Upon hearing this, he paused.

With an unhappy expression, he asked, “What nonsense are you talking about?”

He looked at me with a skeptical gaze.

Seeing my strong and healthy appearance, he obviously didn’t believe that I was sick.

I picked up the medical report on the table that he hadn’t noticed.

Colin took the report with suspicion.

“Late-stage breast cancer... How is this possible?”

He couldn’t believe it. He looked at the medical record over and over again.

“It’s impossible...”

He looked serious.

It gave me the illusion of being loved by him deeply.

When he saw the name of the hospital, his frowned brow relaxed as he said, “Gloria, you asked the hospital of the Nelson family to help you fake it? How good you are at winning people’s hearts?”

He threw the medical record at me.

“If you’re going to pretend, at least make yourself look pale.”

“Just as Mom said, you people from these small families always use these lowly tricks.”

He felt he had seen through everything and exuded confidence.

He looked down on me with disdain.

Colin actually said this about me.

Clearly he knew that my family was a abyss.

Sure enough, the person who knew what I cared about the most could hurt me the most with their words.

What was ridiculous was that I had laid everything bare.

I still naively believed in him.

I laughed and coughed, unable to stop.

In the end, he impatiently returned to the study and closed the door with a loud noise.

I stayed where I was, savoring the harsh words.

Colin never believed in me at all.

He only believed in Esme. She could lead him with any excuse she made up.

This was what it looked like when he loved someone. He would be wholeheartedly devoted to her and believe in her without reservation.

I had seen his love.

Someone like me, who grew up in a normal family, shouldn’t have any relationship with someone like Colin, a son of heaven.

But fate was just so coincidental.

In high school, I once skipped class and fought.

Colin climbed up a tree to rescue a trapped stray cat, and happened to witness the whole process.

He didn’t say a word, thinking that I hadn’t noticed him.

I scared the person away, put the school uniform jacket on my shoulder, and looked up at him.

“Have you seen enough?”

With just that one glance, he blushed and fell from the tree.

I instinctively reached out and caught him.

He froze, and so did I.

After all, he was the famous prince in the school, a proud son of heaven, and his family background was prominent.

I smiled slightly and said, “Aren’t you coming down? You’re so heavy.”

I saw his ears turn red.

I thought to myself that he was so innocent.

Since then, he transformed into a fanboy and started following me around.

He brought me food and water every day.

He said he wanted to go to the same college as me, so he insisted on helping me with my homework.

Under his guidance, my grades had improved by leaps and bounds.

He was like a humble little dog, wagging his tail and trying to please me.

Many people were betting to see how long he could last.

But I didn’t expect that his persistence saved me.

On the eve of the SAT, I was almost beaten to death by my father’s creditor.

Colin took me away regardless and paid off all the debts my father owed from gambling.

I was the one who got hurt, but he was the one crying.

I wiped away his tears with my bandaged fingers, but he grabbed my hand.

“No wonder you fight so fiercely. It turns out you have suffered so much. Why didn’t you tell me?”

At that time, he was full of self-blame and regret for me in his words.

Maybe it was the warm sunshine that touched me.

I told him a secret that no one else knew.

My dad took the money my mom used to buy medicine and went gambling, which caused my mom to have a seizure and die in the house.

I was very young at that time, and I didn’t know anything except crying while holding her.

There was no food at home, so I went outside to pick up garbage to eat.

When I came back, I found several stray cats gnawing on her body.

That was the first time I faced death, and since then I didn’t like cats.

At that time, Colin looked at me with pity and hugged me tightly.

He promised me that he would treat me well and I would always be his most precious treasure.

I still remembered his resolute appearance.

But he had completely forgotten why I hated cats.

He thought I was just allergic to cat hair.

When the SAT was over, Colin looked at me with a burning gaze and said, “Gloria, shall we run away?”

I shrugged and smiled, “Run away? Where to?”

My whole life had been a mess.

My father had planned my life for me. After graduating from high school, I would work in a factory and then get married to make money for him.

He wouldn’t help me pay a penny of tuition.

The tuition for my high school was all raised by people in my village.

Colin had also helped my family repay the debt, and I had to repay.

My father was a time bomb, which might affect me at any time.

I gave up on myself long ago. Choosing to study was just to make Colin a little happier.

His family’s plan for him was to study abroad.

His future should not have me.

But Colin convinced me. I was young and impulsive, so I chose him regardless.

In the end, he applied to a domestic university.

He didn’t follow the family’s arrangement and lost his source of income.

At that time, we lived a very poor but also very happy life in a rented house.

After part-time work every day, we would play around in the rented small room.

We have quarreled and fought, but we only have each other in our eyes.

If time could freeze at that moment, it would be great.

But I knew it was impossible. Since he helped my family repay the debt, we were destined to be unequal.