Semua Bab A Revenge Reborn: Bab 1 - Bab 8

8 Bab

Chapter 1

“Mom, you always loved wearing white dresses when you were alive. Now you can wear them forever.“Don’t be hard on me, Mom. “I didn’t mean to do it…I was just afraid you’d take Martin from me. “Besides, people online always say widows are the most likely to treat their sons like husbands. “I love Martin so much. You had a husband, too. Even though he died more than twenty years ago, you should be able to understand, right?”When I heard my best friend, Penny Hallmark, spewing those twisted words, I realized I had been reborn.Before I could even sit up, Penny walked to the front of the coffin, lowered her voice, and hissed manically into my ear.“You old hag, you’re finally dead. I couldn’t stand watching you dress up every day, trying to seduce your two sons!“They’re both mine. No one is allowed to take them from me!”Just then, I opened my eyes and met her gaze.“Who said I was dead?”Penny’s scream pierced the silence of the wake.Everyone turned toward the sound, on

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Chapter 2

“Oh heavens, what misery my life has been! I lost my husband while I was still young, raised two sons all by myself, and just when I finally saw them grown and married, I hadn’t even held a grandchild yet before I was angered to death!”Penny staggered back half a step, startled by my sudden outburst.But in the very next second, I climbed out of the coffin and nimbly locked my arms around her legs.“God pitied me and let me come back to life, yet my own daughter-in-law clearly never wanted me to live!”The people who had fled earlier heard the commotion and returned to the hall, whispering among themselves.Penny endured the pain in her leg and struggled in panic.“Mom, what are you saying? I never wished for you to die!”Martin, the eldest son of the Rembrandts, snapped out of his daze. He shoved Penny aside and helped me up.“What the hell, Penny? You were hoping Mom would die, weren’t you? Apologize to her now!”Penny froze in place.After a long moment, she bit her lip

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Chapter 3

Chris staggered back from the blow, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, his eyes filled with shock.Penny and Martin looked as though they, too, had been slapped, their faces frozen in disbelief.Penny reached out to gently cup Chris’s swollen cheek, her heart aching for him.“What right do you have to hit him? Have you lost your mind?”Martin stepped in front of me and spoke with righteous certainty.“Chris is still Mom’s son. If she hits him, she must have had her reasons.”I patted Martin on the shoulder and replied with a cold smile.“What right? Because I’m his mother.“Let me give you some advice, Penny. When a mother hits her son, it’s not madness; it’s discipline.“If I don’t teach him now, society will teach him later.”Just then, a memory from Felicity’s past surfaced in my mind.It turned out only Martin had been raised by Felicity.When Chris was born, her husband, Noah Rembrandt, tragically passed away. To keep the Rembrandts from falling apart, Felic

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Chapter 4

I froze in place.Penny grew even more brazen, nearly pressing her stomach into my face.“You’d better think carefully. “If this baby doesn’t make it, you’ll be the greatest sinner among the Rembrandts. And when you die, maybe your own father-in-law will have something to say about it!”Martin sprang to his feet, his voice full of excitement.“Are you really pregnant, Penny?”“Yes, Martin,” she cooed.“Our first child. We have to protect our baby.“Girl or boy, I’ll love them all the same,” Martin said proudly.Penny froze as his words settled on her.Sure enough, the moment Martin left, she sneaked off to a private hospital to determine the child’s sex.I secretly bribed the doctor so that no matter the actual gender, the report had to say it was a girl.I also installed hidden cameras all over the house to gather evidence.When the report came back, and Penny learned the child was a girl, her expression turned venomous. She pounded her belly with all her might.“Of c

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Chapter 5

Martin was the first to sense that something was wrong. He snatched the report from my hands in an instant.“What do you mean, ‘whose child is this’? What is this?”“Don’t look!”Chris and Penny shouted at the same time, their panic mirrored in each other’s faces.Chris lunged to grab the report. Martin, unprepared, let it slip from his hands. Even before reading it, he sensed something was amiss. He glanced at Penny and Chris, both pale as ghosts.“What are you two hiding from me?” he asked quietly as his eyes narrowed.“What’s on this paper that I’m not supposed to see?”“There’s nothing, Martin! Don’t believe her!” Penny cried out as she pointed at me. Just having given birth, she was weak and gasping for breath.“This paper is all a trick to fool you. There’s nothing on it. Trust the baby and me, okay?”Chris shot me a venomous glare, his anxiety mounting.“Mom’s insane. Whatever she says, don’t believe her! Penny and I would never lie to you!”The more despera

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Chapter 6

With every word I spoke, Penny’s expression twisted into a kaleidoscope of emotions. She clawed at her throat as she screamed at me.“You wretch! How dare you play me like this!”I feigned shock, clutching my chest.“Why are you yelling at me, Penny? I only wanted you to see the baby’s health report. “I didn’t expect such a reaction… or that you’d rush to swallow the report. “Is a baby’s health report really something you can’t look at? Or were you just desperate to destroy something?”Penny practically lunged at me, as if she wanted to tear my face apart.“Shut up! This is all your fault!”I dabbed nonexistent tears from the corner of my eyes, wailing my grievances.Martin stepped in front of me.“That’s enough, Penny. Mom didn’t do it on purpose. “Besides, don’t you think you and Chris are overreacting?“What are you hiding from us?” he pressed.“How can you believe her over me?” Penny wailed.“If you don’t believe me, I’ll jump off the building with our son!”Wit

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Chapter 7

Martin’s infertility had surfaced in Felicity’s memories. Every year, she had taken the twins for checkups, and now that Martin was married, an extra test had been added.When the results came in that day, Felicity had been shocked. She had intended to deliver the news to Martin immediately, but she ran into Penny.Felicity had tried to probe Penny subtly about her thoughts on infertility, but Penny twisted the moment, telling Martin and Chris that Felicity resented Penny for not producing an heir after marrying into the family, and suggested finding Martin a second wife.Martin and Chris had flown into a rage and confronted Felicity. The shock triggered a heart attack, and Felicity collapsed on the spot. By the time she was rushed to the hospital, she had already passed away.The brothers had always disliked anything Felicity loved. Whenever she asked them to do something, they would refuse if possible, doing the opposite of what pleased her. Checkups had been no excep

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Chapter 8

The men who had just been laughing uproariously suddenly straightened in their chairs, their expressions pale.As expected, only when the facts were laid bare did they realize that danger was closing in.I stood up and walked to the director who had insulted me. From my assistant’s hands, I took a stack of photographs showing him meeting different women late at night.“So you must have used those very words to keep your wife at home, while you sought pleasure outside with different women, didn’t you?”“Where did you get those?” he asked shakily as cold sweat broke out across his forehead.I ignored him and moved to the next director. This time it was a video.“Now I finally understand why whenever you see anything involving men and women, you assume it’s women competing for favor because in real life, you are also someone who likes to compete with women for attention.”One piece of evidence after another was laid out until the meeting room gradually echoed with only my voice

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