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Tyler’s smile never changed on the day of the wedding photoshoot.
Even the photographer teased him secretly. “Mr. Franklin, are you tired?”
The photographer was obviously teasing Tyler, but I blushed for no reason.
In the afternoon, after the wedding photos were taken, Tyler went to the company.
I went to the newly rented studio.
After graduating from college, I had been working hard in the business world with Chris.
I had accompanied him from nothing to the current scale.
I got tired after so many years.
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Now that I had enough financial strength, I wanted to try to pick up wood carving. This was
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not only my hobby but also the inheritance of my parents‘ craftsmanship.
I had been influenced by them since I was a child. Although I had not inherited all their craftsmanship, the feedback from the orders I had taken over the years was not bad.
After the studio opened, many of my parents‘ former apprentices and partners came to support it.
Some helped to promote it for me, and some introduced customers.
My business was booming.
During this time, Chris contacted me several times.
He tried to contact me in various ways.
After he found that I had blocked him, he started to send me emails.
At first, he was still arrogant and said harsh words to me, but it was nothing more than those few sentences.
[Don’t think you are unforgettable.]
[I want to see how long you can keep being stubborn.]
Perhaps because he hadn’t received a reply from me, he began to panic.
The tone of the emails he sent later softened a lot, and he even started to talk a lot.
I didn’t click on the subsequent emails. I sneered and set up a rejection.
Did Chris have to be so cheap?
Since I set up a rejection, life had been quiet for a while.
Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long.
When Jasmine called me, I was designing drawings in the studio.
It seemed that she had encountered something. She cried as soon as she spoke.
“Where are you? Can you come over? Chris has been drinking for a whole day. I can’t stop
him.”
I continued to design the pattern without changing my expression and only said lightly after drawing the last detail, “Then don’t stop him.”
After that, I hung up the phone.
After a while, Jasmine called again. This time her voice was trembling.
“Chris vomited blood. I beg you, can you come and help me persuade him? Please, I can’t
live without him.”
It was very noisy on the other end of the phone, but I could clearly hear Chris calling my name over and over again.
I frowned.
“It’s useless for me to go. You should call an ambulance.”
Jasmine’s voice suddenly became sharp.
“Do you think I don’t want to? Yvette, are you really that cruel? No matter what, Chris’s kindness to you cannot be faked. Have you forgotten how much Chris helped you in college?
It was a little hard to say what I originally wanted to say.
Twenty–year–old Chris did help me a lot.
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If it weren’t for him, I might not have survived until now when I was in the most difficult time.
Thesitated for a moment.
“Send me your location.”
Jasmine quickly sent me the location.
I didn’t rush to go but called Tyler.
“Chris is in trouble. I want to go check on him. Is that okay?”
“I’ll go with you. I’ll be there soon.”
Tyler came very quickly.
Jasmine was already waiting when we arrived at the door of the bar.
When we got out of the car, she took a few steps forward and pulled me in.
Tyler didn’t follow me inside but waited for me in the car.
It wasn’t until I saw Chris that I understood why no one called an ambulance.
Chris slumped on the ground, surrounded by many tilted empty bottles. It seemed that he
had drunk a lot.
He held a piece of glass shard tightly against his neck, and Warren tried to get close to him.
But Chris picked up the empty bottle, and smashed it without hesitation.
“Go away. Don’t come over.”
As he said this, he put force on his hands, and the blood on his neck and palms mixed
together, looking particularly creepy.
I could hear Jasmine’s uncontrollable crying.
I frowned and took a few steps forward, picked up the water cup on the table and splashed it
on his face.
“Have you had enough?”
Chris loosened his hands, and the fragments fell to the ground. He fixed his eyes on my face,
and the light in his eyes was sparse and broken.
“I knew you would come.”
As he said this, he hugged my calves tightly with both hands, and his shoulders couldn’t stop shaking. His sobs were particularly clear in the quiet environment.
“I regret it. I regretted it since the day you threw away the ring. I can’t live without you. Come back, please, Yvette…”
I kept looking at him coldly.
Until he couldn’t stand it anymore, he grabbed my wrist and begged.
“Don’t look at me like that. Don’t use that look. Please.”
He suddenly remembered something and took out a ring.
That was the ring I had thrown away not long ago.
Seeing that I was still indifferent, he took another photo album from the sofa and held it in front of me like a treasure. He said carefully, “Look, I found the ring. Can we start over?”
He cried and flipped through the photos one by one, which were all photos of us together.
In fact, I had never been able to stand Chris crying. In the past, whenever he cried, I would
definitely be softhearted.
But now, there was no touching in my heart, only annoyance.
I took the album and ring from him, and under his joyful eyes, I lit the album.
After the flames rose, I threw the ring in.
“Chris, don’t you understand? There is no chance.”
The smile on Chris’s face froze.
I didn’t expect him to be so crazy as to reach into the fire to take the ring.
It was a pity that the diamond that should have been dazzling had disappeared.
He shouted at the top of his lungs, and his voice was already hoarse.
“How can you be so cruel?”
I sighed helplessly and squatted down to look him in the eye.
“Chris, self–harm is something that can only make me compromise when we are in love. But now, I don’t love you anymore. You are the one who caused the current situation between us, and you can’t blame others. This is the last time I will see you. From now on, whether you live or die has nothing to do with me.”
When I pushed open the door of the bar, Tyler was standing at the door.
I stepped forward and took his arm, saying softly, “Let’s go.”
Just as we got in the car, Chris stumbled out.
He pointed at Tyler and shouted at me, “Do you think he is a good man? Do you know how many traps he has set up for me by relying on the power of the Franklin Group? Yvette, don’t be fooled by such a sinister man!”
I glanced at Chris lightly and said softly, “I know everything.”
Until we drove away, Chris couldn’t recover for a long time.
I knew in advance that Tyler had taken action against Chris’s company.
I just didn’t know how far he went.
I coughed lightly and looked at the man in the driver’s seat.
“Honey, that’s enough.”
Perhaps the word “honey” pleased him, so he smiled and agreed readily.
After that day, Chris never contacted me again.
It was three months later that I heard from him again. Naomi told me that Chris had been decadent for a long time, hanging out with women day and night.
Jasmine was just like me before, either looking for him in the bar or on the way to the bar. At first, Jasmine endured it silently until Chris humiliated her in public.
“Do you know why I called you in the first place? Because you are the cheapest.”
After that, they divorced quickly.
After the divorce, Chris was still in a state of depression.
But he always cried and muttered after being drunk, “I’m like this, and you still don’t want
come back.”
When I heard about this, I was waiting for Tyler to pick me up.
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When I heard about this, I was waiting for Tyler to pick me up.
I chose the wedding dress myself, and Tyler planned the wedding.
At that wedding that was enough to amaze everyone, we exchanged rings. From now on, we will spend our lives together in the name of love.
The End
