Chapter 3

The next day, Jude woke up very early.

Summer only woke up around ten in the morning. When she walked out of their bedroom, she saw him writing something. She rubbed her eyes and walked over.

He had written a lot in his notebook. As she read, she realized it was a bucket list.

Firstly, he wanted to go back to his hometown and meet up with some friends.

Secondly, he wanted to feed some pigeons next to a lake.

Thirdly, he wanted to get drunk in a bar…

“Jude, why are you writing these down?”

Jude’s hand that was holding the pen paused. He looked up at her.

“It’s my bucket list.”

After hearing that, Summer seemed to recall something. Her eyes immediately crinkled up into a smile. “When you were eighteen, you also wrote a bucket list…”

She suddenly stopped halfway as she looked upset with herself.

Jude knew that she felt she had said something wrong. She was afraid that Jude would be upset if she brought up the past.

However, he had gotten past that. He was not upset at all. Instead, he continued the topic.

“That’s right, back then, I listed 100 things that I would like to complete before I turned 18. I wanted to go bungee jumping, go skiing, go on an adventure, and go surfing… Every single one of them sounded crazy.

“Yet, you’re even crazier than I was. Not only did you help to film me, but you also experienced them with me.”

Hearing the nostalgia in his voice, a lot of memories popped up in Summer’s mind too. She smiled.

“I loved you so much. No matter what you did, I wanted to follow you. When you were by my side, I wasn’t afraid of anything at all. I just shut my eyes and jumped off the cliff just like that…”

Jude silently watched as her expression lit up.

Then, he looked away from her face and suddenly said, “It’s been a long time since I saw such a happy smile on your face.”

The smile froze on Summer’s face.

It was a little tense for a few seconds before she changed the subject.

“Let me accompany you to make this new list come true, alright?”

Jude shook his head and made himself sound stubborn. “These are my wishes, and they have nothing to do with you. You’re so busy with work, you don’t have to accompany me in doing this.”

For some unknown reason, Summer’s heart sank a little when she saw how calm he was.

She wanted to persuade him further, yet her phone suddenly started ringing.

She pulled out her phone. That bright smile reappeared on her face.

After saying that it was a work call, she did not even spare a glance at him before leaving the room.

Jude was a little stunned when he saw her leaving.

In the past, he had also rejected her company, saying that he wanted to complete the bucket list alone.

Yet, she had firmly refused. She stuck to him like glue until he finally agreed.

However, things had changed.

He did not even need to talk her out of it. She did not even bother to pretend that she was concerned about him.

When people claimed that marriage was the tomb of love, he did not believe it.

However, it seemed like it was the truth after all.

Their love barely survived its early stages, and there was no hope for them to grow old together.

It was worn away bit by bit, leaving nothing but complete exhaustion.

Jude finished writing the bucket list on his own.

Finally, he wrote neatly on the top of the list: Jude’s Last Wishes.

After he wrote that, his phone lit up.

It was a text message from Finn. This time, he sent a photo of Summer sitting in the shotgun seat.

Whenever Jude received these messages in the past, it felt completely excruciating.

However, after seeing so many of these photos, he only felt numb. He picked up his laptop and made a copy of these messages.

Then, he printed these out alongside his bucket list and put all of them into his drawer.

He had already printed many of these taunting messages out from before. There was a huge stack of printed papers in his drawer from the past few days.

To him, death was salvation.

However, it did not mean that he was willing to give his blessings to Summer and Finn.

When Summer no longer loved him, she should have told him instead of having an emotional affair.

Finn was wrong to taunt him in such a manner either.

Finn’s behavior was nothing like the perfect man Summer described in her journal.

Jude was more than happy to show Summer his true colors.