Chapter 2

After I said that, the entire wedding venue went silent.

They had all assumed I was already completely under Mia’s thumb, and that no matter what she did, I would never end this relationship.

Mia quickly recovered from her shock, and she only got angrier.

Her eyebrows shot up as she grabbed the wine glass beside her and threw it straight at me.

The custom suit I had specially bought for the wedding was completely ruined.

Mia shouted at me, “Ethan, what the hell is wrong with you!”

“You still dare tell me you’re not getting married? You really do have the nerve!”

“You failed every single test, and you still dare say that!”

A test?

A wedding banquet costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each time, plus the wedding dress, photography, emcee, flowers, and venue, all costing tens of thousands.

Three banquets together added up to several million dollars.

I laughed, because I had paid for all three of those weddings myself.

“So you’re saying it was a test, not a real wedding, right? Fine.”

“The three weddings cost a total of $450,000. Pay me back. Can you afford that?”

Of course she couldn’t.

Every piece of clothing and every accessory Mia wore was bought by me.

The house her parents lived in, the car they drove, and even the company where they worked belonged to me.

There was no way she could pull together that much money.

The reason Mia had this luxurious life in the first place was because I kept paying for it all.

And yet she didn’t care at all. Her anger only got worse.

Another glass of wine splashed over me.

“I let you spend money on me because it was your honor!”

“Besides a few filthy dollars, what else do you have? Don’t even think about using money to tie me down!”

“You still dare tell me to pay you back? I’m going to teach you a lesson!”

After saying that, she left the banquet hall in her wedding dress, dragging Lucas with her.

Lucas looked back at me and gave me a victorious smile.

I watched the two of them walk farther and farther away, and all I felt was exhaustion and heartbreak.

I really had never expected that the woman I had loved for five years would turn out like this.

I lowered my head and looked at the pair of rings in my hand, the deep marks on them still visible, and tears finally came.

Back then, Mia and Lucas had been the real couple. But when Mia’s family fell on hard times and Lucas could no longer get money from her, he broke up with her and left the country.

I had always loved Mia. After learning she had broken up with Lucas, I launched an insane pursuit.

Under my relentless chasing, she finally agreed and became my girlfriend.

Then came the month we were discussing marriage, just when I thought that five years of love were finally about to come to an end.

Lucas came back from overseas and completely threw all my plans into chaos.

Mia threw herself into Lucas’s arms. She stopped caring about my feelings and stopped caring about my complaints.

Other than my money, she didn’t care about anything else.

She only cared about Lucas.

She used my love for her as a tool to win more and more benefits for Lucas.

Mia kept trampling all over my love and my dignity.

This relationship had been rotten for a long time. I was just the fool still pretending everything was fine.

I took back the money gift I had given her parents and told the emcee to clear out everyone at the venue.

I changed clothes, grabbed my car keys, and was about to go home.

One of Mia’s relatives stopped me and asked with a sly smile,

“Ethan, when’s the next wedding?”

They still hadn’t had enough of the show, and they still didn’t believe I would leave Mia.

I didn’t answer him. I just got into my car.

There would be no next wedding.