# Chapter 520: A Confession of Obsession
Hello everyone, it's me again! How are you all doing today? I hope life has been treating you wonderfully. Today, I will continue to walk with you and review Chapter 520 of "The Untouchable Ex Wife" — a chapter that peels back the layers of villainy to reveal the twisted, aching heart beneath Briar's cruelty. This is the kind of confrontation we've all been waiting for: Stefan, raging with fear for Renee, and Briar, finally dropping every mask she's ever worn. Buckle in, because this one cuts deep.
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The air in that room was thick enough to choke on. Stefan's hand had wrapped around Briar's neck like a vice, his knuckles white with barely restrained fury. Every second that ticked by was another second stolen from Renee — another moment she could be suffering, another moment she could be slipping further away from him. He couldn't afford hesitation. He couldn't afford mercy. He needed the truth, and he needed it now.
"You did it, didn't you?" The words ground out of him like broken glass.
"Yes, I did," Briar answered without missing a beat, her voice surprisingly steady despite the grip around her throat.
Stefan's eyes blazed with murderous intent. "Do you have a death wish? How can you be so wicked?" The growl that escaped him rumbled through the room like a coming storm. He had expected denial. He had expected excuses, justifications, lies. What he hadn't expected — what he couldn't comprehend — was the calm, unshaken way she admitted to harming another human being. There was no guilt in her eyes. No remorse. No flicker of humanity.
**Stefan was genuinely in disbelief.**
He had known Briar was capable of cruelty — he had witnessed her manipulations, her scheming, her ruthless tactics. But this? This was a cold-blooded confession that she had destroyed another woman's life, and she stood there acting as though she'd simply swatted a fly. Where was the shame? Where was the conscience?
"Am I wicked?" Briar sneered, her lips curling upward into a mocking smile. "I only gave her a taste of her own medicine. She put me in a living hell — so I did the same to her. What exactly have I done wrong?"
Stefan's jaw clenched so hard it ached. "I watched that video. She didn't push you down that cliff on purpose! She was only trying to protect herself. It was *you* who tried to kill her!"
For a moment, Briar fell silent. She watched him with unsettling calmness, as if she were studying a puzzle she had long since solved. When she finally spoke again, her voice was slow, deliberate, and laced with something ancient and bitter.
"I'm not talking about the cliff..."
Stefan froze.
Briar met his gaze evenly, unblinking. "She put me in a living hell by snatching you away from me. You and I — we were a couple, once. Even if it was fake, I truly believed we would become something real someday. I believed that given enough time, you would open your heart to me. But in the end... she stole you away."
A strange, hollow laugh escaped her lips. "You two were already divorced. It was over between you. But she still came back and tore you out of my hands. I lost everything that day — I lost my life, I fell into hell itself. How could I not hate her? How could I not want her to suffer the same way I suffered?"
Stefan stared at her as if she had grown a second head. His disgust was palpable, radiating off him in waves. "You're insane!" He shoved her away roughly, recoiling from her presence as though she carried a contagious disease. "I never showed you affection! I never promised you anything! All of this — every last part of it — was nothing but your own wishful thinking. You built castles in the air and then blamed me when they crumbled. You're sick, Briar. Truly, deeply sick."
"Yeah... I'm sick," she agreed, and the confession hung between them like smoke. "I abandoned Tristan — who genuinely loved me, who would have given me everything — and I fell in love with his cold, distant brother instead. If I hadn't fallen for you, I would have lived a rich and carefree life as Tristan's widow. I would have had money, status, and freedom. But no... I coveted you. So really..." She tilted her head, a cruel smile playing on her lips. "You're the one to blame here, Stefan. You're the reason I became this way."
In the past, Briar had always wrapped herself in the story of her deep, undying love for Tristan. She had worn that narrative like armor, using it to make Stefan feel guilty over his brother's death. But those days were gone. There was no need for masks now, no need to pretend. With Renee's fate hanging in the balance, Briar had finally decided to shed every layer of pretense and show him the rotting truth beneath.
"I should have told you sooner how much I truly loved you," Briar continued, stepping closer despite his obvious revulsion. Her voice dropped to a dangerously seductive whisper. "Maybe then I would have had a real chance to compete against Renee. Maybe I could have even defeated her. Because after all — I might not be a good person... but I am certainly very, very good at seducing men."
As she spoke, she reached up, attempting to loop her arm around Stefan's neck, pulling herself into his personal space like a serpent coiling around its prey.
But naturally, Stefan pushed her away. His rejection was instantaneous, brutal, without an ounce of hesitation.
"I thought that after all these years, you would have come to know yourself," he spat coldly. "How could I ever possibly fall in love with someone like you? You're delusional if you think otherwise."
Briar's smile didn't waver. If anything, it only grew more confident, more unsettling.
"You won't?" She let out a mocking little snicker, her eyes gleaming with a darkness that made Stefan's skin crawl. "But I think... we'll be together one day. Whether you like it or not."
The words hung in the air like a threat and a promise all at once — a chilling prophecy from a woman who had clearly lost her grip on reality, yet somehow still believed she held all the cards.
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And that, my dear readers, is where our chapter leaves us — standing at the precipice of madness, with Stefan confronting the full, unvarnished truth of Briar's obsession. Her confession was not an admission of guilt born of repentance; it was a declaration of war woven with threads of twisted love and broken logic. She does not see herself as the villain. She sees herself as the wronged woman, fighting for what should have been hers.
Meanwhile, poor Renee remains in mortal danger, and the clock continues to tick ever more ominously in the background.
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## Reader's Impressions & Star Rating
This chapter was an intense psychological showdown that beautifully exposed Briar's true nature. The way she transitions from cool, collected confession to unhinged seduction is genuinely unsettling, and the author does a phenomenal job of making her one-dimensional villainy feel uncomfortably human. We see the cracks in Stefan's composure too — his fear for Renee is palpable, and his confrontation with Briar shows just how far he's come from the cold, unfeeling man he once was. It's a testament to how deeply Renee has changed him. Briar's line about "I'm certainly good at seducing men" gave me chills, and the final prophecy — *"I think we'll be together one day"* — was the perfect cliffhanger note of dread.
This chapter loses half a star only because it leaves us tortured by the cliffhanger about Renee's fate!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ **Rating: 4.5 / 5 Stars**
## Next Chapter Prediction
If I had to guess, Stefan will finally put Briar out of his head and race against time to reach Renee before it's too late. But Briar's cryptic words hint that this isn't over — she may have allies still working in the shadows, or some final trap she's set to ensure that even if she loses, Renee doesn't win. I predict a dramatic rescue followed by an even bigger revelation: perhaps Briar's obsession with Stefan runs deeper than even she realizes, or maybe Tristan himself will become entangled in this mess once more. One thing is certain — Renee is running out of time, and Stefan is about to make a choice that could change everything.
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