A man buys a mansion just to see his elderly mother smile—but when he returns home and witnesses how his wife treats her, he makes a shocking decision that leaves everyone speechless

when he was successful but not yet spectacularly so. She was sharp-tongued in the way that people who are genuinely intelligent sometimes are, and she made him laugh harder than anyone had in a long time. She had her own career in marketing consultancy, her own opinions, her own life. He admired that.