Chapter 1

My Best Friend is a Serial Cheater and Now She's After My Fiancé

She smugly treats us like prey, thinking she can trample all over me.

Little does she know, the moment she set her sights on us, I had my gun aimed at her.

My best friend called, asking to stay at my place for a few days. The reason? She was caught cheating by her husband.

I was a bit surprised. "Weren't you always so careful before? How did you get caught this time?"

Vanessa Hughes' tone was lazy, showing no signs of the tension or embarrassment one might expect from being caught in the act. "I got wasted that night and hooked up with some young stud at a bar. Didn't think it through and brought him home... Derek said he was on a business trip and wouldn't be back, who could have guessed..."

Vanessa's husband, Derek Lee, was from a business marriage arrangement between their families.

I'd met Derek before. He always looked prim and proper in his crisp suits, the very picture of an upper-class elite.

To outsiders, his marriage with Vanessa seemed like a childhood sweethearts' fairy tale romance, but in reality...

The couple played their own games, as long as they didn't bring it home, anything goes.

Once, right after Vanessa had finished a steamy session with her gym trainer at a hotel, she called me to come find her.

She was holding a blurry, secretly taken photo. It showed Derek's profile and a girl who looked like an innocent college student. Vanessa, holding a glass of wine and looking tipsy, sneered at the photo—

"Look at his poor taste. After all these years, he still goes for these innocent types..."

Vanessa said that men, when they have nothing, are infatuated with women at the top of the pyramid. But once they have everything and have seen it all, even the grandest parties bore them. Then they start to prefer ordinary, down-to-earth women, wanting to settle down with a good wife.

Unfortunately, Vanessa was never that type of woman. No matter how alluringly she dressed herself up, able to make countless men lose their minds with a wave of her hand, she couldn't move Derek's heart. Derek rarely even looked at her when he was home.

Vanessa asked me to pick her up, but I replied, "I'm still at work. How about I ask my fiancé to pick you up?"

Vanessa made a confused sound. "You have a fiancé? Since when?"