Then one day, a wealthy landowner in his forties showed up at her door, dressed in a fine suit and driving an expensive car. He walked up to the tired young woman and calmly offered to fix everything. He said he’d pay off her family’s debts and get her father released. Then he dropped the real reason for his visit: he claimed he was dying, with only a year left to live, and if she married him and gave him a son, her family would never suffer again.
Moved by pity for the “dying” man, she agreed to the strange deal to save her parents. They married quietly, but everything changed on their wedding night. Unable to sleep in the unfamiliar, cold house, she got up after her husband fell asleep and wandered the hallway — where she noticed light spilling from his half-open study door.
Curious, she stepped inside and saw papers laid out on his desk. Leaning in, she spotted a clinic’s official seal on a recent medical report — one that said he was in perfect health. Next to it sat a legal contract from a lawyer. Reading further, she realized the truth: a wealthy relative had left him a huge inheritance, but only if he had a child within a year. If she didn’t get pregnant in time, the marriage would be annulled and she’d be left with nothing.
Stunned, she understood he’d faked his illness to manipulate a desperate, grieving family. The next morning, horrified by his deceit, she ran from the mansion to escape the trap he’d built for her.