After Divorce, He Panicked

Emily, under an assumed identity and as the heiress to the oldest family in New England, willingly became a docile full‑time wife for five years to Julian, heir to a New York real estate dynasty. A kidnapping tears apart the façade of their marriage—Vivian, in order to survive, willingly submitted to the kidnapper and became pregnant, and Julian, to protect Vivian's reputation, publicly claimed that the victim was Emily and falsely accused the child in Emily's womb of being the kidnapper's bastard. After enduring the ultimate humiliations—being forced to have her blood drawn to save Vivian, and being pushed down the stairs—Emily's heart dies. At the hospital, she terminates the pregnancy and preserves the fetus as a red specimen. At Vivian's birthday banquet, Emily makes a dramatic appearance, presents a black gift box containing the divorce papers, the abortion consent form, and the specimen, and plays surveillance footage exposing Vivian's scheme: colluding with her lover to stage the kidnapping in an attempt to pass off an illegitimate child to seize the family fortune. With the truth laid bare, Mrs. Sterling cuts all ties with Julian; Julian, consumed by regret, stabs himself three times in a desperate plea for forgiveness, but Emily walks away for good, escorted by her billionaire brother and sister‑in‑law. Back in New England, Emily reclaims her heiress status and boldly fights back against her snobbish aunt and cousin at a restaurant. Julian follows and waits for a hundred days; he even risks his life to push Emily out of the way in a car accident, leaving himself critically injured. On his deathbed, Julian's consciousness travels back to a month earlier, where he resolutely refuses Vivian's coercion and swears to protect Emily to the death. But is this sudden awakening truly a chance to start over, or merely an obsessive illusion from which he will never wake on that hospital bed? Can a door that has been closed for good ever be knocked on again…?