Chapter 1: Sweeping away and regaining a new lease of life
Inside a villa in downtown Los Angeles.
‘Luna is coming over tonight, she won't be happy to see you here.’
Jenny had been working in the kitchen for most of the day and had just walked out after getting all the meals ready when she heard her husband Eugene speak.
Luna, as he called her, was the only woman he had ever identified with in his life.
Jenny froze and subconsciously untied her apron. ‘Okay, I'm leaving, so call me when you're ready and I'll be back.’
‘You don't have to come back.’
Eugene finished coldly, and without waiting for Jenny to react, he threw an agreement at Jenny, with whom he had lived for five years.
‘Tomorrow we'll go get the divorce papers.’
Jenny bent down and picked up the agreement.
It was a divorce agreement!
Five years of being a cow and a horse for a divorce agreement.
But after Jenny confirmed the terms on the agreement, she was so happy that even her heart started to tremble, her water-stained hands clutched the agreement tightly as if it wasn't a divorce agreement but her life.
Jenny pushed back her excitement and was about to turn away when something suddenly occurred to her. ‘Sarah...’
‘Jenny!’ Eugene sank his face, "I'm warning you to recognise your own identity, don't think that just because Sarah has called you mother for five years that you really consider yourself her mother? I advise you to stop making an issue out of Sarah and get the hell out of this house!"
Jenny didn't mean anything else, just wanted to remind Sarah that she seemed to have a cold and needed to be watched...
They had a five year old daughter.
A happy family of three in the eyes of outsiders.
But many people, including Eugene's parents, didn't know that in fact her marriage to Eugene had been a dog and pony show from the beginning.
She and Eugene were high school classmates, and Eugene was a handsome man, the centre of attention wherever he went.
She, on the other hand, is just a Cinderella who needs to study hard and expects to change her life by getting into a good university.
One is the attention of the rich and handsome family, a nest in the corner of the daily study of the silly girl, the two life should not have any intersection.
But fate has a way of working itself out!
Five years ago in the autumn, Eugene suddenly broke into Jenny's world, towering over her, throwing out a bank card, overbearingly let her be the mother of her child.
But only if Jenny would give up her chance to go to Yale and be with him right away.
Jenny agrees with little hesitation.
Eugene had many admirers at school, and it was no exaggeration to say that the girls who pursued him could fill the entire playground, but Jenny was not one of them.
Because she knew that they weren't even from the same world.
But she could not refuse, because she needed money.
Life was always full of all kinds of helplessness that forced one to compromise. Something happened to her family, her father owed a lot of debts from gambling, and her mother was seriously ill. If she couldn't get the money, her father would have one of his hands chopped off by a debt collector, and her mother would probably lose her life...
She could only compromise and bow to reality.
Eugene sends Jenny home with a baby girl who is only a month old, saying that she is the mother of the child and he is the father of the baby boy.
Eugene is of noble birth and does not approve of Jenny at all, especially Eugene's mother, who also curses her as a scheming woman who seduced her son and wants to use the baby as blackmail to marry into the family.
However, due to Eugene's insistence, he reluctantly approved of Jenny.
But even after recognising her as Eugene's wife, the deep-seated contempt for her never stopped.
Jenny had been suffering in silence as a reward for the $1 million Eugene had given her.
With the $1 million from Eugene, Jenny was able to pay off her father's gambling debts and cure her mother's serious illness.
Jenny always knew who the child's real mother was.
It was the only woman Eugene had ever identified with in his life, Luna.
And she was nothing more than a tool person for Eugene and Luna.
But what did that matter?
After all, they were just a fake couple in name only, and their marriage, from the beginning, was a transaction that had nothing to do with feelings, and a farce.
During these five years, Jenny had completely detached herself from society and had dutifully become a housewife with Eugene's father and daughter at the centre of her life.
From time to time, she also had to stick a hot face to the cold farts of Eugene's family, enduring the kind of humiliation that came from the depths of her soul.
This is not the life she wants, but there is no way, 1 million IOUs in the hands of Eugene, as long as he does not let go, she can not leave.
Jenny had been looking forward to this day for a long time, and now it had finally come.
After working hard all afternoon, Jenny was kicked out of the house without even having a chance to drink.
Eugene was so desperate that he didn't even give her time to pack her bags.
Jenny could imagine how happy the three of them would be when Luna arrived, savouring the dinner she had worked so hard to make all afternoon.
But she felt no resentment, only relief that a mountain had been lifted from her shoulders.
It was like a new lease on life for her.
Jenny was dressed in her housecoat, with a pair of sandals on her feet and an old mobile phone in her pocket that only allowed her to make calls and send texts.
The first moment she stepped out of the house, she tore up the IOU!
Suddenly, Jenny felt a wave of dizziness for no reason, and she stopped in her tracks.
[At this time, you are penniless, the sky and the earth, but there is no place for you to stay, you are now faced with two choices:]
[First, go back to beg Eugene, so that he look at the sake of five years of your conscientiousness as a cow as a horse, lend you a little bit of money, if he can be very kind, reward you with a can make a living work, that would be even better.]]
Secondly, you have made a firm break with Eugene and his associates! You're not going to live a life of indignity and humiliation any longer! You believe that the difficulties are temporary, and that you will be reborn!
The sudden voice in her head made Jenny freeze.
But her heart subconsciously made a choice.
Definitely choose two, need it be said?
It was so hard to escape the fire pit, only a fool would jump back in!
Eugene had a bad temper, she had to be careful and watch her words every day.
Sarah is even a little witch, more difficult to serve than all of them combined, she as a nominal mother is not qualified to discipline, every time Sarah puts forward the brutal and unreasonable requirements, she can only have to unconditionally agree, meet.
Years and years of depressing life, so that the already few words, she is almost about to get aphasia.
Collapse, collapse, think about it all make people feel crazy.
[Congratulations on making the right choice, Life Choice System Binding Success!
‘?’
A big question mark was typed in Jenny's head.
Even though she had been out of society for five years, she still understood what ‘system’ stood for!
[The host has made the right choice in life, rewarded with 100 system coins.]]
[The system mall has been opened, the host can use the system coins to buy the required goods--]
Jenny froze once again!
‘You're still not getting out!’ Eugene appeared at the door to loudly repel.
Jenny didn't turn around and hesitantly stepped forward.
I don't know when it started to rain, the thinly dressed Jenny shuffled along with her flip-flops, the rain dampened her bare white feet, and the coldness gradually attacked her whole body, but she didn't realise it, and just kept her head down as she strolled in the rain.
At this moment, her mind was constantly choosing...
‘Mum, that auntie is so strange, like a puppy that no one wants...’
‘Hush, don't talk nonsense, hurry up.’
A mother and son hurried past Jenny.
Jenny hesitantly put her right hand into her coat pocket and slowly drew it back, through the dim streetlight, she saw what was in her hand and her pupils shrunk violently.
Being penniless, she actually pulled out a bunch of banknotes from her pocket!
Looking at the thickness, there should be a thousand US dollars!
Just now, she had used one system coin in the system mall, to purchase a thousand US dollars, and it actually worked!
The system was actually real!!!
Jenny spent over two hundred dollars to buy herself a dress, and one hundred dollars to buy a pair of discounted trainers.
Ten dollars for a burger to fill her stomach, and the rest to find an inexpensive hotel for the night.
If she had exchanged all her system coins for real notes at the beginning, she could have exchanged it for a hundred thousand dollars.
Jenny's material desires were very low, and a hundred thousand dollars would be enough for her to spend for a long time.
But she didn't do that.
Because she found that the real currency, instead, was the cheapest commodity in the system mall.
This showed that apart from money, all other things were good things that were hard to buy with money!
For example, fitness pills worth 30 system coins, breast augmentation pills worth 40 system coins, opportunity cards worth 50 system coins...
Opportunity cards were what she was most interested in at the moment.
With $100,000 to spend, opportunity is vital to her with no education or work experience.
There were no endless chores to do, no need to look at Eugene's cold face and eyes, no need to try to coax that lawless little witch.
Jenny comfortably took a hot bath, lying on the hotel bed, without the slightest hesitation, directly purchased an opportunity card.
【Opportunity card purchase is successful and will take effect within 48 hours!
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At six o'clock in the morning of the next day, Jenny violently woke up from her sleep, looking at the time her brain buzzed, and her first reaction was, why didn't the alarm clock go off?
She leapt up and hurriedly put clothes on her body.
Jenny gets up at 4:30 every day, 365 days a year, all year round.
Eugene was demanding and Sarah was a picky eater, so in order to prepare a nutritious and tasty breakfast for them, she would wake up every day while everyone else was still asleep, wash up briefly, fasten her apron, and start working in the kitchen.
Even with all this effort, she couldn't satisfy Eugene and Sarah every day, and the two demons could always find something wrong with her.
Every time, Jenny would hang her head and apologise, and then silently take it all in amidst the accusations, doing her best to make them happy.
She had a clear position on her identity, she was the debtor, Eugene was the debtor, and she had to offset the debt with impeccable service.
Halfway through the dress set, Jenny jerked to a halt.
She was so sleep-dazed that she had forgotten that since last night, she had regained her freedom, and that she could finally live with dignity.
At eleven o'clock in the morning, Jenny and Eugene successfully completed the divorce formalities, and at the moment when the divorce certificate was in her hand, Jenny was as relieved as ever.
At this point, she had finally severed all ties with Eugene.
Now, she was going to wait for her chance...