After My Girlfriend Ran Off Three Times for Her First Love, I Married Someone Else—Then She Begged Me to Reconcile

“Ethan, will you go with me!” The wedding venue fell silent in an instant. I froze where I was, in the middle of putting a ring on my girlfriend Mia. My girlfriend’s first love, Lucas, stood up again and shouted at her. “Mia, I’m crashing the wedding. Will you leave with me?” Mia immediately pulled free from my hand and lifted her dress as she walked gracefully over to Lucas. Tears filled Mia’s eyes as she stared at Lucas, looking thrilled and emotional. It was as if Lucas was the one she was marrying today, while I, the real groom standing under the spotlight, looked like a clown in a suit. Mia solemnly placed her hand in Lucas’s and said in a voice everyone could hear: “Lucas, I will!” The situation was crystal clear. I had just had my wedding stolen by Mia’s first love. But I wasn’t angry. In fact, I even felt like it was only natural. After all, this was already the third time I’d had my wedding stolen in the past month. I put down the ring in my hand and gripped it tightly, the pain in my palm clearly pressing the shape of the ring into my skin. Once again, nobody stopped them. Even Mia’s parents just sat on the stage, completely still. And I just stood there quietly, watching the two of them put on their show. I had been angry before. The first time the wedding was stolen, I flew into a rage and screamed at them both. That was the woman who had promised to marry me. This was the wedding I had carefully prepared, and I could not let Lucas destroy it. My eyes were red as I tried to rush up and pin Lucas to the ground. But all the relatives stopped me. Lucas stepped back beside Mia and said, “See? He turns into this the second something happens. He’s an angry guy. He might even hit you someday!” “Good thing I helped you test him like this. Otherwise, who knows how much suffering you’d have to go through later?” Everyone there immediately turned the blame on me, and I went from groom to sinner in an instant. The relatives took turns brainwashing me, saying I had done something wrong and that this was just a test. Why was I getting so angry? In the end, I handed out a few big red envelopes, and only then did Mia reluctantly agree to marry me again. I had also begged before. The second time the wedding was stolen, I wasn’t angry. I didn’t fly into a rage. I knelt on the ground and grabbed Mia’s wedding dress. I begged her not to leave me. I told her I loved her, and I said every single thing I loved about her. Lucas pointed at me and cursed again. “Pah, and you still want to gaslight Mia? You’re a useless man. All you know how to do is cry and make a scene when something happens!” “What else can you do besides being nice to Mia? If she ends up with you, she’s bound to suffer!” In an instant, I was once again condemned by everyone. Everyone there was Mia’s family and friends. I was an orphan. I had no relatives, no friends, no parents. They surrounded me, insulting and blaming me nonstop, while Mia was still leaning into Lucas’s arms, smiling sweetly. Neither anger nor begging worked. If everything I did was wrong, then I’d do nothing at all. So I just stood there and watched the two of them. That was when Lucas said loudly enough for everyone to hear: “Look at Ethan. This man doesn’t love you at all!” “Even now, after your wedding got stolen, he doesn’t care. How could you marry a man like this?” “He already failed all three tests. I think he’s just not worth marrying!” Anger didn’t work. Begging didn’t work. Acting like I didn’t care didn’t work either. So what exactly did they want me to do? After hearing Lucas’s words, Mia picked up the bouquet in her hands and threw it at me. “Ethan! You bastard, what are you standing there for? I’m about to be taken away by someone else!” “You’re not moving at all. You don’t love me at all!” She glared at me with anger, as if she really was furious. But I only took the flowers off myself and straightened my suit. Then I walked slowly up to the emcee and took the microphone from his hand. “Mia, go ahead and leave.” “I’m not marrying you.”After I said that, the entire wedding venue went silent. They had all assumed I was already completely under Mia’s thumb, and that no matter what she did, I would never end this relationship. Mia quickly recovered from her shock, and she only got angrier. Her eyebrows shot up as she grabbed the wine glass beside her and threw it straight at me. The custom suit I had specially bought for the wedding was completely ruined. Mia shouted at me, “Ethan, what the hell is wrong with you!” “You still dare tell me you’re not getting married? You really do have the nerve!” “You failed every single test, and you still dare say that!” A test? A wedding banquet costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each time, plus the wedding dress, photography, emcee, flowers, and venue, all costing tens of thousands. Three banquets together added up to several million dollars. I laughed, because I had paid for all three of those weddings myself. “So you’re saying it was a test, not a real wedding, right? Fine.” “The three weddings cost a total of $450,000. Pay me back. Can you afford that?” Of course she couldn’t. Every piece of clothing and every accessory Mia wore was bought by me. The house her parents lived in, the car they drove, and even the company where they worked belonged to me. There was no way she could pull together that much money. The reason Mia had this luxurious life in the first place was because I kept paying for it all. And yet she didn’t care at all. Her anger only got worse. Another glass of wine splashed over me. “I let you spend money on me because it was your honor!” “Besides a few filthy dollars, what else do you have? Don’t even think about using money to tie me down!” “You still dare tell me to pay you back? I’m going to teach you a lesson!” After saying that, she left the banquet hall in her wedding dress, dragging Lucas with her. Lucas looked back at me and gave me a victorious smile. I watched the two of them walk farther and farther away, and all I felt was exhaustion and heartbreak. I really had never expected that the woman I had loved for five years would turn out like this. I lowered my head and looked at the pair of rings in my hand, the deep marks on them still visible, and tears finally came. Back then, Mia and Lucas had been the real couple. But when Mia’s family fell on hard times and Lucas could no longer get money from her, he broke up with her and left the country. I had always loved Mia. After learning she had broken up with Lucas, I launched an insane pursuit. Under my relentless chasing, she finally agreed and became my girlfriend. Then came the month we were discussing marriage, just when I thought that five years of love were finally about to come to an end. Lucas came back from overseas and completely threw all my plans into chaos. Mia threw herself into Lucas’s arms. She stopped caring about my feelings and stopped caring about my complaints. Other than my money, she didn’t care about anything else. She only cared about Lucas. She used my love for her as a tool to win more and more benefits for Lucas. Mia kept trampling all over my love and my dignity. This relationship had been rotten for a long time. I was just the fool still pretending everything was fine. I took back the money gift I had given her parents and told the emcee to clear out everyone at the venue. I changed clothes, grabbed my car keys, and was about to go home. One of Mia’s relatives stopped me and asked with a sly smile, “Ethan, when’s the next wedding?” They still hadn’t had enough of the show, and they still didn’t believe I would leave Mia. I didn’t answer him. I just got into my car. There would be no next wedding.I drove home and started packing. I had made up my mind to cut ties with her completely. I could not let anything in my house that had to do with her or with us stay there. The house was full of proof that we really had once loved each other. I was an orphan. Nobody raised me, nobody cared for me, and I spent my days digging through trash cans on the street for food. Then one day, I found half a piece of meat and happily held it up. At that moment, a starving dog lunged out from the side and snatched the meat. I was so hungry that I didn’t even care what had stolen my food. I just fought it. In the end, I won a hard-fought victory. I dragged my bruised, wounded body to the side of a trash can and watched the bright, well-dressed people on the street eating the meat that had been torn apart in my hand. I watched the children on the road holding candy and walking with their parents, and I was so envious. I wanted to taste what candy actually felt like. Then suddenly, a girl in a little princess dress noticed me. She broke free of her parents’ hands and walked over to me, offering me a piece of candy. With innocent, dreamy eyes, she said to me, “I’m giving you candy. If you eat it, it won’t hurt anymore.” That was the first time I had ever seen such a beautiful girl. Her cute, lovely smile was like an angel descending to earth, carving a deep mark into my heart. That piece of candy, along with the girl’s smile that day, was deeply etched into my heart and became a treasure I would never forget. Later, I worked my way into college on my own. Then I saw someone, and it felt as if she had grown into the girl in my mind. Later, I learned her name. It was Mia. But by then, she was already with Lucas, so I could only bury my feelings deep in my heart. Then Mia’s family suffered a huge disaster, fell into decline, and Lucas decisively chose to break up with Mia and go abroad. Mia cried every day, and how could I bear to let my angel shed tears? I used every method I could think of to make her smile. Then, by pure coincidence, my company hit a huge business boom, my net worth skyrocketed, and I used all the money in my personal account to help Mia’s family through the crisis. They invited me to dinner at their home, and that night, Mia was sent into my arms by her parents. I knew they were after my money, but I just so happened to have more money than I could ever spend in my lifetime. I was willing to spend it on the person I loved, on the angel in my heart. No matter what they asked for, I did everything I could to make it happen. I knew Mia still loved Lucas at the time. And I naively believed that as long as I loved her with everything I had, I would one day replace Lucas in her heart. I treated her like the sun in my world and doted on her without holding back. A moth rushing into a flame had finally burned me badly today. I looked at all the things in the house that proved Mia and I had been together. Tears once again spilled from my eyes. I remembered the day I bought this house. Mia was standing beside me in a mask. Her big eyes were blinking with excitement as she stared at the villa, muttering about our future life. Back then, I thought I had already completely replaced Lucas. But maybe all she was thinking about even then was Lucas. My phone also lit up at the wrong time with a hotel booking notification. Mia didn’t have her own card. Every single payment she made was charged to mine. And as long as I checked the spending records, I knew exactly what she bought and what she did. I knew she had taken the wedding dress and gone to a hotel with Lucas. And just a moment ago, I had still been holding her hand and asking if she was willing to marry me. Why did the sweet little angel I once knew rot into someone like this? I covered my eyes and lay down on the sofa as tears slowly came out. Three days passed, and I finally finished packing up everything in the house, planning to box it all up and return it to Mia. I sat on the sofa, looking at the empty room, waiting for the delivery truck to arrive. Then the front door of the villa suddenly opened. Mia was leaning into Lucas’s arms, and the two of them walked into the villa smiling.The moment Mia walked in and saw the empty living room, she froze. She broke free from Lucas’s arms and walked straight up to me, demanding, “Ethan, what the hell are you trying to do? Haven’t you caused enough trouble at the wedding banquet?” “Now you’re messing up the house like this too. Do you even want to keep living together?” Lucas also stood nearby and put on a fake, pitiful look as he said, “Didn’t Mia already tell you? Those three weddings were just tests.” “Sorry, sorry, it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have cared so much about Mia!” With one mouthful, Lucas shifted all the blame onto me again, and I became the unreasonable sinner. I looked at the two of them, both of them acting so superior, and said with a smile, “So after you two left the venue, I was supposed to beg the two of you to forgive me?” “So I get my wedding stolen, get cursed at by you, and then go apologize to you afterward?” Mia didn’t catch the sarcasm in my words. She even nodded as if satisfied. “If you begged me like that, I might still keep going with you.” She looked me over from head to toe and continued, “But the way you are now, there’s no way I’m staying with you!” “I’m telling you, Ethan, we’re getting a divorce tomorrow!” Mia was using divorce to threaten me again. Every time before, I had compromised for love whenever she said that word. But not this time. Lucas saw that I wasn’t budging and chimed in from the side. “I told you this guy wasn’t marriage material. He’s not just spineless and hot-tempered, he’s also a total chauvinist.” “Why can’t he even apologize to his own wife?” Hearing that, I suddenly laughed. If Mia really were my wife, and I had truly done something wrong, then no matter what she asked, I could apologize. I’d even fought a wild dog for food. What else would I ever be afraid to do? But the two of them had just come back from a hotel, and Mia’s face was still flushed with that post-hookup glow. How was she qualified to call herself my wife? I had been through three weddings, each one stolen by Lucas, while the girlfriend who kept promising me she would marry me, Mia, had agreed to his wedding theft three times in a row. And now she wanted to turn around and say the problem was me, and even wanted me to apologize. I really had no idea how these two people’s brains were wired. I stared straight at Mia and said, “You want me to apologize, right? Fine!” “Tell me, where did you go these past two days if you weren’t home?” The instant Mia heard that, cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She knew full well that the reason she could live such a carefree life was because of my money. Without me, she was nothing. She said to me with false bravado, “I just went back to my parents’ place. So what? You made me angry, and I can’t go back home?” “And only Lucas cared enough to come check on me. Did you ever care about me?” Even now she was still lying to me, still trying to use love to blackmail me. I looked at her, took out my phone, and shoved it right in her face. “Then take a look at what you actually did yourself!” “The hotel booking info was sent straight to my phone. You still dare lie to me?” She snatched my phone and smashed it onto the floor, then kept going without a care. “What hotel? I don’t know!” “I’m telling you, Ethan, if you start comforting me now, I might still forgive you!” “And even if you’re leaving, you still have to leave the bride price and the house behind. That’s my compensation for lost youth!” Compensation for lost youth? Since the day she got together with me, she had never spent a single cent of her own. Now this wedding worth over a million dollars had been ruined just because of a few words from Lucas, and she still wanted to demand money from me! I pulled out the divorce agreement I had already prepared from my bag and threw it in front of Mia, then laughed coldly. “This is the compensation I’m giving you!” “Bitch and dog, may you stay together forever. I wish you both happiness!”