All Chapters of No Longer My Burden: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

Staring at the wailing baby inside the cardboard box in front of me, I didn’t hesitate. I picked up my phone and called the police."Hello? Yes, there’s an abandoned baby outside my house. I don’t know who left him here."The officer said they would arrive shortly. After I hung up, my parents, Owen and Julia Ashford, came out of the house. The moment they saw the baby, their first reaction was to rush over and pick him up."Oh my god, whose baby is this? The poor thing. It’s freezing out here, and someone just dumped him like this.""Natalie Ashford, don’t you love kids the most? Why don’t you just adopt him?"I watched them perform with cold indifference.In my previous life, I had adopted this child and named him Tom Ashford. I gave up my career and struggled to raise him on my own.Then, on the very day Tom was accepted into a top-tier university, my younger sister, Sophia Ashford, suddenly appeared and accused me of stealing her child.Overnight, I became a despicable human

I never expected them to take advantage of a moment when I wasn’t paying attention and put Tom into the trunk of my car.By the time I reached my new place and opened the trunk, I saw Tom lying inside the pitch-dark space, crying so hard he could barely catch his breath.There was a message from Mom on my phone."Natalie, Sophia still has an engagement to follow through with, and we’re too old to take care of a child. Whether this baby is yours or not, just take him in for now."I laughed and drove Tom straight to the police station.At the same time, I requested last night’s surveillance footage. The video captured everything clearly.A figure appeared in the middle of the night, sneaking around while holding a cardboard box and placing it at our doorstep. Tom cried in there all night, until I discovered him in the morning.I recognized the person immediately. It was Sophia.I saved the surveillance footage as evidence.The police tried several times to contact Sophia, but ev

Sophia looked momentarily awkward, but she immediately wiped her eyes and put on the expression of someone deeply wronged."Kid, it’s not your fault if you don’t recognize me. After I gave birth to you back then, Natalie took advantage of a moment when I wasn’t paying attention and secretly snuck you away. Then she cut off contact with the family and moved out. I was busy preparing to marry Sebastian and managing household matters, so I never had the chance to come back and look for you…"Look, now your mom and dad are back. Langford Corporation will be yours to inherit in the future, too. Come back to your parents’ side soon."As she spoke, she deliberately straightened her posture, lifting a hand to caress the diamond necklace around her neck, flaunting the expensive jewelry she was wearing.In my previous life, Tom had run to her without hesitation the moment he saw who had more money.This time, things were completely different.She had no idea that Northvale Holdings had lon

I held another admission party for my son. This time, Sophia didn’t show up to cause trouble.After the party ended, I received another call from Mom."Natalie, Sophia went to the police station but couldn’t find anyone. They said it’s been over ten years, and none of the officers remember that abandoned baby case anymore. If she wants to keep looking, she needs the original reporter’s ID!"I'm begging you, can you come back and help Sophia find her biological child?"I had already expected this. I replied lazily, "Mom, are you sure you still want to look? It’s been so many years. Who knows what that child has turned into? What if you find him and he comes back to drain you dry?""How can you talk like that? That’s still Sophia’s biological child! Besides, Sebastian has plenty of money. Raising one more child is nothing to him."Since they were determined to look, I didn’t bother stopping them. "Fine. I’ll help her look. But let me be clear. Whatever happens after we find him has

Sebastian sued Sophia until she was left with nothing. He reclaimed the villa and luxury cars he had gifted her during the marriage and left her without a single cent in assets.I also filed a lawsuit against her, demanding compensation for the emotional distress caused by her defamation of my family.On the day the verdict was issued, Sophia stood outside what had once been her home, dragging a suitcase and begging bitterly, only to be blocked by security and refused entry.With no other choice, she called our parents and squeezed back into that cramped old apartment overnight.For the next half month, Mom and Dad called me almost every day."Natalie, Sophia is so pitiful. We’re still family. If you have any empty rooms, why not let her stay with you?""I'm begging you as your mother. Just think of it as doing a good deed. Help Sophia and our family."Listening to their tearful pleas, I let out a faint, cold laugh."When you helped her frame me and ruin Elliot’s admission part