Escape Your Control

[Marriage First, Love Later | Cherished by a Younger Man | The Long Road to Winning Her Back | Bittersweet Healing, with Guidance]

Yan Huan and Sikong got their marriage certificates. “I’m marrying you for your money. There’s no love involved.”

Sikong gave her a careless glance. “What a coincidence. I’m not interested in someone like you, who has nothing going for her.”

After they married, he really was cold and distant, finding even a second glance at her tiresome.

But later, he would wait at the door with a dark expression when she came home late, shield her when other people looked at her too long, and stand up for her when someone picked on her.

He admitted that he cared about her and wanted to give her a home.

Until he realized that every year, on one particular day, she would disappear. When she returned, her eyes were red, as though half her life had been drained away.

At last, unable to hold back, he cornered her against the wall.

“Huanhuan, let’s have a child.”

But she stiffened all over and looked up at him with red-rimmed eyes.

“I… don’t deserve one.”

In that moment, Sikong was utterly thrown into a panic.