Chapter 8
Cecilia said, “Jayce’s feelings for you are sincere, Mimi. He’s someone that we had personally picked out for you, and our
tastes are never wrong.”
I nodded. I’d personally seen Jayce’s attentiveness and consideration toward me the entire way home.
However, I recalled that Liam and Vivi were getting engaged today. While they received everyone’s blessings and praise, I was
slandered as the thief who’d stolen a necklace.
In the end, I chose to tell my parents about my relationship with Liam.
Liam pursued my affections in university, and we chose to be together before we’d even graduated. I’d heard a little about the fact that he had a childhood friend, but I hadn’t taken it to heart as I’d never seen Vivi with him.
Liam had a crystal ball ornament on his desk. Once, when I’d accidentally touched it when I was tidying up his room, he’d actually shot up from his seat and pushed me away. “Don’t ever enter my study again. You’re not allowed to touch anything in my room again!”
Back then, Liam had spoken to me with a dark expression on his face. Yet, when he turned to hold up the crystal ball, his eyes had been filled with infinite tenderness.
He’d shoved me to the floor. When I looked up at him, I unintentionally caught sight of the inscription carved into the base of the crystal ball-“From: Vivi“.
I thought back to the rather platonic love that Liam and I had shared over the past six years. Liam would say he liked me very much every time, but he would only ever go as far as staring at my lips and holding my hand.
Other than when we hugged, he never touched me and was even stingy with kisses.
When I asked him why he didn’t have the impulses that men and women in a relationship usually had, he simply replied, “My parents are rather old–fashioned in their thinking, and we’re currently only at the dating stage.
“We can only do those things once we’ve seriously begun to discuss marriage. This is also a sign of my love for you.”
I’d been greatly moved to hear that back then and became even more resolved to be with Liam. In fact, I’d actually run away from home and rejected the marriage my parents had arranged for me.
Now that Vivi had returned from abroad, everything had become clear to me. It turned out Liam had been saving himself for
Vivi all this time.
When Liam had gotten drunk late at night, I’d also once heard him muttering about how I was more insignificant than a hair
on Vivi’s head.
I’d assumed it was just part of his drunken ramblings and hadn’t paid it much attention at the time. However, I completely understood my place in our relationship now. Those drunken complaints in the middle of the night had probably been
heartfelt
