Chapter 1The Second Chance He Didn't Deserve

One day, as Lucas drove his Maybach past a traffic light, a driver in the next car suddenly asked him, "Hey, handsome, you're driving a Maybach now. Is the woman beside you still the same one who suffered with you back then?"

Lucas instinctively turned his head. The passenger seat was long devoid of my figure, the woman who had worked hard with him. Instead, a silk scarf belonging to his female secretary lay there.

He finally remembered that because he had been flirting with his new female secretary, I had been giving him the silent treatment for over half a month.

When Lucas returned home, feeling lost, a divorce agreement sat on the table, and a pregnancy test with two lines lay in the trash can.

When he finally found me after much searching, I gave him two choices: "Either you transfer all your assets to my name and give me custody of the child, and I'll give you one last chance.

"Or we divorce right now, split the assets equally, I get an abortion, and we become strangers."

Lucas eventually chose the first option. Because of my hard-to-get game, he gave our marriage a suspended death sentence.

What he didn't know was that I wasn't afraid of divorce. I just didn't want the joint marital assets to go to the mistress cheaply.

Why should one person plant the tree and another enjoy the shade?

Even if we were to divorce, it would be after I squeezed the last drop of value from him...

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When Lucas returned home, feeling uneasy, we had been giving each other the silent treatment for over two weeks. This had never happened before.

He looked everywhere in the house but couldn't find me. The noise woke up the nanny, Mrs. Zhang.

When Mrs. Zhang came out of her room yawning, she was surprised, "Sir, you finally decided to come back!"

Lucas looked at the empty living room, feeling unusually panicked, "Where's my wife? It's so late, why isn't she home?"

Mrs. Zhang sighed and said, "The wife moved to the suburban villa a few days ago. She left this for you, and I found this in the trash can."

As she spoke, she pointed to the divorce agreement on the table and took out the pregnancy test with two lines from the drawer.

Seeing Lucas frowning in confusion, Mrs. Zhang explained, "The wife is pregnant!"

This was our first child in five years of marriage. We had always looked forward to it, but it came at such a bad time.

Lucas looked at the two lines, stunned for a long time before his mood calmed down. He had a child; he was going to be a father?

Huge joy mixed with a trace of confusion swept over him, making him stagger a couple of steps before standing firm.

The next moment, he grabbed the car keys on the table and walked outside.

Mrs. Zhang was confused, "Sir, where are you going so late? Aren't you staying the night?"

Lucas shook his head. His mind was filled with my determination to leave him and the baby in my belly.

He drove fast through the quiet streets late at night, just to find my whereabouts quickly.

But he didn't know that all this was part of my plan...