Chapter 1: Deserve the Best

"Congratulation for your wedding"

Passing through the guests, the bride and the groom were welcomed with lots of greetings, as if the emperor and empress walking through their pile of ministers. Both looked so blissful that anyone who saw them would want to get married immediately. They gave hopes to others. The hopes that seemed surreal. Happiness. They perfectly painted a happy-ending story which could only be found in fairy-tale.

Some said that the bride was a real Cinderella that married a prince. Some said the groom was a beast that found his Belle. In conclusion, they were perfect couple. A heaven match-made couple. A power couple.

It took awhile for the couple to finally stand in front of the bride's friends. Honestly speaking, they were the one who had taken part in her present self. Some of them had unconsciously bullied her, while some of them had hurt her to utter despair. However, she was thankful toward them. Without their presence in her life, she wouldn't have married the love of her life. She wouldn't know how to cherish the man who was standing by her side.

"Congratulations", most of them said similar stuff and the couple would reply in pleasantaries. Though the groom was known as an ice-berg in the business circle, he still smiled toward her friends because he respected the woman that he was holding dearly.

However, the groom who had been hugging his bride protectively held the woman in his embrace when the last man who congratulated them came forward. He knew who he was and somehow he had mixed feeling toward the man. Hate but grateful, what a complicated feeling.

"You really deserve the best, Xue er", the man forced his smile.

As the bride who had finally married the love of her life, Chen Li Xue smiled happily and thanked the man before she turned her head to the side "Yes, I really deserve the best." Her face was brimming with happiness while looking at her man while the hand which was on her waist tightened, claiming his person in front of the man "Of course, Chen Li Xue deserves the best."

Honestly, Chen Li Xue always felt that she was dreaming since they were officially in relationship. It felt like dream comes true. She who was a child from a single-parent family had been haunted by marriage. She used to dream for love, but somehow she was sceptical of it.

"Am I dreaming?", Chen Li Xue often asked that very question toward the man that she had put all of her hopes onto.

Looking back to her past, she felt that everything was worth the pain. Without those struggles, she wouldn't be where she was, the warm embrace that would cover wind and storm for her.

The loving atmosphere between the couple somehow brought happiness to some while envy to the rest. Some imagined what if they were the lovely couple while others thought that they were more compatible either to the bride or to the groom.

However, they were just delusional because no one would ever come between them. Not even a chance.

As for them who had once gotten the chance to get the best should take a step back since they first believed that they were imperfect.