로그인I waited for my fiancé, Charlie Boyd, to arrive for the wedding, but the one who pushed the door open was Conrad Parker, the deranged son of his family’s chauffeur. Amid the crowd’s mocking laughter, Charlie’s elegant secretary, Crystal Henderson, covered her mouth and said with a smirk, “Your future husband has come to pick you up. Shouldn’t you hurry off and marry him?” “As for Mr. Boyd, I’ll make sure to keep him company today.” Just then, Charlie strolled to the doorway with practiced nonchalance. “It was just a prank. Why the sour face? “That idiot is nothing but a lunatic. Just treat it like a childish game of make-believe.” I met the amused gleam in his eyes and said calmly, “He came wearing a groom’s suit to pick up his bride—how could that be a game?” “If we are marrying, then let it be a real ceremony.”
더 보기In less than a month, Charlie burned through the last of his money and couldn’t pay the next month’s rent.The landlord showed no mercy and threw him and his few remaining belongings out onto the street.With nowhere to go, he carried two battered bags and crouched beneath an overpass.A few pedestrians walked past and tossed loose change at him.His features twisted as he cried, yet he still reached out and picked up those crumpled bills.Then he bought a few steamed buns and devoured them like a starving man.He spent his last coins on a bus fare and rode all the way to the building where my company stood.By then, his clothes hung off him in tatters, covered in dust.The security guard refused to let him in.He no longer had his former pride. At the guard’s scolding, he recoiled and shrank back, then squatted at the corner near the company building, waiting until I got off work.As soon as I stepped outside, a figure rushed toward me.His lips were cracked, his hair dis
The case moved quickly, and within half a month, Charlie’s father received the death sentence.Charlie exhausted himself running from office to office, spending all his savings to hire the most prestigious team of lawyers. Yet eloquence could never outweigh hard evidence.I sat beside Conrad in the gallery. When the judge delivered the solemn verdict, a long breath escaped from deep in his chest. I held his cold fingers, and he tightened his grip around mine.After we left the courthouse, we bought white chrysanthemums and carnations. Together, we went to a quiet corner of the hillside cemetery and found his father’s grave.Tears fell onto the flowers one by one. Conrad slowly knelt and whispered, “Did you hear, Father? That evil man is finally getting what he deserves. I did it…”I knelt beside him and stayed silently at his side.His broad shoulders trembled. My heart softened, and I reached out to half-embrace him.Perhaps proposing marriage during the wedding pro
“What the hell did you do, Conrad? Why did the police come after my dad? Tell me the truth!” Charlie barked.Though Conrad shared his imposing height of nearly six feet, his gaze looked down on Charlie like one would a mere ant. “You think he was just taken in?” Conrad asked coldly.“He will face prison time, perhaps even an execution. Those who take lives must pay for them; it has always been this way.“Your shouting changes nothing. The evidence is unshakable. You might as well go and see your dad one last time.”His words struck like a blade, slicing through Charlie’s pretended composure.The strained, desperate voice of his father pleading over the phone still echoed in his ears. Charlie’s body wavered. He grabbed the nearest chair for support, trembling, before collapsing with a thud onto the floor. Tears and snot mixed into a miserable smear across his face.For the first time in his life, he begged the man he had long looked down on.“N-no… Conrad, I’m sorry! I kn
Conrad’s father had never been a mere driver for the Boyds. He was his mother’s first love—the true first husband.Years ago, the Boyds’ eldest daughter had fallen for a poor young man, insisting on marriage and children despite her parents’ objections.But after only a few years, she transferred her affections to another man and bore Charlie, a half-brother to Conrad.When her lover rose in status, Conrad and his father became the Boyds’ drivers—the chauffeur and his son. Twelve years passed like that.One day, Conrad returned home from school only to hear the tragic news: his father had died in a car accident.He rushed to the morgue and saw his father’s shattered, twisted body and fainted instantly.Even in his unconscious haze, he overheard his mother speaking with her lover.It had not been an accident at all. The brakes had been tampered with deliberately.The lover even expressed mild regret that Conrad, the ‘annoying baggage’, had survived.Charlie’s mother, thou
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