I would fight them to the very end and not give up an inch.
“Ariana, do you believe I’ll kill you?” Ethan’s voice was laced with fury as he grabbed my neck, his eyes filled with murderous intent.
My vision began to darken and just as I was about to suffocate, Selena wrapped her arms around Ethan’s waist and pulled him back.
With that single action, he obediently released me and his body showed an unmistakable reaction.
I couldn’t hold back the coughing or the tears that followed, the weight of years of a bitter marriage pressing down on me.
“Ariana, you only care about your own happiness,” Selena accused, her tone laced with condemnation. “You want a divorce and now you’ve pushed me and Ethan to the brink of death.”
“He hasn’t eaten or drunk anything for days. He’s lost so much weight, can’t you see that?” She looked at me with a strange mixture of pity and resentment.
I gave her a mocking look. “Selena, do you want us to divorce or not?”
She froze, glancing between Ethan and me without saying a word.
“Divorce. I agree to divorce,”
Ethan finally said. “But you must go live and publicly clear my name with Selena and you will leave with nothing.” His gaze was sharp, his true nature laid bare.
“Ethan, you’re shameless. Utterly despicable.” I must have been blind to marry into this family, giving him the chance to use our daughter as a bargaining chip.
“You don’t have a stable job, you won’t get custody of our daughter,” he threatened.
“Ariana, do you choose the child or the property?” Ethan’s cold, ruthless stare pinned me in place, confidence radiating from his eyes.
My mother-in-law burst in, holding my daughter tightly. “A woman who doesn’t want her own child is worse than an animal.
“She’s the Blackthorn Family’s child, yet you left her in the care of a stranger, how heartless can you be?”
A friend trailed in behind her, her hair disheveled and face bruised. “Ariana, I’m sorry. Emily had a fever, so I brought her to the hospital and ended up running into them.”
“Mom, I’m scared.” My daughter’s tear-filled eyes found mine and she began struggling and crying even harder.
My mother-in-law held her tighter, refusing to let her come to me.
“This is the daughter you carried for ten months, enduring hundreds of injections. How can you abandon her?” Ethan’s gaze bored into mine, demanding an answer.
I stayed silent. I didn’t have the strength to hold her, nor could I answer.
Without my comfort, my daughter cried until she vomited and convulsed. Disgusted by the mess, my mother-in-law shoved her toward me. “You heartless woman, clean the child up immediately.”
“What do you expect me to do? Her father is here, he’s not dead. As long as you agree to the divorce, I can go live.” All I could do was squeeze my daughter’s tiny hand, guilt flooding my chest.
Ethan’s voice thundered, “The child is this sick and all you can think about is divorce? You’re truly a cold-blooded woman.”
In the end, his entire family left and my daughter was taken to the hospital by my friend.
But Ethan wasn’t finished. He maliciously edited a video of our conversation and posted it online.
Overnight, I became the cold-hearted mother who ignored her sick child and insisted on divorcing just to split the assets. Ethan, meanwhile, was portrayed as the devoted father who sacrificed everything for his family.
The comments and private messages on my own video were flooded with endless abuse.
Selena, one of the very people involved, went live to “clarify” things and the audience praised her for her divine beauty, calling her the purest moonlight.
Since she was beautiful, everything she said was treated as truth. During her explanation, she deliberately released old photos of me during my pregnancy and while caring for our child, fat and disheveled.
After I lost weight, I had dinner with Mason, the influencer with a million followers and that became their so-called “proof” of my affair.
Even when Mason tried to defend me, it didn’t matter, the netizens only believed them.
With public opinion now in their favor, Ethan and Selena grew bolder, demanding that I leave with nothing.
“Ariana,” Ethan said smugly, “if you kneel and apologize in front of the netizens, I’ll give you fifty thousand dollars.”
“Ariana, all the karma you’re facing today is of your own making. This time, I won’t give Ethan back to you. I’m nothing like you, I’ll support him in creating those beauty dolls.”
I laughed so hard that tears welled up in my eyes. At that moment, I was live-streaming with Mason and millions of viewers were watching the dramatic divorce unfold.
“Selena,” I sneered, “he sent you into the arms of countless men, turning you into a plaything for them. And you still support him?”
“In the next video, I hope you can still stand there smiling.”
