Chapter 101: The Mother-in-Law's Betrayal

The silence of the Lin family villa was a heavy shroud, thick and suffocating. It was well past midnight, and the house lay dormant, its inhabitants lost to their dreams. All except one. Vivian Xu moved through the hallway like a wraith, her bare feet making no sound on the polished wooden floors. Every creak of the old house was a thunderclap in her ears, every shadow a lurking monster. Fear, cold and sharp, was a physical presence coiled in her stomach. Hou Shengchao’s face, twisted in a...