Chapter 1The Reborn Ex-Wife's Revenge
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When I was three months pregnant, my CEO husband, Julian Reed, suddenly handed me a divorce agreement.
He wanted to divorce me to marry his "white moonlight" (first love), Sophia Turner, because Sophia was pregnant.
He didn't want Sophia to bear the stigma of having a child out of wedlock, nor did he want her child to be illegitimate, so he wronged me, his legal wife.
In my past life, I refused to divorce even unto death. Julian and I fought and argued, and I even threatened suicide.
In the end, both my unborn child and I lost our lives.
Reliving my life, this won't happen again. I signed the divorce agreement without any hesitation.
That very night, I went to the hospital and terminated the pregnancy.
Later, after Julian finally appeased Sophia, he came to ask me for remarriage.
He knocked on my door carrying bags of baby products.
Looking at my flat abdomen, Julian's pupils shrank: "Where is our child?"
I looked at him and smiled: "Aborted! The day you divorced me, I aborted it!"
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"Chloe, to prevent Sophia from being criticized, I have to divorce you and marry her. Don't worry, after she gives birth, I will divorce her and remarry you."
When Julian Reed handed me the signed divorce agreement, I had just been reborn.
Looking at this familiar yet strange face, listening to his shameless words, physical and psychological repulsion made me slap Julian's hand away.
The divorce agreement fell to the ground. Julian glared at me with a dark face.
Beside him, Sophia Turner's eyes were filled with tears, "Sister Chloe, it's all my fault. For the sake of the child in my belly not being called a bastard, I beg you! I'll kneel for you!"
She pretended to kneel, naturally impossible to actually kneel down. Julian hugged her distressedly.
He hugged another woman tightly in front of me, his pregnant wife, looking at me with deep disappointment:
"Why are you so unreasonable? I said it's just a fake divorce, doing this is only to help Sophia. Sophia saved me back then, I can't leave her in the lurch! Why can't you understand me?"
Looking at Julian's disappointed gaze, I remembered my experience in the previous life.
In my previous life, I loved Julian so much and was just pregnant, how could I agree to such an absurd thing.
I firmly refused to divorce, crying and making a scene. Julian was extremely disappointed in me.
If I didn't sign the divorce, Julian couldn't marry Sophia, and couldn't let Sophia give birth legitimately.
Worried that Sophia would be cyberbullied and lose her reputation, Julian used extraordinary means on me.
He personally set a trap to make me look like a woman who cheated in marriage and was promiscuous and shameless.
Looking at the overwhelming public condemnation against me, I was stunned.
I called Julian wanting him to clarify for me, but Julian blocked me.
Finally, while being chased by paparazzi, the car I was driving suddenly malfunctioned, crashed into the bridge pier of the cross-sea bridge, and rushed into the sea.
Before dying, the cold and salty seawater kept pouring into my nose and mouth.
That despair and pain made me shudder. Across from me, Julian, holding Sophia, said coldly:
"Chloe Vance, let me tell you, you have to divorce whether you want to or not! I tell you, if you don't listen, I have plenty of means to make you divorce obediently!"
The means he spoke of was to turn me into a slut, an object of everyone's scorn, causing the death of both me and my child.
Having experienced Julian's means, how could I still be obsessed?
I pulled the corner of my mouth: "No need for means, I'll sign! Immediately, right now!"