All Chapters of A Man with Nerves of Steel: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

When Joseph finally woke from his drunken stupor, he found himself in a luxurious king-sized bed in a hotel room. He was completely naked under the covers, and from the mess all around, he'd definitely gotten down and dirty.His head buzzed as he tried to piece together last night's events. After finding out about Cora's betrayal, he'd chosen to drink himself senseless at a bar because he hadn't wanted to go home and face her. Everything after that was a blank.He'd totally blacked out.Had he actually slept with some woman from the bar? Then he'd cheated, too. How was he any different from Cora?No, it wasn't the same. He was already planning to divorce her, so there was nothing between them anymore. From now on, how he lived was his own business!Joseph grasped at that flimsy justification and tried to sit up. However, a sharp stab of pain hit his skull so hard he couldn't hold back a groan.A moment later, he heard the sound of running water in the bathroom. He turned his head

Joseph rejected Cora's unreasonable demands without hesitation. "No way. I meant every word. The paternity test result is real, which means your cheating is real. You've already been unfaithful, so there's no point in keeping this marriage going. We have to di—""Joseph, is this the sort of attitude you give me when I'm talking to you nicely? Do you even realize who you're talking to? Do you have to push my buttons?" Cora cut in, her tone turning sharp again. Her superior, high-and-mighty air crashed down on Joseph without restraint.Joseph fell silent, but he was bitterly disappointed on the inside. He had thought Cora would come clean and agree to an amicable divorce. Instead, she was trying to bully him into backing down.Seeing that he wasn't saying anything, Cora assumed he had softened. She eased her tone a little. "Joe, I'm not here to fight with you. I spent the night with you at the hotel, had a nice meal with you, and I'm now setting my pride aside to talk this through nic

Joseph was prepared for this and met Cora's gaze head-on. "Cora, you're now the richest person in Jenton. Your net worth is what, 80 billion dollars? And that's even a conservative guess. I'm not going to make some ridiculous demand to split everything equally. That money isn't mine, and I didn't earn it."But there's no doubt that you've lied to me for the past 16 years. I'm only asking for one hundred million a year as compensation for emotional damages—that makes 1.6 billion for 16 years. I don't think that's excessive."Cora's expression cooled. Her beautiful eyes locked onto Joseph's, sharp and searching. She tried to read his true thoughts from every twitch of his face. All she came away with was how suddenly unfamiliar he felt to her. The man she'd shared a bed with for 16 years now looked like a stranger.Joseph assumed Cora just didn't want to pay. He sneered and said, "You become a completely different person when money comes up. At least now I finally get to see your othe

"This ingrate has the nerve to make outrageous demands of us to scam us out of our money! Let me kill him!" Bernard was still furious. He pushed Cora away to hit Joseph, but Joseph blocked his attacks.Helen didn't hear the whole story, but she still hurried over to break them up."Enough of this! Haven't you all made enough of a scene?" Cora shouted.It cracked like a whip through the room, making Bernard freeze mid-swing. She grabbed Joseph's arm to drag him outside, but he shook her off.He said, "We're putting everything on the table today, and then we're getting a divorce."He turned to Helen and held out the paternity test results. "Look at this, Mom. Natalie isn't mine, which means Cora cheated on me. I can't live like this anymore."Helen didn't need reading glasses yet. She clearly saw the conclusion in the report. She turned to Bernard. "What on earth is going on?"He snapped, "That ingrate forged this report to push for a divorce, but his actual goal is to get his han

Fiona returned to Lowell Group half an hour later to report back to Cora.Cora set aside what she was working on and asked, "So, did you manage to talk Joseph out of his ridiculous idea?"Fiona gave a small shake of her head and carefully pulled out the paternity test report she'd gotten from Joseph. "It's going to be hard to do if he has this.""Again with that thing? It's obviously fake." One glance at the report, and Cora could already guess Joseph was still obsessing over his conclusion.She said irritably, "He's been driven to insanity by this result. How could he just run off and get a DNA test done on his own? He didn't get my consent at all. Doesn't acting on his own like that count as breaking the law?""Mr. Hart is also a legal guardian. He was acting within his rights when he requested the test, so it's not illegal," Fiona explained."Then what if I countersue him for slandering me? Can I have him thrown in jail? I mean, it's not really to lock him up for good. I just