He Faked Amnesia just to Keep Her

Third Person's POV

At the wedding of Hazel Rhodes and Dominic Blake, chaos erupted when a woman claiming to be Dominic’s lover from a past life stormed in with a group of people.

They wrecked the entire ceremony, and that woman slapped Hazel nine hundred and ninety-nine times across the face.

Then, teary-eyed and feverish with emotion, she turned to Dominic and shouted, “Dominic! You and I are soulmates. I’ll haunt you for life until you come back to me!”

Fury flashed in Dominic’s eyes. In front of everyone, he broke her limbs with his own hands and threw her into the slums, leaving her to be tormented by others.

But the woman didn’t give up. She kept finding ways to interfere in Hazel and Dominic’s marriage.

The first time she tried, Dominic ordered his bodyguards to smash a thousand bottles over her head, causing her to end up in the ICU for six months.

The second time, he made her infamous by spreading her photos all over the internet, then dumped her into the sea and left her to die.

By the tenth time, Dominic finally lost it. He hit the gas and rammed straight into her, only to plunge off a cliff himself with her.

It took seven days and seven nights for Hazel to find him at the bottom of the mountain. Her hands were torn and bloody from scraping against tree bark, but she never cried out in pain.

Fortunately, Dominic survived, but his brain injury was severe.

When he woke up, his memory was scrambled, and he no longer loved Hazel.

Instead, he loved Caroline Summers, the woman who claimed to be his lover from a past life.

From then on, Dominic treated Caroline like a precious jewel. She only needed to say, “Whatever I’ve been through, Hazel has to go through too.”

And Dominic obeyed.

He had Hazel’s tendons cut from her hands and feet, then threw her into a crowd of beggars. He also made her kneel in the freezing snow and smashed a thousand bottles against her.

Despite everything, Hazel never gave up. She tried again and again to bring his memories back, even though each attempt only earned her more pain.

Finally, she discovered a method that might help him remember.

Overwhelmed with hope, she rushed to find him, only to freeze at the door when she overheard Dominic’s conversation with his friends.

“Bro, when are you gonna tell your wife you never actually lost your memory? You’ve been pretending this whole time.”

“Is Caroline really worth it? You’ve been torturing your wife for her. Aren’t you afraid she’ll give up on you completely?”

Through the crack in the door, Hazel saw Dominic exhale a smoke ring, his tone lazy and cold. “She won’t. Hazel loves me so much. She’d never leave.”

“Dude, we all saw how much you used to love her. What made you fall for that lunatic Caroline?”

“Because she’s crazy enough to love me back. Even after everything I did to her, when I was falling off that cliff, she still held onto me just to kiss me. She’s not afraid of dying… only of me not loving her,” he explained.

His words came out calm, almost gentle, but every syllable felt like a knife slicing through Hazel’s heart.

“Hazel could never do that. No matter how much she loves me, she still puts her family first. But Caroline is different, one look from me and she’s completely lost,” he added.

“You’re really risking it, dude. You hurt your wife this much for a woman who came out of nowhere. Careful, you don’t burn yourself alive.”

“I hurt Caroline too many times for Hazel’s sake. This is what Hazel owes her,” he coldly replied.

Outside the door, Hazel trembled uncontrollably, her breath caught in her throat.

She couldn’t believe it. The man who once swore he loved her more than life itself had been lying to her all along just to avenge another woman.

They’d been childhood sweethearts and grew up together.

When Dominic was five, he lost his parents in a car crash right before his eyes. The trauma left him with severe psychological scars that he would often hurt himself and refuse to let anyone near.

The only one who could calm him down was Hazel.

She didn’t care about the danger. She stayed by his side, took care of him, brought him to therapy, and tried every possible way to make him smile again.

Countless nights, when his illness acted up, he’d clutch her tightly and whisper in a broken voice, “Hazel, you’re all I have left. Don’t leave me. I swear to God, I’ll only ever love you in this life. If I break that promise, may lightning strike me dead.”

But that childhood promise turned into the sharpest blade.

Tears blurred Hazel’s vision as she stumbled out of the building. Her hands shook as she pulled up the county clerk's office website and filed for divorce.

[Your divorce application has been submitted successfully. The cooling-off period is one month. If either party withdraws during this period, the application will be void.]

She then bought a one-way ticket abroad, set for one month later.

She was leaving Dominic, leaving him forever.