Chapter 5 The Disastrous Wedding Day
On the screen, I appeared–calm, collected, and devastatingly direct. I began with a message, “You might be wondering where I am. Let me clear that up.”
Then, I revealed everything. The conversations between him and his
mistress, the photos, the hotel bookings- everything I had gathered from his carelessness. The footage rolled on, showing all the evidence of their affair in excruciating detail. The room went dead silent.
In that moment, his world shattered. The guests gasped. His family‘ s faces turned pale. And as the final message played- “I hope it was worth it” -the reality of what had just happened sunk in.
The video had been set to auto–upload to several social media and YouTube, and I had sent the link to all major news outlets.
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Within minutes, it went viral. Plus, there were some people among the guests who recorded and uploaded it themselves.
The netizen went crazy and left so many
comments.
[Wow, aren’t they the couple who own BlaBlu?]
[Too bad. I love their cakes, I hope they will not stop the business.]
[Men are assholes. Ruby deserves better!]
[They looked like a power couple. How can I believe in love now? T.T]
[Is this real or just marketing trick? Either way, so crazy!]
[Disgusting. I’m glad she dares to expose him like this.]
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Eviction was the seventh step in my plan, and it had to be thorough. We had shared that home for years, filled it with
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memories, but I wasn’t going to let him. keep living in the space that once symbolized our future. The betrayal had already poisoned everything.
Weeks before the wedding, while he was distracted by his affair, I quietly met with a lawyer to prepare everything.
Slowly, I transferred the house deeds, had his name removed from the mortgage, and even made changes to the lease. Paul had no idea; he trusted me blindly, and that was his downfall.
The night before the wedding, I made sure every trace of him was erased from my life.. All his belongings, from his clothes to his gadgets, were carefully packed up and waiting for him at the front door. Every drawer, every closet, now belonged to me alone. I had changed the locks and activated the new alarm system.
When Paul came back to the house on our wedding day, of course I wasn‘ t there, and neither were my things. Instead, he found.
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all of his possessions boxed up on the front porch like he had been a temporary guest all along.
Confused, he tried to unlock the door, only to realize the key wouldn‘ t turn.
Panicked, he pounded on the door, but no
answer came.
The only response was the loud shriek of the new alarm. It wasn‘ t long before our gated community‘ s security guards arrived. They knew him, of course–he had lived there for years–but they also saw the boxes outside and my name was now the only one listed on the residence.
With sympathetic looks, the guards told him to contact me directly, but Paul couldn’t. The guards left him standing outside, confused and alone, his world crashing down around him.
He sat on the porch for hours, waiting, hoping I would come back. But as the sky darkened and no lights turned on inside, the reality of my abandonment must have.