Chapter 5

My father-in-law immediately threw a fit. "No way! How can an outsider take care of us properly! We don't want a stranger. We want you to take care of us!"

My mother-in-law cried, "Ethan, my daughter died because of you, and now you don't want to take care of us old folks! You have no conscience! How did our Anderson family end up with a curse like you!"

"Mom, Dad, these past few days taking care of you have made my heart feel really uncomfortable, and the baby caught a cold. If you insist that I take care of you, I'll have no choice but to send the baby away and let someone else care for him."

My father-in-law wouldn't give in. "Nonsense! Back in our day, which man didn't have to take care of kids and elderly parents at the same time? I never saw their kids have problems! I think you just don't want to take care of us and you're making excuses!"

"That's right! You're absolutely right, honey. The kid is seven months old—a little illness won't matter!"

"Mom, Dad, no matter what you say, this child is what Sophia left behind, and he's my life. I have to protect him."

With that, I turned and walked away, not looking back no matter how much they called after me.

That night, the full-time caregiver I hired called me.

"Mr. Morgan, your in-laws are forcing me to leave. They said if I don't go, they'll bite their tongues and kill themselves."

"Don't worry, they're not willing to die. Just do your job well. If they give you trouble, please bear with them. I'll pay you triple the salary."

These two old bastards were determined to drive away the caregiver because with her there, they'd have to keep pretending to be paralyzed.

If I was taking care of them, after I left at night, they could still get up and move around.

Well, now they could just lie there.

I went and got a paternity test done. Sure enough, the child wasn't mine.

I sent him to an orphanage.

After that, I rushed to the company under Sophia's name and called a board meeting in my capacity as Sophia's husband.

"Distinguished shareholders, I am Ethan Morgan, Sophia's legal husband. I will inherit all of her shares. I majored in finance at Princeton. I believe we can all work together pleasantly in the future."

Sophia's right-hand woman immediately objected.

"As far as I know, Ms. Anderson still has parents. How can you inherit all of her equity!"

I pulled out my in-laws' paralysis certificates. "My father-in-law and mother-in-law have lost full capacity for civil conduct. If we hand the company over to them, how can it continue operating?"

"Besides, I'm a top graduate from Princeton, while my in-laws only have middle school educations. It's very clear who should inherit the company."

The confidante still objected.

"What do you mean they've lost capacity? That's just your one-sided claim!"

I directly projected the surveillance footage from home onto the screen.

In the video, I was tirelessly serving two disabled elderly people, dutifully and responsibly.

The confidante's face turned green.

In the end, I gained the support of more than half the shareholders and obtained all of Sophia's shares.

Then I went to every bank to check if there were any other bank cards under her name.

Wherever I found one, I directly presented the death certificate and marriage certificate, transferred all the money in her cards to my account, then canceled her cards.

After completing this whole process, my account had grown by another thirty million dollars.

Thinking about the expression on Sophia's face when she tried to use her cards abroad and discovered they'd all been canceled made me laugh out loud.