Chapter 2

“Damn it, why is someone in the house?” Shao Yayun muttered as she arrived outside the villa wearing a mask and clothes that concealed her features shortly after I left.

Her face darkened when she saw people inside.

According to Shao Yayun’s plan, I should have left home by now.

Then she could open the safe and get to work.

First, she would use the house, the cars, and the company as collateral for loans.

She would transfer out all the company’s available funds, then immediately transfer the bank loan as soon as it arrived that afternoon.

She could finish everything in a single day, then run off with Gu Feng.

With twenty or thirty million, they could stop working altogether and enjoy life.

As for the mess at the company and at home, it would all land in my lap, and why the hell should she care?

But now that someone was in the house, how was she supposed to get the company seal and everything else?

“Gu Feng, go over to my house right now and find out what’s going on,” Shao Yayun said, taking out her phone to contact him.

Both the phone and the number were new, and she had even arranged a new identity in advance, the perfect disappearing act.

She had gone to great lengths to vanish without a trace.

“That son of a bitch was worried about someone stealing the valuables, so he specifically asked some people to watch the house!” Gu Feng reported after looking into it.

“Damn it, how did this happen!”

Shao Yayun was so frustrated she could have coughed up blood.

“If this won’t work, why don’t we try something else, since we’ll have plenty of opportunities later?” Gu Feng suggested, happy as long as he had money to spend and a woman to fool around with.

“No, this is the best way, because then I won’t have to look after those two old fossils, and I can leave them to him along with my brother, whom he’ll definitely take care of too, so he’ll be the one earning money while my whole family gets to spend it,” Shao Yayun said, having long since figured out exactly what kind of man I was.

Once she died, I would inevitably devote myself to caring for her family.

“But there are people in the villa, so we can’t even get inside!” Gu Feng said helplessly.

“I’m the only one who knows the combination to the safe, and I refuse to believe they’ll stay home every single day, so if one day isn’t enough, we’ll wait ten, and if ten days aren’t enough, we’ll wait a month; sooner or later, I’ll get to that safe, and then we can secretly take everything out, get a huge pile of money, and live the good life!” Shao Yayun said stubbornly.

She dared to take that gamble because no one could touch a cent of the company’s money without the things inside the safe.

Shao Yayun was even hoping her death would become an established fact as soon as possible.

Once that happened, who would believe a dead person could transfer money?

Even in the worst-case scenario, if I forced the safe open and tried to touch her money, she could simply come back from the dead; she had thought through every possible move.

“We found these things downstream from the mudslide.” When my in-laws and I arrived in the mountains, Zhao Li handed me a small bag covered in mud.

Inside were a phone, an ID card, and a diary.

I already knew what was in that diary—it was all fucking calculated to manipulate me and tug at my heartstrings.

The first time I read it, I had sobbed my eyes out.

There were entries like, “I love my husband more than anything, and if anything ever happens to him, I’ll treat his parents as my own.”

And, “If my husband dies, I’ll never remarry, and I’ll stay faithful to him for the rest of my life...”

Every word had struck me deep in my soul.

That was why, in my previous life, I had slaved away like an idiot to pay off her debts and support her parents and brother, never marrying again.

“Keep looking—I have to find my wife.”

I deserved an Oscar, because in this life, I cried even harder than before and searched for her like a madman.

“That idiot is searching everywhere for you, and he’s passed out from crying a few times, hahaha!” my brother-in-law secretly texted Shao Yayun.

Seeing her brother’s message made Shao Yayun even more confident.

Just as in my previous life, I searched for a week, and throughout that week, Ren Fan stayed at my house, keeping a close watch on the safe.

After a week, Shao Yayun was presumed dead, and we erected an empty grave for her.

In my previous life, I had gone straight home after the burial and begun my miserable existence of working myself to the bone.

This time, I was in no hurry to return.

While my brother-in-law and the others were taking an afternoon nap, I made a special trip to the relevant authorities to obtain a death certificate.

Word of my search for my wife in the mudslide had already spread, and the authorities had helped me search for some time.

By then, they were virtually certain Shao Yayun had died in the mudslide.

So they readily issued the certificate.

“Please look up all the phone numbers registered under this ID!” I said at the mobile carrier’s store, presenting my wife’s death certificate and ID.

I was certain that if I transferred the money now, Shao Yayun would immediately receive an alert on her phone.

Just as I suspected, in addition to her old number, Shao Yayun had registered a new SIM card a week before the accident.

Once I had the new number, I headed straight to the bank, knowing I had only one chance and had to think through every step without making a mistake.