Elite Sapphire Penthouse, 06:00;
'You do know that if I ever break your heart, it will shatter and burn me a thousand times over, right?'
'How can we last, Mr. Xi, if my very existence in your life becomes a weapon for them to wield against you?'
'As long as I stay, they will keep hurting me, keep torturing me… just to shatter you. And I… I cannot be the reason you suffer.'
'So please… let me go.'
'Sign the divorce papers, my Love.'
Xi Yuan's eyes snapped open, his mind echoing with the torment in her voice—raw, pleading, helpless. Her tear-streaked face burned into his vision, the anguish in her gaze a blade twisting in his chest. Even as he breathed, he could still see her trembling frame, the sheer desperation she had tried to mask behind her fragile defiance.
