On Our Wedding Day, He Married another woman—I Ruined Him Chapter 08

On Our Wedding Day, He Married another woman—I Ruined Him Chapter 08

Following the press conference, Ethan’s company transformed into a corporate pariah overnight. Their official accounts shed millions of followers, and every major brand partner scrambled to

issue public statements terminating their contracts.

Lily fared no better. Her university scrubbed her name from their distinguished alumni registry, while internet sleuths unearthed evidence that her graduation thesis was plagiarized and her entire corporate internship history was completely fraudulent. Terrified, she began scrubbing her social media accounts clean, changing her story to claim she was merely an innocent, naive girl manipulated by a powerful boss.

Between the fallout of my evidence and Lily’s frantic self-preservation, Ethan’s career and reputation were systematically destroyed.

Late that night, my phone buzzed with a massive text message from Ethan. It was a manifesto of desperate repentance, calling himself a monster, and making excuses that he had only acted out because he desired a child and wanted to spare me the physical trauma of childbirth. I deleted it without a word.

Then came a voice note. His voice was raw, breaking as he whispered that he never believed he could actually lose me.

The following morning, Ethan appeared outside my hospital room, clutching a container of freshly simmered soup from the diner I used to love. The nursing staff blocked him immediately, pointing to the strict sign on my door: Patient refuses all visitors.

He stayed in the corridor, repeating his words over and over. “Audrey, please, let me in! I know I ruined everything. Lily was just a replacement! The only woman I have ever loved is you!”

Listening to his pathetic, cheap ‘replacement theory’ through the heavy door, I found myself struck by how utterly laughable he was. He kept going, invoking the ghost of our past, reminding me of how he had sworn to protect me for the rest of our lives after I took a blade for him seven years ago.

I silently tapped the record button on my phone.

Then, I spoke clearly through the door. “So your idea of protecting me for life was to marry another woman, let her bear your children, and hand them over to me to raise? Is that your version of love, Ethan?”

The corridor outside fell instantly silent.

But the silence didn’t last. It was quickly punctured by the shrill, frantic crying of Lily. She had ambushed him there, her phone hoisted high as she live-streamed the confrontation under the

title: Exposing a Predator Boss: How He Manipulates Interns.

She sobbed into the camera lens, spinning a narrative of how Ethan had abused his corporate authority to coerce her into marriage by promising he would cut all ties with his ‘stubborn ex’. With practiced tears, she recast herself from a malicious homewrecker into a brave survivor fighting back against corporate exploitation.

Ethan snapped completely. He screamed in her face, shrieking that she had been the one to willfully crawl into his bed to climb the corporate ladder.

The two of them devolved into an ugly, screaming match right there in the hospital corridor, broadcasting their mutual ruin to millions of viewers online. The live stream metrics shattered records as trending searches switched from ‘devoted CEO’ to ‘serial cheater exposed.’

I instructed the nurse to close the heavy door tight. I had no interest in watching a pair of dogs tear

each other apart.

Harvey messaged me shortly after, noting that in her desperation to survive the public backlash, Lily would likely hand over internal corporate data that could serve as leverage in our ongoing

lawsuits.

That midnight, Ethan sent me one final image-a photograph of me seven years ago, pale and comatose in a hospital bed after taking a knife for his sake.

His caption read: Audrey, I owe you my life.