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

Her trembling fingers clawed desperately at the sheets, dragging them up over her face as if she could block out the suffocating scent of sandalwood and roses, block out the walls that imprisoned her, and block out him.

Her body shook uncontrollably as a scream built in her throat, only to escape as broken, choking sobs.

"Let me out… let me out… please… please… I can't… I can't… I can't breathe..."

Her vision blurred with hot, frantic tears that streamed down her temples into her tangled hair. Her nails scraped against her scalp as she clutched fistfuls of her own hair, tugging violently, almost wishing she could rip her thoughts out of her skull to stop the pain.

Her heart pounded violently against her ribs, her lungs burning with each desperate gulp of air that felt too thin, too heavy, too poisonous in this room.

Chapter 58; a tiny baby wailing