Chapter 1

I was drugged at a business party.

The next day, explicit videos of me spread like wildfire through our social circle. The whispers and stares around me were almost unbearable.

My fiancé, Zack, held me gently, "Don't worry, Aria. I'll take care of those videos. I've even found the best hypnotherapist to help you forget all this."

As the hypnosis device was placed on my temples and his low voice guided me into darkness, I thought this was my salvation.

But before I completely lost consciousness, I heard the hypnotherapist's playful laugh:

"Bro, just because she broke your stepmom's bracelet at the engagement party, you let those thugs have their way with her? Are you fucking insane?"

My heart sank. That bracelet was broken because Vanessa deliberately bumped into me!

Then she played the victim, accusing me of looking down on her as a stepmother.

"She intentionally humiliated Vanessa at the party," Zack's voice was ice-cold.

"Vanessa cried all night, saying even her future daughter-in-law looks down on her. I had to teach her a lesson to ease my anger."

So, all this torment I've endured was just because he thought I upset Vanessa?

Leo chuckled lewdly, "Since she's already been played with and now I'm hypnotizing her, why don't I... have some fun too?"

My hair stood on end. In my heart, there was still a pathetically weak hope that Zack would retain some last shred of conscience.

However, he casually uttered two words, as if throwing away trash:

"Whatever."