7-Year Paid Love

River's girlfriend came from money. In seven years together she never once bought him a present. He proposed and she accepted, then handed back the diamond ring he had bought her, and at the registry office she said the 9.9 fee was too expensive and they should not bother. She registered the marriage with her childhood friend instead, and booked the largest five-star hotel in the city for the engagement banquet. River's sister had just had a heart transplant. The news set off a relapse. River knelt and asked his girlfriend to give back the wages he had handed over to her for years, so he could pay his sister's medical bills. She was holding her childhood friend's arm. She told him she was not a rich benefactor, and had her bodyguards throw him out.