When I woke up, I had somehow become the kept woman my own husband supported. He gazed at me tenderly and said he would soon bring me back to his manor as a concubine. But I had already seen through his sinister, hypocritical nature. I secretly set my plans in motion and pretended to go along with him. When he fell from power and was in danger of losing his life, I took all the family fortune and went to see him.
“Things have come to this. Let’s part on good terms.”
