The CEO regretted it after pretending to be crazy and stupid Chapter 5

I took out my phone, started a livestream on a burner account, then rolled down the window: "Mr. Montgomery, today is your wedding day. Don't delay the auspicious hour."

He got out of the car and walked to mine, his eyes holding inexplicable emotion:

"Natalie, don't go. I said some harsh things that day. You know you like me too. I just can't stand you using your family background to put Lily down, making her feel inferior. If you change that, I'll love you well from now on and give you everything you want. Okay?"

After speaking, he tried to open my car door.

Seth pushed him away: "Lucas, your bride is in the wedding car. Keep dawdling like this and your bride will get impatient."

The groomsmen and wedding host accompanying him had turned pale from Lucas' crazy talk:

"Mr. Montgomery, stop fooling around. Old Mrs. Montgomery and the shareholders are waiting at the hotel."

Lucas swung his fist at Seth. Seth dodged.

"Bang"—the fist hit the car window instead.

Lucas winced in pain: "Seth Yates, who do you think you are? Daring to steal my woman!"

Seth stood his ground: "You already have a wife, yet you're trying to steal my fiancée in broad daylight. Should I call the police?"

The livestream chat exploded with comments flooding the entire interface—

"Holy cow, is Mr. Montgomery really this crazy? What kind of wild words are these!"

"Heard there was already a scene at the engagement party. Crying, I regret buying Montgomery Corporation stock."

"Poster above, hurry and sell. Montgomery Corporation will be ruined by this idiot sooner or later."

I spoke up: "Stop harassing me."

Lucas, eyes red: "I said I regret it. Natalie, I want to marry you. Don't go with him."

"If you want, I'm willing to make you Mrs. Montgomery. Would that work?"

Lily, seeing Lucas blocking my car and taking so long, worried about complications. She got out of the wedding car in her trailing wedding dress.

Walking closer, she heard Lucas' words. Her face turned deathly pale.

"Lucas, what are you saying? You want to marry Natalie Foster? Then what am I? What does that make me?"

She rushed over, gripping Lucas tightly: "You said you'd love only me forever, that you'd let me marry into the Montgomery family with dignity. If you make her Mrs. Montgomery, do you really want me to be the mistress?"

Lucas impatiently shook off her hand:

"You're just a country girl. What's wrong with being a mistress! You were so understanding before. Just make room for Natalie. I'll buy you a place outside and visit you every day."

Tears fell from Lily's eyes like broken pearls:

"Lucas, you already had me. Do last night's sweet words mean nothing? Today's our wedding day. How can you say this to me?"

"To let me marry into the Montgomery family, you staged a car accident and pretended to be disabled. Was everything you did for me fake?"

With Lily's revelation, the livestream comments exploded:

"Good lord, even TV dramas wouldn't dare show this!"

"In ancient times, King You lit beacon fires for his concubine. Today, Lucas Montgomery fakes disability to scam investors."

"Are we foolish investors just part of your twisted game?"

"My Montgomery Corporation is going to be destroyed in your hands..."

Lucas' assistant saw the livestream and panicked. He quickly grabbed the phone to show Lucas and Lily.

Only then did Lily realize her mistake.

Her face turned deathly pale as she shook her head in denial: "I... what I just said was nonsense. Lucas didn't fake his disability. He really became disabled from the car accident!"

"Lucas, don't you feel a headache coming on?"

Idiot.

Since Lucas' car accident, Montgomery Corporation's stock had been falling continuously. If it was proven he faked his disability, how could the major shareholders trust leaving the century-old Montgomery business to a lovesick fool?

If he was truly disabled, then Montgomery Corporation needed to change its heir even more.

So Lucas, with his successive schemes and fake stupidity, had already backed himself into a corner.

I was too lazy to listen to Lily's nonsense: "Seth, let's go."

Seth returned to the car and instructed the driver to depart.

The driver hit the gas, cutting through the wedding procession, exhaust fumes spraying all over them.

I closed the window and let out a long breath.

This time, I had finally escaped Lucas. I would live beautifully, love myself well, and love my family.

Two days later, I arrived at my parents' vacation estate abroad.

Mom hugged me tenderly: "My daughter has gotten thinner..."

Dad was so angry his mustache bristled: "That punk Lucas Montgomery, still thinking he's such a catch. If not for my respect for the late Mr. Montgomery, I never would have let you meet him for that matchmaking!"