Leanne spent five years building Kyle’s cosmetic line. She gave her formulas, savings and endless patience, putting up with his coldness and his mother Sharon’s harsh judgment. Megan soon came into their lives. She bore Kyle’s secret four-year-old son Shawn, and the pair plotted to take Leanne’s fortune and research rights. Full of jealousy, Megan forged fake debts and lied about a stolen necklace to frame Leanne. When Leanne fell pregnant, Megan forced her into toxin-filled labs to harm the baby. When that failed, Megan wrecked their car to kill Leanne and her unborn child. Kyle witnessed the crash yet abandoned her to drown in icy waves. A man named Eli pulled her from the water and introduced her to tycoon Valentino, who believed Leanne was his missing child and backed her revenge. Leanne left her old self behind, took the name Ray Valen, and trained to master business and chemistry. She entered the beauty field as a big investor and drew greedy Kyle into traps. She split Kyle and Megan apart, then revealed their illegal taxes and shoddy supplies at a summit with hard evidence. Cornered, Megan fell severely ill. Kyle went to prison for fraud; Sharon lost everything and lived in sorrow. Dying, Megan confessed all her crimes and asked Ray to look after Shawn. Ray promised the boy a quiet, happy life. Ray rejected Valentino’s generous stock offer and created a brand for hurt women. Free from betrayal’s darkness, she lived only for herself, with loyal Eli as her equal partner
