CHASING YESTERDAY'S WIFE
For five years, Emma Chen has been the perfect wife to a man who looks through her like glass.
She married Adrian Hartwell after one reckless night resulted in a pregnancy scare that turned out to be a false alarm. But by then, the vows were said, the papers signed, and Emma was trapped in a beautiful prison called marriage—loving a man whose heart belonged to someone else.
Her sister. The golden child. The woman Adrian couldn't have because she left for Paris to chase her dreams, leaving him broken and Emma to pick up the pieces.
Emma learned to live with the crumbs: the separate bedrooms, the mechanical "good mornings," the way Adrian's eyes would glaze over when she spoke, as if waiting for the conversation to end. She tells herself it's enough. That maybe, someday, he'll see her.
Then Vivian Chen returns from Paris, radiant and newly divorced, and Adrian's cold facade cracks for the first time in five years—with warmth that was never meant for Emma.
That night, Emma makes the hardest decision of her life. She packs five years of memories into three suitcases, calls the best divorce attorney in the city, and leaves the divorce papers on Adrian's office desk with one sentence: "I'm setting you free."
She expects relief. Maybe anger. What she doesn't expect is Adrian Hartwell—the man who barely acknowledged her existence—to show up at her new apartment at midnight, papers torn in half, eyes wild with something that looks terrifyingly like panic.
"You don't get to leave," he says, and Emma realizes with dawning horror that the game has changed.
Because Adrian Hartwell has finally woken up. And he's not letting her go without a fight—even if he has to tear down every wall she's built to protect her shattered heart.
