Chapter 4

I shook my head, only finding Megan’s words ridiculous.

Stunt?

I could pull off plenty of stunts.

I went straight to a law firm.

Just after I finished discussing things with the lawyer, a call came in from Megan’s parents.

“Evan, we’ve figured everything out.”

“This was indeed Megan’s fault. She felt sorry for that father and daughter and wanted to help. She never expected that man would directly take Noah’s school spot. We’ve already lectured her about it. Megan told us you still want to go to court, and even get a divorce.”

“Evan, for Noah’s sake, you can’t get divorced!”

I raised an eyebrow.

I had guessed that Megan couldn’t handle this on her own and also couldn’t swallow her pride.

So she could only pull Megan’s parents in to smooth things over.

“I’m getting divorced for Noah.”

“As his mother, she can even give away his school spot. Does she deserve to be called his mother? She can hand the spot to someone else today, and who knows what she’ll do tomorrow. I gave her a chance. It was her own choice not to ask Derek to give the spot back.”

“Today she even brought Derek along and talked about buying the spot for thirty thousand dollars. That house cost eight million in the first place, and our two families each paid half. What the hell is thirty thousand supposed to be?”

I heard the sharp intake of breath on the other end.

Looks like Megan hadn’t told them about this ridiculous mess.

I kept fanning the flames casually.

“I asked the lawyer about it. She’s the at-fault party, so if we divorce, the child will definitely be with me.”

“You don’t need to call anymore, and you don’t need to see Noah anymore either.”

After saying that, I hung up directly.

As expected, half an hour later, Megan called me like a madwoman.

I didn’t pick up once.

Megan still wouldn’t give up, so she started sending me texts like crazy:

【Are you sick? Why are you telling my parents this?】

【Why won’t you let them see Noah? Do you have to make this such a mess?】

【Answer the phone, Evan. I’m begging you. Let’s talk this out properly. Do it for Noah.】

……

I didn’t reply to a single one.

What was she doing all that time?

I gave her a full week. She brushed me off every day then, and now she knows how to panic?

Megan even went to my parents’ house.

Luckily, I had already guessed she might do that, so I had my parents take Noah back to our hometown for a while in advance.

Megan couldn’t find anyone.

She could only keep harassing me, throwing out threats one minute and softening her tone the next.

But she never mentioned compensation.

It was the same old trick.

She was thinking that once elementary school admissions closed, she could come back and sweet-talk me.

By then, she wouldn’t have to pay a thing, and she’d be the one getting the good deal.

And because of Noah, I probably wouldn’t really divorce her anyway.

There was no way I was letting that happen.

The day after the lawyer told me the documents were ready, a fifty-plus-page report was sent straight to the party discipline and inspection email at their company.

I also made a trip to the household registration office.

I reported Derek’s father and daughter for illegally registering their residence.

I could tolerate anything, but I absolutely could not tolerate anyone messing with my son!

On the other side, during the lunch break, Megan and Derek saw that no one was in the break room, so they started whispering.

“Megan, looking at how hard Evan is pushing back, this won’t go wrong, right?”

Megan squeezed his hand and soothed him.

“Don’t worry. Westbridge Elementary stops accepting students today. Once the system shuts down at five, Lily’s enrollment will be a done deal. What could possibly go wrong?”

“Since I said I had a way back then, how could I fail to handle something this small?”

“As for the one at home... once everything settles, whether he accepts it or not, he’ll have to accept it. Worst case, I’ll spend a little more, send Noah to private school, and buy him a new computer to make it up to him. Then it’ll all blow over.”

Hearing that, Derek smiled with a flattering, admiring look.

That greatly satisfied Megan’s vanity.

As the two of them kept talking, their faces moved closer and closer together.

Just then, a coworker I didn’t know walked in.

Knock, knock, knock.

As if to remind them, he knocked twice on the open door of the break room.

The two of them immediately sprang apart, creating distance between themselves, and started fiddling with the cups in their hands to cover it up, pretending they weren’t familiar with each other.

The coworker rolled his eyes in disgust.

Then he looked at Megan and said, “You’re Megan from IT, right?”

“Come with me to the twelfth floor. Party discipline and inspection wants to see you.”

Megan froze for a second, then followed him upstairs, completely confused.

“Huh? Oh, okay...”

Derek, who was left behind, was also a little puzzled.

Just as he was about to head back to his desk, his phone rang.

“Hello, am I speaking to Mr. Blake, father of student Lily Blake?”

Derek’s heart tightened.

“Yes. Who is this?”

The voice on the other end said seriously:

“I’m the admissions director at Westbridge Elementary.”

“After verification, there is a major question mark over your daughter’s enrollment eligibility. Her household registration documents are suspected to be false. So after discussion by the school administration at Westbridge Elementary.”

“Lily Blake’s new-student enrollment eligibility at our school is hereby temporarily denied!”