After a family scandal, my ruthless husband started pampering me. I thought it was real until I discovered it was just another business move. So I made one of my own: a  public divorce. Now, his pampering has turned into a dangerous obsession.


My husband’s “pampering” was a lie. Now, I’m going to make him beg for real.

“Asher Wang? My husband?” I laughed bitterly.

For three years, billionaire Asher Wang treated me like furniture in our marriage of convenience. I was the wife he never wanted and always ignored.

I tried to be a real wife. I waited for his smile, his touch, his love. But he never once looked at me. To him, I was nothing but a deal, a contract signed between families.

Until the day my family’s scandal broke.

Suddenly, the cold man who never noticed me starting pampering me. He was showering me with expensive jewellery, designer clothes, luxurious gifts, and even started defending me in public. The world saw a man madly in love with his wife.

I almost believed it myself until I came to know it was just his another business game. It shattered me. So, I decided to become an asset he couldn't control.

The night of our third anniversary, I decided to give him a gift he'd never forget.

As he raised a glass to toast our "perfect partnership," I took the microphone. The crowd fell silent as I revealed my double life to the world. Then, I handed him the divorce papers with a smile.

"Our deal is over."

The man who never showed emotion finally cracked but not in the way I expected.

He didn't get angry. He got possessive.
Tearing the papers to shreds, he backed me into a corner. 

"You're not leaving me, Rysa. You belong to me.”

The calculated pampering was over. Now, a raw, obsessive pursuit began. He's determined to prove our marriage is real with stolen kisses in dark corridors, jealous rages when other men look my way, and a vulnerability he showed no one else.

But in this high stakes war of hearts, the hardest battle will be resisting the man I see beneath the obsession: the vulnerable, passionate man who might just be my husband's greatest secret.

I woke up at 6:45 AM to the sound of Asher's alarm. Twenty four hours until the anniversary party. Twenty four hours until I destroyed him in front of everyone. 


I lay still, listening to him move through his normal morning routine. But there was nothing normal about today. Today was the last day of our marriage. Tomorrow, everything would burn.


I waited until I heard the shower running and then reached for my regular phone. There was a missed call from Maya.


Asher knew Maya as my friend from my design school, so talking to her wasn't suspicious.


I called her back, she answered on the first ring. 


"It's really happening." I kept my voice low, aware that bathroom doors weren't soundproof. "Everything's in place. Tomorrow night, three hundred people will watch me serve him papers and reveal who I really am."


Chapter 42 - NO GUILT