My husband, Jared Smith, let me take his spot for a highland vacation.

After I departed, I found out that I won a random lottery that I had bought before for $50 million.

In order to not delay the redemption of the lottery ticket, I took a red-eye flight back home and wanted to share the news with Jared.

Before I went into the house, I heard his smug laugh.

“That jacket belongs to Sammy, I’m sure! That dumb witch has been eaten by a bear! I’m so glad that Penny and I sent her on that trip.”

It just so happened that the tour group chat sent a video of a member being eaten by a brown bear. My jacket was bloody.

However, I was not the one who had been wearing that jacket.

It had been his lover, Penny Lee.

In the video, Penny Lee was disfigured from the bear attack.

I did not dare to think about how sad Jared Smith would be when he found out that it was Penny who had died and not me.

After all, she was his childhood lover that he had sworn to protect forever.

Even if Penny got a mild cold, he would immediately take time off to take care of her.

However, he thought I was the one who died based on the jacket. So, he was not anxious.

He was even laughing smugly that I was an idiot.

I felt that my feelings were wasted on him. I almost thought about going in and asking for an explanation.

The next second, I heard my mother-in-law, Mary Smith, say, “It’s good that she’s dead. Her money will be ours!”

Jared agreed.

“Penny didn’t like her. It’s good that she died. Now you can marry Penny.”

It turned out that Mary had wanted me dead for a long time and intended to use my money to get a new daughter-in-law.

I treated them like my own family, but they wanted to hurt me.

I patted the lottery ticket in my bag. I was relieved that I had not told them I had won the lottery.

Otherwise, they would have tortured me in more gruesome ways!

I suppressed my anger and continued to eavesdrop at the door.

Since I had found this out, I would not let them off the hook easily!

“Mom, the tour guide isn’t sure if she’s truly dead,” Jared said. “Let me call Penny to confirm.”

Then, the phone in my pocket started to ring.

The ringtone was extremely loud in the quiet hallway.

I immediately hung up and ran downstairs to find a place to hide.

Because I was too excited from winning the lottery, I accidentally wore the wrong jacket when I left in a rush last night.

I had worn Penny’s jacket.

Her phone was still in her pocket.

I realized that only after I got onto the flight.

She had worn my jacket because she had no other choice.

After I ended the call, Jared immediately texted Penny instead.

If I did not answer, he would definitely be suspicious.

Penny had set a lockscreen password.

Her wallpaper was a photo of her and Jared hugging under the moonlight.

I looked at the photo and entered Jared’s birthday without thinking.

It was the correct password!

I unlocked Penny’s phone.

I clicked on her conversation with Jared. It was filled with sweet words and inappropriate videos.

In the past, I knew Jared doted on her.

But I trusted him as my husband, so I had not pried into their relationship even if it made me uncomfortable at times.

He took my trust for granted and had started having an affair with Penny.

He even called her his “wifey” in public.

[Baby, are you scared?]

Jared texted Penny.

[Call me so that I know you’re okay.]

[The signal is very poor here.] I immediately texted him. [I’ll text instead. I’m fine, don’t worry.]

Highland usually had bad signals.

Jared was not suspicious of that.

[That’s good, I don’t want you to struggle.

[Oh, by the way, don’t you want to know how I set Sammy up?

[I secretly hid a packet in her jacket to attract the brown bear’s attention. Then, I created a map for the tour to ensure that she would run into a bear.]

Jared started to explain.

He actually hatched a plan to murder me!

He had planned to kill me so that he could be with Penny.

I was disgusted with him.

If I had not won the lottery, I would have been the bear’s food instead.

To not raise suspicion, I pretended to reply coyly like Penny usually did.

[The tour guide called me.]

Jared sent a voice note.

“I didn’t expect Sammy to be still alive, but the tour group has flown her back for treatment. I have to go there personally. Don’t be jealous, okay?”

I did not expect Penny to have survived the horrific bear attack.

I was afraid that Jared would harm me again.

So, I secretly followed him to the hospital.

Penny was bandaged from head to toe as she was sent to the ICU.

Her face was completely ripped off, and bones were exposed in several areas.

I deliberately changed into loose clothing and put on a mask and hat.

I hid in a secluded corner.

I could see the ward from here, and Jared could not see me from that angle.

“The patient’s condition is complicated.”

The doctor said to him, “The treatment will cost at least a few million dollars, and that’s excluding the costs for plastic surgery and skin grafts after.”

Jared frowned and looked annoyed.

“A few million dollars? She isn’t worth that much money!”

Of course, he did not want to save me.

Even though I had mentally prepared myself, I was still upset when I heard his blatant indifference.

He had nothing when we first got together. I was the one who helped him set up his business, which was why his career took off.

We were not very rich, but he could totally afford a few million dollars.

He just did not want to spend it on me. All he could think of was a happy ending with Penny.

The doctor did not expect Jared to reject it outright.

“Don’t you want to consider it? According to the medical report, she’s two months pregnant.”

“What?!”

Jared looked a little torn.

We did not have children despite being married for many years.

The examination results showed that he had a low sperm count.

It was not easy for us to have a baby.

However, I had not expected Penny to be pregnant.

Two months ago, I went back to my hometown for my grandmother’s funeral.

He said he had work to do, so he did not come with me.

Because of him, my entire family said that I was ruthless.

It seemed he had not been busy with work.

Instead, he was sleeping with Penny.

“Then… you should save her…” Jared hesitated.

I was disgusted by the two of them.

Since he wanted a child, I would not let him have his way.

I immediately flipped through Penny’s phone.

I found a photo of her pregnancy test report.

I sent it over to Jared.

[Jared, here’s a surprise for you!]

Jared received the photo, and his expression immediately changed when he read the report. He was shocked and excited.

[Baby, you’re pregnant?]

[I wanted to tell you after making sure first. You’re not mad at me, are you?]

I pretended to be coy. [Since you’re going to marry me, I want my baby to have a complete family.]

[Don’t worry, you’ll be my only wife!]

Jared was extremely happy.

He kept sending sweet texts to Penny.

He had never said these things to me ever.

After he confirmed Penny’s pregnancy report, he said to the doctor, “Abort that child. I don’t need it.”

“Mr. Smith, do you want to at least reconsider?” The doctor’s face was stern.

“Abort it!”

Jared glared at the doctor and gritted his teeth. “I have low sperm count, and she’s pregnant! It must be some other man’s child! Why’d I save this woman?”

His words pierced through my heart.

All these years, I was afraid that he would be insecure about why we could not have children. So, I told everyone that the problem was with me.

Aside from being looked down on by others, I suffered a lot from IVFs.

Initially, I thought that he would appreciate my effort.

Instead, he had given me a big reality check.

After the doctor left, Jared also wanted to leave.

Penny suddenly woke up.

Her pained moans could be heard outside the ward.

My heart dropped.

I was afraid that he would recognize her voice.

Jared turned around and walked into the ward suspiciously.

When Penny saw him, she made even more noises.

She was trying very hard to grab Jared’s hand.

My heart was thumping against my chest.

If Jared recognized that this was Penny who was lying on the hospital bed, he would exhaust his resources to save her, and he would blame it all on me.

I would meet my end!

“Sammy?” Jared extended his hand toward Penny’s face.

His hand paused midair.

Then, he slapped Penny.

Blood seeped and soaked her bandaged face.

“Let me say this: stop making things difficult for me!”

He sneered and glared at her.

“The truth is, I love Penny. I’ve always loved her. As for you… I was just using you to build my career.

“You can’t compare to Penny in any aspect at all!”

Penny struggled.

She wanted to do something to let him know that it was her in the bed and not me.

However, Jared did not notice it.

Regardless of what she did, he only watched silently.

He did not care about her.

Penny was at her wits’ end and pointed at her tummy.

She thought that since she was pregnant, he would treat her well.

Jared was even more furious. His eyes burned in rage.

“You’re trying to use the child as leverage? Sammy, you’re thinking too much about this! I bet that child belongs to some random man!

“You know that Penny’s pregnant, so you deliberately got pregnant to distract me, didn’t you? Sammy, you’re such a vicious woman!”

He clenched his fist and punched Penny in the abdomen.

She was badly injured. She could not withstand the blow.

After a gruesome shriek, blood oozed out from her bottom half.

Penny suffered from a miscarriage because of Jared.

I instinctively touched my lower abdomen.

Jared treated Penny that badly only because he thought that was me.

He would be this cruel to only one person in the entire world.

That was me.

Without her baby, Penny lost her will to live.

She lay motionless on the bed.

Jared glanced indifferently at her, as if she were a dead object.

I wanted to know if he would still be this calm after he found out that he had killed his beloved woman and his own baby, whom he had been looking forward to for a long time.

I watched intently.

Suddenly, someone bumped into me.

“Are you blind?” Mary said.

I instinctively looked up and met her gaze.

I did not dare to make a sound.

I was afraid she would recognize me.

She stared at me for a very long while.

My palms were covered in cold sweat. I was afraid that she would recognize me.

“You’re mute too? Disgusting!” Mary said.

Then, she turned around and went to the ICU.

I let out a relieved sigh.

“Is Sammy dying?” Mary asked agitatedly. “I invited many influencers to set up their livestreams. When they arrive, you should cry before the cameras and request some compensation from the tour before she dies!”

She wanted to squeeze every last bit of value from me and used my “accident” to get money from the tour.

“How much can we get from that?” Jared was impatient. “I don’t care about small sums of money.”

“At least $3 million!” Mary said confidently. “After this, we can start our own livestream to earn money. It’ll be easy to earn $5 or $6 million that way.”

Jared’s eyes lit up.

$5 million was a lot to him.

Meanwhile, I had my $50 million.

The influencers that Mary invited arrived.

They started their livestreams in the hospital and made a big commotion.

The tour’s person-in-charge arrived with the influencers.

His face was pale as he explained, “We haven’t confirmed if this was an accident. We can’t immediately compensate you. $3 million is a lot of money…”

“But you almost killed my wife!”

Jared teared up and said in a trembling voice, “I can no longer be with her. How are you going to compensate for that?”

I was impressed by his acting.

Just moments ago, he was gleeful that I would die from the bear’s attack.

But just as quickly, he was crying in sorrow.

The livestream audience was touched by his cries and wanted to support him to get the $3 million he needed.

The influencers were even more absurd. They filmed Penny in her terrible state to get clicks through sympathy.

Once again, I thanked my lucky stars that I was not the one attacked by the bear.

Jared was portrayed as a loving husband in the livestreams.

Since he was good-looking, the viewers kept pouring in.

The tour manager was yelled at.

Due to the immense pressure, he agreed to the $3 million compensation fee.

I was disappointed as I watched.

When I was about to collect my evidence to sue Jared for murder, Mary suddenly lunged and tried to pull my mask away.

“You witch, don’t think I didn’t recognize you!”