The Smart Speaker Exposed My Wife’s Affair

Alex was surprisingly fast. In half an hour, my phone vibrated.I received a link and a comment from him. [It’s a generous contribution from the best actor of the year. The evidence is so complete that I can’t bring myself to charge you with a full payment. Take your time and enjoy.]I clicked on it and realized that it was Samuel’s social media account. It was set to public. The newest post was a close-up photo of a wrist with the bracelet that I was most familiar with because of the engraved “L.” The caption went something like this:[The Sun is coming to you, Miss C.]My nickname “the Sun” and my bracelet had become another man’s prizes.My face was devoid of expression as I scrolled down. The background of one of the photos was the study in my house. Samuel held his face and smiled innocently, with the out-of-print architectural atlas I had collected from Lasnon behind him.[I’m learning in Miss C’s study, and I’m getting better!] Samuel held a pen and was drawing on

Samuel looked at me warily. I ignored the host and walked straight on stage.The host felt helpless and instinctively wanted to stop me, but one look from me made him retrieve his hand.I got the microphone from him. The cold, metallic microphone in my hand helped me calm myself.“Hello, ladies and gentlemen.” My voice resonated in the entire hall. It was firm and steady. “I’m Charles Simpson, the founder of Dream Co.” That created quite a commotion among the audience. All the people in the industry knew me. I paused and scanned the room before I looked at the woman among the judges, whose face had gone pale.Then, I added, “I’m also Ms. Clark’s husband.”My words dropped like a bomb and created an uproar among the audience. People looked between Linda and me. They were flabbergasted as they tried to make sense of it and gossiped among themselves. These gazes were like delicate needles that pierced through the decency Linda had painstakingly maintained.I ignored the whis

I ignored the hypocritical texts in the shareholders’ group as they took Linda’s side. I switched my phone to silent mode.Those disruptions were none of my concern.I drove to Alex’s law firm. He was already waiting for me with his laptop. At the sight of my car, he opened the car door and got in. “Don’t go home or to the company.” Alex placed his laptop on his thighs and typed on it. “I guess that woman is searching for you everywhere. Let’s find a place to dig up all the dirt on her.”He kept speaking furiously, but he did not stop what he was doing. We went to a private room in a secluded cafe. I watched him gain access to various databases, type in a few codes, and wait for the data to roll onto the screen. Then, he saw the registration information of a company. “Sun Design Co.,” Alex said and sneered. “The legal representative is someone called Gavin Wilson, but I can’t find anything about this person. Even his ID is fake. But the company’s foreign trust account looks

It was clear that everyone would kick a person when they were down.Linda was left with nothing. She must have borrowed someone’s phone in jail because she kept calling me.When I answered the phone, I heard her piteous cries. She spoke to me in a way I was very familiar with.“Charles, I was wrong. I accept my mistakes. Can you give me another chance? I went astray and did something bad. That guy seduced me first. He bewitched me! I just lost my way!”She kept crying and shifting the blame. In the end, she recounted the past. “Did you forget about the time when we first established Dream Co.? We stayed up late to make designs together. We ate cheap food together. You told me that it was our shared dream…”I listened to her terrible acting and found it irritating.“Are you done?” I interrupted her. “I’ll hang up if you’re done. It’s expensive to make an international call.”Linda abruptly stopped talking and burst into tears. I hung up and blocked the number.I did not enj

I did not go on the day of the verdict. Alex excitedly gave me a live broadcast through his phone.“Their crimes were combined, and they were severely punished! Did you hear that, Charles? Punished very severely!” Alex was happy.“Linda collapsed on the spot and was dragged out of the court. Samuel did not fare any better. He kept crying and yelling that he was forced into it. Unfortunately, he gave you the recording, and it was the one thing that pinned him to his crime. The judge told him that adults should pay a price for their greed and stupidity.”I spoke briefly and hung up. The sun was shining brightly outside the window. I was watering the plants on the balcony and cut off a few withered leaves. Everything was finally over.Half a month later, I retrieved most of my money and property that were transferred from the company and rebuilt it.On the day of the meeting, the room was full of people. There were some experienced workers and some new people whom I had recently recr