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He knew Lily had once been deeply passionate about voice acting.
He remembered her watching Nirvana and excitedly telling him Siren was beautiful and powerful. She’d even said once, If I ever get to voice Siren, I’ll die happy.
And now, that dream was right in her grasp.
He imagined how heartbroken she’d be after getting replaced… maybe even crying.
His chest tightened painfully.
But he still refused to waver.
“This is Elsa’s final wish.”
After a long pause, his voice was low and firm. “I don’t want her to leave with regrets.”
“Lily is only twenty-two. She’ll have more opportunities. But if Elsa misses this one, it’ll never come again.”
On the other end, Daniel’s frown deepened.
He couldn’t agree with John’s decision.
“John, you’re taking a role that belongs to Lily and giving it to Elsa.”
Aren’t you afraid Lily will resent you?”
“Aren’t you afraid this will scar her heart forever?”
“If someone’s heart goes cold, there’s no warming it back up. John-aren’t you afraid Lily might leave you one day?”
Lily… leave him?
The thought made John’s chest seize again-unbearably tight and uncomfortable.
He instinctively rejected the idea.
Daniel kept talking, but John cut him off sharply.
“Lily won’t leave me. She has no family, no friends. I’m all she has. Why would she leave me?”
Daniel’s words were hard to swallow.
Without another word, John hung up.
On the other end of the call, Daniel stared at his darkened screen and sighed heavily.
People in their circle always said Lily was blindly loyal to John-more loyal than a dog-and would never leave him.
But feelings change. Nothing in this world lasts forever.
Daniel had a feeling… one day, John would regret this.
Daniel’s assistant called Lily into the conference room to sign the contract.
She’d just finished lunch. There was still some time before the meeting, so she sat in the hallway scrolling through her phone to pass the time.
Suddenly, she saw Elsa’s latest Facebook post-visible only to her.
“If I want something, it always ends up in my hands. Hello, Siren.”
The attached image showed two hands intertwined, along with an image of Siren.
Lily recognized the woman’s hand-it was Elsa’s. She was wearing the custom diamond ring John had once given to Lily.
And the man’s hand was unmistakably John’s-slim, well-defined, with the matching band on his ring finger.
She and John had already broken up. Whatever affection he now flaunted with Elsa had nothing to do with her.
But Elsa’s post paired with Siren’s image… clearly meant she’d be voicing Siren.
But Mr. Daniel had already confirmed Lily for the role. So why would Elsa post something like that?
“Ms. Lily, I’m sorry.”
Lily was still puzzled when Daniel’s assistant came up to her, looking incredibly awkward.
“I just got notice-we can’t move forward with your contract.”
“The role of Siren has been reassigned. It’s a decision from higher up.”
And by higher up, he obviously meant John.
“…It’s okay.”
Lily knew none of this was the assistant’s fault.
She tried to smile politely, but the pain, frustration, and helplessness in her heart made it impossible.
The assistant could see how devastated she was.
He’d also heard the role was taken from her by… her own boyfriend.
What kind of man would help someone else over his own girlfriend?
“I’ll be leaving now, Neil. Maybe we’ll work together some other time.”
Lily’s eyes burned. She didn’t want to lose composure in front of the assistant, so she turned and headed toward the elevator.
As fate would have it, the moment she reached the lobby-
She ran into John and Elsa.
Elsa clung to John’s arm, all sweetness and charm. “John, thank you for letting me voice Siren. You’re so good to me. I’ll be good to you too.”
“Mm,” John answered lightly, his eyes unreadable.
Clearly, he was here to accompany Elsa for her contract signing.
Elsa leaned closer against him.
As he instinctively reached for her hand-
He looked up-
And saw Lily step out of the elevator.
John stiffened, then subtly pulled away from Elsa. “Lily…”
“John, I earned the Siren role with my own ability. What right did you have to give it to Elsa?What right?!”
Lily had been barely holding back her emotions, but the sight of John and Elsa completely shattered her composure.
And seeing Elsa still wearing her parents’ pendant filled her eyes with a raw, rising hatred.
“And that pendant… that’s something my parents left me. What gives you the right to give it to Elsa? John, what gives you that right?”
“Lily!”
Seeing Elsa’s teary eyes and her trembling body, John’s gaze turned cold with disapproval.
“Can’t you stop being so unreasonable? Voicing Siren has always been Elsa’s dream. She only has six months left. Why do you insist on fighting her for everything?”
Unreasonable again….
Lily actually laughed.
She laughed so hard her eyes turned red, gleaming with bitter tears.
“John, voicing Siren was my dream too.”
If she’d landed the role through connections, and he took it back to give to Elsa, she wouldn’t have been this angry.
But she’d earned it with her own talent. He had no right to give it away.
“Lily, you’ll have more opportunities in the future. Elsa doesn’t have much time-“
Lily cut him off with a cold smile. “So just because she’s dying, she gets to wear the wedding dress I stitched by hand? Just because she’s dying, she gets to keep the pendant my parents left me? Just because she’s dying, everything I have must be handed over to her? Is her life the only one that matters? Does mine not count? Just because she’s dying, the whole damn world has to revolve around her? John, if you’re so obsessed with Elsa and want to take care of her, that’s your choice. But you have no right to use my things to please her or to mess with my life!”
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