00:00But just as she pulled the door halfway open, a man with dyed blonde hair smelling of cigarettes
00:04blocked her path. It was the local lowlife Cody Shaw. Cody grabbed Ellie Rivers by the hair and
00:10dragged her back with force. His tone was rough. Trying to run? You're carrying my kid. You're
00:15coming home to marry me today. Don't even think about backing out. Ellie Rivers struggled
00:19desperately crying out for help. Let me go. I don't know you. Let me go. I glanced at Pam Holden
00:26slumped on the floor and casually twisted the knife. By the way, old lady, I forgot to
00:30tell you. That gold bracelet Ellie Rivers is wearing is a fake. Just a cheap gold plated
00:35copper one. The real gold bracelet was hawked by Ian Sheldon long ago to pay off his debts
00:41to loan sharks. If you don't believe me, bite it and see. Pam Holden froze, staring at me
00:45blankly. She didn't react for a long time. Then she scrambled and lunged at Ellie Rivers,
00:50biting down hard on that gold bracelet. The taste of copper rust and cheap gold plating
00:55instantly filled her mouth. It was disgusting. Pam Holden's eyes rolled back and she fainted
01:00on the spot from rage, falling to the ground unconscious. By the time she woke up in the
01:04hospital, I had already returned to the city, cutting ties with the Sheldons for good. Later,
01:09I heard from the folks back home that Ellie Rivers used the chaos to steal Pam Holden's
01:12funeral savings hidden under her pillow worth $30,000, fleeing in the middle of the night.
01:15She hasn't been seen since. After returning to the city, the first thing I did was contact a
01:20lawyer to change the access codes and fingerprint locks on the house. I paid for that house
01:25in full before the marriage. I was only being kind back then, letting Pam Holden move in for her
01:29retirement. There's no need to show any mercy now. That night, Pam Holden rushed back to the city
01:35from her hometown. Dragging a shabby old bag, she stood outside, unable to get in. She threw a tantrum
01:40in the complex, wailing and cursing until security finally kicked her out, utterly humiliated and with
01:45nowhere to go. She had to take a late night train back home, sleeping in a moldy, drafty and leaky
01:51shed,
01:51living a miserable life. In the detention center, Ian Sheldon refused to confess at first. He thought
01:58his bookkeeping was flawless and that no one could find any dirt on him. That was until I paid him
02:03a
02:03visit. I took the forged ledger records that Ellie Rivers sent me overnight to save herself and
02:08slammed them against the glass in front of him. The moment Ian Sheldon saw the hard evidence, he slumped
02:13into his chair. His face turned ashen, his old arrogance completely gone. In a desperate bid for a plea deal,
02:19he started frantically throwing Ellie Rivers under the bus. He claimed every single scam was
02:22orchestrated by Ellie Rivers. He said he'd been misled, shifting all the blame onto Ellie Rivers.
02:26Now that they've turned on each other, they're both trying to bury the other, hoping they both
02:31rot in prison together. After the police launched their investigation, following the trail, they
02:36uncovered even more disgusting secrets. Old records were dug up and turned inside out. The most absurd
02:41part was the truth about Ian Sheldon and Ellie Rivers, these so-called star-crossed lovers.
02:45When Ellie Rivers' family went bankrupt years ago, it wasn't due to poor management. It was a conspiracy
02:48orchestrated entirely by Ian Sheldon. Back then, Ian Sheldon was just a penniless nobody, who had his
02:53sights set on the wealthy Ellie Rivers. But Ellie Rivers wouldn't even give him the time of day.
02:57To get his hands on Ellie Rivers, Ian Sheldon hired local thugs to set a trap, luring Ellie's father
03:02into a dead-end loan shark scheme. Pushed to the brink, her father took his own life by jumping off
03:06a
03:06building. Ellie Rivers was blinded. Treating the man who killed her father as her only lifeline,
03:11she remained devoted to him. Which was both laughable and tragic.
03:16Six months ago, Ellie Rivers accidentally found Ian Sheldon's old phone at the bottom of a drawer.
03:20In the notes, she found a record of the scheme he'd orchestrated. The truth was revealed. Love
03:25instantly turned into a blood feud. They became a couple in name only. Sweethearts by day, sharing a
03:31bed by night, but both obsessed with killing each other. One day, you add liver-damaging toxins to my
03:37calming tea. The next, I mix heavy metal powder into a luxury soup. Poisoning each other, plotting
03:41against one another, just waiting for the other to drop dead. Pam Holden couldn't handle the series
03:46of blows. She borrowed $200 from a neighbor, bought a cheap train ticket, traveled all the way to the
03:51city to harass me, threatening to take me down with her. She didn't even make it past the front door
03:57of
03:57my office building before four six-foot-three professional security guards dragged her to a
04:01planter a hundred yards away. She looked completely pathetic. I immediately went to the industry's main
04:05group chat and posted a 2,000-word memo. It clearly detailed Ian Sheldon's embezzlement,
04:10falsified records, schemes against his wife, and plundering of her family wealth,
04:13laying it all out. The attachments were full of bank statements, chat logs, and photographic
04:18evidence. The proof was ironclad. In business, people only look out for their own interests.
04:22Within half a day of the news breaking, all of Ian Sheldon's so-called partners divested and withdrew
04:27their capital. They cut all ties. Creditors showed up with promissory notes, swarming the Sheldon
04:31family estate. They splashed red paint all over the front door, scrawling pay what you owe everywhere.
04:36The collection agency found out through their channels that Ian Sheldon had used the excuse
04:39of expanding the family plot to move $300,000 in cash. They were certain the money was buried
04:43in the cemetery. On a dark and moonless night, a few small excavators were driven up the hill.
04:47They dug up generations of Sheldon family graves, turning the entire place upside down.
04:50Urns were tossed aside in total disarray. From the dirt fell moisture-proof plastic bags containing
04:54$300,000 in cash, tightly wrapped. The following morning, police cars arrived at the hilltop.
04:59They cordoned off the area with yellow tape. The Sheldon family graves became the laughingstock
05:02of the town. On the day of the memorial, Pam Holden pointed right at me, claiming I wasn't
05:07worthy of honoring the Sheldon ancestors. Now the debt collectors took bunches of ritual paper and
05:10cheap incense, lit them all at once and shoved them haphazardly into the entrance of the old
05:13Sheldon house, right onto the threshold covered in foreclosure notices. Thick smoke filled the air,
05:17making passersby choke and cough. Karma comes full circle. Retribution is certain and precise.
05:23Three months later, Ian Sheldon, for medical reasons, was released on bail pending trial.
05:27When he left the detention center, his cheeks were gaunt and his eyes were sunken. He looked
05:32like a living skeleton, completely devoid of life. He tracked down my new office address.
05:37During the morning rush hour, he went to the office building, with a heavy thud, in front
05:41of hundreds of employees and passersby. He knelt before the revolving doors. He held up
05:45a cardboard sign, which read, I was wrong in red, and please forgive me, honey. He wanted
05:51to use this guilt trip to force me downstairs to see him and force me to forgive him.
05:56I didn't go downstairs. I just had my assistant take a surveillance clip and play it on the giant
06:00screen in the lobby. It was footage from the night of the family memorial, captured by the
06:05hidden camera I'd installed at the old house. In the video, Ian Sheldon had his arm around
06:09Ellie Rivers, looking sleazy and smug.
06:11Aubrey Harper is just a prized pig I'm fattening up. Once I've bled her dry of all her money
06:16and shares, I'll kick her to the curb. Then we'll take the money and disappear.
06:19The audio from the video blared clearly through the lobby's PA system. Everyone heard it loud
06:24and clear. The surrounding colleagues and bystanders snapped photos of Ian Sheldon frantically,
06:29pointing and whispering. They called him a lowlife, ungrateful and heartless.
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