Chapter 3

I didn’t care how they shouted behind me. Anyway, no one had been filming at the time.

I took a taxi to the airport first, and after the rain stopped, I flew back to the country.

First I went to the company and packed up all my things, including my proposal, and took it back.

This was my intellectual property.

When everything had been packed away, I looked at the empty company and the ring in my hand that I hadn’t given away, and my memory suddenly went back to the past.

The year I graduated from college, I couldn’t find a job.

No game company was willing to take me in, and I had spent my last cent.

An orphanage kid from birth, I had been fighting this world alone since I was little.

Until that day, I couldn’t fight anymore.

I stood alone on the overpass, looking down at the traffic rushing by, and I lost the will to live.

This world was so big, and so many people had a harbor to return to, a shoulder to lean on. But not me.

I stood there alone until late at night.

Standing alone on the city bridge, unseen by anyone, staring at a single star like the moon for a long time.

The surging traffic under the overpass had already stopped, leaving only the black, hard asphalt road.

I didn’t want my death to ruin someone else’s car roof and spoil their mood.

Just when I was about to take one last look at this world, I saw the most beautiful sight in it.

Guan Yan was holding up a bottle of liquor, smiling sweetly.

“Don’t think about it. Have a drink instead!”

I’ll never forget what that bottle of liquor tasted like—bitter and sharp, with a trace of sweetness.

As if there really was still a Guan Yan in this world.

That day, we talked about everything under the sky and over the sea, and before leaving she left me two thousand dollars.

She told me, “Hang in there. Don’t give up!”

Two thousand dollars wasn’t much, but it was enough for me to keep living.

And I really did gain the hope of living.

Not long after, I found a game company and joined it, gained a lot of experience, and just when I was about to get promoted.

Guan Yan sent me a message, saying she wanted to start a game company and asked if I was willing to come.

I quit my job without hesitation and even used all the savings I had built up from work as the company’s startup funds.

Back then, she told me that she wanted to make the perfect game in her mind, that she wanted to stand at the World Game Competition and proudly say her acceptance speech.

At that time, I thought I had found true love, but I never expected that she already had a boyfriend, and that person was Li Yunzhou.

I could only bury my feelings and work hard, devoting all my energy to games.

And when Li Yunzhou found out that Guan Yan had used all the assets her family had left her to start a game company.

He left directly.

I knew Li Yunzhou had only been with Guan Yan for money, for those assets of hers, but Guan Yan didn’t know.

She had no heart left for games at all and spent every day trying to get back together with Li Yunzhou.

And Li Yunzhou completely grew tired of her, sold the house Guan Yan had bought for him, went abroad, and cut off all contact.

Because Li Yunzhou left, Guan Yan and I really ended up together.

Later we got married, and because we had no money, she smiled and told me we should make up for the proposal when our game won a big award.

Back then I thought I was the happiest person in the world, the person I loved, the work I loved, and a company that was thriving.

But only now did I understand.

Guan Yan had never forgotten Li Yunzhou. The person she truly loved had always been Li Yunzhou, no matter how much I gave her.

Ever since Li Yunzhou joined the company, Guan Yan had been completely glued to him.

Even though the two of us had already gotten our marriage certificate and were truly husband and wife.

I looked at the ring in my hand and gave a self-mocking smile.

Maybe now I was the only one still remembering that proposal promise.

I tossed it into the company trash can in one motion. That was that. Never again.