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Chapter 268: Divorce Verdict

"Actor is a stretch, Your Honor," Kate replied. She looked at Matt with her eyes glazed with tears as if she had been wronged here. "He barely gets any acting roles. He was at best cast as a forgettable one-episode character that got killed off the next episode, and as much as I remembered, he got one thousand dollars for it."0

"As you see, Your Honor. He earns roughly two hundred to one thousand per acting gig, and he gets an acting gig once every three months or so," Kate said. "And he never gave his money to me. He usually spent it all on himself and his gaming hobby."

"That's what I call contributing to the household," Matt couldn't help to retaliate, seeing that Kate was trying to slander him. "I used that money to buy a brand new computer, so I didn't need to ask you for money. Isn't that enough?"

"I'm not getting your logic, Mr. Woods," Judge Cassidy interrupted. "You can't call that as contributing to the household. You're fulfilling your selfish desire without considering your wife's hard work."

Matt's eyes widened when he got lectured by the judge. He then realized what kind of idiotic thing he said just now.

Kate zipped her mouth again because she knew she didn't need to say anything else.

The judge was already on her side right now, and the more Matt tried to defend himself, the more obvious how useless and selfish he was.

"I think I've heard enough from you to get my verdict," Judge Cassidy said as she realized Matt was being authentically stupid.

It was indeed unfair for Katherine Woods to have a leech of a husband and still had to lose half of her money because of a prenup.

'Besides, Matthew Woods is obviously a cruel man. No good man would blackmail his own wife for ten grand. That's beyond evil,' Judge Cassidy thought. "You may return to your seat, Mr. Woods."

"W—Wait," Matt felt like this was his end. His gut feeling told him that he would lose his potential ten million dollars because of this blunder. "Your Honor, please don't annul the prenup! That prenup is valid. I deserve half of the asset!"

"Please sit down, Mr. Woods. I will read my verdict after you are seated," Judge Cassidy said.

"N—No! Wait, listen to me first before you read the verdict!" Matt insisted.

"Bailiff," Judge Cassidy called. "Put him back on his seat. I want to read the verdict as soon as possible."

The Bailiff walked towards Matt, who was still protesting, but Matt instantly cowered when he was faced by the Bailiff, who had a much more muscular body than him.

The Bailiff only needed to glare at him for Matt to return to his seat, clenching his fists after knowing he had lost the trial he thought he'd win by default.

Judge Cassidy sighed.

She wrote a few notes before reading the verdict with a clear and slightly louder voice;

"After a thorough review of the divorce case between Katherine Woods and Matthew Woods, we have found that Matthew Woods has been mentally abusive towards Katherine Woods. We have the damning evidence of a video that shows him blackmailing Katherine for ten thousand dollars."

Matt felt his world was about to crumble because he knew his end was near. He could not win it, and that prenup was bound to be annulled.

"We have recognized that Matthew Woods has never contributed to the household income, solely relying on Katherine Woods for everything."

Judge Cassidy was quite relieved this soon-to-be-divorced couple had no child. Though it was sad for Kate to be infertile, the fact that she had no child was a huge advantage in simplifying the divorce verdict.

There was nothing stopping her from getting a divorce except that prenup.

Judge Cassidy took one long breath to finally read the verdict.

"Therefore, I, Judge Christy Cassidy, grant the divorce between Katherine Woods and Matthew Woods."

Kate finally looked at Matt, whose face was so pale someone could identify him as a corpse.

Their eyes met after a few seconds, and Kate mouthed a sentence silently.

'You. Poor. Idiot.'

Kate smiled at Matt after that and continued listening to the judge's verdict.

"I also grant the plaintiff's request to annul the prenup completely, and thus no divorce settlement is needed between both sides," Judge Cassidy stated. "This verdict is final."

She grabbed her gavel and knocked on the wooden surface three times to finalize her decision.

Bang.

Matt's heart thumped for each gavel knock, and by the time he heard the third knock, he had lost half of his life.

He stared at the judge emptily, feeling that he had been wronged but powerless to fight back.

Matt's eyes began to glaze with tears. He regretted speaking dumb shit in front of the judge. He regretted blackmailing Kate for a mere ten grand even though he could've gotten at least 10 million dollars from the divorce settlement.

But what he regretted most was how he denied Kate's six-million-dollar offer.

"This is so unfair…" Matt murmured.

Judge Cassidy got up after a while with the Bailiff and left the courtroom, allowing Kate to finally shed her sad persona and return to her real self.

The first thing she did was to turn around and hug her boyfriend.

"We did it, Darling!" Kate said happily.

Henry embraced her and kissed her forehead, "What do you mean by 'we'? It's all you. You are the one who did such an amazing job to convince the judge."

Kate's cheeks reddened, she was usually not a fan of public displays of affection, but she was so happy that she just wanted to hug her man right now.

"Do you think I don't know that you intentionally set up the suitable judge for the trial? I know that you've been supporting me from behind."

Henry smiled, "I'll do anything to make you happy. As long as you're not harmed, I will not interrupt your fun. Are you having fun now?"

Kate giggled, "I am."

"Fun?" Matt finally got up from his chair and looked at Henry and Kate, who looked so harmonious together. His emotion was at its peak, and he had this uncontrollable bitterness in his heart right now, "You think this is all just for fun?! YOU RUINED MY LIFE!"

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