, I’m the real owner of the place!”

Cynthia brought out the keys, and the other livestreamers regained their confidence. They agreed with what she said.

I wanted to say something, but Cynthia’s brother slapped me, and my cheeks stung.

Cynthia’s mother pointed at my pearl earrings and said in disdain, “You’re unworthy of wearing such nice pearl earrings. You must have used Luke’s money to buy them.

“You’re cheap and a gold digger. People like you should be exposed online and canceled for life.”

“Everyone, remember to like the video! We’re not just beating up a minx today, but also a gold digger!”

“Gold diggers do whatever it takes to get money. She might have slept with old men too…” The streamer let her sentence fade away and glared at me in disgust.

People flooded her livestream and insulted me. They cursed my parents and ancestors. I did not want to see the chat, but Cynthia’s father grabbed my head and forced me to look.

When Cynthia saw that everyone was on her side, she stopped hiding in her mother’s arms and crying. Finally, she shed her mask of fragility and walked forward to yank off my pearl earrings. Blood spilled out of my ears.

Pain surged through me, and I cried out in pain. The crowd started cheering.

“Great! This is amazing!”

“That’s how you should treat homewreckers. You’re finally fighting back!”

Once Cynthia got encouragement, she looked up and threw the earrings in my face. She shook her hand and said sarcastically, “The earrings stink of old men. They’ll just dirty my hand.”

Her brother grabbed my calf with one hand and caressed my inner thigh. Slowly, he pulled my leg closer to his body. I suppressed my disgust and struggled against him. When I hit his left cheek, he finally let go.

His mother screamed, “You shameless witch! You’re seducing my son now?!”

“He’s unworthy of it. I’m warning you now: molestation is a crime.”

Chapter 3

Cynthia’s brother grinned. “Molesting? You’re the one who seduced me.”

I pointed at the security camera on the wall. “He clearly molested me. The security footage will show it.”

Cynthia sneered. “Are you saying our eyes are worse than the security camera? Stop lying already.”

She scanned my body with a dark look and grinned.

“This kept woman still has plenty of valuable stuff on her that she clearly got by seducing men. Let’s destroy all of them today. Girls, tie her to the table. Make sure she can’t move and seduce anymore men.”

One of the other livestreamers asked Cynthia how they were supposed to tie me up when they did not have a rope.

Cynthia scanned the living room. “Tear up the carpet and tie her with it. She’s only worthy of being bound by stuff we’ve stepped on.”

Then, a group of people came forward and surrounded me. They grabbed my limbs and put me on the table. I felt like a lamb waiting for slaughter with my pointless struggle against them.

“I’m warning you! Let me go!” I yelled fiercely, but they only pinched me so hard that I got even more bruises on my arms.

“You’re warning us? Do you think you’re in power now?”

The woman on my right pinched me the hardest, as if she wanted to yank the flesh off my arm.

I gritted my teeth and hissed, “What you’re doing is a crime!”

“I don’t need to pay for anything when I’m only tearing up something in my own mansion. Besides, the law also punishes homewreckers. We’re just administering justice and making society right again. We aren’t doing anything wrong.”

Cynthia came to stand in front of me with a smug expression.

“We’re going to strip you of everything today and let everyone see just how disgusting you are.”

She brought out a can of chilis and smeared them all over my face.

When the other livestreamers saw this, they grabbed scissors, pepper, and knives and started drawing closer to me.

“Everyone, if we get to fifty thousand likes, I’ll cut the gold digger’s hair and make her too ashamed to ever show her face again.”

“This is the first time we’re all punishing a gold digger on stream! If you follow me, I’ll cut her face up right now.”

More people joined the livestreams. Everyone was spamming the chats with demands for the streamers to punish me. Some people even donated huge sums of money to tell the streamers to attack me.

The chilis stung me so badly that I screamed, “Cynthia, you’ll suffer for this!”

All I heard in reply was laughter and the women mocking me for being ignorant.

“Me?” Cynthia was not scared in the slightest. “My boyfriend is the chosen successor of the richest man in the country, and his sister is a world-renowned designer. She’s worth more than one hundred million dollars. What’s theirs is mine. The likes of you aren’t capable of making me suffer!”

To think that she got the confidence to hit me because of me and Luke.

“If your boyfriend learned that you’re this sort of person, would he still be together with you?” I asked coldly.

“You have no place to judge me!”

Cynthia stared at the pendant on my neck for a few seconds before she suddenly grabbed it.

“And you have no right to wear this either!”

She actually wanted to snatch my pendant?!

My neck soon turned red and swollen, and I felt a cold chill on my neck. I even smelled blood. My skin tore, and the chili seeped in. It hurt even more.

“Cynthia, don’t you dare touch my pendant. It’s not something you can touch!”

But she just yanked even harder. Her parents also started helping her.

“You got this from sleeping with men! We have to destroy it!”

Cynthia cackled and yanked off the pendant before throwing it on the floor. I turned to look at the pendant and saw that it had shattered. I gritted my teeth even harder.

When the chat saw the shards on the floor, one of them typed, [I think that was an antique. It belonged to a really rich person in the past. It was shown in an exhibition in a museum in the past.]

The grip around my limbs lightened. The streamers hesitated. If something so precious was destroyed, they would need to pay a lot of money for it, wouldn’t they?

But Cynthia’s parents and brother cast disdainful looks at everyone present.

“That rich person is my future son-in-law. This witch must have scammed it out of him. That’s why she was wearing it.” Cythia’s mother huffed with scorn in her eyes.

“Not only does my boyfriend dote on me, his sister also treats me well. She gave me five hundred thousand dollars last month for traveling. Forget destroying the pendant, even if I tear you into pieces, they wouldn’t blame me for it.”

“If you hurt me, you’ll rot in jail.”

Cynthia was seriously stupid and evil. What exactly did Luke like about her?

Cynthia got worked up and started yelling at me. “You dare curse me, you witch?!”

She rushed over and knocked over my luggage bag. It had my designs, haute couture gowns, and some jewelry. The designs caught her eye. She picked them up and stared at them for some time before she sneered.

“So, you’re not just after money. You’re even after Luke’s sister because she’s a designer?”

My designs were priceless. I kept struggling and shouted at Cynthia to return them to me.

“I’m Luke’s sister! Give them back!”

Cynthia froze for a moment before casting a glance at me.

Chapter 4

Then, Cynthia cackled. “She’s getting worked up! Look! She’s rambling now! Juliet is in another country. She wouldn’t come back for no reason.

“Do you see it? She’s so shameless! She’s lying without batting an eyelid!”

Her brother pointed the camera in my face.

Cynthia tore my designs apart and stomped on the haute couture gowns.

With Cynthia spurring them on, the onlookers rushed forward and snatched my jewelry and cut up my haute couture gowns.

I coldly watched the lunatics grabbing stuff from my luggage bag and wished to reach my phone in the coat’s pocket and call the police.

Just a little more, and I would be able to grab it…

Once I reached it and unlocked my phone, a chatter suddenly alerted one of the streamers.

“The kept woman is calling the police. Everyone, stop her!”

Everyone fixed their eyes on me again. Cynthia’s brother grabbed my arm and crushed my phone under his foot.

“You were trying to call the police? They wouldn’t care about a homewrecker like you.”

“Looks like we didn’t beat her up enough. She still hasn’t realized her wrongdoings.”

“Let’s cut her hair and shave her eyebrows. She won’t be able to seduce men after that.”

Two of the people pulled out the scissors and eyebrow shaver they had brought to the event. The chat started sending loads of donations to support their actions.

They grabbed my hair. I shook my head to break free, but someone pinned my shoulders down. After they cut my hair, they did not think it was enough and shaved me bald.

“You did great! Witches like her should be bald!”

“Homewreckers like her stink of shamelessness. Since she’s so despicable, there’s no need for her to have her face intact.”

“Everyone, keep up the donations. We’re going to rip this kept woman to shreds today and let all the other ones out there know that this is what will happen to them one day too!”

I gnashed my teeth together. “You better pray you won’t regret this!”

“Heh. Why would we? You’re the one who should be regretting your actions. Do you regret seducing other people’s boyfriends now?”

I said nothing and just shut my eyes. I refused to cry.

I was going to make sure they paid for their actions.

I would not spare a single one of them.

“Are you done? There’s still a bracelet on her wrist. Crush it too!”

I instinctively tried to pull my hand back.

They crushed everything else and tore up my drafts, but I could not let them ruin this bracelet.

“Aw, you’re pulling back your hand. Are you feeling guilty now? You must have gotten this bracelet from seducing a man!”

Cynthia pushed her way through the crowd. The more I fought back, the more excited she became.

“Don’t. If you want money, I can give it to you, but don’t touch the bracelet.”

She put her hands on her hips and sneered. “Look, everyone! The kept woman seems to care about the bracelet a lot. What should we do?”

The streamers shouted smugly behind her, “Crush it, duh!”

Cynthia grabbed my chin and stared at me with an enigmatic look. “You seem to care about this a lot. Let me guess. How many men did you sleep with to get it?”

This was an heirloom, but it was not just an heirloom to me.

I would not allow anyone to ruin it.

I ducked my head and bit her hand.

She slapped me. “You bit me, witch?!”

“Get her! She’s far too high on her horse!”

I glared at the people around me and growled, “Come at me if you dare!”

Cynthia’s parents came over and slapped me. Her mother scoffed. “Hmph. You dare bite my daughter? But you’re going to behave after I slap you, aren’t you? Dear, crush the bracelet.”

Her father grabbed a hammer and swung it at the bracelet.