Chapter 2
Lick dog?
I could feel that all the gazes directed towards me were filled with contempt.
Yeah, where would a lickspittle be respected?
But I wasn’t.
I and Alden met each other at a club activity.
At that time, I had just practiced boxing. I was so hungry that my front chest was sticking to my
back, so I stole my roommate’s snacks.
Then my roommate made fun of me and asked me to say “mom” to see how it sounded.
I didn’t care about the roommates fooling around, and I even called out “Mom“.
At that time, Alden stood up for me. He said it was wrong to bully someone just because they were poor, and he also told me not to steal other people’s things.
Anyway, he was the kind of person with a very upright and gentlemanly personality, who enjoyed upholding justice.
Later, I pretended to be poor and pitiful, and I went to pester him every day. It didn’t take long for us
to be together, and the whole school knew that I was being “kept” by him.
Others always say that he is keeping me, a materialistic woman. I was afraid of him losing face, so I told him that my family had always been wealthy, but he didn’t really care.
Anyway, we were together for four years, there were no ups and downs in our love story, but we
loved each other deeply.
Even, we hardly ever had an argument between us.
So he suddenly dumped me, and I just couldn’t accept it. I wanted to know why he did it, after all,
I looked at Alden on the stage and took steps to go up.
Before I could even speak, the woman suddenly appeared in front of me.
She was too short, I had to look up to see her, and I also had to lower my head to see her.
“Did you really come up here?”
She jumped up and wanted to slap me.
stepped back, furrowing my brows, and looked at Alden, asking, “Did you break up with me just to marry this thing?”
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“What nonsense are you talking about?”
Alden stepped forward quickly and raised his hand, then gave me a slap.
When that woman hit me, I dodged.
But when Alden hit me, I didn’t dodge.
Because he was recently ill, I was afraid he would fall.
He was about to marry someone else, but I was still considering him. Am I so pathetic?
I touched my swollen face, and there was already sadness in my eyes.
“Are you Alden’s girlfriend when he was in university?”
The woman walked over and smirked, saying, “A materialistic bitch like you dares to pretend in front of me? Do you know who I am? I am Serena Lynch, and our family, the Lynch family, is the wealthiest in Castlepond!”
I didn’t go to see Serena, but continued to say to Alden, “You left without a word, which is unfair to me.”
“Fair?”
“I gave you the villa, the car, and the savings. What else do you want?”
“Stop it, Shirley. We were done!”
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Alden furrowed his brows and said, “You know, in my kind of family, love, and marriage are meant to be separate. Thank you for being with me for four years, but my wife can only be Serena, understand?”
“I only asked you if you loved me.”
I looked at him and spoke.
As for the marriage alliances between wealthy families, I was aware.
My parents had an arranged marriage, but they were fortunate enough to grow up as childhood sweethearts and naturally fell in love.
As for me…
Actually, it was also about marriage, but it could also be without marriage. After all, my family’s position in Fieldkeep was already stable enough and didn’t need to rely on marriage to secure it. “Love?”
“Stop kidding, Shirley. I have known since I was very young that I would have an arranged marriage
when I grew up, so I never believed in love at all.”
To date you, it was simply because I found you attractive and easy to manipulate, and also because you were poor enough.”
Alden sneered and said, “Alright, now that you know the answer you wanted, just go.”
