Celeste and I were kidnapped on our trial wedding trip.
The kidnappers forced me to reveal Celeste's whereabouts. In order to protect her, I kept my mouth shut and they humiliated me for about 100 hours.
Celeste Louis mobilized the entire family resources to find me in pieces.
She retaliated against the kidnappers like crazy, swearing to send them to prison. The kidnappers knelt down and begged for mercy.
"Ms. Louis, it was Mr. Schultz who asked us to do it. Do you want to send him in too?"
I watched Celeste's hesitant expression and the wounds on my body were piercing with pain.
Jansen Schultz was Celeste’s first love, who has disappeared for five years.
In that moment, I knew that she and I were completely over.
After waking up in the hospital, I cancelled my marriage registration.
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"Hello, I would like to cancel my marriage registration."
I told the staff my ID number and the scheduled date of my wedding.
He suddenly fell silent and spoke hesitantly,
"Mr. Carpentier, Ms. Louis asked someone to arrange the date for you to get your marriage certificate. She said that she wants to get the marriage certificate on the date you met ... If you cancel it, I'm afraid you'll have to wait another year."
My heart suddenly tightened and the suffocating dull pain made my sight blurry.
"Cancel it!"
Seeing how determined I was, the staff had no choice but to agree.
I checked the information on the phone while looking around every corner of the ward.
In the empty ward, without any warmth, my heart sank slowly.
"Pieter, are you awake?"
The sudden intrusion made me turn around and see Celeste.
I had not seen her for more than ten days, but she was still as bright and beautiful as ever, with her delicate and cheerful expression.
I looked at my reflection in the window. My face was covered with red and swollen wounds, some of which were still festering with pus.
It did not even look like a person anymore.
"Why did you call as soon as you woke up? The doctor said you were seriously injured and you needed a lot of rest."
She pretended nothing had happened, skillfully made me lie down and tucked in the blanket for me.
In those beautiful peach blossom eyes, I could see the love and care for me.
"The doctor said your condition is not serious, as long as you rest well, you will be fine. As for your legs ... the doctor said it would be best to schedule the surgery in half a year, when your physical condition has improvement ...."
"Celeste, have you come to see me during these days when I was unconscious?"
I coldly interrupted her chatter and her hand peeling apples suddenly stopped.
She turned her eyes away from me and began to stammer. "Of course."
I knew Celeste too well, she was lying.
There was no warmth in this empty ward. How could she had been here?
I still remembered last year when I was hospitalized due to stomach pain and Celeste was so anxious that she almost overturned the hospital.
She went looking for various expert and well-known doctors and even tried to snatch the doctor's place on the operating table, causing chaos in the hospital.
After learning that it was just a simple gastroenteritis, she still stayed by my side and the entire ward was filled with all kinds of nutritional supplements and necessities.
She even asked someone to deliver fresh flowers every day, saying that the patient needed to stay in a good mood.
If I was not mistaken, it had been half a month since that happened to me.
She had never seen me before.
The deep love she once had seemed to have completely disappeared when she heard the name Jansen Schultz.
However, I was tortured for her until every part of my body was left unharmed and even my legs were broken. What were these sufferings compared to that?
The hesitation she felt when she heard Jansen's name, as well as the embarrassment with which she looked at me, made me breathless.
