Chapter 1

My thoughts took me back to 15 years ago.My three-year-old daughter, Winnie Gulliver, was abducted right in front of my husband, Jasper Gulliver's eyes.Jasper had sunk down to his knees in front of me. Tears streamed down his face as he slapped himself over and over again."I'm sorry, Natasha. I had no idea things would end up this way. I just stepped away for a brief moment to smoke. When I came back, Winnie was… I've already filed a missing persons report and informed the police about her abduction. We'll definitely get her back!"Why don't you take out your frustrations on me, honey? I've learned my lesson. I really have!"I had leaned against the wall at the time, watching Jasper slap himself with hollow eyes.At the end of the day, my heart had softened at his display of remorse.I couldn't deny that Jasper had treated me extremely well in the past few years. Although he was always busy running his business, he never once neglected my needs. Whenever I had a craving, he

Chapter 2

My heart plummeted into my gut.I felt as if my soul was escaping my body as I placed down my phone. Moving on instinct, I opened my laptop and navigated to the publication's website again.Pretending to be curious about their research, I sent the author of the article a connection request. I also sent them a private message, saying, "Good afternoon. I'm a journal editor. I'm intrigued by the contents of your article. Can we have a chat to discuss it in detail?"It didn't take long before the author accepted the friend request and replied to my message."Of course. I can guarantee that everything that you read in the article is true. In fact, I have records for all the data, including her expenses over the past few years as well as her asking price."My breath hitched in my throat.I couldn't help but recall the contents of the article at the mention of my "asking price".If the author was truly "Winnie", it proved that she had indeed sold me like a product to her classmate's fa

Chapter 3

I organized the first batch of information I received and shared some of it with a few famous livestreamers with whom I was familiar.These livestreamers used to be my employees.After being a housewife for so many years, I had nearly forgotten that before I got married, I used to be the top dog in the media industry. I had also been the president of a company and had a net worth of millions of dollars.The livestreamers were experienced and could instantly tell that they had a big scoop on their hands. All of them made me promise them to let them know the time and location of the big reveal.To ensure that the confrontation would explode all over the news, naturally, I dedicated all my efforts to setting the stage.…Jasper came home that night stinking of perfume. The cloying scent permeated my senses as he delivered his usual speech to me."I had no choice. I had to entertain a client."It was the same excuse every single time.The fury that I had worked so hard to suppress

Chapter 4

Rose's smile instantly stiffened. "Who's Rose Gulliver?" she asked.Although she was forcing herself to maintain her composure, the way the color drained from her face gave her away."If there's nothing else that you want to say to me, I'll be taking my leave now, Mom. I don't know who this Rose person is."She then turned around and tried to make a quick escape, but I swiftly blocked her path."It's alright if you don't know her," I said. "But you should know that before I became a housewife, I used to be part of the media industry. The person you were chatting with yesterday was me."Rose whipped around with a horrified expression. "It was you? The editor who asked to meet me today was you?"I smiled. "Well, at least you're not completely stupid. I truly had no idea that my husband and my daughter, whom I raised for so many years, were actually despicable beasts under their perfect masks."Rose gave up on pretending when she realized it would be pointless to continue denying t

Chapter 5

Rose froze on the spot after Jasper slapped her. She held her cheek as she stared at him in disbelief."Why did you slap me, Dad?"Jasper was nearly overwhelmed with the urge to end her life there and then. "Do you have any idea what you've gotten yourself into?" he roared.Rose's voice was colored with reluctance when she answered, "I was just criticizing our nanny a little. What's wrong with that? It's not as if you haven't scolded her in the past, Dad. Why are you pretending to be a good person now?"When Mom asked you if you had any feelings for our nanny, you told her no. You also told her that you only loved Mom, and that you only found this nanny to raise me—"Unable to control his anger anymore, Jasper slapped Rose again, finally shutting her up."Open your damned eyes and take a good look at how you're being criticized online!"Only then did Rose notice the livestream on my phone. Fear gripped her heart, and she was at a loss for what to do."You… You were secretly rec

Chapter 6

For the first time, Rose actually looked flustered. She averted her gaze and mumbled, "I-I didn't do anything. I was just acting out of the kindness of my heart. I thought that our nanny would get lonely being all by herself in the house, so I set her up with some of my friends' single fathers…"Jasper had a complete mental breakdown. He never could have imagined that his own daughter would do something so despicable.He began to doubt his own decisions, going so far as to delude himself into believing that everything that was happening was just a farce."Impossible… That's impossible! Nat knows me. Even if she wasn't able to identify me at first because of her face blindness, she would have eventually realized that it wasn't me in bed with her!" he exclaimed, staring at me with pleading eyes.Unfortunately for Jasper, my response turned his entire world upside down."Yes. I would have realized that it wasn't you. But your dear daughter drugged me every time during these encount