This is definitely the most dedicated lover she has ever seen, Shea Thorne swears by it.
As the most promising cellist in the country, on her way to represent the nation at the International Cellist Music Conference, she was scrolling through a short video adaptation of a tacky novel when she had a fatal car accident.
Then, she transmigrated into that tacky novel.
Miles Crawford and Ariana Thorne were childhood sweethearts, got married after graduating from university. Ariana became a full-time housewife, and Miles became a famous doctor, renowned across the country. Her mother-in-law also treated Ariana well, resulting in a happy family life.
The only shortcoming was that by the age of thirty-two, Ariana still didn't have any children. Although the hospital found no problem with either of them, they couldn't conceive. Feeling guilty towards her loving husband, Ariana suggested surrogacy to have a baby.
Despite all the hardships encountered in the surrogacy process, everything went smoothly. Her husband told Ariana that the surrogate had some trouble at home and couldn't care for the child alone, so she would stay with them in their home.
The house was a villa that her brother had given her as a wedding gift, with plenty of empty rooms. Out of kindness for the child and pity for the surrogate, Ariana agreed to let her stay at home to take care of the pregnancy.
However, Ariana gradually felt something was amiss, often seeing her husband being very intimate with the surrogate.
Despite her husband's constant denials, the situation remained ambiguous, including but not limited to him sneaking out at night to meet the surrogate after Ariana was asleep, behaving like a couple eagerly expecting a child, all under the guise of caring for the child's growth.
Ariana gradually became marginalized. Even the mother-in-law who always treated her well was utterly attentive to the surrogate, as if they were the real family.
In the end, Ariana accidentally discovered that the woman wasn't a surrogate at all but her husband's girlfriend, and the child she was carrying was the result of her husband's one-night stand.
The whole family knew, leaving Ariana the only one in the dark.
Realizing it was all a scam, she didn't want to leave her husband, so she tried to create an accident to abort the child, but her husband caught her and used her malicious act as an excuse to force her into a divorce.
Before the forced divorce, Ariana found out she was pregnant.
She begged her husband not to divorce her, but he didn't believe she was pregnant. The fake surrogate and true mistress knew about Ariana's pregnancy yet hid the truth and deceived the husband into going to court to get divorced.
Being at fault for harming others, lacking social status and disconnected from society for a long time, Ariana had fewer connections than her husband. The house and the shares given by her brother were later added to her husband's name, so she was judged to leave with nothing.
Ariana suffered a breakdown but couldn't bear to part with the child inside her, forcing herself to give birth, fantasizing that her husband would come back with this child.
However, a few days after giving birth to her daughter, her husband married that woman, holding a grand wedding in the villa's garden, a blow she couldn't bear, leading to complete madness, engaging in self-harm, and eventually sent to a mental hospital by her own brother.
Once her husband knew Ariana was insane, he took their daughter to live with him, and soon the daughter also grew fond of the new stepmother, forgetting her mentally ill mother altogether.
In the end, Ariana had nothing. Her husband and daughter revolved around that woman. In despair, she slit her wrists in the mental hospital.
Her daughter's name was Joyce.
However, in Joyce's eyes, there was only her new mom, the one who played with her and bought her new clothes, completely forgetting that she had a mother who had gone mad.
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If the plot were only like this, Shea Thorne would only feel angry, curse the Social Climber and his entire family, and pity Ariana Thorne for misjudging people and wrongfully giving her heart, but wouldn't personally crown her as the most dedicated lover ever.
But things didn't end so simply; "the most dedicated lover" showed her exceptional ability.
Ariana Thorne is the protagonist, so near the end of her life, she obtained a chance at rebirth through her constant longing.
After rebirth, shouldn't she avoid the previous harm, stay away from the scumbag, and achieve great wealth and happiness?
Yet Ariana chose otherwise; her mind still clouded by love, she became the dedicated lover of the male lead even more intensely from a young age.
Ariana lived with her father, an archaeology professor at a university who often went on fieldwork and was rarely home. Her mother divorced her father when she was young, taking away her brother, leaving young Ariana without care, eating often at the Crawfords' home, their neighbors.
During her adolescence, for some unknown reason, she heard somewhere that she had a marriage contract with Miles Crawford. At sixteen, she inexplicably dropped out of school to learn cooking at home, aiming to be Miles's virtuous wife and good mother.
But she saw him as her childhood sweetheart, while he didn't necessarily see her as his.
Miles, three grades above her, entered university first, attending National Medical University in Kingscrest. Fearful of their relationship fading due to long-distance, Ariana resumed her studies two years later, even going so far as to secretly change her university preference against her father's wishes to attend F University near National Medical University.
In Shea Thorne's view, this was when the gap between them began to widen: Miles became more outstanding, while Ariana declined step by step, clinging more to Miles, reaching a point where she couldn't live without him.
And Miles had long become impatient with her.
Ariana harbored an obsessive love for Miles, having awakened her past life memories before dropping out at sixteen, leading to her inexplicable withdrawal and personality change.
Even though her past life memories proved Miles to be a scumbag, Ariana didn't distance herself from him; instead, she became more passionate towards him.
After graduation, due to Ariana's behavior as a "virtuous wife and devoted mother," she won Mama Crawford's favor. Hence, Mama Crawford supported Miles in marrying Ariana.
Miles and his mother depended on each other since childhood, and unable to withstand her urging, he married Ariana, only to obviously avoid facing her, often immersing himself in lab work, neglecting her completely.
Such a wonderful female lead, transformed from a talented music student into a housewife gradually abandoned by society!
This love-obsessed mind, it's terrifying! Even wild vegetables wouldn't want to be picked!