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In the fifth year of my marriage to Corey, rumors spread about a girl he was secretly seeing at a hotel, and everyone found out. To avoid being labeled as "the other woman," Corey presented me with divorce papers. He said, "Aura's father once helped me, and on his deathbed, he asked me to take care of Aura. Now that this has come out, I can't just leave her to deal with it alone." Over the years, Aura was always Corey's priority. In a previous life, when I heard those words, I was shattered and refused to divorce. I ended up with severe depression, and because Aura once casually remarked, "She doesn't look sick to me," Corey thought I was pretending, believing I was playing hard to get. He ensnared me in a scandal and filed for divorce. It was then I realized I could never compete with a debt of gratitude. In my desperation, I attempted suicide. But now, as I opened my eyes again, I signed the divorce papers without a second thought. "After this all settles down, why don't we get back together, Nadia?" Corey asked as I sat on a stone bench in the manor’s garden, my mind drifting. Three hours earlier, the tabloids had revealed Aura as