My husband’s the only son of the richest man in Ivoneu. As for me, I’m an orphan.

His parents objected to us being together.

When I got pregnant, they got on a plane and came to collect us in person.

After that, I posted a picture I took with my husband, captioned, [I’m so thankful for you. Our life is going to be perfect from now on.]

Little did I know that the rich girl my husband had been dating online would confront me. 

She beat me until I had a miscarriage, then she stepped on my belly and declared viciously,

“You are a nasty seductress! That makes the baby inside you a bad seed, too! Purging the baby is my contribution to society!

“It’s just a fetus, anyway. I have more than enough money to get away with it!”

On Valentine's Day, I waited for my husband at the restaurant where he had made a reservation.

My heart was full of love. I had just become pregnant with our baby.

Suddenly, eight women barged into the restaurant. The one leading the charge was a woman dressed in a halter top, tight leather pants, and stilettos.

The waiter approached them, “Hello, miss. Do you have a reservation? I’m afraid we are fully booked for the night.”

The woman shoved the waiter away and hissed, “Move! I’m here to catch my boyfriend in the act!

“He’s been spending all this money on Valentine's Day to see her! I’m not going to be satisfied until I skin that fox alive!”

The group of women trailing behind her echoed after her, “That woman must have a death wish to try to steal Amora Smith’s man!”

“We’re going to make her regret ever being born!”

I stayed in my seat and braced myself for the rowdy scene I was about to witness. This group of people seemed like the bad sort. Whoever they were after was going to be in a world of trouble.

Still, I didn’t have much sympathy for a woman who would willingly become a homewrecker.

When the group turned in my direction and started marching toward me, my first instinct was to hold a hand protectively over my belly. Then, I got up to make way for them.

Even if I wanted to spectate, I knew better and kept my distance. I had to be especially cautious since I was pregnant.

What caught me completely off guard was that Amora, the woman leading the group, suddenly came after me. She seized me by my hair and slapped me ferociously across the face without warning.

“Thought you could get away, you shameless woman?!”

The scorching pain pulsing on my cheeks caught me completely off-guard.

Her nails, which were sharp like daggers, dug into my flesh as she glowered at me with hatred.

“So this is the sweet and dainty woman seducing my boyfriend!”

It was only then that I connected the dots.

For some unknown reason, she had mistaken me for the woman seducing her boyfriend.

I clenched my teeth through the pain and tried to reason with her. “Miss, are you sure there hasn’t been a misunderstanding? I don't know you or your boyfriend.”

Amora slapped me across the face again.

“How dare you try to steal my boyfriend and still have the guts to deny it?!

“I’m going to skin you alive! Let’s see if you can steal my man after!”

With that, she kicked me and knocked me over before commanding her friends, “Get her!”

The moment she howled the order, her friends surrounded me and started jabbing kicks at me.

I curled over on the ground and tried to shield my belly with my arms while crying out frantically, “I swear I’m not the mistress you are looking for! I’m pregnant. My husband is Devin Rose! Public assault is a crime!”

Then I felt the sharp point of Amora’s heels digging into the back of my hand shielding my belly.

“Huh, you just gave yourself away! Devin is my boyfriend. We have been dating for two years! I didn’t spend tens of millions of dollars on him just for him to leave me!

“Did you force him to leave me by using your pregnancy as leverage?

“Listen up, don’t you ever even think about it!”

My mind went blank.

Did she just say Devin was her boyfriend?

I shot down the possibility immediately. It was impossible.

For my sake, he stood up against his entire family and had given up on them just so we could leave Ivoneu together. I was sure he would not betray me.

“Devin is my husband. He is certainly not your boyfriend. There must have been some kind of misunderstanding. He’s going to be here soon. We can ask him in person.”

Upon hearing this, Amora stepped harder on the back of my hand with the tip of her heels. Her scowl was grim.

“You sure are smug about going on a date with my boyfriend on Valentine’s Day, aren’t you?

“I’m getting to strip you naked so everyone can see your true form—a shameless fox!”

She seemed to have transformed into the devil upon reaching this note.

Then, her laughter turned sadistic while she commanded her group, “Strip her!”

Countless pairs of hands seized me and started tearing at my clothes. I used what strength I had to put my hand up to guard against them, but it was no use.

It did not take long before my dress was ripped off. I was naked as the day I was born in public view.

Amora struck a vicious blow against me again while crying out, “I didn’t think you’d have such a good figure. That explains how you managed to seduce Devin and even got yourself knocked up by him.”

I tried to cover my naked body, but she pried my arm away. “Let everyone take a good look at what you are—a disgusting homewrecker, a fox! Let’s see if anyone still wants you now!”

Filled with despair, tears gushed uncontrollably from my eyes.

Amora laughed manically. “Look! The shameless vixen is crying!”

Her friends mocked me as well, “Let’s see if she ever dares to spread her leg again to seduce someone else’s man!”

“I’m going to take a picture and post it online so the world knows what happens to homewreckers like her!”

My vision had turned blur from crying. Despite that, I have carved all of their faces into my memory.

I declared severely, “You’re all going to regret this! You will pay for this!”

Amora laughed roaringly at my words. “Pay? What’s a lowly homewrecker like you going to do to me, anyway?

“Were you hoping to cling to another man using your looks? Alright, I’ll disfigure you so no man will ever look your way again!”

One of the girls grabbed a knife off the dining table and handed it to Amora.

Upon realizing how sadistic Amora was, many people who had crowded around to check out the commotion dispersed from the scene. They were terrified that Amora would make them one of her victims, too.

She dangled the knife threateningly in front of me, but I was not the slightest bit scared. Nothing could faze me any more than the prospect of losing my child to their ruthless assaults.

Somewhere in the dizzying commotion, I heard a familiar ringtone. It was Devin calling me.

I looked at the display of my phone and felt a burst of hope igniting inside me. With what strength I had left, I reached for the phone.

Just as I came close to grazing it, Amora stomped on the back of my hand.

I glared at her viciously. “You said Devin was your boyfriend? In that case, why don’t you pick up the call and ask him?”

Amora sneered, “Did you think I’m scared of you?”

With that, she picked up the phone.

I watched as her fingers glided across the screen. I could feel my heartstrings stretch taut when it looked like she was going to pick up.

I knew that if I screamed for help the moment the call connected, Devin would rush to the scene and rescue me.

However, she hung up on him before glowering at me again. “Don’t even think about crying for help.”

She then tossed the phone behind her. “Since you have seduced him until he would break up with me, I know he would help you if I answered the call.

“But just wait until I disfigure you! Watch how he comes crawling back to me then!”

I caught a silver gleam flash across my eyes as the knife swung down. My skin sliced open as blood started trickling down my cheeks.

I felt a deep, uncontrolled hatred as I glared at them.

Amora stepped right in my face. “How dare you glare at me!

“Come on and hold her down. I’m going to kick the baby inside her out. We’ll see what leverage she has over Devin then!”

With that, her friends grabbed my hands and ruthlessly pried them away from my exposed stomach.

A surge of fear rushed through me. I was worried that they were going to hurt my baby.

I begged her, “No, not my baby!”

Amora flashed a sinister smile. “You are a nasty seductress and that makes the baby inside you a bad seed, too! Purging the baby is my contribution to society!”

She raised her foot before stomping down as hard as she could on my stomach.

“Ah—” I screamed like I had never screamed before.

It seemed like it was not enough for her. She jabbed repeated kicks at my stomach, with each kick harder than the last.

“You shameless wench! How’d you like that?”

A sharp pain coursed from my stomach to every nerve in my body. I felt like a barn animal in the slaughterhouse; there was nothing I could do to fight back.

The display was so violent that even the onlookers could not stomach it anymore.

Someone stepped forward and pleaded for me, “Miss, the girl is pregnant. You’re going to kill the baby if you keep kicking her! Please, murder is a crime!”

Amora smiled wickedly. “It’s just a fetus, anyway. I have more than enough money to get away with it!”

“Just because you have money doesn’t mean you can go around hurting people all you want! What’s the point of the law if people like you exist?”

Amora's friends started to boast. “Amora is the daughter of the president of Goldhill Corporation. There’s nothing her father wouldn’t give her! Nobody in Kovic City can stop her from getting her way!”

At first, there were a few people in the crowd who were ready to step forward to put an end to the violence. However, the moment they heard this, they hesitated and decided it was not worth getting involved.

After all, everyone in Kovic City knew about Goldhill Corporation!

The name was quite literal, as the corporation possessed more than half of the assets in the city and was nearly a complete monopoly.

Some in the crowd even began to take Amora’s side.

“She deserves to get beat up for being a homewrecker!”

“I’ve always thought it was completely unfair that even a bastard child gets to inherit assets. It’s a complete insult to the legitimate son! The child must die!”

“I lost my husband to another disgusting homewrecker too! Beat her up, she deserves it!”

“We have to make sure that homewreckers like her get what’s coming to them!”

Now that everyone had taken Amora’s side, she grew haughtier than ever.

She announced jovially, “I’m glad you all recognize that this is justice! Tonight’s bill is on me. You all earned it!”

The mob was thrilled by this and began to hurl all kinds of insults at me. I have never heard such profanity in my life.

I feebly tried to defend myself.

“I’m not a homewrecker…

“I am Devin’s wife.”

Amora squatted next to me and slapped my face, which was bloody by this point. “You sure have some guts to call yourself his wife!”

“He told me I was the only one he loved. You must have tricked him with some nasty tricks!

“You must have a death wish to try to steal my man! You’re not going to live through this!”

I felt yet another brutal slam against my stomach, followed by a sharp pain stemming from inside my body. I felt a warm gush of liquid flow between my legs.

“My baby, my baby…”