During my engagement party, the chandelier suddenly fell from the ceiling and landed on my head.

However, my boyfriend shielded his junior as he dragged her to safety.

Even when he saw blood coming out of my mouth, he hid aside with his junior in his arms.

“They are just superficial wounds. They won’t kill you. It’s too dangerous here. Let’s wait for the paramedics!”

However, he had forgotten he was the director of the emergency department.

That night, I suffered a miscarriage, but he was having fun at a theme park with his junior to calm her down.

I threw the medical report of my miscarriage at his face. After I decided to get married to another person, the once arrogant emergency doctor kept apologizing to me…

I was only sent to the hospital half an hour after Desmond White left.

The doctor called Desmond a few times, but the calls were unanswered.

He had no choice but to pass the cell phone to me.

After waiting for a very long time for the call to get through, Desmond finally answered.

“Eunice Howard, what are you doing? Since you’re at the hospital, you should just focus on getting your treatment. Stop pulling your shameful little tricks.”

I was holding back my tears. I shut my eyes and took a deep breath as I tried to ease my own pain.

“I’m pregnant. The doctor would need your signature to—”

“Eunice, don’t you think you’re being absurd? Connie Anderson is in a state of shock, so she needs someone to accompany her. Stop being so needy!”

Desmond cut me off, but he sounded so concerned about someone else.

Immediately, I felt extremely tired from this relationship.

Just when I was about to hang up, Desmond seemed to realize that he had been too rude. His tone softened.

“I’ve seen the doctor’s treatment plan, and I think it’s good. You should take some time to heal your ribs and undergo surgery for your leg. I’ll go over to accompany you after Connie feels better, alright?”

‘No, I want you to come now,’ I thought.

However, I could not bring myself to say that.

I was extremely disappointed in him.

There was no room for me in his heart.

If there were, he would have listened to what the doctor said next. He said, “The surgery is simple and straightforward, but she’s pregnant, so we can’t put her under anesthesia. You have to choose one of the two.”

When he answered the call, I even had the impulse to go through the surgery without anesthesia.

However, I finally realized just how much of a lovesick idiot I was!

He chose to save Connie, the one who should have meant the least to him. That proved that I was not that important to him.

After I thought it through, I ended the call without listening to his half-hearted comfort.

I decided to end my pregnancy, so I signed the surgery consent form.

The surgery took three hours.

After I woke up, the sky was already dark. I was alone in the hospital ward.

I let out a bitter laugh. I placed my hand on my lower abdomen as I felt the lingering pain.

I was adopted by the Lloyd family, and they were family friends with the White family.

During my first visit to the White family’s home, I fell in love with the cheerful Desmond at first sight.

He was not as moody or reserved as Benjamin Lloyd.

Both of our parents started to tease me when they caught me sneaking glances at Desmond.

“We were joking about marrying our children in the past, but we unexpectedly had two boys. Now that we have Eunice, we may proceed with what we agreed upon back then.”

“Alright.”

Desmond did not reject the idea. Instead, he put his arm around my shoulders.

That was how I naively developed feelings for my first love.

He treated me really well too.

During school days, he would arrive early at the Lloyd’s family house to pick me up.

He would also bring me around to have desserts at different malls during the summer break.

I slowly fell in love with him.

Once I learned that he did not want to inherit his family business and wanted to be a doctor, I immediately let go of my dream of becoming a designer to become a medical volunteer.

I thought we would be together forever.

After Desmond found out about my decision, he pulled me into a tight embrace and said sweet nothings like, “Eunice, I’ll definitely protect you in the future!”

I believed what he said.

From that day onwards, we were official.

It had been seven years.

However, in these seven years, I was basically treated like a joke.

Initially, I thought he only had sympathy toward Connie, who had the same background as I did.

Instead, he fell in love with her.

“Did he bully you? I’ll give him a piece of my mind. Don’t cry.”

Benjamin was comforting me. Meanwhile, he took out his cell phone to give Desmond a call.

However, Desmond did not answer.

Benjamin was furious. He no longer looked as gentle as he had looked when he was comforting me.

Furious, he smashed his cell phone on the floor.

This was the first time I had seen him lose his temper.

His eyes narrowed behind his gold-framed glasses. I shuddered involuntarily.

Benjamin realized my discomfort, so he immediately put on a smile.

“Let’s ignore Desmond. I’ll take you away from this place.”

Alright, I no longer wanted Desmond.

Desmond would never be able to let Connie go.

Connie first appeared in our lives when we were in our third year in college.

She resembled me when I was younger. She was timid and careful, and it was easy to sympathize with her.

When I saw that she was being bullied in the washroom, I took her under my wing and into my friend group.

Initially, I wanted her to be more confident.

However, I slowly realized that Desmond would keep looking at her.

He was tutoring Connie on her thesis on my birthday.

He was taking care of Connie’s cat when I was sick.

He treated Connie even better as time passed.

All those things ached my heart.

I was once so disappointed in Desmond, so I broke up with him over a text message.

Initially, he thought I was just looking for attention, so he ignored me.

After a month, he realized that I was serious about it.

He started to panic.

He was flustered when he appeared before me. He hugged me tightly.

“Eunice, I was wrong. I only thought of her as a younger sister since Benjamin has you as his younger sister. I was jealous of him, so I thought I could finally brag to him now that I have one too.”

After seeing how anxious he was, I believed him.

I really bought his words.

They started to distance themselves from each other, and I thought that he really loved me.

However, after this incident, I realized that he was treating her as a lover.

Desmond only rushed to see me 3 days after I was admitted to the hospital.

He had just walked into my ward when Benjamin punched him in his face.

I slept the other day after being comforted by Benjamin. He had asked someone to retrieve the surveillance footage from the banquet hall.

Even though the position I was standing in was dangerous, it should only cause some superficial wounds.

However, Desmond had pushed me into danger when he was trying to save Connie.

Benjamin was angered by what he saw, so he immediately wanted to confront and scold Desmond.

However, he did not expect to see Desmond’s latest social media post.

In the photo, Desmond was dressed in his engagement suit as he shared a Ferris wheel cabin with Connie.

Desmond was kneeling before her.

He was gently holding Connie’s legs as he treated her wound.

It was barely a scratch—so small you’d miss it if the photo wasn’t zoomed in.

The gentleness he showed her made my heart ache.

However, judging from the angle, Connie seemed to be the one who took the photo and posted it.

Desmond had never posted anything on social media, and he did not like to share his life online.

So it had to be Connie—trying to show me that she mattered more than I did in his heart.

***

"You're being so unreasonable!" Benjamin yelled at him. His voice cut through my memories.

“What do you mean I’m being unreasonable? Benjamin, I know how you feel about her. But you're just her foster brother. You should keep an appropriate distance from her!”

Desmond’s words angered me.

Even though Benjamin had always liked me, he had kept his feelings hidden. He had never confessed his love to me.

He would not cause me additional trouble.

If it were not for his high fever two years ago, I would have never found out about his feelings. While I was taking care of him, I overheard his mumbles.

He had protected me like a true older brother all these years. He had never made any inappropriate advances.

After hearing what Desmond had accused Benjamin, I no longer wanted to turn a blind eye.

I immediately understood what Benjamin was referring to the other day.

He would want to use the Lloyd family’s power to protect my happiness.

“Eunice, it’s only been three days since I last saw you. Why are you hurting me like this?”

I immediately laughed at his pitiful expression.

He really thought I was hurting him.

What about my child? What about my injured legs?

“Let me take a look…”

Desmond wanted to step forward and examine my legs, but I forcefully pushed him away.