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.

deteriorate. She was completely immobile, unable to perform even the simplest tasks. The nurse assigned to care for her hadn’t shown up for almost two weeks,

was her love for Zach. However, as her overwhelming love for him faded,

phone and silently awaited the embrace of death. The pain blurred her consciousness, and amidst her bitter thoughts, she reminisced about the eight years she had devoted to being Zach’s faithful wife. She had invested

feel the greatest relief upon her demise. With her gone, he would be liberated and no longer

anxiously waiting for his return. 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

an accident resulted in a stillborn child. Since then,

early thirties, indeed needed an heir. That was why

the one delivering the news personally. The call connected, but instead of

phone, Madelyn found herself laughing at her own expense. The laughter echoed through the room, mingling with tears that welled up in

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 influence through both legal and illegal means. With

assistant right after graduating from college. Her talent and methods were undeniable. The bond between

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

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

BOOM!

fireworks illuminated the night

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