“Do you think I’d believe you? Still trying to fool me like I’m some idiot?” I snapped, my voice sharp as glass.
Jasper’s face carried this strange earnestness, almost pleading.
“I’m telling the truth,” he said, eyes fixed on me. “I really want to come back to our family. We’ve endured so much together. Please, just give me one last chance.”
Hearing that only made my stomach twist with disgust. Whatever pity I might’ve once had for Jasper was gone. From the cold smile curving on my lips, he understood my answer.
I didn’t waste time trading barbs.
Instead, I laid out the terms, such as closing a business deal.
“Your achievements are because of me. If you leave with nothing after our divorce, I’ll withdraw the lawsuit, Jasper. Or else, we go to court.”
He stared at me in stunned silence, like it had never even crossed his mind that I could be this
ruthless.
Finally, after a long pause, Jasper tried again.
“You’ve never run a company and don’t understand the current situation. After this mess, several major shareholders pulled out. The company’s still afloat, but it’s already in crisis. Even if you go to court and win a share, there won’t be much left.”
I kept my tone steady and professional, not giving him an inch.
“My lawyer has made it clear: your conviction for bigamy will stand in the second trial. You’ll serve two years in prison. If you don’t turn over the company to me, no one will manage it, and it’ll go bankrupt. You’ll still end up with nothing. Jasper, you don’t have a choice. I’m willing to negotiate only because I refuse to waste more time on you and your pair.”
He hesitated, shifting in his seat and fighting some internal battle I didn’t bother to name. Ten minutes went by before his hand finally moved. He signed the divorce papers and left with nothing.
As the pen scratched across the paper, tears dropped onto the page.
He tossed me his last words like a parting shot when he walked out.
“If I could do it over, I would never have let you raise chickens. Maybe we wouldn’t have ended up like this.”
I let out a bitter laugh.
That man was incredible. He would bow and curse whenever it suited him, yet still had the gall to blame the chickens. He forgot that those chickens helped us build our lives in the first place. Without them, he never would’ve had the opportunity to make it in the city.
Now, looking at him, I felt nothing but intense hatred.
I didn’t even bother wasting words.
One month later, we got the divorce certificate, and that was that.
That day, he broke down in tears like a wounded animal while I burst out laughing, feeling like I’d
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been reborn.
People criticized me online for dropping the lawsuit. They said I shouldn’t have let those lowlifes go so easily. But they didn’t realize that my assets far exceeded Jasper’s.
If we had taken it all the way, his lawyers would have uncovered everything I owned. My wealth could have been divided in that case because the law doesn’t require cheating men to leave empty–handed.
Filing the bigamy charge was simply leverage in the negotiation. I didn’t care about putting them in jail. All I wanted was to leave Jasper broken, stripped of everything.
I took over the company, hosted dinners for the shareholders who had once backed him, and kept the business alive with them at my side.
Meanwhile, Jasper had no idea I had already secretly negotiated with each shareholder long before now. I gained their trust through my social skills, funding, and the rare quality chickens no one else could access on the market.
To protect his pride, I made them keep it a secret, so he always believed he was some extraordinary business genius.
After divorcing me, Jasper and his family rented a small, rundown apartment. Every day, he struggled to make money, reaching out to old contacts and begging for investors. Having once been a boss, he couldn’t stand the idea of working for someone else.
But making a comeback was nowhere near easy. Jasper’s scandal spread like wildfire; without capital to his name, no single investor would touch him.
Slowly, Jasper was struggling just to keep up with basic living expenses.
In the meantime, Bianca had to take care of the twins and Jasper’s mother every day.
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