Chapter 2

All of a sudden, I no longer wanted to stay here and got up to leave.

The others saw me and reminded Jeffrey.

"Jeffrey, Audrey is keeping it for a while. Why are you being so fierce?"

Jeffrey didn't care what they said. He furrowed subconsciously as he said, "What's wrong with me asking her to bring it?"

He seemed to realize something and let go of Joanna's hand.

He scratched his arm and said, "Joanna's wearing a dress. It's not convenient for her to squat. That's why I'm in a hurry."

I forced a smile. It was hilarious.

He didn't love me, so he didn't need to care about my feelings.

I took out the ring and handed it to Joanna.

Joanna, however, didn't take it. She pretended to be generous. "Since you like it, I'll give it to you."

As she said this, she raised her hand which was wearing a huge ring.

"After all, I already have a new one, and I won't wear the old one.

"I don't think you have one, do you?"

Joanna looked at Jeffrey lovingly, her voice elongated like a kitten.

"If you want one, ask Jeffrey to buy one. It's not expensive anyway.

"But there's a problem. He has already used his ID to buy a DR ring once. So if you need it, you might have to get it from a different person."

Joanna said in a sarcastic tone, but her expression looked like she was aggrieved.

Seeing the bracelet engraved with the oath on the outstretched wrist, I suddenly felt like a clown.

The ring of a lifetime was given to Joanna, an Internet influencer, and the bracelet bought at a random roadside stall was given to me, his real girlfriend.

I was just like the useless rose pieces on the ground, just a pile of used trash.

Pushing away Joanna's hand, I walked straight out the door.

Inside the hall, the crowd was talking about my so-called rude behavior.

"She shouldn't come back once she leaves. If it wasn't for Jeffrey covering her expenses, she would have long ended up as a beggar."

"Alright, cut the crap."

"Still calling herself a rose. I haven't seen any roses that are ugly."

Jeffrey did not look good. He looked at my back as I left.

It was cool in the mountains in the evening, and the setting sun seemed to signal the imminent end of our relationship.

I looked at the birds returning to the south, and my thoughts followed them back to that year.

He said I was like a rose in bud, and he wanted to be the Little Prince.

I thought the perfect match for the Little Prince was a fox, so I didn't agree with his confessions.

Until that spring, he bought that rose garden for me.

He covered my eyes and made me stand at the top of the hill where the roses were in full bloom.

I remembered the wind that day carried the scent of the flowers, and he held me in his arms, promising to give me a home.

Once upon a time, I loved freedom so much, but his words made me fold my wings.

I began to live under his protection.

In those five years we'd been together, we spent countless nights in this rose manor. And he would tell me he would marry me at the end of each one.

But it wasn't until now that I realized his promises were worthless.

He had given me nothing except the bracelet.

False prince, false love, and poor roses...

Before the tears fell, I broke the bracelet that didn't really fit.

Jeffrey could never keep roses.

There were two days left. Then Dad would arrive.