The Unwanted Wife Is A Secret Genius

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Hannah Compton sat in the oncologist's office, staring at a crisp medical report that read like a death sentence: stage two stomach cancer. But the real fatal blow came moments later. Her billionaire husband, Branden, texted her a cold excuse about a late meeting, confirming the source of the sweet perfume she had smelled on his collar—her younger, illegitimate half-sister, Bailey. For three years, Hannah had abandoned a brilliant career in AI medical research to be his perfect, invisible wife. Now, as a tumor violently twisted inside her, he was publicly parading her half-sister around and buying her million-dollar sapphires. When Hannah collapsed in agonizing pain on the marble floor of their mansion, Branden didn't call an ambulance. "Stop acting. You're not getting my pity," he sneered, nudging her trembling body with his expensive shoe. Lying there in the cold, the love she once had for him was surgically removed, replaced by a freezing void. She didn't understand how the man she sacrificed everything for could be so utterly heartless, but she knew exposing her deadly illness now would only give them ammunition to destroy her completely. She didn't cry, and she didn't beg. Instead, she swallowed her painkillers, secretly slipped a meticulously drafted divorce agreement into his unread corporate contracts to secure thirty million dollars, and prepared to burn his world to the ground.