LOGINAfter six years of working as a corpse porter, I finally saved enough money to treat my sister, Maeve Xander, for her liver cancer. Maeve, however, casually refused the surgery. “I’m not actually sick. Mom and Dad aren’t dead either. I staged that car accident. You’re the only one who ended up seriously hurt and disabled.” Then my wife, Laurel Jinks, also confessed, “I’m not bankrupt. Every time I said I had to work late, it was because I didn’t want to cram into that filthy basement with you. I was going back to my mansion. I originally planned to punish you for three more years, but you reek of dead bodies. Maeve and I just can’t take the smell anymore.” A wave of pure absurdity washed over me as my body froze with the hand holding my credit card still in the air. Maeve snatched the card from my hand and tossed it into the trash. “That card is empty. I gave all the money you made carrying corpses to homeless people. Think of it as doing good deeds for the child you lost. After all, taking money from the dead is cursed. It’s bad luck all the way down. We shouldn’t touch that filthy money.” A chill ran down my spine. I did not understand why they treated me this way. Then, I saw my parents. They were standing far away from me, as if I were a plague. I completely broke down. “You bullied Cameron because you are the only son of the Xander family, so we wanted to teach you a lesson. If you promise to never bully Cameron again, we’ll still consider you our son. If you do not promise, we’ll cut you off, and you’ll be dead to us.” Just as my heart sank and I fell into despair, a sympathetic voice from the system sounded in my mind. [Jude, do you wish to abandon this mission and leave this world?]
View MoreBut my parents just stood there and stared at him as if they wanted to tear him apart.They had heard everything clearly in the study earlier.My mother broke down, covering her face, and collapsed to her knees.“This is all our fault. If we hadn’t been so greedy and wanted both sons with us, things wouldn’t have ended up like this.”My father stood to the side and slapped his own face repeatedly.“We were idiots. Why didn’t we believe Jude? Why did we believe whatever Cameron said?”They cried inconsolably. Noah had seen everything through the crack in the door. When he opened the door, his entire body was trembling.He cautiously approached Laurel.“Mom, is Jude... I mean, Dad... really dead?”Laurel turned and shoved him away. Her gaze was cold like a stranger’s.“Don’t you call him that. You called the man who ruined your father ‘Dad.’ You don’t deserve to be his child.”Noah was stunned.“I’m putting out a statement. From today on, you and I have no relationship.”Noa
As I followed Maeve into the house, the living room was completely silent.My parents sat on the couch, clutching my photo in their hands. Their eyes were red and swollen from crying. Their faces were ashen. They looked as if they had aged ten years overnight.Cameron immediately came forward to greet her. He was as attentive as ever. “Maeve, you’re back! I made you some food. You haven’t rested all night—”Before he could finish speaking, Maeve walked past him. She did not give him a single glance, as if he were invisible.He stood rooted in place, feeling stunned.Noah cautiously walked over. “Dad, don’t be sad—”Before he could finish, Cameron slapped him.Noah was caught off guard. Cameron looked angry, and his gaze was vicious. “Get lost, you brat!”Noah’s face turned pale with fear. He did not even dare to cry out loud. He turned and ran back to his room. After the study door was pushed open, Maeve saw that Laurel was already inside. Just as Maeve was about to l
Laurel and Maeve were soon forcibly separated and taken away by the police. The door to the holding cell slammed shut with a bang.Maeve sat on the floor with her back against the cold wall. She felt completely numb and emotionally dead.From the next cell, she could hear Laurel wailing and screaming all night long. Maeve closed her eyes. But her mind would not stop drifting back to the past.The first year I came home, she did not like me. Honestly, she was disgusted by me. She thought I was here to steal everything that should have been Cameron’s, so she tried to scare me off.But I was just too timid.If she raised her voice even a little, I would flinch.I would not even shut a door too loudly. I would always walk on eggshells and was afraid of bothering anyone.That made her feel like no matter what she did to me, she was the bad guy.Perhaps she felt pity towards me, or perhaps it was because we were blood-related. Either way, she slowly started to care about me.She
“Jude!”Maeve was the first to rush downstairs. Her steps were unsteady. She practically tumbled down.Laurel followed close behind.When they reached the bottom of the stairs, they both froze completely.There I was, lying on the ground. Most of my blood had dried up, and my body was twisted and fixed in place. My eyes, however, were still open as they stared emptily upward.Maeve’s face turned pale as her body stiffened. “No... this can’t be,” she murmured.The next second, Maeve lunged forward and dropped to her knees beside me.“Jude!” She reached out to hold me. Her movements were frantic and trembling.“Stop messing around! Get up! Do you hear me? Get up right now!”But my body was limp with no response. My head hung weakly to one side.Laurel knelt beside me. She was practically shouting, “Call 911! Call 911!“Don’t scare me, Jude. Please, don’t scare me like this!”My parents then came stumbling down as well. The two of them leaned on each other. They could bare
As soon as I entered the event hall, all the reporters approached me.“You haven’t been seen in years. Everyone is really curious about how things stand between you, the biological son of the Xander family, and Cameron, the adopted one. Have you two made up yet?”My mother shoved a piece of paper
Maeve pressed down on my head and forcibly stuffed me into a wooden crate.I held my breath the moment darkness fell.Four years ago, during my job, a family member played a cruel joke by nailing me inside a coffin together with a corpse. The coffin was narrow and dark. I spent three days facing a
“Yes!”I bit the inside of my cheek until it bled. The taste of copper filled my mouth.[Okay. Twenty-four-hour countdown starting now.]My wife, Laurel, noticed that I had not spoken for a while. She raised her hand to wipe away the tears at the corner of my eye.“Do you understand what you did
“You filthy homewrecker!”Someone in the crowd threw the first insult. Then, it was like a fuse had been lit. All the men who had been cheated on rushed forward. Their punches were quick to split the corner of my mouth open.Maeve panicked. Just as she was about to help me, Cameron clutched his ch


















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