All Chapters of Exposing My Stepmother: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

“Lucy, you’re saying you saw some man leave the yard gate unlocked?!”Dad stood outside the gate, his bloodshot eyes locked onto me.I sneered inwardly.Look at how much he loved my younger brother, Ethan.In my previous life, I explained over and over that I had locked the gate properly. However, he only believed the pillow talk whispered by my stepmother, Mary, and decided that I was the one who caused the death of his only son.My mother died giving birth to me. Before the first week after her funeral was even over, he brought a pregnant Mary into the house.That woman secured her position as the wife of the house by giving birth to a premature baby boy. Because of it, her body was damaged, and she could never have another child.So, Ethan became my dad’s entire world.After Ethan died, he treated me like a dog. He fed me dog food, made me sleep in a cage, and forced me to bark just to vent his useless rage and ease his guilt toward Mary.However, in this life, I won’t be t

I clenched my fists tightly. I had to stay calm.“Dad, I didn’t push Ethan. I was in my bedroom doing homework while Mom was watching Ethan on the second-floor balcony.” My voice carried just the right amount of trembling, sounding exactly like a frightened child.Dad was holding the unconscious Ethan. His bloodshot eyes were fixed on me, like a wild beast on the verge of losing control.Mary immediately rushed to speak first. “I clearly told Lucy to watch Ethan on the second floor, then I went downstairs to get some onions from Nancy next door. Nancy can testify for me!”I sneered inwardly. What a clever move. She had calculated Dad’s return time perfectly and deliberately gone to the neighbor to create an alibi.Sure enough, Nancy, who had always been close with Mary, squeezed out of the crowd at once, her face full of righteous indignation.“That’s right, Daniel. Mary just borrowed onions from me, saying she was going to cook your favorite fish. I personally watched her walk

Mary reacted instantly. She reached out and covered Ethan’s mouth, forcing a smile uglier than crying onto her face.“Honey, listen to him. He fell so hard that his head’s muddled. He’s talking nonsense now.”The hand covering Ethan’s mouth and nose pressed so hard that her fingernails dug into his cheek, turning it pale.The whip in Dad’s hand froze midair, the barbed tip only inches from my eyes. However, he wasn’t looking at me. His bloodshot eyes, like two burning coals, were fixed firmly on Mary’s face.Slowly, the whip lowered and changed direction. The leather tip lightly rested against Mary’s arm.Her whole body stiffened.“Really?” Dad’s voice was low.Mary’s tears fell instantly, her performance full of raw emotion.“You don’t believe me? For an outsider, you actually don’t believe me? Fine! You want the truth? I’ll call the police right now! Let them come and clear my name!”As she spoke, she reached for the phone in her pocket, her movements flustered.Ethan str

Mary’s eyes were locked onto the report in the police officer’s hands, as if she wanted to burn a hole straight through it.She suddenly shrieked and pointed at the neighbors outside, who were still craning their necks to watch.“It was them! One of them must’ve touched the wheelchair! Officer, you can’t just check us. Test their fingerprints too!”The moment she said that, the yard fell completely silent.The neighbors who had just been speaking up for her all turned ugly-faced, retreating backward and waving their hands to distance themselves.“Hey, how can you talk like that? We never touched your wheelchair!”“Exactly! We just came to take a look, and this is how you repay kindness?”Mary’s pleading gaze turned toward Nancy, the neighbor she was closest to.Nancy’s face flushed red. When Dad’s icy gaze swept over her, she immediately shrank her neck and forced an awkward smile to smooth things over.“Oh, Daniel’s just panicking. Why not let the officers compare the fingerp

Mary tried to cling to his leg again, only to be kicked away, collapsing onto the cold hospital floor in utter disgrace.“For our son’s sake, leave me a way to live…” She cried hysterically. Her makeup was ruined, and there was not a trace of her former elegance left.My father looked down at her, his eyes devoid of emotion except betrayed fury and revulsion.“A way to live? When you used my son as a pawn and cheated on me, did you ever think about leaving me a way to live?”He couldn’t be bothered to say another word and ordered someone to throw her out.As for Ben, my father didn’t call the police.After all, family scandals were not to be made public. He couldn’t afford that humiliation.Instead, he pulled several of the toughest security guards from his company and sent them to Ben’s usual nightclub.They said the scene was more dramatic than any soap opera.When my father’s men arrived, Ben was surrounded by women, bragging about how he had wrapped a rich older woman arou