Synopsis
Avery was badly bullied all through high school. It left him feeling broken and full of self-doubt.
Years later, he’s slowly putting his life back together. But just as things start to get better, his father becomes seriously ill and needs a life-saving surgery.
Avery’s stepmother says there’s only one way to pay for it: an arranged marriage. At first, she planned to marry off her own daughter to a rich man from a powerful family. But when they find out the man is in a coma after a car accident, she changes her mind. She refuses to let her daughter marry someone who may never wake up. Instead, she forces Avery into it—tricking him, threatening him, and reminding him that this is the only way to save his father’s life.
Avery agrees, even though it breaks his heart. He goes through with the wedding without even seeing the groom’s face.
On the night of the wedding, in his new home, Avery notices something strange. The man lying unconscious looks oddly familiar. He finds some old photos in the house….
The man he just married is Lucien—his high school bully. The same person who made him feel worthless for years.
Old memories flood back, and Avery wants nothing more than to walk away. He calls his stepmother, ready to leave. But she gives him an awful choice: either divorce Lucien and let his father die, or stay married, save his father’s life, and gain wealth and power.
With no way out, Avery stays.
As time goes on, he watches Lucien’s quiet, sleeping face. And something feels off. The Lucien lying there doesn’t look like the cruel person Avery remembers. He wonders—was there more to Lucien than he ever knew?
He tells himself it doesn’t matter. Lucien got what he deserved. But one night, Avery trips and falls on top of him… and at that exact moment, Lucien wakes up.
After two years in a coma, Lucien opens his eyes—and finds out he’s married. To the same boy he used to bully.
Now Avery doesn’t know what to feel. The past still hurts, but he starts to see a different side of Lucien.
They were enemies. Strangers thrown together by fate.
But maybe… just maybe, they’re meant to be something more.

I stared at Lucien, my mind reeling from the bomb he'd just dropped—that all the money spent on me and Dad, every last cent for the treatments, the bills, everything—was his. 


Not his mother's, but his. From his accounts, even while he was lying in that coma like a vegetable. The proof was right there in the statements, the signatures matching perfectly, no room for doubt.


How? How could that be?. It didn't make sense, but the evidence was staring me in the face, mocking me for ever thinking I could outsmart this.


That's when it hit me—there's no use arguing with him anymore. He'd planned it all, every twist and turn, like some master puppeteer pulling strings I didn't even know existed.


He'd been ten steps ahead from the start, anticipating my every pushback. 


 How one person could orchestrate this web just to keep me trapped. But what choice did I have now? Fight more and dig myself deeper, or swallow the bitter pill and bide my time?


Chapter 71 - Felix Would I?