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We had been together for five years and this was the 99th time Edward had canceled our wedding because of his adopted sister.
The first time, his adopted sister caught a cold. He accompanied her to the hospital and what I received was a video of them having passionate sex in a car. It was sent by her.
The second time, his adopted sister got drunk and called him to pick her up. He immediately left. me standing on the side of the road. Half an hour later, I received another video from her–this time of them having sex in the bushes.
On my phone, I had 98 videos of them in various places.
Now, on the 99th time, all it took was a single phone call for him to panic and rush off to the hospital.
Half an hour later, I got a call from him. “She’s going into labor.”
I was just about to say congratulations when I heard his slightly melancholy voice. “She’s having complications… I have to stay with her. The wedding will have to be postponed for a month. Let’s wait until Olive finishes her postpartum recovery.”
My mouth filled with bitterness as I forced a smile. “Alright.”
But what he didn’t know was this was the last chance I was giving him.
In three days, I’d be turning thirty. I had to get myself married.
I dialed someone’s number directly and asked, “Will you marry me?”
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Jason was quite surprised. “Eliza, weren’t you getting married to that guy?”
“Mm, not anymore. Remember how you said you wanted to marry me? Does that still count?”
Jason had chased after me for ten years, confessing to me hundreds of times. When he heard I was going to marry Edward, he was heartbroken and fled overseas.
“Eliza, I’ll marry you. In three days, I’ll give you the grandest wedding imaginable.”
Maybe I seemed too calm, because a few minutes later, Edward called again.
“Eliza, don’t get the wrong idea. This time, Olive really is having complications during childbirth. Don’t overthink it. There’s only a sibling bond between us. It was just an accident… That night, we both drank too much, blacked out…”
“I am the child’s father, so I have to take responsibility. But don’t worry, when the time comes, the child’s household registration will be under your name. Once she’s finished her postpartum recovery, we’ll hold the wedding. I’ll make it up to you properly then.”
Olive was the Hall Family’s adopted daughter, brought home when Edward was ten.
I’d always heard that Edward doted on his adopted sister, obeyed her every word and was practically inseparable from her.
But I didn’t believe it. I went all in, wholeheartedly.
Five years of secret love, five years of being together. Now, standing before a hall full of guests, all I felt was bitter emptiness.
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Iyanked off my veil and turned to leave this absurd wedding scene, but Rowan and Rosalind stopped me.
Edward’s father, Rowan, outright ordered people to hold me back. “Eliza, today is your wedding day! Edward just went to the hospital to look after his sister and you want to abandon all these guests here? How improper is that?”
Rosalind added fuel to the fire from the side. “I said it long ago that she’s completely nconsiderate, not worthy of our son! Now she even wants to ruin the wedding and turn our Hall Family into a laughingstock in Burnham!”
Rowan flew into a rage. “No way. This wedding must go on today!”
As soon as he spoke, the bodyguards pinned me down, trying to drag me back to the ceremony. But Edward wasn’t even here. How was the wedding supposed to continue without the groom?
struggled with all my strength and shouted, “It was Edward who said to cancel the wedding! I’m not marrying him! Let me go!”
Rosalind snorted coldly, “Even if the wedding is canceled, you should still apologize to the hundreds of guests here! You don’t even understand basic etiquette, how can someone like you ever be the daughter–in–law of the Hall Family?”
I took a deep breath and gritted my teeth. “The one who wanted to cancel the wedding is Edward. He’s the one who should be apologizing! I won’t marry into the Hall Family and embarrass you, so can you let me go now?”
‘You…!” Rowan was so furious his face twisted in anger. “I’ll teach you a lesson today! You must apologize to every guest here and learn what etiquette truly means!”
And just like that, I was forced by the bodyguards to bow and apologize to every guest at the
venue.
Hundreds of guests. Three bows for each person. I bowed thousands of times.
By the time this farce was finally over, it was already the middle of the night.
My back could no longer straighten. Exhausted and aching all over, I dragged myself home.
I had barely slept a few hours when my phone rang, waking me up.
It was a call from Edward.
‘I left in a hurry and didn’t bring a change of clothes. Pack a few sets for me and bring them over. You have Olive’s home address.”
I was about to refuse outright, but then I remembered something important I needed to take from the basement at home. And the key was always with Edward.
Fine, I’d go over and ask for the key.
When I arrived at Olive’s place, Edward was peeling an egg, gently bringing it to her lips.
In the past, he never once cooked for me, not even peeled an egg. It was always me who peeled the egg and placed it on his lips.
He always used to say that, as the future heir of the Hall Family, his mind had to be focused on greater things. Petty tasks like these should be entirely left to me.
But now, he was doing those very “petty things” he once disdained, all for Olive.
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Olive was sitting right beside him, the buttons on her shirt still undone. She was holding a breast pump in one hand and nursing a baby in her arms,
Anyone looking at them would think they were a perfect little family of three.
She saw me and greeted me warmly, “Eliza, you’re here! Sorry for the trouble. I just had a baby, s till need to borrow Edward for a little while. You don’t mind, do you?”
I didn’t even spare her a glance,
1 walked straight up to Edward and threw the bag of clothes in his face.
Edward suddenly exploded, “Eliza, what the hell is wrong with you? What kind of attitude is this? 1 sneered coldly, “Then tell me, what attitude would be appropriate? Should I scream at you for throwing morality aside and sleeping with your own adopted sister? Or should I be angry at her for always pretending to be innocent, knowing full well I’m your fiancée, yet still seducing you and doing everything she could to have your child?”
Edward frowned deeply, “You! You said before that you accepted it, so why are you making a scene pin now? I’ve explained to you over and over, I only see Olive as my sister! That night
Tears welled up in my eyes and I fought hard to hold them back. “Edward, let’s break up”
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