Sober and beautiful, my husband and son begged for my forgiveness on their knees.

Lu Jingmo looked in the direction she was pointing and noticed the redness and swelling around her eyes. His handsome brows furrowed, and he looked down at Lu Mingjin.

"Mingjin, tell Daddy, did you hurt Mommy's eye?"

Lu Mingjin pouted, and before she could even speak, her grievances were already overflowing.

"Don't cry, Daddy wants to hear the truth!"

Lu Mingjin nodded gently, crying, "It was me, but I didn't mean to. It's all her fault! If she hadn't deliberately followed us, I wouldn't have smashed it."

As he spoke, he reached out and covered his arm, continuing to sob, "Waaah, Daddy, she's so mean! She deliberately hit me with building blocks, she hit me so many times, it hurts so much."

Seeing his tears streaming down his face, Lu Jingmo reached out to wipe them away, then turned to Ning Yao, "You heard what our son said. He didn't do it on purpose. What about you? Shouldn't you say something to him?"

Ning Yao found it amusing. "Well, I didn't do it on purpose."

Seeing that her father was there, Lu Mingjin became even angrier that her daughter dared not apologize to her.

"Waaah, Daddy, I'm scared of her! I don't want this mom who hits me! Please get a divorce! Otherwise, she'll beat me to death when you're not around!"

Ning Yao stared at him blankly for a moment, then the smile on her lips became somewhat stiff.

Lu Jingmo was shocked to hear his son's words. "Mingjin, you don't need to worry about your father and mother's affairs. We will handle it ourselves."

"No!" Lu Mingjin shook her head, crying. "She took me away on purpose. She wanted Dad to come looking for her. Besides, she said before that divorcing Dad would be good. Dad, let's not want her anymore, okay?"

"She's so mean. She dared to take me away today, and she'll definitely do it again. I'm scared! Daddy, I'm so scared. I'm afraid I'll never see you again. Waaah, I don't want to leave you, Daddy..."

Seeing that he was crying harder and harder, Lu Jingmo felt sorry for him. When he couldn't comfort him, he directly lashed out at Ning Yao.

"What are you standing there for? Don't you know how to comfort your son? What kind of mother are you!"

Ning Yao was already hurt by Lu Mingjin's words and had no desire to go forward.

But seeing Lu Mingjin crying so hard he could barely breathe, he was worried that something might happen to him.

"Mingjin, you..."

"Don't touch me!" Lu Mingjin almost screamed in agony, "Daddy, it hurts so much!"

"Where does it hurt?" Lu Jingmo asked quickly.

Lu Mingjin pointed to her arm, "Mingjin's arm hurts."

Lu Jingmo rolled up his sleeve and saw a small bruise on his elbow, which immediately enraged him.

"Ning Yao, even tigers don't eat their cubs, how can you treat Ming Jin like this! He's your own son!"

Ning Yao also noticed the bruise and immediately said, "Don't slander me, this has nothing to do with me."

"It was you! You're the one who threw those building blocks at me!" Lu Mingjin insisted, accusing her of being the one who left them.

Lu Jingmo believed that a five-year-old child would not lie, so he looked at Ning Yao with a very fierce gaze.

It was as if they wanted to devour her whole.

"Ning Yao, I used to think that even though you didn't have many other skills, you could at least take care of the child. Now it seems I overestimated you. You can be so cruel to your own son. No wonder you wrote in the divorce agreement that you didn't want him. You don't deserve to be Ming Jin's mother at all!"

"Didn't you want a divorce before? Fine, I agree, but you'll have to leave with nothing!"

Ning Yao was shocked that Lu Jingmo would agree to a divorce at this time. Before she could even feel happy, she was enraged by his last sentence.

Leaving with nothing? Absolutely not!

"Lu Jingmo, I regret it. Because of what Mingjin did to me with building blocks today, I can't let him grow up by your side. If you can't teach him well, I'll have to take the lead!"

Lu Jingmo and Lu Mingjin were both taken aback.

Lu Mingjin burrowed into Lu Jingmo's arms in fear, whispering, "Daddy, I don't want to be with her! I don't want to be with her!"

While protecting his son, Lu Jingmo glared coldly at Ning Yao, "Don't use today's events as an excuse! If you hadn't provoked Ming Jin, he wouldn't have done something like this!"

"I don't care about that. I'm Mingjin's mother. Before I brought up divorce, I was the one who took care of him. I stayed up all night when he was sick, and I took him to and from school. I can provide plenty of evidence to prove that I can take good care of Mingjin. What about you? What can you provide?"

Lu Jingmo's face turned ashen. "When a child is young, he naturally needs his mother's care, but Mingjin is five years old now. The housekeeper and servants in the house can take good care of him. But you don't have a job, so how are you going to support him? You think you can fight me for custody of Mingjin with this little house of yours? That's just wishful thinking!"

Ning Yao smiled calmly, "It seems you've forgotten the most important point: you cheated on your spouse. I've taken quite a few photos of you and Ning Yan playing with Ming Jin. Several of them show you and Ning Yan very close together. If these photos are leaked, you won't only lose custody, but you'll also implicate the Lu family."

"You dare!" Lu Jingmo's expression changed, his eyes turning as cold and sharp as ice.

"Of course I dare. Try me if you don't believe me."

Lu Jingmo stared intently at Ning Yao, and seeing that her eyes held no fear but rather a certain determination, his heart sank.

Ning Yao is no longer the timid and submissive girl she once was.

She could actually do something like that!

"Dad?" Lu Mingjin called out timidly, her eyes filled with helplessness and fear.

He was afraid his father would really abandon him!

Lu Jingmo couldn't stand the look in his son's eyes.

In the end, they relented.

"Tell me your conditions."

Ning Yao chuckled softly upon hearing this, "You want me to give up fighting you for custody of Mingjin?"

Lu Jingmo gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, as long as you're willing to give up, you name your price."

"Then give me fifty million, and from now on we'll go our separate ways."

Lu Jingmo frowned deeply. "You only asked for 30 million before."

"You said it yourself, that was before. Now, asking for an extra 20 million isn't unreasonable. What, the Lu family of Whale City can't even come up with 50 million?"

Lu Jingmo glared at her fiercely, "You don't need to goad me. Fifty million is fine, but you have to give me all those fabricated photos, and you're not allowed to appear in my or Mingjin's sight again. Even if we happen to run into each other, you don't need to say hello."

He kept a close eye on Ning Yao, confident that he could negotiate a lower price if she hesitated.

But Ningyao remained calm throughout.

"OK, no problem."

Although Lu Jingmo is a jerk in relationships, he is quick to get things done.

Within ten minutes, his assistant delivered a check for fifty million dollars, along with the divorce papers she had signed.

Ning Yao proposed to include the 50 million in the agreement as compensation from him to himself.

Lu Jingmo did not object. After adding the content, he signed his name with a flourish.

Before leaving, he also gave Ning Yao a cold warning.

"I hope you keep your word, otherwise I won't let you off the hook."

"Don't worry, I will be a good ex-wife, and I hope you will be too."

After seeing the father and son off, Ning Yao held the still-warm divorce papers and finally showed a genuine smile.

She is finally free!