Chapter 2

My comment received combative replies in an instant. Countless clueless netizens started verbally abusing me.

Very quickly, I received a call from Jordan.

He made no attempt to explain and only gave me a cold “Apologize.”

I thought I might have heard him wrong. “What am I apologizing for? What have I done wrong?”

Jordan let out a frustrated sigh. “Crystal used to be one of our army medics and helped many of my military friends. It’s only normal for everyone to dislike you when you came in later.

“Apologize to Crystal and tell her you didn’t mean to leave that comment. She’s crying very hard right now. She thinks she’s at fault for not defending you.”

His words were like icy daggers stabbing into my heart.

We fell into silence for a long moment before I spoke up.

“Let’s break up, Jordan. I’m not marrying you.”

Through the line, I could hear Crystal crying and Jordan consoling her.

I could not hear what they said exactly, but Jordan’s tone was very impatient when he next spoke.

“Enough. Stop causing a fuss and apologize to Crystal immediately. She’s crying so hard her makeup is ruined.

“Besides, I’m a senior military officer. I am powerful and respected. Countless women would kill for me to even look at them. Marrying me gives you wealth and prestige. How could you give that up?”

I was enraged, but those words made me want to laugh.

So he thought that I was only marrying him for his position and power.

In his eyes, I was apparently just a shallow and materialistic woman.

I hung up as tears streamed down my face, washing away the intricate makeup I had spent three hours working on.

I looked at the photo on the table. It was our first-ever photo together. I could not help but wonder how we had gotten to this point.

Seven years ago, a war had split my family apart.

During one icy winter night, I stumbled through a storm. I was shaking hard from the cold and nearly froze to death. However, the second before I fainted, I saw a figure walking toward me.

This person laid their hand on my feverish forehead and brought me back to camp.

During the journey, they put their coat over me. By the time we got back, they were covered in so much snow that they looked like a snowman. By contrast, I was untouched.

When I next opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was Jordan’s handsome face.

I knew that he was the person who had saved me.

After the war, we went back to our own lives. I thought that we would never meet each other again.

However, on what was a typical afternoon, I saw him on the street, drunk.

Crystal had gone overseas, and Jordan had lost his main pillar of support. As such, he could only wallow in his grief and drown himself in alcohol.

During this time, I was always by his side, comforting him and motivating him. However, I never had any intentions of getting romantically involved with him.

It was after I spent all this time with him that he suddenly confessed his feelings to me.

“Valerie, thank you for being there for me during the hardest time of my life. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have been able to weather it. Would you be my girlfriend?”

He had put a bullet on a chain and turned it into a necklace. Then, he put that necklace around my neck.

“This bullet once pierced my chest, barely millimeters from my heart. But I miraculously survived, and I’ve kept this bullet ever since. I think of it as a lucky charm. Now, I’m giving it to you.”

I was so touched by this gesture.

I thought that we really loved each other, but Crystal’s return turned all of these thoughts into dust.

He once left me in the rain to go and comfort Crystal, who was scared of thunder.

He once missed our anniversary to celebrate Crystal’s birthday.

When he found out that Crystal could no longer have children after getting injured, he openly shifted all of the love he showered on me to her.

I had been disappointed again and again, but I had chosen again and again to forgive him.

However, I was truly tired at this point.