In my last life, I painstakingly raised Derek’s daughter, yet when Derek reappeared, she decisively abandoned me.
They say a parent’s love is unconditional, and yet, even though Derek hadn’t even endured the pain of childbirth, she
A large part of why I felt like spitting blood was her ingratitude.
“Alex! You must have been badmouthing me to my child, that’s why she won’t acknowledge me now!”
“How can you be so vicious? She’s my biological daughter, and now she doesn’t want to come back to me!”
He accused me frantically, but I just looked at him as if he
were an idiot.
He was gone for eighteen years, never once appearing before the child, and now he was accusing the child of not wanting
back to him.
to
come
He clearly wasn’t listening to how ridiculous he sounded.
The guests were bewildered by his sudden appearance, and when he started cursing at me, a clamor erupted.
“What’s wrong with this guy?”
“When did Autumn have a biological father like that? Didn’t she always live with her adoptive parents?”
“This guy must be out of his mind.”
The crowd’s murmuring enraged Derek. He turned crimson and yelled at everyone, “I’m not crazy!”
“Alex is the real liar! He tricked my daughter, and he tricked all of you!”
“I’m the… Ah!”
*Slap!* A sudden slap caught Derek off guard, and his cheek instantly swelled.
The one who hit him was Scarlett, a senior figure in the modeling world.
She was tall and beautiful, with an intimidating aura. Her features bore a faint resemblance to Autumn’s, bu
and more mature.
“You, you hit me?!”
Derek clutched his face, looking at her in disbelief.
Scarlett scoffed, her beautiful, phoenix–like eyes cold. “You say Autumn is your daughter?”
Derek nodded affirmatively. “Yes! She’s my biological daughter!”
Scarlett’s were sharper
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Derek nodded affirmatively. “Yes! She’s my biological daughter!”
“Alex, this scumbag, eighteen years ago I entrusted him to raise my daughter, but who knew he would treat her as his own child and poison her against me!”
Derek grew more agitated, his eyes bloodshot.
“He must have wanted my money! Isn’t it because he knew I was a multi–billion dollar heir that he was jealous?”
“He’s so poor; he must be trying to extort me with the child, demanding a hundred million dollars!”
I couldn’t help but laugh. Derek was so agitated, wasn’t it because this life’s plot wasn’t unfolding as he’d imagined?
In my last life, I diligently helped him raise his child, and he showed up eighteen years later, nonchalantly reclaiming his famous daughter without having to pay a dime.
But in *this* life, I wasn’t going to be such a sucker.
Derek’s words sparked resentment among the onlookers. Many began
fruits of someone else’s labor.
