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."

the pregnancy report she was holding

home, Yvette tossed the report into the

this time, she would feel unusually

didn't prepare dinner for herself. She just leaned back

in her

Xavier hated her-she was hard of hearing, which, to the rich and powerful, was

never allow her to

the morning, the pendulum clock on the wall chimed

home

She got up hastily and

not only with himself but also with the people around

at

man. Clad in a smart tailored suit, his demeanor was

to Yvette, he was cold

her to look at the food on the table and said with a

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

hadn't been for the business alliance and the Snyders'

"nanny", the rumbling in Yvette's ears returned. She swallowed, feeling a lump in her

eyes darkened. "What do you

head and stared at him, swallowing the bile rising in the back of her throat. "If you

Xavier

...

balcony alone, staring out into

clarity. She took off her hearing aids, letting the world around her fall into

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, you may lose your hearing

silent world, Yvette went to the living room and turned on the television. She turned

coincidence, the television was showing an interview with Daphne Reyes, an internationally renowned singer known

slightly as she gripped the remote

Xavier's

had been a long time since Yvette had seen her, 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

why she had returned to her home country, her answer was bold. "I came home to get my

slipped out of Yvette's hands. Her

seemed

turned off 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

picked it up and saw the unread messages on the lock

have been unhappy over

about we meet up tonight?

at the messages

called a cab

of the window. The rain

so whenever she was there, she would take the

her, he just

his wife. She was nothing but a

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