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During the earthquake rescue coverage, I spotted my fiancé on the broadcast. He was wearing his wedding suit, ignoring everyone's warnings, pressing himself against the cold steel rebar as he spoke to the person trapped inside. "If you make it out alive, I'll marry you." The rescue team finally pulled the girl out, and a reporter asked him, "You must have so much to say to her." Michael laughed and cried at the same time, his face glowing with relief. "Thank God she's okay. I wouldn't have survived without her." The internet crowned them the most beautiful couple of the earthquake, and people everywhere wept over their love story. Nobody knew that day was supposed to be our wedding day, our anniversary. He had abandoned me and every guest at the ceremony to run straight to his ex without a second thought. A month later, during a high-altitude flight, my plane veered toward the open ocean. I stared into the camera, my voice flat. "If I make it back alive, I'm calling off the engagement."