All Candice did was blink and say with an aggrieved expression, "I didn't say anything. All I said was that you caught a minor case of the flu. You must have heard me wrong and misunderstood. Besides, we don't know each other. Why would I want to destroy your happiness? All I want is for Russell to be happy!"

I tried to get my mother-in-law and those relatives to bear witness for me, but Russell stopped me with indifference. "Stop making a scene, Annie! It was just a joke. Candice is our personal doctor, and if you continue making a fuss, you'll only embarrass us!"

All I could do was stare at his superior, whose expression had darkened, and a helpless-looking Russell with reddened eyes. In the end, I decided to take this all in stride for the sake of his dignity and future. However, I refused to do the same in my current life.

I pushed my mother-in-law away and slapped Candice so hard that she fell to the ground, looking at me in shock. Her screams grabbed everyone's attention and, just like in my past life, Russell led his superior quickly over to where we were.

Candice's eyes turned red as she quickly got up from the ground to jump into Russell's arms, but I took off the wedding veil from my head before she could do so and slammed it to the ground. "Russell Loft, if your wedding gift to me is a fake premarital health screening report, you can consider this marriage canceled!"

Russell looked at me in shock. "What are you talking about, Annie? What fake premarital health screening report?" He frowned while looking at Candice, but continued speaking nicely, "What's going on? Tell us what happened. Is this a misunderstanding? Just apologize if this was a mistake, but if this is Annie's fault… You don't need to worry. I'll make her apologize to you."

Candice's eyes filled with tears, but before she could say anything, I interrupted her with a cold laugh by saying to their superior, "Sir, I have no idea how your department trains doctors. Are they allowed to make jokes like this by publicly announcing their patient has some sort of disease? If this has been approved by your department or by Russell, I don't think I want to marry a man who disrespects me."

With that, I flung my bouquet to the ground and turned to leave.

"Annie!" Russell quickly caught up to me and grabbed my hand, looking anxious. "I had no idea she would play such a joke on you. She… She's just being mischievous and doesn't know when to hold back. I apologize on her behalf, but you can't just say something so irresponsible without thinking and walk away from this wedding! You know that two department superiors are here today to congratulate us, and if you decide to make a fuss at a moment like this, it would…"

I sneered inwardly. Russell was the youngest captain in his department, and if things worked out for him this year, he would get a promotion. Being happily married and acting loving to his wife would help him with the promotion, and even if Candice was the woman he truly loved, he would never allow her to destroy his image in front of his superiors.

Back in my past life, I loved Russell and could not bear to see him in this dilemma, which was why I tolerated Candice's behavior, but all it left for me in this life was hate. I no longer felt guilty about using his weakness to take revenge for my past life.

I turned coldly to Russell and said, "Fine. I'll continue with the wedding, but I need to see how sincere you are about it." I looked straight at Candice and sounded upset while I spoke, "Weddings are supposed to be a happy occasion, but she claimed that I contracted dirty diseases on my happy day. That's the same as wishing someone else bad luck. Even my enemy wouldn't do something horrible like this.

"What Candice Channing did crossed the line!" I touched my burning cheek where my mother-in-law had slapped me, and tears fell from my eyes. "Your mother misunderstood me because of her and got angry with me. Shouldn't you do something seeing that she almost destroyed our wedding?"

The relatives started speaking up for me, and when my mother-in-law saw how swollen my cheek was from the slap, she started feeling guilty and took my side. "Annie's right. That Candice Channing girl shouldn't have said those things and caused this misunderstanding! She has to take responsibility for this!"

That was when Russell realized that my cheek had swollen, and a pained look appeared in his eyes, but when he heard my mother-in-law demanding that Candice take responsibility for the situation, the look in his eyes turned to hesitation.

I looked past him and at his superior, and several superiors from different departments voiced out right away, "Candice Channing should be demoted and punished with community service for a month!"

This put a smile on my face, and I added, "She should apologize publicly to me as well."

Candice had tears in her eyes when she bowed to me and apologized in front of everyone. She ran away, crying, whilst the guests were chiding her about her actions. Russell looked like he wanted to say something to her as he watched her leave, but did not. Instead, he turned to me. "Candice doesn't know her way around here. I'll go after her to make sure she's okay."

I burst out laughing, but did not stop him. I waited until all the guests were done with the wedding dinner, and I knew it was about the same time in my past life when they ended up in bed. I stood up and pretended to sound surprised, "Where's Russell? Did he have too much to drink? Can everyone help me find him?"

This time, I made sure to lead the superiors toward our new house.

My older sister's favorite thing to do was to have me witness what she did with my fiancé. She wanted me to see them make love in our new house on the new bedsheets I bought specially for our wedding night. I wanted them exposed in front of everyone in this lifetime.

Moaning could be heard coming from the bedroom, and I kicked the door open. However, the only person in the room was Russell, who was lying against the bed, looking back at us stoically. The drugged water that he was supposed to have drunk had spilled all over the ground, and Candice, who was also supposed to be in the room, was nowhere to be found.

My mind went blank.

"If there's nothing else, we should be leaving." The superiors helped close the door behind us when they saw that nothing had happened.

Russell looked at me with the familiar disgusted look he had given me in the past life. "I can't believe you still haven't learned your lesson after coming back, Annie. I told you before that no one can harm Candice and the baby inside her as long as I'm around!"

"I can't believe you came back too." I was shocked, but quickly calmed down. I decided to give up putting on an act in front of him. I looked at him coldly and said, "Since we're all on the same page, let's get divorced."

However, Russell did not agree with me. He frowned instead and stopped me right away. "I won't agree to a divorce."

It sounded so ridiculous to me that I laughed in anger, "Are you crazy, Russell? Aren't you afraid I will bully her? Weren't you the one who said you wanted to make it up to her and her baby? Once we're divorced, you can marry Candice and be with her legitimately! Or could it be…"

A thought came to me, and I laughed. "Are you afraid a divorce will affect your promotion?"

"What are you talking about?"

Russell frowned as he looked at me, and he replied matter-of-factly, "Didn't I explain this to you already? My relationship with Candice isn't what you think. She just wanted to give herself to me to fulfill her dream. I agreed to marry you, and you're the only woman I'll marry. I would never divorce you."

This sounded even more ridiculous to me, and I replied coldly, "I don't need to be married to you, Russell. What makes you think I'm willing to waste the rest of my life in a loveless marriage with you when you killed our baby and me?"

Russell threw me a complicated look and said, "Annie, it's in the past now. I promise… I'll treat you well in this life."

With that, he quickly pulled the door open and locked me inside the room. I had a bad feeling about this, and I ran to the door, smacking it hard. "What are you doing, Russell?! Open the door!"

Russell was heard speaking obscurely through the door, "You know very well that Candice is pregnant right now. Her reputation would be ruined if she had a baby at such a young age. I promised her that we'll adopt the baby once it's born, and treat it like our own… I know you hate Candice. The only way to prevent you from treating the child badly is to… Make sure that you can't get pregnant. If you aren't able to get pregnant, you'll have no choice but to treat this baby well."

His words chilled me to the bone, and I started yelling crazily from behind the door. "Are you mad, Russell?! If you really want to make it up to her, just divorce me! Why must you do something like this to hurt me? Why must I be the victim in your quest for true love?"

Russell replied softly, "You owe this to Candice. You owe her and the baby inside her their lives… I promise you, Annie, that I'll break it off with Candice once and for all after this. I'll treat you well for the rest of your life…"

I screamed as I cursed at him, but nothing I said stopped him from leaving.

The door to my room was kicked open, and several lecherous-looking men entered. My eyes widened when I saw their faces. These men were death convicts Russell had arrested recently for raping and murdering dozens of people!

I instantly understood what Russell had planned for me. Even though I had already given up on him, my heart still felt like it had been torn apart.

Candice stood not far away as she smiled while holding up the keys to my door. My tears fell uncontrollably as I roared at her, "Why can't you just let me off, Candice?! Why must you do this to me?! I'm your sister!"

She looked angry when she replied, "How dare you ask me that question?! Mom and Dad only cared for you! Do you think I had no idea that they sold everything they had just to pay for your wedding? Why do you get everything, while I get nothing? They want you to marry a good man, don't they? Well, then I'm going to make your man leave you! I want you to lose everything just like I did and live your life in misery!"

Candice's words were like a bucket of cold water over me. I could not stop trembling as I looked at her with despair. "How can you say I'm the only one they cared about? Ask yourself, where did you get the money to pay for university? Where did you get the high allowance you enjoyed while living a carefree life in the city?"