Revenge Against My Ex-husband
Chapter 183 Upset

"Are you serious?" Margaret's face suddenly changed. Her own father had previously been seduced by her mother's best friend, hence her strong hatred for mistresses. Although she knew Deborah had been a mistress, for the sake of dealing with Irene, Margaret had kept one eye closed to the matter. Now that this matter had been exposed by her friends, she could not play dumb anymore even if she wanted to.

"Yes I'm serious. Apparently Mr. Cook's ex-wife used to be very good to her, she even asked him to pay her a visit while he was on a business trip. Unexpectedly, that shameless creature seduced her best friend's husband and gave birth to a daughter. Anyone would break down if this happened to them, after that, Mr. Cook's ex-wife died in a car accident. From this, Deborah rose up to the official title of his wife and she even forced her stepdaughter out of the house. After that, Mr. Cook got transferred, so no one found out about this. Everyone just assumed that she had been his wife all along. Who knew that he actually had a wife before her?"

Margaret was really upset. Hadn't Irene going through the exact same fate as she did back then?

She was in the same position a long time ago. Her father's mistress had forced her to leave her life as a rich heiress behind and instead live outside alone. Luckily she had a good husband, and she didn't have a mother-in-law to bully her.

She led a very sweet life after marrying Edric's father. If her husband had not fallen ill and passed away, her life would have been perfect.

However, Irene was different. She was so pitiful. Irene had fallen in love with her son, but she had broken them up. Even worse, she was going to let Deborah's daughter marry into the family. No wonder Irene was not on good terms with her.

Margaret was not born wicked. Once she had this realization, she started feeling a sense of guilt.

Amanda changed the subject and started talking about Lily, "Not only is Deborah disgusting, but so is her daughter, Lily. I'm telling you, she is not as simple and kind as she looks. She is even more vicious thar her mother. Her friends could tell she was fake so they stopped hanging out with her. She had no friends so she had no choice but to befriend a girl called Freya who didn't come from a good background. She says they are friends but Freya is really just a lapdog that helps her do things. Do you still remember previously when you and Edric were targeted and criticised?"

How could Margaret not remember? That was Irene's doing, wasn't it? What did Lily have to do with it?

Amanda continued, "At that time, Edric was still with his ex-wife right? Lily was feeling resentful, so she got the paparazzi to follow Edric and purposely told them to make up stories about him. She even asked Freya to hire someone to stir up trouble at Edric's ex-wife's company, and to scold her for being a mistress. After the matter was investigated, Lily pushed the blame onto Freya and let her become the scapegoat."

"Really?" Margaret had no idea that Lily was capable of something like this, and she was in complete disbelief.

"Really! I'll tell you all of this in detail. I heard that she was the one who had brought up the matters regarding Edric's ex-wife. Her purpose was to make you hate Edric's ex-wife. Luckily in the end, Edric was smart and he did that interview on TV to suppress the issue..."

"Who on earth told you these things?" Margaret couldn't bear to listen any longer and interrupted her.

"Freya. In order to please her, Freya has done so many things for her, but guess what? She didn't show any mercy at all. She promised to give Freya a sum of money and a good job after she took the blame for her. Unexpectedly, both those promises have yet to be fulfilled. Freya was so angry that she exposed the truth."

"There's no credibility to her words. Maybe it's revenge."

"As the saying goes, there can be no smoke without fire. There must be some truth to it," Amanda could tell that Margaret did not believe her so she said, "Lily is not as gentle as you think. She is simply a shrew. I saw her swearing at a nurse in the hospital that day, that look she had on her face? Tut tut..."

Margaret had seen the video she mentioned, and her heart sank. Indeed, there would be no smoke without fire. Lily wasn't as simple as she seemed.

Thinking of how she used to think so highly of her and trusted her so much, Margaret felt unsettled.

After Amanda left, Margaret still could not get over the uncomfortable feeling in her heart. Why had she been so stubborn at the beginning? Thinking about her past with Irene, Margaret felt that she had gone too far.

Last time, when Lily plotted against Irene and failed, she had forced Freya to take the blame. Freya had swallowed her pride and became her scapegoat.

Of course, since Freya had sacrificed herself to be Lily's scapegoat, she had to expect something in return.

However, she had not thought things through thoroughly. She thought that she would just be detained for a couple days. However, Jordan and Edric refused to let her go. In the end, Freya was sentenced to three years of prison for charges of slander.

The highest punishment for slander was three years. Jordan and Edric both knew that the real culprit was not Freya, but they wanted to send a warning to Lily. Hence, they did not go easy on Freya at all and they insisted on her receiving the maximum punishment.

The sentence of imprisonment she received was completely beyond Freya's expectations. Lily had asked someone to pass on a message to her, telling her to not be afraid. She had promised to help and get her out before the three years ended. She told her to wait until things had blown over.

At that point, Freya had no choice but to succumb to them. Deborah did not break her promise, and in order to keep her mouth shut, she sent her a sum of money. She also helped to arrange jobs for Freya's family and even took care of her boyfriend for a while.

Naturally, Deborah had kept the matter quiet. Freya had finally been settled, after half a year, no one was paying attention to her anymore. Deborah got someone to reduce her sentence and Freya was released in half a year.

Since she had been to jail, Freya had trouble replaceing a job. Deborah asked someone to replace a job for her. The job was very easygoing and the salary was good. The only condition was that she could never appear in front of Lily again so that it would not affect her.

Freya had endured through so much just because of the potential benefits. She had been with Lily for so many years, and she had suffered too many losses. Now that she was away from Lily, she could finally be free, so she agreed without hesitation.

She thought she could live a comfortable life, but reality was often different from fantasy. After she was released from prison, her life was completely different from what she had imagined. She did not know who had leaked the information that she had been in jail. People in the department began whispering to each other when they saw her, and talked about her behind her back.

Having stayed by Lily's side for a long time, Freya had picked up the habit of being bossy. Right then was the time for her to be humble and follow others. However, she was not sensible and still regarded herself as someone powerful because she knew Lily.

When she saw someone talking about her, she would talk back about them. In time, she had managed to offend everyone in the office. No one in the office liked her and they all began to alienate her. Even her supervisors went out of their way to avoid her.

Her job was not going well, and she also began having relationship problems. Her boyfriend had been seeing another woman behind her back. Freya was having problems in her life, both personally and professionally.

Freya began to miss the days when she was Lily's lackey. At that time, because of her good relationship with Lily, everyone looked upon her highly. After some consideration, she decided to go back to Lily, in hopes that things could go back to the way they used to be.

However, Lily refused to acknowledge her and asked her to stay away. Lily told her that she had given her what she owed, and that she should know her place.

Only then did Freya realize that she hadn't been tossed aside temporarily, for it was permanent.

When she thought of how she had followed Lily and worked for her over the years, and yet Lily had treated her like so, hatred began to form in her heart. She thought to herself that if a chance appeared, she would take it to take revenge on Lily.

Just as Freya had this thought, a pretty girl named Thea Luther had come looking for her. She gave Freya a sum of money to spread word of Lily's ugly scandal.

Freya was a little worried that Lily would take revenge on her, but she had agreed for the sake of money. Thea, who was young and beautiful, was also a socialite. Her car was of limited edition, and her clothing was luxurious from top to bottom.

The most important thing was that Thea was modest and polite to her, unlike Lily who was only polite in front of others. When there was no one around, Lily did not treat Freya like a human at all.

Thea was generous, unlike Lily who was stingy. When she brought her along for parties, she would bring her to get her hair done at high-end salons. She also bought new clothes for her. When Lily brought her to parties, she never brought her to any salons, and all the clothes she wore were clothes that Lily did not want.

Comparing the two of them, Freya was way more impressed with Thea. If Freya followed Thea, she would definitely be much better off.

However, Freya was a little confused about Thea's identity. She had been with Lily for a long time, so how could she have never heard of Thea from San Fetillo?

However, her doubts were quickly dispelled. When Thea took her to a party, she heard the people around her discussing and finally found out about her identity.

It turned out that Thea had just come back from abroad and her family owned a large business. Freya also heard that Thea liked Edric. She immediately knew why Freya had come looking for her, for Thea regarded Lily as her love rival.

Freya naturally took the initiative to show off in order to win Thea's favor, so she told Thea all about Lily, her hypocrisy, her viciousness, how sinister she was. Basically, Freya told her everything that she knew. Of course, Freya did not know that Thea was not a rich young lady, but actually a secretary from one of Edric's overseas companies. Edric had asked her to approach Freya to replace out what Lily was really like. Thea recorded everything Freya said with a recording pen and gave it to Edric. After listening to Freya's words, Edric felt extremely disgusted with Lily.

Wasn't Lily a master of disguise? He would tear off her mask and expose her ugly face for everyone to see.

He had ordered Thea to take Freya to party with all the other noble ladies and let Freya tell them all about Lily's ugly past.

Freya used to be one of Lily's close friends, so what she said was credible. After hearing her speak, all the ladies started to detest Lily to the extreme.

Due to Lily, Deborah had also been isolated. In the past, because Deborah was a politician's wife, many people were always kissing up to her. After this scandal broke out, those people who used to flatter her began to alienate her.

Nowadays, being a mistress was nothing good. Due to their positions, noble ladies would more or less have some encounter with mistresses. Hence, it was easy to imagine how much they hated mistresses. Deborah had no idea about any of this at all. She attended a party with Steven and realized that everyone was looking at her weirdly. She found it strange, and wondered why they were looking at her like that. She felt like something was off, but she still walked over with a smile and was ready to say hello to the people she knew. Then, the strangest thing happened. The people who usually rushed up to greet her were acting as if they had not seen her. Instead, they continued chatting away merrily by themselves...