Three years of marriage for Seren was a long period of servitude. As a wife who was considered defective and fragile, she was nothing more than a pawn forced to submit to her mother-in-law's ambitions. Every mysterious pill she swallowed was a chain that bound her to false hopes of an heir.

The humiliation became even more suffocating when Mark, her husband, brought home another woman—a woman carrying life in her womb, something Seren could not provide. Seren was forced to become a servant in her own home.  

“Starting today, Haelyn will live here. You must take care of all her needs until the baby is born!” Mark ordered.

Twelve months have passed, bringing seasonal changes that have steadily eroded what remained of the Valerius Group's former glory. Throughout this year, the deadlines for periodic debt collection have acted like a slow-moving executioner. Every month, Mark was forced to run frantically from place to place, begging for bailout funds from foreign investors and local banks, which one by one were closing their doors to assistance under the influence of the Sterling Group. The Valerius Group was now on the brink of bankruptcy, leaving a pile of asset seizure letters piling up on the desk at headquarters. Mark was no longer the domineering man who used to look up with arrogance; his body had shrunk drastically until his clothes looked loose, his eyes were dull and lifeless, and his entire ego had been stripped bare by the financial torment that had drained his sanity.


Chapter 60 - THE FINAL POINT