She let out a shaky breath.
"I thought I'd never see him again. I didn't even know his name."
Yu Sile asked gently, "But… what happened next?"
Mrs. Yu gave a bitter laugh.
"A few weeks later, my father said someone had sent a marriage proposal—from a business family in City S. The name was Yu Lin."
She looked at the ground again, tears falling one after another.
"When I saw him… I thought he was the man who saved me. The face was the same. The voice. The cold, quiet way he stood. I thought it was fate. I believed it was meant to be."
She covered her face for a moment.
"So I agreed to marry him."
Yu Holea felt her heart clench. This was something she never knew.
"After marriage… I waited for love. I thought he would hold me like he did that night. Look at me the same way. But he didn't.
He was always cold… distant. Even when we were together as husband and wife… he only touched me when he was drunk. It felt like… he hated me."
