The Bride He Lost

Synopsis

Because I was slow, my father had bought a poor village prodigy to be my future husband. He took care of me for four years and promised he would love me for the rest of his life. But after he got into college, he ran off with the girl next door. While my father was out looking for him, he fell into the river and drowned. People in the village said the prodigy had only ever wanted to scam my father out of money to save the woman he truly loved. They joked he must've been out of his mind to fall for someone slow like me. Seven years later, we met again. Nathan Rivers was a big shot in the city now, still messing around with Vivian Shaw, and I wasn't slow anymore. He came to me with guilt. "Marry me," he said. "Let me make up for the promise I broke back then." I shook my head. I didn't tell him the truth. I was dying. I'd be seeing my father soon.