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After so many years, Lily had already begun a new life. She had someone else in her heart now, someone she cared about. She no longer looked to her so-called family for warmth.
She didn’t even care about them anymore. Their so-called remorse, their so-called apologies-none of it meant anything to her now.
Her voice grew colder, edged with disgust. “I told you. I have nothing to do with you anymore. Mathilda is your sister. When I see you, when I hear you talk, it just drags up every rotten memory and makes me sick. Since we’ve already cut all ties, then let’s not look back. Get out! From now on, I don’t ever want to have anything to do with you again!”
“Lily…”
Taylor suddenly took a step forward, his fingertips trembling as they brushed against the rosary he’d always worn on his left wrist.
“This was the rosary you made for me with your own hands. To finish it, your fingers were cut open again and again by the carving knife. You told me you hoped I would always be safe and healthy, that I would live without fear or worry, that our family would always be happy together and never part. All these years, I’ve worn it every day. In my heart, you’ve always been my sister. Lily, I really, really regret it. I’m begging you-just call me your brother one more time, please?”
Seeing the rosary on Taylor’s wrist, Mergan refused to be outdone. He carefully pulled out the lucky charm he had worn around his neck day and night.
“Lily, this is the charm you prayed for me to have eight years ago, when I was gravely ill. You said that no matter what happened, I would always be the brother you cared about most. And you were always the person I cared about most. Please, don’t stay angry with us anymore. Come home with me, all right?”
Lily didn’t answer immediately. Instead, she cast a mocking glance at the rosary on Taylor’s wrist and the lucky charm Mergan had just removed from his neck.
When Taylor had been in a car accident and lay unconscious, she’d been frantic. She’d heard that a rosary could bring peace and safety, and that making one by hand for someone you loved was the most sincere offering.
So she’d foolishly bought the materials and painstakingly taught herself how to make a rosary, cutting her hands to shreds in the process.
Eight years ago, when Mergan had suddenly fallen deathly ill and nearly hadn’t made it, she’d heard that the church in the neighboring city had charms that were said to be the most effective.
Desperate, she had rushed there to/pray for him and brought one back.
She never knew whether it was just a coincidence or whether her sincerity had moved heaven, but when the doctors had already told the family to prepare for his funeral, she’d returned with the charm-and miraculously, he had woken up and slowly recovered.
When she had made the rosary and prayed for the lucky charm, all she had wanted was for Taylor and Mergan to be safe and healthy.
At that time, she had even been willing to give up her own life in exchange for them living a long and peaceful one.
But the way they had bullied her-it wasn’t just for a moment, or once, or a day. It had gone on for nearly half a year.
Every day during that half year, new injuries had been added to her body.
No dignity. No hope. She had no idea how she’d even survived it.
The memories of that half year were too painful-so painful she didn’t even dare to think about them.
It was that very stretch of living death that had extinguished the last trace of expectation she had ever held for her adoptive parents and brothers.
All that was left was hatred.
And she bitterly regretted ever pouring her heart into those animals, doing so many foolish things for them.
The more she looked at the rosary and the charm, the more she felt how stupid she had once been.
She couldn’t bear it anymore. She took a step forward, grabbed Taylor’s rosary, and tore it straight off his wrist.
Before Mergan could react, she snatched the charm from his hand and hurled it with all her strength.
“My rosary!”
The string snapped, and the rosary made of fine sandalwood beads scattered across the ground.
Taylor’s eyes went bloodshot. He dropped to his knees in a panic, frantically picking up what had been his most treasured possession.
The lights in James’s villa courtyard were bright.
But just a little further out was the lawn, and the smooth beads rolled far away. He searched for a long, long time and still came up four beads short.
“Guys, I can’t find four of the beads… help me, help me find my rosary!”
Mergan had no attention to spare for Taylor,
In front of the main house was the swimming pool.
And by chance, Lily had thrown his precious charm right into it.
His eyes went red. Without hesitation, he dove headfirst into the water to search for it. itation,
Bodger, meanwhile, quietly stuffed back into his shirt the lucky charm he had once asked Lily for.
That one had been different.
She had made the rosary for Taylor, and she had prayed for a charm for Mergan. As the eldest brother,
Bodger’s heart had burned with jealousy. He, too, had wanted something made by her hands.
But as a grown man, he had felt too awkward to come right out and ask a young girl for such a thing.
So he had hinted clumsily once. And she, sharp as ever, had understood him instantly.
?
Back then, Lily had bought a fine piece of jade and carefully carved it into a lucky charm for him with her own hands.
Originally, he had wanted to take out this lucky charm now, to make her remember the old days, hoping she wouldn’t hate him so much anymore.
But when he saw her throw his brothers’ rosary and wooden charm away, he didn’t dare take this one out.
After all, Taylor’s rosary and Mergan’s wooden charm couldn’t shatter. If she threw his jade charm onto the ground, it would break into pieces and never be whole again.
“I really regret everything!”
Watching Taylor and Mergan desperately and miserably searching for their broken rosary and lucky charm. Lily felt no sympathy, no softening of her heart. She only felt disgust.
Justice that comes too late isn’t justice.
When she was bullied by Mathilda, they hadn’t reached out to help her – instead, they had shoved her deeper into the abyss. Their regret and apologies now were nothing but an insult.
“Everything I ever did for you, from the time I was a child until now, I regret with all my heart. If I could live my life over, I’d rather have starved to death in an orphanage than ever have been adopted by the Ginger family. If you were injured or deathly ill, I wouldn’t worry, I wouldn’t care – I would only hope you died faster!”
“Lily…”
Hearing her say she wanted them dead, all three Ginger brothers felt their hearts twist like knives.
Endless regret and helplessness swallowed them whole, making them feel like they would rather be dead than alive.
But Taylor and Mergan were still scrambling to recover their treasures and didn’t have time to speak to her, Only Bodger rasped out, “I know… we disappointed you, we hurt you, but-“
“Give me back the charm I made for you!”
Lily had noticed Bodger’s small movement earlier.
She had spent nearly half a month carving that jade charm with her own hands. Why should it hang around the nerk of a beast like him?
When he stood frozen, refusing to hand it over, she snapped again. “Now!”
Pressed again and again, Bodger finally stirred. His face went white as chalk, and he stumbled back a step. “It was a gift… you gave it to me. You can’t take it back, you-“
James couldn’t stand to see Lily upset.
Before Bodger even finished, James had already stepped forward, ripped the charm from his hands, and placed it firmly into Lily’s.
“Lily!”
Bodger’s eyes flew wide, bloodshot and filled with desperate pleading. He lunged forward, trying to snatch it back.
But James stood like a mountain, blocking him completely.
And then Lily hurled the charm down hard against the cold floor. In an instant, the jade he had treasured. as if it were his life shattered into countless fragments.
For a moment, Bodger just stared at the scattered shards, dazed. And then it was as if his heart itself had been slammed against the ground-blood spattering, broken beyond repair, pain beyond enduring.
His body staggered, and he collapsed heavily to the floor.
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