He was still looking at his phone as he spoke, not even bothering to glance at me properly.
I turned to sarcasm.
"What do you mean 'work a few more years before coming out'? Isn't taking the fall for you for six years enough?"
Damien frowned, looking at me with displeasure.
"Why are you being so aggressive?"
"It's not like I forced you to take the blame, is it?"
I smiled bitterly, not yet saying a word.
Damien decisively put down his phone, revealing a troubled expression, his tone impatient.
"I'm sorry, but I can't marry you."
"If you'd gone to jail for two or three years, that might have been okay. But how can a man possibly wait six years for you? Especially a normal man who needs to be taken care of?"
"Due to a family arrangement, I've already married another woman."
"But I won't abandon you. Since it's hard for you to find work now, I'll let you be our housekeeper."
"Two thousand a month with room and board included, that should be enough for your future living expenses."
"To be honest, there's no other man helping you now. You should quickly thank me for my generosity."
Thank him? Before going to prison, I was a designer earning hundreds of thousands a month.
I lost everything for him, and now he wants me to be grateful for a mere two thousand bucks.
I burst out laughing.
Walking over, I tapped his shoulder.
With a joking expression on my face.
"I was just kidding with you. I never took that promise seriously back then.""Since you're married now, this is my wedding gift to you."
I pulled a small box from my pocket and opened it, revealing a tiny USB drive.
Damien asked me what it was, and I told him it contained the evidence that had convicted him.
Before going in, I had already had someone help me gather evidence proving he'd been framed.
This evidence, if carefully examined, actually had many flaws, but back then I was afraid those people would retaliate against him.
So I simply took the blame and went to prison to settle the matter.
I smiled slightly.
"I've discovered the fabricated evidence those people used. I'll help overturn the case. Not only will I be compensated for emotional damages, but you'll also receive a large settlement."
"It's a win-win for both of us."
As I spoke, I placed the spare USB drive in his hand and turned to leave.
Damien anxiously grabbed my hand, his expression clearly panicked.
"What's past is past. Who told you to reopen the case?"
Damien didn't want to overturn the verdict because he knew I was taking the fall for Melody.
To frame me, he had used a lot of fake evidence. If these things were disproven,
The real criminal would be exposed.
He certainly didn't want Melody to face the risk of imprisonment.
To stall me, he planned to invite me to stay for dinner.
He pretended to go check the information on the USB drive himself.In reality, he went upstairs to destroy the USB drive and then flirt with Melody.
I climbed the stairs step by step, looking at Melody's artistic photos on the wall.
Back then, Damien thought my artistic photos were ugly and wouldn't let me take any.
Turns out he didn't want anything to affect the image of his true love in his heart.
Melody, who was getting intimate with him, quickly saw me and dropped her water glass in shock.
It cut her foot.
Damien angrily rushed over and slapped me.
"Who said you could come up here?"
"Can't you see this is a private area?"
I fell onto the shattered glass, my arm sliced open with a large crimson gash, blood pouring out.
Yet Damien only cradled Melody as he took her to the hospital.
"Melody, it's okay, it's just a small cut. It won't leave a scar."
It wasn't until late that night that Damien returned, carrying the bandaged woman.
He gently comforted the woman in his arms while viciously cursing me as a jinx.
"In all the years we've been together, Melody has never been hurt. But because of you, she injured her foot."
"I've never seen such a disgusting woman as you."