Chapter 2

Watching Chloe’s gentle demeanor, Daniel looked like he wanted to kill me.

If I hadn't drugged him that night, he never would have slept with me!

Chloe, both helpless and heartbroken, kissed Daniel’s forehead.

"It’s okay. I’m satisfied just being by your side."

"Daniel, I love you."

On our first wedding anniversary, I unexpectedly received a text from Daniel, inviting me to celebrate our anniversary at home.

I was thrilled.

I thought this marriage, which I’d been fighting for alone, finally had a glimmer of hope.

I always knew Daniel didn't love me.

If it wasn't to save his family's struggling business, he would never have married me.

But that night, he wasn’t as cold as before.

Instead, he poured every bit of his soul’s passion into every part of my body.

Until we succumbed to the passion together.

He blurted out, "My darling Chloe, I love you."

Only then did I realize that Chloe had announced her new boyfriend that same night.

And I became the sinner.

Daniel hated me fiercely.

"You knew I was still in love with someone else, so why didn’t you push me away!"

He furiously threw everything he could find at me.

But that night, "he" was the one who initiated it.

The old family estate was transferred into Daniel’s name the day I went to prison.

Alfred, the butler, walked hesitantly in front of me.

No matter how much he wanted to talk to me, he had to be careful of Daniel’s temper, as Daniel was now the master of the house.

Not long ago, someone who failed to iron Chloe’s clothes on time was fired by Daniel, who then blacklisted them in the industry.

"You’ve been through so much."

Old Alfred still cared about me.

While Daniel and Chloe went upstairs to change, he quickly led me to the garden and slipped an envelope into my hand.

I looked up in surprise.

I couldn’t bring myself to take the old man’s money.

"If it hadn't been for your help back then, my granddaughter might not be here today. This money is rightfully yours; please take it."

It was the card I’d given him for his granddaughter’s medical treatment.

I clutched it tightly.

Ultimately, faced with my current hardship, I put it in my pocket.

As long as I still breathed, Daniel would only feel disgust for me.

My former room in the old estate had been converted into his pet room.

But he only allowed me to stay in that room, sharing it with his dog.

He was trying to humiliate me this way.

But he didn’t know that even a pet room was infinitely better than the conditions I’d lived in for the past two years.

His eyes were solely for Chloe, as he pulled her into his embrace.

"Our room is right next door, Chloe and I will be there. You’ll stay here tonight, and don’t you dare go anywhere else or disturb our rest."

"Even if you hear… anything, don’t get any ideas, Alice. Remember your place now."

"The current you isn’t even worthy of bargaining with me."

He looked at me as if I were a hardened criminal.

But when he looked at Chloe, his eyes were always overflowing with affection.

In the past, I might have felt heartbroken by it.

But now, my heart was like stagnant water.

After all, my plan for returning was to get a divorce.