Chapter 3The Live-Streamed Love Story: When the Tsundere Billionaire Stops Pretending

He pushed me so hard I stumbled violently, barely managing to steady myself. I looked at him in absolute shock, not understanding why the mood had taken such a sudden, sharp nosedive.

[Keep pushing it. Keep acting up, male lead. This is exactly how you lose your wife.]

[Chloe finally gathered the courage to confess, and this is what he does?!]

The comments echoed exactly what I was feeling. I gritted my teeth tightly, refusing to let the humiliating tears fall.

He remained completely oblivious, his voice still icy as he said, "Chloe, do you really like Alex that much? Do you like him so much that you'd stoop to pretending with me just so you could stay here and be with him?"

I looked up at him in utter bewilderment. The tears lost their battle for control and fell anyway.

[Huh?]

[Bro Ethan, that one sentence just completely derailed me.]

[Wait, does he think Chloe is confessing to him so she can stay in the country and sneak around with the second male lead?!]

"And then what?" Ethan demanded coldly. "You'd stay here, date me, and still be with Alex on the side? And later, are you planning to marry me while cheating on me with Alex?"

"Chloe, do you have any basic moral compass at all?! You truly disappoint me!" The angrier he got, the more the ambiguous pink flush on his face faded without a trace.

[What an advanced train of thought. I don't even know how to judge this...]

[Everyone, does anyone remember that after his birthday, Ethan secretly told Chloe's parents that she was dating some random bad boy? That's what caused her parents to urgently pack her off abroad to study. So, it makes sense he's thinking this way.]

[...]

[As expected of a psycho. So manipulative.]

I scanned the words on the comments, finally realizing that my parents throwing me out of the country was actually Ethan's doing!

The fury of being tattled on behind my back mixed with the sting of being rejected. Old grudges and new anger merged into a sea of fire that rushed straight to my head, and I instantly lost all rationality.

"Believe whatever you want! Who wants to like a despicable coward like you anyway?! You think I can't live without you?!" I fiercely threw the un-gifted present onto the ground, turned around, and marched away.

[Sigh. It's over again.]

[And so, the story will inevitably head toward the imprisonment arc we've all been anticipating...]

[Wait! What is he doing?! What is Ethan doing?]

[Chloe, turn around quickly!]

[Daughter! Turn around!]