I Proposed to my Boyfriend and Got Rejected

After seven years together, Mia finally prepares to propose to Carl, the wealthy man she has quietly dated in secret. But when he summons her to a party, she finds him holding another woman, Remi, and he coldly takes back the necklace meant as Remi's gift. Before the crowd, Carl mocks Mia, calling her family poor and pitiful, and reveals her parents' plea to advance her salary to cover a gambling debt.

Humiliated, Mia offers to resign and repay what she owes, but Carl refuses and keeps belittling her. She strikes back with a sharp remark about the shoes he once claimed only two pairs existed, then flings them at him and flees barefoot into the night, collapsing in tears on the gravel.

There, Leo Norris, a respected business partner, finds her and asks what happened, leaving Mia to face the wreckage of her devotion.