My useless husband suddenly won a hundred million dollars lottery, and the first thing he wanted to do was to pursue the goddess he had been thinking about for years.
In order to keep all the money for himself, he proposed to divorce me, but I disagreed. Then he joined forces with his family to deal with me, and even tried to harm me by injecting poison into me. Finally, he threw me into the wilderness.
Ironically, I only found out after I died that the winning lottery ticket was a big misunderstanding, and he didn't win at all.
When I opened my eyes again, he was about to present the divorce agreement to me.
I smiled and said, "Is there such a good thing?"
After hearing this, my ex-husband, Dan, frowned and asked, "What do you mean? Samantha, I'm serious."
I calmly replied, "I didn't say you weren't serious. Isn't it a good thing to be relieved of the burden of me?"
His pride got the better of him, and he angrily slammed his fist on the table. If it weren't for the notary present, that fist would probably have landed on my face. "Stop mentioning the burden. Don't I have a job?"
As the saying goes, the less capable a man is, the more he cares about dignity. I sneered, "Yes, you do have a job. You work as a security guard, skip work six times a month, sleep eleven times, and after deducting fines, you barely earn over four hundred, not even enough to buy a drink."
I left him speechless with my words.
Until I was reborn, I didn't realize that for so many years, he was just an ordinary-looking freeloader by my side.
He ate my food, used my things, he was lazy, cunning, greedy, and lustful. His sweet lies were like apples from Snow White's stepmother.
He always dreamed of getting rich overnight, saying that when he became rich, he would give me a luxury house and a luxury car to enjoy life.
But three days ago, he really won the lottery. 100 million dollars, money that can't be spent in a lifetime. In order to prevent me from getting a penny, he chose to divorce me before claiming the prize.
All he gave me was a slap: "Divorce! We must divorce! You've gone too far!"
"Enough!" I shouted.
The notary spoke up, obviously not wanting to see this farce continue.
"Since you've made up your mind, then sign it..."
"Wait!" I stood up and interrupted him.
The notary was puzzled: "Lady, is there anything else you need to add?"
With a slap, I slapped Dan. He was stunned by the hit.
"It's okay, we're even now."
"So, let's talk about how to divide the property."
Dan pretended to be generous: "I don't want anything, just leave with nothing. You better leave me early."
I nodded and signed my name.
The notary was stunned. He thought that our complicated relationship would take a long time to resolve.
It was indeed like that in my previous life. At that time, I naively believed that he chose to leave with nothing because he had me in his heart. I begged him not to leave.
But in fact, he just wanted to get rid of me quickly so that he could use the bonus to pursue his high school crush, Rachel.
After obtaining the divorce certificate, Dan officially became my ex-husband. He excitedly posted on Instagram: "I'm back, still a teenager with the dreams of my youth, I'm here!"
After posting, he sat on a public chair and picked his feet as if no one else was around. The staff kindly advised him to pay attention to his image, but he turned around and cursed them: "What I do is none of your business!"
In his mind, he was already a billionaire and no longer belonged to the same world as these ordinary people.
I walked calmly past him without even looking at him.
He was holding back his anger in his heart: "Samantha, don't blame me for not reminding you, I am not someone you can climb up to in the future."
"But since we are a married couple, if you have any difficulties in the future, call me brother and I will still help you..."
I forced a smile and said, "No need, can you please move your whole family out of my house first?"
He disdainfully said, "Who do you think wants to be with you? You are just an ugly woman."
Looking at his yellow-stained teeth from smoking, I knew he had already started fantasizing about a beautiful future with his goddess.
I was very curious about what kind of jokes would happen on the day he went to claim the prize.
One of the reasons why he could leave so easily was that he could no longer squeeze any benefits from me.
The house was the inheritance left to me by my parents, it was pre-marital property; the car was also a cheap second-hand item. Over the years, he had been idle, but he had brought the whole family to the city, and I had been supporting their food, drink, and daily needs.
Over time, they really think of themselves as the masters. When they heard about the divorce, his mother immediately jumped up and said, "What? Divorce? What about the house? The house should be given to us!"
There was a lot of commotion, and the whole family came out.
When they learned that he had nothing to do with this house anymore, everyone's face changed.
His mother was furious: "You don't even lay eggs anymore, and you still have the nerve to ask for the house? Marrying you, he is really unlucky for eight lifetimes!"
Without any benefit ties, she finally tore off her disguise: "You're a woman, you don't have any use for the house without children. In the future, won't it just benefit others? You don't have any affection for our family at all?"
Dan was unreliable, and I didn't want our child to suffer, so we have never had a child. She had been holding her anger inside because of this.
"Mom, we can't move out, what about my child?" His sister, who was pregnant and didn't even know who the father of the child was, said.
She persuaded me: "Sister, how about you don't divorce, and leave the house to my son to support you in the future, is that okay?"
Although his father didn't say anything, he was so angry that he slammed the teacup hard on the ground.
The atmosphere was extremely tense. Her sister tried to mediate: "How about this? You can divorce, but you have to give us a resettlement fee, so that we have a place to go."
"Exactly! How have I mistreated you in the past?"
Tsk tsk, not a single decent word.
In everyone's eyes, there was a flicker of greed, and the previous false affection had disappeared.
I used to consider them as my family, but in the previous life, in order to prevent me from getting a share of the prize, several people held me down and injected me with a sedative. They buried me in the suburbs late at night.
They argued incessantly, while Dan held his phone and laughed foolishly, seemingly planning how to invite Rachel out for a meal.
Ha. Since the world was so crazy, I didn't need to be too normal either.
"Okay, if no one wants to leave, then just pay some rent, right?"
"Dan, you can afford it, right?"
"Shut up! You shrew! We're family now. How can you speak so viciously without fearing retribution?"
Dan's father was the first to make trouble. He usually spoke the least and always had an arrogant attitude. But I knew that deep down, he blamed me for all of Dan's misfortunes. "If it weren't for you, Dan wouldn't have even been able to get into high school. You owe him for this, and yet you have the audacity to ask for the house?" I no longer held back and spoke my mind. "Oh please, owe him? Back in high school, he didn't even look at me. He was too busy being the lackey for Rachel. Don't you know?" His father's face turned red. It was Dan who reacted like he had been shocked by electricity when he heard the words "Rachel". "Where?" His mother couldn't help but scold him. "You! You are thinking about other things when we're about to lose the house?" "Brother, that's right. You have to consider my son. What will you have left without the house?" His sister's words struck a blow to his fragile ego. Dan immediately became anxious. "What did you say?! What do I have? Haven't I been responsible for all our living expenses these years?" I sneered, "With your monthly salary of four hundred dollars?"
"Shut up!"
Dan was so angry that he stomped his feet. However, he accidentally slapped Chloe in the face, causing tears to roll down like beans.
"You...you actually hit me! Without Samantha, what are you? Talking about divorce and kicking yourself out? Don't you have any sense? What about my son's future?"
The spoiled giant baby broke down on the spot. Dan's parents felt sorry for their daughter and immediately reacted, starting to scold him.
"Exactly, if you want a divorce, just get a divorce. What's with this drama of kicking yourself out?"
"You've always been a heartless child since you were young!"
I pulled up a chair and sat down. It was not often that you see dogs biting each other.
He got angry and didn't care that I was still here. "Shut the fuck up!"
"Do you know that I won the lottery? 100 million dollars, money that I can't spend in my lifetime!"
A roar, like a bolt from the blue. There was only silence.
"What? Really?" He took out the crumpled lottery ticket, waving it like a victory flag.
He looked at me, "Who do you think would want to live in your shitty place?"
"Dad, Mom, let's go. Let's stay in a five-star hotel. Don't bother packing, buy everything new."
The whole family was dumbfounded and immediately put on a flattering face.
His mother urged Dan to quickly put away the lottery ticket, afraid that I would snatch it.
His sister was even more aggressive: "Huh, after we become rich, my son will be a wealthy second generation kid. We don't care about this old house, and you don't think about climbing high branches, got it?"
The whole family hurriedly packed their luggage and, before leaving, avoided me as if avoiding a plague.
However, his sister was "honest" and took all of my cosmetics. At the moment the door closed, I clearly saw contempt and disgust on their faces.
They were like leeches attached to me, sucking blood and still finding fault with your blood not being pure enough or sweet enough.
Just when I thought Dan's situation was just a joke in the family, he actually made the news.
After they moved out, my home was like it had been hit by a tornado, a mess. It took me an afternoon to clean up all the trash they left behind.
I opened my phone and saw that the community had become famous because of this, becoming the number one trend in the city: "Yarra River Community Shockingly Discovers Mysterious Wealthy Man Boldly Expressing Love to a Married Woman." I clicked on it and saw that in the square at the entrance of the community, thousands of roses were arranged into a huge word: "Rachel, I love you." It was then that I realized that Chu Xiaoyun actually lived in the same community as me, and she had been married for a long time.
No wonder Dan chose to be a security guard in the community at such a young age, it turned out he wanted to silently protect her.
Under the trending posts, Rachel's husband's comment was pushed to the front: "Who is this bastard? Don't sleep too soundly at night, keep one eye on your wife and the other eye on outsiders."
Between the lines, there was a strong smell of gunpowder.
Just when everyone thought that this mysterious tycoon would choose to act low-key, Dan went live.
He openly declared, "I saw the comments, I am Dan, I won't change my name or surname, what can you do to me?"
"What Rachel needs is a capable man, like me. You better make way earlier, in a few days I will formally confess to her."
Netizens were shocked, some cheered, some thought he was courageous.
"Rich brother, transfer me 50 dollars to show your ability."
"You love being a celebrity? You also want to rule the world?"
Dan was not well-educated and could not distinguish between good and bad words. He seemed to enjoy this kind of attention very much, like a scatterbrained child giving out red envelopes online, eager to let the whole world know that he has become rich.
But soon, there were doubts: "I checked. This guy is just a security guard, where did the mysterious tycoon come from?"
"I also investigated, his money is all borrowed, let it go, it's just a fake."
Even through the screen, you could feel his anger, his hands were trembling, and he cursed, "What do you know? This is called pre-consumption, understand? Rich people are all like this! You are a bunch of useless people, destined to never get rich in this lifetime."
"Wait and see, when I withdraw the money, I'll let you see what you can never earn in your lifetime..."
With a snap, the live broadcast was shut down.
Immediately after, there was a banging on my door. He shouted loudly, "Dan, right? You disgusting pervert, come out! Today, I'm going to settle the score with you!"
At first, I didn't dare to open the door. My house was equipped with an anti-theft and explosion-proof door, which should be indestructible. But that person was exerting an unusually strong force, and I felt the whole house trembling.
"Dan! Come out, aren't you capable? Why didn't you become a coward when you tried to steal someone else's wife?"
I opened the door, and a tall man over two meters tall rushed in with a steel pipe.
He roared, "Where is that bastard? He ruined my wife's life, I must kill him!"