UNDER MY CONTROL ✔ (Under Heavy Editing)

The Beginning of Control

"He thought revenge would satisfy him, but it only unleashed a darkness that consumed everything, including him."

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|| Prologue ||

They called him The Controller.

Wang Yibo, heir to the Wang Empire, born with silver spoon and iron will, a man whose brilliance and ruthlessness inspired awe and fear alike. People whispered that he could never love and it was true.

The only things he acknowledged was just duty, loyalty, and control which didn't waver even after his marriage was fixed with the only daughter of the the Jiangs, one of the most elite families in the city.

It was more than perfect.

She had been his childhood companion, Jiang Amy, the girl promised to him by the families. Their marriage had been arranged long before they understood the meaning of wedding. It was a union of The Wangs and The Jiangs, designed solely to secure legacy and influence.

But Yibo's devotion was not to her heart; it was to the duty he inherited. He performed his role with precision and silence, obeying the invisible rules of tradition and demanded same from his soon to be wife.

Amy, however, had other desires. With Yibo's permission and her family's blessing, she flew abroad to chase her dreams before she will be tied to Yibo in this loveless marriage.

For months, Yibo waited patiently, following the rules of their arrangement including weekly calls, updates on her progress and visits when required but his busy schedule has never allowed him to visit Amy and they both belived it was unnecessary.

What Yibo expected was obedience, respect for duty and follow the rules of this prior arrangement. Yet somewhere in the midst of ambition and freedom, she met him.

Xiao Zhan.

A quiet, unassuming transfer student from China. He was poor, passionate, and utterly ordinary compared to Yibo, yet Amy found him everything Yibo was not, warm, soft-spoken, kind-hearted and Amy? She, starved for tenderness, fell into his orbit slowly.

What began as friendship soon became something forbidden. She started ignoring the calls, the rules, the invisible threads that bound her to her duty. Instead, She laughed with Zhan, studied beside him and dreamed beside him.

Everything was in line, until one night. In between the haziness of alcohol and surging love, she gave herself to him.

And unfortunately, that night, Yibo came to visit her in these two years. His arrival was silent. Unannounced.

Unforgiving.

The scene before him burned into his mind like a brand. Clothes scattered across the floor, things broken and the smell of alcohol filled the air. But what was more unacceptable was his promised bride asleep in another man's arms.

And for the first time, one single question broke through the cold walls he had built.

'Why him?'

The world assumed it was humiliation that drove him to revenge. That the proud Wang Yibo, shamed before society, wanted nothing more than to destroy the man who took what was his.

But the truth... was much darker.

The wedding was never meant to fall apart. Amy's betrayal wasn't written in his plan. She was supposed to play her role - to make Xiao Zhan fall, to break him, and return to Yibo's side as the loyal bride she was raised to be.

But instead, she fell in love for real.
And Xiao Zhan, the man Yibo had marked for ruin, became her entire world.

That defiance, that betrayal of script shattered something inside Yibo far worse than pride.