Chapter 1

I was selling used furniture on a resale platform when a girl messaged me to haggle:

"Could you lower the price a bit?"

"I haven't graduated yet. I just had a fight with my roommate and moved out of the dorm. My boyfriend found this place for me."

"He's really wealthy and says we'll get married after I graduate, but I don't want to burden him too much."

"Could you take twenty dollars off? I can pick it up myself!"

When I was dating Marcus during college, I was extremely frugal too, so I agreed.

That evening, two people showed up at my apartment complex gate.

The girl said proudly: "I'm pretty amazing, aren't I? Got a washing machine that's almost brand new for less than a hundred bucks!"

The man looked at her adoringly: "Yes, my baby is the most amazing. But I'm the CEO of the Murphy Group—you think I can't afford to take care of you? I make money just to spend it on you. Stop pinching pennies from now on."

The man looked up with a smile. When I saw his face clearly, I froze in place.

It was my notoriously frugal boyfriend, Marcus.