Chapter 6180

After reading the letter, Charlie felt an intense pain in his heart.

At that moment, he regretted having hidden his identity from Claire from the very beginning, creating a web of lies that required countless additional lies to sustain. Instead of confessing the truth, he kept piling on deceit to cover it up. It was akin to a poorly-designed program filled with major bugs. Programmers didn’t fix the bugs directly; instead, they loaded on more code to sidestep the issues, just to keep the program running.

As a result, what could have been a simple and efficient program became bloated and unstable with every added line of code.

When excessive unnecessary code accumulates, the entire program can collapse at any moment, falling apart from within.

Charlie recognized that his mistake mirrored this situation perfectly.

If he had confessed everything before marrying Claire, she might have thought his words were fanciful, but at least he would have had a clear conscience, free from the burden of lies.

At the very least, he should have disclosed everything to Claire when Stephen Thompson found him. Even if she didn’t believe him, she would have had the bank account balance and Stephen Thompson, the Wade family’s housekeeper, to corroborate his story. It might have been difficult for Claire to accept at the time, but he owed it to her to be honest and should not have abandoned her.