Chapter 1

It was a dreary day with constant rain.

Yvette Snyder stood at the entrance of the hospital, her body frail, clutching a pregnancy report in her thin hands. Three words on the report stood out: "No pregnancy detected".

"You've been married for three years. How are you not pregnant?" Her mother, Yara Cadwell, demanded, jabbing a finger in Yvette's face disappointedly. Yara was dressed lavishly and wore high heels.

"Why are you so useless? If you don't get pregnant soon, the Lanes are going to kick you out of the family. What's going to happen to our family then?"

Yvette looked at Yara blankly. She had a lot to say, but the words were stuck in her throat. In the end, all she could manage was, "I'm sorry."

"I don't want you to be sorry. I want you to give birth to Xavier's child. Do you understand me?"

Yvette's throat felt tight; she didn't know how to answer Yara.

In their three years of marriage, her husband, Xavier Lane, had never slept with her.

How could she ever have his child?

Yara stared at Yvette. The latter's weak demeanor was so unlike her own.

Finally, she said coldly before leaving, "If you really can't give him a child, then find him a woman who can. At least he'll appreciate you for that."

Yvette stared after Yara's retreating figure in disbelief.

Had her own mother just told her to find another woman for her husband to sleep with?

Her heart felt as cold as the freezing rain.

As Yvette made her journey home, she couldn't stop thinking about Yara's parting words. Suddenly, a loud ringing in her ear drowned out her thoughts.

She knew that her condition had worsened.

Just then, she received a message on her phone.

It was from Xavier, and the content was the same as always. "I'm not coming home tonight."

In the past three years they had been married, Xavier had never spent the night at home before. He had never so much as touched Yvette either.

Yvette could remember their wedding night three years ago. He had told her, "Since your family is bold enough to trick me into marrying you, you'd better be prepared to spend the rest of your life in loneliness."

Spending the rest of her life in loneliness...

Three years ago, the Snyder and Lane families had decided to form an alliance through marriage.

Both families had agreed to mutually beneficial terms in the agreement. But when the day of the wedding came around, the Snyder family went back on their word and transferred all of their assets away, including the billions of dollars that Xavier had paid to marry Yvette.

Yvette's eyes dulled at the memory. She replied to Xavier's text with her usual response: "Okay."

she was holding got scrunched up in her

home, Yvette tossed the report into the

this time, she would

She just leaned back

rumbling in her ear

why Xavier hated her-she was hard of hearing, which, to the rich and powerful, was no better than

would never allow her

5 o'clock in the morning, the pendulum clock on

would be home in an

that she had fallen asleep on the couch. She got up hastily and went

was strict about punctuality, not only with himself but also with the people around

at

was a tall and handsome man. Clad in a smart tailored suit, his demeanor was quiet and reserved, yet undoubtedly

to Yvette, he was cold

right past her to look at the food on the table and said with a scoff, "You do this every day. Are

past three years, Yvette had been doing the same things over and over again. She wore the same dark clothes and replied to his messages with the same

business alliance and the Snyders' deceit,

swallowed, feeling a lump in her throat, and said bravely, "Xav, do

His eyes darkened. "What do

him, swallowing the bile rising in the

Xavier interrupted her.

...

on the balcony alone, staring out

in and out of clarity. She took off her hearing aids, letting

Snyder, there's been a pathological change in your auditory nerves and some of your cranial nerves, causing your hearing to worsen. If this goes on,

went to the living room and turned on the television. She turned up the

Daphne Reyes, an

hands trembled slightly as she gripped

Xavier's

but Daphne was still as pretty as ever. She was confident and relaxed in front of the cameras, unlike the shy and frightened young woman who had begged the Snyders for sponsorship in

she had returned to her home country,

out of Yvette's hands. Her heart also fell

seemed

the television and went to the table to clean up the uneaten breakfast. When she got to the kitchen, she found that Xavier had forgotten to take his

saw the unread messages on the lock

been unhappy

you don't love her. How about we meet up tonight? I've

the messages until

called a cab to

she stared out of the window. The rain fell incessantly. It felt

liked it when Yvette visited him at his office, so whenever she

saw her, he just greeted

wife. She was nothing but a smear on his

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