Kim_Li_0078

#DARK ROMANCE 
Lin Yueyao spent five years of her youth married to Shen Xiao, a man whose heart was as cold as steel. She believed that her gentleness would eventually melt his indifference, but the only thing that melted was her own dignity.

Every night, she endured his cruel touch, his words like blades, and his silent disgust. But no matter how much it hurt, Yueyao clung on – for the sake of their son, Xuanxuan, and for the sliver of hope that someday he might see her.

That hope shattered completely when his first love, Bai Zhi, returned from abroad. The very night Bai Zhi came back, Shen Xiao left Yueyao alone to dine with her. His gaze, once cold and dismissive, turned tender only for Bai Zhi.

Then, just as Yueyao discovered she was pregnant again, Shen Xiao handed her divorce papers. Abandoned while carrying his child, betrayed by her husband, and discarded like a stain on his life, Yueyao’s world collapsed.

Even their son, Xuanxuan – the little boy she’d nearly died giving birth to, the one she raised with unwavering devotion – rejected her, clinging instead to Bai Zhi with innocent adoration.

But fate was crueler still.

Kidnapped straight from her hospital bed by men demanding ransom, Yueyao realised no one was coming to save her. Her husband hadn’t even noticed she was missing. As she lay in that abandoned factory, trembling in pain, all illusions crumbled.

She was done waiting for love from a man who treated her like dirt.

This time, she would save herself. And when she returned, it wouldn’t be as the pitiful Mrs. Shen, but as a woman reborn from ashes – with a heart no longer beating for Shen Xiao.

But will he realise her worth only when it’s too late?

Love After Divorce: Her Second Chance

He stopped just inches away, his towering presence suffocating her as he waved the crumpled papers in her tear-streaked face.

"Divorce? Who gave you those guts? Do you think they have the capabilities to go up against me? Do you think he can handle my lawyers?" he spat coldly, his jaw tightening with barely restrained rage, "You think you can leave me so easily after you dragged me into this marriage? You think I will let you walk out of here and live happily somewhere else after all this?"

"What do you take this place for? Your toilet? Yueyao, I thought you knew things, you just needed to be the dutiful Mrs Shen, bailing out now?"

His lips twisted into a cruel smirk as he leaned down, his face so close their noses almost touched, his breath brushing hot and heavy against her trembling lips.

She hurriedly took a step back as her hands flew onto her mouth as she heavily retched.

Shen Xiao was infuriated more seeing her reaction. All these years, no matter what, she had never reacted like this. Was he that disgusting to her?

Her knees buckled as the two men held her and shoved her forward....

Shen Xiao grabbed her chin roughly, forcing her to look into his black, soulless eyes as Bai Zhi watched from the couch, stroking Shen Xuan's hair with an expression of quiet triumph.

Goosebumps grew all over her body feeling sick and cold.

Yueyao's chin throbbed under his iron grip, her jaw aching as he forced her to look up at him. His eyes burned with a dark, twisted fury that sent a cold shiver down her spine.

"You belong to me, Yueyao" he whispered harshly, his voice barely audible but sharp enough to slice through her fragile sanity, "Don't ever think about leaving me again. Even in death, Yueyao, you will still be mine. And, if you plan on involving strangers, I don't mind getting rid of them..."

She didn't respond. Her blank, lifeless eyes stared back at him, reflecting nothing of the terror pounding in her chest.

Something inside her had snapped completely.

She felt like a porcelain doll, cracked, chipped, but still forced to stand pretty on a shelf for everyone to admire.

Shen Xiao released her chin with a sharp flick, and her head jerked back painfully while she heavily retched.

"Just let me go, I don't want anything from you..."

"Please...." this place was suffocating her and all she needed was an escape before she went crazy.

"I don't want anything... Absolutely nothing..."

Her tears flowed freely down her cheeks as she shook her head desperately. He was cold and unfeeling, they didn't have any emotions for each other, wasn't it the right thing to let go? After all, she wasn't the one he loved!

She already wasted ten good years! Just recalling her dead baby sent her chills, and nightmares. She wanted to escape, she wanted to run away....

"Please… please, Shen Xiao… just let me go… I beg you…"

But his face remained as cold and merciless as ever.

"Take her upstairs," he ordered the guards coldly. "And lock all the windows and doors, get rid of that phone and laptop she is using to contact people. From today onwards, she doesn't need to step out of this house without my permission. You just need to continue being the dutiful Mrs Shen..."

Chapter 40; Let me go.....