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She was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy family—abandoned by her father, oppressed by his legal wife, and humiliated by the so-called sister. She watched her mother perish in a raging fire and was thrown into the flames herself.
Her name was Janice. And she died in that fire.
Ten years later, under a new identity and the name “Janet,” she survives in silence. Forced by her stepmother to marry a wealthy heir rumored to be "paralyzed and disabled," she becomes entangled in a vicious struggle of family betrayal and ruthless power games.
With cold eyes, she watches the hypocrites who once trampled her into the mud—one by one, they will become prey on her road to revenge.
Her wheelchair-bound "husband" Philip, the feuding brothers Charles and August… But what she didn't expect was that the boy who once quietly handed her a handkerchief all those years ago would become the most unpredictable piece in her game of fate.
She has returned—not for hatred, but to personally end the past that was once crushed beneath their feet.

The Illegitimate Flame: Bride of Ashes

It had been half a month since Peggy last saw Janet—ever since her wedding with Charles.

When Janet pushed open the revolving door of the restaurant, she immediately spotted someone she had no intention of seeing again, sitting by the window.

As if on cue, Manfred looked up and locked eyes with her. Before she could turn and leave, he had already strode up to her.

"Let go of me! Don't touch me!" Janet recoiled in disgust. The very thought of his hands on her body made her skin crawl. She flung his hand off her arm and snapped coldly, "Don't touch me."

"Janet, please," Peggy rushed over, slightly out of breath. "Manfred knows he hurt you. He just wants to apologize. Just hear him out this once, okay?"

Chapter 93- jealous