They all say I only earned Huo Xizhou’s favor because I resembled his first love. I played the role of the woman she loved, imitated her every smile and frown, and became her reflection in Huo Xizhou’s heart.
Then I lost our child forever in a car accident while saving the woman he loved, along with my chance to ever become a mother.
Outside the hospital room, he calmly told his mother, “Don’t worry, Mom. She’s just an actress. I won’t let her into the family.”
That was when I finally understood that all the love and madness I’d poured into him had been nothing but a dispensable scene in his script.
Later, I won Best Actress at an international theater festival, radiant beneath the lights.
With red-rimmed eyes, he knelt before me and begged me to look at him one more time.
I traced the permanent scar on my lower abdomen and smiled more coldly than ice.
“Mr. Huo, the show is over.”
“Please return your ticket for good and leave my life.”
