12
life would no longer intersect with Blake Sullivan’s.
when I just wanted to steal a moment of leisure at the corner cafe, I would run into him.
11:36 AM C
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Blake walked over and placed a scroll on my coffee table.
I looked up at Blake’s face, feeling annoyed.
“Blake Sullivan, what do you want?”
I just wanted him to leave.
He didn’t hear my words. His
s eyes fixed on the scroll on the table, his voice questioning.
“This painting… don’t you remember?”
I looked down. The scroll had unrolled, revealing a child’s drawing
The painting showed a family of three.
This painting… looked like one my daughter had drawn in my past life.
My heart jolted, and my fingers began to tremble.
At that moment, my phone rang. It was Ethan calling.
“Hello, Ethan.”
I answered the call, putting it on speaker and turning up the volume.
“The wedding arrangements are up to you. Choose the biggest diamond for the ring. Love you!
I hung up :
and looked at Blake’s pale face.
Gathering my courage, I spoke firmly.
*Blake Sullivan, did you hear that? I already have a fiance, and we’re getting married soon. Please don’t come and bother me again.”
His eyes were hollow.
“Aria James, have you forgotten everything? We had a daughter… Have you forgotten how much you loved her?”
His voice choked up.
My head throbbed with pain. My daughter’s smiling face, her cries, her tiny body….
I took a deep breath, suppressing my emotions and the headache, I picked up the now cold coffee from the table and drank it all in one go.
The bitter liquid slid down my throat.
I put down the coffee cup and looked at Blake, my tone calm.
“Blake Sullivan, what was between us ended long ago.
- o. I have a new life now. Please don’t come and disturb me anymore.
With that, I picked up my bag and turned to leave.
in the end, blake still couldn’t cancel his wedding with Olivia
was pregnant and ruthlessly pushed this news to the top of social media trends, causing a huge stir.
Caught in
public opinion, Blake stiffly agreed to this
this marriage.
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He loosened his tie, his knuckles tapping the back of his phone.
On the screen was a photo of Aria James.
“Hey, buddy”
His friend pushed open the door, swinging a bottle of whiskey,
“It’s your big day, why do you look like someone died? Still thinking about Aria James!”
Blake suddenly stopped in his tracks, snatched the bottle, and took a big gulp.
“That’s right, Olivia is such a good girl,”
Another friend came over, patting Blake’s shoulder,
“Cultured, gentle, caring, and carrying your child. It’s a double blessing! How many men would pray for such good fortune!”
“Good fortune?!”
Blake smashed the bottle on the table!
“Bang
Glass shards flew everywhere, and his friends fell silent, their faces turning pale.
“What do you know!”
Blake’s chest heaved as he roared,
“I don’t love her at all! She disgusts me! I feel nauseous just looking at her! I just… I just want to make amends! Make amends for the mistakes I made to Aria in my past life!”
He suddenly rushed to the window, lit up the screen, and looked at Aria’s photo.
In the photo, she was smiling beautifully, her eyes bright.
“Aria… Aria…
He muttered,
“What should I do? I’m really going crazy…”
The wedding march began.
Blake was pushed to the wedding venue, standing in front of the cake table.
He raised his head and watched as Olivia, dressed in a wedding gown, walked down the red carpet.
The lights were dazzling, guests filled the room, everyone wearing smiles.
Only Blake knew how fake these smiles were.
As Olivia’s face became clearer and clearer.
He suddenly realized what he was doing
had come to this point because of his guilt towards Olivia from his past life.
But he could keep making mistakes!
He couldn’t continue to make a bigger mistake just to make up for one error!
He couldn’t watch himself fall into hell again!
He had to find Aria James!
He had to tell her he loved her!
He had to tell her he regretted everything!
He had to do whatever it took to win her back!
The officiant’s voice suddenly became passionate,
“Now, let’s invite our handsome groom and beautiful bride to cut the wedding cake together, symbolizing their sweet happiness!”
Blake picked up the cake knife but let go of it just as the blade was about to touch the cake!
“Clang!”
The cake knife fell to the ground.
The whole venue was in an uproar!
Blake raised his head, staring intently at Olivia.
“Olivia Winters, I don’t love you and will never marry you. The wedding is canceled!””
With that, he turned and ran out of the banquet hall.
The color drained from Olivia’s face, leaving her as pale as paper. She stood rigidly in place.
*Blake! Blake Sullivan! Come back here! How dare you treat me like this! Why?!”
The crowd began to whisper.
“I knew it. This Blake Sullivan doesn’t love her at all. It must be a shotgunwedding!”
“Ah, poor Olivia. For all her scheming and efforts, she still couldn’t keep the man’s heart!”
“She deserves it! Who told her to be so arrogant and overbearing, stealing someone else’s boyfriend!”
Countless gazes pierced Olivia’s pride.
She couldn’t accept the fact that she had been publicly abandoned by the groom.
Olivia lifted her wedding dress and chased out of the hotel.
She wanted to catch up with Blake Sullivan. She wanted to ask him why he would do this to her!
She couldn’t believe she would lose to Aria James!
Olivia rushed into the middle of the road, trying to stop Blake’s car.
At that moment, an out–of–control heavy truck came charging!
“Bang–
flying, her wedding
ng dress stained red with blood
sment of fading consciousness, she opened her eyes.
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A black sports car sped past her.
It was Blake’s car.
14
The next time I saw Blake Sullivan was at my wedding.
As the music for exchanging rings began, Ethan picked up the diamond ring, and I extended my hand.
“No! Aria, you can’t marry him!”
I hadn’t expected Blake to come.
I had blocked him, and my parents had ordered the bodyguards to keep him out.
He shouldn’t be at my wedding.
With a c
a crash, the flower arch collapsed.
Petals flew everywhere as Blake took advantage of the chaos to walk to
the
center of the red carpet.
His eyes were bloodshot, filled with terrifying red veins. He clutched my dress tightly,
“Aria, I know I was wrong. Please give me one more chance.
“Back then, I deserved to die! I shouldn’t have been so foolish as to go to the mountains to meditate! I was such an idiot to abandon you and our daughter. I deserve to die a thousand deaths!”
“Tve woken up now. I can’t live without you and our daughter! Let’s remarry, Aria. For our daughter’s sake, and for the love we once had, give me one more chance to make up for my mistakes. Let’s start over as a family of three, okay?”
“I swear, 11! never leave you again! I never make you sad again!‘
He begged tearfully, his forehead hitting the cold floor with a dull thud,
“Aria, come back… come back to me… please, don’t marry someone else…”
He cried like a child, no longer the high and mighty figure he once was, now just a pitiful wretch who had lost his love.
“Security! What are you waiting for? Drag this madman out of here! Don’t let him dirty my daughter’s wedding!
Father’s face was ashen as he roared at the security guards.
The bodyguards rushed forward, grabbing Blake’s arms and dragging him out of the church.
“Aria! I really love you! You’re the one I’ve always loved! Don’t marry someone else! Don’t leave me!”
Blake’s desperate cries w
were muffled by the thick church doors, growing fainter and fainter,
Ethan’s parents faces were terribly dark.
“This Blake Sullivan has gone completely mad! Causing such a scene at a wedding!”
“We can’t let this slide! He must pay the price!”
To maintain my and the Grant family’s face, and to completely cut off Blake’s hopes, my parents immediately issued a statement after the wedding announcing the severance of all ties with Blake Sullivan.
The Grant family also ruthlessly used their connections to suppress Blake’s company on all fronts, causing several of his important projects to be forcibly terminated and investors to withdraw
Just three months later, the once illustrious young master of the Sullivan family found himself completely penniless due to a broken capital chain and mountains of debt.
To make ends meet, he even resorted to taking out high–interest loans, robbing Peter to pay Paul, living a miserable life.
I walked through the supermarket with a slightly protruding belly, arm in arm with Ethan, leisurely selecting items
“Darling, what do you want to eat today?” Ethan asked gently, his tone indulgent.
“Hmm… I want to eat macarons. Can I?” I said coyly.
“Of course you can, my little glutton. He smiled and tapped my nose playfully, lovingly walking towards the dessert section, “Wait here like a good girl. Til go get them for you.”
I stood in place but inadvertently caught sight of a familiar yet strange figure.
He was wearing wrinkled old clothes, unshaven, his hair a mess. He had lost a lot of weight and looked haggard.
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Pushing a shopping cart full of cheap discounted goods, he walked unsteadily through the crowd, completely out of place among the well–dressed people around him.
It was Blake Sullivan.
The once high–flying Blake Sullivan had fallen so low. It was truly lamentable.
He seemed to sense my gaze and slowly raised his head, seeing me.
His eyes flashed with panic and pain. He pushed his shopping cart and fled in a hurry his figure shabby and frantic.
Ethan walked over with a box of macarons, a smile on his face,
“Darling, sorry to keep you waiting. Strawberry flavor.”
I took the macarons and kissed his cheek, “Thank you, Ethan”
He ruffled my ha
hair, “Silly girl, we’re husband and wife. As long as you like it, that’s all that matters.”
I picked up a strawberry macaron and put it in my mouth.
The sweet taste spread across my taste buds, dispelling a faint bitterness in my heart.
“Yes, it was all over, everything had ended.
The past was like smoke, not worth looking back on.
And I now had a brand new life, happiness worth cherishing.
(The End)
