I smiled bitterly. I was no longer the same person I was before.

Sebastian's love was like the flower in the mirror and the moon in the water, empty and illusory, which could only be seen but not touched.

I still remembered when he first realized that he had recognized the wrong person, he hugged me tightly in his arms.

"Juliette, I don't care if it's wrong. I only know that I love you and you are my wife!"

Later, in front of my sister's hospital bed, he also said, "Jasmine the person I love from beginning to end is you, Juliette is just a ridiculous misunderstanding."

Knowing it was a misunderstanding, I was too timid to rush in and confront them.

Before getting to know Sebastian, I lost a memory during a car accident. When he said at a dinner party that I was the one who saved him, I was not sure if it was me.

However, he was too confident. I could not help but feel tempted by his tender eyes and I also had a glimmer of hope.

When my sister revealed the whole story to me, I felt like a dirty rat hiding in the sewer stealing other people's happiness. How could I dare to dance in front of them?

My sister had passed away.

Since Sebastian married me, my sister’s tombstone could only have my father-in-law’s name engraved on it: [Harold Fisher’s wife.]

He wanted to carve her as his wife, but he didn't dare to fight back and be rude to his father. His raging anger had no place to be vented, so I became the punching bag.

How could the wealthy and powerful young man in the city commit such a shameful act of domestic violence? Sebastian began to abuse me sexually.

Hidden wounds and torment made me too embarrassed to confide in and seek help from others, so I could only silently endure them myself.

Too often, he was worried that I would get pregnant.

He said, "How could a malicious woman like you be worthy of giving birth to my child!"

I silently picked up the clothes that were torn into pieces on the floor, like a puppet without any life.

"I will ask Mrs. Martha to buy contraceptive pills later and I will take them on time from now on."

He was still dissatisfied with this reply, so he pulled up his trousers, slammed the door and walked out, bringing back the first mistress that night.

Like those vicious wives in TV dramas, I started using money to bribe these girls and asked them to leave my husband.

Girls like flower buds appeared one by one beside Sebastian.

Even if I were the richest man in the world, I would not be able to deal with this.

Until he brought back a woman named Zendaya, he had not had another woman around him for nearly half a year.

I also completely understood that Sebastian's love did not belong to me, or rather, he had no love for me but only deep hatred.

Hatred because he had mistaken me for my sister who had saved him and hatred because he could not engrave his name on my sister's tombstone.

So now, how could I expect his love?

Now that my father-in-law had also passed away, it was time for me to leave.

I picked up the divorce agreement and put it in Sebastian's study room, then turned around and went to pack my things.

Before my father-in-law fell critically ill, I asked him to help me contact university in the Germany and prepare to study abroad.

When I was carrying my suitcase downstairs, the servant stopped me.

"Mr. Sebastian said we should check the things you take with you when you leave to prevent you from taking things you shouldn't take!"

I pushed the suitcase forward and gestured for her to check it at will.

The servant rummaged through the suitcase and found an osmanthus necklace.

My pupils shrank slightly. It was the gift Sebastian gave me when we first met.

The servant fiddled with the necklace and looked at me with disdain. "I'm afraid you can't take this necklace with you."

He did not even want to leave me this though.

I nodded. It was for the best. Even if I brought it, it would only add to the sadness.

When the servant was still surprised at how straightforward I was, I had already squatted down, closed the suitcase and strode out of the main building.

In less than ten minutes, Sebastian's phone call came in and the servant reported truthfully.

When the person on the other end of the phone heard that I only took one suitcase, he was very surprised. Then he heard the servant say that she only found an osmanthus necklace in the suitcase.

He asked anxiously, "Did she take it away?"

The servant tried to please him but was stopped by him. He immediately yelled at the servant to bring me back.

At this moment, I had already got on a taxi heading to the airport.

The anxious servant chased after me and shouted. "Ms. Juliette, he wants you to come back~"

The road to the airport should be all paved, but this taxi had been driving on bumpy roads.

I pretended to be calm and said, "Sir, I'm in a hurry pee. Please stop the car and let me go to the toilet."

"Wipe it off~"

With a sudden brake, my head slammed straight into the back of the seat.

The taxi driver suddenly opened the driver's door. Sensing the danger, I wanted to open the other door and run away, but he grabbed my feet and dragged me towards him.

Before I could call for help, a handkerchief soaked in medicine covered my face.

The next moment, I fell unconscious.

When I woke up again, I was tied up and thrown on the ground, surrounded by dilapidated buildings that looked like abandoned factories.

The furious voice of the kidnappers rang out beside me.

"Mr. Fisher, I only give you two choices. Either you transfer one million four hundred thousand dollars into the account I gave you and exchange Zendaya for your wife, or I fuck your wife right now, record the video and post it online!"

I could not hear what Sebastian said on the other end of the phone, but seeing that the kidnapper was so angry that he wanted to smash the phone to the ground, it was not difficult to guess that Sebastian chose the second option.

Despite warning myself countless times that he would not choose me, my heart still could not help but ache when I learned about it.

Seeing me awake, the kidnapper spat on my face. "Sebastian is such a piece of shit that he doesn't even want his own wife!"

He kept muttering a lot of dirty words afterwards and I roughly understood the reason.

The root of everything was that he and Sebastian both fell in love with Zendaya and since he failed to snatch her away from Sebastian, he wanted to take revenge on him.

And so I became the target of hostage-taking.

He still did not feel satisfied after cursing at me, so he started kicking me.

A rag was stuffed in my mouth and I could only cry out in pain.

Then he picked up a brick and threw it at me madly, leaving a bloody hole on my forehead.

The kidnapper took out the rag that was stuffed in my mouth, dialed Sebastian's number and started punching me in the face as soon as the call was connected.

I was beaten so hard until I screamed in pain. "Ah~."

The kidnapper kept yelling at me. "Speak up, you have to speak up!"

The desire to survive forced me to ignore everything else and I cried for help into the microphone of my mobile phone.

"Sebastian, please come and save me, it hurts ...."

As soon as the words fell, a "beep beep" sound came from the other end of the phone.

The man hung up the phone.

The kidnapper was infuriated by the situation and began frantically calling Sebastian, but he rejected all the calls and then blocked the kidnapper's phone number.

"Look, this is the good husband you married. He really doesn't treat you as a human being!"

My heart felt like being torn out by someone and Sebastian actually wished I would die.