Chapter 51

When I started college and had just begun my relationship with Abigail, she had a close friend who constantly tried to break us up. That friend of hers accused me of being a gold-digger and kept calling me a kept man with ulterior motives. However, Abigail never believed a word of it. She defended my dignity firmly and stood by me unwaveringly. I was deeply moved by her trust in me and devotion to me, and I never once thought of leaving her. She invited me to her friend's birthday party one day, intending to break the ice between me and her friend. Although I couldn't recall exactly what her friend looked like, I still remembered how awestruck I was when I saw her friend's house for the first time. It was a luxurious manor with an expansive courtyard surrounded by trees and flowers. They were all reportedly imported at a great expense. Her friend dismissed my gift as cheap and called me a kept man in the most humiliating way when she saw me. It was her father who had eventuall