Chapter 1: The Pain You Deserve

Time stripped away the cinnabar mole from the heart, revealing the flesh and tasting the pain. Chen Yan finally knew he regretted it. "Lu Yu, I know I was wrong. Will you let me pay with my whole life?" Lu Yu also regretted, thinking that if she knew the pain of leaving him would eventually fade, she should have left earlier.

"Please be gentle, it hurts... Brother Chen Yan..." Lu Yu pleaded with the man on top of her, the man she had adored throughout her youth, her new husband.

"Hurt? Its good that you hurt. I want you to hurt. How else can you know how much others hurt!"

The light shone on Chen Yans handsome face, fragmented like her heart. He had no warmth, only coldness and contempt.

Chen Yan sneered, his movements becoming more forceful, showing no regard for the fragility of the woman beneath him.

Lu Yu felt an intense tearing sensation, feeling as if not just her heart, but her entire being was about to shatter like the broken lights.

As she was about to faint, the pain of a slap woke her up.

He had hit her!

The gentle Chen Yan from the past two decades had struck her!

"Hard to believe, right? I cant believe it myself. One day, I would hit a woman! But Lu Yu! Youre cheap! You deserve to be hit! Did you really want me to sleep with you so much? Or do you just hate Lu Zhen that much? Then stay wide awake and endure it for me! Remember it with your pain to comfort my Lu Zhen! Besides, wasnt your first time already used on the night of my engagement with Lu Zhen? Dont pretend to be pure with me."

Chen Yan spoke harshly to her, put on his pajamas, and without any warmth, threw a piece of paper and a red book on Lu Yu.

"Congratulations, youve finally got what youve always wanted. Now you can live in the Chen family legitimately, but let me tell you! The name of Mrs. Chen is for Lu Zhen, always for Lu Zhen! You should never dream of getting it in your lifetime!" Without even sparing her a glance, Chen Yan slammed the door and left, the sound so loud that Lu Yu felt it was slamming on her heart, causing unbearable pain.

Struggling to sit up, she saw the paper agreement, stating that the house was given to her, but she could never claim to be Mrs. Chen in public. If she violated the agreement, she would have to compensate a hundred times over. The red book next to it was flipped open by the force.

Lu Yu looked at her smiling face on the marriage certificate, tears of heartache and grievance falling like raindrops.

Why was it like this? Lu Yu, who thought God had finally blessed her once, was awakened by reality. The love she had harbored for twenty years, the dream she thought would come true, was now cold as ice, aching to the core.

Her fingers traced the features of the person next to her on the marriage certificate, Chen Yan. Why couldnt he see her, only seeing Lu Zhen? What she thought was a marriage for life was just a joke in reality.

Yes, Lu Zhen, Lu Yus own sister. At the engagement party of her sister Lu Zhen and Chen Yan, she became a despicable person who climbed into her brother-in-laws bed, and on her sisters bridal bed.