Chapter 3

She ran to me and hugged my leg. “Mom, I don’t want you to marry someone else!”

Seeing this, the people below began to soften.

“The child might just be scared of her mom remarrying.”

“Kids are like that. They’re afraid of losing their mother’s love. Maybe that really was a misunderstanding.”

I crouched down and hugged Ford. “Ford, even if I get married, I’ll still love you.”

So Ford was just too attached to me. I felt relieved.

Seeing this, Bella’s expression eased a little too.

“Fine, maybe it really was a misunderstanding.”

She looked at me. “But we still need to redo the paternity test.”

I nodded. “Of course.”

Ford suddenly looked up, a sly glint flashing in her eyes.

Ford broke free from my arms and stepped back a few paces.

[Could it be that Mom can also hear my inner voice now, and that’s why she’s prepared?]

[She got married four times before, and every time it was a marriage scam. She took the money and then found a way to make the man call it off.]

[Each time she got tens of thousands in breakup money. That’s how she got rich.]

The room exploded at once.

“What? A marriage scam?”

“Four marriages were scams?”

“Oh my God, and she abused the child too! This woman is terrifying!”

Bella’s face changed again. “What did you say? She’s been married four times before?”

My heart sank to the bottom.

“No!” I hurried to explain. “I really did date four men before, but it wasn’t a marriage scam!”

“They were the ones who suddenly called off the weddings!”

The whispers below got even louder.

“She admitted it! There really were four times!”

“How can you trust a woman like that?”

Just then, the back door of the venue was suddenly shoved open.

Four men walked in.

I recognized them. They were my four former fiancés: Peter, Mario, George, and Stuart.

Why were they here?

Peter pointed at me and shouted, “Don’t let her fool you! She’s a liar!”

Mario followed. “When she was engaged to me, she took two hundred thousand from my family, then deliberately caused a scene at the wedding and forced me to call it off!”

George said, “Me too! She took three hundred thousand from my family, then said my mother treated her badly and dumped me!”

Stuart said, “She’s always done this. She makes money by getting married!”

The guests below were completely furious.

“So it really was a marriage scam!”

“This woman is disgusting!”

“Wilson, run!”

Bella rushed over and tried to hit me again. “You liar! Did you scam Wilson’s money too?”

I was backed into a corner, trembling all over.

In my last life, I had no idea what happened. I just kept getting called off for no reason.

I glanced at Ford and saw her giving me a smug smile.

Now I finally understood. Someone had been controlling all of this from behind the scenes.

But my four weddings had indeed failed before. That was a fact.

I really had taken the money, and I had returned it all.

“I didn’t scam anyone!” I shouted. “I returned all the money!”

Peter sneered. “Returned it? You only returned it because you were forced to, right?”

Mario said, “And you always asked for extra breakup money!”

George said, “I gave you fifty thousand in breakup money!”

Stuart said, “I gave you eighty thousand!”

The crowd below got even angrier.

“Breakup money too? That’s too much! That’s extortion!”

Wilson came over to my side, but his face also looked terrible. “Shakira, what’s going on?”

I looked at him, tears in my eyes. “Wilson, do you believe me?”

Wilson hesitated. “I… I need to know the truth.”