Stormy Night, My Husband Betrayed Me With My Stepmother

Chloe, the unseen power behind the venture capital group, spent eight years pouring all her resources into supporting her husband Julian's chip development project. On the eighth patent application, she discovered that Julian had secretly added his stepmother Abigail as a co-inventor on the core patent. Immediately, Chloe cut off all financial support and froze Julian’s assets—but was swiftly outmaneuvered by Julian and Abigail working in tandem: they used her account to squander jewelry, secretly transferred ownership of their marital home, and plotted to frame her. During a torrential rainstorm, Chloe caught Julian and Abigail in an intimate encounter, only to be harassed, shoved, and beaten by both of them and their son Aiden. Chloe summoned the group’s enforcement team to liquidate and dismantle the villa she had funded, but Julian filed a police report accusing her of malicious sabotage and theft of technology. Chloe was taken into custody by the security bureau for investigation. Seizing the opportunity, Julian held a high-profile press conference to slander Chloe, launched a new company, bought a luxury mansion, and flaunted his wealth, attempting to gain public favor and secure his position. Yet Chloe had already laid her plans ahead. She systematically froze Julian’s bank accounts, reclaimed the properties, and exposed that all his funds originated from her family’s private fund. At a hearing, Chloe revealed her true identity, exposing Abigail as not Julian’s stepmother but his lover, and Aiden as their biological child. She filed lawsuits to recover $100 million in stolen assets, revoked Julian’s access to all technical data, and prompted investors to withdraw funding and sue him for business fraud. With no way out, Julian and Abigail turned on each other, blaming one another for debts and collapsing under mutual betrayal. They plummeted to rock bottom: Abigail and Aiden were trapped in a cold, dilapidated attic, unable to sell their technology hard drives; Julian became a scrapyard laborer. Chloe severed all ties with the past, discarded her wedding ring, and took sole control of her own tech empire—fulfilling complete revenge and achieving rebirth.