Chapter 1

Ten years ago, I saved a drowning boy. He fixed me with an unsettling gaze and declared, "I'm going to marry you."

I laughed it off.

Ten years later, that boy had become an obsessive CEO.

He crashed my wedding with an army of men. They broke my fiancé, shattering his legs before dragging me away.

"I told you I'd marry you," he whispered, his voice a deadly promise. "I am the only man you will ever call husband."

He held my family's lives over my head and forced me into a marriage.

He locked me in a private villa and forbade any contact with men.

He tried everything to make me love him. I never did.

Furious and humiliated, he found a stand-in whose face perfectly mimicked mine.

Drunk on his favor, she invaded my villa with her guards.

"You surgical imitation! How dare you wear my face to seduce my man? I'll destroy you!"

She ripped me, cut out my tongue and ordered her guards to violate me, to break me completely.

By the time the CEO finally arrived, I was already gone.

The substitute presented my corpse to him as a trophy.

"Look, baby! I took care of this surgical freak who was lurking here, trying to tempt you!"