Chapter 1

On February 14th, Valentine’s Day, Madelyn Jent, a 31-year-old woman, lost her battle to cancer.

Inside a room in SereneCare Hospital in Ventropolis, the air was filled with a strong scent of disinfectant.

[Zach, the doctor inserted a painful dialysis needle in me today.]

[I’m on the verge of death. Could you spare a moment to visit me?]

[Please, Zach…]

Madelyn weakly turned her head and glanced at the text messages on her phone. Despite sending multiple messages, they seemed to vanish into thin air. Zach Jardin hadn’t responded to any of them.

emaciated, with sunken eyes. Cancer had ravaged her limbs, causing them to deteriorate. She was

The only thing that kept her going was her love for Zach. However, as

reminisced about the eight years she had devoted to being Zach’s faithful wife. She had invested her heart and soul in standing by his side,

but think that Zach would perhaps feel the greatest relief upon her demise. With her gone, he would be liberated and no longer subjected to the sight of her loathsome

It was well past two o’clock in the morning, and the carefully prepared meal on the table had grown cold. Instead of Zach, it was his assistant who arrived, bearing a divorce agreement. The assistant

years ago, she had been pregnant, but an accident resulted in a stillborn child. Since then, her uterus had

his early thirties, indeed needed an heir. That was why he wished to divorce

and trembled as she dialed Zach’s number. She wanted Zach to be the one delivering the news personally. The call connected, but instead of Zach, it was Cecilia’s voice that reached her. In that instant, the sound of Cecilia’s

The laughter echoed through the room, mingling with tears that welled up in her

business world, exerting influence through both legal and illegal means. With his

became Zach’s assistant right after graduating from college. Her talent and methods were undeniable. The bond

for Madelyn in the beginning, Zach and Cecilia might have been

marriage was undeniably a sorrowful

reluctantly signed the divorce agreement, received a substantial sum of money, and was permanently banished from Ventropolis. She could never return without Zach’s permission.

BOOM!

and vibrant fireworks illuminated the night sky outside, casting a magical

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