No looking back. With money and looks, why would she be short on men?
On the night their three-year contract marriage expired, Jiang Ning handed over the divorce papers.
But Gu Yanzhou tore them to shreds right in front of her. “Haven’t I treated you well? Countless people would kill to be Mrs. Gu.”
Looking at the familiar, all-controlling arrogance in his eyes, Jiang Ning suddenly felt like laughing.
He was good to her, all right. Good enough to warn her not to fall for him on their wedding night. Good enough to make his “perfect wife” personally deal with one mistress after another for three years, including the one who had gotten pregnant to force his hand.
In this marriage of mutual convenience, she had done her duty to the letter: helping him secure his family’s position and earn praise, transforming herself from an orphan bullied by her stepmother into a sharp blade capable of running a company.
Now she had reclaimed her mother’s inheritance, and their agreement had run its course. Her work was done.
But Gu Yanzhou was experiencing the taste of losing control for the first time. Too late, he realized that the light that had always been left on for him, and the meticulous care she had shown him, were not services he could take for granted as part of their marriage arrangement. They were the sincere feelings of a woman whose heart, beneath its icy exterior, he had crushed with his own hands and then buried deep.
When Jiang Ning finally turned away and never looked back,
the arrogant predator who had once believed everything could be bought or sold began his long, brutal journey to win his wife back. He would learn to show respect, recognize true feelings, and understand that some things are not for sale. Once lost, they are lost forever.
