My Name Is on Her Cancer Diagnosis

I suppressed my nausea and gently opened the door to the house, whereupon I discovered that Cynthia had long returned and was currently lying on the living room couch."You didn't accompany me to my checkup today, Leo," she complained. "It's a good thing I'm fine, and it's that infertile pig who's ill. I'm still angry though! You'd better hurry up and make it up to me!""Okay, okay. What does my beloved younger sister want?" Leonard asked, stroking Cynthia's head lovingly.He hadn't noticed my return at all."Buy me this necklace then! It's the latest design! It's not expensive—only around 10,000 dollars."10,000 dollars wasn't a small sum to me and Leonard.Cynthia hadn't furthered her studies after graduating from high school. Every day, she would either spend the day hanging out with unsavory people outside or sleeping at home.Leonard had been laid off at the beginning of the year. I'd also had my pay cut and been transferred to another post because I frequently had to take

Leonard became upset the moment he saw me with the bottle of imported wine and yelled, "What do you think you're doing, Victoria Sausby? That's a memento my father left behind!"A memento, he said?How thorough a person Graham must have been to have left behind a memento five years ago, despite dying 18 years ago.This bottle of wine had clearly been given to the Zieglers by a friend of mine back when I first married Leonard.Who knew how many of my possessions Amanda had secreted away over all these years?In the beginning, I hadn't held it over her out of consideration for the fact that we were family. However, now that every one of them was wishing for my death, I wasn't going to play nice anymore.I raised an eyebrow before saying with tears in my eyes, "But Mrs. Ziegler made me so much delicious food and said such touching words to me. Moreover, I'm already about to die, so what's wrong with me having a drink with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law?"Leonard was momentarily

I suppressed my disgust and continued to lead the conversation on. "Having a statue made and a shrine built would be very expensive, though. Where would we get so much money?"Amanda was no slouch either. She had even more petty, dirty tricks up her sleeve than Cynthia did. Sure enough, she immediately pulled me down to sit next to her and feigned an air of mystery. "I heard that after your parents died, it was your uncle on your mother's side who raised you, right? He was a company president or something, wasn't he? I heard his company will be going public soon!"I also heard that he treated you very well back then. He made sure you had the best food, clothing, and education available. I even remember you mentioning just now that he's still unmarried and has nobody to take care of him in his old age."Although I didn't know where Amanda had heard all that information from, she was certainly correct.After my parents died, I'd been raised by my wealthy uncle, Andrew Lowry.Uncle A

In addition to cervical cancer, Cynthia also had severe bulimia and alcohol addiction. Her father, Graham, had a fondness for drinking and eating meat, so Amanda and Leonard saw Cynthia as his reincarnation. They insisted she eat rich, meat-heavy meals from childhood, which led to her developing a host of unhealthy eating habits.She'd only seen a bit of relief after I married into the Ziegler family and started consciously managing her eating habits.However, after Amanda realized Cynthia could no longer eat as much as before I joined the family, she began spreading rumors that I was bad luck.She made it so that I was unable to face our neighbors properly.I'd certainly like to see who exactly brought the bad luck now!After dinner, Amanda and I discussed the situation for a while.I offered to sell our house and car to scrounge up a bit of money to buy Uncle Andrew a Patek Philippe watch. Leonard's head shook vigorously in disagreement when he heard this. "That won't do! I

When Leonard, Cynthia, and Irene Ludlow heard what I said, they all froze in place, stunned.None of them expected me to swear, given that I was usually so meek and submissive.Leonard was the first to recover. He charged at me, intending to lash out at me. "You damn bitch! You lied to me! Give me back my money! I'm going to beat you to death!"In the end, he didn't manage to lay his finger on me. The bodyguards who'd been watching from outside the room the whole time rushed in and restrained him in a flash. Pinned to the floor like that, he looked no different from a pitiful stray.When Amanda, who'd just returned from picking up medicine, saw this scene, she panicked as well.She rushed over to me and pulled at my hair, shouting, "You bitch! How dare you hit my son! I'm going to rip your face apart!"At the end of the day, Amanda was used to a pampered life. Coupled with her old age, she was extremely inflexible.I turned slightly to the side, causing her to miss me. Then, i