"You dare to pull a stunt like that, but you can't even admit to your wrong doing? You and your mother
tried your best to put you on my bed.Is there anything you can't do?"
The disgust obliterated every other emotion in Rayan's eyes, and he spoke the words like they were
the worst insults that he could think of.
Janessa gritted her teeth.
He wasn't wrong—she did marry into the Lu family in order to save the Qiu Group.
In his eyes, the act was unforgivable even though it did the two families no harm.
She could understand that he could never let go of his grudge because their marriage meant that he
couldn't be with the woman he loved.
She couldn't blame his antagonism on that account.
However, in no way did her actions paint her as a vicious woman.
For Rayan, her silence meant agreement.
Rayan stepped closer toward Janessa, and one hand came up to clamp around her neck.
As his hold gradually tightened, he bit out between clenched teeth, "What? Can't you speak? I warned
you before hurt Gracie, and I will make you die a horrible death.
You're not only vicious, but heartless."
Hurt her? Who? Gracie Mo? When did she touch that woman? She hadn't seen her the whole day.
Gasping for breath, Janessa struggled to get away and clawed at the hand on her neck.
"Let me go...Let me explain!"
"I've given you a chance.Gracie took care of you because she thought you were weak after the
abortion, but how did you repay her kindness? By knocking over the soup and congee she made for
you and scalding her.I've never met such an ungrateful woman like you!"
With a seemingly effortless wave of his long arm, Rayan loosened his grip and cast Janessa aside like
a toy.
It was a good thing that the floors within the villa were overlaid with thick carpeting, or else Janessa
would have been seriously injured.
It was all Gracie's doing.
Just then, Janessa realized why she had been hanging around her these past couple of days,
especially when Rayan was around.
She had never liked Gracie since the soup incident in the hospital.
In truth, she even felt disgusted by it.
At the time, she didn't make a fuss about it because it would have caused too much trouble, but it gave
Gracie the perfect opportunity to frame her.
What a beautiful, vicious woman she was.
Without getting up, Janessa sat on the carpet and looked up at the furious man looming over her.
"Do you know what ingredients were used to make that soup she brought me in the hospital?"
Rayan didn't speak and looked like he was awaiting her next words.
"It's the baby's placenta.It's your dead son's placenta, Rayan.That woman—"
Janessa didn't even finish her sentence, because there was no way that Rayan would believe her
words over the other woman's.
Her voice was strangely calm and detached, as if she were relating an event that had nothing to with
her.
In her semi-conscious state during the operation, Janessa heard from the doctor that her baby was a
boy.
However, it was a pity that he was not destined to come to this world.
"That's impossible.Gracie is a doctor.Besides, she's the sort of person who would feel horrible for a
long time if she had stepped on an ant.How could she cook you a soup with a baby's placenta in it?
Janessa, can you try to be more credible when you lie?"
The sneer on Rayan's face told her that he thought her words were nothing but a big joke.
How could he not know the girl who grew up together with him? Such a slander on Gracie made
amplified Rayan's disgust toward the woman he called his wife.
Janessa already knew that he would never believe a word from her.
He probably thought that she had gone off the deep end that she was confusing right with wrong.
That was how Rayan was—he only believed the people he wanted to believe.
As long as he believed the person, he would stick with his opinion even if the whole world said that she
was wrong.
Janessa stood up, straightened her clothes, and drawled calmly, "Rayan, you came to me to ask me for
a divorce, but you would rather believe that woman and doubt my credibility.
She is scheming to destroy my family.
What makes you think that I would fulfill her wish?"
Her voice grew louder and more agitated with every word until she was shouting.
She would never agree to this divorce! "Janessal"he roared, his eyes nearly popping out of their
sockets.
"Are you threatening me?"
In the past, this woman wouldn't unsheathe her claws, but something had changed in her.
Now, from time to time, she flashed them—knife-sharp and dangerous—to wound him.
Did the tame cat suddenly become feral? Rayan glared at her from narrowed slits.
"You may think whatever you like.I will never divorce you, and I won't give up my position.I want her to
be a shameful mistress forever."
Her tone was casual, but conviction rang in her words.
Rayan slipped off his tie and stalked toward Janessa like a predator toward its prey."Very well, then...
since you don't agree to this divorce, you are obligated to resume your duties as a wife."
A wife's obligation? Before Janessa could react, Rayan had tied her wrists behind her using the strip of
cloth and pressed her heavily against the sofa.
"You bastard! Let me go!"
Rayan leered down at her.
"This is your wifely duty, my dear," he mocked sarcastically,
‘'You can't avoid it."
Ignoring her pleas and struggles against him, Rayan did what he wanted to do.Tears were welling up in
her eyes.
She just had a miscarriage and was still in recovery.
How could he...Was Rayan that desperate for a divorce that he would do such a heartless thing?
Janessa gritted her teeth tightly, as she forced herself not to shed tears.
Even if her body and heart hurt, she would not cry.
She wouldn't give in.
Even if she died, she wouldn't let that woman get what she wanted. Janessa prayed for the end to this
torture.
After a long time, Rayan finally finished.
He stood up, his face still brimming with resentment.
"Janessa, this is the price for not divorcing me."
Rayan untied her bound wrists, tidied up his clothes, and walked away.
Janessa was left alone in the living room, lying stunned on the couch.
The red and swollen marks on her wrist and the piercing pain between her legs told her clearly what
had just happened.
"Rayan Lu, I hope you would never regret this."
Enduring the lancing pain, Janessa stood up and went to the bathroom to clean up the blood from her
body.
Afterwards, she skimmed through the divorce agreement, folded it, and took it upstairs to the guest
room.
After tidying up her clothes, she left the villa with a few changes of clothing.
She had never felt such disappointment in another person before.
Rayan only saw kindness and innocence in Gracie—he was blind to the vicious, manipulative side of
her.
Janessa fetched the key in the drawer and went to the garage.
The accident from the last time she drove flashed in her mind again, making her tremble in fear at the
thought of driving.
However, she was left with no choice after all, she had no one by her side.
She could only rely on herself.
This time, maybe she would be okay if she drove slowly.
Trying desperately to handle her emotions, Janessa slowly eased the car out of the villa’s garage.
As soon as Janessa's car left, a lady's sports car slowly emerged from the shadow of the night.
The woman in the driver's seat nodded proudly, and a happy smile appeared at the corners of her
mouth.
Just then, her phone screen flashed the word ‘darling’.
She pressed the answer key and said, "Hello, Rayan, you're there? I just need to go to the supermarket
to buy something.I'll be right back."
“Janessa, you will never win against me.'’ The triumphant smile on Gracie's face looked particularly
eerie in the moonlight.
Then, the car quickly disappeared in the dark.
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