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On my wedding day, I witnessed my fiancé and my sister making out in the bridal car.
The shock sent me to the hospital, nearly causing a miscarriage. Meanwhile, my fiancé turned around and married my sister instead.
Alone and heartbroken in the hospital bed, I tearfully signed the surgery consent form.
But just as I was being wheeled into the operating room, Zoran frantically blocked the doorway.
Trembling, he embraced me and begged for a chance to take care of me and the baby.
However, during my postpartum recovery period, I overheard a conversation between him and his best friend.
"Since this baby's cord blood is useless, why not keep it? It's still a life after all."
"If I tell Melody the baby survived, how will she agree to have a second one? Where else can I find another source of cord blood?"
"There's a breakthrough drug for Estrella's condition. Cord blood isn't the only option..."
Zoran replied with a pained voice, "The side effects of that drug are too severe. I promised Estrella I'd never let her be a test subject again!"

Wedding Day Deception

"Sign these forms for family members first."


Perhaps too excited, he signed his name on the paper without even looking at it.


In the middle of the night, I was startled awake from a nightmare, only to open my eyes and see Estrella lying beneath Zoran.


"Zoran, I know you like me and have done so much for me. Today, let me properly repay you."


Estrella took off her clothes and leaned in to kiss Zoran.


"Estrella, treating you is my professional duty..."


"Zoran, stop being so noble. The love in your eyes for me can't be hidden."


"Don't think too much. You must have been so frustrated during Melody's postpartum recovery period."


As soon as the words left her mouth, Zoran's heavy breathing followed.


The two quickly became entangled, with moans filling the air.


I silently cried in the darkness, staring at the crystal chandelier above.


If it weren't for the lump in my throat causing me to spit out most of the water Zoran had given me, I wouldn't have known the two could be so reckless.Time passed, and Zoran finally withdrew with a heavy exhale.


The sound of running water could be heard from the bathroom.


"Sister, how long has it been since you and Zoran were intimate? To silently listen for so long, you must be incredibly pent-up."


"I heard from Zoran that tomorrow, once you're out of your postpartum recovery period, they're going to start your IVF treatment. That means you really can't be with Zoran anymore. IVF babies are so delicate, after all."


"It's your own fault for having a useless child. The cord blood wasn't a match for me, so it deserved to die."


"I just can't stand to see you happy. Why do you get such an impressive fiancé who became a deputy chief of staff at such a young age, while my Zoran is just a lowly department head?"


"On your wedding day, I deliberately drugged him. Even as he held me and kissed me, he was calling out your name. If I hadn't threatened to kill myself, he wouldn't have agreed to marry me."


"By the time he was ready to find you, you had already married Zoran. See? A perfect missed connection."


"You were outside the door then. You didn't see how your eight-month-old child cried until its last breath."Her face, oh, that little face was bruised and blue from crying. In her final moments, that wretched child even managed to cry out 'mama'.


A bastard child expecting Zoran to save her? Since her cord blood was useless, Zoran must have hated her guts.


My child was actually killed by these two demons working together!


A newborn baby, able to call out 'mama' before dying, how desperate she must have been.


My daughter and I, separated by a single door, now eternally divided by life and death.


My heart ached as if my very blood was flowing backwards.


I struggled to sit up, using all my strength to slap Estrella across the face.


Watching the trickle of blood seep from the corner of her mouth, I raised my hand again, only to be shoved off the bed by Zoran.


Chapter 3