1 Chapter 1: The Wedding Day

"By the powers vested in me, I now pronounce you Mr. and Mrs. Ji-" Maddie didn't even let the friendly judge finish, he turned and walked out annoyed. She smiled apologetically and took the marriage certificate and followed him out. She knew if she was even three minutes late he'd leave her.

The chauffeur bowed politely and opened the door for her. She silently got in and put the marriage certificate between them hoping he'd comment or something of the sort. Boy was she in for disappointment or what. He threw her a piercing glare that sliced through her soul. She had never seen so much hate-filled in anyone's eyes before. Her heart skipped a beat as Jiaye felt some tear prickle the corner of her eyes. Why was she acting so weak in front of this man?! Jiaye closed her eyes tightly and turned to look at the passing scenery.

The ride back home was painfully awkward. She wanted to sleep but she couldn't do it. Why did they have to go so far just to get a marriage certificate and some silly rings? The least he could do would be to buy legit rings; these stupid coated rings that were bought in a rush from some suspicious-looking man standing outside the court would leave her with ugly rashes. His reason being that she didn't deserve his late grandmother's ring. She'd be trampling on her memory. Jiaye silently slipped off the ring hoping Maddie wouldn't see. They were still approximately half an hour away. She understands he was trying to avoid paparazzi finding out but this was too extra.

She was pulled out of her reverie when she heard his voice talking in Italian, Jaiye think, and he didn't look very pleased. But that may be because of her. Jiaye's eyes wandered to his hand and she noticed he'd also removed his ring and rolled up his sleeves. Her tongue slipped out wetting her suddenly dry lips as her inner goddess drooled and screamed for more. She looked away quickly not wanting to make a fool out of herself.

"George, drop me off at the office." He said as he ended his call.

The disappointment that washed over her was overwhelming, she couldn't help the words from spilling out, "But today is our wedding night…"

He looked at her like she had said the stupidest thing on this planet. "And?"

"I thought we'd spend the night together, have din-"

"Don't be ridiculous. Didn't you already get what you want? A marriage without a prenup. Don't get too greedy." he said

George had already pulled into the parking. He got out and opened the door for his boss. "Bring the car back to me before you go home." George nodded and closed the door silently. So many emotions swirled within her but Jiaye decided some wine would calm her. And ice-cream, maybe she would even bake me some pity cake.

A few minutes later, they pulled into the driveway of their new home. George parked right in front of the doorstep and sat waiting for her to get out. Of course, he'd never show such behavior if his boss was around but she was too tired to give a shit about all the servants' shitty attitudes towards her. After all, they saw how their master treated her and she was a princess from a fallen kingdom so she deserved no respect since she had no power whatsoever.

Jiaye sighed and dragged herself out through the other side as she grabbed her ring and certificate on the way. Jiaye slowly headed to her bedroom upstairs and went directly to the shower. She scrubbed her body clean washing off all the makeup and whatever dirt that stuck to her hair and when she felt like she was clean enough she stepped out of the shower dried her body up, dried her hair and pulled it into a high messy bun. She pulled on her bunny onesie and applied some hideous green face mask that one of her aunts gave her to soften and smoothen her face then went downstairs to sate her soul.

She was relieved to see the maids had already rested for the day. Jiaye went directly to the freezer and pulled out her tub of ice cream, took the scoop from the cabinet and dug in. When the first taste hit her tongue and the refreshing coldness hit her whole body she couldn't help the moan that escaped from her mouth. She took one huge mouthful then went over to the wine cabinet. She took one bottle with a name that she couldn't even pronounce and went back to the kitchen. "Should I bake or not?" She had that debate going on for a while. She decided to hop onto the counter and put some music on her phone as she continued to enjoy her ice-cream. Then suddenly she got the brightest idea of the day. "Why not bake a cake with my wine and ice-cream. All three of my favorite things combined. I got excited just thinking about it." She quickly got in then started preparing all ingredients. For the cake instead of using milk, she just uses wine and hope for the best. She quickly whipped up the cake making a huge mess in the kitchen and she quickly put it into the oven.

The excitement that was coursing through her veins was unbelievable. Jiaye found herself dancing to Troye Sivan as she set the timer for twenty-five minutes and cleaned up the place. Once she was done the cleaning she saw that she had twelve minutes left for the cake to be ready. She turned off the music on her phone took one last scoop of ice-cream and put it back in the freezer.

She went to the sitting room and scrolled through the channels for something interesting to watch but nothing was interesting. She left it at some weird channel for the background noise and indulged herself in her phone, replying to the various messages then she noticed the three missed calls from her mum, one from her dad and five from her aunt. Who died geez? she muttered as she rolled her eyes.

It was still only 7:30 according to the grandfather clock, so she decided to call her mum first.

"Jiaye? Where have you been? I've been calling all day!"

"I'm fine, mama. I just got married today." There was a moment of silence on her part. The oven dinged in the background.

"W-what?" her voice came out all small and shaky.

"I just had a court marriage, today mama. Not what we had planned at all as I grew up." She could feel the tears prickle my eyes

She put her on speakerphone as she went to remove her cake.

"Don't worry, baby girl. He'll fall for your charms soon."

She couldn't help the sarcastic laugh that left her mouth.

"Maybe in the next million years mama." She slipped on her panda mittens and removed her cake. Her mouth watered as she looked at her beautiful creation.

"Don't be like that Jiaye. Things will look up. Where is your hunky husband anyway?"

"Take a wild guess, mama."

She created space in the freezer moving things around and dumping others on top of others not caring about their delicacy.

"Buying you a wedding present?"

"Don't be crazy, mama," She put her cake in the freezer as she waited for it to cool down. "He's at work."

"On your wedding night! Oh, honey,"

"I don't need your pity party mama. Say hi to dad for me."

"Don't you want to talk to him? He's right here-"

"Actually, Maddie is already here. Call you later, bye." She rushed out as she quickly hangs up before she said something silly.

Did she feel like her aunt's drama now? Nope.

She decided to look for something on forums for an interesting series online to binge-watch on Netflix. Ten minutes passed and still nothing interesting enough. It was so hard to find something interesting. She mentally screamed.

Aggravated, she put her phone down and went to remove her cake from the freezer. It had cooled down completely and Jiaye continued to add ice cream to complete her mega creation. Or wait, had someone already invented this…oh well, who cares.

She carefully divided the cake into two, her imagination running wild picturing herself in a busy bakery with friendly customers and the sweet cake scent surrounding all of them. Her phone's loud ringtone pierced her happy bubble as she came back to reality. She finished dividing it; carefully put them on separate boards.

She looked at the caller ID and saw DAD flashing; her brain froze for a moment as she gingerly answered the call placing it on her ear.

"Jiaye, I understand that you are now married and you are letting your husband do all the work alone? I thought by now you'd have learned to become more helpful and stopped being so childish."

"Father, I-"

"I don't need excuses from an ingrate like you, you better hope he doesn't return you and withdraw his funds because of your stubbornness."

"I understand, father." She muttered softly as he hung up before she even finished talking. Jiaye slowly let out the breath she'd been holding and got out of her attentive stance.

She gave her life up for that gambling douchebag and he dares call her an ingrate. What a fucking asshole. If she only dared to stand up against him. Sigh. Anyway, positive vibes only she taught herself. She counted one up to ten as she felt herself calm down.

Jiaye decided to put some music on to get her head back on track and found herself listening to some good old invigorating trap.

She removed the ice-cream from the freezer and started happily coating the cake. She finished under fifteen minutes and quickly put it back in the freezer for it to solidify well. She left my phone on the counter and went back to the TV.

"Okay Netflix, what's popular…" She scrolled through the options then finally settled on drop -dead Diva, not the most recent film but she has nothing to watch so, she went back to the kitchen grabbed her phone and a bag of chips and settled down.

Fifty-eight minutes and half a bag of chips later been consumed she decided that this series was pure bullshit but interesting anyway so she'd watch it. She let it keep playing as she went to the kitchen to turn off the music, grab her phone and cut a slice of cake to taste it.

"And the crowd goes wild wooooh, wooooh," she giggled happily amused at her foolishness and sliced a big piece as her mouth watered at the mere sight of it. Her dad was right, she was childish as fuck and she loved it!

She grabbed her phone and her saucer of cake, of course not before putting the cake back in her haven, and went back to her spot on the couch. Note to self, hide the cake in Maddie's mini freezer before he got back.

She was done with her first piece of the divine cake and still halfway through the movie when she decided to go cut an even bigger slice than before. She hadn't even moved far from the couch when the door suddenly banged loudly and annoying giggling followed right after.

She turned my head to the source of the noise and saw a very tipsy blonde bimbo in a tight red designer dress with her boobs almost popping out and the hem just barely below the butt practically not leaving much to the imagination, who she was willing to bet her life was one of the famous models who pine over Maddie all the time and would sometimes be spotted in public with, and just a weeny bit tipsy Maddie.

Her heart stopped and rage took over.