"All you talk about is Julia. Have you given a single thought to your own wife? No wonder Sherry is fighting tooth and nail to divorce you. After everything, do you still have the nerve to stand in court and claim your marriage isn't irretrievably broken?"
Back then, Sherry had run off after Yelena. So she hadn't heard those words.
But Lucas had watched the footage from that day countless times.
The dark circles under his eyes hadn't faded since.
Behind the scenes, he kept digging, trying to find who leaked it.
The internet exploded.
[If that's true, he's totally favoring Julia. Honestly, even us netizens are exhausted. Julia keeps insisting she and Gilbert are just friends—old feelings and business partners, that's it.]
[She even said Sherry and Gilbert should get back together, that their biggest problem was a misunderstanding caused by her. But looking at this, it doesn't seem like a misunderstanding at all. If it were me, I'd be furious too.]
[Exactly. His own wife was terrified. And Gilbert had Sherry locked up before too—did he ever worry about her being scared back then? But now with Julia, suddenly he's frantic.]
[Didn't he just say Julia is more delicate, so she's more afraid? So Sherry's tougher, she deserves that treatment? Jesus, if I were Sherry, I'd divorce him too.]
[You can tell there's no love left between them. Just a piece of paper away from being strangers.]
Gilbert stared at the comments flooding in, all of them trashing him and Julia.
These brainless idiots made him furious.
Caring for the vulnerable was a basic human instinct!
"How is this the same? People who do wrong go to jail. But Julia didn't do anything—she's a victim here! Can't you people understand that?"
[Sure, sure, we get it. But we also get that Sherry's done with you, and divorcing you is the right call. You should get that too.]
That one line hit Gilbert like a flicker of realization—Sherry might be hurting?
But just as quickly, his old mindset took over.
He almost laughed. What was there to compare?
He'd married her, hadn't he? What more could she want?
You don't coddle women. That's how disasters happen. Women should be on edge, working hard to please their men.
Puppy-faced age, CEO-level power—one in a million.
[OMG, I used to feel bad for Sherry. Now I just feel bad for myself.]
No one had ever really seen Lucas go off online before. But every time he did surface—every single time—it had something to do with Sherry.
If it wasn't about Sherry, you wouldn't even know he existed online.
This sentence blew everything up, straight to trending.
Gilbert's scalp tingled. His fingers flew across the keyboard, typing and deleting. Finally, he sent, "Don't push it, Mr. Harrison. Going after another man's wife—you want to be the other man? Have you thought about what this does to Sherry's reputation?"
Lucas fired back, "You didn't care about her reputation when you did what you did. Or did it just never cross your mind? You never considered her position at all.
"You never considered her, you never cared. So don't criticize those who do. What you take for granted is someone else's treasure."
That hit Gilbert hard.
He was terrified Sherry might actually believe this nonsense. He messaged her immediately, "Everything he says—every single word—it's manipulative. Textbook fake-nice guy!"

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