LOGINElias' POVMatthew said, "Before I went abroad, you promised you'd wait for me to come back, but then you went and spent five years with Elias! "Am I not allowed to say anything about that? Ivy, you used to like me! Besides, didn't you take my side that day, too?"Matthew reached out to pull Ivy into his arms. "Elias is already married. Stop thinking about him."Matthew was about to say more, but Ivy tore herself out of his arms.Her eyes were red as she yelled, "Matthew! I only let you stay here out of friendship! You were the one who asked me to confess, and you said it was only an act for your family so they'd stop hounding you to get married!"You even promised to delete all the recordings from that day! But it turns out this was all a trap you deliberately set for Eli!"She packed up Matthew's things and threw them out. "Go find somewhere else to live."Seeing how resolute Ivy is, Matthew presses his lips together. He could tell that she wasn't going to listen to any more
Elias' POVThroughout the wedding, Ivy kept looking in my direction. I stood there dressed in a sharp suit.I should have been her partner, the person she would spend her life with, but she had been the one to lose me.Unable to watch anymore, she stumbled out of the wedding venue.Ivy looked at her phone and saw the messages I'd sent her before—funny videos, pictures of stray cats I'd come across, photos of delicious-looking food, and even a heart-shaped cloud I'd spotted in the sky.She scrolled through them with tears streaming down her face.I had clearly cared about her so much before. She didn't understand why I had suddenly decided I didn't want her anymore, or why I wasn't even willing to give her a chance to make things right.Then, she scrolled down and saw that she'd almost never replied to any of those messages. Even when I'd sent her long messages telling her that I was being pressured to settle down, she'd only replied, "Didn't I tell you from the start that we wer
Elias' POVAs it turned out, it was quite the coincidence. That day, I accepted the blind date invitation and went to the rooftop restaurant as promised. It wasn't until I arrived that I realized Elodie was the one sitting across from me.Seeing the shock and confusion on my face, she broke into a smile. "Elias! I knew you wouldn't recognize me! I even posted pictures of myself from when I was a kid on my social media, but you still didn't figure it out!"Only then did I realize that the blind date Aliya had set me up with was Elodie, my neighbor from when I was still a child.She told me she'd been asking around about me for a long time. Then, some time ago, she finally heard news about me and kept pestering our mutual friends to introduce us. But I'd turned her down again and again, and it wasn't until yesterday that we finally added each other as friends on social media. Looking at Elodie, memories of our childhood suddenly came flooding back. We had been neighbors f
Elias' POVMy wife, Elodie Whitmore, stood in front of me, eyeing Ivy with unmistakable wariness."Ms. Bennett, I've seen you at an academic conference before. I know you're Eli's colleague, but Eli and I are getting married today. "So if you're here to celebrate us, you're more than welcome. But if you're not, please leave immediately."With just a single statement, Elodie had reduced my relationship with Ivy to that of ordinary colleagues.When Ivy heard that, her face grew even paler. However, she couldn't find the words to refute it.Besides my family and friends, a few of my former colleagues were also present at the wedding. They had all heard, to some extent, about how Ivy had publicly distanced herself from me at the lab not long ago. Seeing her show up today was stunning enough as it was. Aware of the eyes on her, Ivy stopped in her tracks. She hesitated, unable to bring herself to take another step forward. In the end, she could only watch as Elodie and I proce
Elias' POVRecognizing Ivy's voice, I calmly replied from behind the wheel of the wedding car, "What is it?"Ivy, who was always so composed and level-headed, was now frantic with anxiety. She demanded, "You haven't been back to our apartment in Grayfield this whole time? Where are you, Eli? "Are you really getting married? But I went to Jenna's wedding, and you weren't the groom! Elias Ashford, who exactly are you marrying?""Who I marry has nothing to do with you."Ivy's anger was instantly doused by those words. "Eli, even if you feel wronged because I didn't make our relationship public, you can't treat marriage like a joke and marry someone you met just half a month ago!"As she spoke, her voice began to tremble slightly. "We've been together for five years! Are we really breaking up just because I never made our relationship public?"Listening to her reproachful and admonishing tone, I couldn't help but scoff. "So? Who are you to me? What gives you the right to question m
Third-Person POVIvy froze for a fraction of a second and pressed the phone closer to her ear."Bride? What bride?" she asked, frowning, but no one answered her.When she turned to glance at her phone, she saw that the call had already been disconnected.Was Elias getting married? But that was impossible! Jenna had a terrible reputation! How could Elias possibly agree to marry her?Despite knowing that, Ivy simply couldn't seem to shake the inexplicable sense of unease within her. In just half an hour, she'd copied the experimental data wrong more than a dozen times.She hurried to check my social media, only to find that I'd already blocked her. When she called again, it went unanswered.Left with no other choice, she could only check Jenna's social media page instead. But the first thing she saw was a glaring post that said, "We're Married!"The post showed the wedding decorations and invitation details, all clearly stating that the wedding was that day.Unable to wait unt







