Love Beyond the Pages

Caught Her in Bed

Isabella opened her eyes.

The room was dimly lit.

She saw a man all of a sudden. She knew it was a man, but the face was so blurry that she could not look clearly.

Then, her consciousness gradually became more and more fuzzy.

"Isabella... Bella..."

"Isabella... Bella..."

"My Isabella..."

Just before her mind went into a total blank, she heard a man whisper into her ears, calling her name in a way only a lover would do so, so gently, over and over again.

The question lingered in her mind: Who was he?

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When Isabella finally woke up.

Her mind was filled with images of her dream of a man last night. Isabella put her hands on her cheek and laughed, "Well, Isabella, shame of you! Fell asleep while reading a romantic novel and woke up from a naughty dream like that!"

At that very moment, a thread of memories flushed into her mind.

A memory not belonging to her.

Isabella froze.

Weren't these memories from the protagonist of that little love book she read before bed last night?

Isabella shuddered with a weird feeling.

She felt wide awake now. Why wouldn't she?

The silk blanket slipped off her shoulder, and fell onto the bed. Isabella looked around and finally noticed that there was something different.

She rubbed her eyes and looked around again, but more carefully this time.

This wasn't her shabby dormitory. The silk sheet, the marble floor and this enormous white king-sized bed prove that she is now sitting in a luxurious hotel room. Through that French window next to this bed, Isabella finds herself a scene overlooking the entire city.

How luxurious, Isabella murmured.

Memories now became more and more apparent.

Isabella pinched her thigh and realized it was not a dream after feeling a sharp pain.

Damn!

This wasn't a dream; she had traveled into that book, becoming the female lead who shared her name, the one who suffered in the book with a miserable life!

That love novel was a popular piece of online fiction a few years ago; the content focused on making the female lead miserable.

The female lead, Isabella, was the heiress of the Brooks Corporation. Her parents died in a car accident when she was young, and since she was not old enough, she couldn't inherit the family business. Like all soap operas would go, her evil uncle took over and managed the company on her behalf.

The female lead, Isabella, had always been a coward since childhood. After her parents' death, her uncle and his family treated her like she was an outsider. But she endured silently.

The male lead in the story was a typical playboy. He and Isabella were childhood sweethearts. Before their lovely engagement, the female lead was framed by her cousin and uncle. She was drugged and had a one-night stand with a stranger. So she lost her virginity. The male lead claimed to love her afterward, despite her condition. But after marrying her, he used various excuses to abuse her and had relationships with a lot of random women, including the female lead's cousin.

The female lead experienced multiple traumatizing events, including losing her virginity, having a miscarriage, being abused, being insulted for the sake of the male lead, and having her kidney forcibly removed by the male lead and given to her cousin.

Eventually, she went crazy and jumped into the sea.

The ending was so absurd. That jerk male lead suddenly redeemed himself, discovered all the truths about the female lead being framed and decided to get revenge on behalf of the female lead. So the male lead revenged, abandoned all the other women he had and jumped into the sea where the female lead had jumped before...

When the novel was out on the market, many innocent girls shed tears for this scumbag male lead at the end, crying about how romantic he was!

Well, this novel, indeed, was full of melodramatic, outrageous plots. If it weren't for the author's amazingly written intimate scenes, Isabella wouldn't read a page of this book!

And now... she had traveled into the book and became the female lead who shared the same name with her...

The corners of Isabella's mouth quivered uncontrollably. She could not suppress the wild joy in her heart.

The elite society life with unlimited money to spend that she had always dreamed about for so long just unexpectedly became her life out of the blue?!!!

Isabella quickly accepted and adapted to reality.

She is alive, whether in real life or in a book. And now, she can choose how the plot goes because she is the female lead in this romantic book.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The front door was kicked open, and a handsome young man stormed in. Behind the young man was a beautiful young woman who followed.

The man looked so angry, and the woman seemed so worried.

Two names popped into Isabella's mind.

They were the male lead, Andrew Johnson, and the cousin of the female lead, Emily Brooks.

Owww, they looked pretty decent despite how awful they were as a person.

"Isabella! How could you do this? Andrew has been so good and caring for you, and you just went to cheat on him the night before your engagement party?" Emily said, with her hands covering her mouth and eyes looking at Isabella with shock and taunting.

Looks like Isabella traveled just on time. The plot was still chapter 1 of the book, where the female lead was being framed for the first time and lost her virginity to a one-night stand with a stranger. The caring cousin knew the female lead was in the hotel and brought the male lead to catch on the spot.

Very well, then, since everything had just begun, there would be plenty of opportunities for her to change the plot and her miserable life, Isabella thought in her mind.

Let her wonderful life begin after she deals with these two scumbags.

"I did not cheat, and you know it." Isabella glanced at Emily, returning a similar tone of mockery.

Emily was stunned. What is going on with this despicable coward-like cousin, and why does she seem different than before? How dare she look straight into her eyes, just like that?

"Of course, I know. Ever since Andrew studied abroad, you began flirting with boys in school. I feared Andrew would be heartbroken, so I kept covering for you. But I never thought you would betray him with a one-night stand the night before your engagement! Isabella, you are disgusting. I would be mortified if anyone knew you were related to me!" Emily looked angry. After her long speech about how Isabella is a b***h, she turned around and gave Andrew a sympathetic look.

"Andrew, I'm so sorry. I am ashamed of my sister's behavior. It's our family's fault for not managing my sister properly…let her do such a shameful and despicable thing…"

Andrew frowned his eyebrows as he listened to Emily talking about how Isabella behaved and betrayed him; at the end, there was one look on Andrew's face, a clear, disgusting one.

"Why did you betray me?"

Isabella did not bother to respond to him. Instead, she picked up the white silk blanket and wrapped it around her body. The soft texture of the blanket clung to her skin like a handmade corset dress, outlining her exquisite figure. Her brown, extended to the waist, silky hair cascaded down her shoulders, reflecting her skin even more transparent and glowy.

Isabella finally stood up, barefoot, and walked lazily toward Andrew. The sunlight scattered over her skin, making her look like she was shining.

Andrew froze. Has Isabella always been so beautiful and sexy? She always looked so plain in her everyday outfit. Maybe she intentionally underdressed or just had a lack of fashion taste, he thought. He had never seen her so bright and sexy before. However, when he saw the love bits on her neck, there was only one emotion left in his mind; jealousy. He could feel this jealousy lit up a fire within him.

This disgusting woman had always pretended to be innocent in front of him, saying that her first time should be saved after their marriage! Who would have thought she was so shameless, letting herself have a one-night stand with a stranger?

"Betrayal?" Isabella looked at him and chuckled softly.

Andrew clenched his fists. At that moment, did this damned woman still have the nerve to laugh?

"We caught you on the spot! And you still won't admit it?" Emily shouted. She saw how Andrew looked at Isabella and how he was attracted to her. Emily felt jealous, too, of Isabella. She had always had a crush on Andrew, her cousin's fiancée. Today, she could show him how wrong he was and how awful her cousin was.

"You shouldn't be so excited", Isabella sneered, then leaned closer to Andrew's ear and said, "How many times have you slept with Emily behind my back? Huh? Haven't you ever felt a sense of guilt at all? Do you think I am this stupid innocent pushover, just letting you guys continuously take advantage of me?"