Chapter 2

I discovered that my wife Lily was cheating on me.

She didn't know that the things she bought showed up in my Amazon recommendations.

It was a pair of Stephen & Co. leather shoes worth over $500.

At the time, I thought she had bought them for me and felt touched.

I thanked heaven for giving me such a caring wife who loved me so much.

I also had a little secret I hadn't told her yet, originally planning to surprise her.

When I got home, I pretended not to know anything.

But no matter how long I waited, Lily never gave me the shoes. Instead, she started talking about how her brother Jack needed money to get married.

The wedding would cost $200,000, and she wanted me to pay for it.

I scraped together $100,000 with great difficulty.

When I handed her the money, I thought she would be grateful and give me the shoes.

But she didn't even smile, just took the money and hurried off.

That's when I realized, no matter how good I was to her, she would never give me those shoes.

She had given them to someone else.

Not her brother Jack.

Although my wife treated Jack better than me, Jack was young and didn't like leather shoes. He always wore sneakers.

There was a 100% chance Lily was cheating on me!

I pretended everything was normal, but my heart was pierced with thorns.

These thorns made me bleed.

Behind my wife's back, I secretly checked her bank statements.

Sure enough, I found a problem.

She had booked a hotel room!

A $380 couples hotel, including a pack of Marlboro cigarettes.

The evidence was right in front of me. I was so angry I could hear my teeth grinding.

We had been married for five years. I had given Lily my heart and soul, just wanting to live a good life with her.

My parents even sold their house for tens of thousands of dollars to pay for our wedding.

But she was using my money to book hotel rooms with another man.

I couldn't take it anymore!

When a man is betrayed by the woman he loves, the potential that erupts is infinite.

My mind had never been so sharp and meticulous.

Those expensive shoes, being an imported style that had been out of stock for half a year, only came in sizes up to 7.5.

This was one characteristic of the adulterer.

He also liked to smoke, and preferred Marlboro.

I thought carefully about who fit these conditions, and there were a few possibilities.

One was the delivery guy who often came to our neighborhood.

I waited for him at the package pickup point every day.

When he arrived on his electric tricycle, the first thing I looked at was his feet.

Although he wasn't tall, the delivery guy had big feet, definitely not size 7.5.

It wasn't him...

Another suspect was the manager at my wife's company.

But when I asked around, I found out my wife's boss had gone abroad on a business trip a month ago.

It wasn't him either...

I was completely baffled.

When I got back to the neighborhood, several security guards were laughing and talking loudly about how Old Smith had only worn his new leather shoes for one day before stopping.

I was particularly sensitive to anything related to shoes now, and immediately took notice.

Afraid of alerting anyone, I waited a couple days before finding Old Huang, one of the security guards.

I gave him a few cigarettes to get friendly and chat.

I deliberately steered the conversation to shoes, and Old Huang immediately said someone had given Old Smith a pair of shoes. He said they were some brand called Stephen, worth four or five thousand dollars, really fancy.

My heart exploded!

"Stephen & Co. deerskin? I wanted to buy them too, but they've been out of stock for a long time, only size 7.5 left." I threw out one last question.

Old Huang laughed and said Old Smith's feet were exactly size 7.5.

I clenched my fists tightly, my heart erupting like a volcano.

Old Huang didn't notice anything unusual about me and started telling me more about Old Smith.

Apparently Old Smith used to be rich, but lost everything due to his gambling addiction.

Old Smith was actually very clever and smart, most people couldn't outsmart him.

Old Huang admired him, saying he was a tiger fallen on hard times.

I didn't act rashly. I couldn't wrongly accuse an innocent person.

I found Old Smith to chat and offered him a Marlboro, then said this cigarette wasn't good and gave him a more expensive brand.

Old Smith smiled and waved it off, saying he preferred Marlboro.

I understood everything.

It was him!

I loved Lily so much, how could I possibly be inferior to Old Smith?

How could she choose a poor, ugly, old security guard?

If Lily had found someone handsome, or a rich and powerful man, I could have accepted it a little more and just gotten divorced.

But...

In Lily's heart, I wasn't even as good as a short, poor, ugly security guard?

My heart was in knots, with only two words pounding in my mind.

Revenge!

I would make Lily and Old Smith pay the most painful price!

They would live the rest of their lives in nightmares!