At the thought that I ended up like this after having done so much for the family, I was suddenly filled with strength from nowhere and pushed my mother-in-law off me and onto the ground. “Enough! I have been putting up with you for such a long time for you’re my mother-you-law. I can’t believe you even tried to strangle me!”
I roared in disbelief with tears in my eyes.
The emotion that had been suppressed for so long finally broke out.
My chest heaved violently with anger and my hands clutched together with my nails that hadn’t been trimmed in days sank into the flesh.
Maybe it was because this was my first time of losing temper in front of her like this, my mother-in-law froze for a while on the floor before whining in an affected way. Seeing that I showed the slightest intention to help her up, she suddenly rose to her feet in rage.
She pointed at me with her finger and began to curse at me again, accusing me of trying to throw her family down the bus.
My silence made her push her luck further. She pointed at me and shouted in disgust with her face twisted, “Look how shameless you are! If it weren’t for you, my son and his company wouldn’t have been in this predicament!”
The more she said, the angrier she grew. After finishing her words, she reached out and was about to slap me again.
“I never meant to do anything harmful to the Zhao family and the company! You have only got yourselves to blame for the company’s loss!” I slapped her hand away and roared uncontrollably.
It had nothing to do with me at all! Actually, I was the victim. And now her ‘conscientious’ son was hatching an elaborate plot with my previous best friend to sell the company!
But why was everyone blaming me? Moreover, I was almost strangled by my mother-in-law!
It was totally unacceptable!
Now I realized that there was no point in putting up with it.
As I worried that if I kept silent, she would even blame the death of ancestors of the Zhao family on me.
“We are the ones to blame? What a vicious bitch! Let me show you what I’m capable of right now!” Totally enraged by my words, she rolled her sleeves up and dashed towards me.
From the sinister look on her face, I could tell that she really wished that she could put me to death by dismembering my body.
But before she could approach me, I had dodged swiftly. After a few more attempts in vain, she collapsed on the ground due to exhaustion.
Seeing tough measures didn’t work, she collapsed on the ground and began wailing.
Apart from her vile curses, she could not come up with anything new.
However, every word she said still hurt.
“Jinx! Bitch! My son will divorce you sooner or later!” Her last cry sounded particularly piercing.
Seeing the intense hatred in her eyes, I felt like my anger, which had been suppressed a little, came back with great force.
I saw my bloodshot eyes reflect on the glass in the cabinet beside me.
“Have I ever done anything wrong to the Zhao family since our marriage? Why are you pushing me so hard?” In spite the fact that she was my elder, I bellowed and grabbed her by the collar with bloodshot eyes.
How angry I looked was directly proportional to how heartbroken I was moment.
The man who said he loved me every day had an affair with my bosom and tried to put me in jail as the scapegoat for his conspiracy.
I had done so much for the family over the years, but my mother-in-law not only unfavored me, but also wanted me dead.
Was I the only one blinded by the game-like marriage for so many years?
I had already had the answer in my mind as soon as I thought of this. Then my vanishing anger immediately turned to bitterness.
That seemed to be the case.