Chapter 1

I coldly pushed Inga away. My voice was low and rough. I was trying not to choke on my words. “So… you cheated on me, and now, you want me to raise someone else’s kid?”

She said hurriedly, “It’s not like that. Let’s get married after I give birth, okay? I’ll leave the baby with Xion’s parents. It won’t affect our lives.”

I let out a quiet, mocking laugh. “But both of our families know you’re pregnant. Everyone thinks the baby is mine. Inga, do you want everyone to laugh at me?”

Inga frowned. “That’s not what I meant. Your sister saw me at the hospital. She works there. Even if I didn’t say anything, she would’ve found out.

“I already figured it out. After a while, I’ll tell our parents I lost the baby. They’ll never know the truth.

“I’ll stay at Xion’s while I’m pregnant. After I have the baby, we’ll get married and be happy again, just like before, okay?”

Inga only meant for me to know, but she did not expect my sister to see her at the hospital.

I gave her a bitter smile and said, “Perfect. Your life runs just like a plan. You’ve got every step mapped out.”

Did she ever stop to think about how I felt?

Who could ever agree to marry someone who was carrying another man’s child?

When Inga saw me smile, she seemed to relax. She kissed me on the forehead. “Babe, thank you for understanding.

“Let’s move the wedding to six months from now. The baby’s due at the end of the year. We’ll get married after I recover.”

I felt like I had been hit in the chest. My throat tightened. I had a hundred cruel things to say, but nothing came out.

I walked out of the restaurant with Inga in a daze. She waved cheerfully at a Volkswagen parked outside. It turned out she had already asked Xion Zeller to pick her up.

Inga told me Xion had cancer and did not have long to live.

But Xion looked energetic. He was nothing like a sick person.

Inga got into the front passenger seat like she had already done it many times before. She leaned out of the window and waved at me. “Babe, it’s settled then. I’ll be staying at Xion’s until the baby’s born.”

I wanted to scream at them and call them names, but I did not have the strength.

When I found out Inga was pregnant with someone else’s child, it felt like all strength had been drained from me. I was nothing but an empty shell. I stood there and watched Xion drive her away.

Inga and I had been together for five years. Today was our engagement party. Our families had already agreed to hold the wedding next month.

Back when I was with Inga, all I ever dreamed about was marrying her.

But when we first started dating, my parents were against it.

They stopped supporting me financially. To buy Inga a necklace she liked, I took on two part-time jobs while studying. I pushed myself so hard I forgot to eat and ended up in the hospital for two weeks with severe stomach problems.

I was really happy at the time. Inga stayed by my side through those two weeks in the hospital, and I finally bought her that necklace with the money I had earned myself.

I was finally close to the life I had dreamed of, but it all fell apart.

She cheated on me! She was carrying another man’s child, and she planned to keep it.