After Michael left, I lost all my strength and collapsed to the ground. The doctor gave me allergy medicine and I applied for discharge as soon as I finished taking it. I went home carrying a divorce agreement that only needed his signature.

As soon as I opened the door, a crystal glass fell at my feet. It hit my knee, which turned purple right away. I knelt on one knee in pain and couldn’t stand up for a long time.

"I’m not as delicate as you rich people. Take all these things away. I don’t want them!"

After smashing the glass, Regina also threw down the limited-edition bag nearby. The things I once wanted but couldn’t have were now trash in her hands. Michael stood nearby holding a bowl of soup, looking helpless.

"Alright, then don’t take them. But drink this soup to warm your stomach. Don’t starve the baby."

"Why are you so clueless? This isn’t what I wanted!" Regina shouted as she pouted.

"I regret asking you to be my baby’s father. I didn’t think you would get me pregnant so fast. I don’t understand why your wife has tried for years but can’t get pregnant."

In the past, no matter how careful I was, Michael was easily annoyed. Now, Regina refused him again and again, yet he didn’t seem upset at all. He didn’t even notice my swollen knee.

He just said to me calmly, "You’ve been pregnant before. You should know what pregnant women like. Go make a bowl of the soup you used to drink for Regina."

"I won’t. I’m not your nanny."

I turned to go upstairs.

Michael grabbed my wrist.

"Can’t you stop being selfish? When the baby is born, he’ll call you mom."

Looking at his handsome face that once felt like a gift from heaven, I suddenly felt sick. I handed him the divorce agreement.

"Sign it and I’ll make the soup."

Michael signed without even reading it. He looked like he expected it.

"Are you jealous of the gift I bought Regina? Fine. You can buy one too if you want, as long as you behave."

I had never asked him for money. Even when he was so poor he couldn’t afford to eat, I never begged my father. I stayed by Michael’s side through everything.

Now, Michael thought I was a woman who only cared about money. I put the divorce papers away and went to the kitchen to make the soup. After I finished this bowl, I would leave him for good.

As I poured the soup into the bowl, my phone rang again and again.

It was an unknown number.

"Elizabeth, your mother is in critical condition and being rescued in the hospital. She’s crying and wants to see you one last time … "

I hadn’t seen my parents in ten years since I left home after a fight. When I heard this, my legs almost gave out. I wiped away my tears and got ready to go to the hospital.

When I placed the soup on the table, I was still in a daze.

Michael noticed something was wrong.

"Elizabeth, what’s going on?"

I shook my head. My face was pale and I didn’t want to say much.

"Something happened. I need to go out for a while."

My background had always been hidden. Now that we were getting a divorce, there was no point explaining anything. Regina picked up a small bowl of hot soup and brought it to me.

"Mrs. Coldsworth, you’ve worked hard. You should drink some soup before you leave."

I raised my hand to stop Regina.

"No need-"

Before I could finish, she suddenly let go. The hot soup spilled all over me and some of it splashed on the back of her hand. She quickly covered her hand and started crying.

"Mrs. Coldsworth, I was just trying to be nice and offer you soup. But you wanted to burn me? Fine. But what if you hurt the baby in my belly?"

Regina grabbed onto Michael’s sleeve.

"I will leave after I give birth, but now I’ll have a scar. What if I can’t get married in the future?"

Michael’s eyes were full of pain.

"You will still be able to marry. I will marry you!"

Michael looked at me without noticing that my arm had been burned by the hot soup and was now blistered.

"Elizabeth, don’t go too far!"

He then picked Regina up and told his assistant to drag me into the car. When we arrived at the hospital, Regina kept crying and shouting that she would have a scar. I was sweating from the pain, but I still heard Michael’s cold voice.

"Elizabeth hurt you, so I’ll give you her skin!"

I trembled in fear, but then I saw someone familiar nearby. It was my mother’s personal maid. I listened closely and heard them speaking.

"Why hasn’t Miss Elizabeth come yet? Madam is dying!"

In that moment, all the fear inside me disappeared. When I thought about my mother, tears streamed down my face.

"Michael, I’ll give Regina the skin graft, just let me see my mother one last time. She’s next door!"

Michael laughed with anger.

"You’re an orphan. How could you have a mother? You should pick a better time to lie!"

Regina leaned against him, looking very weak.

"Mrs. Coldsworth, don’t you want to save me? Forget it. I’ll just lose the baby and leave. It’s all my fault."

She said that, but she didn’t move.

Michael gritted his teeth and signaled the assistant. The assistant locked the door. Outside the room, I heard my mother’s maid crying. I became more anxious.

"I’m begging you, the woman next door really is my mother! Please go ask!"

The assistant finally spoke.

"The one next door is Mrs. Emily Lovell from the Lovell Family, the richest family in London’s elite sociery. Elizabeth, your last name is Campbell. How could you be related to the Lovell Family?"

As soon as he said that, Michael sneered again.

The doctor prepared to push Regina into surgery. Michael forcefully lifted me. As soon as we left the room, I began to scream.

"Mom, it’s me, I’m Elizabeth!"

I saw people turning their heads. But the next second, Michael covered my mouth and held me tightly. He sneered.

"You’re still pretending."

My tears soaked his hand. I kept screaming, but it was all muffled. Right before they pulled me into the operating room, I heard a loud cry from my mother’s ward.

"Madam! Madam, don’t go!"

I stopped struggling and went limp in Michael’s arms. But he thought I had given in. They tied me to the operating table. Michael told the doctor not to use anesthesia.

A piece of skin was cut off.

I cried silently but didn’t say a word. Michael wiped my tears and whispered in my ear.

"After she gives birth, everything will return to normal."

No. My mother was gone and the baby was lost. Thinking of that, I looked up and fainted.

They left me in a regular hospital room and forgot about me. I stayed there until a tear touched my lips. I opened my eyes and looked at the man.

"I’ve become like this. Do you still like me?"

***

To make Regina happy, Michael took her abroad to recover. He only asked his assistant to send me some food. Regina was treated like a queen overseas and got everything she wanted. But whenever she mentioned the divorce I asked for, Michael became cold.

"I will not divorce Elizabeth."

A week later, Regina opened a package and ran into Michael’s arms with a smile.

"Mr. Coldsworth, you are so fake. Didn’t you say you wouldn’t divorce?"

Michael’s eyelids twitched.

“What divorce?”

Regina raised her red lips, pulled out the purple-red notebook she had hidden and slowly opened it in front of him. Something Michael never imagined appeared in front of him at that moment.