After Years of Marriage I Still Couldn’t Get Pregnant, So My Mother-In-Law Drugged My Husband and Sent Another Woman to His Bed, Never Imagining I Would Quietly Send That Woman to My Father-In-Law’s Room Instead

Part 3

After being slapped by Ethan, Sabrina Reyes finally behaved herself for a while. But I soon noticed that she’d started imitating me, bit by bit.

Especially since there were a few similarities between us, and she was very good at putting on an act. She dressed exactly like me and deliberately paraded back and forth in front of Ethan, copying my gestures and bearing down to the last detail.

To the point that sometimes, glancing over, even I felt a moment of confusion.

But Ethan and I both knew exactly what she was scheming. We’d long been on guard and gave her no chance to pull anything. Time and again she tried to seduce him and failed, choking on her own frustration.

Because of the pregnancy my appetite was erratic, and I was often nauseous and queasy.

For some reason, lately I’d been especially craving spicy snail noodle soup.

But Ethan always said the dish wasn’t sanitary and wouldn’t let me eat much of it. So whenever he went out, I’d secretly order delivery to satisfy the craving.

That day, the moment I saw Ethan out the door, I couldn’t resist opening the freshly delivered container of snail noodles to eat.

Before I could even enjoy it, Sabrina Reyes came over pinching her nose and knocked the whole thing to the floor. With a look of disgust she said, “What else would you expect from gutter trash crawled out of some hole. Even married into a rich family, you’ll never become a phoenix. Eating filthy stuff like this. Disgusting enough to make me sick!”

Looking at the spilled noodles all over the floor, my heart ached, and I turned on her furiously. “Sabrina Reyes, is there something wrong with your nerves? What does it matter to you what I eat?”

She arched a brow, replying scornfully. “Originally it had nothing to do with me, but the smell affects the baby in my belly. I’m warning you now. From now on you’re not allowed to eat this rotten-smelling stuff in this house, or don’t blame me for being rude!”

“But this is my house. If you can’t stand the smell, you can get out.” I snapped back, irritated.

Just then my mother-in-law heard the commotion and came out, and of course she immediately took Sabrina Reyes’s side.

“Sabrina’s right. We’re people of high society. What kind of way is that to eat snail noodles? Cheap and foul. Mortifying!”

“If that smell affects the baby in Sabrina’s belly, then your worthless life wouldn’t be enough to make up for it!”

After saying this she even kicked the container on the floor, and it splattered across my silk nightgown, staining a whole patch of it.

Sabrina Reyes looked at me, full of glee, then bent down to pick up the leftover broth and dumped it straight over my head.

“Don’t you love eating it? Then have some more.”

“You really are cheap to the bone. To actually love something this filthy. How revolting.”

She bent down again, grabbed the noodles spilled on the floor, and tried to force them straight into my mouth. “Since you love it so much, let me feed you myself. Swallow it all down!”

I dodged with everything I had, both arms wrapped around my belly to protect my child.

But my mother-in-law held me down from behind, and not daring to fight back hard for fear of harming the baby, I could only let her humiliate and curse me. Broth covered my face, my hair was a tangled mess, my mouth was full of snail noodles, my whole self reduced to a wretched, sorry state.

At that very moment, Ethan came home.

The instant he stepped through the door, his eyes went dark and his voice ground out between his teeth. “What are you doing to my wife?!”

When Ethan saw me in such a wretched state, he immediately rushed over and pulled me into his arms. His eyes were sharp as knives, fixed on my mother-in-law and Sabrina Reyes.

Sabrina Reyes shrank back at once, all her earlier arrogance gone. Tears welling, she scrambled to explain. “I’m pregnant, and smelling strange odors makes me nauseous. But she insisted on eating snail noodles. When I tried to stop her, she was going to hit me, so I was only defending myself, and that’s how she ended up like this.”

Ethan couldn’t even be bothered to listen to her babbling. In his eyes now there was only me and the child in my belly. He immediately called his private doctor to give me a thorough examination.

Only once he was certain that the baby and I were perfectly fine did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Then he set about dealing with those two.

This time, he didn’t fly into a rage like before. On the contrary, he was eerily calm. He ordered the housekeeper to buy several servings of snail noodle soup and pour them all out onto the floor, mixed with the dirt and grime on the ground.

Then he looked coldly at my mother-in-law and Sabrina Reyes.

“You hate this stuff, don’t you? Then I’ll make the two of you eat it until you never dare mention it again, so you remember exactly who the real master of this house is.”

“Whatever you did to my wife, I’ll return it to you two- or threefold.”

At first the two of them tried to resist, clearly unwilling to eat.

But Ethan didn’t force them. He merely said indifferently, “Don’t want to eat? Then get out. From now on, there’s no place for the two of you in this house.”

That threat terrified two people harboring as much ambition as they were, more than any beating could. With no other choice, they gritted their teeth, held their noses, and forced the foul mess down.

My mother-in-law, though disgusted, adapted after a few bites. But Sabrina Reyes fared far worse. Her morning sickness was already severe, and just smelling the snail noodles made her nauseous. Now that she had to eat them, every bite came back up. She ate and vomited, ate and vomited, until her face turned green.

In the end she couldn’t take it anymore and doubled over, retching violently onto the pile of snail noodles in front of her.

She thought that once she’d thrown up, it was over. But Ethan said coldly, “I said eat it all, including the part you just brought up. Eat it, or get out.”

I’d assumed something so revolting was surely beyond her ability to swallow. But I’d underestimated Sabrina Reyes’s stubbornness and obstinacy, a woman willing to do anything to wedge herself between me and Ethan.

She really did eat all of it.

From then on, just hearing the words “snail noodle soup” made both her and my mother-in-law so nauseous they didn’t dare open their mouths.

After taking out his anger on my behalf, Ethan’s expression finally eased a little. He was about to take me back to the room to rest when the villa’s front gate suddenly swung open.

I turned to look toward the door. It was my father-in-law, home at last.

I have to say, my father-in-law and Ethan really did look alike. If he were as young as Ethan, the two of them would be like figures cast from the same mold.

Even their voices were similar, which was why Sabrina Reyes hadn’t been able to tell who the man in the bed was that day. It wasn’t hard to understand.

The moment my father-in-law stepped inside, my mother-in-law rushed over and dragged him aside to pour out her grievances. Weeping and accusing, putting on a fragile, pitiful air like a textbook two-faced act, until his brow furrowed with displeasure.

When Sabrina Reyes saw my father-in-law, she too immediately clung to hope, praying he would take her side.

Eyes brimming with tears, she called softly, “Sir, lately I’ve really been bullied so much.”

But the look in my father-in-law’s eyes when he saw Sabrina Reyes was plainly one of awkward unease.

Both Ethan and I noticed it, and without a word we both glanced at each other. It seemed that no matter how drunk he’d been that day, he still retained a few fragments of memory.

Before, he’d said nothing, but now, facing Sabrina Reyes at such close range, those memories of that day seemed to come rushing back.

My father-in-law quickly offered a few perfunctory words of comfort, urging the two of them to go rest in their rooms. Once they’d left, he turned to Ethan and snapped, “Well done. You’d actually scheme against your own father!”

Ethan wasn’t the least bit afraid. He answered calmly,

“Calling it scheming is going a bit far. Weren’t you always pressuring me to divorce and marry someone who could have children to carry on the Hale family line? Otherwise how would you face the ancestors?”

“Well, now it’s wonderful. Three of them, no less. The ancestors must be quite satisfied.”

Hearing this, my father-in-law fell silent, unable to retort. He only let out a cold snort and walked off.

Ethan’s expression darkened. He clearly wasn’t pleased either. I didn’t know how to comfort him.

His relationship with his father had never been good, mostly because of Ethan’s birth mother. I knew this was a family matter I shouldn’t get involved in, so I helped Ethan back to the room and prepared to rest a while.

Who would have guessed that just then my mother-in-law would come looking for us. She put on a great show of concern. “Ethan, Maddie’s pregnant. If you sleep beside her and accidentally roll onto her belly, that would be terrible. Why don’t the two of you sleep separately for now?”

Ethan and I both knew exactly what she was scheming. So we decided to go along with the current and use the chance to leave her choking on her own plot.

After all, we’d been playing these roles far too long, and were truly exhausted. Neither of us wanted to keep facing those two people.

That night, Ethan followed my mother-in-law’s suggestion and moved to another room to sleep. In the middle of the night, sure enough, Sabrina Reyes crept in.

Ethan and I immediately opened the surveillance camera in the room, and the image that appeared was my father-in-law and Sabrina Reyes wrapped around each other like glue. If my father-in-law hadn’t still remembered she was pregnant, that bed might well have collapsed long ago.

A night passed.

As dawn broke, my father-in-law, exhausted, was still sound asleep.

The one who woke first was Sabrina Reyes. The moment she turned and saw the aged face beside her, she let out a piercing scream, her face going white with panic.

At first my mother-in-law thought Sabrina Reyes was putting on an act. She personally led a group of servants right up to the room, intending to “catch them in the act.”

The moment she stepped in, before she could even see clearly who was in the bed, she began shouting at the top of her lungs. “Oh heavens! Ethan, how could you be sleeping with Sabrina like this?!”

When the servants heard this, they immediately broke into an uproar, staring curiously at the two people in the bed as if watching a fine drama.

At this point, Ethan and I unhurriedly walked over to the bedroom door. He even pretended to yawn, his eyes drowsy, and asked her, “Mom, who did you say I slept with? But I clearly slept with my wife last night.”

My mother-in-law looked as if she’d seen a ghost, frozen stiff in place. Trembling, she stepped to the edge of the bed and reached out to pull back the blanket covering the man inside.

My father-in-law’s face was instantly revealed, plain as day, right before her eyes.

The very next second, an ear-splitting scream rang out.

The scream woke my father-in-law. He opened his eyes, and before he could even grasp what was happening, my mother-in-law, gone mad, was slapping him again and again. “Are you even human?! You wouldn’t even spare Sabrina?!”

My father-in-law had always been a notorious womanizer, never one to much mind the identity of the other party.

Now he still wore an utterly unbothered expression. “So what? Besides, she’s the one who climbed into my bed in the middle of the night. Clearly she seduced me, so why are you blaming me?”

The moment those words left his mouth, my mother-in-law turned her fury on Sabrina Reyes. She brought her palm down across her face several times. “You little wretch! You wouldn’t even spare my own man! Today I’ll beat you to death.”

“No — that’s not it. I got the wrong person. I didn’t know it was him.” Sabrina clutched her head, crying out over and over that she’d been wronged.

But my mother-in-law had completely lost her reason and didn’t bother listening to her explanation. It wasn’t that she didn’t understand what had happened.

It was just that she didn’t dare do anything to my father-in-law, so she poured all her rage onto Sabrina Reyes to vent.

The room instantly filled with every kind of cursing and wailing, as chaotic as a marketplace. Ethan watched from outside for a while, and finally lost his patience.

He went cold-faced and drove them all out. “Everyone, get out!”

But what surprised us was that after the chaos of that day, the two of them not only didn’t turn against each other, they quickly made up as if nothing had happened.

This time, it seemed they’d truly understood the situation. Knowing everything had fallen within Ethan’s calculations, they no longer dared try any seduction.

They simply stayed quietly, waiting for the day the babies were born to plot their next move.

Seeing how composed Ethan was, I couldn’t help asking curiously, “Aren’t you afraid your father will suddenly have a few more children and end up splitting the inheritance with you?”

Ethan curled his lip in a faint smile.

“Don’t worry. Every cent in this house is in my hands. What do I have to fear?”

“And there’s something you don’t know. My father is a notorious philanderer. He’s got so many children scattered out there he can’t even remember them all. A few more now, and he won’t care in the slightest. He only knows how to get women pregnant. He’s never understood what responsibility means.”

It was the first time I’d heard Ethan speak of his father’s scandals, and I couldn’t help being taken aback. After all, on the surface the man looked so dignified. Who’d have guessed he lived so dissolutely.

Just thinking about it made me feel a little sick.