"Mom, do you really want to take care of dad?"

The daughter asked me secretly.

She knew that I have always hated my ex-husband who cheated on me during my pregnancy. When I found out he got paralyzed in a car accident, I even opened an expensive bottle of red wine to celebrate.

"Of course not."

Upon hearing my answer, disappointment was evident on my daughter's face. She pursed her lips, but didn't say anything.

"It's not for me, it's for us."

"Although he never raised you for a day, but after all, he is your biological father! Now that he is paralyzed, can you really bear to ignore him?"

After hesitating for a few seconds, the daughter still gave a heartfelt answer.

Upon hearing this, I coldly snorted in my heart.

This time, I want to see if you can really be so filial.

In my previous life, my ex-husband Zheng Kang cheated on me during my pregnancy. Infuriated, I divorced him with a seven-month pregnant belly.

After the divorce, Zheng Kang continued to pester me for a few months, but after learning that I had a daughter, he never appeared in my life again.

At that time, I was both a father and a mother, working up to three jobs at one point to feed my daughter. I slept for only three hours a day and was exhausted and sick all over.

Finally, when my daughter graduated from college and I found a job that could support myself, I thought I had finally turned the corner in life, but that's when Zheng Kang showed up at my door.

During the years he was away from me, Zheng Kang had prospered, not only having a son with his mistress Bai Yanyan, but also making a substantial fortune.

Until he became paralyzed and Bai Yanyan took away his wealth and disappeared, leaving him penniless and with no one to care for him, that's when he remembered that he still had a wronged ex-wife and daughter.

In my previous life, when Zheng Kang came to my door, I drove him away with a broom.

My daughter even blamed me for this, saying I was too heartless, and how could I be so cruel to her biological father.

I didn't explain.

Later, Zheng Kang threatened me, saying that if I didn't agree to let him move in, he would go to my daughter's workplace and make her abandonment of her father known to everyone.

At that moment, I panicked.

I was afraid that he would ruin the secure job my daughter had finally landed after so much hard work.

So I had to compromise, take care of him diligently at home despite his paralysis.

My daughter was very happy, calling him "Dad" affectionately every day when she came home.

But she always used the excuse of being busy at work and never once helped me, instead subtly hinting that I should dress up more nicely.

Once, she even locked me and her father in a room overnight, despite my banging on the door, she didn't open it.

The next day when I asked her why, she just casually said she had fallen asleep.

At that time, I really believed that it was just an accident.

A year later, Zheng Kang died from organ failure caused by the after-effects of an accident.

I thought I was finally free, but Bai Yanyan reported me to the police.

It was then that I discovered that the two of them were not actually divorced.

Bai Yanyan took me to court, insisting that I had murdered her husband.

Although it was proven that I was innocent, since he died in my house, I was involved, and in the end, I had to sell my only house to pay compensation.

The only asset Zheng Kang left was a dilapidated old house of no value.

My daughter was stunned when she learned of this.

She was determined to reconcile me with Zheng Kang because she thought that although he looked down and out, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, he must still have some wealth stored away.

But to her surprise, her father remained true to his appearance, which infuriated her, and she vented her anger at me.

"You know he's a scumbag, yet you still took him back home to care for him, how despicable can you be! Have you never seen a man before!"

Before I could even defend myself, she packed her things, moved to the old shabby house without looking back, not even giving me a key.

She didn't even ask where I lived after selling the house.

Later, during a routine checkup, I was diagnosed with cancer.

There was a surgery abroad with a 70% cure rate for this illness, but the surgery cost thirty thousand.

Coincidentally, at that time, the old run-down house inherited by my daughter was being demolished, and the compensation was a whopping fifteen million.

I was overjoyed, feeling like I had a lifeline.

I did everything I could to find my daughter's new residence, a grand and luxurious place that looked like a palace. Standing in front of the shining security door, I pressed the doorbell.

The door didn't open, but I could hear my daughter's voice coming from the intercom.

"What do you want?"

"Qian Qian, mom came to see you...I have something to tell you."

Her voice became impatient.

"Just say what you need to, I'm busy, I don't have time to entertain you."

I looked around, thought for a moment, and then gritted my teeth and spoke.

"I'm sick...I need..."

*Click*

The sound of the intercom closing, I stood there dumbfounded, no matter how much I rang the doorbell, there was no sound coming from inside.

My heart felt like it was in an ice cellar.

Even when I closed my eyes, my daughter never came to see me.

Perhaps it was a heavenly mercy.

My heart was given another chance to start anew.