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After the drama surrounding me ended, Ryan pulled me away.
He looked at me with displeasure. “Caressa, what exactly do you mean? It was just a joke, you don’t have to get back at me like this.”
“What did I do?”
He pointed down at Derek who was socializing below. “You know I hate him the most, so what’s the point of getting so close to him?”
I asked expressionlessly, “Do I need to follow your orders about my social circle?”
Ryan was left speechless by my response.
After a long pause, he managed to say, “But we’re good friends.”
I laughed. “Then please, my good friend, don’t have such a possessive attitude toward other people’s social circles.”
“Ryan, what are you two talking about?” Sophie came up, and there were some stains on her white dress.
After Ryan saw them, he took off his suit jacket to cover her. “How careless of you. Caressa, get Sophie a dress.”
I stared at those stains in a daze.
The first time I got my period, I was teased by the male classmates in my class because of the stains on my pants.
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During adolescence, these private matters always became the premise for those people’s jokes. I was so embarrassed that I didn’t know what to do.
It was Ryan who asked for leave to go out and buy me sanitary pads and brought me a change of clothes to rescue me from that difficult situation.
At that time, I thought he was the person who loved me most, but now that affection had been transferred to someone else.
He never showed me any special preference. Being considerate and helping people out of difficult situations wasn’t specific to any one
person.
Ryan’s father, Toby Watson’s voice came through the microphone downstairs, interrupting our standoff.
He was about to announce the engagement news between our two families. The main characters were Ryan and me.
Obviously, Ryan thought of this too. As the words echoed throughout the entire hall, his face completely darkened.
“Caressa, weren’t you so tough? In the end, aren’t you still forcing me into an arranged marriage with you?”
I laughed angrily. “You don’t have the ability to convince your parents, so you blame me? If you’re so capable, tell your parents you won’t marry me. Do you dare?”
Sophie’s expression kept changing.
The big screen behind Toby suddenly lit up, showing a series of photos.
They were all intimate photos of Ryan and Sophie, and the photos were
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thoughtfully displayed according to a timeline.
Looking at those photos, I matched them one by one with the times Ryan had broken his promises to me.
When I was sick and called him, he said I wouldn’t die, then took Sophie to an amusement park.
When I got off work too late and encountered a drunk man harassing me in the parking lot, he didn’t answer my call and even blocked me. The photos showed that day he was dining out with Sophie.
When I wanted to have a good talk with him, the photos showed him traveling abroad with Sophie.
He always said he was very busy and had many things to do. I spent all my energy convincing myself to believe him.
During those days when he was unwilling to pay attention to me, he was accompanying someone else.
I turned to look at Ryan. He was glaring at me fiercely, while Sophie was crying uncontrollably in his arms.
This set of photos was like a bomb that exploded, causing chaos and noise.
“Caressa! You’ve gone too far!” Ryan said as he stepped forward to hit
- me.
Derek was standing behind me at some point. He quickly stepped forward, grabbed Ryan’s arm, and threw him off balance.
“You’re so despicable. To force me, you used such underhanded methods. Have you thought about how Sophie will face people in the future!”
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This was how I appeared in Ryan’s mind.
“I didn’t do it.”
“So you really are this kind of person. How disgusting.”
I didn’t even have the energy to explain.
Looking at Ryan now, I couldn’t believe I’d wasted so many years liking someone like that.
The guests below were talking among themselves. My parents‘ faces were ashen, and Ryan’s parents‘ faces were the same.
I looked at Derek, not knowing what to say.
Among all the people present, he was the only one who wanted to sabotage the arranged marriage between Ryan and me. Could it have been him?
Derek saw what I was thinking. He raised an eyebrow and asked, “You suspect I did it?”
I didn’t speak, which was tantamount to agreeing.
Derek smiled. He took my arm and prepared to go downstairs.
“I wouldn’t stoop to doing these things. If I wanted to force you, I have plenty of methods. I wouldn’t need to do this.”
Ryan grabbed my other arm.
He said aggressively, “Where are you going? Apologize to Sophie!”
Looking at him made me feel somewhat disgusted. I broke free and slapped him across the face.
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“You think I actually want an arranged marriage with you? What would I even gain from marrying you?”
“Ryan, wake up. I stopped liking you a long time ago.”
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