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After being abandoned by the girl he always loved, Matthew Landon found me. He sought me out as his eighteenth stand-in. And I was the least like her of them all. He made a grand public announcement of our relationship on Valentine's Day, using ten million drones. He climbed a six-mile-high mountain alone to find the herbs for my cure Even after his family refused to let a girl from the slums like me marry into their home, he endured the family punishment just to marry me. Everyone said he had long forgotten the girl he always loved and was now madly in love with me. But right before the wedding, he swapped out all the bride's details for Lydia Sutton's, making her the bride in every way. When his friends questioned him, Matthew just gave a faint smile, saying nothing. "Having her around these past few years meant my parents never suspected I was going abroad for Lydia," Matthew explained. "She was nothing but a distraction, a prop to get my family to give in. From start to finish, Lydia was the only one I ever wanted to marry," he said coldly. Everyone was waiting for me to go crazy. But instead, I just clutched the sky-high breakup money he wired over and breathed a sigh of relief. Works for me. At least now, I wouldn't have to carry the stigma of bigamy anymore.