Part 3The Price of Happily Ever After

Logically speaking, I shouldn't have agreed.

Anyone with eyes could see that Ethan only had eyes for Chloe.

But I had just received a call from my parents urging me to marry last night.

And this morning, I received a layoff notice.

Average education, average job, average family background.

If it weren't for the Vance family urging marriage, and Chloe not wanting the "fertile water to flow into others' fields," I wouldn't even be qualified to go on a blind date with Ethan.

Let alone become Mrs. Cole.

I am a vulgar person.

Thinking that without love, marrying for money is also good.

And, what if?

Anyway, the female lead and the second male lead are destined not to be together.

Just like that, life fast-forwarded to the day I married Ethan.

From the moment the wedding invitations were sent out.

My life welcomed its highlight moment.

Relatives and friends came to visit, smiling fawningly.

I suddenly became the proudest daughter in my parents' mouths.

My in-laws gave me a red envelope with a million dollars the first time they met me.

Chloe looked at the pigeon-egg-sized diamond ring on my finger, bit her lip, and said:

"Sarah, how could you pick such an expensive diamond ring?"

"After all, it's my brother's money, not earned by yourself..."

But her wedding ring was also bought by Liam.

The difference was mine cost twenty million, hers two thousand.

I didn't mind her bossing me around.

After all, if she was unhappy with me, Ethan might call off the wedding on the spot.

I smiled bitterly and said, "Chloe, your brother married me just for show. The person he truly likes is still you."

"I envy you marrying for love, while I only have cold money."

The corner of Chloe's eyes showed窃喜 (secret delight).

"Sarah, you absolutely must not say that!"

"I will absolutely never like my brother!"

Ethan happened to hear that sentence when he arrived.

The sorrow in his eyes was hard to dissolve.

With a bit of spite, he took my hand: "Let's go, Mom and Dad are waiting for us."

That day.

Ethan drank a lot of alcohol.

Cup after cup, he stared at Chloe.

Stared until Liam's face looked ugly, and my in-laws' faces darkened.

Soon it was late at night.

We returned to the villa marital home.

Ethan walked unsteadily.

He fell onto the sofa, glasses falling off, collar open, his handsome face flushed.

Handsome enough to make one blush.

I understood Chloe's intention in making him marry me even more.

With me, there would be no other women.

But Ethan didn't look at me at all, which also allowed him to keep his chastity for her.

Like now, he said: "Sarah Summers, I won't do anything with you..."

"Don't hope for what you shouldn't think about. Be your Mrs. Cole with peace of mind."

The disgust and disdain in his eyes were clearly visible.

After speaking, his breathing soon steadied, and he fell asleep.

I looked at his face with closed eyes, a bit dazed.

If someone who really wanted to be his wife heard these words, she would be very sad.

Of course, it's not that I'm completely not sad.

Because, I also once had a crush on him.