The Bride Wasn’t Her

On the day of my wedding to Christine Moore, strange floating comments suddenly appeared before my eyes.

[LMAO, the real young master still has no idea the bride is fake! Christine is at the hospital accompanying the fake heir Troy Bolton right now!]

[It doesn’t matter who the bride is anyway. Christine only agreed to the marriage for the Shane family’s investment. The fake heir is her true love.]

[Serves this villain right for driving our poor Troy away the moment he came back. In the end, the female lead destroys his entire family, and honestly, he deserves it.]

I hid the shock in my eyes and finished the wedding as if nothing had happened.

I refused to become a stepping stone in someone else’s love story.

And I definitely refused to die as their disposable villain.

If she did not want to marry me, then fine.

I would make the fake wedding real, and marry someone else instead.

"The groom, do you take the beautiful bride beside you as your lawful wife, for richer or poorer..."

"I... do."

The woman's voice came muffled through her mask, low and strained.

Below the stage, the guests whispered among themselves, all sighing over how deeply devoted Christine, the eldest daughter of the Moore family, was to me.

"Ms. Moore is truly in love. I heard she suddenly came down with a terrible fever last night, but even wearing a mask today, she still insisted on going through with this wedding. She couldn't bear to disappoint Tony Shane, her childhood sweetheart."

"Exactly. A bond built from growing up together is different. The marriage alliance between the Shane and Moore families is shaking up the entire South City business world."

Listening to all the praise made me sick to my stomach.

Because the floating comments in front of my eyes were scrolling wildly:

[Devotion my a*s! Christine Moore is currently cuddled up with Michael Bolt in a hillside villa outside the city, watching the wedding livestream. They're drinking wine and laughing at the idiot male supporting character.]

[This poor stand-in bride only got paid a hundred bucks to take the fall. Later she's going to get humiliated in public by the male lead.]

[You newbies don't know, huh? This 'stand-in' is actually Haylee Kenton, the biggest hidden boss in the entire novel! The invisible richest woman in Kingsport!]

[She's secretly loved Tony for ten whole years. In the extra chapters, after his death, she wipes out the entire Moore family to avenge him. Absolute love-struck war goddess.]

My heart jolted violently.

Haylee Kenton?

The legendary head of that mysterious business empire... she secretly loved me? And even came here to act as my fake bride?

I took a slow breath and raised a hand, interrupting the officiant.

"One moment."

The entire venue instantly fell silent.

The woman standing before me flickered with panic. The tips of her ears turned red, and even her breathing became uneven.

Curling my lips into a faint smile, I