Mr. Axel and Mrs. Brebeca simultaneously looked at Emma's mobile phone screen, doubt still evident on their faces.
 
"Ting ting!"
 
Not long after, Emma's mobile phone sounded a message notification.
 
She eagerly opened the message to check.
 
Indeed!
 
Inside, the notification showed that her bank account had received over two million dollars.
 
Emma widened her eyes, her expression filled with astonishment.
 
"Dad, Mom, I received over two million dollars!"
 
Emma handed the mobile phone to Mrs. Brebeca to see.
 
Mrs. Brebeca hastily took it and looked at the message on Emma's mobile phone.
 
After reading it, she raised her head, looking at me with an incredulous gaze.
 
"Why do you have so much money? Did you steal or rob?" she asked.
 
"Neither stealing nor robbing!" I replied.
 
"If you didn't steal or rob, then how can someone as poor as you have so much money?" Mrs. Brebeca interrogated.
 
"Where my money comes from is none of your business. In any case, I have already repaid all the money I owed your family, so from now on, I won't owe anything to the Thompson family. So, don't ask me to give the ancestral bowl to your father-in-law anymore!" I said.
 
"You... you..."
 
Mrs. Brebeca couldn't refute my words, so she could only get angry.
 
"What are you saying?" she angrily said, kicking Mr. Axel.
 
Mr. Axel cleared his throat lightly and said, "Andrew, it's okay even if you're poor, but you must never engage in illegal activities. Your money's ownership is not transparent, and if it gets linked to the Thompson family, it won't be good."
 
"That's right, he's right. Don't implicate us!" Mrs. Brebeca immediately added.
 
"If you're afraid of me implicating you, then ask Emma for a divorce!" I coldly retorted.
 
"Andrew, you're something. How dare you ask for a divorce?" Emma immediately erupted in anger.
 
Mrs. Brebeca quickly blinked at Emma, signaling her concern.
 
She was worried that Emma would agree to divorce me.
 
Today I made Mr. Kurt Thompson unhappy, and if Emma and I still want to get a divorce, he probably won't give much of his assets to her family in the will.
 
Mr. Kurt Thompson had emphasized that anyone who wants to inherit from him must be married, and if they are the son-in-law of the Thompson family, they must accept their role as a son-in-law.
 
Emma sighed, slightly calmer, and then said, "Andrew, don't forget that you already signed an agreement with me. Do you want to divorce me? It won't be that easy!"
 
"That's right!" Mrs. Brebeca chimed in, adding to Emma's words, "If you want a divorce, you'll have to compensate for the agreement!"
 
"If you want compensation, I will compensate. This is just a small matter!" I replied with a nonchalant tone.
 
Mrs. Brebeca and Emma had planned to use the compensation money from the contract to control me, but they didn't expect me to ignore it, so they didn't know what else to say.
 
"Alright! We're family, let's not rush into a divorce because of a few arguments!"
 
At this point, Mr. Axel spoke up, trying to reconcile the situation between me and Emma.
 
Mrs. Brebeca took the opportunity to signal to Emma, indicating that she shouldn't provoke me and that it wasn't the right time to divorce me.
 
Emma glared at me and then walked back to her room.
 
"Come with me to the room and tell me what you've been doing during this time," Mrs. Brebeca stood up and pulled Mr. Axel into their bedroom.
 
I was annoyed by them, so I also left the house to get some fresh air.
 
After leaving my wife's house, I lit a cigarette and wandered along a small road near the apartment complex.
 
Unconsciously, I arrived near an artificial lake.
 
There was no wind outside at this time.
 
The surface of the artificial lake was calm, and the dim streetlights cast a faint reflection on the road, flickering above like small stars in the sky.
 
The lake was calm, but my mood was far from calm.
 
I took a drag of my cigarette and then let out a gentle sigh.
 
I had endured enough torment from the Thompson family.
 
I had resisted them, and although I made someone from the Thompson family angry today, they still treated me with contempt as usual.
 
Hmph!
 
Just wait and see, there will come a day when they have to bow down and beg for my forgiveness!
 
I sat down on a stone bench by the edge of the artificial lake, looking at the reflection of the streetlights on the lake's surface.
 
I took another puff of my cigarette, feeling suddenly lonely in my heart.
 
Maybe...
 
At this moment, this hour, this is the feeling of loneliness of someone without any companions!
 
I exhaled the smoke and tilted my head to look in another direction along the lake.
 
Suddenly!
 
My eyes widened.
 
About thirty meters away from where I was sitting, there was a girl in a red dress, with long hair flowing down her back, standing on the railing across the lake.