Inside the bedroom, Emma sat on the sofa, her face grim.


    She listened to the knocking at the door, her brow furrowed in silence.


    Every time they fought, Frank was like this: a p, then a sweet treat.


    After so many years, Emma had grown numb to it.


    She should have left Frank back when she lost their first child. But he had knelt, cried his heart out, and she had softened.


    Emma knew that Frank truly loved her, and she loved him too. But love wasn''t enough to sustain a marriage. It had taken her half a lifetime to understand that.


    After Mrs. Thompson Sr. caused her to lose her first child, she had been quiet for a while.


    During that time, she and Frank enjoyed a rare period of peaceful, warm days. She was busy with her acting career, Frank was busy running hispany, and whenever they could find the time, they would travel abroad together.


    Later, as Frank''s business grewrger, he felt bad about how hard she worked. So Emma gradually cut back on her work to be a full-time Mrs. Thompson and focus on trying for a baby.


    But Emma''sst miscarriage had beente in the pregnancy, and it had taken a toll on her body.


    She and Frank tried for a long time, but she never got pregnant again.


    Emma grew anxious. Frank, on the other hand, constantlyforted her, saying, "As long as I have you, that''s all that matters. As for children, let''s leave it to fate. If we have one, it''s my fortune; if not, it''s my destiny."


    Back then, Emma had been moved beyond words.


    But as they remained childless, Mrs. Thompson Sr. grew restless again.


    She actually drugged Frank during a trip back to Megna Hamlet for ancestral rites and put her distant niece in his bed.


    When Frank woke up, he was furious and almost disowned his mother.


    He gave Carol Monroe a sum of money to send her away.


    Frank thought that was the end of it. He assumed that by sending Carol away, Emma would never find out.


    He had clearly given Carol the morning-after pill, but he never expected her to go to the hospital to have her stomach pumped.


    Nor did he expect that from just one time, Carol would get pregnant and give birth to fraternal twins.


    Carol quietly raised the children until they were six before bringing them to Frank.


    When Frank saw the two children, he waspletely stunned. But a paternity test confirmed that Vanessa and Eden were indeed his.


    Frank''s first instinct was to send Carol and the children away.


    He knew Emma. She didn''t tolerate betrayal. If Emma found out about these children, she would definitely divorce him.


    There was no way Frank would ever divorce Emma.


    But Mrs. Thompson Sr. had long wanted to get rid of Emma. She appeared before Emma, smugly holding her grandson''s hand with one hand and her granddaughter''s with the other.


    Emma stared at the two six-year-old children in front of her, whose features bore a slight resemnce. to her husband, and she felto


    Setely numb.


    fo


    When Emma learned that her


    husband had two illegitimate


    children with another woman, she


    cried her heart out. Heartbroken, she resolutely filed for divorce from


    Frank.


    Naturally, Frank refused.


    He cried and tried to exin, but Emma wouldn''t listen.


    With two six-year-old illegitimate children standing right there, what was there to exin?


    Because Frank refused to divorce, Emma had no choice but to sue and go through legal proceedings.


    At the time, the divorce case of the Thompson Group''s CEO was a massive scandal.