the wedding, I
ced to marry me, a bri
from one nightma
sister-in-law tormented me, and
had an affair with my
urned to the country and
helped me humiliate eve
mas got down on his knees in front of
y does Phoebe's fa
e home, he saw me sobbin
my half-sister, Lillian Cur
s the bathroom floor a
. I had been the expressively b
e shattered porcelain, leaving m
f the room, and intended
ad her people
to marry Thomas. If it weren't for that ridic
break free. "Lillian, I've been tolerant of you
I was since we were kids. I had intended to throw acid at you for
Lilian had truly p
mirror and forced me to w
ou after she saw you like this. Oh, wait. She abandoned you years ago. She probably doesn't even
rs, but she always used ha
one thing. My mother h
her abandoned me and left with my youn
at she was there from the annu
alls or lett
and her mother into our home. He had kept them for si
feel some sorry for me and rush me to
of stone since he c
olded her half-heartedly. "How can you marry Thomas now with such a fac
couldn't outweigh his busin
me of profit. If you're so desperate to climb the
e my ruined face was just too horrifying. "I don't care about the money anymore. Jus
goal, and I had become a
for facial reconstruction. I had to go abroad f
y's assets were sold off
date. He only brought me along w
saw Thomas. I'd heard that he had j
ough his flirtatious
s than welcoming. "So, this is Phoebe? Why are you wearing a mask and
m turned their scru
my disfigurement had alre
ast shred of dignity, the sound of
ped, "How u
er her wine gl
my ears. For a moment, I wanted n
hemer and feigned ignoran
wrong skincare products. I thought she was wearing t
lled off, and even Thomas's disdain f
homas's grandfather, could
Thomas had been decided b
had been lifelong friends. T
grandfather had shielded Jasper from a f
hen arranged the marriage between T
d never overcome, no matter how hard she tried
a lot. He frowned tight
long been a part of the Gilbert family. It's what's inside that
per's pressure, T
g to be proud of. The Gilbert family didn
marriage certificat
s and me a villa as
a place where I was l
our wedding night. In the end, Jasper
ene where he was brought in
g Thomas's family tha
us. How could Thomas even touch her? Just go through the motions tonight. Afterward, feel fre
father, stood silently n
s expression made it clear t
ssa Gilbert, Thomas's younger
no kinder tha
ugly woman away for free, no one would take her. How could he make my
the second-floor balcony, where
something warm sl
t and uns
hing I did was wrong, and I had to endure in
ishes, didn't touch me. He did
itation and impatience. But just as I reached
y ideas about you and me. You're not my type. Just stay in the villa and don't s
both a mockery
d and tried to stop th
to him, "Don't worry, Mr. Gilbert. Just as you don't
tongued and bitter. How could he
rew up in, my life hadn't moved far from a living h
d rats to the villa. "You are so ugly and deserve to be surrounded
from anoth
Only immature people res
ing appearance pales in comparison to
tears I shed on my weddin
ed, but it would nev
to suffer and wouldn
they pushed me too far, I'd
h my ruined face kept me from going out much,
with several interna
career, perhaps because somet
way of staying conn
by designing jewelry, and my mother had work
hday cards were one of the few emotion
t for me to go back for you." She wrote such se
me torn between
f she truly had reasons that
ay, I receiv
sual card fro
hday party hosted by
only invited my dear maternal relati
not to go to you willingly. I'll scold him for that. But to continue the family line, I hope yo
ng me to ge
gaze and di
ed politely, "
disfigured, I was unwilling
educational background, his academic credit
s parents' money, while he spent his t
life and had no righ
ound him r
me as nothing more than a t
, I hope you understand your place. We only let you marry Thomas out of respect for Jaspe
attitude were
my eyes i
en so low that I needed to rely on having
stuck in, still fix
s I was about to leave, I wi
didn't notice what was
ride in, was entangled wit
a clingy cat. Her body was
than happy to