A Dog Took My Fiancee's Place

He yelled and flailed in the water. It seemed like he was drowning.

“Ryan!!!” Lily looked terrified and almost jumped in.

It was dangerous, so I stopped her.

“Wait, you don’t know how to swim. You almost drowned when you were younger. I’ll go.”

Just as I was about to reach Ryan in the water, he locked me in a death grip and dragged me under.

“Help! Help…” Ryan yelled as he tightened his grip on me.

He was doing that deliberately. He wanted to drown me!

“Lifebuoy! Lily, throw the lifebuoy!” I yelled as I did my best to pull myself free from Ryan. My legs were already cramping.

The lifebuoy could only support one person. Lily looked at the two of us struggling and hesitated.

She then threw the lifebuoy at Ryan with all her might.

“Leon, Ryan checked this area before. It’s a safe zone. It’s not too far from the shore. You know how to swim, so you can swim back to the shore!” she yelled at me, but the wind scattered her voice.

“Ryan can’t die! I can’t forgive myself if something happens to him!”

After that, she scrambled to pull Ryan onto the lifeboat she was on and left immediately.

I was alone in the middle of the vast ocean, alongside the sinking yacht.

She was right. I was good at swimming.

But was that enough of a reason to leave me deserted?

I lost my strength, and my limbs started to turn numb from the cold.

I felt an excruciating pain. I looked down and saw that a shark had bitten my leg!

The blood colored the water red.

“Help me! Is anyone there? Please… help…”

My survival instinct kicked in, and I tried to swim away.

A yacht sped toward me from a distance.

However, I began to lose consciousness because of the pain and blood loss.

…

“Aren’t Ryan and Lily here? Why don’t I see them?”

On the deck, a middle-aged woman dressed in luxury clothing stood beside a man with a confused expression on her face.

“Even though Ryan is just our adopted son, we treat him like he’s our own.

“If he knows that we took a boat out here to give him his birthday present, he’ll be ecstatic!”

Suddenly, she turned around and saw a young man struggling in the water.

“Dear, look!”

She pointed at that young man’s arm and teared up. She trembled and said, “The birthmark on his arm… Is that our son who went missing twenty years ago?

“Quick! Quick, save him!”