Chapter 5

Two weeks had passed since the runaway groom incident.

I ate well, slept well—didn’t 亏待 myself one bit.

“Are you really okay, Yuanyuan?” My best friend Luna Wilson looked at me, worried.

I smiled and patted her head.

“I’m fine, really. Look how much I’ve been eating lately—I don’t even bother dieting anymore.”

But the truth was, I hadn’t slept a full night in weeks. I just didn’t dare tell her. I didn’t want to be a burden.

“Yuanyuan, I don’t know if I should tell you this... but I saw Ryan Smith the other day,” Luna finally said, hesitating.

Ryan Smith. The name shattered the facade of strength I’d been clinging to.

I felt a chill wash over me, my body trembling uncontrollably. “Where?”

“At the supermarket near my place. I saw him with a woman,” Luna mumbled.

“I wanted to go up and yell at that jerk, but... the woman looked pregnant. So I just...”

Pregnant? Ha.

Tears burst forth, streaming down my face.

I’d always thought Ryan had betrayed me just the night before our wedding. But it turned out...

I’d been nothing but a delusional clown all along.

I couldn’t accept it.

I wanted revenge.

I found the crumpled business card I’d stuffed away, dialed the number on it.

“Is what you said last time still true?”

There was a moment of silence on the other end, then a cold, sharp voice replied:

“It never expired.”