“呵，是吗？那真是恭喜你了。”电话那头， sound of a cold snort through the line. Jiang Chen's voice was normally low and cold, but now there was a hint of something else, something like disbelief. He didn't expect Lin Wanxing to say such a thing so quickly.

"恭喜我？" Lin Wanxing tossed her head, the red hair swirling around her face like a firework. "Jiang Chen, you really think I'd be so happy just marrying someone? Not that I don't want to be happy, but this time, I really am."

She could feel the tension in the line, the way Jiang Chen held back whatever he wanted to say. It was a skill she had learned over the years, how to read the silences, how to understand the unspoken words. She had always been good at this game, the game of love and money, of power and control.

Jiang Chen's family had always been richer than hers, more powerful. He had been the perfect man, the one who would take her, take her money, and leave her broken. But she had outsmarted him, hadn't she? She had taken the one she wanted, the one who had always been away.