Chapter 2

I tightened my grip on the cleaning cloth in my hand.

"But since your sugar daddy has already become a billionaire, why doesn't he tell his wife?"

Kelly blew out a puff of smoke and laughed, "Actually, I've asked him that too. Guess what he said?"

I shook my head.

"He said that a woman willing to suffer hardships with him is so rare, someone who's devoted her whole heart to him. That kind of genuine love shouldn't be tainted with money."

Kelly sneered, "If you ask me, my sugar daddy is just tired of that old hag at home."

"I heard that old woman has been with him since she was eighteen. To support his startup, she went out to run a street stall every day. She did that for nine years straight."

"In that kind of street stall environment, exposed to wind and sun, no matter how good-looking someone is, how attractive can they stay?"

She lowered her voice:

"Let me tell you, my sugar daddy actually succeeded in his business five years ago. He's loaded!"

"But to keep up the act of being poor, even when his wife was eight months pregnant, he still made her go out to the street stall."

"Once, some troublemakers showed up. His wife's belly got hit, and she almost died along with the baby!"

She clicked her tongue with a sigh:

"When his wife called him from the hospital, he was still on top of me, working hard, if you know what I mean."

"I asked him if he was going to go. He said he'd told his wife he was on a business trip with his boss, so if he went, his cover would be blown."

"I heard that poor wife had it terrible. She lost the child, and her uterine wall got scraped so thin."

"Who knows if she'll ever be able to get pregnant again in this lifetime."

I instinctively covered my stomach.

My memory drifted back to that winter.

That day, I went out to my street stall as usual. A bunch of thugs came to eat burgers.

When it was time to pay, they claimed there was a fly in the burger and refused to pay.

I got anxious and grabbed the man's hand, asking him to pay up.

I didn't make much money from a single burger.

Going out in such cold weather was just to earn a bit more.

But the man got angry and shoved me away hard.

The gutter on the ground was frozen over. I slipped, and my whole body fell heavily to the ground. The pain felt like my pelvis had cracked.

That group of thugs ran off immediately.

I called Howard many times, but couldn't get through.

Later, someone nearby called 911 for me.

After getting to the hospital, I was sent straight to the emergency room.

The doctor told me there was an imported medication that might save the baby and would be better for my body too.

But one injection cost fifty thousand dollars, and I needed two injections total.

I called Howard. This time he finally picked up.

On the other end, he sounded both anxious and hesitant, but in the end said we didn't have that much money, so maybe we should just forget it.

My child was just gone like that.

And because of that surgery, my body was completely ruined.

A day later, Howard appeared before me.

He knelt heavily in front of me, slapping himself repeatedly.

He said it was all because he was useless, and swore viciously that he would make big money in the future and never let me and our child face danger again.

But I never imagined that he was already very rich back then.

He was just busy pretending to be poor, busy rolling in the sheets with Kelly.

Howard's message suddenly came through.

"Honey, I'm accompanying my boss on a business trip today. I got an extra five hundred dollars!"

"Look at the gift I bought you. You'll definitely love this necklace."

The picture showed a silver-plated necklace.

Kelly let out an excited cry:

"Look, my sugar daddy bought me an emerald and diamond necklace. I checked, and it costs three million eight hundred eighty thousand!"

"He also said he's coming to see me tonight. It must be to make up for not being with me the day my mother-in-law died!"