“Sarah, you’re my wife, how can you get
engaged to someone else!”
“Gary! I warn you!”
Liam stood in front of me.
Through the gap, I saw Gary’s face contorted
with anger.
I felt fear.
“I’m overstepping? Liam, she’s my wife!”
Liam sneered, pointing to the display screen. “Gary, open your eyes. She’s not Sarah Song, she’s Yu Song.”
Gary realized all the signs had a different
name, until Liam produced my ID.
“Sarah!”
He reached for me, I dodged him:
“I don’t know you.”
His hand froze, disbelief and sorrow in his
eyes.
“It’s Gary, we’ve been together for years, you
don’t remember me?”
“Did Liam do something to you?”
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I shook my head, fear intensified.
“I know, you’re still angry, right?”
“I kept your mother’s ashes,’
He pulled out a small box, containing a sticky
clump of ash.
I hid in Liam’s arms. Gary caused a scene,
fighting with people.
Liam had him thrown out.
Even as he was being dragged away, he
called out “Sarah Song“.
Only one character difference.
I didn’t ask, my intuition told me not to.
The party ended late. Liam had friends to see,
so I stayed.
A shadow loomed over me. Gary.
He raised his hands, anxious and nervous:
“Don’t be afraid, I won’t hurt you.”
“I’m Gary.”
He handed me some crumpled photos, a
diary and a phone
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The photos were of me and him.
“This is us?”
Were we really married?
Why did I feel nothing?
I opened the yellowed diary, recording our
romance ten years ago.
My love for Gary, his care for me, were
evident.
“The memos on this phone are about our
daily life.
“”
I opened the phone, skeptical. Every memo
was about Gary.
A dull ache in my chest, I trembled, opening
the drafts.
A deleted memo listed ten women’s names
and preferences.
I stared at it, asking,
“This is…”
He nervously deleted it.
“Gary, we’ve been together for over ten
years, why do we only remember ten years ago?”
“Weren’t we together these past few years?”
He stammered, unable to answer.
I sighed, flipping through the diary to the last
blank page. A farewell letter, written by me.
It detailed the ten years of abuse I suffered.
Gary’s cruelty was shocking.
Reading the dense handwriting, I cried. It all
replayed in my mind.
“Gary, is this true?”
I trembled, holding the diary. His face turned
pale.
He tried to explain, but couldn’t.
“Maybe I loved you, otherwise I wouldn’t have
stayed for ten years.
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“But now, I don’t love you anymore.
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“Gary, goodbye.”
I stood up, but Gary pulled me into his arms.
“Sarah, don’t leave me!”
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“I’m truly sorry.”
He ignored my resistance, pressing down on
- me.
I screamed, struggled. My clothes tore. Liam
appeared.
He pulled Gary off me. His fists rained down
on Gary.
Until security separated them.
Liam was furious, threatening,
“Gary, your family will pay!”
I hugged Liam, trying to calm him.
He held me close, comforting me.
After the engagement party, I never saw Gary
again. But I heard the Gary family
disappeared overnight.
People said the Stone heir was furious for the
sake of his love, but no one knew who the
woman was.
Only that she resembled Gary’s former wife.
There was no more Sarah Song. only Yu
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There was no more Sarah Song, only Yu
Song.
Yu Song had no painful memories, no
heartache.
Yu Song was Liam’s beloved.
Years later, we had a child. At the full moon
ceremony, I received a pink dress.
A note said “Ten Years“.
My eyes welled up.
“Come take a family photo!”
Liam waved. I threw the dress and card in the
trash.
My new life shouldn’t be tied to the past.
Brave people keep moving forward, never
looking back.
