The Rejected Son-In-Law Is A Reincarnated God

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Jason Carter was on his knees, soaked in sweat and fear, his hands trembling as they hovered over the crimson-soaked hospital bed.

His wife, Emily Carter , lay still.

Her face was pale and lips dry. Blood had stained the edge of her white hospital gown. Too much blood.

He didn’t even realize he was shaking until a hard slap snapped his head sideways.

“You monster!” Mrs. Lee, his mother-in-law, stood over him, her voice sharp with fury. “You pushed her, didn’t you?! You pushed her down the stairs!”

Jason blinked. “What? No—I didn’t—”

Smack! Another slap.

“You’re not going to lie your way out of this! You useless, shameless bastard!”

“I didn’t do anything!” he said, standing up. “She fell! I tried to catch her but—”

A nurse appeared in the doorway, her voice hesitant. “Please. Everyone. We need to let her rest—”

“Don’t tell me to calm down!” Mrs. Lee snapped. “My daughter is in this condition because of this ungrateful bastard!”

The doctor arrived moments later, adjusting his coat, his face unreadable.

“She’s stable,” he said flatly. “But… unfortunately the baby didn’t make it.”

The room fell into silence.

The walls seemed to close in on Jason as he looked down at Emily Carter .

The words hit him like a knife: the baby didn’t make it.

He couldn’t breathe.

Then another voice cut through the silence.

“She’s stable?” Lee Gregory, Emily Carter ’s father, asked quietly.

“Yes,” the doctor nodded.

Gregory turned slowly toward Jason , eyes colder than ice. The CEO of Lee Group didn’t need to yell. His words hit like bullets.

“You don’t deserve the Lee name,” he said. “We should’ve never accepted you into this family. From the beginning, I knew you were nothing.”

“Dad, please—” Jason began.

“Who is your Dad? Go look for him in his rotten grave!”Mr. Lee snapped at Jason.

“You brought shame into our home. You had no money, no status, and now you’ve destroyed the one thing that mattered.”

Jason tried to speak again, but nothing came out.

He could only stare at Emily Carter , her still chest, the machines beeping beside her.

And he wished, for a moment, that he could trade places with the child that had just died as tears rolled down his eyes.

**

Later That Night – Lee Family Mansion,

The family had gathered.

The air was thick with tension. Expensive perfume and disdainful glance.

Jason stood in the middle of the large marble-floored living room like a criminal awaiting his sentence.

“I never laid a hand on her,” he said quietly. “I would never hurt Emily Carter .”he was devastated.

“Then explain what the maid saw,” a cousin snapped. “You were shouting and she was backing away…”.

“I think she tripped on the carpet.”the maid also quickly added.

“We were arguing,” Jason said. “That’s all. She was tired, I begged her to rest. She didn’t want to. She turned away too fast and—”

“She fell conveniently right after you yelled?” a woman scoffed. “That sounds like guilt to me.”

“I was angry, not abusive!” he said louder. “We were both upset about the baby, but I never touched her!”

“You think we haven’t seen the way you raise your voice?” another relative said. “You’re not as calm as you pretend to be.”

Lee Brandon stepped forward. Emily Carter ’s younger brother. Slicked-back hair, designer jacket, arrogant smirk. He folded his arms and looked Jason up and down like he was something stuck to his shoe.

“You’ve always been the weak link,” Brandon said. “No job, no money, living off my sister’s name. The only thing that kept you in this house was her pregnancy. And now…”

He smirked. “You don’t even have that.” Jason ’s fists clenched until his knuckles turned white. He swallowed hard.

He wanted to scream. To break something. But he couldn’t afford to lose control now.

“She’s my wife,” he said. “I love her. I would never—”

“You don’t love her,” Mrs. Lee interrupted, eyes flashing. “You loved the roof over your head. The free meals. The status. You clung to her like a parasite. And now…”

“You are just a parasite!” She spat on him.

A parasite? I gave you my kidney.nearly died in that hospital bed. And now—this? Jae hyun lost in his thoughts.

Her voice trembled. “Now my grandchild is dead. And it’s your fault.”

He looked at each of them — all those faces twisted with disgust. None of them had ever accepted him. Not really. To them, he was the stray dog Emily Carter had pity-adopted.

And now they had a reason to throw him out.

***

Later in the Hospital Room

He sat at her bedside again. The others had left. Just a nurse remained nearby.

Emily Carter stirred.

He leapt up. “Emily Carter — Emily Carter , you’re awake?”

She blinked slowly, eyes glassy.

“It’s me. Jason . I’m here.”

She stared at him for a long time. His heart beat faster.

“You fell,” he whispered. “You remember, right? You slipped. I tried to help you. You remember that, don’t you?”

Her lips moved.

“I…”

He leaned closer.

“I think…” she whispered.

“I think it was you.”

Jason felt the ground fall out from beneath him.

“What…?”

“I don’t remember clearly,” she mumbled. “But I think… it was you.”

He stepped back and Staggered.

Even she didn’t believe him.

Even she…

His hands shook and his mouth opened. But he had nothing to say.

“I tried to save you”. But what good was trying, when the world already decided I was guilty?

But she’d already looked away.

He turned slowly, eyes hollow, and left the room.

In the corridor, the lights flickered once.

Then again.

The hallway went eerily quiet.

And then… a sound.

A voice — not human.

[System Alert: JUDGMENT APPROACHES.]

Jason blinked.

“What…?”

No one else reacted.

The nurse typed at her desk. A doctor walked past and nothing unusual.

But he heard it.

Clear and Loud Inside his head.

His heart raced.

And for the first time since the fall…

Something inside him stirred.