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Xuening called from Paris every night at first. Then the calls became messages, then demands. She could not understand why Lu Yanxiu had not come after her. She had used me to test him a hundred times. She had locked us in rooms, dressed us alike, even drugged him once. Every time he had chosen her, and she had screamed with joy and made him spin her around while I stood at the edge of the room like a piece of furniture. She forgot that the thing least able to survive being tested is a human heart. I planned the wedding with Lu Yanxiu calmly. His grandmother's health was failing, so the ceremony was rushed, but nothing was cheap. The Lu family opened their grand hall. Relatives, friends, and business partners filled the tables. Lu Yanxiu took me to pay respects to the ancestors. Then the doors opened and the guests turned. Xuening stood there in a white dress, thinner than before, her eyes red. She had come back. She looked at Lu Yanxiu, then at me in my wedding dress, and something in her face cracked. "Yanxiu," she said. "I am back." The hall went silent. Lu Yanxiu did not move. He looked at her for a long moment, then at me. "You are late," he said. Xuening's smile faltered.0