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

"Mine," his voice thundered through the drowning darkness, deep and final, "Forever."

She opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came out. Only a flood of icy water rushed into her lungs as she sank deeper into the abyss, the last threads of her sanity fraying with each passing second.

She sank deeper and deeper into the freezing black waters until her body no longer felt like her own. Numbness spread through her limbs, her chest burning with silent agony as invisible chains wrapped around her wrists and ankles, dragging her further down.

Somewhere far above, she saw a faint glimmer of light, pale and unreachable, like the moon behind a thick veil of storm clouds.

Her thoughts echoed weakly in the void, swallowed instantly by the crushing darkness.

Suddenly, hands emerged from the inky water below. Pale, skeletal fingers clawed at her ankles, her waist, her shoulders, pulling her down with relentless strength. Their touch was ice-cold and seared into her bones.

"No… no… let me go… let me go…!"

She thrashed desperately, her screams forming silent bubbles that floated up and disappeared into the endless abyss.

A pair of warm hands closed gently over her trembling shoulders, burning hot against her frozen skin. For a moment, hope flickered in her chest like a dying candle.

His obsidian eyes stared down at her through the dark waters, impossibly clear, filled with silent possessiveness that made her blood run cold.

"Don't be afraid," he whispered softly, his voice vibrating through the blackness like a hypnotic drum. "I'm here now."

She shook her head wildly, tears mixing with the freezing water as she mouthed voicelessly:

"No… please… please… don't… let me go… please…"

But he only smiled, a cold, beautiful curve of his lips.

With a single, fluid motion, he pulled her into his chest, wrapping his arms around her with a crushing force. The water churned violently around them, swallowing every remaining flicker of light until all she saw was him.

His lips brushed against her ear, his breath warm and terrifying against her numb skin.

"There's nowhere you can run," he murmured, his deep voice echoing through her skull. "Even in death… You are mine."

Her body convulsed as his grip tightened, pain exploding through her ribs as his arms squeezed harder and harder, crushing the air and life out of her.

A dull roar filled her ears, rising into a deafening scream as her vision blurred with suffocating terror.

Suddenly, the black waters fell away beneath her feet, and she was standing again in the endless marble hall.

Shen Xiao towered before her, dressed in a black silk shirt and charcoal suit pants, blood dripping from his fingers onto the pristine white marble.

At his feet lay Fang Lin's limp body, her eyes glassy and lifeless, a thin trail of blood seeping from the corner of her lips.

Behind him, Shen Xuan stood clutching Bai Zhi's robe, his small face twisted in fear and confusion as Bai Zhi smiled coldly down at him, her delicate hand resting on his thin shoulder.

"You see what happens," Shen Xiao said softly, his voice echoing through the vast hall, "when you try to leave me?"

Her knees gave out as she collapsed to the cold marble floor, tears streaming down her face as she shook her head over and over again, broken sobs tearing from her chest.

"No… please… I will do anything… anything… just don't hurt them… please… please…"

Chapter 59; mine forever