You've Betrayed Me and Everything's Back to The Beginning

In order to force me to break off the marriage, my fiancée made my father's company bankrupt. She then left him with tens of millions of dollars in debt.

My father suffered a heart attack due to the shock. He was sent to the emergency room.

When I was kneeling down and begging my fiancée to help with the operation, my childhood friend Esmeralda Rosendale suddenly returned to our country, Luksemburg.

Esmeralda helped my father arrange for a doctor. She also stayed with me at my father's bedside day and night.

But a week later, my father suffered another heart attack. In order to let my father leave with peace of mind, I knelt in front of the hospital bed and swore that I would marry Esmeralda and love her for the rest of my life.

After the funeral, I was disheartened and cancelled my engagement with my fiancée. Instead, I married Esmeralda Rosendale, my childhood sweetheart. But five years later, I overheard my ex-fiancée's conversation with Esmeralda.

“Oh, Gosh. Your trick is very good and smooth. You made Euharrell Givenlee, the dog's skin, willingly give up on me. Do you think he would want to kill you if he knew that you were the one who killed his dad back then?”

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My hand paused as I pushed open the box's door, which lurched. My ex-fiancée's teasing voice continued to ring out from the box.

“I don’t know that you can be really cruel. Euharrell grew up with you and treated you as his own real sister. I guess he would never have thought that the person who made his father's company go bankrupt would be you.”

“If it wasn't for Raymond Fletcher, I wouldn't have been blackballed for you for so many years. Although I hated him, I can't do anything to make his father angry to death.”

The wine glass was heavily placed on the table. Esmeralda said with a drunken look, “I will spend my whole life to make up for what I owe to Euharrell. Back then I will help you also because I want Raymond to be happy. If you dare to let Raymond Down and let him shed a single tear, I will take your life.”

The woman on the other side smiled and sighed. “You are so infatuated. It's a pity that a person like Raymond Fletcher met me first. You'd better protect your Euharrell Givenlee well. After all, you killed his father. Be careful not to be killed in your dreams at midnight.”

“Bang” The glass hit the door hard and shattered all over the place. The footsteps approached. It made me take a deep breath and run to the downstairs bar. I raised the glass and drank it all in one gulp. I choked out tears that filled my eyes from never drinking like that before.

The words I had just heard echoed in my head over and over again. The person who made my dad's company go bankrupt back then wasn't even my fiancée, but Esmeralda Rosendale, who also paid for his surgery.

When my dad had a heart attack a week later, it was also because of what Esmeralda said. No wonder my dad was staring at Esmeralda before he died.

At that moment, I was naive enough to think that. It was my dad's gratitude and testament to her.

The wife who slept with me for five years and was held in my palm was the one who indirectly killed my dad. All those years of marriage and false love were just the so-called compensation for her guilt. It was really ridiculous for me. Sadness and anger rolled in my heart.

My eyes had just fallen on the wine glass in my hand when Esmeralda suddenly hugged me gently from behind. Her head buried into my neck. Esmeralda’s drunken voice was full of tenderness.

“Euharrell Givenlee, why did you leave for so long? I miss you so much. Let's go home, Euharrell. I really love you so much. I can’t live without you.”

In recent years, every time Esmeralda got drunk, she would murmur her love for me. Her sisters all said that the truth came out after drinking. It made me believe that Esmeralda really loved me. But now, all of this seems extraordinarily ridiculous to me.

I didn't move at all. I just pushed her away calmly. Then I helped her into the car. Esmeralda collapsed on my lap. Her brows stretched out breathing evenly like she was asleep.

“Raymond Fletcher! Raymond, why didn’t you choose me? Why?”

This time I finally heard it clearly, the name that appeared in her dreams countless times.