"I'm telling you the truth—nobody was electrocuted. My son is inside. She's just making a scene so the whole neighborhood can laugh at us!"

I had no choice but to make one last desperate attempt.

"If Dick wasn't electrocuted, then why hasn't he said a single word?"

"There are only three people in this house. I'm fine. If Dick wasn't the one who got shocked, then it was Lily—his own daughter. How could he possibly stay silent through that?"

The words landed, and Kate visibly froze for a moment.

But her mind worked fast.

She was certain it couldn't be Dick who'd been electrocuted.

So she fired back immediately.

"Dick not speaking is perfectly normal. He's my son and your husband—he's caught in the middle. Of course he'd choose to stay quiet."

"This villa was just renovated. How could there possibly be a faulty wire? And if my son really was electrocuted, do you honestly think I wouldn't save him?"

"She just doesn't want to live here. She looks down on us because we're from the countryside. She wants to go back to the city, so she's making her daughter fake being sick. This is a false alarm! She's wasting medical resources! I'm actually helping her avoid getting in trouble!"

The paramedics didn't buy it.

But the neighbors had listened to Kate badmouth me for years.

So they immediately rallied to her side.

"It's true! Don't let her fool you. This city wife thinks she's better than everyone just because she has money. She's impossible to deal with."

"Exactly. She's probably the one who told Dick to keep quiet. That boy's a good kid—just too soft for his own good."

"Electrocuted? Give me a break. Every house has circuit breakers now. She didn't even bother making the lie believable!"

"And if Dick really was electrocuted, how come that deaf little girl didn't react either?"

One comment after another, and just like that, they turned me into a lunatic who'd called 911 as a joke.

Kate even started crying and apologizing to me.

She promised she wouldn't pressure me about having a second child anymore and begged me to stop "making a fuss."

But the ambulance still wouldn't leave.

Kate gritted her teeth.

"You're not leaving?"

"I see what this is—you people just want my money. I'm calling the police right now. This is my home. Without my permission, I'd like to see who dares set foot inside!"

She pulled out her phone, making a show of dialing.