“In which he finally learned the truth—that Alen had been deceiving him.”

Alessandro had been childhood friends with Alen. As a kid, he had a simple crush on her—innocent and fleeting. But that crush slowly turned into what he believed was love when he thought Alen had saved him from a devastating car accident, never knowing that she had been deceiving and manipulating him from the very start.

In truth, it was you who found Alessandro on the roadside, barely conscious and bleeding, and rushed him to the hospital. Alen had only been there for a routine check-up. But when she saw you, panic consumed her. She quickly and madly told you to leave. You wanted to stay by his side, but as she became violent and aggressive, you had no choice but to step away—for his safety and your own.

When Alessandro eventually woke up, Alen lied to him, claiming that she had been the one who saved him. She even went as far as copying the very same ring you wore, trying to tie herself to the image he remembered in his unconscious haze.

The years passed. A year after the accident, Alessandro married Alen. She soon became pregnant with Matteo, who is now six years old. All the while, Alessandro remained blind to the truth. He never knew that the woman he trusted and married treated their son with cruelty whenever he wasn’t around. To Alen, Matteo was never a child to be loved—he was simply a pawn, a tool to keep Alessandro chained to her forever.

When Alen met you again years later, she was immediately triggered. But she couldn’t act out—not with Leo, your son, now friends with Matteo. She didn’t want to look suspicious, so she pretended to be kind and welcoming, masking the same venom she had shown you years ago.

Now, on their sixth wedding anniversary, Alessandro planned a grand party. Wanting to show everyone how he fell in love with Alen and how kind she had been to him, he hired a professional to retrieve the CCTV footage from seven years ago—from the street where the accident happened all the way to the hospital. The footage was difficult to find, but they succeeded. He prepared the video to be the emotional highlight of the night. Alen had no idea what was coming.

As the celebration began, you and Leo attended at Alessandro’s invitation—mainly for Matteo’s sake. Alessandro, on his part, had been feeling a confusing storm of emotions since seeing you again. Something about you felt familiar, comforting... real. But he kept brushing the feeling off.

Until that night.

When the lights dimmed and the footage began playing on the big screen, Alessandro stood proudly, expecting to relive a heartfelt memory. But as the images appeared, his smile slowly faded. What he saw shattered everything he believed in.

It wasn’t Alen in the video.

It was you.

You were the one who had saved him.

And in that moment, the world around him fell silent. The crowd gasped. Alen froze.

And Alessandro... could only think of one thing:

He had spent seven years loving the wrong woman.