The 30-Day Divorce Countdown_ Escaping the Obsessive CEO

Olivia had been married to Liam, a Boston tycoon, for eight years. To conceive a child of their love, she endured years of torment from ovulation injection needles — yet on the night of their eighth wedding anniversary, Liam again abandoned his wife without hesitation after one phone call from Sarah, the "widow of his late friend," rushing to the hospital to take care of Sarah's son Noah. The next day, disheartened, Olivia accidentally discovered a medical record at home — it turned out Liam had secretly undergone a vasectomy long ago. Eight years of trying to conceive and hoping instantly became an utter joke, and with her faith shattered, Olivia decisively slapped down the divorce papers. Faced with his resolute wife, Liam — used to controlling everything — not only refused to sign but arrogantly dismissed it as his wife's unreasonable tantrum. At the same time, Olivia's natal family (the Taylors) dealt her a fatal blow as well. Sarah, the adopted daughter, used her mother's "life-saving favor" of dying to save Olivia long ago as a means of perpetual moral blackmail, even manipulating the Taylor couple into secretly transferring family shares to her. Faced with a biological father who was so biased he even raised a horsewhip against her, and the fake-innocent "white lotus" Sarah playing the victim on the sidelines, Olivia severed her family ties completely, determined to return to the workforce with her expertise in ancient architecture appraisal and methodically plan her divorce. To force Liam to sign, Olivia stopped at nothing — she even hired professional socialites at high pay to seduce her husband, trying to establish his status as the at-fault party. Liam's grandfather James, who despised Olivia, secretly reached a deal with her: Olivia slipped drugs into Liam's soup and forcibly put Sarah into his bed. But under the extreme temptation of the drug taking effect, Liam — who deeply loved his wife — stabbed himself twice with a short knife to stay conscious through self-harm, and thereby saw through Sarah's greedy schemes completely. Hospitalized with serious injuries, Liam finally realized how much his boundless "brotherly loyalty" had hurt his wife. To salvage the marriage he was destined to lose, he frantically cleared every obstacle: forcibly sending his troublemaking grandfather James to Switzerland, permanently banishing the scheming Sarah from Boston, and even ruthlessly suppressing the Taylor Group to make his biased in-laws reap what they sowed and lose everything. However, belated affection is cheaper than grass. Despite clearing away everything — even cruelly crushing Julian, Olivia's college classmate who tried to pursue her — Olivia remained unmoved. When the thirty-day divorce cooling-off period ended, the two officially received their divorce certificate at the city hall. Just as Olivia walked out of the city hall feeling utterly relieved, Sarah — who had lost all protection and gone completely mad — lurked on the lawn in a mask and charged at Olivia with a knife. At the critical moment of life and death, Liam, who had been following all along, rushed forward without hesitation and took the fatal stab with his own body. Sarah was finally subdued, while Liam, gravely wounded and collapsing in a pool of blood, humbly clutched Olivia's hand, begging her to give him a chance to start over. Fully clear-headed now, Olivia's eyes held no more ripples. She coldly pushed away her ex-husband's hand and dialed 911. She had finally severed this marriage full of deception and moral blackmail — and walked toward her own empowered heroine life without looking back.