Everyone is jealous of Scarlett Meyer's perfect marriage because her husband is so in love with her that it's literally carved into his bones.

However, it isn't until the day she finds out she's pregnant that she realizes her husband, Joachim Davidson, has been cheating on her for the past two years.

And the person he's cheating on her with? Katrina Greene, Scarlett's college bully. Katrina even has a pair of twins with Joachim.

Katrina won't stop provoking Scarlett, and Joachim also continues lying to her face to be with Katrina.

To get back at her cheating husband, Scarlett decides to abort her baby and fake her own death.

But just before she leaves for good, she puts the abortion report and proof of Katrina's provocation in an envelope and gifts it to Joachim, telling him that he can only open it a few days later.

"I want you to fake a private jet air crash for me so that I can leave Joachim Davidson."

As soon as Scarlett Meyer made her request, her best friend, Vicky Redfield, was in so much shock that her jaw practically hit the ground. She wondered if she was hearing things.

The reaction was somewhat similar to when she first heard that Scarlett would be marrying Joachim back then.

Scarlett had come from one of the poorer neighborhoods in the mountains, and Joachim came from the richest and most affluent family in Zittoria. Their circles were worlds apart, and nobody would have ever thought that they would end up together.

People had discussed it among themselves back then. Some of them figured that Joachim was just dating Scarlett for the novelty of it, while some others guessed that Joachim had a secret first love whom he wasn't allowed to be with, and Scarlett was just a stand-in for her.

Even more absurdly, some others thought that Joachim only married Scarlett because of a bet.

However, for the next three years after their marriage, Joachim proved to the world with his actions that he had no ulterior motives for marrying Scarlett, other than the fact that he loved her very much.

In fact, he was so deeply and hopelessly in love with her.

It was love at first sight for him. He hadn't stopped aggressively pursuing Scarlett ever since.

He kept showering her with gifts and presents of all sorts. Besides that, he also donated to multiple charities, in the sum of tens of billions of dollars, under Scarlett's name. He even built schools for the poor and needy all over the world and named them all, "Scarlet Jr. High."

He hoped that everyone in the world would know of Scarlet and be grateful toward her. So, in the event that she got into trouble in any part of the world, the people there would be more than willing to lend her a helping hand.

Joachim also did all he could to be able to spend more time with her. He worked at the same part-time job as she did, such as waiting tables, distributing flyers, and even sorting parcels at the post office.

He had never worked a day in his life at home, not even washing his own clothes, and yet, he had managed to work with Scarlett at all of her odd-jobs for two whole years.

His fingers, which used to allow him to play beautiful melodies on the violin, were now covered in thick calluses.

His sincerity in pursuing her finally touched Scarlett, convincing her to give their relationship a chance. However, since they came from vastly different family backgrounds, his family refused to acknowledge their relationship at all.

Joachim tried his best to get his parents' approval. He went through all of his family's punishments, some of them even involving physical punishments where he got badly injured and still had the scars to show on his back till now.

However, after realizing that even that wasn't enough to change his parents' minds about Scarlett, he forwent his right to his inheritance and decided to start his own business from scratch. This way, nobody would be able to have a say in his married life, and he could marry whoever he wanted.

His elite friends all thought that Joachim had gone out of his mind. He was normally a very bright and intelligent person, and yet, he had given up his generational wealth just to be with a woman he liked.

Joachim's parents had no other choice but to agree to his and Scarlett's marriage after that.

After their wedding, Joachim immediately got rid of every female employee in close proximity to him and replaced them with male employees.

Even if Scarlett never asked him to do it, he would still report his daily schedule to her in detail. He even installed a GPS tracker on himself so that she would always know where he was and could check in on him whenever she wanted.

The netizens branded their relationship dynamic as the epitome of romanticism, and Joachim was the ambassador of it all.

Within no time at all, suddenly everyone online was rooting for his and Scarlett's relationship. They were shipped together so hard that their mundane news even accidentally overshadowed some celebrity gossip.

However, nobody else but Scarlett knew that this seemingly perfect man and perfect husband was cheating on her. He even had twins with another woman, forming another family altogether behind her back.

When Scarlett first found out about this, her heart had hurt so much that she fainted from the pain.

When Joachim heard about this, he immediately postponed his overseas business meeting that could have brought in billions of dollars and hurried back home. He then cared for her at the hospital for two days without leaving her side.

When Scarlett woke up, Joachim stayed next to her bed with a worried expression on his face. He was holding the tube feeding into her IV drip, trying to warm up the liquid before it went into her bloodstream.

"You're finally awake? You gave me such a fright!" Joachim said, holding her hand close to his face. His eyes were shimmering with tears.

He never blinked an eye when he'd been threatened and held at gunpoint when he was in business. Yet, the moment he heard that Scarlett had passed out, his legs had turned to jelly.

Scarlett felt like her heart was being shredded when she saw the worry and anxiety in Joachim's eyes.

The love-struck eyes couldn't be faked. Joachim truly loved her. But somehow, she couldn't help wondering if this man, who truly loved her so deeply, also looked at Katrina Greene with the same lovestruck eyes and told her the same romantic pick-up lines too.

Katrina, the person he was cheating on her with, was his childhood friend.

When word spread at college that Joachim was pursuing Scarlett, Katrina had led a gang of people to bully Scarlett on campus. They even went to Scarlett's part-time jobs to cause trouble for her and humiliate her on purpose, getting her fired from many of them.

Katrina had even managed to get actual gang members to humiliate and degrade Scarlett, but Joachim had crashed the scene unintentionally when he was simply planning to confess his feelings for Scarlett.

Joachim hadn't held back then. He made sure that the Greenes went bankrupt right after that. Had his mother, Amanda Finch, not intervened, Joachim would have probably also ended Katrina's life then and there with his own bare hands.

So, if Scarlett hadn't personally seen the names on the DNA tests themselves, she would never have believed that Joachim had cheated on her, and that his bastard children were already well over 12 months old.

Scarlett just closed her eyes and turned her head to the side. Her tears fell onto her pillow and made a wet stain.

Joachim didn't see her tears and thought that she was simply exhausted. "Scarlett, the doctor just did a check-up on you, and they found out that you're two months pregnant. We're going to have our own baby!"

He was always the cold and aloof person to everyone else, but now, Joachim was so happy he looked like a child who'd just been given a lollipop. "It's going to be our wedding anniversary in days, and we also just found out that you're pregnant! This calls for a double celebration!"

Scarlett immediately opened her eyes.

When she was young, her father, Doug Campbell, once nearly drowned her in the lake, which eventually led to the doctors telling her that she would probably never be able to bear children for the rest of her life.

It was also because of this issue that Joachim's parents were immensely dissatisfied with her.

Scarlett put up with them because they were her in-laws. However, Joachim hated to see her sad and refused to let his family hurt her. So, he said coldly, "Scarlett is my beloved wife, and I'm forever thankful and consider myself lucky that she's willing to be with me.

"But, if both of you continue treating her badly just because she can't give you grandchildren, then I'm going to denounce my relationship with you both. You'll no longer be my parents, and I'll no longer be your son. I'll sever ties with you all!"

Scarlett gently stroked her belly and couldn't hold it in anymore. She began sobbing out loud. Why did the baby have to come at such a time?

Joachim pulled her into his arms and comforted her gently. "Aww, Lettie, why are you crying? Who did this to you? I'll make sure you get revenge!"

However, Scarlett picked up a faint scent of a foreign perfume smell on him, mixed slightly with the smell of baby formula.

She immediately pushed him away and turned to the side to throw up.

Joachim thought that Scarlett was suffering from morning sickness. He instinctively put his hands together and formed a makeshift bowl with them, catching her vomit, not worrying at all that he would get dirty from it.

He just kept glancing worriedly at her. Of course, he was happy that Scarlett was pregnant, but he had been with Katrina throughout her pregnancy too, and he knew how hard it was for a woman to go through pregnancy, childbirth, and the side effects of postpartum afterward.

Scarlett stared at Joachim in shock. She knew that he was a severe clean freak, and yet, he was willing to do so much for her. In fact, Joachim always delicately hand-washed every single item of clothing that she wore.

Joachim had showered her with all of his love for three years after they got married, and so had Scarlett. She couldn't bear to leave him anymore.

At that moment, Scarlett had a fleeting thought—if Joachim was willing to sever ties with Katrina, then she didn't mind going back to how they used to be.

However, a split second later, Joachim got a text message on his phone. After reading it, he got up in a haste and left, citing that there was something urgent at the office.

Half an hour later, Scarlett received a photo from Katrina. The photo showed Joachim lovingly kissing the twins on their foreheads.

That photo completely shattered all of Scarlett's hopeful imaginings.

After getting discharged from the hospital, Scarlett went straight to Vicky and asked her to fake the private jet air crash for her.

Scarlett knew Joachim like the back of her hand. He would never agree to a divorce. He would also never agree to let her go. He would just go berserk like a lunatic.

After getting back from Vicky's, Scarlett then made an appointment at a hospital on the outskirts to get an abortion.

There were too many influential people in the Davidson family, who had contacts everywhere. If she had made an abortion appointment in Zittoria, Joachim would have already learned of it before she was even wheeled into the operating room.

Just before entering the operating room, Katrina sent her a video again on her phone.

The video was two and a half hours long. In the video, Katrina was dressed in skimpy lingerie, Joachim was dressed in his impeccable formal suit, and there were plenty of toys and lube on the table nearby.

They did it repeatedly, in the kitchen, on the desk, and even in the hallway, making sure that every corner of the room did not go unbaptized with their filth.

Scarlett had never seen Joachim act the way he did in the video. He was wild and borderline deranged as he did it with Katrina.

Every scene in the video only made Scarlett's heart shatter over and over again. However, she couldn't stop herself from watching every minute of the torture, like she was some sort of masochist.

"Miss, it's time for your operation now. But are you sure that you're in the right state for it?" the doctor asked with concern.

It was only then that Scarlett realized she was crying and shaking all over. Her face was completely wet with tears.

She wasn't crying just out of sadness. It was also because she realized that she couldn't love Joachim any less, even though he was cheating on her. She just couldn't get rid of her love for him.

He was a living, breathing human, after all—not just a garment of clothing that could be thrown aside just because she didn't like it anymore. And ridding Joachim from her heart was akin to cutting her chest open and tearing out her heart before ripping it to shreds.

Scarlett wiped her tears away with the back of her hand and decided to give Joachim one last chance.

She called him on his phone. "Where are you now? I miss you. Can you please come home?"

Joachim's voice was tight, as if he was desperately holding something back. "Lettie, I'm working on something important at the office. Tonight—ah!"

He let out a low moan. Then, he suddenly started talking a whole lot faster. "I'm not coming back tonight!"

After that, he hung up on her.

Scarlett was stunned as tears began gushing from her eyes. Joachim had never, ever hung up on her first. This was the first time it's ever happened to her.

A few minutes later, she closed her eyes and took a huge breath. "I'm fine, Doctor. Let's get on with the operation."

Late that night, Scarlett dragged her exhausted body all the way back home. Just then, Vicky sent her a message. "Lettie, everything's set. We'll proceed in two days' time."

Scarlett plopped onto the bed. For the entirety of the night, she would fall into a fitful sleep, wake up in tears, and then fall back into another fitful sleep again.

Sometime after midnight, she sat up and hugged her knees close to her chest and stayed in that position until dawn.

The next morning, Joachim finally came home.

He took off his coat and waited for the cold to dissipate before walking over to Scarlett and hugging her. He then turned on his iPad and pointed at the map of an island.

"Lettie, look! I just bought this island. It's a gift for our baby. Also, I've already started work on building a theme park in every state in the country, and they will be named after our child.

"Once the baby is born, I'll throw a massive party over 100 days so that everybody in the country can celebrate together!"

It wasn't until he finished talking excitedly that he realized Scarlett had not said a single word to him since he stepped foot into the house.

Suddenly, he heard her sobbing quietly.

He quickly went over to Scarlett and realized that her entire face was covered in tears.

"What's the matter?"

Joachim had never seen Scarlett crying like this. He panicked so hard that even his voice sounded shaky.

If Scarlett got upset, it would make Joachim feel a hundred times worse. Every emotion Scarlett felt would be magnified in his heart. And now, as he watched the huge teardrops stream down her face, Joachim's heart hurt so much. He felt as if his heart was being pulled in all directions.

"I'm fine," Scarlett said, avoiding his hand. "We're like this when we're pregnant. We'll just randomly feel like crying."

"Really?"

Joachim's shoulders relaxed. "I'll stay at home with you all day today, alright? What do you feel like eating? I'll go and make it."

"Don't bother. I'm going to a class reunion luncheon later. Then I'm going to visit my old lecturers. Just go ahead with your own plans for the day."

Scarlett then got up. She probably wouldn't be returning to the country after leaving this time. She would just see them for the last time and take it as her final goodbye.

Joachim didn't like the idea of her going out alone and insisted on tagging along.

When they entered the private dining room together, there was a soft bout of laughter from the people already inside.

"I told you that Joachim would come if Scarlett came. He's so afraid to lose her."

Joachim just smiled and went along with their endless teasing. Then, he gave out gifts to everyone present.

The people were shocked. "Oh, my god! This is the latest jewelry set from Greenwell Luxe, and it costs seven figures! You're always so generous with your gifts, Mr. Davidson. And we're so lucky all because of Scarlett!"

Scarlett used to have plenty of friends in college, and everyone present was good friends with her. Of course, Joachim didn't spare a cent, spoiling them and getting on their good side. The main reason was that seeing them happy made Scarlett happy, and that was all that mattered.

Everyone was secretly sighing about what a powerful force love could be, turning such a cold and aloof person like Joachim into a warm, smiling ray of sunshine everywhere he went.

"I'm so envious of you, Scarlett! Your hubby obviously loves you so much!"

Scarlett didn't smile happily like she used to when they said the same thing to her in the past. Instead, she just smiled very perfunctorily.

Just as everyone was enjoying themselves, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Katrina Greene appeared at the door, dressed head-to-toe in sparkling jewelry.

"Why didn't anyone tell me about this class reunion? Aren't we all from the same class?"

The air gradually turned thick with tension when Katrina showed herself.

However, she didn't seem to notice the shift in the mood and strutted over to sit down right in front of Scarlett. She grinned with her eyes as she scanned the room full of people still holding the gift Joachim gave them in their hands.

"Greenwell Luxe? That's a really famous brand. But it seems like nobody knows that I'm the one who founded this brand."

She founded it?

Everyone couldn't believe their ears. Katrina's family had been mercilessly bankrupted by Joachim years ago, and they couldn't even live normal lives in whichever country they wanted anymore. How was it possible that she would end up being the founder of this luxury brand?

"It's true that my family went through some tribulations, but I met my hubby after that, and two years ago, he invested tens of billions in me and used every connection he knew to build me one company after another.

"Oh, and this isn't the only brand, by the way. I've got 26 brands under my belt, all thanks to him."

While speaking, Katrina's gaze seemingly flitted over Joachim before she smirked at Scarlett with a challenging grin.

Scarlett couldn't breathe.

She recalled a time frame about two years ago when Joachim had been particularly busy. He had told her that his company was expanding overseas, which explained his extremely busy schedule.

As it turned out, he had simply been busy building companies for Katrina.

Scarlett felt a sharp pain in her heart that slowly bled into the rest of her chest. She couldn't help but press a hand to her heart.

"What's wrong, Lettie? Feeling uncomfortable anywhere?" Joachim asked, immediately getting up anxiously. "I'll get the doctor."

Katrina grinned coldly. "Why, Scarlett Meyer, can't you see how preciously Mr. Davidson is treating you? So, why do you still look like a zombie?"

The words had just left her mouth when Joachim's expression suddenly turned dark. He slapped her squarely in the cheek.

"If you don't shut your mouth and leave, I'll make sure you never, ever speak again!"

Katrina held a hand to her swollen cheek and huffed before leaving the private room in great dissatisfaction.

The tension lifted as soon as Katrina was gone. However, Scarlett's face was still as pale as a sheet.

Joachim held her hand worriedly. "Lettie, where does it hurt? The doctor's on his way."

Scarlett pushed him away. "I'm fine. I just want to use the toilet. Don't come with me."

As soon as she stepped out into the hallway, Katrina immediately blocked her way. She chuckled coldly again and said, "Do you really think you're still important to Joachim even though he hit me for you?

"Don't forget that I am the mother of his children. His heart is already drifting toward me. Wanna bet that he'd leave you and come to me the instant I tell him his kids are having a fever?"

When Scarlett finally went back to the private room, Joachim was looking particularly anxious. He went over to her and kissed her on the forehead.

"Lettie, something urgent came up at the company, and I need to go over there at once. I've already informed the manager here to put everything on my tab, though, so you can continue enjoying tonight with the rest of your friends."

Scarlett tugged on Joachim's sleeve tightly and said, "Didn't you say that you'd stay with me tonight? Can't you stay? Please?"

Joachim looked at the calm yet pleading look in her eyes and suddenly felt immensely flustered. He had a feeling that if he were to leave today, he would be losing something very important to him.

But Katrina had told him that his kids were sick. They were his flesh and blood. He had to go and see them.

In the end, Joachim carefully pried off Scarlett's fingers, one by one, and said, "Lettie, I promise that I'll come home tonight to be with you, alright?"

Scarlett inhaled deeply. As it turned out, Joachim's heart was really shifting away from her.

Half an hour later, Katrina sent her a video.

Scarlett knew what the video would be showing, and yet, she still tapped on the play button with shaky fingers.

Katrina was sobbing in the video, looking small and pitiful. "I can't live without being with you all the time. I only went to the classmate reunion because I missed you so much, but then you were being all lovey-dovey with Scarlett, and it made me so jealous!

"I only said those words because of how jealous I was. And then you hit me because of that!"

Joachim chuckled softly. It was obvious that he was enjoying this.

He then applied some salve to Katrina's cheek and said, "Alright, alright. If you keep crying, your mascara's going to melt all over your face. Just tell me anything you want, and I'll give it to you to make it up to you."

"Well… The kids are having their birthdays soon. I want that island you just bought as their birthday present."

Joachim frowned. "No way. That's something I'm planning to give Scarlett and her baby."

"Please, Joe?" Katrina pleaded. "Our babies and I really want that island. And you promised me anything I wanted!"

This time, Joachim finally agreed.

Katrina then glanced at the camera and grinned victoriously to provoke Scarlett.

She even sent a voice message afterward. "See? Even if he promised you something, he'll still give it to me as long as I ask him for it. You've already lost to me."

Scarlett gripped her phone and slid to the ground in a daze.

She recalled the past, when she got hurt during one of her part-time jobs. Joachim had helped her apply salve to her skin just like that too.

So, whatever Joachim did with her wasn't just exclusive to them. He'd do them with other women too.

At that moment, Scarlett suddenly felt thoroughly exhausted.

However, she believed that everything would get better once she left Joachim.

She was finally leaving him tomorrow.