On a scorching summer day at a construction site, it was three o'clock in the afternoon, and the bricks, which were fifty degrees, burned the hands. "It would be fantastic if I could have a cold Coke right now!" I said to myself while unloading the cargo. I looked at my torn gloves and licked my dry lips. After the company went bankrupt three years ago, I bought a second-hand truck to make a living and provide for my beautiful wife and innocent son. To earn more money, I would also help with unloading and do part-time delivery during rainy days or when there were no orders at night. However, when I finished unloading the cargo and was about to pick up another order, my phone suddenly rang. It was my wife, so I answered it immediately, calling her "baby," as I always do. But instead of hearing her voice, I heard my five-and-a-half-year-old son, with a slight sob in his tone, "Dad...". As I spoke to my son, he told me about a man who came to their house for dinner. After dinner, the man took my wife into the room and started hitting her until she cried. "Dad, when will you come back? I'm scared," he said. Suddenly, my smile disappeared, and my mind went blank.

Where's the mother who's being hit? They're obviously having an affair! I didn't really hear what my son said afterwards, because my mindset completely collapsed! I could even faintly hear my wife's intermittent voice on the other end of the phone at this time! The inner pain and anger made my breathing more and more rapid, and my hands were trembling with anger! After hanging up the phone with my son, my whole body shook, my head was buzzing, and I was dizzy for a while... Why? Why did this happen? You see, from the time we got married until now, I've never mistreated my wife! Even when the company went bankrupt, I didn't make her work, and I pampered her like a princess. I worked day and night, working hard every month to earn nearly 20,000 yuan. Although life is tiring now, as long as my wife and son aren't unhappy, I can make it through, and I firmly believe that I can make a comeback!... My wife, I met her ten years ago at a friend's wedding banquet. She was sparkling with a gorgeous face, a pair of alluring bright eyes, and a figure that left nothing to be desired. Love at first sight struck like lightning, and I pursued her like crazy! Although I was also considered talented at that time, her aloof personality kept her from paying attention to me. Because I was poor, from a rural background, and only a small designer in a state-owned enterprise, earning less than 10,000 yuan a month.

Living in a comfortable urban family, she was accustomed to a pampered and luxurious lifestyle, and didn't see me, a country bumpkin, as someone worth considering.

Throughout my pursuit of her, she made it clear many times that she would never marry a poor person like me.

But her rejection only served as motivation for me to work even harder.

In order to win her over, I quit my stable job in a state-owned enterprise and started my own design company with a loan.

Leveraging my professional skills and contacts accumulated through my previous job, my design company rapidly grew and gained recognition in the market.

Within three years, my design company made a name for itself, and my net worth exceeded one million dollars.

From small interior designs to large building constructions, my company was capable of handling every type of project and consistently earned praise from clients.

She saw my potential, my company's growth, and my sincerity towards her. And so, in the fourth year of my pursuit, when I presented a two million dollar betrothal gift to her parents, she agreed to marry me.

A year after our marriage, my net worth exceeded ten million dollars, and we welcomed a chubby baby boy into our lives.

With both our family and our careers flourishing, I generously bought her parents a nearly three million dollar house and gifted her sister a half-million dollar Audi.

During festivals and holidays, I would gift my in-laws red envelopes worth tens of thousands of dollars, never missing a single year. My in-laws adore me and always brag to their friends and relatives about their wonderful son-in-law. I also brought my elderly mother, who had difficulty moving around in the village, to live with me in the city. However, she constantly complained about her discomfort in the city. She did not like having to take off her shoes every time she entered a room, staying indoors and watching TV all day, or the scented air. She nagged me every day about going back to the village to grow vegetables and raise chickens, where she would have a sense of freedom. I knew my mother preferred working with the land and crops. My father died early, and the tuition fees and living expenses for my education were paid for by my mother's income from selling fruits and vegetables on a stall. Despite my best efforts to persuade her to stay, I could not resist her desire to return to the countryside, so I spent over a million dollars building a villa for her and gave her a bank card with a one million dollar limit. For the next two years, my family life was blissful, and my company continued to grow and became a well-known name in the industry. Unfortunately, this did not last. Due to my carelessness, my company's employees submitted a design proposal that was found to have plagiarized the work of another company that had been done two years prior in a large-scale construction project bid. As the legal representative of the company, I was taken to court directly. Eventually, the court ruled that my company had to pay the other side two hundred million yuan in compensation. My funds were cut off, my reputation tarnished, and my company went bankrupt, leaving me with millions of dollars in debt.

I sold all of my assets and added the one million in cash that I had given to my mother and all of her hard-earned savings from these years to pay off my debt. Then, just after turning thirty, I began my current life of waking up early and returning home late while delivering goods and food for two years. During this time, I attempted various ways to raise enough money to restart my business. However, due to personal credit issues, the bank refused to lend me even ten thousand yuan. I even went to my father-in-law and mother-in-law to borrow money because I had paid a two million yuan dowry to marry their daughter. Yet, they refused me, saying that they would keep the two million yuan to purchase a house for their youngest daughter's dowry. Even my former business acquaintances avoided me. They even mocked me, saying my reputation had been ruined, making it impossible for me to acquire any projects even if I restarted my company. Though I suffered many setbacks, I was not defeated by fate nor did I ever lose faith. I worked for two people's salaries, day and night, saving ten thousand yuan each month, and planned on starting anew in another city once I saved enough money. I wouldn't say much, but I have an innate talent for design, and with capital, as long as I run things conscientiously, I will undoubtedly rise again! However, the news of my wife's infidelity hit me like a bolt of lightning and shattered all my faith and determination.

To know, she has always been the driving force behind my struggles. She has always been my belief, Wu Shuang's faith! Now that my faith is gone, my world has collapsed... The more I think, the more disappointed and angry I become! Completely broken, I directly took out a wrench from the toolbox and placed it on the passenger seat, then started the truck! That's right, I want to personally smash this couple to death!

Bang, bang!!

Thinking about their scene in the room, I couldn't help but hit the steering wheel with two fists!

Those who have never been cuckolded will never understand how painful and distressed I feel right now!

I kept accelerating and overtaking, just to rush back home and personally beat them to death!

Such an adulterous couple, they must not be let off!

An hour later, I returned to the entrance of the neighborhood.

After parking the car, I picked up the wrench from the passenger seat and hurried towards the elevator!

In the elevator, I recalled the sweet moments with my wife and thought about our happy family of three, and tears unknowingly welled up in my eyes.

You know, just yesterday, the two of us took our son to see a movie and visited an amusement park!

The reason why I work so hard to earn money is to make sure my wife and child do not suffer with me.

But everything can never go back to the way it was. From the moment my wife cuckolded me, all was shattered!

After killing this adulterous couple, I will also commit suicide and end it all!

However, thinking about my lovely son and my elderly mother in the countryside, I was plunged into hesitation again.

I could take my son with me, so our family of three can still be together in another world, but my mother...

Thinking of my mother limping and carrying a basket of fruits and vegetables to sell at the market, tears fell uncontrollably.

My mother worked hard all her life, raising me through sickness and health, seeing me through college, while dealing with all the unglamorous parts of parenting. Despite all of that, I didn't fulfill my duty to be filial, and instead, I left her to suffer alone. Suddenly, the elevator dinged, and the doors slid open. "Liu Xinchun, this is all your fault!" my mother shouted. "Ma, your son can only make it up to you in the next life!" I was so angry I didn't think about anything else. I stormed out of the elevator, wielding a wrench, rushing towards my rented room at the corner of the block. The only thing that would end my resentment was killing them. But then, right outside the door, I saw a familiar figure sitting on the ground. "Ma..." I froze when I saw that it was my rural-dwelling mother, her hair even whiter than the last time I saw her. She was wearing the same short-sleeved shirt I bought her five years ago, which still looked new. And next to her were bags of vegetables, eggs, and local products. "Ma, why don't you come inside?" I walked over and lifted her up from the rigid, cold ground as I asked her with concern. Honestly, seeing my mother made me soften. It wasn't because I forgave my wife's affair but didn't want my mother to spend her remaining days alone.

"My mother said that since you hadn't finished work yet, she decided to wait for you at the door. I had just sat down when you came back," she smiled and spoke softly as usual.

When she saw the large wrench in my hand, she continued to smile and ask, "Shuang'er, why are you holding such a big wrench? Do we need to fix something at home?"

"Yes...yes, the pipes at home are leaking and need to be fixed," I hesitated and quickly put the wrench back.

If my mother knew I was going to use the wrench to hit my wife's head, she would probably be heartbroken and faint!

"By the way, Mom, did Xin Chun not invite you to come in and sit?" I picked up the bags on the ground and knocked on the door while asking my mother.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Since I knocked on the door with a wrench, the sound was very loud.

"Xin Chun did invite me to come in, but I chose to sit outside, which is quite nice and cool," my mother squinted and answered me with a caring smile.

"Who is it?"

At this moment, my wife, wearing slippers, slowly opened the door from inside.

"Husband? Why did you come back so early?" When she saw me standing at the door, she asked me in surprise.

"Mmhmm." I nodded coldly and quickly scanned the room with my eyes.

In the living room, besides our son watching cartoons, there was no one else.

Then, I quickly walked towards the bedroom.

Our rented house was not big, with two bedrooms and a living room. If there was someone hiding, I would have seen it at a glance!

In the master bedroom, the bedding was neatly folded and no one could be hidden in the closet or under the bed.

In the narrow second bedroom, there was only an empty bed, impossible for anyone to hide. It was obvious that the adulterer had already left. "Wu Shuang, what are you doing? Change your shoes and take a shower before entering the room! Look at you, your shoes are so dirty, you're dirtying the floor..." At this moment, his wife's resentful scolding voice came into his ears. A woman would only use this tone and call a man by his name when she extremely despises him. "Disgusted by my filth, disgusted by my lack of money, disgusted by my loss of glory..." I clenched my fists and tried to restrain my impulse. If it weren't for my mother being there, I would have definitely picked up a wrench and slammed it against her head! But it was precisely because my mother was there, giving me more time to think. I couldn't kill someone out of impulse. I must expose this woman's wicked behavior to the public! Killing is not as good as ruining the heart, I will make her wish she were dead, and nail her to shame! There's no sudden love that disappears, only sudden realization. Thinking of this, my tightly clenched fists gradually relaxed, and the expression on my face went from anger to indifference. I walked out of the room, changed into slippers, poured my mother a cup of water, and then took clean clothes into the bathroom... "Mom, when are you leaving this time?" While I was still taking a shower in the bathroom, my wife's questioning voice to my mother in the living room faintly came through. When I heard it, I was so angry that I almost squeezed the soap in my hand to pieces! Is that something a person should say?

You have to understand, it's almost evening now!

My mom came from the countryside to the city, and had to wake up at least at five in the morning, then carry big and small bags and walk almost ten miles on the mountain road to the town to catch a ride. Plus, she had to transfer several times before she could get to my house!

As a result, my mom didn't even finish drinking a glass of water, and my wife asked her when she's leaving!

This is too much!

It wasn't until then that I finally understood why my mom insisted on choosing to live in the countryside. It was because she was being looked down upon by this unfilial daughter-in-law!

"I’ll leave tomorrow. There’s still work to do on the farm, and the chickens, ducks, cats, and dogs need to be fed," I said.

Then came my mother's voice from the living room.

My kind-hearted mother always spoke gently, even when my wife banished her from our home. She did not express any anger. I knew that my mother didn't want to cause us any trouble or watch us argue because of her presence.

"Mom..." I clenched my fists in the bathroom, feeling sorry for her. My mother had worked hard all her life, pinching pennies to ensure I'd have a better life. But what have I done? Apart from fixing that empty nest villa for her, I haven't done anything to show my gratitude. Even the million I've given her had gone to pay off my debt. I feel guilty just thinking about it.

No, I must not mistreat my mother ever again. I can't tell her about my wife's infidelity nor commit a crime in a fit of rage. I need to pick myself up, repay my mother, and do more things.

After changing clothes and adjusting my mood, I left the bathroom and entered the living room. My wife was playing with her phone and my son was watching TV. They didn't seem to notice my mother's absence.

"Wife, where's Mom?" I asked in a hurry.

"She's cooking," my wife replied without looking up from her phone. As she giggled and chatted with someone, I instantly felt my face darkening.

After all, my mother is an elder!

Furthermore, my mother already had difficulty walking, but she still made the effort to travel all the way to serve us food and drinks! In contrast, my wife was lying on the sofa, leisurely playing on her phone. She could have at least helped my mother wash the vegetables. I still remember, when I used to have money, even if I brought my wife back to my hometown, she would take the initiative to help my mother with the dishes and vegetables. Times have changed, and people's hearts are revealed. It's ridiculous. "Shuang'er, have you finished your bath? Come help me out." While I was lost in my thoughts, my mother suddenly called out to me from the kitchen. "Oh, okay!" I came back to my senses, disappointedly glanced at my wife, and quickly stepped into the kitchen. "Shuang'er, I brought your favorite preserved meat from home, but I can't chop it. Come chop it for me." As soon as my mother saw me, a smile appeared on her face, and she hurriedly handed me the kitchen knife. "Mom, you should go rest in the living room first. The kitchen is too hot. I'll cook." Seeing my mother's sweat-covered face, my nose tingled, and I quickly went forward to wipe the sweat off her forehead. "If you cook, it won't taste good. Only I can be the head chef!" My mother smiled and didn't want to leave. "Okay!" Seeing my mother's eager eyes, I smiled and nodded. "Mom, stay a few more days in the city. Tomorrow, I'll take you to eat in a nice restaurant." I was afraid that my mother would really go back the next day, so I wanted to actively persuade her to stay.

After all, I have saved nearly two hundred thousand yuan in deposits, and my mom took a trip to the city just to hang out and have a little something to eat, which wouldn't cost too much. "No, I have to go back tomorrow. There's nobody to feed the chickens, ducks, cats, and dogs at home. I came to see you this time because there's something I want to discuss with you." My mom shook her head and became serious. "What's the matter?" Seeing my mom's serious expression, I felt a pang in my heart and carefully asked her. Honestly, I was afraid that she would suddenly tell me she was sick and needed to be hospitalized and treated. In that case, I might really not be able to take care of her anymore... "There's going to be a major development in our village, and all the houses in the village will be requisitioned. The developer said they can only compensate us for one million yuan for our villa, but I think the compensation is a bit low, so I want to ask you about it. And I brought the property certificate with me because I'm afraid of losing it at home." My mom looked at me earnestly and said to my nervous self. After she finished speaking, she pulled out the tightly wrapped property certificate from her pocket. "Duoduo, I know you need start-up capital for your business, and if this compensation comes through, it could help you reboot your company! When you fall, you must get back up from where you fell!" My mom handed me the property certificate and encouraged me with a trusting tone. After listening to my mom, I breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, my mom didn't bring any bad news this time. As I looked at the property certificate in my hand, I felt a lot of emotions inside.

Back when the company went bankrupt, my mother suggested selling the villa to support my career. However, being a second-hand villa in the countryside, it was impossible to sell for a good price. We spent over a million on building it, but when we tried to sell it for 300,000, no one was interested, so we had to give up. Fortunately, fate intervened and we received a compensation payment for the land requisition. At least now, funds wouldn't be a problem. "Shuang'er, please start cutting vegetables. If you have time tomorrow, you can come back with me to discuss the price. Developers have been interested lately," urged my mother when she saw me standing there. "Okay, I haven't been back home for a long time," I happily agreed. However, I quickly frowned and asked my mother, "Mom, if the house is requisitioned, where will you live?" After all, this was my mother's retirement residence and I couldn't let her end up homeless because of my career. "Don't worry, we have temporary housing," my mother replied with a smile. "That's good! Mom, when I have turned the situation around, I'll build you a big house!" I said. "Don't waste the money, use it to do business," my mother replied. In fact, I didn't really plan on building a new house. When I regain my success, I will bring my mother by my side to take care of her.

From childhood, whether it was when I was stumbling and had achieved nothing, or when I became successful and prosperous, or even when I lost everything and fell on hard times, the one who has always been by my side, never leaving and always thinking of me, has been my mother.

All this love and romance shit is just a product of money!

When I had money, she obeyed my every command without complaint.

But when I hit rock bottom, she not only gave me a hard time, but also cheated on me!

The ancients summarize it well: husbands and wives are like birds in the same forest, and when disaster strikes, each flies their own way!

Only parents are the ones who shouldn't be disappointed.

After dinner, I drove to Beijing University of Technology under the pretext of taking a walk, and bought a set of needle cameras.

To be honest, I still didn't want to believe that my wife would cheat on me.

I poured so much love into her, and still held a glimmer of hope for her in my heart.

Tomorrow I will return home with my mother. If my wife is truly having an affair behind my back, she will definitely bring that man back home again while I'm away!

Buying this monitoring equipment is also a way to give myself an explanation.

If my wife didn't have an affair, I would still treat her as before!

But if she did, I wouldn't give her any chance!