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On the night Lester proposed, he drank a lot. He held Rita tightly and kept calling her by her old name. He said, “Queena, you deserve to be loved forever.” At that moment, she realized that Lester had known her for a very long time. As for where the story began, she had no memory of it, and Lester had never given a direct answer. Until the eve of the wedding, she followed Lester to the airport to pick someone up, only to unexpectedly see Spencer again. And Lester called him “cousin.” At that moment, her mind went blank, feeling something was wrong, but she couldn’t pinpoint where the problem lay. Almost instinctively, she bristled with tension. Surprisingly, Spencer remained calm. At the welcome banquet, whenever their eyes met, he merely nodded politely, as if they were truly relatives meeting for the first time. Rita sighed in relief. When the event ended, Lester went to get the car, and Rita didn’t want to be alone with Spencer, so she used the restroom as an excuse. But as s