She Faked My Kidney Failure, I Married A Billionaire

After I suddenly suffered acute kidney failure, my girlfriend Lily Carter's best friend, Jason Miller, donated one of his kidneys to me. I used to always suspect there was something going on between them. After the surgery, Lily told me not to overthink it. "If Jason and I were having an affair, we could've just waited for you to die, so why would he cut out a kidney for you?" I thought what she said made sense. For three years, I worked multiple jobs to make money, all to repay Jason for saving my life. One weekend night, I came home early from work because of a high fever, only to hear Lily and Jason talking. "My idea was pretty good, wasn't it?" "One fake report and one fake surgery not only delayed your wedding, but Ethan Carter also worked himself to death making money for us to spend." "There's just one thing. If Ethan finds out, will he cause problems for you?" The next second, Lily's indifferent voice came through. "Cause problems about what?" "If he dares to cause problems, I'll dare to break up with him." "Without me, who would ever be with him?" I leaned against the door and made a phone call. "You once said that if I was still single when I turned twenty-eight, you'd marry me. Does that promise still count?" 1 I did not want to listen anymore, so I opened the door and went inside. Jason was wearing my pajamas, and he tossed a set of car keys at me. "The car is parked downstairs, so take it to the auto shop later for a full service, then fill up the tank, because I need the car tomorrow." "Buy some snacks on your way back, you should know what we like, and pick up the packages from the mailroom while you're at it." After giving me a whole string of instructions, Jason did not say a single thank you. My face was flushed from the fever, and my movements were slow. Jason frowned impatiently. "Are you deaf or something?" "Hurry up and go." His car was a top-trim new BMW 4 Series, and I bought it. Because of my work needs, I only had an old car worth a little over thirty thousand that had no idea how many previous owners. I forced myself to stay alert and opened my mouth to explain. "I'm sick, and I really don't have the strength..." Jason rudely interrupted me. "What kind of attitude is that?" "Is this how you treat the person who saved your life?" "If I'd known, I never should've donated a kidney to you back then!" "You're nothing but an ungrateful bastard." An ungrateful bastard? I looked at Jason. To repay his kindness, I had eaten cheap meals that cost only a few dollars. I wore old clothes from five or six years ago. Every purchase over fifty dollars broke my heart. And every cent I saved went to Jason. He was a scammer who had taken every advantage possible, yet he was calling me ungrateful? "All right, stop arguing." Lily took out the medicine kit, found a box of ibuprofen and a fever patch, and placed them in my palm. A faint trace of warmth had just risen in my heart. The next second, Lily said to me, "Ethan, go apologize to Jason." "He saved your life, and people can't forget where they came from." It felt like a huge ball of cotton had blocked my chest, sour and swollen. Things like this had happened countless times over these three years. Because Jason had donated a kidney to me, no matter what conditions he proposed, I was supposed to agree unconditionally. If I was slow to respond or refused, Lily would demand that I apologize. My body was on the verge of collapse, and at that moment, I just wanted to end this farce and rest for a while. I faced Jason. "I'm sorry." Unexpectedly, Jason had no intention of letting me off. "Go cook me a meal, and I'll forgive you." "What?" "You don't want to?" Lily frowned and was just about to speak. "Fine." Dragging my body through the intense discomfort, I prepared dinner. In the living room, Lily was playing video games with Jason, and their laughter never stopped. An hour later, I brought out the dishes I had cooked. Unexpectedly, there were empty takeout boxes on the dining table. "You cooked too slowly." "Jason hasn't been in good health since the surgery, and he can't go hungry." Lily explained. "I saved you some onion rings, so eat with us." I placed the dishes on the table. "No need." The moment I turned around, Lily grabbed my wrist. "Are you still mad?" I moved her hand away and said calmly, "I'm allergic to onions." Lily froze and wanted to explain something. Jason's shout came from the living room, and Lily left me behind again and walked away. My nose suddenly stung, and a sense of helplessness spread through my whole body. It seemed my six years of sincerity had earned me nothing. I should have been sad, but at that moment, I didn't even have the energy to feel sad. Dragging my burning body, I opened the bedroom door, and I froze. 2 The wedding photo of Lily and me that had originally been hanging on the wall had now become a couple's portrait of Lily and Jason. Their hands were clasped together as they looked into each other's eyes, smiling with pure happiness. My photos, clothes, daily necessities, and all my belongings had all been replaced with new ones. I turned and went to the living room, looking at the two people fooling around on the couch. "What happened to my room?" Jason did not even lift his head. "Oh, I forgot to tell you, I'm staying in this room now." Lily said, "Jason hasn't been feeling well lately, so he took annual leave from the hospital." "I simply had him move in with us for a while." "I'm a doctor, so it's convenient for me to take care of him." I only wanted to rest, so I asked, "Then where do I sleep?" There were only two bedrooms. Lily and I were not legally married, so we each had our own room. Jason clicked his tongue impatiently. "Isn't there still that little room?" "You can sleep there." Jason pointed toward the storage room. I turned my head to look. The storage room door was wide open. All my things had been messily dragged out and casually thrown on the floor. Jason's Chihuahua was holding my figurine in its mouth. But I was exhausted, and my body could no longer support another argument. I closed the door, curled up on the narrow folding bed, and fell asleep almost instantly. In the second half of the night, my body began switching between chills and fever. One second, it felt like I was being roasted over fire, and the next second, I was thrown into an ice cave. I opened my mouth to call for help, but my dry throat could barely make a sound. I struggled to feel around for my phone in the darkness, only to realize I had forgotten to charge it after coming home. Now it had long since shut off. My consciousness drifted in and out, and I suddenly heard sounds from the living room. Then the door was suddenly opened. Jason chased his dog inside. "We're going out in a bit, so remember to walk Coco for me." Jason's dog was named Coco. I did not react. "Stop playing dead." Jason walked in impatiently and kicked me as I lay on the floor. Seeing my rapid breathing and pale face, a sly look flashed in Jason's eyes. "Jason, is Ethan having breakfast?" Lily, who had prepared breakfast but still had not seen me come out, ran over and asked. Jason shifted sideways and completely blocked me from view. "Yeah, I just asked him." "He said he's tired and wants to sleep a little longer." "Oh, I see." Lily did not suspect anything. "Then I'll leave breakfast on the table." "I bought your favorite milk and sandwich today, so remember to drink the warm milk after you wake up." "You have stomach problems, so you're not allowed to eat anything cold." After Lily left, Jason glanced at me smugly and followed her out. The door was slammed shut, and the room fell into darkness. One glance, if Lily had looked just one more time, she would have seen my deathly pale face. But she did not. She had always been like this with me. She would ask a few questions, but she would never take care of me as meticulously as she took care of Jason. After less than a while, the two of them finished breakfast and left home, and all sound disappeared. Who knew how much longer passed before my consciousness drifted in and out again, and I seemed to hear Jason's dog crazily scratching at the door... When I woke up again, I was lying in a hospital bed with an IV drip. I remembered that after I heard the dog scratching the door, I used my last shred of strength to open the front door. The last thing I saw before fainting on the floor was my neighbor running toward me in a panic. After staying in the hospital for twenty-four hours of observation and my vitals stabilized, I only returned home at noon the next day. I plugged in my phone to charge. After being unreachable for a day and a half, many close friends had sent messages of concern. But Lily's chat box was completely empty. The last conversation was me asking Lily when we would get married. She had not replied. I opened her Ins, and found that she had updated three posts related to Jason in one day. While I was sick, Lily had stayed out all night with Jason, watching the stars on a mountaintop. I closed my eyes and sent a message: "Lily, let's break up." 3 Twenty minutes later, Lily called me. "What?" "Trying a new trick this time?" My mind went blank for a moment, and I did not know what she meant. Lily's tone was irritated. "You're using a breakup to manipulate me and force me to marry you." "Ethan Carter, you're twenty-eight, not eighteen!" "Can you grow up a little?" I let out a self-mocking laugh. "If you don't want to marry me, then we'll break up, and I'll marry someone else." "Is there a problem?" Lily froze, then scoffed. "Marry someone else?" "Who would be with you except me?" "Stop saying things you don't mean." "Can you really bear to leave me?" "Wait obediently at home, and Jason and I will come back this afternoon." After saying that, she hung up. Near dusk, Lily and Jason came back. They saw their things packed in big and small bags piled at the door. Lily was extremely surprised. Then she found that her fingerprint no longer worked, and she could not open the door. Lily called me to question me. "What is wrong with you?" My tone was flat. "I put both of your things at the door, and from now on, we have nothing to do with each other." Jason, beside her, frowned and cursed me for being ungrateful. I hung up directly. Lily sneered. "Fine, you brought this on yourself." After Lily and Jason left, I started cleaning up the apartment. And I had already contacted a realtor to list the place in a few days. Early the next morning, my phone began vibrating nonstop. It was a call from my dad. After the call connected, my dad's furious roar came through. "Ethan Carter, is it true that you broke up with Lily?" "You even kicked Jason out?" "Do you have any conscience at all?" My dad scolded me without letting me get a word in. "In my life, I hate ungrateful people the most!" "From today on, you are not my son..." "No, Dad, listen to me explain." The sound of something heavy falling came from the other end of the line, followed by my mom's helpless sobs. "Your dad fainted, what do we do?" I hurriedly took a cab home. During that time, my mom told me that my dad had been sent to the hospital by kind neighbors. I had barely breathed a sigh of relief when my mom said my dad's heart condition had relapsed and he needed eighty thousand dollars to save his life. I immediately opened my phone to transfer money to my mom. But my account showed insufficient balance. I tried again, and it still showed insufficient balance. After checking, I discovered that last night, while I was asleep, there had been two expenses, one for sixty thousand and one for seventy thousand. In order to repay Jason before, I had once told him the password to my account. I was afraid he was the one who had taken the money! I tried to contact Jason. The call would not go through. Only on the twentieth attempt did Jason answer the phone. "Jason, give me back my money!" "What's the rush?" Jason spoke slowly and leisurely. "Have you realized your mistake?" At that moment, I only wanted to get the money to save my dad's life, and I did not care about anything else. "I'm sorry, I was wrong." "Hurry and give me the money, this is life-saving money." Jason did not believe me and still spoke at an unhurried pace. "Tell me exactly what you did wrong, and I'll give you the money." "I shouldn't have kicked you out of the house, and I'm truly sorry." Jason was satisfied. "Not bad." "Now transfer the money over quickly." Jason laughed. "I'd like to give it to you too." "Unfortunately, the money is gone." I almost lost my mind and shouted on the street, "What did you spend the money on?" "This is the money to save my dad's life!" "I asked my colleague about your dad's condition, and it has always been very stable, so how could something happen so easily?" Lily took the phone. "I even spoke to him on the phone this morning, and he was perfectly fine." "Coco got frightened yesterday, and we're going to the pet hospital now, so I'm not talking to you anymore..." My vision went black, and I almost fainted. My dad was in critical condition and urgently needed money, yet you took my money to treat a dog? 4 Three days after I borrowed money to pay for my dad's surgery, my dad was transferred from the ICU to a regular ward. Only then did Lily's call finally come late. "I didn't know your dad's mental endurance was that bad, and Jason only complained about you a little before your dad fell ill." "I've already transferred back the money I took from you." "Jason hasn't been feeling well lately, so I have to take care of him, and I'll come visit your dad another day." There was not a single apology from start to finish, and she pushed the blame onto me again. She still believed that I, and even my family, would be like we had been for the past three years, swallowing every grievance and tolerating everything Jason did. "By the way." Lily changed the subject, her tone full of disgust. "Didn't I tell you that I don't want to get married this early, so what do you mean by posting on Ins that the wedding is this week?" "Ethan Carter, is there nothing in your head besides marriage and forcing me to marry you?" She warned me. "Hurry up and delete the Ins post, then make a statement saying you were just joking." "Otherwise, if there's no bride at your wedding next week, I won't be the one embarrassed." Jason's voice came from the other end of the phone. "Lily, I feel a little uncomfortable..." The call was abruptly hung up. "What are you doing?" A gentle female voice sounded, and a girl in a white dress leaned close to me and looked over curiously. "Nothing." "A stranger dialed the wrong number." I put my phone back in my pocket and reached out to wrap an arm around the girl's shoulders. "The wedding will be held in a while, so let's go pick out diamond rings." "Okay." The girl held my arm, her smile sweet. After buying the rings, I took a photo and posted it on Ins. Two beautifully cut diamond rings, one large and one small, lay quietly in a black velvet box. The colorful light glittering on the surface of the diamonds proved they were worth a fortune. The comment section was full of blessings: "You're finally getting married." "My wedding gift is ready." "Congratulations!" Jason forwarded the photo of the rings to Lily. "Lily, what does Ethan mean by this?" "He's forcing you into marriage!" "Are you going to agree to him?" Lily's gaze softened for a moment, but in the end, she scoffed. "How could I possibly agree to him?" "He ignored my opinion and made such a huge spectacle, all just to make me compromise, right?" "Does he really think he's that important?" "I absolutely won't go." As the two of them were talking, I updated my wedding planning sketches and venue again. Lily could not help clicking into it. It was the best hotel in the city, and anyone could see the wedding would not be small. In the plans, a red carpet covered the floor, surrounded by clusters of flowers. A refined and romantic atmosphere came through at a glance. The grander and more solemn the wedding before her eyes looked, the tighter Lily's brows furrowed. There was a hint of an unclear wavering in her tone. On one hand, she thought, "I can't indulge Ethan's bad habits, and I have to teach him a lesson." Then she also thought, "He arranged everything so openly and extravagantly, and if I don't go, he'll cry, won't he?" She flipped through the photos one by one until she reached a photo of me. In the live photo, I, who was usually so unsmiling I could almost be called rigid, had a smile at the corners of my mouth that I could not suppress at all. She murmured to herself. "So he's this happy to marry me?" Lily was completely shaken. Jason panicked and asked, "Lily, are you going to find Ethan?" Lily nodded. "I'll give in this once. We'll have to get married sooner or later anyway, so there's no need to make things too ugly." But in the next instant, Jason let out a scream.