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Pretending to be meek and obedient, I replied to Martha, “Yes, Mom. I’ll cooperate with Lily’s videos.”
Martha seemed somewhat surprised by my compliance but still scolded me, “You useless girl, don’t you know it’s time to make dinner? Why are you just standing there like an idiot? Go cook now!”
I clenched my fist tightly, reminding myself not to act rashly. Then I walked into the kitchen and started preparing dinner.
As we were about to eat, Jack came home.
I had just washed my hands and was about to sit down when Jack kicked me. “What are you doing? The supermarket shelves are empty. Go stock them.”
Holding back my pain, I agreed and grabbed the keys from the shoe cabinet, heading downstairs without another word.
When I got married, my parents had given me a commercial property as part of my dowry, which we had turned into a small supermarket.
Since opening the supermarket, no one in this big family had gone out to work. They all relied on this small business for their livelihood.
Not only that, but they had dumped the most tiring and dirty jobs of restocking and shelf arrangement on me.
To maintain the household expenses, I worked part–time during the day and came back to organize the supermarket shelves at night.
So no one knew this supermarket better than I did.
After restocking the shelves, I grabbed some sausages, bread, and drinks, and went to the storage room where we kept our supplies.
After eating, I called my parents who still lived in the suburbs.
Hearing my parents‘ voices through the phone again, tears welled up in my eyes uncontrollably.
In my past life, after I died, my parents had called me several times but no one answered.
Then they had called Jack to ask about me.
Originally, Jack had been afraid of being exposed, so he had replied to my parents using my WeChat account, making them believe I was still alive.
Later, when the temperature dropped suddenly and the Ice Age Apocalypse came, my parents had asked me on WeChat if I could send them some food. The temperature had dropped too quickly, and they couldn’t buy anything in the suburbs.
Lily had seen the chat history and instigated Jack to trick my parents out of their money.
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So Lily and Jack had conspired together, making up an excuse that I was sick. Lily had even worn my clothes to pretend to be me.
My parents had believed them and immediately transferred all their money.
After getting all the money from my parents, they had made a video call to my parents, calling them big idiots and fools, saying no wonder their daughter was also a fool.
They had told them their daughter had already frozen to death, and even sent photos of my corpse to my parents.
This had immediately triggered my father’s heart condition, and he had collapsed. The last thing I heard was my mother’s panicked screams before the video call was cut off.
