Chapter 1

My best friend got married, and it took a whole year before she found out her husband had a first crush he couldn't forget.

Later, that woman caused so much chaos in her home that my friend left the marriage with nothing. She was depressed for an entire year afterward.

She warned me:

"Natalie, don't marry a man like that."

So when my father pushed me into an arranged marriage, I investigated Ethan thoroughly.

He came from a good family, had no lingering first crush, no childhood sweetheart, and had even cut ties cleanly with all his exes.

The only unusual thing was that the Carter family had adopted a girl ten years ago and had been raising her abroad for school.

My father didn't think much of it.

"She's just Ethan's adoptive sister. The Carter family raised her, and when she became an adult, they set up a trust fund for her. It's enough to keep her comfortable abroad for the rest of her life."

I closed the folder and decided to marry Ethan.

But in the third year of our marriage, on the very first night Ethan brought his adoptive sister back from abroad---we were about to have sex.

The girl carefully pushed open our bedroom door. "It's too quiet in my room. I'm scared being alone..."

Ethan got up helplessly and told me in a gentle voice to go to sleep first.

I sat alone in the darkness for a long time---

Then I immediately called over a dozen male models to throw a party at the house.