She was a deserter in her marriage. In the fourth year after their wedding, she confronted him in front of everyone and said, “Mo Guangnian, I want a divorce!”
She thought that after giving him a humiliating slap in the face, she could tear him out of her life as easily as ripping off a dog plaster. But then he threw a prenuptial agreement, secretly signed with her father, right in front of her.
That was when she learned her marriage had always been bound up in a business deal.
That was when she realized she would never escape this cage.
“I won’t let you die. I just want to make you wish you were dead!” he murmured in her ear, his voice sickeningly sweet, as if he had licked the taste of blood.
He swallowed up her family’s business, put his number-one mistress on the board, and humiliated her at every turn.
At the company’s New Year party, he walked toward her, brushed past her, then took another woman’s hand and led her onto the dance floor for the opening dance.
She fought alone, holding fast to her pride.
He carried out his threat, leaving her with no dignity.
Little by little, they forgot the tender days when they had loved each other.
But so what if they had loved each other? If they didn’t make it to the end, who could say for certain that what lay ahead was a garden of flowers and not a field of corpses? Now she had seen the truth.
On the plane, she opened the cabin door and smiled beautifully at the man beside her. “Without you, my life is over!”
She jumped from the plane into the bottomless valley.
Only his anguished echo drifted through the world.
Six months later, in the gambling city of Macau.
A beautiful woman turned a thousand dollars into a hundred million. Gossip reporters captured half her face and splashed the image everywhere.
When Mo Guangnian saw that half of an unfamiliar profile, his eyes narrowed like a cat’s.
“Miss, let’s play a round. Whoever loses has to take off all their clothes!” he said with a smile, pushing his chips forward.
“I’ll make you lose so badly you won’t even have your underwear left!” she declared confidently.
In the end, he lost. He cheerfully unbuckled his belt and smiled at her. “Well, I lost, so there’s nothing I can do. I’ll make sure to take good care of you!”
If life is a gamble, who will win this time, and who will lose?