After He Walked Away Penniless, the Diagnosis Changed Chapter 04

After He Walked Away Penniless, the Diagnosis Changed Chapter 04

It was my first livestream, but thanks to Julian’s massive following, my video was instantly pushed to tens of

thousands of viewers.

As the viewer count climbed, I kept my voice clear and steady.

“I’m here today to set the record straight.”

“My ex-husband Julian and his… partner Emma have been spreading lies about me online. Slander.”

“Julian. You believed you had only months to live. You begged me for a divorce so you could go chase your

true love.”

“And I agreed. Without hesitation.”

“So tell me. How exactly did that become ‘she abandoned her dying husband”?”

“We were only married for three years, and you admitted to having an affair with your student, Emma.”

“So why won’t you admit it publicly now?”

“For years, you got to live this elegant, refined academic life. Meanwhile, I was the one handling everything at

home.”

“All that grace, all that poetry, all that dignity? Built on my back.”

“You mock me for being vulgar. But you conveniently forget every single sacrifice I made for this family.”

“Your perfect life was built on my exhaustion.”

I looked straight into the camera.

“You asked for the divorce. Not me. I just said yes.”

“I chose to take the high road. I never exposed your affair, and I never spoke badly about you to anyone.”

“Did you really think a woman who doesn’t read poetry would be such an easy target?”

The chat exploded as viewers flooded in.

[So we’ve found the real victim!]

[So he’s been lying this whole time? That whole ‘perfect love’ story was just an act.]

Never judge a book by its cover, I guess.

Even a professor can be morally bankrupt.

Half through the live, my phone rang. It was Julian.

I turned on speaker so tens of thousands of viewers could hear.

His furious voice echoed through the stream.

Julian had never lost control like this before.

All those years together, whenever we had a run-in with a neighbor or some stranger, I was the one who

stepped up.

He’d just stand there, silent, embarrassed by how intense I got. He used to say I was petty and disgraceful.

Watching him unravel now filled me with a quiet sense of satisfaction.

“Siana! What are you doing?!”

I answered calmly, “I’m clearing my name. Is there a law against that?”

I could hear Emma crying in the background.

“Don’t yell at me. Go check the second report I sent you.”

I hung up immediately.

I couldn’t wait to see his reaction when he realized he wasn’t dying at all.

More viewers poured into the stream.

“Everything I’ve said here is the truth. And I’ll stand by every word of it.”

“Julian claimed he had three months to live. He begged me to let him go be with his lover. So I did.”

“I wanted a quiet life. But he chose to drag my name through the mud. So here we are.”

Not long after the stream ended, Julian sent me a message.

A photo of his medical report, followed by a single question.

[What the hell is this?]

Then he called immediately.

“Siana! What is this?! Explain!” His voice trembled, on the verge of breaking.

A wave of pure satisfaction washed over me.

“You’re not terminally ill. It was a misdiagnosis.”

“Why didn’t you tell me sooner? How could you do this to me?”

“I came home that day to tell you.”

“But you handed me divorce papers the second I walked through the door.”

“I was upset. So I forgot.”

“You did this on purpose! You knew I wasn’t going to die, yet you let me give up all my assets!”

“Julian. Stop playing the victim.”

“You asked for the divorce. You signed everything over to me.”

“You begged me to let you go be with your soulmate. I gave you exactly what you wanted.”

“I sent you the report a long time ago. You were too busy with your new relationship to even look at it. How

is that my fault?”

“I stood by you for years. We didn’t have some great love story, but we had a life together. A home.”

“I never once stood in the way of your happiness.”

“And this is how you repay me? By dragging your ex-wife through the mud in public?”

“I guess you never really know a person until you divorce them.”

He had no response.

Julian cared about his reputation more than anything. He hated confrontation.

And now? He had no defense.

“You’ll pay for this,” he hissed, and then the line went dead.

The next day, a local news headline started making the rounds.

[Wife Conceals Cancer Misdiagnosis, Tricks Husband Out of Everything.]