Chapter 1

On our fifth anniversary, I dressed up for our date, thinking Ethan was going to propose to me.

Instead, he showed up with his first love, Luna, and asked me to plan their entire engagement party.

"You didn't actually think that after warming my bed for a few years, you'd get to be a billionaire's wife, did you?"

He humiliated me in public, threatened me with my family's livelihood, and even put the wedding dress I'd spent three years designing on Luna.

In the villa we'd shared for five years, all my personal belongings were thrown out like garbage.

He said my taste was cheap, that my feelings were shameful, that I was nothing more than a tool in a mutually beneficial arrangement.

At the banquet, Luna spilled red wine all over me, and he publicly scolded me for being in the way. Not a single apology.

From that moment on, I stopped defending myself, stopped resisting, and became completely obedient to him.

Ethan thought I'd finally learned my place and become the compliant secretary again.

He didn't know I'd already gotten engaged to his mortal enemy.