My Halfhearted CEO

My 30th birthday, and my wife, the brilliant tech CEO Izzy Hayes, was late-again.

Living in her opulent New York apartment, I, Ethan Cole, a once-promising surgeon, felt like a ghost, a consequence of a transactional marriage that saved my mother' s life five years ago and simultaneously crushed my own dreams.

Fed up with her absolute indifference, I finally decided to break free.

I accepted a prestigious surgical fellowship in Germany and served her divorce papers.

She signed them on the spot, without a second glance, mistaking them for adoption forms-a brutal testament to how little I meant to her.

But escaping Izzy' s orbit proved impossible.

Her manipulative ex, Marcus Vance, resurfaced, systematically sabotaging my reputation and career.

He staged a fake "assault" at the hospital that got me suspended, and Izzy, completely blind in her work-obsessed world, effortlessly believed his lies, her family joining the cruel chorus, painting me as a jealous villain.