Chapter 1

Today, for the sake of marrying Jessica Little, I, Hunter Ludwig, had taken half the day off work.

This was what I ended up encountering instead.

I hailed a cab and headed back to the office. From a distance, I saw Jessica and Henry Kirby wandering around a nearby food street.

Jessica was acting like an ATM. Whatever Henry took a fancy to, she bought for him.

I'd never received that kind of treatment.

It wasn't until midnight that Jessica finally came home.

There was a blissful smile on her face the entire time.

The moment she turned on the light and saw me sitting on the couch, her smile disappeared.

"Why are you sitting in the living room with the lights off?"

"I was waiting for you. Where were you this afternoon?"

"At work. Where else would I be?"

She turned her back to me as she changed her shoes.

She was the same as always. Whenever she lied, she couldn't bring herself to look me in the eye.

"I went back to the office this afternoon. You weren't there."

Jessica raised an eyebrow and turned around. "I'm your boss. Do I need to report my whereabouts to you?"

I nodded. "Right. You're my boss, so it's your freedom to go on a date with whoever you want."

Jessica froze. "Who are you talking about?"

"Henry."

Jessica took a deep breath and poured me a glass of water. "You misunderstood. Henry is my junior from college. He helped me a lot when we were in school, so I wanted to return the favor.

"Besides, he's very capable. I want to help him develop his potential. That's all."

I looked at the glass of warm water in front of me.

Whenever Jessica and I argued in the past, she would always pour me a glass of warm water.

I would always soften at those moments, thinking that as the daughter of a wealthy family who had never lacked money, she must have gone through something terrible to become so stingy.

That was why I forgave her and tried to understand her.

But after seeing how freely she spent money on Henry, I finally understood that her frugality had only ever applied to me.

I pushed the glass of warm water back toward her, along with everything she had just said.

Jessica's hand stopped moving. A look of mixed emotions appeared in her eyes.

"Are you still upset because I stood you up this afternoon? I'll make it up to you. Invite your friends over. I'll treat everyone to dinner and use it as a chance to announce that we're getting married. Will that make you happy?"