"You are truly incorrigible!"
Shen Mingjue shook his head coldly and turned to leave.
An Qiuyan hurried forward, grabbing his hand, tears streaming down her face, "Mingjue, are you really so heartless? I admit, I was wrong this time, but can't you give me a chance to reform?"
Shen Mingjue, his back to her, said coldly, "It's easier to change mountains and rivers than a person's nature. Women like you can never truly change. If I forgive you this time, you'll only become worse next time. Offending the Jian family has already severely wounded the Shen Group, and we can't afford another incident. Even if I were willing, Grandpa would never agree. Just give it up!"
With that, he shook off An Qiuyan's hand and strode out.
"No!"
An Qiuyan, like a drowning person grasping at the last straw, quickly embraced Shen Mingjue from behind.
"Get off!"
Shen Mingjue shuddered, throwing off her embrace with disgust, and then shoved her back fiercely with a palm strike.
An Qiuyan cried out with a yelp, her body arching backward as she fell to the ground, her head hitting the rosewood tea table heavily.
Shen Mingjue's eyes were filled with coldness. Without even looking at her, he walked straight out.
However, it was this shove that caused An Qiuyan's head to sustain a severe injury, allowing a soul from her past life to possess her and be reborn.
Due to the severity of the head injury from this collision, An Qiuyan lost most of her original memories, only knowing that Shen Mingjue had pushed her.
"Hiss~ Where am I? How did I get here?"
"I... I've been reborn..."
"Shen Mingjue, you ungrateful wretch, so you were this heartless and faithless even when you were young. How could I have been so blind to fall for a man like you?"
When she regained consciousness, An Qiuyan had become a reborn person. Although her head ached terribly, she clearly remembered the events of her past life.
Everyone said she was blessed to marry Shen Mingjue, to have both a career and love, and to have children, living as happily as a Cinderella from a fairy tale.
Little did they know that Cinderella's life after marrying the prince was far from happy.
Many people often equate marriage with love, believing that if they were passionately in love before marriage, they would surely live happily ever after.
They failed to realize that love and marriage are different.
Admittedly, some people marry for love and live very happily, growing old together with their beloved, but they are a very small minority.
The marital lives of most men and women are filled with mundane chores.
Once the romance and passion of love fade, life returns to ordinary routines of food, firewood, rice, oil, salt, and trivial matters.
In her previous life, An Qiuyan played her schemes skillfully, successfully marrying Shen Mingjue and achieving her desired outcome.
But she didn't know that such happiness, built on pretense, lies, and calculations, was like the emperor's new clothes.
She could deceive for a while, but not for a lifetime. It was bound to be exposed sooner or later.
Moreover, Shen Mingjue was no ordinary man. After swallowing the Jian family's businesses, he became the wealthiest man in the country.
It's said that when men have money, they change. As the richest man in Long Country, women flocking to him were like a raging river.
Although An Qiuyan's methods were formidable, she could eliminate one rival, but not hundreds or thousands of women who came one after another.
Her relationship with Shen Mingjue gradually deteriorated over matters of lust and women.
Shen Mingjue, in turn, saw her true nature through her ruthless elimination of love rivals, becoming increasingly disgusted with her and becoming involved with more young and beautiful women.