
General He is really miserable, got divorced by his wife.
For three years, I played the perfect, submissive housewife to billionaire Julian Harrison.
But right after an intimate night together, he coldly threw a divorce agreement onto the bed.
"Scarlett landed an hour ago. I need my single status restored to welcome her back."
That same night, I ended up in the emergency room and discovered I was pregnant with twins.
When Julian found out, he didn't show a shred of joy. Instead, he stormed into my hospital room, threw a blank check directly at my face, and ordered me to get rid of them.
He accused me of using the babies as a sick game to trap his assets.
Then, his ruthless lawyer kicked me out of our penthouse, confiscating the jewelry he gifted me and tossing my worn-out notebook onto the floor like garbage.
Standing in the freezing rain, my heart completely died.
I had swallowed my pride, managed his life, and cooked his meals to his exact standards for three years, only to be thrown away the second his first love returned.
But he didn't know that the notebook his lawyer discarded contained the secret formulas of Aura Beauty, a billion-dollar empire I built in the shadows.
I tore his check into pieces, blocked his number, and left in a Maybach sent by my associate.
Logging into my global CEO database, I looked at his company's fragile stock chart with a predatory smile.
The docile Mrs. Harrison died in the rain. It was time to crush his empire.
Chapters
Share
Chapter 4
The two bodyguards stood like brick walls in front of the double doors, completely cutting off Evelyn's exit.
Evelyn stopped. She turned around slowly. Her eyes were like daggers as they locked onto Camila, who was walking up behind her.
Camila stopped a few feet away. She crossed her arms over her chest. Her chin tilted up in arrogance. "Open the suitcase. We need to inspect it."
"I am taking my own clothes," Evelyn said, her voice tight.
"I have to ensure you aren't smuggling out any Harrison family assets or confidential documents," Camila replied.
Evelyn sucked in a sharp breath. Her chest burned with the effort to keep her anger contained. She let go of the suitcase handle and took a step back.
She gestured toward the bag with an open palm. "Be my guest."
Camila crouched down. She yanked the zipper open roughly. She dug her manicured hands into the neatly folded sweaters, tossing them aside and messing up the entire contents.
Then, she reached out and snatched the tarnished silver necklace from Evelyn’s coat pocket. She inspected the clasp, realized it was worthless junk, and tossed it back onto the pile of clothes with a sneer.
Then, Camila stood up. Her eyes fell on the black hardcover notebook that Evelyn was clutching tightly against her chest.
"Hand over the notebook," Camila demanded.
Evelyn's heart slammed against her ribs. Her fingers dug into the leather cover. This was the core of Aura Beauty.
"No," Evelyn said coldly. "This is my personal diary. It has nothing to do with the Harrisons."
Camila let out a dry laugh. She flicked her eyes to the bodyguard on the left. The massive man stepped forward, grabbed Evelyn's wrist, and forcefully ripped the notebook out of her arms.
The sudden violent pull threw Evelyn off balance. She stumbled sideways, her shoulder slamming hard into the drywall of the entryway. A sharp, familiar cramp bloomed in her lower abdomen, making her breath hitch in terror.
Camila took the notebook from the guard. She flipped it open. Her eyes scanned the pages filled with complex chemical formulas, molecular structures, and botanical extraction ratios.
Because Camila’s expertise lay in ironclad contracts rather than science, the advanced cosmetic chemistry looked like absolute gibberish to her. She dismissed the complex notations as nothing more than a pathetic collection of cooking recipes or DIY skincare notes.
Camila scoffed loudly. She tossed the notebook back at Evelyn like it was a piece of trash.
The heavy book hit Evelyn in the chest and fell to the hardwood floor. Evelyn crouched down immediately. She picked it up carefully, brushing an invisible speck of dust from the cover.
Camila clapped her hands together, signaling the end of the search. "You can take your garbage and leave now."
Evelyn knelt on the floor and zipped her suitcase back up. She stood tall. She didn't say a single word to Camila. She grabbed the handle and walked out the front door.
She stepped into the elevator. She watched the stainless-steel doors slide shut, finally sealing off the prison she had lived in for three years.
As the elevator descended, Evelyn pulled her phone from her pocket. She dialed Elliot Thorne's number.
He answered on the first ring. "Evelyn?" His deep voice was immediately laced with concern.
"Come get me. I’m at the penthouse," Evelyn said. Her voice cracked, just once.
Evelyn walked out of the lobby. The sky above Manhattan had turned a bruised, dark gray. A freezing, steady rain was falling.
She stood under the narrow awning of the building. The biting wind whipped the cold rain against her thin trench coat. She shivered violently, her teeth chattering. The biting cold seeped into her bones, and a dull, rhythmic throb began to pulse in her womb—a grim reminder of the doctor’s warning.
The doorman watched her through the glass, his eyes full of pity, but company policy kept him inside.
Evelyn positioned her suitcase to block the wind. She wrapped her arms around herself, counting the minutes until Elliot would arrive.
Half an hour later, what felt like an absolute eternity to Evelyn, a black, armored Maybach tore through the rain and slammed on its brakes right at the curb in front of the building. During those agonizing thirty minutes, the biting wind had completely soaked through her thin coat, freezing her to the bone while passing pedestrians cast pitying glances at her shivering frame.
The rear door flew open. Elliot Thorne, dressed in a bespoke black suit, stepped out. He popped open a massive black umbrella and took the stairs two at a time.
Elliot reached her. He tilted the massive umbrella entirely over Evelyn's head, completely exposing his own broad shoulders to the freezing downpour.
You may also like

9.7
Clarissa rushed into a crowded nightclub for one simple reason: to save her wildly drunk best friend.
But her ruthless billionaire husband, Giovanny, was watching from the VIP room. After effortlessly ruining a man just for grabbing her wrist, Giovanny punished Clarissa for breaching their public image contract with an impossible curfew.
When she inevitably arrived back at his penthouse late, he didn't just yell. He forced her to her knees by his bathtub to wash his back, making her watch an explicit, humiliating video as punishment.
A sudden family medical emergency dragged them to his parents' estate. Still in her soaked, transparent dress and his misbuttoned shirt, Giovanny's mother caught them. She joyfully assumed they had been passionately intimate.
Instead of clearing her name, Giovanny pulled Clarissa close and lied to his mother's face.
"We are working very hard on the family's future, Mother."
He locked her in the guest suite, tossed a sheer silk nightgown on the bed, and literally shattered the tablet holding their "no-contact" prenuptial agreement. He then slapped a file against the window—he had secretly bought all her father's toxic debt.
Clarissa was terrified. They were supposed to be business allies bound by a strict contract. Why was he suddenly acting like a predator determined to own her body and soul?
"Give me an heir, or your father goes to federal prison," he whispered.
Stripped of all choices, Clarissa picked up the white silk. She would surrender tonight to save her family, but as his shadow swallowed her, she made a silent vow to survive this monster, and one day, tear his empire to the ground.

9.1
For three years, June played the perfect, submissive wife to billionaire Augustus Pruitt, hoping a child would finally warm his cold heart and secure their marriage.
But when she cautiously suggested they have a baby, he looked at her with pure, unfiltered disgust.
"A woman who schemes her way into a marriage doesn't get to carry my blood."
He sneered, leaving immediately to lavish his mistress with diamonds. The nightmare only escalated from there. Augustus bought the one painting June desperately wanted—a piece she had secretly created herself—just to gift it to his mistress. He publicly outbid June at the gallery, mocking her lack of wealth, and left her to collapse in the freezing rain. When the storm gave her a severe 104-degree fever and she nearly died on their staircase, he didn't even stay by her hospital bed. Instead, he sent an assistant with a box of jewelry to buy her silence, then forced her to attend a family dinner where his mother and sister viciously mocked her barren womb and background.
Looking at Augustus, who sat there casually cutting his steak while his family tore her apart, the last flicker of hope in June's chest sputtered and died.
She finally understood that her three years of bleeding devotion were nothing but a pathetic joke to them.
She dropped her silverware, the sharp clatter silencing the entire room. She wasn't going to be their punching bag anymore. It was time to finalize the divorce papers, reclaim her hidden identity as the world-renowned artist 'mr.sun', and make them all regret it.

8.2
Justine abandoned her career as a top trauma surgeon to marry Congressman Carl McConnell. She did it to fulfill her dying sister's last wish: to protect her son, Leo, from this ruthless political family.
But the seven-year-old boy she swore to protect shoved her into a freezing koi pond, then cried to his father that Justine tried to drown him.
Carl didn't even check the security cameras. He hugged his precious heir and looked at his freezing wife with pure disgust.
"Are you out of your mind? Trying to hurt the heir to the McConnell family!"
He locked Justine in a 55-degree wine cellar while she was burning with a 102-degree fever. When she finally told him the truth, Carl flew into a rage and hurled a heavy brass-cornered book at her face, slicing her cheekbone wide open.
His mother even ordered the staff to starve her for seven days to reflect on her sins.
Justine stood in the dark, blood dripping down her face, her heart completely dead. She had sacrificed her brilliant future and her pride for this family, only to be tortured and discarded like garbage. How could they be so utterly devoid of humanity?
She pulled out her old medical kit and stitched up her own face.
Then, she signed the legal documents to permanently relinquish her stepparent rights, threw them at the housekeeper, and calmly looked at her abusive husband.
"I am divorcing you, Carl."

7.0
Eleanore thought her fiancé, Johan, was her only salvation after her family went bankrupt.
But at a high-society gala, he handed her a drugged glass of water. As the unnatural heat burned through her veins, the horrific truth hit her. Johan had isolated her and controlled her finances, all while secretly getting engaged to a wealthy heiress. He drugged Eleanore to ruin her completely, planning to lock her away as his helpless, secret mistress.
Desperate and losing her mind to the drug, Eleanore fled down the hallway. With Johan and his bodyguards hunting her, she stumbled into the dark presidential suite.
But she wasn't alone. Sitting on the leather sofa was Alexander Briggs—the most feared corporate raider on Wall Street, and Johan's exiled brother.
Outside the door, Johan was screaming, ready to drag her back to hell.
"I can be your antidote. But it's going to cost you."
The ruthless billionaire looked at her trembling body with cold calculation. He offered her a staggering deal: a three-month fake marriage to destroy Johan's empire, and in return, absolute protection and her father's massive debts paid in full.
She couldn't understand why the most powerful predator in New York would use a ruined girl as his weapon, but she knew she would rather die than let Johan touch her again.
When Johan finally broke down the door to claim his prey, Alexander calmly pulled Eleanore into his arms.
"Watch your mouth. You are speaking to my future wife."

9.3
To escape my abusive adoptive mother selling me to a loan shark for $50,000, I rushed to City Hall to marry a blind date.
In a blind panic, I grabbed the wrong man.
He was Julian Cardenas IV, a billionaire CEO who desperately needed a fake wife to dodge a corporate arranged marriage. We signed the papers on the spot.
He became my legal shield. He moved me into his pristine penthouse and secretly protected me from my family's violent threats. When I broke down crying in the freezing cold, he quietly left me hot cocoa. For the first time in my life, I felt safe.
But then, Julian overheard me complaining to my sister about my constantly breaking-down car, groaning that I had to "get rid of this baby four times."
He thought I meant abortions.
The man who was slowly melting my frozen heart instantly turned to ice. He threw away the dinner he had specially bought for me, his eyes filled with absolute disgust and blinding rage.
I was left entirely confused and terrified. Why did my savior suddenly look at me like I was the most repulsive thing in the world? What had I done to deserve this sudden cruelty?
I thought this fake marriage was my ticket out of hell. I didn't realize I had just locked myself in a cage with a furious, ruthless CEO who now wanted to destroy me.

8.1
My billionaire husband, Cooper, was thirty minutes late to my father's funeral.
When the heavy cathedral doors finally opened, he wasn't there to comfort me. He was tightly shielding his mistress, Celeste, under his umbrella, treating her like a fragile lily while I stood alone in my black mourning dress.
The whispers in the pews were deafening, but they were nothing compared to the truth I soon uncovered.
Cooper hadn't just humiliated me—he had secretly taken my father's life-saving spot in a medical clinical trial and given it to Celeste's family. My father died gasping for air because of him.
Days later, while I was shivering in the ER with a 103-degree fever, I saw Cooper sneaking into the VIP maternity ward. He was holding Celeste, his face glowing with the ecstatic joy of a man about to become a father.
For three years, I swallowed my pride to be his perfect, obedient wife, only to let his elite friends openly mock me to my face.
"You were just keeping the seat warm until the real queen came back."
He let my father die, hid all our marital assets in offshore trusts, and made me take birth control every single morning, claiming he wasn't ready for kids.
I didn't scream, and I didn't let him see me break.
Instead, I hired Manhattan's most ruthless divorce lawyer, smiled sweetly as I handed Cooper his coat at home, and began secretly gathering the evidence to burn his entire empire to the ground.