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One Dime a Day: My Husband's Revenge

One Dime a Day: My Husband's Revenge

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By:  Cutie KittyCompleted
Language: English
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After Death

Bias

Mistress

Melodramatic

Scumbag

Winning Back the Wife

Awakening

It all started because my daughter, Joy Harrell, threw a tantrum wanting to go to the amusement park. On the way there, we got into an accident that left my wealthy husband, Brian Harrell, paralyzed in both legs, unable to ever stand again. As punishment, he slashes our daily allowance to a mere ten cents, and Joy and I are forced to survive by scavenging through trash and even fighting wild dogs for food. One day, dizzy with hunger, Joy eats some cookie crumbs that the family doctor, Aurora Bradley, drops on the floor. She does so out of sheer hunger and desperation. However, Brian immediately berates her for "stealing" and forces her to kneel outside in the pouring rain for ten hours before being allowed back inside the villa. Furious, I go to confront him, but instead I see his crippled legs standing tall, holding hands with Aurora as they waltz to the music. Brian's friend looks out the window and feels sorry for us, saying, "Look, Brian, your daughter's tantrum might have caused you to miss your last chance to see your first love ever again, but don't you think that you've already punished her and your wife long enough for that? "You even hired a stand-in to pose as a doctor in the house. Surely your anger has cooled off by now, right?" Brian scoffs and replies coldly, "They were thoughtless enough to ruin the seven-year pact I had with Dorothy. This punishment is nothing—in fact, it's way too light for them. "Don't you ever bring this up again. Only two more years of their punishment remain. Once it's over, I'll make it up to them properly." However, Brian doesn't know that I've been saving all of the good food I can ever get for Joy, and thus, I've developed terminal stomach cancer. In other words, I will never live to see the future. But I will also never let Joy stay by his side to suffer any longer.

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11 Chapters
Chapter 1
Charis' POVThe rain kept pouring, and my daughter, Joy Harrell, burned with a high fever. Her consciousness was slowly fading away.I no longer cared about my husband, Brian Harrell, or his affair with the family doctor, Aurora Bradley. I ran out into the rain, grabbed Joy, and tried to bring her back into the villa.The bodyguard, Paul Dugan, saw what I was doing and immediately tried to stop me."Mrs. Harrell, Mr. Harrell has given orders that Ms. Harrell must kneel in the rain for a full ten hours before she's allowed inside again. Another three hours remain. You cannot remove her from her post now."However, Joy's condition was gradually worsening in my arms.I was frantic and ran past Paul without a second thought. I yelled at him, "But Joy is having an extremely high fever, and it won't go away if she continues staying in the rain! If you make her stay out for another three more hours, she will collapse!"Are you trying to tell me that Mr. Harrell also gave out his orders
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Chapter 2
What caught us by surprise the most was that Dorothy would also choose to end her life that very day.Brian was consumed by remorse, but he somehow convinced himself that Joy and I conspired to sabotage the seven-year pact he'd made with Dorothy. He even blamed us for her death, and later on harbored deep resentment toward Joy and me.To punish us, he staged a car accident to feign his disability and tormented us for the next three years. He also brought home another woman who bore a striking resemblance to Dorothy, as our family doctor.And now, because Aurora's face looked uncannily like Dorothy's, he believed her every word, even though the truth was spelled out before his eyes. He insisted that Joy was merely faking her illness to deceive him and was now demanding I kneel in the rain for ten hours.I was consumed with rage.But before I could even voice my indignation, Joy's right hand began to seize up. Her face turned purple, her teeth clenched tightly, and a trickle of bloo
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Chapter 3
I flew into a rage. "So, that VVIP's friend's life matters, but my daughter's life doesn't?"I charged recklessly toward the bodyguards and immediately spotted familiar figures among them.Aurora was literally surrounded by an entourage of doctors, just for a shallow cut on her cheek. Brian was standing next to her instead of sitting in his wheelchair, and he was shouting angrily at the doctors, "If you can't fix the scar on her cheek, then get the hell out of here!"My daughter was on the verge of death, and yet he was pulling away the very doctors needed to save her life, all to treat a minor scratch on Aurora's face.I couldn't bear it anymore. Just as I was about to scream in rage, a bodyguard clamped a hand right over my mouth. I could only watch helplessly as Joy's body continued convulsing in her seat, with foam bubbling from her lips while her eyes rolled back in her head.The nurse grew frantic and made several calls for help, but she was met with repeated reprimands in
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Chapter 4
"No!" I screamed, trying to force my way into the autopsy room. However, Brian told his bodyguards to grab me and pin me down again.I kneeled on the ground and pleaded with him desperately."Brian! Joy is already dead! Please, please don't let her body be mutilated as well!"Brian hesitated when he saw me in this state. He reached out to grab my hand, wanting to comfort me, but when he saw my empty ring finger, he exclaimed in shock, "Where's your wedding ring?""I sold it for—"I hadn't even managed to tell him that I'd sold the ring to pay for Joy's medical bill when he suddenly raised his hand and slapped me across the face."You went and spent it all on Joy again, didn't you? How dare you keep indulging her like that! I deliberately withheld all the money from you so you'd never spend it on frivolous things like this, and you still found a way to do it?"How dare you sell our wedding ring just to take Joy out for fun! This is outrageous!"He continued slapping me hard acro
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Chapter 5
I had just gathered the items and documents I needed and was just about to leave when Aurora suddenly appeared before me.With Brian nowhere in sight, she dropped all pretense and sneered at me."You really are a useless piece of shit. It's one thing to always lose out to his first love, but now, you can't even measure up to a replacement stand-in like me."Your daughter's also dead now, so you don't even have the last bargaining chip left to vie for his affection anymore."By the way, did you know that I wrecked your daughter's face on purpose? She looked too much like you, and I loathe you with every inch of my body."I clenched my fists as my breathing grew ragged.Just then, the sound of footsteps drew near, and Aurora suddenly slapped the urn in my arms onto the floor, spilling Joy's ashes on the ground. I couldn't hold back anymore and delivered a fierce kick that sent her tumbling down the steps.When Brian arrived, he saw Aurora lying at the foot of the steps, screaming
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Chapter 6
Third-Person POVBrian felt a wet, warm sensation on his face and reached up to touch it. When he finally got a good look, he realized it was blood.He looked up at the sky and saw a snapped rope dangling from the helicopter's tail. Charis, who had been attached to that rope, was gone.Ahead of him, a group of people ran past him in urgent panic. Brian was still in a daze when he heard Wendy shouting in his ear, "Mr. Harrell! It's Mrs. Harrell! It's Mrs. Harrell!"Brian felt as though his legs were made of lead as he made his way toward the scene, slowly dragging his feet along. When the crowd saw him approaching, they automatically made way for him in silence.Some were in shock, some looked on with pity, and others wore complex emotions. They had witnessed Charis' and Brian's journey from a loving marriage to this tragic state. They were also all aware of the dirty schemes that Aurora had pulled all this time. However, Brian was their boss and the one who signed their payc
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Chapter 7
And so, Brian ultimately broke up with Dorothy in a heartless way. They gave each other the cold shoulder and ignored the other for years. It wasn't until Brian's father, Philip Harrell, fell critically ill and told Brian that his only remaining wish was to watch him get married that things finally changed.At that time, Brian met Charis, an ordinary woman who was kind, gentle, and virtuous. He pulled out all the stops to win her affection and successfully deceived her into marrying him willingly, dedicating her life to him.He couldn't deny that Charis made for a wonderful wife after their marriage. She never intervened in his affairs and always treated him with respect. Yet, he could never forget his first love, Dorothy, who had taught him the meaning of love.Seven years passed in the blink of an eye. After promising to take Joy to the amusement park amid her tantrums, he suddenly received a text message from Dorothy."Does the promise we made seven years back still count, Bri
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Chapter 8
Brian grabbed Wendy by her shoulders like a madman and demanded loudly, "Tell me what's happened to Joy! What happened to her?"Wendy finally snapped out of her daze. She sighed and confessed remorsefully, "Ms. Harrell is fine, Mr. Harrell. I lied earlier. Mrs. Harrell made me lie to you."She just wanted to make you worry so that you wouldn't punish her anymore."Aurora smiled and shook her head as she continued fanning the fire."Really, Mrs. Harrell is Joy's mother after all, so how could she keep cursing her own daughter to death just for the sake of vying for your attention?"Brian cocked his eyebrow. He was displeased with Charis' actions, but since she was already dead, there was no point pursuing the matter any further.In fact, he felt relieved. It was better that everything Wendy said earlier had been nothing but a lie. That meant Joy was still alive."Find Joy and bring her back immediately. Charis is already gone. I will not let anything happen to Joy this time…"If
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Chapter 9
Aurora said, "It's all in the past now, Brian. Mrs. Harrell was just unlucky. You'd already done everything you could for her."Maybe you should forget about her now and consider me instead. Shall we just get together?"Brian didn't calm down after hearing what she said. Instead, he became even more frantic. He glared at her. "What do you mean by calling her 'unlucky'? That rope was perfectly fine when I inspected it! How could it have just snapped? Someone had to have tampered with it!"I will find out the person behind this and personally grind their bones into dust!"Brian suddenly pulled himself together and snapped into action, furiously investigating the cause of Charis' death, completely oblivious to the grim look on Aurora's face beside him.He sent Charis' body and the snapped rope away for forensic analysis while continuing to search for Joy's whereabouts. He hadn't heard from her in a couple of days, and he was getting worried.After a while, the forensic results cam
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Chapter 10
Brian was both shocked and furious. "I never gave out that order! Who did?"Just as he was about to investigate the matter, he paused and turned to Albert."Who did you say wasn't able to make it?"Albert sighed again. He couldn't bear to watch Brian keep searching for someone already dead, so he finally revealed the truth."Ms. Harrell has already passed away, Mr. Harrell."You punished her by making her kneel in the heavy rain the other day, and then doled the same punishment to Mrs. Harrell afterward. By the time Mrs. Harrell was done with her punishment, Ms. Harrell had already collapsed from a high fever and was on the verge of death."Brian shuddered violently."You mean… You mean Joy hadn't been faking it? She was actually sick?"He bit his lips hard as he felt his chest ache.Albert was right. Brian had seen Joy's lips turning purple while having a seizure on the floor, but he still thought she was simply faking her illness, and that it was nothing to worry about. Bu
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