9

Ethan and Megan were sentenced to three years in prison for attempted poisoning.

Sophia was still in the hospital, and Jayden was on a business trip, probably rushing back.

Taking advantage of this gap, I packed up all the things in the house that didn't belong to me and moved them to Ethan's old house.

I also gave Jayden's photo to the community security guards and instructed them to be extra vigilant.

Although my cheap brother-in-law's career was not very successful, he was quite skilled at playing mind games.

Back then, if I hadn't provided a large sum of money to support his study abroad, he might still be struggling at an ordinary university in the country.

If he found out that his sister's wedding was canceled and his parents were in prison, he would definitely come to cause trouble for me.

However, I still underestimated Jayden's viciousness.

He actually followed me when I attended a charity dinner.

I had just entered the banquet hall and was about to take my seat when I saw a well-dressed man walking towards me.

He was holding a seemingly ordinary pen in his hand, but I always felt that something was off.

Although the man was wearing a mask—which was a requirement for the dinner—I immediately recognized him as Jayden based on his gait.

My heart skipped a beat, and I quickly walked towards a crowded area.

But even though I tried my best to remain calm and blend into the crowd, he still pursued me relentlessly.

I was about to press the SOS button on my wristwatch when Jayden caught up to me and abruptly pressed the top of the pen.

I instinctively raised my hand to block, but felt a sharp pain in my arm.

It turned out that the pen concealed a needle as thin as a cow's hair.

My vision went black, and I collapsed.

Before losing consciousness, I vaguely saw the banquet hall in chaos, with security guards running towards me.

Jayden threw away the pen in a panic and fled in a hurry.

When I woke up again, I was already lying in a high-end hospital room with two police officers standing beside me.

The police told me that according to the surveillance footage from the banquet hall, the assailant was a tall male.

However, because the dinner required wearing masks, they couldn't confirm his identity.

I weakly opened my mouth and told the police my suspicions.

After comparing the fingerprints on the pen, it was indeed confirmed that the culprit was Jayden.

Three days later, the police arrested Jayden at a high-end sanatorium.

It turned out that he had been hiding there to recover from his injuries—during the escape, he had accidentally pricked himself with his own poisoned needle.

The evidence was conclusive.

If I didn't choose to forgive him, Jayden would be sentenced to more than five years in prison.

As soon as the result came out, Sophia immediately came to me.

It turned out that her wedding had been forced to be canceled due to these changes, and her fiancé had also backed out of the marriage.

Her family thought she brought bad luck and kicked her out.

With nowhere to go, she came to beg me, pleading with me to let Jayden go.

She knelt in front of me, crying and saying that she was also kept in the dark, begging me to be lenient.

Seeing her crying like a willow in the rain, I sighed, "I can let Jayden go.

But for all these years, the tuition and living expenses I spent on him, you pay back half of it for him.

Once it's paid off, I'll consider letting him go."

Sophia was stunned and looked at me in disbelief, "Sister-in-law, how can you be like this? I have nothing now, where do I get the money to pay you back."

I sneered.

If I remembered correctly, just Jayden's tuition and living expenses alone, I had given nearly a million.

Now she was crying poor to me here.

It seemed that the relationship between these siblings was nothing more than that.

Just then, I received a call from Ethan.

He said he had something important to tell me in person.

I actually didn't want to have anything to do with him anymore, but thinking that the truth about my daughter's death had not yet been revealed, I decided to meet him.

The meeting place was a private hospital.

Ethan had been suspended and was receiving treatment here due to his involvement in attempted murder.

In just a few months, he seemed to have aged more than a decade.

The moment he saw me, Ethan wept like rain. "Olivia, the poisoning was a moment of confusion for your mother-in-law and me.

But Jayden was not aware of these things.

For the sake of living together for so many years, can you let him go."

"As long as you're willing to let him go, all the assets under my name will be yours."

I looked at him coldly, "You called me here just to say these things? You still have the face to plead for him? You blatantly favored him behind my back and even wanted to kill me.

Do you really think I don't know anything."

"Besides, do you think I care about your little bit of money."

After saying that, I took out my phone and showed him my bank balance.

Ethan was stunned after seeing it, "How do you have so much money."

I laughed bitterly, "I won 70 million in the lottery.

I originally wanted to use this money to let everyone live a good life, but I never thought it would bring fatal disaster."

"Yes, the poisoning had nothing to do with Jayden.

But what about the wound on my arm? When he made a move to poison me, did he ever remember that we were relatives."

I rolled up my sleeve, revealing the shocking needle mark on my arm.

The doctor said that if there had been a little more poison, I would have lost my life.

This wound reminded me of my daughter's painful appearance before her death.

At that time, I was thinking, who could be so ruthless? I gently stroked the pendant my daughter left me, and a terrible thought suddenly arose in my mind.

Could it be...

that my daughter's death was also related to the person in front of me?