Shen Zhi had been married to Lu Jingnian for three years—three years of being Lin Shi's shadow.
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She wore the same ivory white Lin Shi loved, used the same tuberose perfume Lin Shi favored, and even practiced the curve of her smile in the mirror a thousand times. She thought that given enough time, he would finally see her—not just see someone else through her.
Until that night at the banquet, when Lu Jingnian spent two hundred million on a necklace left behind by Lin Shi, then abandoned his seat the moment he received a message, without so much as glancing at her.
Lin Shi was back.
Shen Zhi stared at the face in the mirror—a face painstakingly carved into the likeness of another woman—and suddenly felt the absurdity of it all. She shed that ivory white prison of a dress, slipped into her own red gown, and said to the man who had controlled her for three years:
"Three-year lease is up. Don't you think the tenant should get the hell out?"