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When I plunged the knife into my adoptive brother's chest, the one who had molested me, I was only eighteen. The public branded me a slut who seduced her own brother. But renowned lawyer Miguel Kane stood firm, relentlessly pursuing justice and defending me without hesitation. When reporters pressed him for comment, he smiled gently, "The law tolerates no evil. No one will ever use family ties to chain her again. She deserves a life of her own." After my acquittal, with no financial support left, I couldn't afford school and ended up dancing in a bar to survive. Once again, Miguel, now a partner at a top-tier law firm, pulled me from the darkness. "Marry me," he said. "Because if you don't, I swear I'll lose my mind." We became inseparable after marriage. He swore he had no secrets from me. Yet one day, I found a thick stack of love letters hidden in his drawer. One hundred and eight letters in total, each one filled with his deep longing for another girl. And the date on the last letter was three days ago. He silently fed every page into the shredder. "It's all in the past. Just an ex." I filed for divorce online and handed him my phone. "I'm tired. Please agree to the divorce." He snatched it and smashed it against the wall. "I'll say this once more. Unless I'm dead, you'll never leave me, not in this lifetime."