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.

Cancer had ravaged her limbs, causing them to deteriorate. She was completely immobile, unable to perform even

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

years she had devoted to being Zach’s faithful wife. She

be liberated and no longer subjected to the sight of her loathsome face. He could finally satisfy his longing to bring Cecilia Samford home as

cold. Instead of Zach, it was

pregnant, but an accident resulted in a stillborn child. Since then, her uterus had been damaged, rendering her unable to

needed an heir. That was why he wished to divorce her and seek

Zach to be the one delivering the news personally. The call connected, but instead of Zach, it was

phone, Madelyn found herself laughing at her own expense. The laughter echoed through

her father handed over the company to Zach, it took less than five years for him to ascend to the position of CEO in a prominent conglomerate in Ventropolis. Zach became a commanding figure in the business world, exerting

modest background and became Zach’s assistant right after graduating from college. Her talent and

the beginning, Zach and Cecilia might have been together much earlier, instead of

loveless marriage was undeniably a sorrowful

a substantial sum of money, and was permanently banished from Ventropolis. She could never return without Zach’s permission. Just one week later, she received the devastating diagnosis of advanced-stage

BOOM!

and vibrant fireworks illuminated the

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