The email arrived at dawn.
Li Na found it on the breakfast table, her phone buzzing with message after message from unknown numbers. She frowned, opening the first link and her blood ran cold.
A scanned document glared back at her: the marriage contract she and Yen Rui had signed in that boardroom weeks ago. Clear terms. Signatures. Dates. The very proof that their union was built not on love but on ink.
Her hands shook as she scrolled, horror pressing against her chest. If this leaked to the press, if the board got hold of it, everything they had endured all the fragile threads holding them together would be unravel.
"Where did you get this?" Yen Rui's voice cut through the silence. He stood at the doorway, already dressed for work, his eyes narrowing at the glow of her phone.
"It was sent to me," she whispered, her throat tight. "Someone has the contract."
He strode forward, taking the phone from her hand, scanning the screen with an expression carved from stone. His jaw tightened. "Han Rui Sheng," he muttered. "It has to be him. He's been circling for weeks."
Li Na's chest clenched. "But how? The contract was private between us."
For the first time, doubt flickered in his eyes. Not toward Han Rui Sheng, but toward her.
Her breath caught. "You think I leaked it?"
He didn't answer immediately. The silence was worse than accusation. Finally, he said, "It doesn't matter who did. What matters is control. We bury this before it spreads further."
But the wound was already there. His hesitation had cut deeper than words.
That evening, as he fielded calls and barked orders to his legal team, Li Na sat in the corner of the office, hollow. The betrayal wasn't just the leak, it was the crack of mistrust now standing between them.
When the calls ended, she rose to leave. His voice stopped her.
"Li Na."
She turned, her eyes burning.
"If I thought it was you," he said, his tone low, heavy, "I wouldn't have let you stay under my roof."
She wanted to believe him. She wanted to let that be enough. But the doubt she had seen in his eyes lingered like a shadow.
And for the first time, she wondered if the man she was beginning to trust could also be the one to break her completely.