Chapter 3 Hurt So Good

**Ophelia's POV**

I could only scream inside my heart at Elio's rotten plan.

Seeing his happy expression, it seemed that Leo wasn't there by accident, but on purpose.

It turned out that my first love and crush since I was 10 years old didn't really love me. It turned out he was just bragging. It turned out his love was fake. It turned out he loved my sister more.

And it turned out… our first meeting at the orphanage, our very first meeting, brought me this far to him only to be betrayed like this.

During our five years of marriage, it turned out that the soothing words he spoke to me, who couldn’t get pregnant, were just lies.

In reality, neither of us was infertile.

He probably just didn’t want to have children with me. Not that he couldn't have children.

And now that his false prayers and my sincere hopes have been answered by God, now that God has given us a child in my womb, his evil deeds have also been exposed.

On this fifth wedding anniversary, this wooden anniversary, we should be celebrating the arrival of our child. But it seems we will be celebrating our separation instead.

Because I don't want to hold on anymore after seeing and hearing all of that. I don't want to maintain this marriage full of lies and betrayal.

I will let Elio go.

I... I will do it now.

Therefore, I finally opened the door wide.

This caused the two of them to immediately separate. Elio looked completely shocked, while Lith smiled slyly.

I grabbed the vase on the table and threw it at the wall behind them. I didn't care if it hurt them because they had hurt me much worse. I also didn't care if I was considered barbaric because I wouldn't let myself be trampled on anymore.

After that, I walked quickly until I reached the bed. I pointed at Elio. "If you really love my sister and already have a child with her, you don't need to marry me and get me pregnant, you bastard!"

Elio stood up immediately. "You're pregnant?"

I chuckled sarcastically. "Is that important to you now?"

"Lia, I can explain—"

"Explain what? That you've actually been cheating on me since I was in prison? That you don't really love me and you love Lith? You'd better shut up!"

I turned my gaze to Lith. "Explain to me when your relationship started."

Lith casually pulled the blanket over her body. "Since we were 17. And yeah, you're right, since you were still in prison."

My guess was right. Because Leo is this big now. So obviously they had been playing behind my back for more than just a year or two.

"Ah, just so you know, sis—"

"Shut up, Lith!" Elio snapped.

"No, let her explain," I argued.

Lith smiled.

My sister, whom I loved so much, could still smile after her affair with my husband was exposed! Oh my God...

"All this time you thought you couldn't get pregnant, right? That's a big mistake. You're not infertile and you can definitely get pregnant. You're very fertile because the proof is that you're now pregnant. It's just that Elio always gave you birth control pills. And that was my suggestion because he already got me pregnant, so I didn't want you to have his child too."

I covered my mouth in disbelief.

"You could say that your pregnancy is Elio's mistake for forgetting to give you the pills. And do you know how he gave you the pills? In the traditional herbal herb he made for you every day before bed."

I immediately looked at Elio for an explanation. But he just stood there, staring at me without refuting Lith's words.

That meant Lith's explanation was true.

That meant… my pregnancy was an accident.

It turned out that the husband I was proud of for accepting me for who I was, was actually covering up his own rottenness.

And it turned out that the sister I defended to the death, even though it meant I had to languish in prison for years, had stabbed me in the back.

And of all these things, what disappointed me the most was Lith's attitude. She deliberately set me up. She didn't appreciate all my sacrifices.

"Lia, I made a mistake. It's too late now. You can hate both of us, but please, don't hate Leo. He's your only nephew. You love him, right?" Elio approached me.

I stepped back, clutching my belly. "Then what about our child? Did you even think about its feelings?"

Elio ran his fingers through his hair. "Okay, okay. I'll try to be a good father to our child. We don't have to get divorced, that way it can still have me as its father."

I slapped Elio as hard as I could.

"I'm disgusted with you! You used your small penis to get me and my sister pregnant. Are you even aware of that, Elio?!"

"Hey, what are you doing, Lia!" Lith jumped out of bed. She approached Elio and wrapped her arms around his.

"I slapped my legal husband and your brother-in-law. Isn't that clear enough?"

"You should be grateful that he still wants to marry you!"

I slapped Lith. It was the first time I had ever hit her in all the years we had grown up together.

"Elio and you should be grateful that I'm not killing you right now," I said sharply.

I tried to calm myself by taking a deep breath.

Honestly, it was very difficult to stay calm at a time like this. Especially since this was about my own sister, whom I loved dearly and had taken care of since we were both in the orphanage.

Lith and I were fraternal twins who had been abandoned by our parents at an orphanage and then spent our childhood there. Until we were adopted by our current parents, the Hyacinth family, a conglomerate who couldn't have children.

Our adoptive parents were good friends with Elio's parents. That's where I met Elio and fell in love with him.

"Lia, don't listen to Lith. I do love you. I'm not lying about that," Elio pleaded.

"Enough!" I snapped.

I held back my tears with all my strength so they wouldn't fall again. “I no longer believe in the love you always talk about, Elio. And you, Lith, feel free to take Elio. May you both be happy until death do you part. It’s time for me to leave and not bother you anymore. Oh, one more thing, I’ll send you the divorce papers soon, Elio.”