He took his adopted sister’s every word as gospel, and personally condemned his new bride to a living hell.
For three years of endless darkness, she was chained by the neck, tortured day and night in an illegal surrogacy farm — reduced to nothing but a dehumanized breeding machine, stripped of all dignity.
It was not until she breathed her last, covered in blood, on the marble floor of his own grand ballroom, that he finally saw the truth: the "innocent victim" he’d protected for years was the true monster who’d destroyed her.
But his all-consuming regret, rage and madness would never be enough. The girl who’d chosen death over surrender was gone forever.
