The Forsaken Wife

“Do you love me?” She suddenly stopped crying and looked at him with wide, watery eyes.

“Love?” His gaze rested on her almost translucent pale face. The corner of his mouth curled as he said, “Of course I love you, but…” He paused, his smile growing more sinister and strange. “That is, as long as you haven’t been with another man…”

Once the darling of heaven, she saw her happy marriage destroyed by one drunken night. Divorce, her father’s death, bankruptcy: her once-lavish life disappeared overnight. Like a phoenix reborn from the flames, she emerged from purgatory. For three years, she gave herself to another man. When she returned, she smiled and asked, “Jian Jiluo, I repaid what I owed you with the ruin of my family. What about what you owe me? How will you repay it?”