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Chapter 1

I picked up the coffee I had made for Julian Chapman and threw it in his face. "Selling your wife to pay your debts is illegal! Are you trying to go to prison?"Julian wiped the coffee from his face and stared at me in disbelief. He couldn't understand how the wife he'd spent years mistreating without consequence could suddenly turn on him.For three years, I washed his clothes, stayed up late mending them, cooked his meals, and pinched every penny to help fund his studies.I never said a word when his mistresses picked fights with me. In fact, I'd even given him money to support them and their children.Even when he secretly took up gambling out of frustration after repeatedly failing his exams and blowing through most of my money, I still put up with it."You've lost your mind! I'm your husband! A wife is supposed to obey her husband! The authorities have no say in this. Besides, I'm doing this for your own good," he roared."Once you're at the brothel, you'll have nice clothes

Chapter 2

"Yeah. The others pooled their money and left. Now it's just Charlotte and me. Why don't you divorce him and come with us?" one of the mistresses asked.I shook my head and refused. Instead, I handed them their indenture papers and told them to leave while they still could.Julian's eyes went red with fury. He raised his hand to slap me. "You bitch! Who gave you the right to let them go?"I kicked him straight between the legs."Don't forget that I was the one who paid to free them. Whether they came here because they needed money for their families or because they had nowhere else to go, I paid for it. Since when did they become yours? They're mine.""Get her out of here! Make sure they teach her a lesson! Better yet, send her somewhere she'll really suffer," Julian screamed as he reeled in pain.One of the debt collectors walked over to me. I smiled. "Are you really asking for 120,000 dollars for me? You're getting ripped off, honey.""What's wrong? Having second thoughts?" Ju

Chapter 3

Julian still had the habit of blaming everything but himself. He blamed the tools for being useless, just as he blamed me for repeatedly failing his tests. He never once admitted to his lack of ability.Whenever I complained that something in the house wasn't working, he accused me of wasting money and simply said that I didn't know how to use it. Yet he had no problem blowing that money at the gambling tables or spending it on his mistresses.The only reason I put up with him for so long was that I had been betting on him passing his exams. I imagined myself becoming the wife of a successful man, eventually enjoying a comfortable life as a widow. Looking back, putting my hopes on someone else was a colossal mistake.By evening, he'd finally finished all the chores.I nodded. "Starting tonight, you're going to work on your posture, the way you look at people, and the way you move."I reached up and gently straightened his shoulders."Keep your shoulders level and your back stra

Chapter 4

The man raised the tip of the knife toward me."I didn't believe it at first. Could a woman really be this vicious? But I saw everything from the window just now. You took the money, counted it, and handed it straight to the debt collectors without batting an eye. What do you think he is?"Julian was still in the man's arms, but he didn't resist. "She treats me like livestock. I'm merchandise she can sell to pay off her debts. I used to be a scholar. I even passed my exams. But she starved me, locked me in the house, and hit my fingers with the back of a knife whenever I refused to cooperate."He held up his right hand, the one I injured when he tried to kill me."She wanted me to marry her. But when I did, it wasn't enough. She forced me to sign away my freedom and call her my master. If I got it wrong, she'd withhold my food," he sobbed. "Even when I finally said it the way she wanted, she still complained that I wasn't loud enough."She took a pair of scissors and cut open my c

Chapter 5

Julian froze. "Then I'll report you! I'll tell the authorities that you abused your husband!""Go ahead. I'll tell them exactly how you spent my money, how you ran up your gambling debts, how you burned me with those fire tongs, and how you tried to sell me to a brothel. Do you think the court will believe the daughter of a government official, or a compulsive gambler?"Julian went pale.After a long silence, he asked, "What do you want from me?""Come with me," I replied, smirking.Julian was frozen in place."Or don't. I'm guessing you have more than one creditor. It's up to you whether you want them tearing your house apart or throwing you in jail for the rest of what you owe."Julian begrudgingly followed me to Reverbia.He spent the entire journey trying to figure out where I'd hidden his papers.Unfortunately for him, I'd already sent them to Reverbia by courier and delivered them to Avaline.That night, we stopped at an inn in Reverbia.Despite all my precautions, Jul

Chapter 6

Even after everything that had happened, Julian was still trying to hurt me.He told Avaline, "Lure her here and put her to work. Once she spends the night here, her parents will never acknowledge her."He tried the same thing with the women at the brothel."Are you really content spending your whole lives here? Don't you want to see what happens when that pampered socialite gets dragged down to your level? Why should she get to stand on the shore with her reputation intact while you're the ones drowning?"They didn't fall for it. Instead, they made his life miserable.Julian was still determined.Somehow, he'd learned that Avaline had an adopted daughter who was the heir to the Gilded Lily. He came up with another plan.He started writing me love poems and songs, praising my beauty while portraying himself as a devoted husband trapped in a miserable marriage. He called his ex-wife cruel and heartless, claiming that if she hadn't held him back at every turn, he would've already

Chapter 7

I was the one who suffered, yet when my parents heard that I had divorced Julian, all they cared about was the shame I'd brought upon the family. They were so worried about the family's reputation that they wouldn't even let me through the door.Now, they had come here themselves. They must've heard what happened.Dad stormed in and pointed a finger in my face."Have you lost your mind? You're the daughter of a government official, and you've been keeping your ex-husband at a brothel and making money off him? Don't you care about your reputation? We Sullivans have a reputation to protect!"Mom was just as furious. "People were right about you. You're nothing but trouble. I should've left you to rot in that brothel when we found you."Julian immediately changed his tune. He was like a child hiding behind his parents."So that's why I kept failing my exams and could never win at the gambling tables! You've been bringing me bad luck all along! What did I ever do to deserve marrying

Chapter 8

People started coming to the Gilded Lily to make Julian kneel, mock him for becoming someone's plaything, and laugh at how pathetic he looked.He tried going on a hunger strike. I immediately brought in someone new, which made his position even more precarious. If he wanted better food or a better room, he had to compete for my attention.When he tried to run, my men caught him and punished him for it.He begged for my forgiveness. I laughed and told him that his apologies would sound much better coming from a customer's bed while he was earning money for me.He even tried to hire someone to kill me, but everything he ate and used belonged to me. He didn't have a penny to his name. The only thing he had left to sell was himself.Once his would-be assassin had gotten what he wanted, he dumped Julian in a ditch. Julian was furious, but he had no choice but to swallow the consequences himself.He tried everything.The only thing he never dared to try was killing himself.Six month

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