CHAPTER 1: BASEMENT TREATMENT

Drip. Drip. Drip. The water faucet was leaking again. The water soon started dripping down the sink again. The cell she sat in was cold. The basement was again without any lights and no heater was turned on to keep her from the freezing cold.

Belle Li sat on the cold and hard cement listening to the echoes of the wind outside. She closes her eyes and wish she could turn back time. Turn back to when she met her husband, Bruce Wang. Her love, her life, and her everything. 

Bruce Wang is one of the most successful and youngest man to own a multi-billionaire industry. The handsome dark figure of the latest covered magazine. Cold, brutal, and a tyrant.

Belle, being a fool, fell in love with him. Only to know that he married her for her family’s fortune. He tricked her, lied to her, and stole everything from her. He stole their Li’s corporation, causing her grandfather to commit suicide. Then he murdered her parents. And her uncle went missing shortly afterward. She's pretty sure he is the cause of his disappearance as well.

Creak the door swung open.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Belle could hear the heels of a woman walking down the stairs of the basement.

“Look at her. She’s so disgusting,” said the woman. It was Bruce’s mistress Yolanda Wu. She was dressed in all red. She have short black hair and bangs hanging over her forehead. She have an ovula face with brown eyes, and dark long lashes.

“Humph. She can’t get any uglier than that.”

Belle’s eyes widened. She was like this because of his mistress. His mistress cut her face up, starved her, and beat her up. She ended up with scars and bruises all over face and body because of his woman’s abuse. Belle, the once beautiful and talented young woman of the country is now an ugly scar woman.

“Listen you b*tch! I’m pregnant,” said Yolanda.

Belle wasn’t surprised. Bruce only touched her when he was intoxicated. Other than that, he would never hold, touch, or embrace her. Of course, it was only after their marriage that she found he was having affairs with other women. In their entire two years of marriage, he cheated on her numerous times. Now, he have chosen a woman to bare his child to inherit his company, and it’s this wicked woman. She’s the one to carry on his child.

“Don’t you have anything to say?” asked Bruce who walked to her.

Belle lowered head down.

“Why even talk to her. She’s a mute now. She can’t answer you.”

“Oh right. The acid she drank. It took out her voice,” smirked Bruce.

The tears that stung behind Belle’s eyes fell silently.

He pulled her hair and yank her to look at him. “Humph! Do you think you got the right to cry!” shouted Bruce.

Belle looked at him with one of her good eye.

This man whom she loved with all of her heart, and gave him everything she had, but it still wasn’t enough. He went out and destroyed her. Now, not only is she ugly, thin, frail, but voiceless and half blind.

“Of course, you don’t! You don’t deserve a good life at all! Not after what you guys did to my family!”

Belle shook her head.

“YES! Yes, you guys did! You stole everything from my grandfather! Now this is redemption for what you’ve done! Your family and you deserve everything that have happened!” Bruce pushed her to the ground.

She landed on the ground with a thump. Her face hit the cold floor with a loud bang.

Bruce frowns as he saw blood coming from her forehead.

Belle didn’t know what to say to him. For she knows that her family did nothing that he claims them of. He falsely accused them and hated them for no reason. He punished them and pushed them to the edge. He killed her whole family, wiping everyone that she loves. She clenches her fists tightly together.

“Humph. Should have just killed her,” said Yolanda.

“No. I want her to stay here. I want her to be miserable for the rest of her life,” said Bruce.

Belle’s eyes widened again. She couldn’t believe that this man was planning to keep her here. In this dusty old basement and cold cell. Like a prisoner for the rest of her life. Never to see the sunlight just as he have the past two years. Locking her from the world. Torturing her and humiliating her.

BOOM! The lightning struck loudly outside.

“Come on, let’s get out of here. I’m getting nausea,” said Yolanda. She was faking throwing up.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. It’s the pregnancy symptoms. You know, morning sickness.”

“Oh. Then let’s get out of here.”

“Yes. I don’t want any of this to affect the child.”

“Okay.”

“Let’s not harm the child’s growth by watching this miserable wench.”

“Humph. You will live here, rot here, and die here,” said Bruce looking sternly at Belle.

Belle coughed up some blood. She gasped at the amount of blood she spat out. All the torment she’s gone through have finally caught up with her. She’s finally dying. As she gasped for air she thought, “I wish I could turn back time to when I first met you, Bruce Wang. I would never let you hurt my family.” A tear streamed down her face. “I will never fall in love with you. I will never let you have my heart, body, or soul again.”

“Belle?” questioned Bruce.

Belle threw up some more blood and she laid herself gently on the ground.

“Belle!” shouted Bruce. He ran to her.

She frowned as to why she heard concern coming from his voice. But it couldn’t be for this man hated her. He humiliated her, tortured her, and destroyed her. There wouldn’t be a care coming from him. Looking at him, she slowly closed her eyes.

“Belle…” said Bruce, in a panic voice.

“So, this is how death feels like,” she thought. “It’s not as bad as she thought it would be. May the good angels from above grant me my wish.”

“Mistress, your wish can be granted. You can go back to when it all started but be warned. For destiny won’t let you stray from him," said an angelic voice. 

“What?” groaned Belle. She could hear the beautiful voice softly whispers into her ear.

“Your fate with this man is seal.”

“I don’t care," she groaned back. "I just don’t want my family to be hurt by him." 

“Alright. Remember your agreement. Your wish is granted. Take care now.”