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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.

A Global Wedding Broadcast

She gazed out the window, murmuring, "Let's start from... 21 years ago..."


The two men in the car were both taken aback.


"I was six years old when my mom brought Cort home. He was so handsome, I liked him from the moment he arrived."


"Zoran also moved to my neighborhood when I was six. I was the leader of the local kids back then. I'd take charge of both Zoran and Cort, and we'd all play together with the other children."


"The three of us made a pact to stay together forever."


"Even when Zoran confessed his feelings for me later, promising to marry me in seven years, it didn't affect our friendship."


"I thought maybe I could just be happy like this forever."


The two men in the backseat seemed frozen in place.


They suddenly remembered how close the three of us used to be.


Serenity in the video asked the same question aloud, but she provided the answer:


Chapter 7