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The Villainous Wife's Spectacular Comeback

Author: Katie Oettgen

Chapter 1

Word Count: 750 | Released on: Today at 11:12

ed straight through the floorboard

ding, erratic strobe lights pierced her

had taken a crowbar to the inside of her forehead. She instinctively

y smoke of expensive cigars flooded her nasal cavity. Her stomac

mess. Her severe prosopagnosia-face blindness-rendered the features

ed silhouette stood di

something at her. The tone was

a high-pitched ringing in Aria's ears drowned out the wo

synthesized voice echoed

ed. Executing f

ght arm jerk upward, completely out of her control.

d through the

ek. The sharp, cracking sound of flesh hitting

went dead silent in a

low, disbelieving roar. He took a he

ice in her head s

System detaching. Ho

Then, a sudden, hollow emptiness followed. The parasitic entity

bs snapped back to

She barely caught herself, her chest heav

ea what had j

lutched his face. He ground his te

u absolut

rogance. Even without being able to see his fac

IV. The notorious

ed in. Cell phone screens lit up the dim roo

ain, but her throat was compl

a dramatic shriek. The girl threw herself at

ad toward Aria. Her vo

cruel, Aria? He didn'

spiked. It felt like her

unfamiliar memories began

t two years of her life. She had been trapped inside her ow

der. The flashes from the phone cameras

up to shield her eyes. She took

letto caught the th

he hard edge of the marble bar just in time, her nail

ough the noise. "You are going to pay

he ignored the spinning room

s, her shoulders hitting solid chests and el

ounge. The freezing air of

al nightmare wa

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“For two years, Aria was a prisoner in her own body, forced to watch helplessly as a parasitic "System" hijacked her life. The nightmare shattered in a crowded neon club when the System forced her to slap New York's golden boy across the face, before abruptly detaching from her brain. Control slammed back into her limbs, but she was left to face a completely ruined reality. The System had turned her into a malicious, hysterical stalker. It had destroyed her reputation, alienated her best friend, and forced her into a loveless arranged marriage with Julian Carlisle, a ruthless billionaire. When she woke up in the hospital, the tabloids had already branded her a violent psycho. Her powerful mother-in-law threw the glossy tabloid photos at her feet with pure disgust. "If you cannot explain this right now, you will sign divorce papers and get out!" A suffocating wave of injustice and panic gripped Aria's chest. She had lost two whole years to a sick game she never agreed to play, taking the blame for horrific actions she couldn't stop. What exactly was that mechanical voice, and would it ever come back to finish her off? But Aria refused to just roll over and die. Wiping away the heavy makeup of the villainess she never was, she stared at her dangerous husband and made her first move. "I was drugged." With that single calculated lie, she began her counterattack to manipulate the Carlisle family, clear her name, and take her freedom back.”