From Weakling to Queen: A Transformation Story1
For five years, I had been humbly begging for his love, day after day.
I offered myself for the bed.
For the past five years, I had been as obedient as a concubine who followed his orders and had been content to be the sweetheart beside Nicholas Vanderbilt. Everyone knew that I loved him as much as my life.
Those who knew about it all showed disdain. "You are just a toy."
Sure enough, as Nicholas's first love came back, she asked me to leave him.
It was time for me to get out.
After all, I had been eating, drinking, and caring for free for five years, and I was tired of it.
And he was just my life-saving tool.
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"Is today the day for a separation meal? Are you planning to make her leave?"
This one sentence, like thunder, drew the attention of everyone present to me.
It seemed that the smile on my face gradually cracked into ice chips.
As everyone knew, the lady of the Harrington Group volunteered to sleep with Nicholas.
Like a lowly slave girl, she had been begging for his love every day for five years.
The contemptuous looks and sarcastic words never stopped.
While I may not care about rumors and gossip, it didn't mean that I could tolerate others trying to sow discord in our relationship in front of Nicholas.
"Who do you want to get out?"
I stood up suddenly, slammed my palm on the table, and glared at the man in front of me fiercely.
All of these people presented here were Nicholas's cronies. They all thought highly of themselves and acted like they were the best in the world.
In order to establish a friendly relationship, I occasionally gave them gifts, one after another, hoping that they wouldn't speak ill of me in front of him so that I could peacefully get through these five years.
Now that they heard that Nicholas's first love was going to return back, all of them changed their expressions as if they were looking forward to a good show.
My face was grim, and my teeth were chattering.
"Host, please stay calm and don't lose your character."
The System in my brain was like a tape recorder, reminding me over and over again.
I ignored it.
Stay calm?
It was ridiculous.
Ever since I was tricked by the System, I had been unable to maintain a stable mood and wanted to explode and kill everyone every day.
"Bella, he's just joking, so don't take it seriously."