The Best Thing I Never Had

Modern

Isabel returned to her penthouse after a grueling seventeen-hour flight, only to be greeted by the cloying scent of another woman's perfume. Her husband of three years, Darius, sat waiting with divorce papers. He wanted to marry his mistress, Dove, and offered Isabel a measly one million dollars, treating her like a greedy charity case from the Rust Belt who should just take the payout and vanish. But Isabel didn't want his pity. She demanded the four percent equity stake in his family's company that she rightfully owned—a stake worth 1.5 billion dollars. When she revealed this, the wealthy family turned vicious. They refused to acknowledge that she had secretly saved their empire from bankruptcy years ago. Instead, Darius and Dove orchestrated a brutal public execution. They ambushed her at a top law firm, spreading malicious lies that her investment money was stolen from a Ponzi scheme. They even hired a fake victim to scream at her in the lobby, successfully terrifying Isabel's lawyer into dropping her case on the spot. She had quietly rescued their entire legacy, yet they were willing to frame her as a criminal and destroy her life just to keep her rightful billions. As Darius and his mistress gloated over her absolute ruin, the most ruthless and feared lawyer in New York suddenly stepped in front of Isabel, his voice cutting through the dead silence. "Your case, I'll take it."

현대

혼인 신고를 하는 당일, 김이서의 예비 신랑이 다른 여자와 도망가 버렸다. 어쩔 수 없이 그녀는 구청에서 랜덤으로 '가난뱅이' 기사 이재준과 스피드 결혼을 해 버렸다. 전남친의 현 부인이 비아냥거렸다. "거지가 거지한테 시집갔으니, 평생 밑바닥 신세겠네." 그녀를 배신한 전남친 역시 가식적으로 말했다. "나한테 차였다고 해서 그렇게 자포자기하면 안 되지. 그런 놈이랑 결혼하다니, 조만간 땅을 치고 후회하게 될걸!" 김이서는 코웃음을 쳤다. "이렇게 떡 벌어진 가슴 근육에 기대서 자고 있는데 백 살까지도 살 것