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Right after I gave birth, my husband, William Goodwin, took our newborn and, with chilling indifference, passed him off to his childless sister-in-law, Charlotte Whitmore. "Charlotte is too frail to have children. You're still young, you'll have more in the future," he said. William remained unmoved by my desperate pleas. I gritted my teeth and endured seven long years, making myself small and insignificant before him, all to complete the system's task. Until one day, the system chimed in with a message: [He's fallen in love with you. Mission complete. Leave or stay?] I chose to leave without a second thought, without even looking back at him. As I faded away, my body growing see-through in his arms, that man who had always been so calm went completely mad, banging his head against the wall, scouring the whole city, desperate to find some way to call my soul back.