Chapter 7

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Jeffrey's company had fallen into a severe financial crisis. The shareholders no longer trusted him. One after another, they began dumping their stock. Every day, Jeffrey rushed between banks and financial institutions, desperately searching for funding. Nothing worked. When reporters photographed him, he was still dressed in his perfectly tailored suit. But his face looked worn. He had lost a noticeable amount of weight. The confidence he once carried in front of cameras had been replaced with exhaustion. He stared into the cameras as if he wanted to say something. In the end, he stayed silent. Instead, he gently rubbed the wedding ring on his finger. I was surprised. He was actually wearing it. When Jeffrey and I got married, we never had a wedding ceremony. We didn't even have we

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