Letter of Divorce

[Ancient setting, domineering CEO, coercive romance, mad male lead, old-school melodramatic angst and regret] Please add my next book, The Ugly Maid, to your to-read list. Yao Yao: My wife, By the time you read this letter, I will have left. I thought that even though I had forced you to marry me and kept you by my side, as long as I treated you sincerely, I could win your heart in time. If one day wasn't enough, then ten days. If ten days weren't enough, then a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand. I had the patience. Besides, there was nothing in this world I couldn't accomplish. But after three whole years, a thousand days and nights, I had exhausted myself trying every possible way to please you. In the end, I won your body, but not your heart. Yesterday was your eighteenth birthday. I spent three months preparing for it, doing everything I could to make you happy, and at last I saw you smile. Do you know how happy I was at that moment? I would gladly have died right there from happiness! After we slept together last night, you held me close, something you rarely do. My heart nearly leapt into my throat. Yao Yao, do you know how joyful I was yesterday? Before you called out another man's name tenderly in my ear for the countless time, Yao Yao, do you know how happy I was? But at last, I understand that I have lost. Completely and utterly. It turns out there really are things in this world I cannot accomplish. I have a thousand, ten thousand ways to make you submit and bow your head to me. But I cannot win your heart, Ning Yaoyao. What use is it to have your body if I cannot have your heart? Very well. As you wish, I will give you a letter of divorce and set you free. I will also grant you the chance to be with your childhood sweetheart. From now on, we are finished, and we will have nothing more to do with each other. This manor, along with all my shops, estates, and property, I leave to you and the only child of mine you carry. I will leave with nothing. This is the only thing I can do for you. I wish you well! Your husband (please allow me to call myself that one last time) The next book: The Ugly Maid In one sentence: A seemingly mild-mannered and refined heir goes mad with obsession over an ugly maid, though he is truly vicious and cruel! The ugly maid was unattractive from birth, with a dark purple birthmark the size of a palm covering half her face. She was abandoned at the Marquis's estate as soon as she was born. She grew up serving there, doing the most menial work, like washing clothes and emptying chamber pots, because of her appearance. The Marquis's household was complicated. During a struggle over the title, the wife of the eldest branch put her in the bed of the Marquis's eldest son, causing him to lose his title and become a laughingstock throughout the household and the entire capital. As a result, the eldest son came to hate her. After three years of taking contraceptive medicine and losing two unborn children, on the day the eldest son arranged his betrothal and asked to marry a princess of the court, she learned that she was the true daughter of the Grand Princess, while the princess he sought to marry was merely a fake, adopted off the street on a whim. What bitter irony. That night, a fire engulfed the Marquis's estate, and the ugly maid perished in the flames. To everyone's surprise, the ever-handsome and refined eldest son went mad and charged into the fire with bloodshot eyes. (Hahahaha, I'm laughing so hard!) The ugly maid underwent a face-changing procedure, regained her incomparable beauty, and was adopted by the Grand Princess. She was then betrothed to the third young master of the Xie family. But on the wedding day, the eldest son unexpectedly stormed in and stole the bride, plunging the entire capital into chaos. In any case, this is an old-fashioned, melodramatic story. Stay tuned to find out more! Theme: Learn to protect the people you cherish and to respect one another.