Vivianne Hathaway had been in love with her boyfriend, Lucas Cannavale, for five years.

It was not until their engagement, she found out that Lucas had a beautiful girlfriend whom he had been thinking about for ten years.

Vivianne angrily cursed them for being shameless.

But Lucas took her hand and said, "I didn't know I would fall in love with two people at the same time. Kiara will go back to settle abroad. Vivianne, can you stay by my side?"

She denounced him for being shameless.

His girlfriend, Kiara Baker, lifted her chin and said, "It was just a farewell kiss, but if you try to provoke me like this again, I don't mind confirming your identity as a mistress."

Kiara left, but came back three days later and publicly announced her engagement to Lucas.

The fiancé became someone else's groom.

Vivianne felt like a joke.

***

"Stellan, you said you found my biological parents, is that true?"

"Of course, they have their own reasons and they have been looking for you all these years. I can take you to see them anytime."

Vivianne hesitated for a moment.

She looked up at the woman who was walking slowly towards her in the heavy snow with an umbrella and finally made up her mind. "Okay, I'll go with you."

Stellan Lautner was stunned. He kept asking her on the other end of the phone. "Really? Aren't you getting married next month? Your parents are in Germany. It will take a long time to travel back and forth. Can you make it?"

"It's okay. I've thought about it. Besides, I probably won't ...."

She paused, then she did not continue the rest of her words.

What she wanted to say was ... she probably would not attend her own wedding because the groom had fallen in love with another woman.

When she hung up the phone, Kiara happened to walk to her.

This woman who had been divorced twice was Lucas' subordinate. Vivianne witnessed her kissing Lucas passionately in front of the study window half an hour ago with her own eyes!

He was her childhood sweetheart of more than twenty years, her boyfriend of five years and the man who proposed to her four months ago in front of the elders ....

Now he sat coldly in the car, watching Vivianne shivering in the wind and snow and being provoked by the mistress in front of him.

Kiara stroked her elegant long hair, exuding an intellectual beauty.

She looked down at Vivianne, tilted her head and smiled mockingly. "Little poor thing, hiding here wearing such clothes, are you trying to sell your misery and wait for your fiancé to come and apologize to you?"

"What are you doing here! Are you here to protest against me?"

Vivianne stood up angrily, her face was blue from the cold, but her eyes were bloodshot.

"I'm here to persuade you to go home."

Kiara furrowed her brows and pointed to the car behind her. "I'm leaving Optimuz. I came here today to handle the last part of my work. The kiss just now was just a farewell."

"Don't think too much, go back quickly, Lucas still loves you."

Vivianne was stunned for half a minute before cursing loudly. "Do you need to kiss him and hug him like that to say goodbye? You shameless woman!"

Kiara, who was over thirty years old, had held a high position in her career. She would normally get angry if she was cursed and insulted, but unexpectedly she laughed.

"I said, it was just a farewell kiss, but if you try to provoke me again, I don't mind confirming this identity."

She took a step forward and lifted Vivianne's chin with her delicate fingers. "You should know that in front of me, you have no chance of winning," she said.

Vivianne was struck by lightning.

Even though she tried to suppress her emotions, she could not control her tears from flowing down because ... what Kiara said was true.

She came from an excellent background, her work ability was extremely strong and her smile was so charming.

In contrast, Vivianne was too ordinary. As soon as she was born to the world, she was abandoned and when she was seventeen, her adoptive parent both passed away. Now, she was in her early twenties and reckless.

So, he was the only one Vivianne had in this world.

In front of Kiara, she was no match.

"Well, it's getting late. I have to go to the airport. Go home, Girl."

She said, trying to step forward and give Vivianne a comforting hug, but Vivianne burst into anger and pushed her hard. "Get lost! Don't touch me!"

"Ah!" Kiara screamed in surprise.

At the same time, Vivianne was thrown to the ground by another even greater force.

"How are you? Are you okay? Did she hurt you?" Lucas' nervous voice came.

Vivianne looked up in shock, only to see the staggering Kiara being held tightly in the arms of the man who rushed over, with a worried expression on his face.

"It's okay, she wasn't intentional."

"What do you mean it wasn't intentional!"

Lucas' face darkened instantly. He pulled Kiara behind him, turned around, pointed at Vivianne's nose and started yelling.

"I think you are becoming more and more willful! It's snowing hard and she's wearing high heels. What if she slips and rolls down the slope? When will you be more sensible?"

"You're always like this, getting angry at the slightest provocation and running away from home at the slightest provocation! I think you've watched too many low-rate TV dramas and your mind is full of those ridiculous things! Get the hell out of here and go home!"

After saying that, without even glancing at Vivianne who was lying on the ground, he picked up Kiara and walked towards the car.

From beginning to end, there was not even a single explanation for that kiss.

Vivianne laid on the ground, watching the two figures snuggling together go away in despair and the cold wind carried their words to her ears.

"Are you just going to leave her like this? After all, you've watched her grow up, aren't you afraid that she'll run away?"

"This is her home, where can she run to?"

Lucas was right.

Vivianne indeed had nowhere to go.

She was six years younger than Lucas. She always followed him like a tail when she was a child. Then, after her adoptive parents passed away when she was seventeen, he took her to the Cannavale Family and took care of her despite all objections.

At that time, Lucas' parents wanted to adopt Vivianne as their daughter, but Lucas was unwilling to do so. It was not until the day of his high school graduation that he confessed his feelings to her. Then everyone realized that he had fallen in love with her.

Everything that followed came naturally.

During the five years of their love, Lucas treated her gently, affectionately and carefully, as if she were a fragile flower vase, which could break and shatter at any moment.

After Vivianne graduated from university, he opened a bookstore for her to pass the time because he was worried that she would be bullied if she worked in a company. Four months ago, he even proposed to her on an island.

Unexpectedly, just overnight, all the sweetness turned into a knife piercing into Vivianne's heart.

Lucas' car drove away.

Kiara resigned and left California, so he went to see her off in person.

Vivianne knelt in the snow, watching the distant car lights, crying uncontrollably.

As soon as she woke up, she was already in the hospital.

Stellan was sitting in front of her bed, his face full of worry.

"You finally woke up. You almost scared me to death."

"Why am I here?"

"That's what I want to ask you, why did you go out to sleep in the snow instead of staying at home in the middle of the night? If someone passing by hadn't discovered you and called the police in time ...." He sighed, then continued, "the doctor said that if you brought here a minute late, you wouldn't be saved."

Vivianne was taken aback.

She guessed she was too sad last night that she passed out from the cold.

"What? You've been lying down for three days before." Stellan sighed helplessly. When he saw the girl's blank look, he hesitated and said, "Vivianne, there's something I don't know if I should tell you."

"Just tell me."

She even accepted Lucas' cheating, so what else was there that she could not accept?

Stellan hesitated before finally throwing his phone over and saying, "You'd better take a look yourself."

Vivianne's face instantly turned pale as she looked at it.

That was a post on Kiara's social media. There were no caption on it, only a pair of hands clasped together. The hand belonged to her and there was a ring on the ring finger.

As for the other hand, even if it turned into ashes, Vivianne could still recognize it as Lucas!

"They ...." She stared at Stellan in disbelief.

He nodded in awkward and said, "I can't recognize them. It just so happened that the restaurant where they had dinner belonged to my friend. Vivianne, did you break up with Lucas?"

Her throat choked and she did not know how to answer.

All of this happened too unexpectedly and she did not even have a chance to break up. Now it seemed that she was dumped, right?

Her condition was so bad that Stellan did not dare to speak more.

The ward fell into a deathly silence until Vivianne's phone vibrated a few times.

She opened it blankly, but the moment she read the message, her whole body froze.

[Sorry, I regretted it, so I decided to stay.]

[Vivianne, I want to take back the ring Lucas gave you.]

[A renovation team will come to our house in a few days. Orchid Tower No. 7 will be our new house. You should know what to do.]

It was from Kiara.

She used Lucas' WhatsApp to send those messages.

She even thoughtfully sent a photo of her and Lucas kissing under candlelight.

Vivianne's breathing stopped in a while.

She covered her mouth tightly as tears fell down uncontrollably, wetting the screen and her finger.

Stellan was so frightened that he hurriedly handed over the tissue. "What's wrong? What's wrong? If you have something uncomfortable, let's talk about it and deal with it properly. Don't cry," he said.

She did not want others to see her miserable appearance, so she buried herself in the blanket and gritted her teeth to surpress her sadness and disappointment.

Her fiancé proposed to someone else without her knowing ....

Was there anything more absurd and ridiculous than this?

It took Vivianne a long time to calm down. She asked Stellan to help with the discharge procedures and asked him to contact her biological parents as soon as possible. Then, she took a taxi home.

To be precise, to the Cannavale manor.

The new hostess had come in person to chase everyone away. No matter how thick-skinned Vivianne was, she could not stay there any longer. She had to go back immediately to pack up her things and move out.

The manor was empty.

Lucas' father, Hendry Cannavale, was hospitalized due to a sudden heart attack a few days ago. Lucas' mother, Lilliana Cannavale and the caregiver went to the hospital to accompany and take care of him.

In the room, Vivianne sat on her bed in a daze, feeling her heart broken into pieces.

There were traces of Lucas in every corner of this house.

In the small garden, he planted her favorite flowers and swing set by himself.

The living room was covered with a long rabbit velvet carpet because she loved to go barefoot.

When she first lost her adoptive parents, she could not sleep well, so Lucas gave up his room and communicated with the designer about the details of the decoration, then every night thereafter was sweet for her.

The more beautiful the past was, the more piercing the reality was.

She did not know how long she had been sitting there before she got up and decided to leave. She did not have much stuff with her, only some documents related to going abroad and a few sets of clothes to change into.

Just like coming to this house alone, when she left, she should also be clean and tidy.

As soon as Vivianne reached the staircase, she heard the sound of a car driving in from the yard and the door was pushed open from outside.

Her breath caught in her throat and she just stared helplessly as Lucas and Kiaraa walked in hand in hand.

The living room was so quiet.

Until Lucas' indifferent voice rang out. "Why are you here?"