He Paid Me To Ignore His Cheating

Celia and Kane met when they had nothing. Their love began on campus. She stood by him faithfully for ten whole years, accompanying him through the hardest, penniless days. She helped him build his business from scratch, sacrificing her own time, energy and opportunities to turn his empty dreams into a thriving empire. They walked hand in hand from youthful schoolyard promises all the way to the wedding altar, and Celia once believed their happy ending was finally within reach. Yet on their wedding night, the cruel truth shattered all her fantasies. Kane confessed he had betrayed her. Instead of apologizing or begging for forgiveness, he put forward a cold bargain: a buyout for their marriage. He would offer her money, on the condition that she turn a blind eye to his infidelity and keep this shameful arrangement hidden. Hurt and stunned, Celia wanted to refuse outright. But her mother was gravely ill, and the medical bills kept piling up relentlessly. There was no other way for her to get the funds her mother desperately needed. Trapped in this desperate dilemma, she swallowed her heartbreak and tears, and reluctantly agreed to his degrading deal. Every day after that became a torment. The man she had devoted a decade to, the man she had helped lift out of poverty, treated their precious marriage as a transaction. Her sincere love was reduced to something that could be priced and purchased. The warm vows they once shared faded away, replaced by cold cash and suffocating silence. She watches him grow richer and more powerful, while she lives with the heavy secret of his betrayal. The girl who once dreamed of a lifetime with him slowly lets go of all her hopes. Their mountain moon, the quiet beautiful future they once longed for together, will never belong to them again. What started as pure young love has crumbled into a deal built on betrayal, and she knows deep down that one day, she will walk away for good, never to meet him under that moon again.