My Fiancé’s Confession From the Future Chapter 05

My Fiancé’s Confession From the Future Chapter 05

The face un the screen was older, shadows of five years settled deep in his eyes.

Ethan felt a chill of fear.

“Who are you?”

“I’m you. Five years from how.”

The man on the other side raised his right hand. On his ring finger was a ring, identical in design to the one

Ethan was holding.

“Why do you look like that? What happened?”

Ethan’s voice shook. “Serena jumped. They haven’t found her body

The future Ethan’s grip tightened on his phone, but then he let out a long breath.

He knew her. She wouldn’t kill herself.

Ethan muttered to himself, nearly broken. “Why would she jump? What did I do?”

The future version of him looked at him with heavy eyes. “Because she found out everything you’re going to do to her over the next five years. I told her.”

“What… what did I do…”

Ethan pressed him, and the future version began to speak.

The affair. The studio. Her father’s surgery. The child.

The future Ethan watched him coldly.

“Let her go. Don’t make her suffer anymore.”

Then he ended the call.

The search went on for twelve hours.

The final conclusion: no body recovered. Survival probability under three percent.

Ethan refused to believe what his future self had said. In a daze, he went to verify it himself.

He went to the jeweler who had made the custom ring and pulled the order records.

The records were clear. Original engraving: S&E, forever.

The modification log showed that three days before the proposal, a woman had come to the store with his

membership card and requested the engraving be changed to J&E.

The staff had kept her signature on file.

Jessica had changed it.

The ring was always meant for Serena. From the very beginning.

Jessica had swapped the engraving.

That meant when the future version of himself told Serena the ring was originally meant for Jessica, it was a

lie.

Unless the future version of him had deliberately made himself sound worse.

Deliberately made her hate him. Deliberately pushed her away.

He didn’t have time to process it.

Following the jeweler’s trail, more truths surfaced.

Jessica had been systematically infiltrating his business channels before the proposal, registering shell companies under his name.

The timestamps on the design files copied from Serena’s computer predated the investment he had given

Jessica.

She had been planning this from the start.

It wasn’t that she happened to steal the files after starting her business. She had been stealing them all

along. The investment was just a cover.

He confronted Jessica with the evidence.

She was in her apartment packing to leave the country. When she saw him walk in, she instinctively put on a fragile expression.

“Ethan, I heard about Serena. I’m really…”

“You changed the engraving on the ring.”

Ethan said it calmly.

Jessica’s face went stiff. She opened her mouth to deny it.

But he laid the modification records in front of her.

The mask fell away. She let out a cold laugh.

“You think you’re so innocent? You never drew a clear line with me. You kept two people in your heart. Why should I be the backup?”

She took a deep breath, and her voice turned eerily calm.

“So I went and changed the engraving. I wanted her to see it for herself. You wouldn’t choose, so I made the

choice for you.”

Ethan was silent for a long time.

“You’re right. I should have told you no the first time you cried and said you loved me.”

“But I didn’t. I was greedy. I liked being needed by two people. My weakness fed your ambition.”

“But that doesn’t give you the right to steal her designs, switch herring, or sabotage her father’s surgery.”

The story of the three of them wasn’t complicated.

When Ethan was six, he moved in next door to Serena. Two kids who played together until they became inseparable.

At eight, Jessica transferred to their school. Her stepfather beat her until she was covered in bruises. Serena brought her home and had her mother help clean her wounds.

From then on, the three of them were always together.

Ethan had known since childhood that he loved Serena,

But Jessica loved him.

One night during middle school study hall, Jessica slipped a letter into his bag.

He opened it and read it. His heart skipped.

He didn’t say yes. But he didn’t say no either.

In high school, the first time she cried and asked if he only saw her as a little sister, he should have said yes.

But he looked at her tear-streaked face, thought about her alcoholic stepfather, thought about how she had no one in the world except Serena and him. He couldn’t say it.

He held her hand.

In college, Serena went to art school in another city. Jessica stayed in the same town as him.

The ambiguity dragged on, never resolved.

He liked being needed by two people.

Serena’s love was like sunlight, warm and steady. Jessica’s dependence was like a vine, dangerous and

thrilling

He was greedy enough to want both. Selfish enough to believe that as long as he never said the words out

loud, it wasn’t betrayal,

When Serena graduated and came back, he officially started dating her.

But he never fully cut things off with Jessica.

Thinking about all of this, Ethan still made the call to the police.

He knew why she had been packing to run.

She had already secretly canceled the specialist team for Serena’s father. That was potentially attempted

manslaughter.

Stealing the design files was corporate theft.

When they took Jessica away, she turned back and gave him a bitter smile.

After he got home, he sat holding the J&E ring.

Then he took out a utility knife and began scraping the J off the metal surface, bit by bit.

Shavings and blood fell together into his palm.

All that was left was a lonely E.

It should have been S&E.

But S was gone.

Three days later, the search team sent another update: no body found below the cliff, but a nearby car rental company reported that a woman named Serena Walsh had been there.

Ethan let out a shaky breath of relief.

She might still be alive.

Did she disappear because of those lies?

He had to find her. He had to tell her the truth. That ring was always meant for her.

He was about to leave when his lawyer called.

“Jessica is requesting to see you. She says there’s something you need to know. About Serena’s child.”

His hand froze on the steering wheel.