But it was too late.
I thought, “Finn, do you know? My shattered heart has already been picked up piece by piece by someone else, mended, and engraved with his name.”
I looked at the familiar face before me, my heart remaining calm without a ripple.
“Finn, we no longer have a wedding.”
I took Ethan’s hand and raised it. “I’m going to marry someone else. You should leave!”
“Mia, you know Ethan and I don’t get along. You’re deliberately trying to anger me by being with him.”
Finn’s voice became
shaky, as if he feared something. The fear in his eyes gradually revealed itself.
He seemed to have already seen through a certain truth.
Without any hesitation, I revealed the truth. “I’m not trying to anger you. Next month, on the 16th, you’re welcome to attend our wedding.”
The color drained from Finn’s face instantly.
Finn’s gaze finally moved from me to Ethan.
“Mr. Rivers, you’re still up to your old tricks of competing with me. First projects, now women!”
Ethan held my hand tightly, his voice cold and devoid of warmth, yet with a slight curl of his lips. “Did it ever occur to you that from the beginning, Mia
was the only one I wanted to take, and everything else was just incidental?”
Having spent so much time with Ethan, I had always thought he was gentle by nature and kind to others.
This was the first time I heard him speak in such a manner, cold and intimidating. “If I had known earlier that you couldn’t treat her well, I should have taken her away sooner to cherish her properly.”
“Finn, you don’t deserve Mia’s wholehearted love of over twenty years.”
This statement seemed to thoroughly enrage Finn.
He lost control and shouted at Ethan, “I don’t deserve Mia’s wholehearted love? And you do?”
“Ethan, ask yourself, do you truly like Mia for who she is, or is it because she was my woman that you…”
Before he could finish, Ethan landed a heavy punch on him.
“You can insult me, but you shouldn’t insult Mia!”
Finn was never one to compromise. He lashed out, returning the punch.
They exchanged blows, and within moments, both their faces were bruised.
I was so anxious that tears were about to fall.
The staff finally managed to separate them with great difficulty.
These two men, formidable in the business world, still glared at each other fiercely, neither willing to back down.
My voice trembled with tears as I said to Ethan, “Ethan, my head hurts!”
Ethan immediately composed himself, his face full of concern as he rushed over, cradling my head. “Does it hurt a lot? I’ll take you to the hospital
right away.”
He scooped me up in his arms, carrying me princess-style, and rushed out the door with me still in the wedding dress.
Finn didn’t try to stop us.
My gaze met his over Ethan’s shoulder.
His eyes were as still as ashes, his whole being seeming about to shatter.
I looked away, resting my head on Ethan’s shoulder, my face devoid of any emotion.
Finn returned to the marital home he shared with Mia, carrying the bag with the wedding dress.
This place, which he once thought he wouldn’t frequent much, had now become his daily resting place.
He couldn’t bear to sever any connection with Mia.
Just like the wedding dress he was carrying.
He had thrown it in the trash three times, but each time he couldn’t help going back to retrieve it.
In his relationship with Mia, he had always thought she would be the one unable to let go.
He didn’t expect her to be so heartless, cutting ties so decisively when she said it was over,
Instead, it was he who found himself entangled, unable to leave that “boring” woman, Mia,
He made plans to drink with friends.
After several rounds of drinks, the excitement faded away
In his drunken haze, the woman beside him suddenly transformed into Mia.
“Drunk again? Drinking is bad for your health. Why don’t you ever listen?”
He seemed to hear her nagging complaints in his ear.
For once, he didn’t find it annoying. Instead, he felt a joy of regaining something lost.
He reached out to embrace her.
The expected resistance didn’t come. Delighted, his heart bubbled with sweetness as he gradually pulled her into his arms.
The irritation and unease of recent days were instantly soothed.
He leaned against her neck, his voice thick with jealousy. “Mia, I knew you were just trying to make me jealous. You’d never like another man…”
“Mr. Foster, you’ve mistaken me for someone else. I’m not Mia, I’m Lucy…
The unfamiliar voice suddenly sobered him up.
He pushed the woman in his arms away violently, shouting. “Get out!”
The woman didn’t dare provoke him and left with teary eyes.
Finn also got up and stumbled away.
He stood in the night, looking at the vast surroundings, not knowing where to go.
His hand unconsciously slid over his pocket, and a protruding object led him to his destination.
Ethan’s villa in Aeura.
When the doorbell rang, I was lying weakly on the bed.
The masterpiece wedding dress from “This Life With You” was now thrown on the floor.
It should be grateful that it would appear at our wedding.
Otherwise, Ethan would have torn it apart.
This ascetic golden boy of Harbor was as gentle off the bed as he was wild on it.
Ethan put on a pair of pajama pants to answer the door, and I slowly got up to follow him.
The person outside was impatient. As soon as the doorbell stopped, there was a “knock, knock, knock” on the door.
Finn’s drunken voice rang out, a hoarse shout filled with grievance, “Mia, who gave you the guts to run away from our wedding? Who gave you the guts to reject me?”
Ethan opened the door.
He was shirtless, with pajama pants hanging low on his waist, and fresh scratch marks on his back. “I did. Got a problem with that?”
Finn ignored his provocation, his eyes fixed straight on me, raising an exquisite ring box in his hand.
“Forget it, I won’t hold the wedding escape against you. As long as you come back, it’s fine.”
This is an identical ring I had custom-made. It’s never been worn…”
Finn was quite drunk, but his words were unusually smooth as if he had practiced them countless times.
Slowly dropping to one knee, he knelt at the villa’s entrance.
Under Ethan’s murderous gaze, he opened the box, revealing a diamond ring identical to the original wedding ring.
“Mia, we grew up together as childhood sweethearts. I understand you the best.”
“You’re just trying to make me jealous. You won’t really reject me, ,right?”
He squinted his eyes, looking at me very seriously.
I swear I’ll never be foolish again and make you sad.”
*So, Mia, please give me another chance.”
“Marry me!’
He proposed to me right in front of Ethan.
It almost drove Ethan to strike him again.
I firmly held back Ethan’s eager arm and threw two words at Finn.
“No way!”
With that, I slammed the door shut with a “bang”, afraid that iff closed it too late, Ethan would rush out.
Ethan looked at me with a dark face, disgruntled.
Worried he might misunderstand, I quickly explained, “I’m not concerned about Finn getting hit. I’m worried you might hurt your face again and affect our wedding date:
His expression finally improved a bit.
I muttered in my heart that he was a fake ascetic but a real jealous pot
Ethan, in a rare display of magnanimity, called Finn’s father to send someone to pick up his trash son at the villa’s door.
Finnis father came personally with people.
After all, he was an elder who had watched me grow up. It wouldn’t be right for me not to show my face, so I invited him in for tea. Finn’s father declined, exchanged a few pleasantries, and hurriedly left with Finn.
12:52 PM
I didn’t know how he scolded Finn.
Since then, Finn never came to make trouble again.
I originally thought that the love and hate story between Finn and me had ended there.
But I never expected he would come to attend my wedding with Ethan.
My parents were worried he might cause a scene and ruin the wedding.
But from beginning to end, Finn didn’t move, sitting there like a statue.
The wedding proceeded smoothly.
Until the climax.
The bride and groom exchanged wedding rings, promising each other for life.
Everyone was applauding and cheering, so no one noticed Finn.
Finn, statue-like, crushed the wine glass in his hand.
My parents, who had been watching him closely, were sweating nervously, fearing he might rush up regardless of consequences and interrupt the wedding.
But Finn, as if feeling no pain, kept his eyes fixed on the interaction on stage.
He never intended to disrupt the wedding.
This was Mia’s happy day, and he shouldn’t bring her bad luck.
That day when his father took him back, once sober, he clearly knew that Mia had truly made up her mind to leave him.
If she had even a shred of feeling left for him, she wouldn’t have coldly left him drunk outside the door.
He came just to make himself completely give up on her.
But he realized he shouldn’t have come.
Coming to her wedding made him regret it even more.
She was so beautiful, so delicate, her beauty crushing his heart.
Originally, this beautiful Mia would have been his wife.
If only he hadn’t been foolish that day.
But time can’t be rewound, and he had finally lost her completely.
He had sent the repaired wedding dress to Mia, hoping she would wear the dress she designed herself on her wedding day.
But Mia resolutely refused to accept it, not wanting any connection with him.
That was her stubborn nature.
When she cut ties, she cut them completely.
Finn once thought he would be the exception.
After all, she had loved him wholeheartedly for over twenty years.
No matter how badly he behaved, she would always be there waiting for him.
But he still didn’t understand her enough.
So he could only watch helplessly as she married another man.
She was so beautiful in her wedding dress!
Only, she was walking towards the rest of her life with another man.
He had finally lost her completely.
On our wedding night.
Exhausted in Ethan’s arms, I suddenly asked curiously, “When did you start liking me?”
In the warm atmosphere, our fingers intertwined.
Ethan lowered his head to kiss the top of my head. “A very, very long time ago.”
Ethan recalled the first time he saw Mia.
It was his first time accompanying his parents to a banquet in Aeura.
It was her first time too.
Bored with the scheming of the business world, she had hidden on the balcony to sleep.
When he pulled back the curtain, he saw the sweet, innocent sleeping face of the young girl.
It was as exquisite and beautiful as a porcelain doll.
At that moment, his heart skipped a beat.
From the first moment I saw you,
