PART 2: SEVENTEEN DAYS LATER, THEY FINALLY DISCOVERED WHAT THEY HAD REALLY FIRED.
Seventeen days after I left the hospital, Nathan called me at 2:17 in the afternoon. I was sitting outside a small café overlooking Erhai Lake. The mountains…
PART 2: HE CHANGED THE GROOM’S NAME AS A JOKE—THEN WATCHED ME MARRY THE MAN HE COULD NEVER COMPETE WITH
Adrian’s face changed the moment I asked for the jade pendant back. For ten years, that pendant had hung from his neck. It was the other half…
PART 2: HE CAME TO FIND ME AT THE AIRPORT—AFTER LEARNING THE MAN HE PLANNED TO SAVE WAS ALREADY GONE
I sat in the back seat with the cardboard box on my lap. Daniel drove. Chloe sat beside him. Neither of them noticed that I never asked…
PART 2: I FOLLOWED HIM TO SOUTH AFRICA—AND FINALLY LEARNED WHY HE NEVER LET ME GO
Adrián stared at the passport in my hand. “No.” I blinked. “What do you mean, no?” “You’re staying here.” “Camila stole files from my father’s project.” “And…
PART 2: HE THOUGHT I WAS JUST HIS QUIET WIFE—UNTIL HIS RUSSIAN CLIENT STOOD UP FOR ME
Daniel stared at me as if I had become a stranger. Maybe I had. Or maybe, for the first time in our marriage, he was actually looking…
PART 2: HE TRIED TO TAKE MY DAUGHTER—THEN THE INVESTIGATION TOOK EVERYTHING ELSE
I looked at the custody document for several seconds. Then I looked at Ethan. “You want me to give up my daughter?” His expression stayed calm. Too…
PART 2: THEY SOLD ME INTO THE WRONG MARRIAGE—BUT THE MAN THEY USED TO TRAP ME SET ME FREE
I looked at Julián’s back as he disappeared beyond the courtyard gate. “Sister-in-law.” Two syllables. That was all he needed to turn everything between us into something…
PART 2: I LEFT WITH THE DAUGHTER THEY TREATED LIKE A SERVANT—THEN THE DNA REPORT DESTROYED THE GU FAMILY
For several seconds, no one in the room moved. Gu Dingchen stood beside the sandalwood table, his face pale. The three boys stared at him. And from…
PART 2: FIVE YEARS AFTER THE DIVORCE, HE DISCOVERED THE THREE CHILDREN HE HAD THROWN AWAY
Tham Quyet did not move. He looked at the cake in his hand, then at me. “Miss To, I’m not here on Dat Than’s behalf.” “That changes…
PART 2: THE DAY I STOPPED WAITING FOR HIM, MY HUSBAND FINALLY STARTED COMING HOME
The message from Tham Ky Minh contained only one sentence. “Don’t meet Co Hoai alone on Saturday.” I stared at the screen. Then replied: “The exhibition has…