The Life of A Billionaire’s Wife
Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Saving the World's Richest Man by Chance

The story began at a hospital. Veronica Murphy, a young lady of slight build, rushed to theemergency registration counter while carrying a bloodied man on her back with all her strength. Shesaid hurriedly, “This guy needs emergency treatment! He passed out in a car accident.”

Veronica felt that today was really not her day. She was riding her motorcycle on her way to delivertakeouts when a Ferrari nearby got knocked off the road by a large truck running the red light. TheFerrari was severely wrecked, its windows shattered and its trunk on fire. It might explode at anyminute, and its driver was covered in blood and unconscious in his seat.

Veronica had no idea what gave her the courage at the time. Without a second thought, she racedto the car and desperately pulled the guy out of it. As soon as she dragged him several metersaway, she heard a loud kaboom! The car exploded right away.

Veronica was shaken with fright. If she had been a little bit slower, she would probably have beenblown to pieces along with the guy!

Just then, however, the severely injured man grasped her wrist with all his might as if clutching atstraws. He mumbled in a daze, "Help me! Send me to the hospital... I'll pay you 100 million...”Veronica was stunned. 100 million? Did I just save the world's richest man by chance?

At the payment counter, the cashier asked, “What's your name?”

Just as Veronica was about to answer, the cashier looked up and saw her face, and her attitude did aone-eighty immediately. “Oh, if it isn't Tiffany Larson, our director's daughter! Please wait a moment,Miss Larson. A doctor will be arranged for you at once...”

Veronica smiled bitterly at the cashier's words. Tiffany was Veronica's biological sister. The twosisters looked exactly alike, but their lives were polar opposites of each other.

Abducted as soon as she was born, Veronica changed hands several times before being sold to hercurrent adoptive parents. A month ago, however, her adoptive parents had a car accident and werehospitalized with grave injuries and sky-high medical bills. Just then, Veronica's biological parentsappeared out of nowhere, saying they could provide medical treatment for her adoptive parents oncondition that she donate her bone marrow to the Larson Family's leukemic youngest son. Not onlythat, but she mustn“t show her face, which was the spitting image of Tiffany.

Rachel Zimmerman, Veronica's biological mother, said, “Our Tiffy isn't only accomplished ineverything she does; she’s also the most beautiful lady in Bloomstead. You, on the other hand, arejust an ignoble country bumpkin. Tiffy’'s good name mustn't be ruined because of your existence.”Despite the humiliation, Veronica agreed for the sake of her adoptive parents’ medical treatment.Usually, she would deliberately disguise herself as an ugly woman in Bloomstead, but she didn'tbother to do so tonight since she was doing food delivery late at night. However, she didn't expectto enter her biological father's hospital by mistake and be recognized. Consequently, she could onlyacknowledge tacitly that she was “Tiffany” and pay 5,000 in the latter's name for the guy's surgery.After everything was done, she returned to her rented apartment wearily and took a shower. Whileshe was doing laundry, however, she was surprised to replace a black diamond ring in her pocket. Thisprobably fell into my pocket when that guy grabbed my shirt, she thought. Without thinking muchof it, she put the ring on the table, ready to get some shut-eye.

At some point in time, there was a knock on the door outside. Veronica walked over to the door inslippers and opened it.

"Are you trying to be a b*tch, Veronica? Did you forget what I had said to you?” Tiffany, who was talland slim, slapped Veronica across the face before the latter could say anything. “I warned you tonever go around sporting my face when you first came to Bloomstead! Do you want your adoptiveparents to die?”

Offended, Veronica slapped Tiffany's face in return. In order to save her adoptive parents, she hadno choice but to let her biological parents give her a hard time, but she was never someone whowould yield to the strong and place herself at the mercy of others.

Tiffany let out a cry of pain. “How dare you hit me, Veronica?” Her cheek was slightly swollen fromthe slap Veronica gave her, which was much harder than the slap she had given Veronica just now.Veronica flung her hand—which ached from slapping Tiffany's face—with a slight frown betweenher beautifully arched eyebrows. “Just put up with it when I hit you! Do you think I'm gonna let youboss me around? I'm not your mom!”

"How dare you talk as if you're in the right, huh? You took a guy to my dad's hospital late at nightfor medical treatment! How am I supposed to show my face in public if word gets out about it?”Tiffany pointed at Veronica, her cheeks flushing red with rage. “If somebody hadn't told my dadabout it this morning, I might've still been kept in the dark! Who knows how much more disgracefulfilth you were gonna commit in my name?”

“Your face? Ha!" Veronica laughed in self-mockery, her eyes full of sadness. Such is how unfair life is.I was born with the same looks as she was, yet I'm denied the right to show my true appearance inpublic.

Just then, Tiffany's cell phone rang. With her phone in her hand, she stepped aside to answer thephone call. As her eyes darted around, she happened to catch sight of the black diamond ring onthe table. This diamond ring looks familiar somehow... “What's up, Mom?” she asked.

Rachel was frantic with joy on the other end of the phone; there was even a slight quaver in hervoice. “Oh, my God! Darling, when did you save Young Master Matthew? How could you keep sucha big deal from me? Someone from the Kings Family just came and asked to meet you a weeklater!”

"Young Master Matthew?" Tiffany looked at the ring on the table. Then, in a moment of realization,she recalled having seen the ring in a photo of Matthew Kings, which was shared by the socialiteswhen she joined them in a gathering before. The diamond ring was a familiar heirloom inherited bythe Kings Family's heirs.

Upon associating it with what Veronica had done at the hospital the night before, Tiffany instantlyrealized that Veronica had saved Matthew's life yesterday. It was precisely because Veronica hadused her name at the hospital yesterday that the man thought it was her who had saved him. Tothink that I'd become the one who saved the life of Young Master Matthew from Mythpoint byaccident! This is simply even more surprising than winning the lottery! she thought. “Mom, I've gotsomething to deal with at the moment. Let's talk about it later.” Suppressing the ecstasy within her,she slipped the ring from the table while Veronica wasn't noticing. Then, she came up to Veronicaand threatened domineeringly, “If you do that again, just wait until you collect your adoptiveparents’ dead bodies!” With that, she stormed off in a huff.

Veronica had wanted to take a short nap when she came back in the early hours, but she didn'texpect to oversleep. At this moment, she wasn't in the mood to argue with Tiffany. After coveringher face with a face mask, she rushed to the hospital to look for the guy. A reward of 100 million!That's what I'll be getting in exchange for risking my life!

Unexpectedly, when she reached the hospital and asked about the guy, the nurse told her that hehad left right after regaining consciousness the night before. Not only that, but he didn't even leaveany contact information behind.

“What a liar! Son of a b*tch!” Blowing up on the spot, Veronica stamped her foot in anger. “That5.000 is my living expenses for the next two months!” As expected, men are nothing but liars!

On top of losing 5,000 bucks of living expenses for nothing, Veronica had over 100 bucks deductedfrom her earnings by the food delivery platform because she had failed to deliver takeouts asscheduled. She was only doing food delivery as a part-time job, and now she lost all the money shehad earned by doing food delivery during her days off to the food delivery platform. Her heart wasbleeding. Still too young for the dangerous society, duh!

Over the next few days, she worked with even greater diligence every single day. Besides doing fooddelivery part-time after work, she also delivered meals to her adoptive parents at the hospital.Dressed in a security guard's uniform, Veronica was sitting idly in the monitoring room at TwilightBar with her colleague on the security team. She complained, "How could I have possibly beeneating only two meals per day this week if I hadn't saved that ungrateful b*stard? I'm starved out.”Her adoptive father had been comatose since the car accident, whereas her adoptive mother hadbeen staying with him at the hospital every day. Even though Veronica's biological parents werepaying for their medical expenses, she still had to spend a lot on daily necessities every day. As aresult, she was desperately hard up after spending her last 5,000 on the guy's surgery.

Cody Bowman, her colleague, asked, “I've only heard you talking about that guy, Big Ron. Don't youknow what his name was or what he looked like?"

“I remember what he looked like, but he was unconscious at the time. How could I know what hisname—" Veronica replied, only to break off mid-sentence and point at somebody on thesurveillance video all of a sudden. “T-T-That guy! Did you see him? That's him! That was the guy!”she exclaimed with a slap on the table before standing up to walk outside. “Found you at last, you*sshole!”

"Wait a minute, Big Ron!” Cody grabbed Veronica's wrist while pointing at the man on thesurveillance video in disbelief. “Are you sure it was him?”

“I can recognize this jerk even if he’s reduced to ashes!” Veronica turned around to leave.

However, Cody stood up and blocked her path at once. “Calm down, Big Ron! That guy's MatthewKings, the heir of the Kings Family, one of the four most distinguished families in Bloomstead. He's acruel and ruthless man with blood on his hands. If he had wanted to repay your kindness, hecould've done that with a single word. Since he never came to you, it'd mean he’s never going topay you the money. Staying alive is important, Big Ron. It's just 5,000, right? Just take it as you'vefed it to a dog.”

Veronica couldn't help but gasp at Cody's words. “Matthew Kings, you say?” The club where she wasworking was the top money-squandering establishment in Bloomstead. It was frequented bybusinessmen and prominent figures, so Veronica was familiar with Matthew's name.

Cody's advice made a lot of sense, but Veronica couldn't resign herself to it. She waited until1.00AM. When she saw Matthew walk out of a private room and enter the elevator, she entered theelevator after him.

The first eight floors of Twilight Club were dedicated to Twilight Bar, whereas the floors above wereall hotel suites.

In the elevator, Veronica peeked at Matthew—who was half a head taller than her—out of thecorner of her eye. The man's body was reeking of booze, and his peerlessly handsome face wasflushing with an abnormal shade of red. He seemed to be feeling dry and hot after getting drunk,his slender fingers pulling at his necktie every now and then.

Ding! The elevator door opened on the 38th floor. The man walked out, and Veronica followedclosely behind.

However, no sooner had she made a few steps than Matthew suddenly stopped in his tracks,causing the former to bump into his back right away by accident. “Ouch! You—"

The man seized her by the throat right away. He asked in a cold voice, “Who are you? Shoot!"

“It hurts...” Unable to breathe, Veronica kept slapping Matthew's arm as her brain was beingdeprived of oxygen. “Let go of me! I... I can't breathe...”

Upon hearing her voice, Matthew knitted his brows slightly and knocked off the security cap shewas wearing. “You're a woman?”

"Y-Yeah,” Veronica replied. Since she was working at a club, she disguised herself as a man andspoke in a man’s voice to avoid being groped. Few people except her manager and her colleaguesin the security department knew that she was a woman.

"Who sent you here? Spill it!"

“II just wanted to—"

Matthew interrupted Veronica before the latter could finish her sentence. “You wanna be mywoman?” He had noticed long ago that the security guard before him was behaving furtively, andhis drink had been doped today. I knew it. Another woman who's trying to drug me to get me tosleep with her, he thought.

Veronica almost died from being choked. What an *sshole who returns my kindness withingratitude! She swore, “F-F..."

Before she could finish uttering the four-letter word, though, the man let go of her neck.Crumpling to the floor at once, Veronica placed her hands on the floor for support, gasping forbreath while coughing nonstop. Only then did she notice that the entire 38th floor was occupied byprivate residences with silvery gray cool-colored designs that exuded luxury and poshness.

It seemed that Matthew had noticed long ago that something was wrong with her. “You know whatI hate the most?” the man said while panting heavily, his eyes bloodshot.

"Cough... Cough...” Veronica's throat hurt from being choked, and she merely coughed withoutbeing able to say anything.

"Since you have a death wish, I'll grant it,” said Matthew. Then, he grabbed her arm, dragging herinto his bedroom before flinging her onto his bed effortlessly.

Veronica was frightened; she was truly scared upon confronting Matthew. “Hey! W-What are youdoing?”

The man pulled off his necktie with one hand while pressing a button on the remote control withthe other. In an instant, the bedroom curtain closed, cloaking the room in complete darkness.

Then, in the darkness, he tore her clothes to shreds with a loud rip!