Chapter 106: Calm on the Surface, Churning Underneath
Celine’s POV
I knew him.
We'd never formally met, but I'd seen his photograph in the Ashford family files.
He was Thomas's uncle — and the real power behind the Ashford family. Word had it that even after all these years abroad, plenty of people in the family still took their orders from him.
Wh...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: He Said He'd Be My Eyes
2. Chapter 2: I Want to Leave
3. Chapter 3: Die and Not Rest in Peace
4. Chapter 4: You'll Never Get Anything As Long As I'm Around
5. Chapter 5: We were both doing it for the people we loved.
6. Chapter 6: He Needed Him to Cut Her Loose
7. Chapter 7 — *"I Only Need You"*
8. Chapter 8: Don't Try to Climb Where You Don't Belong
9. Chapter 9: *"You Are Not Worthy"*
10. Chapter 10: Why Did My Hand Know Where to Find It?
11. Chapter 11: I'll Never Let Go Again
12. Chapter 12: No One Can Fold Your Wings*
13. Chapter 13: She's Nobody's Wife
14. Chapter 14: Mr. Sterling
15. Chapter 15: You're Looking for Trouble
16. Chapter 16: I'm Yours, Celine
17. Chapter 17: He Bought the Whole Company for Her
18. Chapter 18: *I Am Her Background*
19. Chapter 19: This World Has No One Who Can Bully My Wife
20. Chapter 20: *"Put Yourself in My Hands"*
21. Chapter 21: She Is the Best Woman in the World
22. Chapter 22: *You Are My Wife*
23. Chapter 23: Trash Like You Isn't Fit to Shine His Shoes
24. Chapter 24: *Too Deep Into the Dark*
25. Chapter 25: *I'll Make You Pay*
26. Chapter 26: Tell me what you saw,
27. Chapter 27 — *You Don't Even Get to Regret It*
28. Chapter 28: *Put Hayes on the Table*
29. Chapter 29: Nothing Worth Your Attention
30. Chapter 30: *"You Know What You're Doing to Me"*
31. Chapter 31: I'll Have You Blacklisted
32. Chapter 32: *They Were Only Just Beginning*
33. Chapter 33: *She Would Never See Light Again*
34. Chapter 34: "You Were Always My Wife"
35. Chapter 35: *"I Already Feel Like I'm Going Mad"*
36. Chapter 36: *"The Locked Room"*
37. Chapter 37: He Did It For Me
38. Chapter 38: The White Moonlight Returns
39. Chapter 39: Pushing Him Away
40. Chapter 40: Don't Leave
41. Chapter 41: "You Were Thinking What, Exactly?"
42. Chapter 42: I'll Never Be Your Trophy Again
43. Chapter 43: The Plagiarist Takes the Stage
44. Chapter 44: A Farce of Their Own Making — Mine to End
45. Chapter 45: Sight Restored, Truth Exposed
46. Chapter 46: She Is My Wife — No One Touches Her
47. Chapter 47: How Did I Ever Fall for William?
48. Chapter 48: I Remembered a Boy
49. Chapter 49: What Have I Forgotten?
50. Chapter 50: The Man Who Proposed Was Adrian
51. Chapter 51: You Want Me to Relive It All — As Her Stand-In?
52. Chapter 52: Winning My Wife Back Again
53. Chapter 53: Adrian Left to Pick Up His First Love
54. Chapter 54: Running Away
55. Chapter 55: My Own White Moonlight
56. Chapter 56: Everyone in My Memories Is Him
57. Chapter 57: I Watched Over Her All Night
58. Chapter 58: She Wanted to Destroy Me, but She Crashed First
59. Chapter 59: A Late-Night Abduction
60. Chapter 60: The Fire
61. Chapter 61: I Finally Remembered How Much I Once Loved You
62. Chapter 62 — If You Die, I'll Go With You**
63. Chapter 63: The Love I Lost Has Finally Come Back to Me
64. Chapter 64: That Stranger — Why Does He Feel So Familiar?
65. Chapter 65: Wait — Why Do They Look So Alike?
66. Chapter 66: What Little Sleepiness I Had Left Scattered
67. Chapter 67: Who Gave You the Nerve to Touch Her
68. Chapter 68: A Blade Put Away
69. Chapter 69: She'd Just Soothed Adrian When Her Ex Came Calling
70. Chapter 70: I'm Bringing Her Back
71. Chapter 71: The Truth About That Love
72. Chapter 72: Hide Her Away, and No One Can Take Her From Me
73. Chapter 73: Adrian's Possessiveness
74. Chapter 74: The Person Joseph Is Looking For
75. Chapter 75: Her Idol
76. Chapter 76: The New It-Boy
77. Chapter 77: Showing Him What I'm Made Of
78. Chapter 78: Someone's Watching
79. Chapter 79: A Million Dollars Couldn't Make Her Look Back
80. Chapter 80: Two Men, One Standoff — She Looks Just Like Me?
81. Chapter 81: The Mystery of a Hidden Origin
82. Chapter 82 — *Can We Do It Here?*
83. Chapter 83: Adrian Stands Up for His Wife
84. Chapter 84: The Gift Snatched Away
85. Chapter 85: The Black Card Comes Out, and the Room Goes Quiet
86. Chapter 86: The Uninvited Guests Return
87. Chapter 87: I Admit It. I’m Jealous.
88. Chapter 88: Two Family Heads Face Off Over Her
89. Chapter 89: Even the Brother Who Loved Me Most Was Taken From Me
90. Chapter 90: Someone Swapped My Medicine
91. Chapter 91: Celine's Counterattack
92. Chapter 92: The "Gift" for Thomas
93. Chapter 93 — Punishing My Enemy With My Own Hands
94. Chapter 94: To Save Her Husband, She Played Her Trump Card
95. Chapter 95: My Dead Mother's Keepsakes
96. Chapter 96: You'll Pay for That Threat
97. Chapter 97: My Ex Has the Nerve to Show Up
98. Chapter 98: William's Company Crisis
99. Chapter 99: Be My Wife for the Rest of Our Lives
100. Chapter 100: My Adoptive Mother Comes for Money
101. Chapter 101: Who Was That Child?
102. Chapter 102: The Conspiracy Behind the Crash
103. Chapter 103: The Real Power Behind the Family
104. Chapter 104: She Provoked Me First — What's Wrong With Hitting Back?
105. Chapter 105: Trouble Comes Knocking
106. Chapter 106: Calm on the Surface, Churning Underneath
107. Chapter 107: Husband and Wife, Facing Them Together
108. Chapter 108: More Moving Than Sweet Talk Is Being Someone's Favorite
109. Chapter 109: "Slow — slow down..."
110. Chapter 110: The Things He Did for Me in Secret
111. Chapter 111: They Dared to Go After My Grandmother
112. Chapter 112: Pressured About a Baby
113. Chapter 113: Turns Out Even a Refined Gentleman Can Be This Bad
114. Chapter 114: Don't Beat Him to Death
115. Chapter 115: The Real Big Shot Is Me
116. Chapter 116: A Mysterious Gift
117. Chapter 117: This Wedding Gift — He Absolutely Cannot See It
118. Chapter 118: Let Him Watch Me Wear It
119. Chapter 119: *I Couldn't Get Out of Bed* (R18+)
120. hapter 120: The Fiancée Who Vanished Twenty‑Plus Years Ago
121. Chapter 121: How Could Joseph Have the Other Half?
122. Chapter 122: Enemies on a Narrow Road — and I Ran Right Into Them Again
123. Chapter 123: At the Critical Moment, Two Men Rushed Toward Me at Once
124. Chapter 124 — Everything I Had Changed the Moment She Appeared
125. Chapter 125: My Ex Blocks My Path, Begging Me to Come Back
126. Chapter 126: We're the Same Kind
127. Chapter 127: He Saw Clearly Who He Had Lost
128. Chapter 128: He Hid His Illness; She Quietly Searched for a Way to Save Him
129. Chapter 129: Your Illness Can Get Better Too
130. Chapter 130: I Could Let Her Go, Even If It Drives Me Mad
131. Chapter 131: A Debt Paid in Blood
132. Chapter 132: "Want to Kiss?"
133. Chapter 133: This Kiss Works Better Than Medicine
134. Chapter 134: A Little Farewell Reward**
135. Chapter 135: My Foster Mother Was Going to Sell Me
136. Chapter 136: Her Scheme
137. Chapter 137: To Make Me Barren for Life
138. Chapter 138: The Shadow of a Family's Plot
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