Chapter 6
Sophie ran in front of me and knelt at my feet, clinging to my legs.
“Kyle, after all these years together, can’t you forgive me just once?”
“Forgive you for what, Sophie?” I asked.
“For taking advantage of my affection and not treating me like a person? You were the one who pursued me initially, and that night we slept together, you were the one who got me drunk. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have agreed so easily.”
“Okay, since I chose you, I’ve always treated you well. I made you the chairperson of my company so you’d have respect. But have you been in that position for too long, thinking you deserve it, that you no longer see me as a person?”
I forcefully pulled my leg away, kicking Sophie aside.
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She fell to the ground, sobbing. “Kyle, I truly know I was wrong. All these years, I became arrogant and forgot myself. I shouldn’t have treated you that way, and I shouldn’t have let Ethan deceive me into agreeing to have his child. I…”
“Don’t say anymore, just leave,” I said coldly, looking at her.
“Everything you’ve had these years stems. from my love for you. Now that the love is gone, it means you’ll lose everything.”
“Kyle, I really know I was wrong. Please forgive me just this once,” Sophie cried.
I scoffed. “You don’t know you were wrong; you know you’re about to lose everything.”
“Divorce is fine by me!”
Sophie’s father suddenly said. “But you must give Sophie shares!”
Sophie’s mother chimed in, “I really like this apartment too. You have to give it to us, or no divorce!”
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“You idiots,” I said.
“Don’t you understand the situation? Sophie cheated on me during our marriage, got pregnant by another man, and I’m filing for divorce. Do you think the court will rule in her favor?”
“Furthermore, over the years, Ethan has been getting kickbacks through Sophie at the company. I’ve already filed a police report. Not only did Sophie cheat on me, but she also damaged the company’s interests. Even if I wanted to give her shares, the board wouldn’t agree.”
“A family of idiots who don’t even understand basic common sense, yet you want to try to extort me?”
I had lost my patience and turned to my assistant. “Tell them to get out.”
“Kyle, are you not afraid I’ll go cause a scene and make your stock plummet?” Ethan shouted.
Sophie’s father quickly added, “Yes, we’ll go.
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hang a banner at your company, say you abandoned her, then put you online. Nowadays, netizens are idiots who blindly sympathize with men. Cyberbullying can even make you die!”
Sophie’s mother nodded repeatedly. “Exactly, exactly. I’ve heard that reputation is very important for stocks!”
I looked at them in disbelief, unable to speak.
My assistant chuckled. “We’ve been trained professionally, so no matter how funny, we can hold it in, unless we really can’t.”
He was almost in tears laughing. “You’ve read too many novels if you think a little trouble can have such a big impact on a company. And even if it could, it would have to be a public company, right? Our company isn’t listed, so where would the stock come from?”
Sophie’s father paused. “Impossible, if there are shares, how can there be no
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stock?”
I looked contemptuously at Sophie. “Look at your brainless parents, and suddenly I understand why you’re so stupid.”
“Kyle, I really know I was wrong,” Sophie said, like a fool, repeating the same line.
She got up and cried, “I’ll go get this child aborted right now, and then get pregnant with your child, okay?”
“Sophie, do you remember that Patek Philippe I have?” I asked.
“The one your dad is wearing now, worth over two million? I gave it to him after he wore it once.”
“You know why I gave it to him? Because I find used things dirty.”
“You’re dirty, Sophie,” I said, taking a sip of my drink and heading upstairs.
“By the way, Ethan has been scheming to get close to you, even staging an act to make me think he doesn’t like women. Do
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you think it’s because he loves you? If I’m not mistaken, he wants to trick you into getting pregnant so I’ll divorce you, thinking you’ll definitely get shares, then directly kick you out of your family home.”
Sophie looked at Ethan in disbelief, and he lowered his head, not refuting it, because that was Ethan’s true intention.
At this moment, the bodyguards had arrived and were immediately pulling them
out.
But Sophie suddenly ran into the kitchen and came back with a knife in her hand.
She held the knife to her own neck. “Kyle, ..if you insist on divorcing me, then I’ll die
for you to see!”
