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Faced with his accusations, I found it both laughable and exasperating. It was like all my devotion over the years had been fed to the dogs.
“Well, if that’s what you want to think, I can’t stop you.”
I responded flatly, not pausing in my work for a moment.
My indifferent tone infuriated Gabriel. At this moment, our roles were reversed.
I was only treating him the same way he had always treated me. Turns out he couldn’t take it either.
What a hypocrite.
I really couldn’t be bothered to deal with him anymore, so I had someone escort him out of the office.
Seeing my resolute attitude, he shuffled away dejectedly.
Watching his anguished expression, I felt nothing at all.
Before I met Gabriel, I was quite a free spirit.
I’d dated plenty of guys – not a truckload, but there was always a line of suitors.
But at a cocktail party, I met the thin, frail–looking Gabriel.
He was like an abandoned kitten, and it melted my heart.
As if destined, I fell helplessly in love with him.
The air of melancholy about him fascinated me. I eagerly asked around to find out which family’s son he was.
He was the illegitimate child of the Gu family. After his mother died early on, ho HUPETERELONTAL
was taken in.
But he only had the title of young master in name, without any of the care that should have come with it.
His life had been very difficult.
Hearing about his circumstances made me even more determined to save him.
After moving heaven and earth, I finally got together with him.
I saw him as a fragile crystal. To give him enough sense of security, I cut off contact with all my male friends.
I devoted myself completely to being by his side. Whenever he said he needed me, I would appear before him, even in the middle of the night.
But his reactions were always lukewarm. I just thought it was because he didn’t know how to love, since he lacked affection growing up.
I firmly believed that if I stayed constant for 30 years, he would eventually learn to love me. He would love me and we would live happily ever after.
But now I suddenly realized – it wasn’t that he didn’t know how to love.
He just didn’t love me.
It took Gabriel a week to discover I had moved my things out of our shared home.
It wasn’t hard for him to find me, even though I had blocked all his contacts.
When he arrived at my old place, he was out of breath. I was in the middle of a party with my friends.
When I saw bi
8:20 PM
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When I saw him, his face showed both joy and panic.
“What is it?” I looked at him impatiently.
“Lily, you…”
He stared at me in surprise, taking in my appearance so different from my usual refined, gentle style.
“If you have something to say, say it.”
Back then, to cater to his preferences, I had molded myself into what he wanted. I existed that way in his eyes for three years.
If it weren’t for this whole mess, it might have been for a lifetime.
But who would have thought, what he really liked was the seductive type. I guess I dodged a bullet there.
Gabriel pulled out a crumpled pregnancy test and said to me in anguish:
“Lily, you should have told me earlier. If you had told me, I wouldn’t have fought with you. We wouldn’t have ended up like this.”
That pregnancy test was something I had thrown in the trash before I left. I’m not sure how he dug it out.
It must have been quite a feat for him, Mr. Cleanliness, to be willing to hold onto that thing.
I had found out I was pregnant before the bachelor party. It should have been doubly joyous news. I was planning to surprise him.
But it couldn’t compare to all the surprises he gave me.
