Rewriting My Heart's Fate

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Forcing a woman into submission and then pretending to save her-that was what these people do best, wasn't it?

But what he was saying now, didn't it sound just like some wealthy businessman tossing a few coins at a beggar, hoping to brush me off?

"You knew I was being manipulated, yet you still chose to help the Wiley family. Your goal was to make me a puppet. That way, all you'd need to do is lift a finger, and I'd come running

"What do you think I am? A toy? A dog at your command? Do you think have no dignity, that you can trample all over me forever?"

Back then, he knew exactly how desperate my situation was, but he never lifted a hand to help. He probably thought I brought it all on myself.

Even when the truth about the murderer came to light, he didn't offer me any explanation-past promised he'd "help".

result? The whole case was swept under the rug. Despite the overwhelming evidence, It somehow ended up as a case with "insufficient evidence".

said, his voice softer than I'd ever heard it. "There are just some things I couldn't control.

my first time around, I might've been moved to tears by his words. But I knew better now. Sometimes, the sweetest words hid

lapdog, ready to serve you day and night? Do you think I'd be grateful for that if I

those naive women in romance novels were thinking. How could they happily stand by the CEO's side, willingly playing the role of a powerless assistant or, worse, his

left and right because he held the power. Those women sacrificed everything-youth, talent, and

let themselves be used and fell in love with the guy, thinking

anyone in a position of power love the person they constantly ordered around? How could the one beneath ever fall in love with the one who

not thinking straight," Ethan said, his voice calm as it trying to defuse the situation.

helpless in front of me while pulling strings behind the scenes. But why couldn't he just be

meant to be

the