All Chapters of The Day I Walked Away: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

11 Chapters

Chapter 1 The Debt Is Finally Paid

Julian's POVWhen my mother-in-law, Claire Montgomery, arrived at the hospital morgue, her face was filled with grief. "Julian, she was completely out of line. I'll call her right now and make her apologize to you in person."Wrapped in a thick blanket, I was about to stop her, but she had already made the call. "Sylvia, you've gone too far this time. Come to the hospital right now and apologize to Julian."But the person who answered was not my wife.It was her first love, Gideon Blackwood. "Sorry, Mrs. Rivers. Sylvia is busy. She's on a date with me, and she probably won't make it over until later."The call ended.Claire looked utterly embarrassed. "Julian, Sylvia's a good girl. She would never do something this cruel on her own. That boy must've led her astray."I did not respond to that. Keeping my distance, I only said, "Mrs. Rivers, our ten-year agreement is over. My mother's gone, the debt has been repaid, and I'd like your permission to leave."Claire hurried to defend

Chapter 2 A Decade of Hatred

Sylvia even promised to give me the wedding of my dreams. For a while, we really were happy.Then, on the eve of our wedding, everything changed.Gideon could not stand seeing Sylvia and me together.He left her a long message. In it, he accused me of paying people to threaten him into leaving.He claimed he had only walked away because he was afraid and did not want Sylvia to turn against her family for his sake.After sending the message, Gideon disappeared without a trace.When Sylvia discovered that my supposed organ donation had been fabricated, she believed every word he had written.She hated me for deceiving her. She blamed me for "forcing" the man she loved to leave.So, on our wedding day, she invited the classmates who had bullied me."You loved picking on people so much," she said. "Now it's your turn to find out what it feels like."They beat me mercilessly. They burned my arms with a curling iron. They forced dirty mop water down my throat. They stripped away ev

Chapter 3 The Truth She Would Never Hear

"Throw him outside. Make him kneel for twenty-four hours. If he doesn't finish, don't let him back in."I let the servants drag my weak body away without a word.There was no point in explaining. She never listened. She was only looking for an excuse to vent her anger.Dark clouds rolled overhead.The moment they dragged me outside, a light drizzle began to fall. Before long, it turned into a torrential downpour.My head grew heavier and heavier. Suddenly, the ground seemed to tilt toward me. Then everything went black.When I opened my eyes again, I was lying in a hospital bed.Sylvia stood beside me, her face full of concern. "You're finally awake. The doctor said you had a high fever."So… You oversalted the soup because you were sick, right? Why didn't you tell me sooner? Why did you still go outside and kneel?"I simply looked at her in silence.She had never listened to my explanations. Even if I had refused or fought back, she would not have spared me the punishment. T

Chapter 4 What Killed My Mother

Sylvia never came to see me again.Instead, Gideon suddenly showed up in my hospital room, kicking me while I was down."Julian, you've been spineless for years. What changed this time? You finally found the nerve to ask for a divorce?"And I guess your mother's death wasn't in vain. At least she died trying to give you your freedom."I shot upright. "What do you mean by that?"Gideon walked over to my bedside, a cruel smile spreading across his face."Exactly what I said. Your mother wasn't supposed to die so soon. I was the one who showed her videos of Sylvia tormenting you. Julian, you really were a devoted son. To keep your mother from worrying, you never told her that you married into the Rivers family just to pay off her debt, or that you'd suffered all these years because of it."She saw the video of your leg being crushed under a car. She watched Sylvia humiliate you with five dollars from beginning to end. She even saw you shivering in that freezing cold storage room. I

Chapter 5 The Price of Silence

Sylvia left with Gideon so he could get his wounds treated.The moment she was gone, the bodyguards hauled me to my feet."Sorry," one of them muttered. Then they started punching me over and over.Pain spread through every inch of my body. At that moment, I was reminded of elementary school.Back then, I was quiet and constantly bullied by my classmates.While everyone else looked the other way, Sylvia had been the one who stood up for me.When I agreed to her mother's terms and married Sylvia, it had not been only to repay my mother's debt.I had also wanted to get one step closer to the light that had once saved me. But now, every bit of darkness in my life came from her.Their fists crashed into me again and again. I was nothing more than a punching bag.Just then, Claire rushed in. "What are you doing? Stop this right now!"One of the bodyguards answered apologetically, "Mrs. Rivers, these were Ms. Rivers' orders. If we don't finish, we'll all lose our jobs. Please don't

Chapter 6 The Truth Comes Out

Claire flew into a rage."How shameless can you be? You ran off with someone else for money back then. You drove my daughter to attempt suicide more than once, and then you lied to drive a wedge between her and her husband."And now you actually have the nerve to stand here and spout this nonsense in front of me? Listen carefully. As long as I'm alive, I will never let you set foot in the Rivers family!"Gideon burst into smug laughter."Sylvia is deeply in love with me. I told her to humiliate Julian, and she did. I even made up some random excuse, and she beat Julian half to death for me. She loves me too much. There's no way she'll ever leave me."He was still speaking when Sylvia could no longer bear to listen.Staggering, she rushed inside. "So, Gideon… It wasn't Julian who tore us apart back then. You were the one who abandoned me, weren't you?"Sylvia stared at Gideon, her heart feeling as if it were being sliced apart.His face instantly drained of color, and panic flas

Chapter 7 A Debt of Guilt

Sylvia whipped around to face her mother. For a moment, her mind went completely blank. "Mom… what did you just say?"Claire lowered her eyes and slowly uncovered the truth that had been buried for years."Back then, Julian's mother hit your uncle with her car. She was so terrified that she fled the scene, and your uncle bled to death before he could even make it to the hospital."There weren't many surveillance cameras back then, so proving what happened was incredibly difficult. I searched for twenty years before I finally found solid evidence. But just as I was about to go to the police… something happened to you."As she spoke, Claire looked up at Sylvia, her eyes rimmed with red."Gideon hurt you so badly that you locked yourself in your room every day. You wouldn't even eat. It broke my heart. To pull you out of that despair, I took the evidence that could have sent his mother to prison and went to see Julian."I told him that if he agreed to help me stage the whole 'marryi

Chapter 8 No Escape

Sylvia rushed to Julian's office as if she had gone mad. But when she arrived, she learned that he had resigned three days earlier.He had not even taken his personal belongings with him. It was obvious that he had left in a hurry.Refusing to give up, Sylvia wiped her tear-filled eyes and called a few of her closest friends, asking them to meet in person so they could figure out how to find Julian."Sylvia, what did you want to see us about?"The women gathered around her. Seeing her swollen eyes, they assumed she had come to vent.They covered their mouths with amused smiles, their eyes gleaming with satisfaction."So, Sylvia, are you planning to teach that freeloader another lesson? Just say the word. We'll make sure he gets the punishment he deserves."Another friend giggled."Speaking of that, remember three years ago? We hit him with a car and left him limping for three whole years. Thinking about it now still feels satisfying."The blood drained from Sylvia's face."Wh

Chapter 9 Too Late

"What? You didn't know any of this?"Sylvia trembled from head to toe.She had thought Julian was lying. That was why she had never taken him seriously. She had even transferred the money to him afterward.But she never imagined everything Julian had said was true. Even worse, in those short ten hours, his mother had died.No wonder he had looked like a man whose soul had been ripped away that day, his face as pale as a ghost.At the time, she had thought he was just putting on an act to make her feel sorry for him.She had forced him to cook for Gideon despite his high fever.Then, because the soup had been too salty, she had made him kneel outside in the pouring rain until he passed out.Later, she had not even known his mother was already gone. Yet she had still stood there, full of self-righteousness, asking his mother to donate a kidney to Gideon's mother.With tears burning in her eyes, Sylvia slapped herself across the face with all her strength.The blow was so hard t

Chapter 10 The Diary He Left Behind

Gideon's face instantly turned deathly pale. His legs gave out, and he collapsed to the floor.Only then did Sylvia learn the truth. Julian had attacked Gideon because Gideon had caused his mother's death.Julian had tried to explain, but she had not believed him. Instead, she had punished him with merciless cruelty.Sylvia felt as if a giant hand had clamped around her heart, squeezing so tightly she could barely breathe."Gideon, you monster! I'm going to kill you! For everything Julian suffered, I'll make you pay a hundredfold!"She grabbed a wooden stool, her heart overflowing with hatred and regret, and brought it crashing down onto Gideon's legs.The sound of bones cracking echoed through the room. It was followed by Gideon's bloodcurdling scream.Sylvia was not finished with him. She shut the door, and Gideon's scream echoed through the private room.After that, every time Gideon came looking for Sylvia, she had people beat him within an inch of his life.Eventually, Gi

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