9
The third floor was all vacant rooms, and I had never been up there before.
Henry took me directly to the last room, entering after inputting his fingerprint.
Why so mysterious?
As I walked into the room, the first thing I saw was a huge hanging picture.
A blurry silhouette, but you could vaguely make out that it was a girl.
“This is the person I love.”
Hearing Henry, I suddenly lost the courage to even look again.
“If you love her, why didn’t you marry her?”
Henry suddenly pressed close, his breath tickling my ear.
“Didn’t I? The person is right here in my arms.”
I suddenly looked up at the hanging picture.
After pondering for a long time, I was certain.
it’s not me!
I don’t even have that outfit!
“You’re not using me as a substitute, are you?!”
Henry frowned and looked at me in surprise.
“Why would you think that?”
“Isn’t that the case?”
Henry angrily let go of me and strode forward, pointing to a figure in one corner.
“Isn’t this you? Don’t you even recognize yourself?!”
I rubbed my eyes and barely made out myself standing in the corner of this blurry picture.
Is this how you treat the person you love?!
“Then who is this person? Why is her photo so big?”
“That’s my mom!”
“That’s my mom!”
I was suddenly speechless, not knowing how to refute.
“Don’t you remember? My mom had a sudden heart attack and fainted. You saved her. I later captured this photo from the surveillance footage. It’s the only one that caught your face.”
Henry suddenly revealed a gentle smile and pulled me into his arms.
“I still remember the scene clearly. Later, I wanted to thank you, but you kept refusing to accept my money. I remember you were working part–time at a convenience store, so I sat there for a whole month.”
I thought back for a long time and finally recalled this incident.
It seems it happened when I was still in college.
“That month, whenever 1 had time, I would sit in the convenience store. I loved your smile. Don’t you remember at all?”
Maybe my expression was too awkward, because Henry looked puzzled.
“What’s wrong? Did you really forget?”
“No, it’s just that I didn’t really think much of saving someone at the time. Of course I wouldn’t dare accept money. As for you coming to the convenience store every day…”
I gave a stiff smile.
“You always wore a hat, so I thought you were some creepy old man. I even filed a report with the police.”
Henry’s smile froze.
“So that’s why the police came to talk to me! You don’t have a single romantic bone in your body!”
Henry’s years of romantic fantasy had been shattered by me. That night, he curled up alone in bed, sulking.
“Don’t be angry. We’re married now, aren’t we?”
“When our children ask how we got married in the future, are you going to say it was because my dad arranged it?”
Isn’t that the truth?
I had simply succumbed to the power of
Henry got even angrier.
money.
I was about to comfort him when my phone suddenly buzzed.
It was a text from Simon.
How was it? You saw it, right? Your so–called true love actually loves someone else.”
“Want to help me? If you pull this off, I’ll give you the PIN for the bank card.”
