Rich Scumbag Husband? I'll Take the Divorce

Cornton playboy Justin Swanson openly declares that he only keeps girlfriends around for one month at a time and never falls in love.

Women hoping to marry into wealth line up from one side of the city to the other. After all, when he is in a good mood, he rewards them with a villa. Even when he isn't pleased, there is still a million-dollar breakup payout.

I am a joke to everyone in Cornton. They say I'm the most humiliated rich man's wife in all of history.

They all assume I will put up with him forever.

That is, until Justin brings home a college goer named Kayla Holt.

She looks pretty ordinary, yet she becomes the first woman to make him break away from his vow of only having one woman as a girlfriend for a month.

Justin gives me two choices.

The first is to accept an open marriage and let Kayla stand on equal footing with me.

The second is to divorce him, take half the assets, and walk away with no strings attached between us.

His friends stand nearby, enjoying the show. They are convinced I will stay and keep playing the patient, long-suffering wife for the money.

But I choose the second option without hesitation.

In my previous life, I choose to tolerate Justin's infidelity, only for Kayla to become more and more demanding. She forbids Justin from touching me, and she forbids him from giving me any property.

In my old age, I can only watch with envy as Kayla is surrounded by children and even grandchildren.

When Justin dies, his will does not mention me a single time. All of his inheritance goes to Kayla.

I spend my entire life clinging to the title of Mrs. Swanson, only to end up completely alone.

After getting a second chance at life, I am no longer hung up on him.

I understand clearly that I should take the money and leave. From now on, he and I have nothing to do with each other anymore.

I took the divorce papers from Justin Swanson, read them carefully, and was just about to sign them when Justin suddenly spoke up. He rarely ever did, and his tone carried a tension to it that he probably wasn't even aware of.

"Think about it carefully, Tamara Baldwin. There's no going back once you've signed the papers."

I didn't hesitate as I signed my name and initials on the paper with a flourish.

"I'll pack up and leave now," I said.

Going back? I wasn't even going to look back at him.

In my past life, I thought that Justin had only brought Kayla Holt back with him as another new way of getting his revenge on me. I even naively thought that he would probably still harbor some feelings for me as we'd been together for a whole decade.

However, it was all just a joke after all.

He and Kayla gave birth to two children over the