{"id":210,"date":"2026-09-28T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-186\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:44:40","slug":"in-my-desperate-time-186","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-186\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 186"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 186<br \/>\nIn My Desperate Time novel Chapter 186<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy? I\u2019m not going back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I reject his proposal firmly.<\/p>\n<p>My heart still hurts when the scene comes to my mind that he rushed to save Whitney only but ignored my call.<\/p>\n<p>The man standing in front of me just doesn\u2019t care about me, no matter how intimate and happy he is in bed with me. How can a woman that only gives him sexual pleasure be as important as his one-in-a-million wife? I\u2019m his nothing. It\u2019s ridiculous that I thought he would save me at that time.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like tens of thousands of ants are taking the bite of my heart, so painful that I could hardly breathe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not here to ask your consent. It\u2019s an order.\u201d Frances says coldly, giving me an impatient look.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are you to order me around? Why should I listen to you! Please get out if there\u2019s nothing else. I don\u2019t want your wife to see you in my room, or I\u2019ll be dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I point towards the door and ask him to leave.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to be controlled by him anymore, neither my mood nor my freedom.<\/p>\n<p>This competition is pretty important to me, because Donny just told me the prize for it is one million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019ll try my best, whether it\u2019s for the prize or the cooperation with DS Company. Though my heart tells me that I really don\u2019t want to part from him, I have to make a clean break with him as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>What happened today makes me realize how horrible Whitney is. She has known it. Staying with Frances will not end well for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJane, can you just calm down? I\u2019m doing this for your good.\u201d his tone softens a bit. But I don\u2019t want to hear him at all.<\/p>\n<p>For my good?<\/p>\n<p>When has he ever done anything for my good?<\/p>\n<p>I never dream that he would consider things for me.<\/p>\n<p>I say to him with a sneer, \u201cI know you\u2019re afraid that I will leave if I win the prize, so you can\u2019t control my life again. How can an arrogant man like you bear a woman abandon you? You think you must be the one to dump me! Is that right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of the next day, it\u2019s the opening ceremony of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>I sit in the auditorium with Nicole as well as other designers from all over the world, watching the sponsor and investor of this competition go up the stage.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m surprised to know that the Louis Group is the investor of this competition when seeing Frances step on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>So it is the Louis Group that will offer one million dollars as the prize for this competition.<\/p>\n<p>If I win the prize, it means Frances will pay me to leave him. No wonder he was so angry before.<\/p>\n<p>Although I have great confidence in myself, the contestants are top-class designers. I\u2019m afraid my chance to win is weak. Even so, I\u2019m not the one to give up easily. I have to come up to the challenge. What if I get good luck and win the prize.<\/p>\n<p>As the investor, Frances is giving a speech on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>When he mentions the prize, his eyes suddenly fall on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-210","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}