The Untouchable Ex Wife by Mizuki Sei

Chapter 2074

"What do you want to know?" Joanne had turned serious. She was curious about what Renee wanted to ask.

"I can affirm your parents wouldn't adopt an unrelated boy for no reason, given their character," Renee said. "Probably, they might even sell him to another person. But they adopted him, which was unprecedented. Although they weren't nice to him, they fed and raised him. So, I wanted to know..."

After a pause, she continued, "How did they adopt my brother? Or did someone let them have him?"

"I'm not sure about that." Joanne frowned, trying hard to recall it. "He's only three years older than me. When I was old enough to remember things, he was already living at my home. But at that time, my family openly said he wasn't blood-related to us. So, I knew from the start that he wasn't my biological brother.

"But there was something quite special. My parents and biological brother had always been lazy. However, my family conditions were okay. They didn't work, but we had money for food and stuff. My family was even considered pretty decent in the village. I doubted if some rich people secretly helped my family and if they were related to your brother."

"That's possible," Renee said.

After some contemplation, however, she shook her head.

"But it's illogical. If some rich people secretly helped your family because of my brother, why did they let your family adopt him? Plus, they let such a messy family adopt him. They watched your family bully and oppress him. Why didn't they try to stop your family?"

"I find it weird too," Joanne added. "Whoever it is probably didn't support my family. They purposely made my family harm your brother, and even paid my family to do that. In short, that person should be quite powerful and influential.

"During the early years, my awful brother committed a crime and took advantage of a young woman in the village. That victim wasn't even sixteen years old! Logically, he should be severely punished. But that person managed to settle it. From then on, I could feel your brother getting worse. My parents seemed to have received some kind of order. They would harm your brother more severely with higher pay from that person."

"How abominable!" Renee couldn't take it anymore, and slammed her fists hard on the table. If that was true, that person was outrageous! How could they ruin an innocent child like this? What resentment was there?"

It was already considered very wicked to separate Quinton from his parents, yet the perpetrator made it worse by purposely putting him in such a terrible family. He was harmed and oppressed from a young age.

Whoever it was must be crazy and inhumane!

"I'm sorry.. Joanne hung her head in guilt.

She refused to bring up the past because she knew her family had ruined Quinton's life. That,

and she was the one who pushed him into an utter abyss.

Yes, Quinton did harm her greatly-but she had done the same to him,

Most of the time, she resigned to her fate and felt that the pain she had endured in the latter part of her life was her karma. She felt that it was the karma for her crazy and outrageous family.