Part 2Billionaire's Revenge: From Rags to Riches

Hearing her words, I stood there stunned, unable to believe these words came from the woman I had loved for four years.

I had been with Lily for four years, and she had always been good to me, gentle and caring. In our four years of dating, she had never been unreasonable or caused drama.

Our love life could be described as peaceful with a touch of sweetness. We were even planning to get married early next year.

Because I once thought meeting Lily was my blessing.

I'm an orphan, grew up in foster care, so I've always longed for a family of my own.

Lily's family wasn't well-off either. Her father died early, and her mother raised her single-handedly. Last year, her mother was diagnosed with stage 2 gastric cancer.

Faced with expensive medical bills, I never thought about giving up on her and her mother.

I paid the rent, supplemented our living expenses, worked four jobs a day just to support our little family. I even took out all my savings for her mother's treatment.

Now that she had won the lottery, the first thing she did was abandon me and go back to her ex?

She even went to find her ex-boyfriend who had dumped her before, with bags of shopping, just hours after winning the lottery this morning.

Looking at it now, those four years between us were truly laughable.

I crouched on the ground, laughing coldly. I silently touched the lottery ticket in my pocket and looked up at her.

"Does your mom know about you two?"

I still had a glimmer of hope that someone would speak up for me.

Lily's mom had been good to me, always saying she treated me like her own son.

I looked at Lily, only to see her nod.

"My mom knows, she's the one who told me to break up with you quickly."

I laughed bitterly.

The familiar voice of Lily's mother sounded from the living room.

"What's all this noise in the middle of the night? Can't you let people sleep?"

Lily's mother had just woken up, probably because of the lottery win. She now looked radiant, with no trace of illness visible.

She glanced at me on the ground, with contempt in her eyes that I had never seen before.

Mrs. Zhang waved her hand, "Hurry up and kick this jinx out! Can't you let people sleep at night?"

Mrs. Zhang glared at me, her eyes almost rolling to the sky.

"James, don't blame auntie for being heartless. Look at your face and your fate, you've already caused your parents' death, are you planning to curse me and my daughter too?"

"It's because of your bad luck that I got cancer! Get out of here now! You're bad luck!"

She was still cursing.

"You jinx, you look poor, I'm afraid you won't be able to give my daughter a good life in the future."

"Jack is much better."

I looked at the mother and daughter in front of me, feeling utterly unfamiliar.

It was as if the two people who had been good to me and treated me as family never existed.

So money has such great power, $300,000 can make people drop their masks and show their true faces.

Since everyone's done pretending, I'll stop pretending too.

I waved my hand, "Then I'll be direct too. To tell you the truth, I also won the lottery, $70 million."