All Chapters of Digging His Grave: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

Jacob Graham glared at me, his jaw clenching so hard that his muscles twitched.“Are you out of your mind? Do you even know what you’re saying?”I didn’t even bother looking up.“I said I fell for a younger one, just like you did. Is there a problem?”Furious, Jacob stormed over and grabbed my wrist.“Lila, how dare you betray me?”Seeing him so furious, I suddenly found the whole thing hilarious. He could go out, play house with some young girl, and even use music to send her love notes. But the second I stated a simple fact, he couldn’t take it.I pried his fingers off my wrist and smoothed out my crumpled sleeve. “Jacob, double standards are an ugly look on you.”Jacob let out a bitter laugh, his eyes full of contempt.“I was just messing around! But you? You’re using my money to keep a boy toy. Lila, have you no shame?”As the tension escalated, our friends quietly slipped out. Unfazed, I walked to the center of the living room.Hanging on the main wall was our wedding p

The next morning, at the courthouse.Just as I reached the doors, I bumped straight into Jacob. He was holding hands with Taylor Fisher on the steps, looking as intimate as a pair of newlyweds.Taylor was wearing a white dress today, one hand resting protectively over her stomach. Her eyes were rimmed red, looking like the picture of innocence. When she saw me, she shrank behind Jacob's back.Jacob didn’t hide, though. Instead, he walked right up to me and looked down at me condescendingly. “Lila, let’s talk.”I didn’t budge. “About what?”He pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it.“I don’t want to take this to the extreme. After all, we were married. The conditions are simple. You agree to the divorce, and the house on the east side of town is yours. As for your little boy toy, I won’t pursue it.”I laughed. “Jacob, are you doing me a favor now?”Jacob flicked the ash off his cigarette and stayed silent.“Do the math yourself. What good does making a scene in court

The courtroom plunged into absolute silence, with only Dan’s crisp words echoing through the air.Jacob's entire body stiffened. He stared dead into Dan’s face, the spitting image of his own younger self. His lips trembled, but he couldn’t squeeze out a single word for the longest time.Judge Ellis frowned deeply and banged the gavel. “Witness, please observe courtroom decorum and state your identity!”Dan let out a bitter laugh. He pulled a neatly folded DNA test report from his pocket and handed it to the bailiff with both hands.“Your Honor, my name is Dan Barnes. I am twenty-one years old. I am the illegitimate son that the plaintiff, Jacob Graham, left behind twenty-one years ago when he was living in Lancre Town.”The entire room erupted into gasps, and the gallery immediately burst into excited whispers.“An illegitimate son? Twenty-one years old? Isn't that even earlier than his dead first love?”“Holy crap, not only did this guy ruin his wife and kill his own baby, but

“I’m not divorcing! I’m not divorcing!”Jacob suddenly dropped to his knees, reaching out in desperation to grab my leg.“Lila, honey, please forgive me! For the sake of our years together, please don't do this to me! I can’t live without the company!”I took a step back in disgust, and the bailiffs immediately stepped forward, pinning him down firmly.Right at that moment, a sharp, furious scream erupted from the gallery.Jacob’s mother, Debbie Ryan, who had fainted earlier, had somehow woken up. She charged straight at Taylor like a madwoman.“You leech! You destroyed everything! If you hadn’t insisted on marriage, how could my son have ended up like this?!”Debbie completely lost her mind. She grabbed Taylor by the hair and landed a brutal smack straight across her face.The crisp sound of the slap echoed through the entire courtroom. Half of Taylor’s face swelled up instantly, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.Knowing that Jacob was about to become a penniless

A month later, the court verdict was handed down.For the crimes of intentional assault and money laundering through corporate embezzlement, Jacob was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.On top of that, his personal assets were confiscated, leaving him completely penniless.Because he couldn’t come up with the money to compensate for the company's losses, all the real estate and luxury cars under his name, along with that marital home hiding Sienna’s memorial photo, were put up for forced court auction.I heard that on the day he was transported to prison, he lost it. He kept muttering endlessly about his company and his son, telling anyone he ran into.His mother, Debbie, suffered a stroke from all the commotion in court that day. Having lost her source of income, she was dumped into a cheap nursing home. Paralyzed in bed, she was left with cold meals every day, forgotten and reliant on minimal assistance.As for Taylor? Though she survived the severe hemorrhaging from her mis