Married to My Ex's Uncle

"Victoria, I saw Ethan. He's making out with Sarah at a bar."

When Victoria Hughes received this message from her good friend Aria Clark, she was lying in a hospital bed, after having a fallopian tube procedure.

Victoria's heart sank and her breathing stopped when she saw the photo on her phone of Ethan Ashford and Sarah Mitchell locked in a tight embrace.

One was her boyfriend of three years, the other her nominal stepsister.

She was shocked when she saw Ethan, who had just proposed to her a few days earlier, kiss Sarah so passionately at a bar.

When he proposed, he had said so tenderly that what he wanted most in this life was to have a child with her.

That's why Victoria had overcome her inner fears and come to the hospital alone for a full checkup. When they found a slight blockage in one fallopian tube, she didn't hesitated to get on the operating table.

But before she even got off the table, she received this photo that humiliated her completely.

Aria's messages kept popping up:

"Victoria, I told you there was something going on between Sarah and Ethan, but you defended him. Now look who's getting hurt!"

"I just don't get it—how can Ethan propose to you while fooling around with Sarah?"

Reading these words, Victoria's mood grew heavier. She weakly gripped her phone and replied: [Okay, got it.]

Half an hour later, Victoria endured her physical discomfort and stumbled off the operating table.

The nurse helping her, seeing how pale she looked, couldn't help saying, "Miss, where's your boyfriend? This is surgery—how could he not be here with you?"

Thinking that Ethan might be having sex with Sarah right now, Victoria couldn't help but smile bitterly.

She bit her lip and said harshly, "He's dead."

The nurse froze, tactfully shut her mouth, and helped her into the recovery room.

Sitting in the recovery room, Victoria's emotions were all over the place.

She had loved Ethan for three years. Three days ago when he proposed, no one knew how happy she was. Because of that proposal, she had even automatically filtered out all the ways Ethan had neglected her.

Like how is it that Ethan always had meetings on her birthdays. when she was sick and went to the hospital alone, she still had to be understanding about his busy work; when she graduated from college and wanted to find a job, Ethan said he'd support her, but now all her living expenses came from freelance design work she took online.

He was busy with work, had no energy, wasn't good at expressing himself.

Victoria used to think he was just naturally cold, but now she realized he wasn't incapable—he just didn't want to waste time on her.

Maybe she just wasn't worth it.

Her eyes stung slightly, but Victoria forced the tears back.

No financial support, no emotional support, not even companionship. She, Victoria, wasn't cheap, and her love wasn't cheap either. Since Ethan couldn't give it, then let go.

With that thought, Victoria called her father, Charles Hughes.

As soon as he picked up, his stern voice came through: "Victoria, it's been days now. What the hell have you been doing?"

Though harsh, there was a hint of awkward concern in his tone.

Victoria took a deep breath and spoke slowly, "Dad, I agree to the blind date you arranged."

There was a half-second pause on the other end, followed by a long sigh. "Good. I'll contact the man's side right away and arrange for you two to meet soon. Victoria, you better not pull any tricks. You know the consequences. I'll send you the time and place later."