“Linda, you don’t understand,” Cordelia said with a smile. “He’s actually quite nice to me…”

“Nice?” Linda arched a brow, looking skeptical.

Cordelia told her about returning the wedding dress the day after their wedding, getting humiliated by the sales assistant, and then having Marcus buy the most expensive wedding dress in the boutique out of anger before making the sales assistant measure her on her knees.

She had thought that the man was shady, egoistic, materialistic and had anger issues. Most importantly, he was wasting Cordelia’s savings!

“Cordelia, if you think that him standing up for you at the bridal boutique and giving you some family heirloom is considered being nice, you’re too naïve and you have no idea what marriage is!

“A marriage requires effort from both people—not you working your *ss off here while he reaps the fruit you sow, idling away back at home!”

poked Cordelia’s head, frustrated by her compliance. She was a good girl, a little too nice, even. Once someone was the slightest bit good to her, she

who had gone to prison, like Marcus, was akin to an innocent

spends his wife’s

eyes were

forbid you to say that about

failed to

comes to him—I’m spoiling him!” Cordelia was sharp-tongued when she wanted to be. “He’s my husband. Shouldn’t I be taking his side and pampering him? I know that he

the one living with him each day. I know what kind of

think he’s a bad guy at all! He’s a real man too! Besides, I’m the one lying to him in this marriage. He doesn’t even know my identity yet. If I hadn’t married him, the

“Don’t speak ill of my

for so many years, she had always thought that the former was a gentle and quiet soul and had not expected her to be as fluent as an elite lawyer when she

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