The System Admitted Its Mistake—So I Offered Him a Divorce Chapter 03

Married life wasn’t exactly blissful.

Julian caught on fast.

Beneath my sweet, innocent exterior, I was shameless and manipulative.

Nothing between us happened by accident.

I laid the trap myself. That was how despicable I was.

I played Julian completely, right out of his clothes.

He began to hate me.

I helped myself to him in bed again.

Julian put a hand around my throat.

He bit out each word.

“Lily Bennett, what will it take for you to let me go?”

I sighed.

I paid no attention to the trembling hand around my throat.

I gently traced his beautiful brows and the shape of his eyes.

“Baby, dream on. I’m never letting you go.”

“You’ll be my husband for the rest of your life. You’re mine in life, and even death won’t change that.”

I finished speaking.

Julian’s beautiful eyes grew bloodshot.

He bit through his lip in fury.

But his hand never tightened around my throat.

His ingrained sense of decency wouldn’t let him do it.

“Lily, what did I ever do to deserve someone like you?”

He spoke with disgust all over his face.

“I should’ve transferred schools in high school. I should’ve stayed far away from you. Why did I ever have to meet you?”

“Lily, I hate you so much…”

I kept smiling.

I ignored every word.

He might not want me, but being with him still satisfied the craving.

I just held him down and took everything I wanted.

Things changed later.

I figured his System must have come online, too.

He stopped asking why. Instead, every day he saw me, he swore, his face cold.

“Lily, when this is over, I’ll do whatever it takes to get away from you.”

“Lily, we’re nothing alike. It was a mistake for fate to tie us together. I’ll never fall in love with you. Give it up.”

“You know something, Lily? I’ve always treated people kindly. I’ve never hated anyone this much. But I hate you.”

The way I got him was wrong, but I truly liked him.

Hearing that over and over hurt. Of course it did.

But I had a thick skin.

I felt miserable for a while, then talked myself out of it.

I went right back to my shameless life with Julian.

Then the System returned that morning.

[Wrong, wrong, all wrong! You’re a supporting character, not the female lead.]