All Chapters of Wedding Night: She Gave Herself to Another: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

I wandered through the streets as memories from years ago resurfaced. Rachel had cried herself unconscious in my arms when the Mead family's capital chain broke back then. I actually kneeled in front of Mom and Dad for three whole days for her sake, until my knees were a bloody mess, just to secure that life-saving capital injection.I was 20 years old when I stormed in alone to rescue her when she was abducted by a rival family. I took a bullet through the chest and nearly lost my life then. I was 25 years old when she suddenly got drugged in a bar. I rushed to her side, with steel still fixed inside my body, and was beaten until my spleen ruptured, surviving two emergency resuscitations. I was 30 years old when she was trapped beneath an avalanche. I dug through the snow until dawn, and when she was finally dragged out, my entire body was frozen stiff, and the hospital issued critical condition notices five times. I never thought that one day she would become like this.Just

It was then that someone called out my name. "Charlie!"I hadn't expected anyone to call out to me at a moment like this. I figured I was just hallucinating at that point. I clearly never expected Ruby Shaw, my arch-nemesis, to rush into the warehouse.I had known Ruby for 20 years, and we had been rivals since childhood. I was seven years old when she destroyed my school craft project in public. I was 12 years old when she stole my registration form for the math olympiad. I was 18 years old when she intentionally ruined my answer sheet during our final exams. I was 23 years old when she poached my entire core team during my first startup.I never expected her to run in and save me, completely putting her own life on the line. I yelled to her anxiously, "It's a bomb, and it's about to explode, so get out of here this instant!"Ruby came straight to me without any hesitation, cut through the ropes binding me in one swift motion, and hurled the bomb out at the last possible moment.

Rachel went completely rigid, her heart seizing abruptly as a wave of unfamiliar panic and sharp pain washed over her. She was trembling as she spoke, completely oblivious to the sheer panic in her own voice. "T-That's impossible! T-Take me to the warehouse this instant!" She staggered as the bodyguards brought her to the abandoned warehouse in the suburbs. She was met with the sight of the aftermath of the blast—burnt wreckage, thick smoke, and a gaping crater—but the bloody, mangled corpse she had prepared herself to see was nowhere to be found.She stared at the ruins, her tense body suddenly relaxing. She finally breathed a sigh of relief, her palms covered in cold sweat. She turned her head, fixing a sharp gaze on the bodyguard. She then asked coldly, "Who ordered you to do this?"Her bodyguard finally replied under the pressure of her intense glare, "It was Mr. Sorenson's order."She turned and headed straight back to the villa, where she spotted Quentin still huddled on the

Third-Person Point-of-ViewRachel stood rooted to the spot in utter disbelief after being thrown out.It was then that her phone suddenly buzzed frantically, with notifications flooding the screen."Lund Group has declared the complete withdrawal of all funding to Mead Group!""All members of the core tech team have submitted their resignations and departed alongside Charlie Lund!""Banks are blowing up the phones, demanding loan repayments!""Several business partners have suspended ongoing projects and are seeking to reevaluate Mead Group's credentials!"Rachel looked at her phone screen, which was overwhelmed by red unread notifications. She sank to the floor, realizing that the bankruptcy Jack warned her about was actually becoming a reality. Charlie, who had once placed her above everything, had now taken everything away from her. In the end, the Mead family was done for, with Mead Group collapsing rapidly as its cash flow dried up and its assets were seized and auctioned