My Heart, Trapped in Lies

Azureville has one family everyone in the city knows, and its heir has been living as an ordinary man with no money. That is part of a game between him and his father, a contest the two of them are running. Isabel York is his wife and knows none of it. Her husband and their son were diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver at the same time, and she spent everything she had on treatment for the two of them. She finds out through a part-time job she takes on by chance. There was no cirrhosis. The illness was a move in the contest between father and son, and the man she had thought poor is the heir of Azureville. Her husband and her son slander and humiliate her. Isabel's feeling for them dies there, and she pulls out of it and leaves.