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My father let out a deep sigh and closed his eyes,not wanting to watch this farce anymore.I looked at Emily coldly,my voice filled with extreme disappointment.
"I wonder if you still remember how we bought this house we'e living in now.Just because you liked it, we gave up another house and borrowed a large sum of money to buy this one. It was a total million dollars back then, and I just helped Mom and Dad pay back part of it some time ago. But we still owe 200,000 dollars."
"You can have a share of the property or stay in this house if you want.Just work hard and pay off the loan. Then we can each have half of this house some day."
The house we lived in was almost ten years old.Even if we sold it in the future,it wouldn’t be worth much.In this situation,having to pay off 200,000 dollars first,there was no way Emily would agree.
Her expression turned cold,and she didn’t even bother to pretend anymore,looking completely disgusted.The middle-aged woman also looked stunned and even asked Emily directly,“Is what she said true?She’s not lying to us,is she?”
I smiled, a bitter and ugly smile on my face. "If you don't believe me, go check it out in the bank yourself."
“Emily,come with me.Transfer the household registration if you have to.This poor family isn’t worth staying in!”
After the true situation was revealed, the middle-aged woman immediately spoke in a disappointed and disdainful tone and started to urge Emily to leave.
Jack's expression changed. Seeing that we really wouldn't intervene in Emily's life anymore, he followed them out with a dark face and started arguing with Emily in public. The idea of using Jack to get rid of us and seize the property was probably thought up by Emily herself with her biological mother, who couldn't control herself at all when facing Jack. She kept belittling him, with all kinds of unpleasant and harsh words.
Emily couldn't stop the woman and looked pale. Jack had held back his anger earlier with us, but it didn't mean he didn't care. Unable to stand by Emily's mother any more, Jack's eyes turned red. Gritting his teeth ,he picked up a stone from the ground and threw it hard at the woman's head.
Blood flowed down her forehead, and Emily's mother fainted on the spot. The scene attracted a crowd of onlookers around. Emily was so panic like a headless chicken, calling an ambulance and the police.
My mother also came over. Her voice was still a bit hoarse from the earlier distress, but her tone was firm. "Luna, let's sell this old house and leave this place."
A few days ago, when I asked my parents to spread the news that Emily was determined to get married and we had no choice but to agree, they refuted me. Unlike me. who had been reborn, they didn’t know what Emily had done in the previous life.They just thought that since Emily wasn’t sincere and still missed her biological parents,they should just let her go back.
I proposed a bet with them that Emily would still try to make us take the blame, and they finally accepted it. Now, Emily's actions had completely disappointed them, and they didn't want to get involved anymore.
I nodded in agreement. Jack's hot-tempered nature hot temper was always a ticking time bomb. Although the trajectory of the previous life had been changed, it was still uncertain how things would end up with them. Instead of getting implicated again, it was better to move away and start a new life.
In terms of money, I actually had quite a bit in my hands. Over the years, Emily had been spending like there was no tomorrow, and we couldn't correct her, so we just let her have her way. That was why when Emily heard me say that the 800,000 dollars was for repaying a debt, she didn’t suspect much. I never told her exactly the specifics of my work income. If she calculated based on the basic salary, she'd believe I didn't have much money.
Looking at Emily, who was slapped to the ground by Jack and crying bitterly because she called the police, I sighed. Some people wouldn't be grateful no matter how good you were to them. There are plenty who want to reap the benefits of others' goodness without putting in the work. Emily was one of those people. Once others didn’t cater to her any more as before, she would even hold a grudge. Just the discovery of an eighty-thousand-yuan bank card in her parents' hands was enough to make her restlessly murder us for the money, which was enough to prove that she was inherently bad.
She had calculated everything carefully when she used Jack, but now it wasn't going to be easy for her to shake him off. While Emily's mother was in the hospital accusing Jack of intentional injury and the two sides were constantly at odds, I sold the house, packed our things and boarded a plane with my parents bound for the south.
Our family of three settled down in the south, and without Emily dragging me down, I was able to change to a more relaxed and carefree job. As for what happened to Emily later, some former neighbors deliberately sent us news. Emily's biological parents' family was extremely poor, and the whole family was lazy and unwilling to work. They had originally been eyeing our family's property. After realizing it was all in vain, they didn't take out their anger on Emily only because they wanted to use her to fetch a bride price.
Emily's mother found a wealthy man for her and negotiated a high dowry. But as soon as the deal was made, Jack rushed to their house, showed up at their house with a knife, hacking away inside and wanting to die with them. Terrified, Emily's family forced her to marry the wealthy man. Now, Emily ended up living a life of constant torture and forced labor every day, finally reaping what she had sowed.
After hearing the news, I immediately changed my phone number and completely cut off contact with the people from the past, afraid that they might not leave us in peace and get Emily disturb our life again. I had no intention of telling my parents about this. I didn't want to upset them. We would just enjoy our peaceful life from now on.
