Two years after we marry, my husband moves his sister and her family into our marital home. The four of them settle down and refuse to leave. So, I quit both my jobs. I laze around at home all day and splurge on various things. I have so many parcels delivered that they pile up by the door. Occasionally, I ask my husband and his sister for allowance. When the management office sends someone to chase for our maintenance fee, my husband breaks down so loudly that everyone in the building can hear him. He asks me whether I've lost my mind—who will support the family if I don't work? How will we survive without money? Am I going to allow our family to starve? So, it turns out he does know that we'll starve without anyone generating income. Why does he and his sister stay at home and plot to take away all my money, then?
더 보기Harry turned five this year, and we moved to a bigger apartment. Uncle Patrick came for a checkup, so I brought him and Aunt Eliza to an upscale hotel for a meal.I saw two homeless men fighting on the street in the distance."You're showing your butt, Gregory! Something red is coming out!"I turned around when I heard a familiar name. The scene I saw came as a shock.The homeless man really was the Gregory I knew. He had something like a bedsheet wrapped around him, but half his butt was showing. There was something trickling down his legs, and he held a bottle tightly. "I have to give this to Jess. Jess!"When one of the hotel's staff saw me staring, they came out to explain the situation. "That man has quite the sob story. He borrowed a lot of money from loan sharks to help his sister pay off her debt. When he couldn't repay the loan sharks, he ended up becoming a gigolo."Once, he came to this hotel with a patron. It seems the patron did something to him and made him faint. A
Holly suddenly burst into tears. "Poor Uncle Greg got taken away by a lot of men! It was so scary!"Jessica looked ashen. She finally broke down and cried, "Those loan sharks are monsters! The interest they charged was sky-high, so they took every dime we had. Greg went to borrow some more money so that Holly wouldn't go hungry, but they wanted him to sell himself…"I didn't pity him. How one's life turned out depended on the choices one made.Jessica tried to plead with me again. "We're family, Sasha. Please help us and lend us some money. Please!""Can't you go to work? It's not like you're disabled."She looked aggrieved. "Working is so tiring, and I didn't even graduate from college. I can't compare to a master's student like you. You can easily earn tens of thousands of dollars, but I can only make a few thousand dollars despite doing my best. Please, Sasha!"She wanted her cake and to eat it, too. She was now incapable of doing anything after being spoiled rotten.I turned
Gregory looked haggard. He suddenly said, "I'm sorry, Sasha."He had much to be sorry for, but I didn't need a belated apology. The nine years I'd spent on him came to an end on that day.I was afraid the Chance family would try to take my house away from me again, so I immediately put it up for sale. It was located in a new neighborhood, so it went for a high price.I bought a smaller apartment near my company—it was just perfect for Harry and me. I hired a live-in nanny to care for him, and Aunt Eliza occasionally dropped by to help.I went back to work in the second half of the year and got busy. Now that I no longer had to spend my money on the Chance family, I could put most of it aside in savings.Things were getting better. I didn't need to rely on anyone, so each step I took was firm and resolute.…One day, after a year-end celebration, I'd just left the venue when someone wrapped their hands around my leg."Give me money, Aunt Sasha!"I didn't expect to see Holly and
Gregory didn't have much energy to snap back at me. He'd just received another text asking him whether he was interested in pimping himself out. He didn't know why, but he kept receiving such messages recently. Some of them even offered rather high prices.He decided to give in. "Look, Sasha. Seeing as we're married, I'll be honest with you. I can't bear the burden of paying back your debt with you."Of course he couldn't. He had to help Jessica pay off hers.I couldn't stop myself from asking, "Are you still going to help your sister pay off her debt when you're barely surviving?"He sighed. "She's my sister. When I was a kid, she—""Stop!" I didn't want to listen to his nonsense. All I wanted to do was to get away from this family of bloodsuckers. "Tell her to give me a million dollars—I'll disappear once she does so, and we'll never have anything to do with each other.""She doesn't have that much money," Gregory said."Fine, then. We can all die together. It's pretty roman
Gregory cursed at me.A week passed, and there were three days left until he was due to repay the debt. He finally sent me a location and asked me to have a proper discussion with him.I went alone to see Gregory and Clara already sitting there. They looked like they'd aged a decade, especially Gregory. I'd always been the one serving and caring for him, so he would look spirited even after staying up all night gaming. Now, he looked a lot more fatigued."Have you sold the house?" Gregory asked. He was still coveting it.I shook my head. "How do you expect me to sell it when the debtors are watching? They've made it clear that they're going to kill us if we can't pay them back on the due date."I'd already told him this earlier that morning. He took a deep drag of his cigarette, looking haggard. "What will it take for you to agree to a divorce?""Tell your sister to pay me back. We can have a clean break after that."Clara was the first to object. "We're all family here. It so
Clara was about to explode. "Don't fall for her lies, Greg! Sasha doesn't have a penny to her name now, and her reputation has been tarnished. All she has is debt! Don't tell me you don't want to divorce her so you can suffer with her and face her debtors!"Gregory frowned. Suddenly, I jolted and said to Clara, "I have a way to handle the debt! Jessica kept borrowing money from us in the past, right? That means the house she built in town is partially ours! We can tell her to sell that off and repay us. That's where we'll get the money!"Gregory didn't like the sound of that. He pointed at me, looking fierce. "How can you ask Jessica to sell her house? Since we lent her the money, we need to wait until she's ready to repay us. We can't chase her for it!"I shook my head. "That's supposed to be my money, and I need it back to repay my debts and survive. She's taken at least a few hundred thousand dollars from me. I don't see why I can't ask her to pay me back."This infuriated Grego
Aunt Eliza said, "Gregory came and tried to take Harry—it's a good thing you had the foresight to send us off on a vacation. "The neighbors told me that he pounded on our door every day and wreaked havoc. He even spread rumors about you, saying that you're a loose woman who abandoned her husband and child."I made a sound of acknowledgment. "Don't bother about them. Enjoy yourselves, Aunt Eliza."She sent me some photos of Harry. I was glad to see he was much happier now that he was away from the Chance family.I kissed the photos of him. At the same time, I ran out of patience. I had a friend contact Gregory and tell him this was the best time to get a divorce because I was heavily in debt—there was no telling exactly how much.It was likely the debtors would come knocking and causing trouble daily, so it wasn't feasible to continue staying there. He probably wouldn't be dragged down with me if he were to get a divorce as soon as possible. Otherwise, the debtors would go after h
Gregory shouted, "I'm her husband. You… Why are you looking for her?"Rachel replied seriously, "Of course, I'm here to get her to clock in. A client specifically requested her. She claimed she was too exhausted from being with someone yesterday and needed a break. Did she think she would get a free pass?"Gregory's face turned pale. Suddenly, Rachel stared at him and said, "Hey, weren't you the one who recently signed up to join the club as a gigolo? You're not bad-looking yourself. We can offer you three thousand dollars."The debt collectors laughed mockingly. "It seems like you both are suited to be in the same line of work after all."Rachel turned to Simon, who was standing nearby. "Based on my experience, this gigolo here looks like he will provide you guys with a good time. How about someone setting a price? It will be a good start to the day."Gregory looked up and locked eyes with a bald man who was staring at him while licking his lips. He panicked and asked for three
I started transferring the money to Gregory. However, I always did it in the middle of the night. Gregory couldn't stop himself from smiling. "You're earning three thousand dollars a day? How did you do it?"I replied mysteriously, "You'll find out soon enough."He stopped asking questions and was content to receive money each night. The amounts varied between a thousand to five thousand dollars. The highest payment was ten thousand dollars. One night, I heard Jessica sneak into the house while I pretended to be asleep. "Greg, where's today's money?" Gregory transferred the money to her, and she exclaimed in surprise, "That much?"He replied, "She said she's working with a friend. They value her skills and pay her daily."Jessica was resentful of my ability to make money, but she was pleased at the same time. This meant she would have an endless supply of cash.Jessica continued, "So, you two are okay now? When can I move back in? My current place is terrible. Your neighbo
It was almost the end of the month. A day before I received my monthly pay, my aunt, Eliza Turner, told me that my uncle, Patrick Ford, had to undergo an emergency surgery and she needed to borrow 50 thousand dollars from me.Aunt Eliza had always been very kind to me. So, I agreed to her request right away.I had some money in my PayPal account. It was around 70 thousand dollars. Yet, when I accessed my account to transfer the money, I found that only one dollar and 20 cents were left in that account.I had not used any of that money all this time.Panic rose within me. I thought that my phone had malfunctioned. However, when I brought my phone to the bank and inquired about the issue, the staff member told me a transaction had been made a week before.I recalled at that moment how my husband, Gregory Chance, had suddenly asked to borrow my phone about a week ago. He had used it for about half an hour.My heartbeat quickened. My voice was shaking when Gregory picked up the phone...
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