The Cold-Blooded Wife Returns, Begging for Mercy

Eight years together. And all it took was one video to shatter everything. My fiancé. My protégée. Tangled together — five days before our wedding. *"If my mother hadn't pressured me, I never would've agreed to marry her."* That was the moment she woke up. Lily. The woman I'd buried for eight years. Former top-ranked assassin on The Zenith Class — the one who single-handedly dismantled an entire criminal council. I wanted to walk away clean. Instead, I got dragged into a web of dirty money, a missing cargo ship worth two hundred million dollars, and a man who had no business knowing my secrets — yet somehow knew all of them. He's shameless. Dangerous. Infuriating. *"Your body doesn't lie, Lily. Part of you wants to go back."* I told myself he meant nothing. With a dying mother-in-law's last wish hanging over me, and enemies closing in from every side, I had one question left to answer — After you see through every lie, every betrayal, every illusion you built your life on... *Who do you finally choose to live for?*