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Ahot spring resort.
Twa rooms, separated by a single wall.
A live broadcast.
There was an observation room for the cast and a live comment feed for the audience.
[OMG, Ashton and Vera are on a divorce show, in the same room! They’re playing with fire!!!)
[they have insane chemistry. They look so good together.]
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[I’ve been saying for ages that Ashton and his wife had no feelings left. Who wants someone who just drags them down?】
[I’ve been waiting for them to get divorced for so long!]
[He must have been blind… he used to love her so much…】
The staff fitted Ashton and Vera with heart rate watches.
“Once your heart rate hits 70, you can leave the room.”
[That’s gonna be instant, right?】
But to everyone’s surprise, both of their heart rates stalled at 68.
In private, he and Vera had done everything. They were too familiar with each other, so they were afraid of slipping up on camera. In front of the
cameras, they put on an act.
【Vera is so polite. She doesn’t even dare to get too close.]
[Ashton, don’t hold back! We support you!]
Vera sat by the door.
Ashton stood on the balcony for some air, from where he could see a corner of my room.
Cole hadn’t arrived yet.
I sat alone on the bed, wearing my own heart rate watch.
There was a knock on the door.
It was a tall, slender man. A baseball cap shadowed half his face, and his bangs were damp with the mist from the hot springs. A light rain was
falling outside.
He smelled of the deep, misty night.
[My first love is back!!!)]
【What can I say, Ashton? There’s no harm without comparison.]
[No hate, please.]
“You need to put this on,” I said, handing the other heart rate watch to Cole.
Ashton hated it when people said he looked like Cole. In the first year of our marriage, we were taking a late–night walk when I stopped, mesmeri- zed by a giant luxury ad featuring Cole. Ashton had pulled my hat down over my eyes and said sourly, “I knew you liked that type.”
Now, in the other room, Ashton, on his balcony, watched clearly.
He watched Cole enter the room and close the door behind him.
He watched him put on the watch.
Ashton wasn’t worried. He had known since that night that Cole, the man he could never catch up to, the man he was sick with jealousy over, was
in a contract marriage with Vera.
Cole didn’t even like Vera.
So, of course, he wouldn’t be interested in an ordinary, divorced woman like me, someone Ashton himself had cast aside.
Ashton scoffed, unconcerned.
But he watched my every reaction, missing nothing.
“Hello, Chloe,” I said, my heart rate steady at 50, extending my hand to Cole. “I’m Chloe Taylor.”
“Cole,” he said, taking my hand.
A few seconds later, the watch emitted a shrill, piercing beep.
Cole’s heart rate had skyrocketed.
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But he himself was calmer than anyone.
“The watch is broken,” he said.
“Oh,” I replied.
