After the Eight Years of Love I Gave Up novel Chapter 13

Book 2 - Chapter 3

"What?" I suddenly stood up, thinking I had misheard.

"How can the marriage certificate be fake? Look at it carefully again!"

The lawyer adjusted his glasses and examined it closely.

"I'm very sorry, Ms. Shen, but this marriage certificate is indeed fake."

"Ha." I laughed, but tears fell uncontrollably.

Seven years, two thousand five hundred and fifty-five days, I asked myself hundreds of times every day.

Why did I believe Louis?

Why did I agree to marry him?

Marrying into the Wood family, this cold-blooded, heartless monster's den.

It took me seven years to face reality, six years to gather the courage to divorce.

But now, the lawyer actually tells me.

Louis and I were never really married.

No wonder the Wood family called me a "cheap woman", it turns out...

I really am no different from those women outside...

Wiping away my tears, I thanked this kind lawyer.

Since we were never married, separation would be much simpler.

Only, I still couldn't let go of Edwin.

Edwin is my child with Louis, he's five years old this year.

When I gave birth to him, I had a difficult labor with severe bleeding, almost dying on the operating table.

In my hazy consciousness, I heard the doctor ask Louis whether to save the mother or the child.

Louis didn't hesitate.

"Save the child."

The cold words jolted me from my confusion, and I kept telling myself.

Eliza, you can't die, Edwin can't be without a mother.

Because of this thought, I crawled back from the brink of death.

You could say that Edwin is the most important reason for me to live in this world.

But less than two days after giving birth, Louis's mother forcefully took him away.

She said:

"Eliza, not letting you raise the child is for his own good."

"Don't forget, you're just a cheap woman who crawled out of a poor mountain village."

"If the child stays with you, he'll only be looked down upon like you."

Despite all my reluctance, for Edwin to have a better life, I still endured it.