Chapter 1

At the engagement party, Ethan suddenly didn’t show up.

No matter how many times I called, he never picked up.

In the end, he only sent a cold message: “Something came up. I can’t make it.”

Just like that, I was stood up in front of all my family and friends.

That made all the people who had never believed in me gossip about me even more.

But then, I got photos sent by his first love.

Mia was lying half-naked in Ethan’s arms.

Ethan was sleeping soundly beside her.

So he had never wanted to marry me at all.

But this time, I didn’t scream or make a scene like I used to.

I just went home quietly, packed my bags, and moved out.

It just so happened that the person I really wanted to marry wasn’t him anyway.

At the engagement party, I got photos from Mia.

In the photos, both of them had bare skin covered in red marks.

The girl’s lips were swollen, and a thin mist blurred her eyes.

Anyone could tell they had gone hard the night before.

But what really stung was the diamond ring she had made sure to show off on her hand.

I still remembered when Ethan first started his business, he would come home at midnight every day.

Once he got busy, he always forgot to eat dinner.

So every day, I would make him a meal before he got home.

After I finished cooking, I would lie on the couch and wait for Ethan to get off work.

Because I was so tired from working during the day, I couldn’t really hold on.

So before I knew it, I had fallen asleep against a pillow.

In my sleep, I felt someone fiddling with my fingers.

When I opened my eyes and saw Ethan’s panicked expression, I couldn’t help laughing.

I guessed he was measuring my ring size to propose to me.

So I teased him and said, “Ethan, are you up to something bad?”

He didn’t dare look at me, lowered his head, and said softly, “Don’t worry about it. It’s a secret.”

After saying that, he ruffled my hair and got up to eat the dinner I had specially made for him.

The next day, I got a text from a friend.

She told me Ethan’s first love, Mia, was back.

Mia had also been my best friend once.

She had even helped me plan how to win Ethan over.

I never expected her to end up with Ethan later.

But they broke up soon after.

The reason was that Mia was going abroad to study and didn’t want to keep playing around with him.

Ethan then turned around and confessed to me.

I guessed he was trying to make Mia mad.

But I still said yes, because I really liked him.

I believed time could heal everything, and I believed I could make Ethan truly like me.

Even though I had already been with Ethan for three years.

When I heard Mia was back, I still felt worried.

After work, I sat at home waiting for Ethan to come back, distracted and uneasy.

It wasn’t until the door opened that I snapped out of it.

Ethan staggered over and then collapsed against me.

When I smelled the alcohol on him, I couldn’t help frowning.

I asked worriedly, “Why did you drink so much?”

Ethan hardly ever drank.

Usually, he only drank when something big had happened, and then he would get completely wasted.

Thinking about what my friend told me today about Mia coming back, I couldn’t help connecting the two.

“Bang!” Before I could ask anything, something suddenly fell to the floor.

I settled Ethan on the couch, then lowered my head to look for it.

It was a ring box.

Inside was a beautiful one-carat diamond ring.

I carefully picked it up and slipped it onto my finger.

When I found that the size fit perfectly, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

So it really was for me, and he really did want to marry me.

Thinking back on my wild thoughts all day, I laughed in relief.

I took the ring off, put it back in the box, and stuffed it into Ethan’s pocket.

I pressed a kiss to his face.

Then I waited happily for the proposal to come.

But now that ring was on Mia’s hand.

I had forgotten that we were about the same size, and our ring sizes were almost the same too.