Immediately after divorce, Zoe Edwards married Carlos Holt, the most powerful man in the City, out of convenience. Recalling the previous failed marriage, Zoe always keeps in mind that this marriage is just a trade without love and they will divorce once they have their own love respectively. The one truth she doesn't know is that Carlos has been loving her for over 10 years and he is always waiting for her! Thus when she divorced, Carlos helped her get rid of the broken marriage and gave her a home. When she wants to work, Carlos tried his best to support her rather than just offered her a job. But when she wants a divorce, what should Carlos do?
There were flowers and wine on this candlelit dinner.
Zoe sat at the table, rubbing her hands and fidgeting, while she was envisioning what look Lucas would have on his face when he returned later and saw everything she had carefully prepared...
When the sound of the key in the lock broke the silence, Zoe's face flushed with excitement as she trotted over to the door, assuming it was Lucas.
"Lucas..." she opened the door and felt like a bucket of icy water poured down on her head when she saw two people kissing passionately in the doorway, and her pounding heart got frozen in an instance!
Her body was stiffened as she watched the two people being lost in their hot kisses, and her pale lips were shivering. She was incapable of uttering any words.
The candlelight flickering behind her, and the scent of the wine became a great irony to her.
Lucas seemed to finally realize that there was someone in the house. His drunken, affectionate eyes looked through Zoe and scanned the situation behind her, then he let out a snort,
He gave a kiss on the sexy woman in his arms, and said softly, "So much for today, babe. I'll see you around."
With her heart feeling throbbed again, she coldly watched the two people reluctantly kissing goodbye through the tears held in her eyes, and after another wet kiss, Lucas sent the beauty away with alcohol on his breath and stumbled back in.
He walked straight to the table, sneered over the love cake and the red candles, picked up a glass of water from the table, and slowly poured it over the candle flame.
The water was like a bucket of cold water poured on Zoe's heart, which doused the flimsy hope left in her heart for this man thoroughly.
All the loving air and romance were dissipated in the dim, soft light. Lucas abruptly flipped the table, pulled out a chair, and sat down in a careless manner with some snippy violence looming between his eyebrows which gradually twisted his otherwise handsome face.
He looked at Zoe who was standing still at the door, and flew into a tantrum which came out of the blue, "Come and please me."
Zoe didn't move. Lucas looked at her with the same aversion and impatience as ever, "Zoe, I said, come and please me!"
Zoe shuddered, "Lucas, don't cross the line..."
"Isn't that what you want? You went to such great lengths to ruin my relationship with Sophia. You married me, threw yourself at me, and make such a mess every year. Isn't sleeping with me all you've been aiming at? I'll just go with it."
He spoke as if she were something dirty.
Zoe knew he hated her, but his hatred never got any less even after the three whole years of marriage life, from the beginning when he treated her like air to nowadays' occasional insults. She hadn't seen that coming. She thought she could persist in this forever, but at this moment, she felt exhausted.
She was too tired to explain any more about Sophia. She had explained it a million times which all ended in futility. He assumed Sophia married someone else because of her interference whatsoever.
Her biggest mistake was replacing Sophia to marry him for their families.
She looked at this man, whom she'd been loving deeply for three whole years, and said peacefully, "Let's divorce, Lucas."
Lucas was stunned, "What did you say?"
Zoe clenched her fists on both sides, "I'm saying that if we can't get along with each other, let's divorce. Set each other free."
Lucas' eyes twitched. Looking at Zoe's indifferent face, he was choked by the wrath in his chest, then he sneered, "I'd love to. Get out of here."
Zoe got her things briefly packed up. When she walked out of the villa, Lucas was still sitting in that chair, his face gloomy. He was staring at her back as if he wanted to jump on her and strangle her.
"When Lora Jones was down and out because of a business conspiracy, she met Brian Williams by accident. Brian fell for her at first sight and decided to keep her with him by all means. Nevertheless, when Lora finally fell in love with him, an ill-intentional bomb explosion, however, broke her love and her heart, thus she ran away in despair. Three years later, she comes back powerfully, which made Brian mad. At the time they meet again, she, with a cute baby in her arms, smiles to Brian and says,“Sir, Great barkers are no biters. Step aside!”"
At first sight, he was a gynecologist and she, a patient. Her boyfriend cheated, and she caught him to rescue her, but she was stopped in the examination room: "Check-up!" She begged for mercy and did not forget to kick him before leaving. Mr. Zhan, who had always been abstinent, never expected that he would be attracted by an ugly girl. "Mr. Zhan, I'm married." A marriage certificate was stuffed into her hands, what? Was he the "old man" she married?
Hathaway is not a good girl, at least not the traditional gentle, tender and obedient girl. Literally, she is open, independent and bold. At her first sight at Leon Davis, the most powerful personage of Leon City, Hathaway made a decision to chase after him. After teasing the arrogant man, she was happily thrown away by Leon. Without giving up, she listed a range of plans to draw Leon’s attention and she was confident enough to make it. The first thing she did was ruining his blind date, which unexpectedly freed him from a joyless meeting by coincidence. Fortunately, she’s changed her bad first impression. It’s so good a start for her. The next time she met him was at the business dinner party, she wore a white dress with diamonds showing her elegance like a white swan. Leon was deeply attracted and he realized how beautiful she is. Later, when she becomes his business partner, he finally finds her talents and smartness in fields of business and design. The two are getting closer and closer, is it still far from in love?
Wilson is ten years older than Anne, but they had engaged before she was born. She could have been living like a princess with love. However, at her age of 12, Anne’s father was killed, her mother was crippled, her family property changed ownership and she had to live with her enemies. Her peaceful life was torn apart. However, in her dark life, Wilson became her only reliance as he never gave up Anne but doted her, loved her and tried best to satisfy all her demands. Anne remembered that when she was a little girl, she was always chasing after Wilson and calling him uncle, which sometimes made Wilson helpless. Now she has grown up, she still likes to call him uncle, but what she got is his domineering reminder that it’s fiance not uncle.
She, framed by her biological mother, provoked the most devious president in the world. When she went to school, he was the professor; when she went to work, he was the boss. Even when she was on the way back home, he disguised himself as a driver to give her a ride. He occupied her home and forced her to be his tenant. One late night, Xenia Jones pulled open the quilt, only to see the man get on her bed, and screamed out of fear. “James Sterling, what are you doing?” He lit a cigarette and thought over, “I have an ancestral chromosome. I want to send it to you.”
Because of a mistake, Jill Grace was pregnant with a stranger’s baby. She expected that the man would marry her for this baby anyway, however, she did not realize that she was wrong until the man took her new-born baby away and vanished. Five years later, when Jill occasionally saved Leon’s son from a car accident and made a contract marriage with Leon, the truth was gradually getting known.
In order to fulfill her grandfather's last wish, Stella entered into a hasty marriage with an ordinary man she had never met before. However, even after becoming husband and wife on paper, they each led separate lives, barely crossing paths. A year later, Stella returned to Seamarsh City, hoping to finally meet her mysterious husband. To her astonishment, he sent her a text message, unexpectedly pleading for a divorce without ever having met her in person. Gritting her teeth, Stella replied, "So be it. Let’s get a divorce!" Following that, Stella made a bold move and joined the Prosperity Group, where she became a public relations officer that worked directly for the company’s CEO, Matthew. The handsome and enigmatic CEO was already bound in matrimony, and was known to be unwaveringly devoted to his wife in private. Unbeknownst to Stella, her mysterious husband was actually her boss, in his alternate identity! Determined to focus on her career, Stella deliberately kept her distance from the CEO, although she couldn't help but notice his deliberate attempts to get close to her. As time went on, her elusive husband had a change of heart. He suddenly refused to proceed with the divorce. When would his alternate identity be uncovered? Amidst a tumultuous blend of deception and profound love, what destiny awaited them?
June Rivera was divorced by her husband after three years of marriage because he wanted to be with her sister who was pregnant for him. Kicked to the curb with a divorce and rejected by her parents,she struggles to make ends meet and get a job until she saves Luis Ambrose from an accident - the only child of Rafael Ambrose, a widowed man and the CEO of Ambrose Corporation. When little Luis asks to have her as a nanny, and Rafael's mother pressures him to get married, they draw a contract. To be Luis's nanny and his fake wife for one year in exchange for 50 million dollars!
Corinne devoted three years of her life to her boyfriend, only for it to all go to waste. He saw her as nothing more than a country bumpkin and left her at the altar to be with his true love. After getting jilted, Corinne reclaimed her identity as the granddaughter of the town’s richest man, inherited a billion-dollar fortune, and ultimately rose to the top. But her success attracted the envy of others, and people constantly tried to bring her down. As she dealt with these troublemakers one by one, Mr. Hopkins, notorious for his ruthlessness, stood by and cheered her on. “Way to go, honey!”
Rumors said that Lucas married an unattractive woman with no background. In the three years they were together, he remained cold and distant to Belinda, who endured in silence. Her love for him forced her to sacrifice her self-worth and her dreams. When Lucas' true love reappeared, Belinda realized that their marriage was a sham from the start, a ploy to save another woman's life. She signed the divorce papers and left. Three years later, Belinda returned as a surgical prodigy and a maestro of the piano. Lost in regret, Lucas chased her in the rain and held her tightly. "You are mine, Belinda."
She was a world-renowned divine doctor, the CEO of a publicly traded company, the most formidable female mercenary, and a top-tier tech genius. Marissa, a titan with a plethora of secret identities, had hidden her true stature to marry a seemingly impoverished young man. However, on the eve of their wedding, her fiance, who was actually the lost heir to a wealthy dynasty, called off the engagement and subjected her to degradation and mockery. Upon the revelation of her concealed identities, her ex-fiance was left stunned and desperately pleaded for her forgiveness. Standing protectively before Marissa, an incredibly influential and fearsome magnate declared, "This is my wife. Who would dare try to claim her?"
After being kicked out of her home, Harlee learned she wasn't the biological daughter of her family. Rumors had it that her impoverished biological family favored sons and planned to profit from her return. Unexpectedly, her real father was a zillionaire, catapulting her into immense wealth and making her the most cherished member of the family. While they anticipated her disgrace, Harlee secretly held design patents worth billions. Celebrated for her brilliance, she was invited to mentor in a national astronomy group, drew interest from wealthy suitors, and caught the eye of a mysterious figure, ascending to legendary status.