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In the fifth year of our relationship, she wanted to break up with me and be with her pure love who had returned from abroad.
I didn't want to accept it, so I desperately followed her onto the cruise ship where she worked.
At the moment of the ship's disaster, my girlfriend, a safety officer, held her pure love protectively in her arms.
Meanwhile, I was struck in the head by flying debris and lost my memory.
Later, I agreed to someone else's proposal, but she cried and begged me to remember her.

The Cruise Ship Disaster, Girlfriend Chooses to Save Her Pure Love

In the evening, my colleague Alec knocked on my door.


"Quint, hurry up and get dressed nicely. We've got something going on tonight."


When I opened the door, he was startled by my appearance.


"What happened to you? Why are your eyes so swollen?"


I didn't know how Jolene had explained things to everyone, so I made up an excuse to brush off Alec's concern.


"I think it's an allergic reaction. It just came on suddenly."


Alec didn't question my explanation further. He pushed me into the room and sat me down in a chair.


"There's no time for you to get ready yourself. I'll help you out."


He fixed me up and even picked out a suit for me to wear.


Mysteriously, he led me to the main hall, refusing to answer any of my questions with anything more than:


"You'll see what the surprise is in a moment."


I saw Jolene standing in the middle of the hall, a spotlight illuminating her as she spoke into a microphone.


"I've imagined this moment of proposing to you countless times in my mind. I always thought a proposal needed the perfect time and place. But now that this day has come, I realize nothing matters except you."


As she spoke, she suddenly dropped to one knee and pulled out a ring from her pocket, holding it up.At this point, my heart had turned to ashes. I knew Jolene was proposing to Garrison. I instinctively stepped back, wanting to escape this proposal scene.


But my colleagues still thought Jolene had prepared a surprise proposal for me.


"Quint, why are you running? You've been together for so long, why be shy now?"


They, along with Alec, pushed me out from the crowd.


At the same moment, Jolene called out his name.


Garrison stepped out from the crowd, said "I do," and extended his hand for Jolene to slip the ring on.


The hall erupted with enthusiastic applause and cheers.


Amidst the sympathetic gazes of my colleagues, I pushed my way out of the crowd, my face ashen.


I sat on the deck, feeling the sea breeze and sipping champagne, trying to calm myself down.


But as they say, what you fear most comes to pass. Jolene and Garrison also came to the deck, their tightly clasped hands stabbing pain into my eyes.


Garrison leaned into Jolene's embrace, his face beaming with happiness, deliberately showing off the ring on his hand to me.


I turned my head away, not wanting to look at them, but Garrison wasn't about to let me off the hook."Quint, you suddenly appeared just now. I thought you were coming to compete with me for Jolene."


"It's a good thing you didn't cause a scene just now. If you had ruined the proposal I'd carefully prepared, Quint, I wouldn't have let you off the hook."


They thought I had deliberately shown up to prevent them from being together.


My heart ached terribly, and a sarcastic smile appeared on my face, a desolate laugh.


"I wasn't trying to cause trouble. Everyone thought you were proposing to me, so they pushed me out."


I picked up my glass and took a sip, then continued speaking.


"I wish you a hundred years of happiness together, inseparable in life and death, forever united for the rest of your days."


Jolene thought I was being passive-aggressive and warned me irritably.


"Quint, I've successfully gotten engaged to Garrison now. You should give up on this idea as soon as possible. We can never be together."


Chapter 4