I Have Never Been In A Relationship，But the Billionaire Says I'm Her Groom

I'd just lain down when my childhood friend started blowing up my phone with one frantic call after another.

"Albert Gilbert, where the hell did you disappear to? The wedding's about to start! Why aren't you here yet?"

I blanked. "What wedding?"

He was losing it. "Your wedding with Cassandra Sullivan!"

I figured he was messing with me, but then he turned the camera toward the wedding venue.

The ballroom of Rivermont's top hotel. My parents and a whole crowd of relatives and friends were seated at the tables.

The welcome sign at the entrance read, in bold letters:

【Albert Gilbert & Cassandra Sullivan — Wedding Ceremony!】

My scalp prickled all over in an instant.

Cassandra Sullivan? Wasn't that the goddess I'd had a crush on for years?

She was the richest woman in Rivermont. I was a workhorse pulling in three grand a month.

I hadn't seen her once since we graduated high school. I didn't even have her number.

Married? Married to who, exactly?

But my friend was dead certain, and everyone was urging me to hurry to the venue.

To get to the bottom of it, I rushed off to the hotel.

But the moment I stepped outside, a runaway truck plowed into me and killed me on the spot.

When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the exact moment my friend called me.

——

When I opened my eyes again, my whole body was soaked in cold sweat.

The pain of being struck dead in my past life was still there. Right up until I died, I couldn't make sense of it.

Why was everyone saying today was my wedding with Cassandra Sullivan?

I quickly searched the term: Cassandra Sullivan wedding.

But there wasn't a single piece of news about her dating or getting married!

My contacts, my chat history, even my social media and photo albums—

none of them had anything about her either!

My phone buzzed like crazy, and my friend's anxious voice came through:

"Albert Gilbert, the wedding's about to start. Where are you?"

"Everyone's getting impatient. Hurry up, it's time for you to walk in!"

His voice was pure burning urgency, but I'd gone cold all over.

Face hard, I screenshotted everything I'd dug up and sent it to him.

"Kent Fox, there's a limit to how far you take a joke! Cassandra Sullivan and I have nothing to do with each other. How could I be marrying her?"

He froze, then turned the phone toward the hall on the spot.

Cassandra Sullivan, in a trailing white gown, appeared before my eyes along with a crowd of guests.

"Dude, are you okay? You already signed the marriage certificate, and you're saying you're not married?"

"The ceremony's about to start, and you switch to a burner account and pull up some news from years ago to play single? What's that supposed to mean?"

"Quit stalling, everyone's waiting on you to walk in!"

The groomsmen crowded in too.

"Albert, where on earth did you go? You just vanished, and we've all been losing our minds looking for you!"

"Your goddess proposed to you ninety-nine times, and this wedding alone cost tens of millions. What more could you possibly want?"

Cassandra Sullivan proposed to me ninety-nine times? You've got to be kidding!

She was the famous ice-queen beauty, off-limits to strangers.

What did a guy like me have that could move the heart of a tech titan worth hundreds of billions?

Cassandra Sullivan's cool voice suddenly came through:

"Did you find Albert? Did the call go through?"

"No, not yet……"

My friend quickly clapped a hand over the phone and answered, guilt all over his voice.

Her eyes darkened. She turned, face cold, and gave the order to her bodyguards:

"Pull the hotel security footage. Find Albert Gilbert right now!"

Seeing this, my friend immediately dropped his voice and warned me:

"You little punk, did you hear that? Cassandra Sullivan's been looking for you all this time!"

"Stop fooling around and get out here! No matter how much she dotes on you, today, in front of all these people, you leave everyone hanging like this—where's she supposed to put her pride?"

"If you don't come, I won't be able to cover for you anymore!"

As he spoke, he lifted the camera again.

My parents stood at the entrance, anxiously looking around, while the guests murmured among themselves.