A Global Wedding Broadcast

A high-society wedding broadcast worldwide.

My childhood sweetheart broke our seven-year promise, proposing to Melody, a girl from an underprivileged background, right in front of everyone.

Just as I became the laughingstock of the entire city, on the verge of a breakdown and despair,

My usually cold and aloof adoptive brother, Cort, publicly married me right after the wedding.

I thought he was my saving grace, and I fell deeper and deeper under his unwavering devotion over the next five years.

Until I accidentally overheard a conversation between two people:

"Is it really worth sacrificing yourself by marrying someone you don't love, all for Melody's sake?"

"We agreed from the start: whoever Melody chooses, the other one would marry Serenity."

"I'd do anything as long as Melody can be happy."

Only then did I realize that this marriage of redemption was nothing but a thorough conspiracy from the very beginning.

Two acts performed by old acquaintances, with Melody as the sole protagonist.

I personally orchestrated a kidnapping.

Watching Cort and Zoran rush towards Melody, I smiled as I pressed the detonator.

For the rest of my life, I hope to have no more entanglements with any of you.