Chapter 7

Yesterday, a woman had found her and offered her $100,000.

The price for getting the $100,000 was to use her body as bait, seduce me, and let me fall for it.

Take videos and photos of me being intimate with her, and the task would be complete.

She desperately needed money for her daughter's treatment.

But she never imagined the man she was supposed to seduce would turn out to be me.

Me, her childhood sweetheart...

Lisa finally couldn't get past her conscience and told me everything.

I felt a chill run through me.

The coldness in my body was not even a fraction of the chill in my heart.

That woman was naturally my wife, Lily!

Lily's purpose was too obvious. She wanted to manufacture evidence of me being with other women, to put me at a disadvantage in the divorce battle.

She knew I had two weaknesses.

One was my reputation, the other was my daughter.

If I wronged her, the court would definitely give her custody of our daughter. Then she could use our daughter to force me to give in, to bow my head.

But...

From what I knew of Lily, she was an extremely simple-minded woman.

She wasn't this clever. She couldn't have come up with this scheme.

Everything must have been taught to her by Old Smith.

That vicious and cunning old fox.

Old Smith.

Too sly, too crafty.

An opponent like this wasn't an ordinary person to be trifled with.

I needed to be on full alert.

Sitting by the window as the heavy rain fell, I kept thinking.

Wait, something wasn't right!

Since Old Smith had Lisa come seduce me to manufacture evidence of my infidelity.

Why would he let me discover his affair with my wife Lily?

Someone as meticulous and cunning as him, how could he leave such a big loophole?

Thinking back...

A trap!

This was a trap he had deliberately set!

If it wasn't for that intimate video posted online, all my evidence couldn't directly prove Old Smith's affair with my wife.

He deliberately let me discover clues, then when the divorce battle came I would angrily throw out the evidence...

Like those size 7.5 expensive leather shoes...

Did that definitely mean Old Smith wore them?

Lily would refute each piece of evidence one by one, making all my proof fall apart.

She would come out looking pure as a white lotus, untainted.

She would make everyone believe I was the one who wronged her.

I felt my scalp tingling. I didn't think my deductions were wrong.

Old Smith's intentions were so vicious!

But I couldn't mention the video on the website.

That was the final card to make them despair and regret.

I started recalling my previous conversations with Old Smith, not overlooking any detail.

What did I have that was worth him putting in so much effort?

I was just an ordinary person, earning a few thousand dollars a month from my job, with only a car and a house to my name.

My only wife had also become his plaything.

What else was he unsatisfied with, what else did he want to get?

Suddenly, I remembered the good news I had been keeping from my wife.

Half a year ago, when I was on the phone with Mike talking about those old graphics cards that could make us rich, Old Smith seemed to be not far from me.

He had overheard!

What he really wanted to obtain...

Was my increasingly valuable graphics cards!

Old Smith didn't hesitate to go into debt for $100,000 to hire Lisa.

He had her seduce me, then make me leave with nothing in the divorce.

The shares in the company I started with Mike would naturally be seized too.

Then, graphics cards worth over $5 million would be enough for Old Smith to make a comeback!

So that was it...