Chapter 1

  "Open your mouth and say my name!"   In the dim room, Antoinette Yun was firmly pressed on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling above her. She moved her head and looked around her.   The warm yellow light fell from above, illuminating the man’s handsome face.   That familiar face would normally have scared her and made her feel disgusted. Now it made her a little excited.   "Steve Gu?"   "That’s it, now tell me how much you hate me!" He sneered, and touched her neck with a big palm. His movements were rhythmic.   "I broke your elopement plan with your lover. I’m sure you hate me."   Antoinette Yun suddenly shook her head.   He had desperately pushed her out, she remembered. The scene flashed before her eyes. Her heart felt like it had been pierced with a knife. She saw him explode into pieces right before her very eyes.   He had hated her for trying to escape from him, and she had hated him for not letting her go   "Steve Gu."   Before she could say the words in her mouth, he pressed heavily on her neck.   The man's voice was full of anger, "Hate me all you want but you can never divorce me. Better stay so you can have a chance to retaliate against me!"   Antoinette shook her head desperately, tears falling down the corners of her eyes.   Steve Gu’s mind was fixated on her past actions, her unwillingness to stay with him. His eyes darkened, and he thrusted even more violently.   She didn't know how long it took for him to finish. When it was over, she fell asleep.   When she woke up, sunlight poured in from the window, illuminating the room with a warm glow.   She sat up from the bed and looked around her, only to realize that what happened last night was not a dream.   She seemed to be back a to few years ago, when she had just been married to Steve Gu for a few months.   The Yun family hadn't fallen apart. Grandpa hadn't died. Back then, her two uncles were doing very well. All was well.   Steve Gu was still the president of the company his family owned.   And now, she was alive and well, though she clearly remembered that she should already have burned to death.   She seemed to have gotten back to just before her life had begun to unravel. Before the point of no return.   Back to the how they were before everything went downhill.   What happened? Had she gone back in time?   There was ecstasy in Antoinette Yun's heart. Just then, the bedroom door was pushed open.   His tall figure came into view, and her pupils shrank.   In the next second, she happily rushed over to him.   "Steve Gu, are you really not dead?"   Steve Gu looked down at her with his ink-colored pupils. His eyes looked hurt.   "Why do you hate me so much that you want me to die?"   Antoinette Yun, "That’s not what I meant."   "Unfortunately, even if I die, you are still my wife. You can’t get rid of me just by killing me, even if you want to!"   As he spoke, he coldly grabbed her wrist and said to her, "Your family members are here, come down when you're done."   He strode out and slammed the bedroom door shut. Antoinette Yun's heart shrank. Only then did she remember that today is grandpa's birthday.   It stands to reason that she should go to celebrate her grandfather’s birthday with Steve Gu.   It was just the day before this, at her step-sister Alexandra Yun’s urging, she had tried to elope with her first love Marshall Su. That would have been the night before her grandfather's birthday banquet.   In the end, not only had Steve Gu caught her and brought her back, but he had also punished her severely by raping her.   Obviously she didn’t resist him during their wedding night of, but last night, in a rage, he had really raped her.   At least, before she'd been given this second chance, it was rape. Back then, she didn't see it from his perspective. After being forced, she had cried and made retaliated the next day.   Last night, it didn’t feel like rape, and she had been happy to see him again.   But before she’d been given this second chance, it really was. She screamed and tried to fight him off. Then at her Grandfather's birthday banquet, she went up the stage and announced to everyone that he was a rapist!   Steve Gu didn't want to quarrel with her in public, so he had left.   At that time, she was still very proud, thinking that she had finally angered him enough for him to grant her a divorce. But she didn't expect that this was all orchestrated by Alexandra.   Just a few minutes after that, something happened that ruined her.   Thinking of that incident, Antoinette Yun's heart was still trembling now.   It was because of that incident that she was despised by everyone. Grandpa and her uncles were extremely disappointed in her.   On the contrary, Alexandra Yun, through her actions--though a better word for it would be performance--at the birthday banquet, her reputation soared. Not only did she win the trust of her grandfather and uncles, but she also gained celebrity status even among people who weren’t present.   Her sister rose to fame, while her own reputation, and mental health, slowly deteriorated right before her eyes. She lost her family, and all her wealth.   Thinking of this, Antoinette Yun's eyes darkened.   Alexandra Yun had her eating off of the palm of her hand.   Now that she had been given another chance to live, she would definitely not commit the same mistakes she had made before.   She’ll make everything right.
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